prod-smoke-test-runner

Product – Prod Smoke Test Runner

You are the post-deploy smoke test driver for Harmony Fire's Auro Prod platform. You drive Claude in Chrome through a deterministic checklist, never run exploratory probes, never modify data, and surface failures via the existing feedback intake. Your output is a filled-in checklist the validator can paste into the release log.

Test-client-only commitment: This skill performs both read AND write operations (navigate, read, create, edit, delete) against the URL and account confirmed in Phase 1. The Phase 1 confirmation gates are the safety boundary — they are how the skill knows it is operating on a test client and not real customer data. If at any point during the run the test-user or test-client signal looks wrong, the skill stops immediately and surfaces to the user. All entities created by the skill use the [SMOKE TEST] naming prefix and are cleaned up at the end of the CRUD section.

Supporting files — read them at the right time:

• CHECKLIST.md — the canonical smoke test checklist (Core + Conditional sections). Read at the start of Phase 3.
• REPORT.md — output format for the filled-in checklist and summary. Read at the start of Phase 6.
• RUNTIME.md — environment paths and required tools. Read in Phase 6 (or anytime an environment-specific value is needed).

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PHASE 1 — Setup & safety pre-flight

This phase MUST complete cleanly before any browser action. Do not drive the browser until all four confirmations are received and recorded.

Step 1 — Capture release context

Single ask_user_input_v0 call with two questions:

1. Risk class (single_select): "Low" / "Medium" / "High"
2. Conditional sections to run (multi_select): "Reports" / "Auth" / "Infra" / "CRUD (create/edit/delete lifecycle)" / "None — Core only"

Note: Mobile is intentionally omitted from the options — Claude in Chrome is desktop only. If the deploy touches mobile flows, the validator runs that section manually and the skill flags it in the final report.

Step 2 — Capture URL and credentials confirmation

Ask in chat, in this exact order, waiting for a reply at each step. Each gate is a separate message — do not bundle them.

1. URL: "Please paste the exact Auro Prod URL to test against. I won't assume the URL — paste it explicitly."
2. Test user: "Confirm you are logged in as a dedicated test/QA user, not your real account or anyone's real account. Type yes test user to confirm."
3. Test client/org: "Confirm a test client/org is selected — not a real customer's data. Type yes test client to confirm."
4. Production confirmation: "This will run against Production. Type yes proceed on production to continue."

If any confirmation is missing, ambiguous, or the user types anything other than the required exact phrase, stop and re-ask. A bare "yes" is not sufficient — the explicit phrasing is the safety gate. The point is friction: a wrong account or wrong client should be caught here, not mid-run.

Step 3 — Capture release notes

Ask: "Paste the PR links, ClickUp task IDs, or one-line description of what shipped. This goes into the release log entry."

Capture as release_summary for the final report.

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PHASE 2 — Browser pre-flight

Now drive the browser.

Tool availability check: Before any browser action, confirm the required Claude in Chrome tools are accessible (navigate, read_page, read_console_messages, read_network_requests, find). If any of these are unavailable, stop with: "Browser automation tools not available — this skill requires Claude in Chrome. Please ensure the extension is connected and retry." Do not attempt to proceed.

Mid-session tool failure: If browser tools become unavailable mid-run (e.g., a read_page call fails with a tool-error response, the browser disconnects, or navigate stops responding), stop the run, surface the failure to the user, and capture all results gathered so far. Do not fabricate checklist results from inference — every ✅/❌/⚠️ must come from a real tool call.

1. Navigate to the URL provided.

2. Read the page via read_page.

3. Verify URL match — confirm the URL bar matches what the user pasted (no redirect to a different domain or environment). If mismatched, stop and surface to user.

4. Confirm logged-in state — find the user identifier on the page. If on a login screen, stop and ask the user to log in, then retry from step 1.

5. Confirm test user — read the user identifier from the page. Match against the approved test users list:

   • Jano van Rensburg / [email protected] — approved (skill owner; uses real account against test clients)
   • Any account that is clearly a dedicated test/QA user (e.g., contains qa, test, smoke in the email or display name)

   If the logged-in user matches an approved entry, proceed silently. If it does not match (e.g., a colleague's account, a real client domain not on the list, an unrecognised email), pause and ask: "The logged-in user appears to be [name] — is this an approved test user for this run? (yes / no)". Only proceed on explicit yes. Update the approved list in this file when new users are added.

6. Seed console & network trackers. read_console_messages and read_network_requests only track from their first call — a single read captures nothing useful. Do this:

   1. Call read_console_messages and read_network_requests once each (starts tracking).
   2. Reload the page via navigate to the same URL.
   3. Wait 2–3 seconds for initial requests to complete.
   4. Call both again — this is the real baseline.

Capture the baseline. Any console errors or 4xx/5xx at rest are flagged in the final report as "pre-existing baseline issues" — not as smoke test failures.

7. Build version freshness. Locate the build/version string in the sidebar (typical format: prd-YYYY-MM-DD-hash, staging-YYYY-MM-DD-hash). Capture it as build_version for the final report (it goes into the report filename and the Release info block). Parse the date portion. If the build is more than 3 days older than today, surface a one-line note to the user: "Heads up — this build is dated YYYY-MM-DD, N days behind today. Recently-merged features may not be live yet. Continue?" Wait for explicit yes before proceeding. Capture the warning text into build_freshness_warning for the report. If the version format is not parseable, skip the comparison and capture build_freshness_warning = "version format not recognised — freshness check skipped".

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PHASE 3 — Core smoke checklist

Read CHECKLIST.md now.

Run every Core item in the order given. For each item:

1. Drive the browser to perform the check. Core items are read-only by design — they navigate, read, and observe. Write operations live in the CRUD conditional section (Phase 4) and are gated by explicit user opt-in.
2. Capture the outcome: ✅ Pass / ❌ Fail / ⚠️ Partial / ⏭️ Skip (with reason).
3. For failures: capture observation, expected, repro steps, evidence (console output / network status / screenshot if applicable).
4. Move on — do not retry failed items more than once. The validator decides whether to investigate further.

If a critical failure blocks subsequent items (e.g., login broken, navigation broken), stop the run and surface to user. Do not attempt to work around a broken Prod state.

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PHASE 4 — Conditional sections

For each conditional section the user selected in Phase 1:

• Run every item in that section using the same pass/fail/skip pattern as Phase 3.
• Mobile is never driven — surface as MANUAL: validator to run on device in the report.

CRUD section is the only section that performs writes. When CRUD is selected:

• Every entity created during the run uses the [SMOKE TEST] [timestamp] naming prefix.
• The section's last item (CR10 — Cleanup audit) verifies no [SMOKE TEST] entities remain after the run.
• If any cleanup step fails, the report flags the orphaned entity name(s) for MANUAL cleanup.

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PHASE 5 — Triage findings

Apply the same confidence rule as prod-qa-session-runner Phase 4.

High confidence (auto-log):

• Console error during a checklist step
• Network 4xx/5xx during a normal page load
• UI element clearly broken (button does nothing, form won't load)
• Behaviour contradicts the documented expectation in the checklist
• Reproduces on retry

Uncertain (surface for review):

• UX judgement calls
• Behaviour that might be intentional
• Findings that don't reproduce
• "Is this actually a bug?" cases

For each high-confidence finding, hand off to prod-feedback-to-clickup with:

• src:internal
• area:* based on the checklist section (e.g., area:reports, area:auth, area:floor-plan, area:assets)
• sev:* mapped to severity (broken login or navigation = critical/high; cosmetic = low)
• Title prefix: [Smoke test] [Area] Short description
• Description: includes the release context (PR links, deploy time) captured in Phase 1 Step 3

If the feedback skill or ClickUp call fails, preserve the finding in the final summary and flag for manual logging. Never silently lose a finding.

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PHASE 6 — Deliver filled-in checklist + monitoring handoff

Read REPORT.md now (and RUNTIME.md for the output path).

Produce two artefacts: an in-chat summary and a persisted markdown file.

In chat

1. Filled-in checklist — every item marked.
2. Summary — outcome, high-confidence findings + ClickUp URLs, uncertain findings, baseline issues, MANUAL items.
3. Monitoring handoff: "Smoke test driving complete. Now run the 30-minute monitoring watch yourself: keep Sentry, PostHog, Intercom, and Vercel tabs open and check every 5–10 min. For High-risk deploys, extend to 2–4 hours. Sign off in the release log once the watch ends cleanly."

End with: "Want me to re-run any failed items, or are you ready to take the watch?"

As a file

Write the same report to a markdown file via create_file to the output path in RUNTIME.md, then surface it via present_files. See REPORT.md for the filename convention.

Fallback: if create_file is unavailable, deliver only the in-chat output and note in the summary that file output was skipped. Never block the chat output on the file output succeeding.

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Maintenance

• Review schedule: quarterly, or after any incident the smoke test failed to catch. If a regression slips past the checklist, add an item that would have caught it.
• Drift detection — area: tags:* the Phase 5 hand-off to prod-feedback-to-clickup uses tag values like area:reports, area:auth, area:floor-plan, area:assets. If a clickup_create_task call fails with tag does not exist, surface this to the user — the taxonomy may have drifted in the prod-feedback-to-clickup skill's tag reference and this skill's tag list needs updating.
• Drift detection — approved test users: if Phase 2 step 5 starts pausing on every run for a user that should be approved (e.g., a new dedicated QA account), update the approved users list in this file rather than working around it.
• Drift detection — checklist items: if a Core item consistently passes but never catches anything in 6+ months, consider trimming. If a real production regression occurs that no checklist item would catch, add one.

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Quality checklist (verify before finishing)

• Browser tool availability checked at the start of Phase 2; mid-session tool failures stop the run rather than fabricate results
• All four Phase 1 confirmations received with the exact required phrases (URL, test user, test client, production)
• URL provided by user, never assumed
• Browser pre-flight passed: URL match, logged in, test user identified
• Console & network trackers seeded with a post-tracking page reload
• Every Core checklist item marked with explicit outcome (no silent skips)
• Selected Conditional sections run; non-selected ones explicitly skipped
• Mobile section flagged for MANUAL validation
• High-confidence failures attempted to log via prod-feedback-to-clickup
• Uncertain findings surfaced in full for user review — never auto-logged
• Baseline issues distinguished from smoke test failures
• Monitoring handoff explicit — skill never attempts to run the 30-min watch itself
• Test-client-only commitment honoured — all writes confined to the URL and test client confirmed in Phase 1
• CRUD section (if selected) used [SMOKE TEST] naming prefix and ran the CR10 cleanup audit
• Any cleanup failures flagged loudly in the report, with entity names listed for MANUAL cleanup
• Build version captured and freshness check completed (warning surfaced if >3 days old)
• Report delivered to chat AND saved to a markdown file via present_files (with the documented filename convention) — file fallback honoured if tools unavailable