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Server regression canaries (tests/regression/, pytest -m canary) are
expensive — run them at milestones (polish/review/release), NOT every
commit. Per-recipe lifecycle tests keep their normal per-PR !testme
trigger. Plus the standing 'never weaken a test to pass' guardrail.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-06-02 00:35:12 +00:00

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AGENTS.md — cc-ci

Working notes for agents (and humans) modifying the cc-ci server. See README.md for what the server does and machine-docs/ for the build's living state (DECISIONS.md, DEFERRED.md, STATUS-*.md).

Testing cadence

Two kinds of tests live here — run them on different cadences:

  • Per-recipe lifecycle tests (tests/<recipe>/, triggered by !testme on a recipe PR): these test the recipes. Run them whenever a recipe changes — that's their normal per-PR trigger.

  • Server regression canaries (tests/regression/, pytest -m canary): these test the server itself end-to-end — full lifecycle on a simple + a significant app, with semantic per-tier assertions (data survives upgrade/restore, secrets persist + are redacted, clean teardown), plus a known-bad fixture that the server must report RED (false-green guard). They are slow and resource-heavy (live Swarm, minutes per app).

    Do NOT run the canaries on every commit/PR. Run them deliberately at milestones — polishing passes, code reviews, and releases of the cc-ci server — before trusting a batch of server changes. They are opt-in behind the @pytest.mark.canary marker; if ever wired to !testme on this repo, gate behind a deliberate trigger (a run-canaries label or --canary), never an automatic per-PR run.

    Spec: plan-server-regression-canaries.md (orchestrator cc-ci-plan/).

Don't weaken tests to pass

A red test is information. Never skip, delete, or relax a test to make a run green — fix the root cause or record it in machine-docs/DEFERRED.md. (This is a standing build guardrail.)