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What changed

x verify's e2e step printed ✓ e2e 46ms and reported "skipped": false, "findings": []
while its only test skipped itself. A gate step whose suite executed nothing is now reported
as skipped — the dash roadmap already gets — counted apart from the passes in the summary line
and carried as "skipped": true in --json.

Fixes #434.

Which of the two shapes, and why

#434 offers two and asks for one: the roadmap skip, or the X_BUN_VERSION refusal. This is the
skip, for four reasons that are all about what the framework promises regarding a browser.

  1. The framework deliberately ships no browser, by written design.
    packages/scraping/src/cdp-port.ts declares the launcher structurally "precisely so the
    framework can drive a browser without shipping one", and browser-launcher.ts holds the same
    bargain for x shot: the app installs puppeteer-core, the CLI asks for it. X_BUN_VERSION is
    the right shape for its own case — Bun >= 1.4 is not optional, nothing works without it, and
    one command fixes it. A browser is optional by construction, so "you are missing something"
    would have the gate demand a dependency the framework chose not to require.
  2. An error would make a plain VM permanently red, and that is the scaffold's whole promise.
    x verify: the e2e step prints a green check while its only test skips #434 itself records the greenfield story as measured: a fresh scaffold on a box with no
    docker and no services comes up green, verified with docker, podman, psql, pg_ctl,
    initdb and friends shadowed by stubs that exit 127, none of which ever fired. A red e2e
    there tells the user nothing they can act on; it removes the green they were promised, on every
    box, forever.
  3. The repo already wrote this rule down. CONTRIBUTING.md: "A step that has nothing to check
    here is reported as skipped (-), never as passed." The e2e step was the one place not
    honouring it.
  4. The red half already exists, and is untouched. x.verify.json is the ratchet: a repo that
    has proved the suite runs names the step there, and then a run whose suite executes nothing is
    X_VERIFY_SUITE_VANISHED with a fix: line and a non-zero exit — not a skip. So the honest
    skip is the resting state for a box that never had a driver, and it turns red the moment an app
    claims the lane. The framework's own floor names e2e; the scaffold's deliberately does not
    (templates/scaffold-repo.ts), and that comment now says the gap is visible rather than silent.

What a skip may not be is indistinguishable from "no suite at all" — so the line says which it is:

  - roadmap            0ms
  - e2e                46ms  found 1 test(s) and every one skipped itself

and --json carries "skipped": true beside "tests": {"ran":0,"skipped":1}.

Changes

  • packages/cli/src/verify-run.ts — ONE definition of "nothing ran" (tests.ran === 0), read
    twice, because the floor decides which of two things it means: a failure when the floor requires
    the step (X_VERIFY_SUITE_VANISHED, unchanged), a skip when it does not. Same shape as the
    branch that has always existed for a step whose applies answered no.
  • packages/cli/src/output.ts + messages.tsStepResult.tests reaches --json, and the
    human line says why a step is a dash. The reason a test skipped lives in that test's own NAME and
    bun test prints only counts, so the line points at the suite and x test e2e prints the names.
  • Docstrings that asserted the old behaviourpackages/testing/src/test-types.ts stated the
    gate reports "a pass over an all-skipped suite" and that "an exit code is the only channel
    between the two". The second half was already false: bun test prints its own counts and
    packages/cli/src/test-counts.ts was already reading them, which is what made this a ten-line
    fix rather than a new channel. Both are corrected, along with e2e-driver.ts and
    templates/scaffold-repo.ts.

Not touched: the live step. #434 notes it passes without opening a connection and marks it lower
severity; it asserts SQL text and an authz denial, which is a fair test of what it tests. It needs
its own change, with its own argument about what live is for.

Error codes

None added or changed. X_VERIFY_SUITE_VANISHED keeps its existing cause and fix.

Code Cause Fix
none

Verification

Red first. The three assertions were written against today's binary and run before any
behaviour changed:

$ bun run test packages/cli/src/verify-run.test.ts packages/cli/src/cmd-verify.test.ts
(fail) unit · x verify > the ratchet: a step the committed floor requires may not go quiet > with no floor, an all-skipped suite is a skip rather than a pass
(fail) a suite that executed nothing is a skip, never a pass > the step reports itself skipped, the way roadmap does
(fail) a suite that executed nothing is a skip, never a pass > neither renderer claims it passed
 38 pass
 3 fail

with the failure being exactly the defect #434 reports — the REAL e2e step, over a root holding
the file the scaffold writes (apps/web/app/posts/page.e2e.test.ts), fed bun's own verbatim
summary for one skipped test:

Expected to contain: "1 skipped: e2e"
Received: "all 3 steps passed in 0ms"

Green after, same command: 41 pass, 0 fail.

What the fixed step prints, over a root holding the file the scaffold writes and bun's own output
for one skipped test:

  - e2e                1ms  found 1 test(s) and every one skipped itself
✓ 0 of 1 steps passed in 1ms — 1 skipped: e2e

{"name":"e2e","ok":true,"durationMs":1,"skipped":true,"findings":[],"workers":1,
 "tests":{"ran":0,"skipped":1}}

The gate, bun run verify --workers 4 at the repo root of this repo:

  ✓ typecheck / lint / boundaries / filesize / package-shape / errors
  ✗ unit               8 fail
  ✓ contract  ✗ live  ✓ job  ✓ e2e  ✓ eval  ✓ manifest  ✓ roadmap
✗ 2 of 20 steps failed — 6 skipped: drift, contract-diff, budgets, seo, i18n, policy

Both red steps reproduce identically on a clean main on this machine, and neither is touched by
this diff — stated rather than waved at:

Failure Why, measured
5 × unit · create-ultimate this box runs bun 1.3.14 and create-ultimate requires >= 1.4.0, so every case gets X_BUN_VERSION instead of the code it asserts. git stash && bun run test packages/create-ultimate/src/index.test.ts → the same 3 pass, 5 fail
live · x dev … drains on SIGINT 60s timeout; git stash && bun run test packages/cli/src/cmd-dev.live.test.ts → the same single failure on main
2 × x dev --role, 1 × errors.explain timeouts only inside the full parallel run on a box at load average 7; all three pass in isolation on this branch (42 pass, 1 fail for the three files, the one being the main failure above)

The steps this diff can affect are green in isolation on this branch:

$ bun run test packages/cli/src/verify-run.test.ts packages/cli/src/cmd-verify.test.ts     packages/cli/src/output.test.ts packages/cli/src/verify-floor.test.ts     packages/cli/src/verify-tests.test.ts packages/testing/src/test-types.test.ts
 114 pass, 0 fail

$ bun run test scripts/reference-app-gate.test.ts scripts/reference-app-gate-io.test.ts     scripts/scaffold-gate.test.ts scripts/render-modes.test.ts scripts/gate-steps.test.ts
 103 pass, 0 fail

tsc -b and biome check . are clean.

What this does NOT turn red, checked rather than assumed:

  • The framework's own gate: x.verify.json names every test step, and ✓ e2e 3778ms in the run
    above is the framework's e2e suite really running.
  • examples/dummy: its e2e is pinned red with 6 FAILING tests — ran = 6, so it is not a skip.
    dummy/social-media-clone has no e2e file at all and was already skipped.
  • CI's scaffold-gate: it requires every step to be green or skipped, with MEASURED_STEPS
    naming the one step (budgets) that may not be a skip. A scaffold whose e2e reports -
    satisfies it, which is the design that made this fix possible without a waiver.

Branch is rebased on main. CHANGELOG.md's ## [Unreleased] carries the entry;
bun run scripts/changelog-check.ts, gate-steps.ts, doc-commands.ts, doc-fixes.ts,
readme-fences.ts, release-facts.ts and dead-docs-host.ts are all green.

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  • Bug Fixes

    • Verification suites that run zero tests are now reported as skipped instead of passed.
    • Required suites with no executed tests now cause verification to fail.
    • Missing browser drivers and self-skipped tests are reported consistently as skipped.
    • Existing failures for vanished suites remain unchanged.
  • New Features

    • Human-readable and JSON verification results now include test counts when available.
    • Verification summaries clearly distinguish suites with no tests from suites where all tests were skipped.

…ssed

x verify printed `✓ e2e 46ms` and `"skipped": false` over the one e2eTest a
scaffold writes, which test.skip's itself until the app registers a browser
driver — so a green gate included a lane that had never run and nothing said so
(#434).

bun test exits 0 over an all-skipped file, but it prints its own counts and
test-counts.ts was already reading them. The rule is `tests.ran === 0` in
verify-run.ts, read once and answered two ways, the way `applies` already is: a
step the committed x.verify.json requires stays the X_VERIFY_SUITE_VANISHED
failure it already was, and a step no floor requires becomes a skip beside
roadmap's, counted apart from the passes in the summary line.

A missing browser driver is a skip rather than an error code because the
framework ships no browser by design (packages/scraping/src/cdp-port.ts: the app
installs puppeteer-core, the CLI asks for it), and because a plain VM coming up
green is what the scaffold promises. Bun's own floor is the opposite case and
stays X_BUN_VERSION.

StepResult.tests now reaches --json and the human line, so
`- e2e  found 1 test(s) and every one skipped itself` is distinguishable from
`- roadmap`, which has no suite at all.

Closes #434

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Verification now reports suites with zero executed tests as skipped. Required empty suites fail with a finding. Test counts appear in step results, human output, and JSON output. Tests and documentation cover skipped browser-driver suites and passing suites with executed tests.

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runVerify records test counts, marks non-required empty suites as skipped, and reports required empty suites as failures.
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packages/cli/src/output.ts
StepResult carries optional test counts. Human and JSON renderers expose zero-test suite details.
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Tests cover skipped and passing suites across step results, summaries, and renderers.
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CHANGELOG.md, packages/cli/src/e2e-driver.ts, packages/cli/src/templates/scaffold-repo.ts, packages/testing/src/test-types.ts
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In `@packages/cli/src/output.ts`:
- Around line 183-184: Update why() to distinguish optional suites with
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returning a new catalog message for the empty-suite case instead of suppressing
the reason. Add the corresponding messages.ts entry and cover the rendered
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- why() answers for BOTH shapes a zero-run suite's counts can take: a new
  cli.verify.ranNothing for a suite that reported no test at all, beside
  cli.verify.allSkipped for one whose every test skipped itself. The two are
  different repairs — read a skipped test's name, or find out why the selected
  files hold no test — and a bare dash was indistinguishable from roadmap's,
  which is the very thing this change exists to end. Covered in output.test.ts
- expect.unreachable, not a thrown RangeError, for the impossible verdict in the
  new test (root CLAUDE.md, scripts/test-bare-error.ts)
- useE2eDriver's docstring leads with the durable rule — ran === 0 is skipped
  unless the floor requires the step — and keeps only the correction that the
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All three findings addressed in d4d2faa.

  1. why() suppressed the reason for a zero-run suite with zero skips — valid, and it was a hole in this PR's own claim: runVerify marks tests.ran === 0 skipped whatever the skip count is, so a suite that reported 0 pass / 0 fail printed the same bare dash as roadmap, which has no suite at all. Added cli.verify.ranNothing ("found no test to run in the file(s) it selected") beside cli.verify.allSkipped, kept for suites that really do have skipped tests, and covered all three shapes — 1 skipped, 0 skipped, no counts — in output.test.ts.
  2. expect.unreachable — valid: root CLAUDE.md names it as the idiom and scripts/test-bare-error.ts ratchets it. Replaced the thrown RangeError; the guard reports no package reports a test verdict with a bare Error above its pin.
  3. Lead with the rule — taken, partially. The docstring now opens with the durable rule (ran === 0 is skipped unless x.verify.json requires the step, then X_VERIFY_SUITE_VANISHED, never a pass). What is kept rather than deleted is the one sentence recording that this same block argued the opposite and that the argument was already false — this repo's convention is that a comment which stated a wrong guarantee says so where the next reader will look, and the block's old claim is exactly the reason the bug survived a release. The date stamp and the issue-number detail are gone.

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The lockstep patch bump that publishes the x verify gate-reporting fix.
f515aee (#435, closing #434) made a gate step whose suite executed nothing
report as skipped rather than passed, and npm still serves 20.1.0 for all 31
packages, so every bunx create-ultimate scaffold still ships a gate that
prints a green check over an e2e lane that never ran.

Patch rather than minor: no published API gained or lost a member and no new
capability shipped, and the only [Unreleased] section was ### Fixed.

Produced by scripts/release.ts --bump patch; no manifest was hand-edited.
Derived files moved with the manifests: framework.manifest.json, bun.lock
(235 recorded facts), docker/helm/Chart.yaml and the wiki footer's stamp.

scripts/release.ts --check 20.1.1 reports 31 packages stamped at 20.1.1 and
every file derived from them. bun install and bun install --frozen-lockfile
both report no changes.

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