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The gap, as it exists on main today

Web E2E (full stack) is a required check. Its job in .github/workflows/ci.yml carries timeout-minutes: 35, and GitHub reports a job killed by its own cap as cancelled, not failed. Every if: failure() step is skipped on a cancellation.

Four of that job's diagnostic steps are if: failure():

  • Dump compose logs on failure
  • Upload compose logs
  • Redact the Next.js server log on failure
  • Upload the redacted Next.js server log

So a web-e2e job that runs out of time uploads no compose log and no Next.js server log. The only artifact that survives is the Playwright report, and only because that one upload step already carries always(). The result is a red required check, with nothing attached to explain it, sitting on top of whichever pull request was unlucky enough to hit the cap.

This is a property of the harness, not of any one outage. It fires whenever the cap is reached, for any reason.

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The four steps carry always(), and the two whose names said "on failure" are renamed to match what they now do. Nothing about what the suite asserts changes.

always() rather than failure() || cancelled(): both were measured to run on a cap kill (see below), so either would work. always() is what the three sibling steps at the end of this same job already carry, and it does not depend on which flavour of cancellation arrives. The cost is a few seconds and one small log artifact on a green run.

Second change, in the same job's fixture path and independent of the cap: the E2E fixture seeder's admin client now runs its calls through a 25 second deadline. Node's fetch has no request deadline of its own, only a 300 second headers timeout, so a stalled admin call sits there until fixture-reset.ts kills the seeder child at 120 seconds with a bare signal, and the run learns only that seeding was slow, never which call was stuck. A call that does not answer in time now throws naming the method and path it stalled on. The query string is dropped rather than redacted, because PostgREST puts fixture email addresses there and this repository is public. A caller supplied signal is composed with the deadline rather than replaced, so gotrue-js keeps its own aborts.

Third, one comment correction in the same job. Its history passage still said "web-e2e is not a required check", which is false today: Web E2E (full stack) is in the required contexts read off the live branch protection on 2026-08-23. The claim is corrected in place rather than deleted, because the passage explains why a job-level concurrency: group was reverted and being required strengthens that argument rather than reversing it. Noted there too: .github/branch-protection-main.json still lists the older six contexts and has not caught up with the live nine, which is a separate change and is not folded in here.

Evidence that the new condition actually fires on a cap kill

Measured, not reasoned about. A throwaway workflow on a scratch branch (pushed, measured, branch deleted) with timeout-minutes: 1, a first step that sleeps 300 seconds, and one step per candidate condition. Run 32628384742, job conclusion cancelled:

step condition conclusion
overrun the cap none cancelled
cond-failure failure() skipped
cond-cancelled cancelled() success
cond-always always() success
cond-failure-or-cancelled failure() || cancelled() success

That is the RED and the GREEN in one run. The condition on main today is skipped by a cap kill; the condition this pull request switches to runs. It also confirms the premise: a job killed by timeout-minutes concludes cancelled, not failure.

Evidence for the seeder deadline

apps/web-console, in Docker (docker compose run --rm --build --no-deps web-console npx vitest run tests/unit/e2e-fixture-call-timeout.test.ts). Green first, then each guarded behaviour mutated, then restored:

state result
as pushed 4 passed
deadline replaced with a signal that never fires 2 failed (both stall tests, at the 5s vitest test timeout)
restored 4 passed
label derivation reverted to new URL(typeof input === "string" ? input : input.url) with a hardcoded GET 1 failed (the Request and URL test)
restored 4 passed

What was removed from the earlier version of this pull request

The previous body diagnosed a shared Supabase fixture seeder degrading from 1.5s to past its 120s ceiling, and named the six pull requests it took down on 2026-08-17 and 2026-08-18. That diagnosis is stale and has been deleted rather than carried forward. PR #983 gave this job its own throwaway Postgres, GoTrue and PostgREST, so web-e2e no longer opens a connection to the shared project's session mode pooler at all. Leaving that text in place would have left the next reader chasing an outage that cannot recur in this job.

Removed from the diff for the same reason:

  • maxFailures: 5 in playwright.config.ts. Its whole purpose was to stop a wedged shared fixture from burning every spec's retries and walking the job into its cap. With a per job database there is no shared wedge to truncate, and a flat failure cap would only hide part of a genuine multi spec regression.
  • The edit to the Name a shared session-pool exhaustion on failure step. That step no longer exists on main; ci: stop CI jobs sharing the live database, boot a throwaway Postgres instead #983 removed it along with the pooler it annotated.

What is kept is only the part that is still an open gap: the diagnostic steps surviving a cap kill, and the per call deadline in the seeder.

Review

A fresh CodeRabbit pass was requested on the rebased head and came back rate limited, so that stream is SKIPPED rather than passed. Recording it explicitly: an unavailable review stream is not a clean review.

The one open thread (e2e-fixture-seed.mjs, label derivation on Request and URL inputs) is fixed and resolved, with the fix and its mutation check posted in the thread. Request inputs now keep their own method, URL inputs stringify instead of being read for a .url they do not have (that path called new URL(undefined), so the diagnostic would have thrown a TypeError over the stall it exists to report), and both are covered by tests.

Buglog entry

To be appended to .wolf/buglog.jsonl on main in a separate buglog only pull request after this merges, per .claude/rules/openwolf.md.

{"id":"bug-web-e2e-cap-kill-diagnostics","timestamp":"2026-08-23T08:40:00.000Z","related_bugs":[],"occurrences":1,"last_seen":"2026-08-23T08:40:00.000Z","title":"web-e2e uploaded no diagnostics for exactly the runs that needed them","error_message":"A `web-e2e` run killed by its own `timeout-minutes` cap produced a red required check with no compose log and no Next.js server log attached, only the Playwright report","root_cause":"GitHub reports a job killed by `timeout-minutes` as cancelled rather than failed, and an `if: failure()` step is skipped on a cancellation. Four of the job's five diagnostic steps carried `if: failure()`; the fifth, the Playwright report upload, carried `always()`, which is why it was the only artifact that ever survived a capped out run","fix":"Switched the four steps to `always()`. Verified empirically on a throwaway one minute job that slept past its cap (run 32628384742): the job concluded cancelled, its `failure()` step was skipped, and its `always()`, `cancelled()` and `failure() || cancelled()` steps all ran","tags":["ci","github-actions","observability","web-e2e","timeout"]}

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The E2E setup adds timed Supabase admin requests, limits CI Playwright runs after five failures, and collects diagnostic logs for failed or cancelled web-e2e jobs.

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E2E reliability

Layer / File(s) Summary
Timed admin requests and validation
apps/web-console/tests/e2e/support/e2e-fixture-seed.mjs, apps/web-console/tests/unit/e2e-fixture-call-timeout.test.ts
createAdminClient uses timedFetch with configurable deadlines, composed abort signals, sanitized request labels, and timeout errors. Tests cover timeout, cancellation, successful responses, and cleanup.
CI failure control
apps/web-console/playwright.config.ts
Playwright stops CI runs after five failures. Local runs remain unlimited.
Cancelled job diagnostics
.github/workflows/ci.yml
Web-e2e diagnostic collection and artifact uploads now run for failed or cancelled jobs.

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The PR is mergeable with explicit owner follow-up: timeout diagnostics may be mislabeled or fail to handle some valid Request/URL inputs correctly, which could reduce the usefulness of failure evidence without changing the underlying application behavior.

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sequenceDiagram
  participant createAdminClient
  participant timedFetch
  participant SupabaseAPI
  participant CallerAbortSignal
  createAdminClient->>timedFetch: configure admin request deadline
  timedFetch->>SupabaseAPI: send HTTP request
  CallerAbortSignal-->>timedFetch: provide caller cancellation
  timedFetch-->>SupabaseAPI: abort on deadline or caller cancellation
  timedFetch-->>createAdminClient: return response or timeout error
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apps/web-console/tests/unit/e2e-fixture-call-timeout.test.ts (1)

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Use Vitest tracked stubs for global test state.

The direct writes to globalThis.fetch and process.env mutate existing global objects. Replace them with vi.stubGlobal and vi.stubEnv. Restore them with vi.unstubAllGlobals() and vi.unstubAllEnvs() in afterEach. Vitest provides these tracked stub and restore APIs. (vitest.dev)

As per coding guidelines, “Immutability: New objects, never mutate existing. Ledger append-only.”

Also applies to: 24-32, 77-78

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In `@apps/web-console/tests/unit/e2e-fixture-call-timeout.test.ts` around lines 14
- 19, Update the test setup and cleanup to use Vitest’s tracked APIs: replace
direct globalThis.fetch and process.env mutations with vi.stubGlobal and
vi.stubEnv, and replace the corresponding afterEach restoration in the timeout
tests with vi.unstubAllGlobals() and vi.unstubAllEnvs().

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Inline comments:
In `@apps/web-console/tests/e2e/support/e2e-fixture-seed.mjs`:
- Around line 249-250: Update the fetch diagnostic setup around the input URL
and method derivation to preserve Request semantics: use the Request’s method
when init.method is absent, and stringify URL inputs instead of accessing
input.url. Add timeout coverage for a PATCH Request and a URL input.

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In `@apps/web-console/tests/unit/e2e-fixture-call-timeout.test.ts`:
- Around line 14-19: Update the test setup and cleanup to use Vitest’s tracked
APIs: replace direct globalThis.fetch and process.env mutations with
vi.stubGlobal and vi.stubEnv, and replace the corresponding afterEach
restoration in the timeout tests with vi.unstubAllGlobals() and
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Comment thread apps/web-console/tests/e2e/support/e2e-fixture-seed.mjs Outdated
The `Web E2E (full stack)` job carries `timeout-minutes: 35`, and GitHub
reports a job killed by its own cap as cancelled rather than failed. Every
`if: failure()` step is skipped on a cancellation, so the four steps that
exist to explain a bad run (the compose dump, its upload, the Next.js server
log redaction and its upload) were skipped in exactly the case that most
needed them. A capped-out run currently uploads nothing but the Playwright
report, and only because that one upload step already carried `always()`.

The four steps now carry `always()` too, and the two whose names said "on
failure" are renamed to match what they do.

`always()` rather than `failure() || cancelled()`: it is the condition
documented to run while a job is being cancelled, and the surviving Playwright
upload is this repository's own evidence that it does so on a cap kill. The
cost is a few seconds and one small log artifact on a green run.

Second, unrelated to the cap but on the same job: the fixture seeder's admin
client now runs its calls through a 25 second deadline. Node's fetch has no
request deadline of its own, so a stalled admin call sits there until
fixture-reset.ts kills the seeder child at 120 seconds with a bare signal,
which names nothing. A call that does not answer in time now throws naming the
method and path it stalled on. The query string is dropped rather than
redacted, since PostgREST puts fixture email addresses there and this
repository is public. A caller-supplied signal is composed with the deadline
rather than replaced, so gotrue-js keeps its own aborts.

Testing:

- apps/web-console `npx vitest run tests/unit/e2e-fixture-call-timeout.test.ts`
  in Docker: 4 passed. Mutation checked both ways. Replacing the deadline with
  a signal that never fires turns the two stall tests red on a 5s test timeout;
  reverting the label derivation to `input.url` and a hardcoded GET turns the
  Request and URL test red. Restoring each returns the file to 4 passed.
- Job-cancellation semantics measured on a throwaway workflow rather than
  assumed. See the pull request body for the run and its per-step conclusions.
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`Web E2E (full stack)` is in the required contexts on main today, read off the
live branch protection on 2026-08-23. The job's own history comment still says
it is not, which contradicts the reason the diagnostic steps below it had to
stop being skipped on a cancellation.

The claim is corrected in place rather than deleted, because the passage it
sits in explains why a job-level concurrency group was reverted, and being a
required check strengthens that argument instead of reversing it: a queue-race
cancellation now blocks the merge outright rather than surfacing nowhere.

Also noted there: .github/branch-protection-main.json still lists the older six
contexts and has not caught up with the live nine. Bringing that file back in
sync is a separate change, not folded in here.
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