feat(ci): build the product and prove it draws - #76
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paint-type has never been built by CI. `host.yml` compiled one of the two
Zig libraries and ran `host_core` unit tests; nothing in this repository
had ever produced the `paint-type` binary, let alone run it. Measured:
zero tags, zero releases, and no workflow referencing src/host.
This makes the workflow build the product and then assert it paints.
scripts/build-host.sh -- one build recipe, replacing four that had drifted
apart (host.yml, the Justfile, release.yml, scripts/build-host-local.sh).
It gates on Zig 0.15.x, because 0.16 removed `std.posix.getenv` and the
lowercase `std.io` alias and both sit on the gossamer FFI path. It asserts
the rpath by its literal text: an unquoted $ORIGIN expands to nothing and
leaves a RUNPATH of `/../lib` that a naive `grep RUNPATH` still matches.
tests/e2e/scenario_canvas_draws.sh -- the Tier C proof. It runs the binary
against a fixture that drives the real UI -> bridge -> host -> raster path,
then asserts the painted canvas DIFFERS from an untouched baseline of
identical dimensions. Asserting `file` reports "PNG image data" would be
vacuous: SavePng emits a structurally valid PNG whether or not a pixel was
ever touched, so a no-op paint path would sail through it.
Three controls keep that assertion honest:
- a negative control launches identically but without LD_LIBRARY_PATH and
must die; if it survives, the positive result proves nothing. Measured
locally: rc=127, an ld.so death. It runs under the same display as the
positive case, since outside one the binary dies of WebviewCreateFailed
regardless and the two causes would be confounded.
- geometry is compared before the bytes are. `cmp` on two files of
different sizes reports "differ" for free, passing the gate while
proving nothing.
- scenario_host_headless.sh stays alongside as the positive control. It
drives the same raster core with no webview, so if it writes its PNG
and this does not, the defect is in the webview or bridge and provably
not in paint_core. Its step is renamed to say what it actually covers;
its filename claims to test the host and it does not.
The probe writes a third PNG last, as a completion marker, so a chain that
stalls midway is distinguishable from one that finished. The proof removes
all three files first: without that, a re-run passes on the previous run's
artifacts even if this build never wrote a byte.
Measured locally before committing, on Debian 13 with Zig 0.15.1:
build rc=0; blank 317 bytes, canvas 1194 bytes, both 64x64, differing;
control rc=127. The PNGs carry only IHDR/IDAT/IEND -- no tIME chunk -- and
both are byte-identical across two independent runs, so the difference is
image content and not encoder nondeterminism.
The push filter gains src/ptype_format and src/plugins. Both are direct
dependencies of host_core and neither was listed, so a change to either
could land without ever building the binary that links it.
Every addition is a `run:` step, which actions.lock cannot see, so this
needs no lockfile change and does not touch the file PR #73 owns.
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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe host workflow now uses a centralized build script, validates release artifacts, and runs separate unit, raster-core, and canvas-drawing checks. The new canvas proof compares painted and blank PNGs and verifies the library-path requirement. ChangesHost build and canvas proof
Priority: ⬇️ Low Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes Change: Other Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant scenario_canvas_draws
participant paint_type
participant canvas_probe
scenario_canvas_draws->>paint_type: Launch with LD_LIBRARY_PATH and PT_UI_FILE
paint_type->>canvas_probe: Load canvas-probe.html
canvas_probe->>canvas_probe: Save baseline, paint stroke, save painted PNG
canvas_probe-->>scenario_canvas_draws: Write completion marker
scenario_canvas_draws->>scenario_canvas_draws: Compare PNG outputs
Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to The new CI proof can yield misleading results when runs share artifacts or when the library-path control fails for the wrong reason. Isolate its temporary outputs and assert the expected loader failure before merging. 🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 3 | ❌ 2❌ Failed checks (2 warnings)
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In `@tests/e2e/scenario_canvas_draws.sh`:
- Around line 25-29: Update the scenario setup around LOG, BLANK, CANVAS, and
DONE to create a per-run directory with mktemp -d and derive all artifact paths
from it. Pass the resulting paths to canvas-probe.html, and ensure cleanup
removes only that run-specific directory rather than shared /tmp files.
- Around line 135-138: Strengthen the negative-control assertions in the
scenario script: after handling timeout status 124, require control_rc to be
nonzero and verify that /tmp/pt-control.log contains libgossamer.so; otherwise
call die with the existing failure context. Keep the PASS output only for the
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Why this merges with ten red checks, each accounted forNine of the ten failing checks are byte-identical to
The tenth, The Windows link failure was investigated and is not this PR'sAttempt 1 of the Root cause found and filed as #77: What this PR actually proves
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…rden the run Three cures, two of them from CodeRabbit review on #76 and one found while verifying them. 1. Per-run artefact directory (review thread on line 29). Every artefact now lives in one directory owned by a single run. Shared /tmp paths let concurrent runs read or delete each other's PNGs, and a run that consumed another run's canvas would report a result it never earned -- a false green no assertion in the script could catch. PT_RUN_DIR lets a harness pin the location to collect diagnostics after a failure; we remove only a directory we created ourselves. The host loads the page with `load_html`, an HTML STRING rather than a file URL, so the page has no `location` to derive its own output directory from. Hence the __PT_OUT_DIR__ placeholder, and a control asserting no occurrence of it survives into the copy actually loaded -- a silent sed failure would otherwise reach the browser as a literal path and read as "it does not draw". 2. The negative control is no longer vacuous (review thread on line 138). Testing only `rc -eq 124` passed on ANY non-124 death: a missing GTK library, a segfault or a bad argument all proved nothing about libgossamer. Now three assertions -- not 124, not 0, and the log must name libgossamer. Measured: rc=127, log reads "libgossamer.so.0: cannot open shared object file". Verified from the runtime log, not inferred from ldd. 3. The EXIT trap turned a PASSING run red. Found while verifying the above. `cleanup() { [ "$owns_rundir" -eq 1 ] && rm -rf "$RUNDIR"; }` ends in a test that returns 1 whenever the directory is not ours, and bash propagates a trap's last exit status over an otherwise-successful script. host.yml sets PT_RUN_DIR, so CI ALWAYS takes owns_rundir=0 -- a fully successful canvas proof would have exited 1 and turned the Tier C step red. Measured across four arms; the `if`/`return 0` form is 0 on success and preserves a real failure code in every one. Verified locally, both arms: PT_RUN_DIR set (CI arm) -> rc 0, blank 317 B vs canvas 1194 B, 64x64 PT_RUN_DIR unset (developer arm) -> rc 0, run directory removed, none leaked negative control, both arms -> rc 127 naming libgossamer host.yml pins PT_RUN_DIR so the probe-logs-on-failure step can find the artefacts; left unset the script picks its own mktemp -d and removes it on exit, which is right for a developer box and wrong for CI, where it would delete the diagnostics before they could be read. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01YSq3UodR3CjsuAK5yoTzHF
Disposition of both review threads — fixed in
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| arm | result |
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PT_RUN_DIR set (CI arm) |
rc 0 — blank 317 B vs canvas 1194 B at 64×64 |
PT_RUN_DIR unset (developer arm) |
rc 0, run directory removed, none leaked |
| negative control, both arms | rc 127, log names libgossamer |
CI host / build-and-test |
success, Prove the canvas draws (Tier C) = success |
The one skipped step is Probe logs on failure, an if: failure() guard on a passing run — benign, not masking, since no step failed before it.
The 11 remaining red checks are all pre-existing on main and are tracked for the red-gates PR; this branch introduces none. Validate A2ML manifests is red on main at d641ba8 too — its run still concludes success because of continue-on-error, which is why it does not appear in a workflow-level failure list.
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What this fixes
Nothing in this repository has ever built the thing it is named after.
host.ymlbuilt one of the two Zig libraries and ranhost_coreunit tests. Noworkflow referenced
src/host. No workflow builtlibgossamer. Thepaint-typebinary had never been compiled by CI, never been executed, and never been shown to
put a single pixel on a canvas. There are zero tags and zero releases.
This PR makes CI build the product and then prove it paints.
The three changes
scripts/build-host.sh— one build recipe. Four had drifted apart:host.yml,the
Justfile,release.ymlandscripts/build-host-local.sheach carried adifferent version. It gates on Zig 0.15.x because 0.16 removed
std.posix.getenvand the lowercase
std.ioalias, both of which sit on the gossamer FFI path.tests/fixtures/canvas-probe.html— drives the real path,new_doc→set_colour→set_brush→pointer_down/move/up→save_png. It waits forthe Gossamer bridge before issuing anything, which
src/ui/app.js:11is explicitabout: calling out early silently creates no document and nothing paints.
tests/e2e/scenario_canvas_draws.sh— the Tier C gate. It runs the binary andasserts the painted canvas differs from an untouched baseline of identical
dimensions.
Why the assertion is what it is
Asserting
filereportsPNG image datawould be vacuous.SavePngemits astructurally valid PNG whether or not a pixel was ever touched, so a no-op paint
path sails straight through it. Difference from a blank of the same geometry is
what actually says "it drew".
Three controls keep that honest:
LD_LIBRARY_PATH, must dieWebviewCreateFailedregardless, and the two causes would be confoundedcmpon two files of different sizes reports "differ" for free, passing the gate while proving nothingscenario_host_headless.shkept alongsidepaint_coreThe probe writes a third PNG last as a completion marker, so a chain that stalls
midway is distinguishable from one that finished. The proof
rm -fs all threefirst — without that a re-run passes on the previous run's artifacts even if this
build never wrote a byte.
Measured locally before committing
Debian 13, Zig 0.15.1, WSLg display:
rc=127is anld.sodeath — the negative control discriminates.Anti-vacuity check on the gate itself. If the encoder embedded a timestamp,
blank and canvas would differ even with nothing painted. Both PNGs carry only
IHDR/IDAT/IEND— notIME— and both are byte-identical across twoindependent runs, so the difference is image content, not encoder
nondeterminism.
Two smaller corrections
src/ptype_format/**andsrc/plugins/**. Both are directdependencies of
host_coreand neither was listed, so a change to either couldland without ever building the binary that links it. It also gains the build
script and the test directories, which are as load-bearing as the code.
test the host;
host_corehas nogossamer-rsdependency, so it never linkslibgossamer, never initialises GTK, never opens a display and never runs thebinary. It installed
xvfband never used it. The file is not renamed here tokeep this PR reviewable.
Scope
Every addition is a
run:step, andactions.lockcannot seerun:steps. ThisPR needs no lockfile change and does not touch the file PR #73 owns. The job name
build-and-testis deliberately unchanged: a required context is demandedrepo-wide the instant it is added but supplied by each PR's own tree, so renaming
the job would orphan every open PR that predates it.
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