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---
name: verify
description: Drive Houston's TS host + web UI end-to-end to verify a change against the running system (host HTTP battery + Playwright Files/board flows).
---
# Verifying Houston changes at runtime
## TS host (the real desktop sidecar), hermetically
```bash
mkdir -p /tmp/hh/workspaces/Personal/"Agent 1"
HOUSTON_HOME=/tmp/hh HOUSTON_HOST_PORT=48123 HOUSTON_HOST_TOKEN=t \
node --import tsx packages/host/src/local/main.ts
# wait for {"status":"ok"}:
curl -s http://127.0.0.1:48123/health
```
- Auth: `Authorization: Bearer t`. Agent ids are `<Workspace>/<Agent>` —
URL-encode the slash (`/agents/Personal%2FAgent%201/files`).
- SSE reactivity feed: `curl -N 'http://127.0.0.1:48123/v1/events?token=t'`.
- The runtime is only spawned for chat turns; files/agents routes need no
provider credentials.
## Web UI (the same React tree the desktop ships)
Playwright + the fake host (`@houston/fake-host`), all boot handled by the
harness:
```bash
pnpm --filter houston-web test:e2e # whole suite
cd packages/web && npx playwright test e2e/files.spec.ts --reporter=line
```
- Specs live in `packages/web/e2e/`; fixtures reset the fake host per test.
- One-off screenshots: drop a temp spec in `e2e/`, `page.screenshot(...)`,
delete it after (testDir is pinned to `e2e/`).
- Gotchas: controlled inputs never match `input[value=…]` (use
`getByRole("textbox")`); headless Chromium names blob downloads with a GUID —
assert downloaded bytes, not `suggestedFilename()`.
## Gates (CI-equivalent, not a substitute for the above)
`pnpm check` · `pnpm typecheck` (ui+app+web) · `pnpm --filter @houston/host test`
· `cd app && pnpm check-locales` · `pnpm check:boundaries`
