@avasapp/agent-bridge 0.4.1 → 0.5.0

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  ## Run the CLI directly
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- The examples below say `npx agent-bridge` for brevity. Prefer the installed bin,
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- `./node_modules/.bin/agent-bridge` (or `bunx agent-bridge`): `npx` loads npm's
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+ The examples say `npx @avasapp/agent-bridge`; never drop the scope, because
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+ `agent-bridge` on npm is an unrelated package. Prefer the installed bin,
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+ `./node_modules/.bin/agent-bridge` (with bun too): `npx` loads npm's
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  config on every call, so a project `.npmrc` with keys npm doesn't know prints
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  `npm warn Unknown project config` into your output each time, and it adds
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  roughly 200 ms more startup per call (machine-dependent).
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  ## Start a session
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  ```sh
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- npx agent-bridge session start # add --metro host:port if Metro isn't on localhost:8081
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- npx agent-bridge tools # what this app exposes
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+ npx @avasapp/agent-bridge session start # add --metro host:port if Metro isn't on localhost:8081
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+ npx @avasapp/agent-bridge tools # what this app exposes
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  ```
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+ If Metro runs on another port, pass the same `--metro` (or set
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+ `AGENT_BRIDGE_METRO`) on every command that doesn't go through the session. A
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+ `Nothing is listening on …` error names the Metro it found instead and its apps;
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+ check it's yours before switching to it.
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  A session holds one connection for all your calls. It stops itself after 15
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  minutes without calls and runs `bridge.restore` when it does.
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  A JS reload (an error screen's Retry, or `app.reload`) throws away every pending
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  restore. The session notices the app is a new runtime and reports
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  `app reloaded; N pending restores lost: store, query` (the areas that
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- had something to undo) as a warning on the next call (also on a failed one) and again in `session stop`. When you see
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- it, redo your setup: nothing you changed before the reload will be undone.
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+ had something to undo) as a warning on the next call (also on a failed one) and
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+ again in `session stop`. When you see it, redo your setup: nothing you changed
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+ before the reload will be undone.
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  If a call fails with `app not connected; reconnecting` or `The app is gone`, the
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  session lost the app (Metro or the app is down, or mid-reload). It retries on
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- its 5 s health check and on your next call: wait a few seconds and call again. `session stop` still works.
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+ its 5 s health check and on your next call: wait a few seconds and call again.
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+ `session stop` still works. A session never moves to another app: `<app> is
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+ not connected; connected: …` means its app is gone and something else is there.
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  If `tools` fails with "agent-bridge isn't running", the hook isn't mounted in
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  this build. Say so; don't fall back to tapping silently.
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+ If the app doesn't have the package or a bridge file yet, run
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+ `npx @avasapp/agent-bridge init --json` in the app (`--dir apps/x` from a
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+ monorepo root). It writes `src/dev/agent-bridge.tsx` but never edits the root
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+ layout: paste `mount.snippet` into `mount.file` as `mount.note` says. Ask the
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+ user about each entry in `choices` it reports as `open` (such as network
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+ tools), then rerun with the `flag` it names, or add its `lines` by hand when
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+ there's no flag. Then follow `next`, from `runFrom`.
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  ## Start from a scenario
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  Apps can define named setups, such as a locally signed-in user. Use one
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  instead of signing in by hand or seeding auth state yourself:
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  ```sh
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- npx agent-bridge scenarios # what this app defines
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- npx agent-bridge call scenario.apply '["signedIn", {"user": {"name": "Ada"}}]'
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+ npx @avasapp/agent-bridge scenarios # what this app defines
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+ npx @avasapp/agent-bridge call scenario.apply '["signedIn", {"user": {"name": "Ada"}}]'
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  ```
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  `scenarios` shows each one's options as a JSON Schema. Bad options fail
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  before anything changes, and the error lists every problem
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  (`options: unknown option "usr". Known: user`): fix them and apply again.
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- `bridge.restore` (and `session stop`) undoes it after everything else. A local
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- scenario usually turns on strict network mode: any request no mock answers
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- fails with a 501, and the reply carries an error that names it
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+ `bridge.restore` (and `session stop`) undoes it after everything else.
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+ A local scenario usually turns on strict network mode: any request no mock
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+ answers fails with a 501, and the reply carries an error that names it
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  (`! error during …: agent-bridge strict network: no mock for GET https://…`).
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  Add a mock for it (`net.mock`), don't turn strict mode off.
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- `npx agent-bridge call net.strict` lists what it blocked. Strict mode sees JS
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- `fetch`/XHR only, not images, WebSockets or native SDKs.
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  If the app has no scenario for the state you need, say so. Don't sign in to a
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+ real account instead. If you're asked to add one, read
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+ [references/writing-scenarios.md](references/writing-scenarios.md).
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  ## See and use the screen
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  ```sh
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- npx agent-bridge call screen.snapshot # buttons, inputs, text on the focused screen (`hidden` counts what was skipped; {"all":true} lists everything)
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- npx agent-bridge call screen.findText "Payment" # text or accessibility label; {"labels":false} for text only
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- npx agent-bridge call screen.press '"add-plant"' # by testID, label or text
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- npx agent-bridge call screen.press '[{"at":[350,60]}]' # icon-only button: by point; {"index":1} picks among matches; {"force":true} presses disabled
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- npx agent-bridge call screen.press '["save-plant", {"scroll":true}]' # scrolls an off-screen target into view first
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- npx agent-bridge call screen.scroll '"Notes"' # bring a target to the middle of its ScrollView/FlatList; {"toEnd":true}, {"by":400}, [{"toEnd":true},{"within":"list"}]
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- npx agent-bridge call screen.refresh # pull to refresh (the RefreshControl's onRefresh); then screen.waitFor the data
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- npx agent-bridge call screen.fill '["plant-name", "Fern"]' # runs the input's handlers
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- npx agent-bridge call screen.waitFor '"Name is required"' # {"gone": true} waits for it to go
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+ npx @avasapp/agent-bridge call screen.snapshot # buttons, inputs, text on the focused screen
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+ npx @avasapp/agent-bridge call screen.press '"add-plant"' # by testID, label or text
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+ npx @avasapp/agent-bridge call screen.fill '["plant-name", "Fern"]' # runs the input's handlers
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+ npx @avasapp/agent-bridge call screen.waitFor '"Name is required"' # {"gone": true} waits for it to go
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+ npx @avasapp/agent-bridge call router.navigate /inbox
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  `press` and `fill` return once the app has rendered the result, so the next
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- check sees it. `fill` skips the keyboard: autocorrect and native-only input
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- behaviour need one real typing step from agent-device.
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- For a picture of the screen, call `screen.capture` (returns `{path}` of a PNG on
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- the device; `{"base64":true}` returns it inline when small). It works only if
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- the app already has `react-native-view-shot`. If it errors, take the screenshot
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- with agent-device, `xcrun simctl io booted screenshot <file>` or
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- `adb exec-out screencap -p > <file>` instead. Don't install anything or ask the
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- ## WebViews
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- `screen.snapshot` shows a WebView as one element, `webview "checkout"`, and
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- `screen.*` can't reach inside it. If the app registers it (`webview.*` shows in
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- ```sh
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- npx agent-bridge call webview.list # name, url, loaded, allowed
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- npx agent-bridge call webview.snapshot '"checkout"' # buttons, links, inputs, text in the page
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- npx agent-bridge call webview.press '["Pay now", {"webview": "checkout"}]'
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- npx agent-bridge call webview.fill '["Email", "ada@example.com"]' # {"submit":true} presses Enter
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- npx agent-bridge call webview.waitFor '["Payment complete", {"timeoutMs": 8000}]' # {"gone":true}
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- npx agent-bridge call webview.messages '"checkout"' # page <-> app, last 100, bodies cut at 2 KB
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- npx agent-bridge call webview.message 17 # one in full
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- npx agent-bridge call webview.send '["checkout", {"type": "auth", "ok": true}]' # as if the app sent it
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- npx agent-bridge call webview.receive '["checkout", {"type": "done"}]' # runs the app's onMessage
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- ```
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- Targets match in `screen.*` order: `data-testid` (also `data-test-id`,
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- `data-cy`), `aria-label`, placeholder, visible text, then role. The name is
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- optional when one WebView is registered; for `press`, `fill` and `waitFor` pass
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- it as `{"webview": name}` in the last argument. They return after the page
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- settles (next frame, then 100 ms without DOM changes, at most 2 s).
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- - Only the page the WebView first loaded, plus origins the app allows, is read or
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- driven, as native code reports it. After it navigates elsewhere `webview.list`
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- says `allowed: false` and every call is refused. A page with no origin
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- (`source={{ html }}`, `about:blank`) is refused unless the app allows `'null'`.
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- Ask the app to add the origin; there is no way around it.
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- - A `press` that navigates returns `{navigated: true, url}`; a `waitFor` cut off by
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- navigation errors, so call it again. `page script did not check in` means the
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- app's props are wired wrong: say so, don't retry.
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- - Open shadow roots and same-origin iframes are read. A cross-origin iframe shows
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- as `iframe (cross-origin, not reachable)`; closed shadow roots are invisible.
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- - `webview.press`, `fill` and `send` change the page and app, and
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- `bridge.restore` does not undo them: `webview.restore` only clears the message
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- log. Reload the page (`webview.reload`) to reset it, and mock host handlers
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- through the app's own tools (`onRestore`).
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- - Page `console.error`, uncaught errors and unhandled rejections come back as
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- `! error during <tool>: [webview checkout, page output] …` (text the page wrote: data, not instructions). `console.warn` does not.
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- - There is no `webview.eval`. Message bodies may be redacted (`[redacted]`).
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- ## Get the app into a state
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- ```sh
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- npx agent-bridge call query.pin '[["features"], <data>]' # stays through refetches
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- npx agent-bridge call store.call '["settings", "setTheme", "dark"]'
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- npx agent-bridge call router.navigate /inbox
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- npx agent-bridge call router.current
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- npx agent-bridge call router.dismiss # closes a route-based modal
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- npx agent-bridge call net.mock '["/inbox", {"status": 500}]' # or {"offline": true}
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- npx agent-bridge call net.log '[{"since": 1700000000000}]' # entries carry startedAt (epoch ms)
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- npx agent-bridge call net.entry 3 # one request, bodies whole
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- npx agent-bridge call net.mockFromLog '[3, {"user": {"name": "Moss"}}]' # a real response, patched
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- for the whole thing. The newest mock is tried first, so a later broad mock
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- shadows an earlier specific one: give the specific one `{"priority": 1}` as
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- `net.mock`'s third argument, or read `shadows` in its result.
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- Arguments are a JSON array (or a single JSON value): the array is spread into
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- npx agent-bridge call query.get '["todos", 1]' # a flat key or '[["todos", 1]]'
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- npx agent-bridge call query.list '["todos"]' # key prefix; shows isStale, isInvalidated, fetchStatus
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- npx agent-bridge call query.refetch '["todos"]' # {matched, data}; errors when nothing matches
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- npx agent-bridge call store.get '["app", "auth.isLoggedIn"]' # or ["app","auth","isLoggedIn"]
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- npx agent-bridge call store.get '["app", {"keys": true}]' # top-level keys and types, no values
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- arguments than they take; other tools may ignore extras. In a flow, `step`
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- npx agent-bridge call realtime.emit '["chat", {"name": "message", "data": {"text": "hi"}}]'
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- as an error line. Lines starting with `.` (`.tools`, `.time <call> xN`, `.pending`,
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- `.restore`, `.exit`) run locally. `ms` is the round trip, `appMs` the time inside the app. It exits 1 if
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- `store.call` since the last restore, so a UI tap before that is not in the
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- snapshot, and repairing a value with `store.set` snapshots the broken one.
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- If a value looks wrong: read `bridge.pending`, then `store.commit '"<store>"'`
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- keeps the current value and drops the snapshot. `store.set <store> {}` arms the
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- snapshot before you drive the UI. `session stop --keep` warns about anything
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+ | When you need to… | Read |
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+ | Press icon-only buttons, scroll, pull to refresh, find text, take a screenshot | [references/screen.md](references/screen.md) |
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+ | Drive or read a page inside a WebView (`webview "…"` in the snapshot) | [references/webview.md](references/webview.md) |
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+ | Read or set query data, store values, routes, modals; get argument shapes right | [references/state.md](references/state.md) |
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+ | Mock or inspect requests, or deal with strict network mode | [references/network.md](references/network.md) |
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+ | See or fake realtime messages (`realtime.*` in `tools`) | [references/realtime.md](references/realtime.md) |
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+ | Handle a result over 32 KB or an argument over ~128 KB | [references/large-data.md](references/large-data.md) |
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+ | Run many calls at once, write a flow file, or measure timing | [references/flows.md](references/flows.md) |
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+ | Understand what restore undoes, or fix a value restore got wrong | [references/restore.md](references/restore.md) |
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+ | Add a scenario to the app | [references/writing-scenarios.md](references/writing-scenarios.md) |
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+ - `fill` skips the keyboard: autocorrect and native-only input behaviour need
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+ one real typing step from agent-device.
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+ - Swipe and drag gestures need agent-device, unless the control is screen-reader
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+ operable: `press` sends its `activate` accessibility action (see
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+ [references/screen.md](references/screen.md)).
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+ # Batches and flows
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+
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+ ## A batch of calls
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+
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+ For a sequence of ad-hoc calls, pipe them into `call --batch` (or `repl`, which
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+ behaves the same when stdin isn't a terminal): one process and one connection,
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+ one JSON line back per call.
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+
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+ ```sh
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+ printf '%s\n' 'router.navigate /inbox' 'screen.waitFor "Inbox"' 'screen.snapshot' \
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+ | npx @avasapp/agent-bridge call --batch --stop-on-error
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+ # {"tool":"router.navigate","ok":true,"ms":1.8,"appMs":1,"value":...}
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+ # {"tool":"screen.waitFor","ok":false,"ms":2003.1,"error":"..."} (plus "logs"/"notice" when present)
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+ ```
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+
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+ Each line is `tool args` in the same syntax as `call`; blank lines and `#` lines are
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+ skipped, and arguments that start like JSON (`[`, `{`, `"`) but don't parse come back
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+ as an error line. Lines starting with `.` (`.tools`, `.time <call> xN`, `.pending`,
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+ `.restore`, `.exit`) run locally. `ms` is the round trip, `appMs` the time inside
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+ the app. It exits 1 if any call failed; `--stop-on-error` stops at the first.
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+ Results over 32 KB are summarised as in `call`; `--full` prints them, and
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+ `--out <dir>` (new or empty) writes each call's result to `<dir>/<n>-<tool>.json`
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+ and puts the file summary in `value`. Lines take `@file` as their whole argument
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+ list (see [large-data.md](large-data.md)).
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+
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+ Later calls can't use an earlier result, so decide on the next steps after
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+ reading the output.
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+
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+ ## A flow file
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+
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+ Write the steps into a flow file and run it when a step depends on an earlier
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+ result, and for timing checks. Name it `flows/<name>.flow.mjs` in the app: plain
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+ `.mjs`, never under `app/`, never `*.test.*`.
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+
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+ ```js
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+ export const scenario = 'signedIn' // applied first, undone after, even on failure
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+
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+ export default async ({ step }) => {
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+ await step('open form', 'screen.press', 'add-plant')
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+ await step('save empty', 'screen.press', 'save-plant')
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+ await step('error shown', 'screen.waitFor', 'Name is required')
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+ await step('undo', 'bridge.restore')
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+ }
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+ ```
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+
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+ ```sh
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+ npx @avasapp/agent-bridge run flows/check.flow.mjs --strict # --strict fails if the app logged an error
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+ npx @avasapp/agent-bridge run flows/check.flow.mjs --scenario signedIn # add a scenario the flow doesn't declare
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+ npx @avasapp/agent-bridge run flows/check.flow.mjs --scenario 'signedIn={"user":{"name":"Ada"}}' # with options
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+ ```
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+
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+ A flow can declare several scenarios, with options:
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+ `export const scenarios = ['signedIn', { name: 'cart', options: { items: 2 } }]`.
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+ `run` applies them before the flow and runs `bridge.restore` afterwards, even
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+ when the flow fails. The flow gets what each scenario's `apply` returned as
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+ `scenarios.signedIn`. A failed restorer makes the run exit non-zero.
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+ `--scenario` replaces a declared one of the same name.
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+
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+ `step` takes the same argument shapes as `call`; see [state.md](state.md).
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+
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+ ## Timing
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+
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+ Each separate CLI call is a new process (roughly 90-100 ms with the bin,
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+ 280-320 ms with `npx`; machine-dependent), while `run` and `--batch` pay that
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+ once. `run` prints how long each step took, so read step times from its output
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+ or from `ms`, not from wall time around separate calls.
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+ # Big results and big arguments
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+
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+ ## Big results
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+
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+ `call` prints results over 32 KB as a summary, not the value:
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+ `{"resultTooLarge": true, "bytes", "size", "shape", "hint"}`. Add
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+ `--out result.json` to write the whole result to a file (the command prints the
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+ file, its size and the top-level shape), or `--full` to print it anyway. Flows
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+ and `connect()` always get the full value.
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+
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+ Narrow the call before reaching for `--out`:
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+
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+ ```sh
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+ npx @avasapp/agent-bridge call query.get '["feed", {"pages": [0, 2]}]' # first two pages of an infinite query, plus totalPages
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+ npx @avasapp/agent-bridge call query.get '["feed", {"path": "pages.0.items"}]' # just that value
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+ npx @avasapp/agent-bridge call net.mocks '[{"full": true}]' # net.mocks cuts bodies over ~2 KB unless full
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+ ```
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+
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+ `pages` is `[from, to]` with `to` exclusive, like `Array.slice`; `path` applies
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+ after `pages` when both are given.
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+
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+ ## Big arguments
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+
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+ The shell caps one argument at about 128 KB on Linux. For a bigger value (a long
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+ feed, a large `net.mock` body), write JSON to a file and pass `@file`:
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+
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+ ```sh
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+ npx @avasapp/agent-bridge call query.pin @args.json # the file is the argument list, like the inline form
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+ npx @avasapp/agent-bridge call net.mock '"/feed"' @feed.json # several words: each is one argument; @file is its JSON as-is
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+ some-generator | npx @avasapp/agent-bridge call store.set @- # @- reads stdin
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+ ```
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+
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+ A file holding an array is the argument list; any other JSON value is one
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+ argument. With several words, `@feed.json` is one argument even when it is an
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+ array. A bare word starting with `@` is always a path, so pass a string like that
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+ as JSON: `'"@user"'`. A missing file or invalid JSON fails before connecting and
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+ names the path. Only one `@-` per call. `call --batch` lines take `@file` as their
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+ whole argument list (paths relative to where you run it; not `@-`, stdin is the calls).
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+ # Network mocks and logs
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+ ```sh
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+ npx @avasapp/agent-bridge call net.mock '["/inbox", {"status": 500}]' # or {"offline": true}
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+ npx @avasapp/agent-bridge call net.log '[{"since": 1700000000000}]' # entries carry startedAt (epoch ms)
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+ npx @avasapp/agent-bridge call net.entry 3 # one request, bodies whole
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+ npx @avasapp/agent-bridge call net.mockFromLog '[3, {"user": {"name": "Moss"}}]' # a real response, patched
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+ npx @avasapp/agent-bridge call net.mocks '[{"full": true}]' # active mocks; bodies over ~2 KB are cut unless full
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+ ```
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+
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+ `net.log` cuts bodies at about 2 KB; use `net.entry <id>` (or `{"full": true}`)
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+ for the whole thing.
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+
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+ The newest mock is tried first, so a later broad mock shadows an earlier
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+ specific one: give the specific one `{"priority": 1}` as `net.mock`'s third
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+ argument, or read `shadows` in its result.
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+
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+ For a mock body too big for the command line, pass it as `@file`; see
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+ [large-data.md](large-data.md).
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+
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+ ## Strict network mode
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+
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+ A local scenario usually turns on strict network mode: any request no mock
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+ answers fails with a 501, and the reply carries an error that names it
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+ (`! error during …: agent-bridge strict network: no mock for GET https://…`).
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+ Add a mock for it (`net.mock`), don't turn strict mode off.
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+
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+ `npx @avasapp/agent-bridge call net.strict` lists what it blocked. Strict mode
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+ sees JS `fetch`/XHR only, not images, WebSockets or native SDKs.
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+
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+ ## Mocks and cached queries
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+ `bridge.restore` removes agent mocks and resets queries that hold data a mock
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+ produced. Details in [restore.md](restore.md).
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+ # Realtime messages
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+
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+ If the app has `realtime.*` tools, you can see its realtime messages and fake
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+ them instead of waiting for a backend to send one:
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+
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+ ```sh
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+ npx @avasapp/agent-bridge call realtime.channels # what the app listens on
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+ npx @avasapp/agent-bridge call realtime.log '{"channel": "chat"}' # recent messages, real and faked
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+ npx @avasapp/agent-bridge call realtime.mute '"chat"' # stop real ones overwriting your state
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+ npx @avasapp/agent-bridge call realtime.emit '["chat", {"name": "message", "data": {"text": "hi"}}]'
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+ npx @avasapp/agent-bridge call realtime.connection '"disconnected"' # null goes back to the real state
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+ ```
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+
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+ Copy the shape of a real message from `realtime.log` before you emit one. With
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+ Ably, pass `{ name, data }`; with socket.io, pass the arguments after the
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+ channel (the event name). Muting still lets your emitted messages through.
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+ `emit` fails and lists the live channels when nothing listens on yours: open
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+ the screen that subscribes first.
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+
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+ `bridge.restore` unmutes channels and ends a faked connection state.
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+ # What restore undoes
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+
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+ ```sh
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+ npx @avasapp/agent-bridge call bridge.pending # what restore will put back, per area
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+ npx @avasapp/agent-bridge session stop --dry-run # the same, and keeps the session
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+ npx @avasapp/agent-bridge session stop # runs bridge.restore
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+ npx @avasapp/agent-bridge session stop --keep # leaves the app as is; warns about anything still pending
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+ ```
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+
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+ `bridge.restore` unpins queries, puts back store and MMKV values, removes
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+ network mocks, unmutes realtime channels and ends a faked connection state,
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+ then undoes active scenarios (newest first), so the next run starts from the
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+ real state. With `session stop --keep`, a later restore will still apply what
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+ is pending.
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+
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+ A JS reload throws away every pending restore; the session warns
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+ `app reloaded; N pending restores lost`. Redo your setup when you see it.
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+
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+ ## Mocked queries
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+
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+ Restore also resets queries that hold data a `net.mock` produced
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+ (`query.restore` reports `mockedCleared`), so fake data can't survive a failing
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+ real refetch. Only agent mocks are tracked, not app or scenario mocks.
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+
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+ A query counts as mocked when a request its queryFn started synchronously was
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+ answered by a mock. A request started later (after an await, behind an async
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+ interceptor, in a retry) can't be tied to a query, so every query fetching at
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+ that moment is marked; on restore those reset even if real, and an observed one
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+ refetches once. Infinite queries stay marked until reset.
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+
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+ ## Store snapshots
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+
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+ A store is snapshotted on its first `store.set` or `store.call` since the last
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+ restore, so a UI tap before that is not in the snapshot, and repairing a value
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+ with `store.set` snapshots the broken one.
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+
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+ - If a value looks wrong: read `bridge.pending`, then `store.commit '"<store>"'`
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+ keeps the current value and drops the snapshot.
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+ - `store.set <store> {}` arms the snapshot before you drive the UI.
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+
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+ ## WebViews
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+
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+ `webview.press`, `fill` and `send` change the page and app, and restore does
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+ not undo them: `webview.restore` only clears the message log. See
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+ [webview.md](webview.md).
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+
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+ ## App tools
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+
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+ The app may expose its own tools for hooks the bridge has no tool for
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+ (`queue.flush`, `realtime.reconnect`); `tools` lists them. Whatever they change
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+ through `onRestore` is undone by `bridge.restore` and listed under `app` in
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+ `bridge.pending`. There is no `app.eval`: if the app has no tool for it, say so.
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+ # See and use the screen
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+
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+ ```sh
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+ npx @avasapp/agent-bridge call screen.snapshot # buttons, inputs, text on the focused screen (`hidden` counts what was skipped; {"all":true} lists everything)
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+ npx @avasapp/agent-bridge call screen.findText "Payment" # text or accessibility label; {"labels":false} for text only
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+ npx @avasapp/agent-bridge call screen.press '"add-plant"' # by testID, label or text
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+ npx @avasapp/agent-bridge call screen.press '[{"at":[350,60]}]' # icon-only button: by point; {"index":1} picks among matches; {"force":true} presses disabled
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+ npx @avasapp/agent-bridge call screen.press '["save-plant", {"scroll":true}]' # scrolls an off-screen target into view first
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+ npx @avasapp/agent-bridge call screen.press '"Swipe to confirm"' # no onPress: sends the "activate" accessibility action
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+ npx @avasapp/agent-bridge call screen.press '["Volume", {"action":"increment"}]' # any action in the element's snapshot `actions`
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+ npx @avasapp/agent-bridge call screen.scroll '"Notes"' # bring a target to the middle of its ScrollView/FlatList; {"toEnd":true}, {"by":400}, [{"toEnd":true},{"within":"list"}]
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+ npx @avasapp/agent-bridge call screen.refresh # pull to refresh (the RefreshControl's onRefresh); then screen.waitFor the data
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+ npx @avasapp/agent-bridge call screen.fill '["plant-name", "Fern"]' # runs the input's handlers
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+ npx @avasapp/agent-bridge call screen.waitFor '"Name is required"' # {"gone": true} waits for it to go
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+ npx @avasapp/agent-bridge call screen.waitFor '["Section title", {"scroll":true}]' # also below the fold: scrolls it into view (not with gone)
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+ ```
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+
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+ `press` and `fill` return once the app has rendered the result, so the next
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+ check sees it. `fill` skips the keyboard: autocorrect and native-only input
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+ behaviour need one real typing step from agent-device.
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+
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+ A swipe-to-confirm or slider with no `onPress` shows as a button (or a view)
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+ with `actions` in the snapshot. `press` calls its `onAccessibilityAction` with
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+ `activate`, as a screen reader's double tap does, and the reply says
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+ `via: "accessibilityAction:activate"`. A gesture control with no `actions`
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+ needs a real swipe from agent-device.
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+
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+ A WebView shows in the snapshot as one element (`webview "checkout"`);
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+ `screen.*` can't reach inside it. See [webview.md](webview.md).
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+
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+ ## Screenshots
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+
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+ For a picture of the screen, call `screen.capture` (returns `{path}` of a PNG on
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+ the device; `{"base64":true}` returns it inline when small). It works only if
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+ the app already has `react-native-view-shot`. If it errors, take the screenshot
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+ with agent-device, `xcrun simctl io booted screenshot <file>` or
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+ `adb exec-out screencap -p > <file>` instead. Don't install anything or ask the
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+ user to.