tidaldb/playwright.semantics.config.ts
jordan 9523f6da43 test(e2e): verify ranking semantics with a content-feed app, and route three product findings
The existing 32 checks prove the deployment answers -- TLS, auth, quorum commit,
convergence, isolation, dashboards, backups. Not one wrote a signal and observed
an order change, so VISION.md:17 "Ranking is not a feature. It is a primitive."
was unverified. This adds a 60-item content-feed app and five assertions that
verify the product's semantics, on a hermetic standalone node.

Added
- tests/e2e/app/: fixture contract (60 items, 4 categories, each owning one
  unoccupied 100-id embedding cluster), a deep-module harness owning the whole
  lifecycle behind startApp(), the product page, and an app:dev entry point.
- tidal-stress/src/bin/feed-fixture.rs: seeds the catalog and emits brute-force
  ground truth, reusing recall::embedding_for rather than adding a third copy of
  the corpus generator (tidal/src/db/items.rs already holds a second).
- GroundTruth::from_ids: the oracle now serves sparse id sets. build() delegates,
  so there is no transient copy even at 1M, and top_k indexes positionally.
- 10-ranking-semantics.spec.ts (5 hermetic checks) and
  11-ranking-integrity.spec.ts (2 cluster tripwires).
- playwright.semantics.config.ts + CAP-016 demo beat (walkthrough 82s -> 90s).

Measured, not merely green
- like: index 59 -> 0, like_boost 2.0, with no sleep between write and read.
- decay: implied half-lives 7.0007 d and 14.0014 d against a schema declaring
  7 d and 14 d, recovered from a 4-second window via H = t*ln2 / -ln(v2/v1) and
  compared against the schema the node actually loaded, not a hardcoded copy.
- ANN: top-10 identical to brute-force cosine on all four probes; self-distance
  0.0148-0.0197 against a 0.05 tolerance.
- rank: dense 1..60 on standalone vs [1,1,1,2,2,3,4,3,4,5,6,5] on the cluster.

Three product findings, pinned and routed to @tidal-engineer
- BUG-018 (High) skip is durably accepted and query-time inert. Penalty is fully
  implemented (ranking/profile.rs:227 -> executor/signal_values.rs:183, labelled
  {signal}_penalty at executor/mod.rs:65) but skeleton() sets penalties: vec![]
  (ranking/builtins.rs:62) and none of the 27 built-ins overrides it. So
  VISION.md:187 "negative signals are equal citizens" holds for no shipped
  profile. Same anti-pattern as the reseed defects and scatter_merge: a guard
  present on one path, absent on its sibling.
- BUG-019 (Medium) three built-ins read signals this schema does not declare --
  trending/share_velocity, hidden_gems/completion, controversial/dislike -- so
  those terms are permanently 0 and trending ranks on view_velocity alone.
- BUG-020 (Low) for_you declares Scan{sort_field:"created_at"} but ignores a
  created_at metadata value; an order matching neither id-asc nor
  created_at-desc came back strictly id-ascending.

Two assertions therefore report a gap rather than a success, written as tripwires
whose failure message says what to do when the gap closes. The rank defect is
localised, not fixed: scatter_merge (cluster/node.rs:7542) returns a merged slice
without re-stamping rank while scores stay correctly ordered, so the fault is the
missing stamp and not the merge's sort.

Notes
- Hermetic by construction: its own config, because FullConfig.projects is not
  filtered by --project and globalSetup publishes credentials into the main
  process that forked workers inherit -- so a setup project cannot replace it,
  and weakening globalSetup would destroy the fail-loud behaviour that is its
  purpose. Verified with KUBECONFIG=/nonexistent and all E2E_* unset.
- Never touches the deployed corpus: skip is permanent: true, so seeding it into
  production would be irreversible.
- The page contains no sort, no hostname and no credential; the harness proxy
  injects auth server-side so no bearer reaches a browser or a capture.
- Schema comes from k8s/cluster/schema-configmap.yaml, asserted at 1536 dims;
  tidal-server/config/default-schema.yaml declares 128 and would 422 every write.

Verification: 5 semantics + 34 regression + 10 demo captures green; tsc clean;
tidal-stress clippy clean under clippy::all=deny with unwrap_used=deny; 2101
tidaldb lib tests; preflight 10/10 perfect; render 90.05s/2700 frames with zero
empty boundary frames; zero orphan processes or temp dirs after teardown.
2026-08-23 22:42:02 -06:00

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import { defineConfig, devices } from '@playwright/test';
/**
* Hermetic config for the ranking-semantics suite.
*
* These checks prove tidalDB's product thesis — that writing a signal changes
* the order of a query, immediately — against a throwaway standalone node this
* suite boots and seeds itself. Nothing here touches the deployed cluster, and
* nothing here needs a credential, a kubeconfig, or a network.
*
* **Why a separate config rather than a project inside `playwright.config.ts`.**
* That config's `globalSetup` (`tests/e2e/support/env-bootstrap.ts`) hard-fails
* when kubectl cannot reach the cluster, and it must: sourcing credentials from
* the cluster is what stops a check silently skipping. Two things rule out
* gating it per-project:
*
* 1. `FullConfig.projects` handed to `globalSetup` is NOT filtered by
* `--project` (measured: selecting one of two projects still reports both),
* so setup cannot tell whether a cluster-targeted test was even selected.
* 2. `globalSetup` publishes credentials into `process.env` of the MAIN process
* so forked workers inherit them. A Playwright setup *project* runs inside a
* worker, where that propagation does not happen.
*
* Separate configs keep each suite's prerequisites honest: this one requires
* nothing, and the regression config keeps failing loudly when the cluster is
* unreachable. Same split the demo suite already uses.
*/
export default defineConfig({
testDir: './tests/e2e/features',
testMatch: ['10-ranking-semantics.spec.ts'],
timeout: 180_000,
expect: { timeout: 20_000 },
forbidOnly: !!process.env.CI,
// Each test boots its own node, so a retry would hide a genuine ordering bug
// behind a second roll of the dice — the same reasoning as the regression
// config. If a ranking assertion is unstable, the assertion is wrong.
retries: 0,
workers: 1,
fullyParallel: false,
reporter: process.env.CI
? [
['github'],
['html', { open: 'never', outputFolder: 'playwright-report-semantics' }],
['junit', { outputFile: 'test-results/playwright-semantics-junit.xml' }],
]
: [['list'], ['html', { open: 'never', outputFolder: 'playwright-report-semantics' }]],
outputDir: 'test-results/playwright-semantics',
use: {
// No baseURL: the app's origin is allocated per test by the harness, so a
// config-level default would be a lie.
actionTimeout: 20_000,
navigationTimeout: 45_000,
trace: 'retain-on-failure',
screenshot: 'only-on-failure',
video: 'retain-on-failure',
},
projects: [
{
name: 'semantics',
use: { ...devices['Desktop Chrome'] },
},
],
});