F1 Test Drive

Applicability (required before setup)

This is the canonical F1 applicability policy. Inspect the actual diff against the PR base and identify the behavior that needs validation before starting F1, selecting a fixture, or creating a report. Task size, issue labels, filenames, and a generic request to verify/ship are not sufficient reasons to run F1.

• Required: product/runtime changes exercised by F1 (issue tracking, authentication, routing, runner/session lifecycle, activity rendering), and functional changes to the F1 harness itself. Choose scenarios with assertions that exercise the changed behavior; a generic health check or unrelated fixture does not establish correctness.
• Not applicable: documentation, agent instructions, CI/release tooling, installer/build/packaging metadata, or other changes with no relevant product workflow behavior. Run appropriate documentation, script, unit, integration, build, package inspection, or isolated install smoke checks instead. Do not run F1 or create, attach, or commit an F1 test-drive report. A brief PR note stating why F1 is not applicable and what checks passed is enough.
• Mixed changes: exercise only the relevant functional portion with F1; validate other portions with their targeted checks. A docs, infrastructure, or metadata path is never an exemption for a real runtime behavior change (including dependencies, generated prompts, or installed defaults).
• Actual releases: assess the entire released payload against the previous release, not merely the version-bump PR. Runtime-bearing payloads retain relevant F1 validation. Payloads with no F1-covered behavior change use the non-F1 release verification described in apps/cli/RELEASING.md. Editing release tooling is not itself preparing or publishing a functional release.

If F1 is not applicable, stop this protocol before setup and reporting. If it is applicable but blocked, report the missing coverage and blocker honestly; do not relabel it as not applicable or substitute an unrelated passing drive. Preserve historical reports.

Mission (when applicable)

Validate the changed workflow through the relevant issue-tracker, EdgeWorker, and activity output paths. Name the scenario, expected behavior, and assertions before setup. Use the phases below as building blocks; include only paths needed for that scenario, plus setup and cleanup.

Test Drive Protocol

Phase 1: Setup

1. Create a fresh test repository (if needed):

   cd apps/f1
   ./f1 init-test-repo --path /tmp/f1-test-drive-<timestamp>
   

2. Start F1 server:

   CYRUS_PORT=3600 CYRUS_REPO_PATH=/tmp/f1-test-drive-<timestamp> bun run apps/f1/server.ts &
   

3. Verify server health:

   CYRUS_PORT=3600 ./f1 ping
   CYRUS_PORT=3600 ./f1 status
   

Phase 2: Issue-Tracker Verification

1. Create test issue:

   CYRUS_PORT=3600 ./f1 create-issue \
     --title "<issue title>" \
     --description "<issue description>"
   

2. Verify issue ID and issue creation response.

Phase 3: EdgeWorker Verification

1. Start agent session:

   CYRUS_PORT=3600 ./f1 start-session --issue-id <issue-id>
   

2. Monitor activities:

   CYRUS_PORT=3600 ./f1 view-session --session-id <session-id>
   

3. Verify:

   • session started
   • activities appear
   • agent is processing issue

Phase 3.5: Slack Chat Session Verification (optional)

Use when validating the Slack → ChatSessionHandler → ClaudeRunner path. F1 exposes a test-only endpoint /cli/dispatch-chat that injects a synthetic app_mention event without going through Slack signature verification (SlackChatAdapter no-ops Slack API calls when slackBotToken is undefined).

1. Dispatch a synthetic chat event:

   CYRUS_PORT=3600 ./f1 start-chat-session \
     --channel C_TEST_CHAN \
     --user U_TEST_USER \
     --text "hello"
   

   The response contains a threadKey of the form <channel>:<ts>. Reuse the same --thread-ts to address the same chat thread on subsequent dispatches.

2. Verify shared auto-memory wiring:

   • The chat workspace exists at <cyrusHome>/slack-workspaces/<sanitized-threadKey>/.
   • The shared auto-memory directory exists (or is lazily creatable) at <cyrusHome>/slack-memory/.
   • The claude_query_options event emitted by ClaudeRunner carries cqo.settingsAutoMemoryDirectory=<cyrusHome>/slack-memory.

3. Verify per-thread workspace isolation alongside shared memory:

   • Dispatch a second event in a different channel/thread.
   • Confirm a separate slack-workspaces/<other-thread-key>/ directory exists (workspaces remain isolated).
   • Confirm both dispatches' telemetry resolve to the same slack-memory path (memory is shared).

Phase 4: Renderer Verification

1. Validate activity payload quality:

   • expected types (for example thought, action, response)
   • timestamps present
   • content well-formed and readable

2. Validate pagination behavior:

   CYRUS_PORT=3600 ./f1 view-session --session-id <session-id> --limit 10 --offset 0
   

Phase 5: Cleanup

1. Stop active session:

   CYRUS_PORT=3600 ./f1 stop-session --session-id <session-id>
   

2. Stop background server process.

Reporting Format

Only after an applicable F1 drive, write a report under apps/f1/test-drives/. Record the tested commit, changed behavior, commands, assertions, results, and limitations. Adapt this template to the relevant scenario; omit unrelated checklists. Never create a placeholder or “not applicable” F1 report:

# Test Drive #NNN: [Goal Description]

**Date**: YYYY-MM-DD
**Goal**: [One sentence]
**Test Repo**: [Path]

## Verification Results

### Issue-Tracker
- [ ] Issue created
- [ ] Issue ID returned
- [ ] Issue metadata accessible

### EdgeWorker
- [ ] Session started
- [ ] Worktree created (if applicable)
- [ ] Activities tracked
- [ ] Agent processed issue

### Renderer
- [ ] Activity format correct
- [ ] Pagination works
- [ ] Search works

## Session Log
[commands + key outputs + pass/fail]

## Final Retrospective
[what worked, issues, recommendations]

Pass/Fail Criteria

Pass only when the changed-behavior assertions pass, along with the applicable workflow checks below:

1. Server starts
2. Issue created successfully
3. Session starts and activities appear
4. Activity payloads are coherent
5. Session stops cleanly
6. No unhandled errors

Fail when:

• server startup fails
• issue creation fails
• session does not start
• no activities after reasonable wait
• malformed activity data
• unhandled exceptions

Important Notes

• Prefer fixed port 3600 unless already in use.
• Use fresh test repos per drive.
• Preserve failed state when debugging.
• For functional runner/harness changes, validate the affected path end-to-end before merge, as required by the applicability policy above.

Multi-Harness Note

This skill is intentionally harness-agnostic:

• Claude subagents can call this skill.
• Codex/OpenCode workflows can reference the same skill content.
• Harness-specific adapters should be thin wrappers around this canonical skill.