Verify connected-daemon rename propagation in Windows UIA gate - #510
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PR #509 proved the Windows rename dialog dispatches renameNode/updateNode, but it asserted nothing about the result: the UIA gate forces GRAPHCODE_UIA_CONNECTION_FAILURE, and App.editSelectedNode never updates the local model, so the rendered title cannot change without a daemon reply. Add a separate, final gate phase that launches its own shell against the protocol stub daemon with connection failure unset. The stub now applies a renameNode graph command to its own graph and republishes graphChanged, so the gate can drive the real rename dialog and then assert that the returned model updates both the graph card and the sidebar row for the same AutomationIds, and that the stub actually received and applied the command. Every existing disconnected-path assertion is untouched: the new phase uses its own shell, stub pipe, command log and sandbox, and restores the gate's environment on exit. The stub is a protocol-level daemon, not graphcoded, so this proves that a daemon-returned model reaches the Windows UI, not that the production daemon computes it. The parity row stays Partial. Co-authored-by: Copilot App <223556219+Copilot@users.noreply.github.com> Signed-off-by: Colin Neilens <coneilen@microsoft.com>
The added lines in uia-live-gate.ps1 and ValidationRunner.Tests.ps1 were written with CRLF into regions whose surrounding lines are LF, so `git diff --check` reported trailing whitespace on every added line. Strip the stray CR from exactly the added lines that were flagged. No content changes: `git diff --ignore-cr-at-eol` against the previous commit is empty. Co-authored-by: Copilot App <223556219+Copilot@users.noreply.github.com> Signed-off-by: Colin Neilens <coneilen@microsoft.com>
The first CI run of the new phase failed at "rename stub daemon never published its named pipe". That check was invented by the gate: the shell reconnects on its own schedule, which is exactly what windows-shell.ps1 relies on when it starts the same stub and never waits for the pipe at all. Treat the enumeration as a diagnostic (UIA_CONNECTED_RENAME_PIPE_WAIT) and require only that the stub process is still alive, then let the existing "daemon-supplied loop reached the sidebar" assertion decide. Fold the stub stderr, the stub result and the shell stderr into that failure message, and list the graph fragment's children when no daemon card renders, so the next run explains itself instead of needing a retained sandbox. Co-authored-by: Copilot App <223556219+Copilot@users.noreply.github.com> Signed-off-by: Colin Neilens <coneilen@microsoft.com>
Start-Process joins ArgumentList with spaces and quotes nothing, so -NodeATitle "Daemon loop A" reached pwsh as three tokens: "loop" bound to the stub's next positional parameter and the stub died before opening its pipe, taking the whole phase with it. Quote every value passed to Stub-Daemon.ps1. Reproduced locally by launching the stub exactly as the gate does: unquoted -> exited code 1, 'Cannot process argument transformation on parameter ResponseDelayMilliseconds. Cannot convert value "loop" to type System.Int32'; quoted -> process alive, pipe enumerated, empty stderr. This was also the real cause of the first run's "never published its named pipe": the stub was already dead. The diagnostics added in the previous commit are what named it. Co-authored-by: Copilot App <223556219+Copilot@users.noreply.github.com> Signed-off-by: Colin Neilens <coneilen@microsoft.com>
Windows shell validation run 36559162178 executed the new connected-daemon phase and observed the returned rename result reaching both the graph card and the sidebar row, with unchanged AutomationIds. Only the Node update/rename row changes, and it stays Partial: the connected peer is a protocol-level stub rather than graphcoded, and Edit Details still has no live open/cancel/submit evidence. Co-authored-by: Copilot App <223556219+Copilot@users.noreply.github.com> Signed-off-by: Colin Neilens <coneilen@microsoft.com>
PR #510 CI run 36563493110 failed a real assertion at PR head 90f9d05: UIA_CONNECTED_RENAME_PROPAGATION never reached the daemon-supplied title within the 10s poll (graph/sidebar still read the pre-rename title), even though the shell's own dispatched-rename command log matched node/title exactly. The stub's own applied-rename evidence was unreachable at that point in the script (it is only read after the shell later exits), so the failure gave no way to tell a slow CI runner apart from a real regression. Widen the graph/sidebar propagation poll from 100x100ms (10s) to 200x100ms (20s) to tolerate a loaded CI runner (the same run's process-tree dump showed 17 live descendant processes), and fold the connected-daemon stub's live result-file contents and stderr into both propagation Require messages so a future timeout is self-diagnosing without a second run. Scope: Tools/windows/uia-live-gate.ps1 only. No assertion was weakened; both Requires still demand an exact title match, and the pre-existing disconnected-path assertions are untouched. Co-authored-by: Copilot App <223556219+Copilot@users.noreply.github.com> Signed-off-by: Colin Neilens <coneilen@microsoft.com>
Root-caused PR #510's two independent CI failures (windows-shell run 36563493110, windows-port-validation run 36563493109) using each job's own uploaded uia-live-gate-diagnostics artifact rather than assuming a timing flake: - rename-stub.json (the connected-daemon stub's own evidence) shows connectionCount=2 and command order listRecentProjects,listQuickChats,openProject, listRecentProjects,listQuickChats,graphCommand,restoreOpenProjects i.e. the shell reconnected to the stub BEFORE the rename request was dispatched (a second listRecentProjects/listQuickChats handshake precedes graphCommand). appliedRenames still shows the daemon correctly applied "...=Daemon renamed loop" - the stub behaved correctly and was never at fault. - By contrast, the prior passing run (36559162178, same script content at 7ea3e43) shows graphCommand landing on the FIRST connection, before its own later reconnect - the rename request and its resulting graphChanged push both happened on a connection the shell already considered fully settled. - rename-daemon-command.json in the failed run's retained sandbox recorded "restoreOpenProjects" as the last dispatched command by the time of failure, confirming the reconnect's own resync handshake ran concluding after the rename, consistent with the shell racing a reconnect precisely around the rename dispatch. This is a race in when the shell's own reconnect happens relative to the gate driving the Rename Loop fixture mutation (mutation 7), not a bug in Stub-Daemon.ps1's rename application, and not something my widened propagation-read window (previous commit) can reliably paper over, since the daemon-applied rename can otherwise go unobserved by the shell for the rest of the phase. Fix scoped entirely to the gate: before invoking the fixture rename mutation, poll the stub's own connectionCount and require it to hold steady (no further reconnects) for 5 consecutive 100ms samples, up to 10s, before proceeding. This keeps the rename request on a connection the shell has already settled on, without touching DaemonClient.zig or App.zig. Logs UIA_CONNECTED_RENAME_CONNECTION_SETTLED for visibility. Limits: I do not have a local Windows GUI/toolchain to reproduce the live gate end-to-end (only Tools/windows/Tests/ValidationRunner.Tests.ps1's source-contract scan, which still passes unchanged); this diagnosis is built entirely from each failed run's own uploaded uia-live-gate-diagnostics artifact (rename-stub.json, rename-daemon-command.json) plus a byte-for-byte comparison against the previously-successful run's evidence line. Requesting another CI dispatch/PR re-run to confirm this holds under real CI load before any merge. Co-authored-by: Copilot App <223556219+Copilot@users.noreply.github.com> Signed-off-by: Colin Neilens <coneilen@microsoft.com>
…tent PR #510's own CI has now failed the identical UIA_CONNECTED_RENAME_PROPAGATION assertion twice (windows-shell runs 36563493110 and 36567907468) on essentially the same connected-daemon gate phase that passed once on workflow_dispatch run 36559162178. Each failing run's own retained rename-stub.json confirms Stub-Daemon.ps1 correctly applied and republished the rename (appliedRenames:["11111111-1111-4111-8111-111111111111=Daemon renamed loop"]), so the stub is not at fault; the shell's own rendered graph card/sidebar row simply never picked up the daemon-pushed title within the wait window, both before and after a gate-only mitigation (a pre-rename wait for the stub's connectionCount to hold steady, landed in the prior commit) that ruled out the specific reconnect-before-rename race I could reproduce evidence for. Root-causing this further requires instrumenting or changing GraphModel.zig's project-selection/graph-refresh path (specifically how self.model.graph is or is not resynced from an already-selected project's updated GraphSummary on a same-project graphChanged event) and/or App.zig/DaemonClient.zig's reconnect handling, which is outside this row's Tools/windows/*.ps1 gate-only scope and outside this branch's mandate. Revise the Node update/rename row's evidence paragraph to state plainly that the one successful run is evidence the mechanism CAN work, not that it reliably DOES: live connected-daemon propagation is an open, intermittent gap, not proven parity. The row stays Partial; no other row touched. Co-authored-by: Copilot App <223556219+Copilot@users.noreply.github.com> Signed-off-by: Colin Neilens <coneilen@microsoft.com>
Repeated CI evidence proved UIA_CONNECTED_RENAME_PROPAGATION (the daemon-pushed title reaching the rendered graph card/sidebar row) is intermittent rather than a reliable regression signal: the stub daemon reliably applies and republishes the rename, but the shell's own render does not reliably pick it up within the wait window. Root- causing that further requires App.zig/GraphModel.zig changes outside this gate's scope (see investigation/ui-parity-matrix.md). Per coordinator direction, convert this one assertion from a hard Require/throw into non-blocking diagnostic logging: UIA_CONNECTED_RENAME_PROPAGATION_CONFIRMED on match, or UIA_CONNECTED_RENAME_PROPAGATION_UNCONFIRMED with the same stub/stderr diagnostics on mismatch, then continue the phase either way. The pre-existing disconnected-path assertions (UIA_RENAME_DISPATCH/ UIA_RENAME_OUTCOME) and the command-log identity Require and stub appliedRenames Require are untouched and remain hard requirements. Update ValidationRunner.Tests.ps1's contract to require the new CONFIRMED/UNCONFIRMED markers and to fail RED if the gate still throws on this specific mismatch, while leaving every other required pattern (disconnected-path literals, stub evidence, connection-failure banner) intact. RED: `git stash push -- Tools\windows\uia-live-gate.ps1` then Test-TddEvidence... `pwsh -File Tools\windows\Tests\ValidationRunner.Tests.ps1` -> "RED: UIA gate never observes a rename result returned by a connected daemon" (old hard-throw source still present, no CONFIRMED/UNCONFIRMED markers) GREEN: `pwsh -File Tools\windows\Tests\ValidationRunner.Tests.ps1` with the softened gate restored -> "ValidationRunner.Tests.ps1: PASS" REGRESSION: re-ran `pwsh -File Tools\windows\Tests\ValidationRunner.Tests.ps1` a second time after `git stash pop` restored both files -> "ValidationRunner.Tests.ps1: PASS" Co-authored-by: Copilot App <223556219+Copilot@users.noreply.github.com> Signed-off-by: Colin Neilens <coneilen@microsoft.com>
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Summary
PR #509 proved the Windows rename dialog dispatches
renameNode/updateNode, but deliberately asserted nothing about the result: the UIA gate forcesGRAPHCODE_UIA_CONNECTION_FAILURE=1, andApp.editSelectedNodenever updates the local model, so the rendered title cannot change without a daemon reply. This adds a separate, final gate phase that drives the same real Rename dialog against a connected daemon and asserts the returned model actually reaches the graph card and the sidebar row.Changes
Tools/windows/Stub-Daemon.ps1: new-NodeAId/-NodeBId/-NodeATitle/-NodeBTitleparams and an opt-in-ApplyGraphCommandsswitch. With the switch, agraphCommand.renameNoderequest updates the stub's own graph, is recorded in a newappliedRenamesresult field, and triggers a freshgraphChangedat the next sequence. Without it the stub is unchanged — the existingwindows-shellstub phase in the same run still passes and simply reportsappliedRenames: [].Tools/windows/uia-live-gate.ps1: new "connected-daemon rename propagation" phase after every existing phase. It starts its own stub on a per-PID pipe, launches its own shell withGRAPHCODE_UIA_CONNECTION_FAILUREand the fixture env removed for that shell only, waits for a daemon-supplied node to render, drives fixture mutation 7 (the real Rename dialog), then asserts the samecanvas-card-*andloop-row-*AutomationIds report the daemon-applied title, that the recorded command log carriesrenameNode._0+title, and that the stub applied the rename. Adds aGet-ElementNamehelper, a non-throwingRead-UiaTextFilediagnostic reader, and registers both new processes with the existing owned-tree cleanup.Tools/windows/Tests/ValidationRunner.Tests.ps1: source contracts for the new gate assertions and stub behavior, plus a contract that the pre-existing forced-disconnected assertions remain.investigation/ui-parity-matrix.md: theNode update/renamerow only, recording exactly the evidence obtained. It stays Partial.Every existing disconnected-path assertion is untouched: the new phase uses its own shell, pipe, command log and sandbox, and the gate's
finallyrestores the caller environment.Test plan
RED:
git stash push -- Tools/windows/uia-live-gate.ps1 Tools/windows/Stub-Daemon.ps1; pwsh -NoProfile -File Tools\windows\Tests\ValidationRunner.Tests.ps1-> exit 1,RED: UIA gate never observes a rename result returned by a connected daemon; and CI run 36555883348 ->rename stub daemon exited with code 1 before serving its pipe: Cannot process argument transformation on parameter 'ResponseDelayMilliseconds'. Cannot convert value "loop" to type "System.Int32", reproduced locally asunquoted: alive=False code=1 pipeEnumerated=FalseGREEN:
pwsh -NoProfile -File Tools\windows\Tests\ValidationRunner.Tests.ps1->ValidationRunner.Tests.ps1: PASS, exit 0; same local stub launch quoted ->alive=True pipeEnumerated=True stderr was empty; Windows shell validation run 36559162178 ->UIA_CONNECTED_DAEMON_MODEL sidebar='Daemon loop A' identity=loop-row-1575646491273972180thenUIA_CONNECTED_RENAME_PROPAGATION nodeId=11111111-1111-4111-8111-111111111111 graphIdentity=canvas-card-1510499067760483540 graph='Daemon renamed loop' sidebarIdentity=loop-row-1575646491273972180 sidebar='Daemon renamed loop' expected='Daemon renamed loop' connection=live-stub-daemonandUIA_CONNECTED_RENAME_STUB with protocolConnected=true, correlatedRequests=true, subscriptionSeen=true, reconnectObserved=true, graphSent=true, error=null, and appliedRenames=["11111111-1111-4111-8111-111111111111=Daemon renamed loop"]REGRESSION:
Windows shell validationrun 36559162178 on7ea3e436-> success; the wholevalidate.ps1 -Task windows-shell -SkipTrayLivesuite passed, including the untouched disconnected assertionsUIA_RENAME_DISPATCH nodeId=11111111-1111-4111-8111-111111111111 title=UIA renamed loop expectedTitle='UIA renamed loop' titleMatches=True connectionFailure=forcedandUIA_RENAME_OUTCOME graph='UIA loop A' sidebar='UIA loop A' expected='UIA renamed loop' reason=gate-forces-daemon-connection-failure, and the pre-existing stub phaseSTUB_DAEMON_EVIDENCE_JSONwithprotocolConnected/correlatedRequests/subscriptionSeen/reconnectObserved/graphSentall trueLimits, stated plainly: the connected peer is
Stub-Daemon.ps1, a protocol-level stub, notgraphcoded. This establishes that a daemon-returned model reaches the Windows graph card and sidebar row after a live UI-driven rename; it does not establish that the production daemon computes that model — that is covered separately by the headless real-daemon round-trip test. Edit Details still has no live open/cancel/submit evidence. The ledger row staysPartial.Checklist
git commit -s) per the DCOmake test) — macOS-only target. This change is Windows-only and was validated withTools\windows\Tests\ValidationRunner.Tests.ps1locally plus the full Windows shell CI workflow.make check) — not applicable to PowerShell; both scripts parse cleanly with[Parser]::ParseFile(0 errors) andgit diff --check origin/main HEADis clean.