@activate-core/test-forge 0.18.5 → 0.18.6

package/dist/core/run-generate.js

@@ -598,18 +598,23 @@ export async function runGenerate(docsDir, useAI = true, force = false, only, ar
         // AI can't fall back to an uninstalled convention (e.g. supertest).
         const allowedModules = installedModules(testDir);
         const transport = transportHint(testDir, framework);
-        // Playwright is the one framework whose import is mandatory in every spec
-        // (jest's describe/it/expect are ambient, so a jest area generates fine
-        // either way). If it is missing, stop before spending a single AI call.
-        if (framework === 'playwright' && !allowedModules.has('@playwright/test')) {
+        // The area's OWN framework is always allowed, installed or not. Refusing
+        // it confuses two different things: output that reached for a module the
+        // project does not use (genuinely wrong — still refused), and output that
+        // is perfectly correct while the project has simply not installed the
+        // runner it is configured to use. The second is an environment gap, and
+        // throwing away a correct test for it loses real work — the test is
+        // written, and the run says the framework must be installed to run it.
+        const frameworkPkg = framework === 'playwright' ? '@playwright/test' : 'jest';
+        if (!allowedModules.has(frameworkPkg)) {
+            allowedModules.add(frameworkPkg);
             const blocked = blockedAreas.get(journey.area) ?? {
-                pkg: '@playwright/test',
+                pkg: frameworkPkg,
                 dir: areaDir,
                 count: 0,
             };
             blocked.count += 1;
             blockedAreas.set(journey.area, blocked);
-            continue;
         }
         // F10 — selector grounding (Playwright areas only): the real test-hooks
         // in this area's components, so a generated UI test can't invent one.
@@ -838,17 +843,17 @@ export async function runGenerate(docsDir, useAI = true, force = false, only, ar
         });
     }
     for (const [area, b] of blockedAreas) {
+        const browsers = b.pkg === '@playwright/test' ? ' && npx playwright install' : '';
         results.push({
-            journeyName: `${b.count} ${area} journey(s) not attempted — ${b.pkg} is not installed`,
+            journeyName: `${area}: tests written, but ${b.pkg} is not installed`,
             testDir: '',
             testFiles: [],
             seedPath: '',
             status: 'skipped',
             seedStatus: 'none',
             warnings: [
-                `every ${area} spec must import ${b.pkg}, so without it the dependency gate ` +
-                    `refuses each generated file and leaves a deferred stub — hours of AI calls for nothing. ` +
-                    `Install it, then re-run: npm i -D ${b.pkg} && npx playwright install`,
+                `${b.count} ${area} journey(s) were generated normally and are complete. They cannot RUN ` +
+                    `until the runner is installed: npm i -D ${b.pkg}${browsers}`,
             ],
         });
     }

package/package.json

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "@activate-core/test-forge",
-  "version": "0.18.5",
+  "version": "0.18.6",
   "description": "AI-powered QA automation. Scans a project, drafts journey docs, and generates seeded Jest/Playwright tests. Works in any project, with any AI CLI.",
   "type": "module",
   "bin": {