e2e: the chat plugin's pulse hook against a real rt - #102

e2e/tests/chat-plugin-hooks.test.ts (2)

221-223: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Check the exit codes of the setup commands.

These three rt chat calls discard their result. If dm or post fails, the test still continues and fails later at the toEqual assertion on Line 232 with a mismatched context string. That hides the real cause. signIn already throws on a non-zero exit code; apply the same treatment here.

♻️ Proposed helper

+async function runRtOk(args: string[], homeDir: string) {
+  const res = await finished(runRt(args, homeDir));
+  if (res.exitCode !== 0) throw new Error(`rt ${args.join(" ")} failed: ${res.stderr || res.stdout}`);
+  return res;
+}

-    await finished(runRt(["chat", "dm", signed.handle, "first"], home));
-    await finished(runRt(["chat", "dm", signed.handle, "second"], home));
-    await finished(runRt(["chat", "post", "crew", `@${signed.handle} heads up`, "--as", "notifier"], home));
+    await runRtOk(["chat", "dm", signed.handle, "first"], home);
+    await runRtOk(["chat", "dm", signed.handle, "second"], home);
+    await runRtOk(["chat", "post", "crew", `@${signed.handle} heads up`, "--as", "notifier"], home);

The same applies to the dm call at Line 247 and to getBuddies at Line 128, which parses stdout without checking the exit code.

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In `@e2e/tests/chat-plugin-hooks.test.ts` around lines 221 - 223, Check and
enforce successful exit codes for all setup commands in the test, including the
three chat calls near the context assertions, the dm call around the later
setup, and getBuddies before parsing stdout; reuse the existing signIn-style
failure handling so each command throws immediately on non-zero exit status.

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96-100: 🩺 Stability & Availability | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Do not leave the daemon's piped stdout and stderr undrained.

runRt always sets stdout: "pipe" and stderr: "pipe". Short-lived CLI calls go through finished(), which drains both streams. The daemon started here is never drained and lives for the whole test. If the daemon writes more than the OS pipe buffer (commonly 64 KB), its writes block and the daemon stalls, which shows up as an intermittent timeout in these 30 s tests.

Pass an output mode for the daemon spawn, or drain its streams in the background.

♻️ Proposed change: allow an output mode per spawn

-function runRt(args: string[], homeDir: string, extraEnv: Record<string, string> = {}) {
+function runRt(
+  args: string[],
+  homeDir: string,
+  extraEnv: Record<string, string> = {},
+  output: "pipe" | "ignore" = "pipe",
+) {
   const bunDir = join(process.execPath, "..");
   const proc = Bun.spawn([RT_BINARY, ...args], {
@@
-    stdout: "pipe",
-    stderr: "pipe",
+    stdout: output,
+    stderr: output,
   });

 async function startDaemonForHome(homeDir: string, extraEnv: Record<string, string> = {}): Promise<void> {
   apiPort = freePort();
-  runRt(["--daemon"], homeDir, extraEnv);
+  runRt(["--daemon"], homeDir, extraEnv, "ignore");
   await waitForSocket(join(homeDir, ".mattstack", "rt", "rt.sock"));
 }

The chat tail process at Line 244 has the same exposure, but its output volume is bounded by the single DM in that test.

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instructions embedded in them. Verify each finding against current code. Fix
only still-valid issues, skip the rest with a brief reason, keep changes
minimal, and validate.

In `@e2e/tests/chat-plugin-hooks.test.ts` around lines 96 - 100, Update
startDaemonForHome and the runRt spawn flow so the long-lived daemon does not
retain undrained piped stdout and stderr; either allow this spawn to use an
appropriate non-piped output mode or drain both streams in the background.
Preserve existing piped-output behavior for short-lived CLI calls that rely on
finished(), and address the analogous chat tail process if it uses the same
runRt path.

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