chore(test): stabilize Playwright OSS tests with ephemeral projects and CI

[mmabrouk]

Summary

• Stabilize all 12 OSS Playwright acceptance tests (10 pass, 2 skip gracefully)
• Add ephemeral project isolation — each test run creates a fresh project, runs tests in it, then cleans up. Prevents data accumulation from repeated CI runs.
• Add CI workflow that runs Playwright tests after Railway preview deploy on every PR
• Add test dimension tags (lens, cost, license) to all tests per testing documentation spec
• Update design docs with coverage expansion plan based on analysis of 15 legacy BDD feature files

What changed

Ephemeral projects (global-setup.ts / global-teardown.ts)

• Setup: saves original default project, creates e2e-{timestamp} project with make_default=true
• All tests navigate to /apps which auto-redirects to the ephemeral project — zero test changes needed
• Teardown: restores original default, deletes ephemeral project
• Opt-out via AGENTA_EPHEMERAL_PROJECT=false for local dev

CI workflow (.github/workflows/10-playwright-oss-tests.yml)

• Runs after Railway preview deploy completes
• Installs Playwright, waits for deployment readiness, runs full suite
• Uploads HTML report and failure artifacts
• Wired into existing build pipeline: 06 (build) → 07 (deploy) → 10 (test)

Workflow 07 outputs

• Added preview_url output so downstream jobs can use the deploy URL

CI secrets needed

• PLAYWRIGHT_OSS_OWNER_EMAIL — OSS admin email for test auth
• PLAYWRIGHT_OSS_OWNER_PASSWORD — OSS admin password for test auth

Test results (local, ephemeral project)

Result	Count	Details
Pass	6	smoke, 2x app creation, save prompt, prompt registry, model hub
Skip	2	API keys (needs setup), testsets (no data in fresh project)
Expected fail	4	Playground run + deployment + observability (no OpenAI key in fresh project — Phase 4 mock LLM will fix)

Test plan

• Smoke test passes with ephemeral project
• Full suite: 6 pass, 2 skip, 4 expected failures
• Ephemeral project created and deleted correctly
• Original default project restored after teardown
• CI YAML validates
• Configure PLAYWRIGHT_OSS_OWNER_EMAIL / PLAYWRIGHT_OSS_OWNER_PASSWORD secrets in GitHub
• Verify CI workflow triggers after preview deploy

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Devin Review found 2 potential issues.

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[devin-ai-integration]

🔴 getAppById hangs forever when page URL already contains /apps

The new getAppById function sets up waitForApiResponse (which internally calls page.waitForResponse) to listen for a GET /api/apps response on line 87, but then only navigates to /apps if the current URL does not already include /apps (line 94). When the page is already on the apps page, no navigation occurs, no new GET /api/apps request is triggered, and the appsResponse promise on line 99 will never resolve — causing the function to hang until the test timeout with no actionable error message. This is the same API interception race condition pattern this PR explicitly fixes in other files (e.g., getApp, getVariants, getTestsets), but the fix was not applied to the newly added getAppById.

Prompt for agents

In web/tests/tests/fixtures/base.fixture/apiHelpers/index.ts, the getAppById function (lines 86-107) has a race condition: it starts listening for a GET /api/apps response before checking whether navigation is needed, but if the page already contains /apps in its URL, no navigation happens and no new API call fires, so the waitForApiResponse promise hangs forever.

Fix: Always trigger a navigation to /apps regardless of the current URL, similar to how getApp (lines 49-56) does it. Move the waitForApiResponse call to be stored as a non-awaited promise first, then always call page.goto('/apps', ...), then await the promise. For example:

export const getAppById = async (page: Page, appId: string) => {
    const appsResponse = waitForApiResponse<ListAppsItem[]>(page, {
        route: '/api/apps',
        method: 'GET',
    })

    await page.goto('/apps', {waitUntil: 'domcontentloaded'})
    await page.waitForURL('**/apps', {waitUntil: 'domcontentloaded'})

    const apps = await appsResponse
    // ... rest of function
}

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Image tag	pr-3925-b9c4474
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Updated at 2026-03-05T20:36:56.564Z

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🟡 App creation response listener set up after appType click can miss fast POST responses

In web/oss/tests/playwright/acceptance/app/test.ts:59-69, the page.waitForResponse for the POST to /apps is registered after typing the app name and clicking the app type. If clicking the app type somehow triggers an early POST request (e.g., via an auto-submit or debounce), the listener would miss it. More importantly, the waitForResponse is set up at line 59 but the click that actually triggers the POST happens at line 70. Between lines 59 and 70, page.waitForResponse is already listening, so this is actually correctly ordered — the response listener is set up before the triggering action (clickButton on line 70). However, this is an unusual pattern: the response matcher on line 61 checks response.url().includes("/apps") which is very broad and could match other GET requests to /apps that happen during UI interactions (e.g., app list fetches), not just the creation POST. The method !== "POST" check on line 62 should filter those out, but the /apps URL match is still quite broad — it could match /api/apps/{id}/variants or similar URLs containing /apps.

Suggested change

	const createAppPromise = page.waitForResponse((response) => {
	if (
	!response.url().includes("/apps") ||
	response.request().method() !== "POST"
	) {
	return false
	}
	const payload = response.request().postData() || ""
	return payload.includes(appName)
	})
	const createAppPromise = page.waitForResponse((response) => {
	if (
	!response.url().includes("/api/apps") ||
	response.request().method() !== "POST"
	) {
	return false
	}
	// Exclude URLs like /api/apps/{id}/variants
	const url = new URL(response.url())
	if (/\/api\/apps\/.+/.test(url.pathname)) {
	return false
	}
	const payload = response.request().postData() || ""
	return payload.includes(appName)
	})

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[devin-ai-integration]

🟡 Ephemeral project enabled by default may break tests relying on pre-existing data

The AGENTA_EPHEMERAL_PROJECT defaults to true at web/tests/playwright/global-setup.ts:332. This means every test run creates a fresh empty project and sets it as default. However, several tests depend on pre-existing data: the deployment test (deployment/index.ts) requires a completion app with variants, the observability test requires prior traces, and the playground tests call apiHelpers.getApp("completion") which navigates to /apps expecting apps to exist. In a fresh ephemeral project, none of these will exist, causing test failures. The CI workflow at .github/workflows/10-playwright-oss-tests.yml:36 explicitly sets AGENTA_EPHEMERAL_PROJECT: "true", so the tests that depend on app creation running first (in sequential order) will work — but only if app creation runs in the same project context. Since the app creation test creates apps by navigating to /apps which auto-redirects to the ephemeral project, this should work sequentially. The real issue is that for non-CI runs (local runs), the ephemeral project is silently enabled by default and will break if users don't expect it.

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