Comparing this branch's live against main's turned up two whole features that never made sense here. -2,466 lines. 1. The isolated source-artifact preview was never switched on. `scaffoldSourceArtifactSession` is only reachable via live-wrap's `--isolated`, and nothing passes it: not the server's preflight, not live.md, nothing. Proved it end-to-end — the default wrap writes markers straight into real source and creates no previews/ session. So the mode was wired through three modules, carried its own accept/discard branches, browser branches, server metadata resolution, preview-mode classifier entry, and test suites, and none of it could run. Worse, live.md documented it as the active path and told the agent "The true source is only the publisher's hash fence and must remain byte-identical until Accept." That is false: the wrapper lands in source at scaffold time and each revision rewrites it. An agent following that sentence believes source is protected when it isn't, and the leftover artifacts are what made accept resolve the wrong file in the first real run. live.md now describes what actually happens, including that markers are visible in source until Accept or Discard. Removed: source-artifact.mjs, --isolated, the preflight's isolated option, the accept/discard branches, four dead browser branches, the server's previews/ resolution, the classifier entry, and their tests. Kept the previews/ gitignore pattern: an ignore line for a directory that cannot exist is free, and a test pins it. 2. Quality judging belongs to the private evals repo, which says so. runner/live/README.md there is explicit: the public repo owns protocol correctness, framework coverage, timing, source commit, recovery, and a rubric-free evidence bundle; the private repo owns the task corpus, baselines, comparative judges, and release-quality decisions — "Do not add quality rubrics, competitor comparisons, or broad fixture corpora to the public Live benchmark." This branch added exactly those: an LLM judge scoring 1-10 on "off-brand, generic-AI" (live-rendered-quality.mjs, judge-live-rendered.mjs), a cross-provider comparison with a BRAND_CONTRACT rubric (live-provider-benchmark .mjs, benchmark-live-providers.mjs), and a brand-fidelity fixture corpus. All removed, with bench:live:providers and their suite entries. Also removed tests/framework-fixtures/README.md's "External quality-eval fixtures" section: it documented a bench:live workflow using --fixture-dir, --agent=codex, --action and --evidence-bundle, none of which benchmark-live.mjs implements, plus an evidenceCapture block nothing reads. Kept: timing benchmarks (the public repo's half of that boundary), progressive publication, the source lock, poll lanes, and Nuxt/Vue component previews. Coverage note: deleting the isolated suites took the only tests for `source_locked` classification with them, so the plain wrapper path — now the only non-component preview — gets equivalent accept and discard coverage. Both new tests fail if mode:'error' is removed. Prepared with AI assistance under maintainer direction. Co-Authored-By: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>
Framework fixtures
Representative project shapes for exercising live mode against different framework conventions. Each fixture is a small directory tree that the test harness copies into a temp git repo, then drives live-inject.mjs, live-wrap.mjs, live-accept.mjs, and lib/is-generated.mjs against.
Fixtures can also opt into a runtime E2E pass that actually installs dependencies, boots the framework dev server, and drives a Playwright browser to verify the live handshake. See the runtime block below.
Layout
<fixture>/
files/ project tree the test copies into tmp
gitignore.txt becomes .gitignore in tmp (so we can commit the real files here)
fixture.json config + expected results the test consumes
fixture.json schema:
{
"name": "human-readable label",
"config": { ...contents for .impeccable/live/config.json ... },
"sourceFiles": ["paths that is-generated should classify as source (false)"],
"generatedFiles": ["paths that is-generated should classify as generated (true)"],
"wrapCases": [
{
"name": "description",
"args": { "classes": "...", "tag": "...", "elementId": "..." },
"expectedFile": "where wrap should land (relative to fixture root)",
"expectsError": "optional error code, e.g. element_not_in_source"
}
],
"csp": {
"shape": "shared-helper | inline-headers | middleware | meta-tag | null",
"signals": ["diagnostic hints — paths where CSP was detected"],
"patchTarget": "which file the agent should modify",
"expectedAfter": "filename of the reference post-patch output inside this fixture"
},
"runtime": {
"styling": "plain-css | tailwind-v4 | styled-components | ...",
"install": ["npm", "install"],
"devCommand": ["npm", "run", "dev"],
"scheme": "http",
"ignoreHTTPSErrors": false,
"readyPattern": "Local:\\s+https?://[^:]+:(\\d+)",
"readyTimeoutMs": 120000,
"pickSelector": "h1.hero-title",
"mode": "insert",
"insert": {
"anchorSelector": "section#features",
"position": "after",
"prompt": "Add a testimonial strip below features",
"expectSelector": ".inserted-strip",
"assertAnchorContains": "feature-grid"
},
"preActions": [
{ "type": "click", "selector": "[data-testid='open-modal']" },
{ "type": "goto", "path": "/about" }
],
"reloadProbe": {
"preActions": [{ "type": "click", "selector": "[data-testid='open-modal']" }],
"expectSelector": "h1.hero-title"
},
"steer": {
"message": "steer-e2e mark hero",
"expectSelector": "h1.hero-title[data-impeccable-steer=\"e2e\"]"
},
"probe": {
"expectLiveInit": true,
"expectConsoleClean": true
}
}
}
The expectedAfter file lives alongside fixture.json (not inside files/) and is a human/agent-review reference — tests don't auto-apply the patch.
The runtime block is optional. Fixtures without it only run the static unit checks (is-generated, inject, wrap, csp-detect). Fixtures with it additionally run the E2E suite in tests/live-e2e.test.mjs (bun run test:live-e2e), which:
- Stages the fixture into a tmp repo.
- Runs
runtime.installto install real deps. - Starts
live-server.mjs --backgroundand runslive-inject.mjs --portagainst it. - Spawns
runtime.devCommandand scrapes the port from stdout usingruntime.readyPattern(the first capture group must be the port). - Opens Playwright Chromium at the dev URL and asserts
window.__IMPECCABLE_LIVE_INIT__ === true(the browser-side handshake oracle) withinruntime.readyTimeoutMs. - Runs a Steer smoke step (unless
runtime.steer === false): submit a message in the global Steer bar, wait for the fake agent to replysteer_done, assert the bar unlocks and adata-impeccable-steermarker lands in source + DOM. Then continues with pick → Go → cycle → accept. - Tears everything down (Playwright close, dev server SIGTERM, live-server stop, tmp rm).
Useful runtime E2E filters:
IMPECCABLE_E2E_ONLY=<fixture>[,<fixture>]scopes the run to selected fixture names.IMPECCABLE_E2E_SCENARIOS=coreruns only the main click → Go → cycle → accept path; omit it or useallto include manual edit, annotation, and exit probes.IMPECCABLE_E2E_TEST_TIMEOUT_MS,IMPECCABLE_E2E_INSTALL_TIMEOUT_MS, andIMPECCABLE_E2E_DEV_READY_TIMEOUT_MStighten CI smoke timeouts without changing fixture metadata.
Optional runtime.steer fields:
"steer": {
"message": "steer-e2e mark hero",
"sourceFile": "src/routes/About.jsx",
"expectSelector": "h1.hero-title[data-impeccable-steer=\"e2e\"]",
"expectSourceContains": "data-impeccable-steer=\"e2e\"",
"preActions": [{ "type": "click", "selector": "[data-testid='nav-about']" }]
}
When preActions is omitted, steer smoke inherits runtime.preActions to reveal hidden heroes before the DOM check. Source is asserted first; a reload + retry covers HMR lag. Set "steer": false to skip, or "expectDom": false for source-only verification.
Current fixtures
| Fixture | Shape |
|---|---|
vite-react/ |
Tracked index.html shell + src/App.jsx. Inject into the shell. |
nextjs-app/ |
app/layout.tsx as JSX inject target (commentSyntax jsx). |
astro/ |
src/layouts/Layout.astro as inject target. HTML comments. |
sveltekit/ |
src/app.html shell + src/routes/+page.svelte. |
nuxt-vite7/ |
Nuxt 4 app/ structure + Vue 3 SFC. Live loads through a generated dev-only client plugin. |
multipage-with-generator/ |
src/ tracked, dist/ gitignored. Exercises the is-generated guard and element_not_in_source fallback. |
nextjs-turborepo/ |
Monorepo with shared CSP helper (createBaseNextConfig). CSP shape append-arrays. |
nextjs-inline-csp/ |
App-level next.config.js with a literal CSP string. CSP shape append-string. |
sveltekit-csp/ |
SvelteKit kit.csp.directives in svelte.config.js. CSP shape append-arrays. |
nuxt-csp/ |
Nuxt routeRules with literal CSP header in nuxt.config.ts. CSP shape append-string. |
Add new fixtures by cloning a directory, swapping files, and updating fixture.json.