[No QA] Synthetic target for Melvin agent-device mobile smoke test by kacper-mikolajczak · Pull Request #92233 · Expensify/App

kacper-mikolajczak · 2026-06-01T13:30:09Z

Explanation of Change

Synthetic, no-op PR. Do not merge.

This PR contains a single empty commit and changes no app code. It exists only as a stable, main-aligned target for manually dispatching the Melvin App workflow's Android mobile path (agent-device PoC, Expensify/melvin#172).

Because it sits exactly on top of main with an empty tree diff, its Rock native fingerprint matches a cached developmentDebug build, so the workflow's rock remote-cache download step hits the cache (instead of fast-bailing on a miss). Pointing the manual dispatch at this PR gives the run a real target for its result comment without polluting any real PR.

Fixed Issues

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Tests

N/A - empty commit, no app code changed. This PR is a workflow dispatch target only.

Verify that no errors appear in the JS console

Offline tests

N/A - no app code changed.

QA Steps

N/A - [No QA] synthetic target; no app code changed and this PR must not be merged.

Verify that no errors appear in the JS console

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Screenshots/Videos

Android: Native

N/A - no app code changed.

Android: mWeb Chrome

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iOS: Native

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iOS: mWeb Safari

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MacOS: Chrome / Safari

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No-op commit. This PR exists only as a stable, main-aligned target for manually dispatching the Melvin App workflow's Android mobile path, so the Rock fingerprint matches a cached build. It changes no app code and should not be merged.

MelvinBot · 2026-06-01T13:32:22Z

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MelvinBot · 2026-06-01T13:59:24Z

I drove the Android emulator with agent-device, but the SignIn screen did not render, so I couldn't verify it.

What happened: The dev app launched and showed the Expensify splash screen, but never progressed to SignIn. It then surfaced a React Native "Could not load bundle" error. The Metro dev server serving the JS bundle became unavailable mid-run (port 8081 stopped responding), so the bundle couldn't load. I tried reloading and restarting the bundler, but Metro didn't come back in this run.

This looks like an environment/infra issue with the Metro bundler in this CI run, not a UI problem in the PR.

agent-device tooling itself worked as expected — it opened the app, captured accessibility snapshots, took screenshots, tapped elements, and collected device logs. The only blocker was JS bundle / Metro availability.

State	Screenshot
App on Expensify splash (never advanced)
Empty content behind dev overlay after bundle load failed

Re-run once Metro is healthy and I can retry the SignIn render check.

MelvinBot · 2026-06-01T21:27:51Z

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MelvinBot · 2026-06-01T21:58:20Z

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MelvinBot · 2026-06-01T22:37:11Z

✅ The SignIn screen renders correctly on Android.

I launched the dev build on the Android emulator and confirmed the sign-in form rendered: the Phone or email input field (username) and the Continue button are both present and interactable.

MelvinBot · 2026-06-02T11:16:30Z

🤖 Android smoke test blocked — the dev build won't start

I booted the Android emulator and launched the Expensify dev build, but the app can't get past startup. It hits a react-native-reanimated JS/native version mismatch — the Reanimated native module compiled into the dev APK doesn't match the version in the JS bundle served by Metro — so the JS runtime never becomes ready. Because of that I couldn't reach the sign-in screen, log in with a test account, or send the chat message.

I confirmed it's not a stale bundle: a clean force-stop + relaunch reproduced the same startup error every time.

This is a build/dependency-alignment problem that can't be fixed or validated on the CI emulator — it needs the Android dev client rebuilt so the native Reanimated matches the JS bundle. I avoid native/dependency changes here since they can't be verified on CI.

Recommended next step: rebuild the Android dev APK with react-native-reanimated aligned to the lockfile (reinstall node modules + rebuild), then retry the smoke test. Startup screenshots are attached to this workflow run's artifacts.

— Melvin

…test-target

MelvinBot · 2026-06-02T22:37:36Z

🤖 Android smoke test blocked — Metro bundler went down mid-run

I drove the Android emulator with agent-device and got the dev build up to the SignIn screen, but couldn't complete the login + send-message flow because the JS bundler (Metro, port 8081) stopped responding partway through.

What happened

App launched and rendered the SignIn screen — the Phone or email field and Continue button were present and interactable. ✅
As soon as the flow needed to load a lazily-bundled screen, the app threw a "Could not load bundle" render error.
I confirmed the cause: nothing was listening on port 8081 (Metro had exited — metro reload failed with a connection error, and no bundler process was running). Restarting it isn't something I can do from inside this run.

This is an environment/infra issue with the Metro bundler in this CI run — not a problem with this PR (which is an empty synthetic target anyway). It's the same Metro instability seen in earlier runs on this PR. agent-device itself worked fine — open, snapshot, screenshot, fill, and device-log capture all behaved as expected.

State	Screenshot
Dev app launching
SignIn screen rendered

Heads-up for the smoke-test design (not yet verified this run): a fresh throw-away-account sign-in completes via a 6-digit magic code emailed to the account — there's no hardcoded dev code in the open-source sign-in flow. So even with Metro healthy, automating this end-to-end will need either a pre-provisioned account/session or an inbox the automation can read for the code. I hit the bundle error before I could observe the backend's response, so treat this as a caveat to plan around rather than a confirmed finding.

Recommended next step: re-run once Metro is confirmed healthy and kept alive for the whole session, and decide how the test account's magic code will be supplied. I'll retry the full login → send-message flow then.

— Melvin

MelvinBot · 2026-06-03T08:11:43Z

I drove the Android emulator for this smoke test but could not complete the task. The app opened to the sign-in screen initially, but I hit two independent blockers and did not send the message to exfy-perf@callstack.com.

Blocker 1 — Dev environment broke mid-run (infra).
The Metro bundler ran out of memory and crashed while bundling. After restarting it (Metro served the bundle fine from the host afterward), the emulator could no longer reach the dev server, so a cold start landed on the React Native "Unable to load script" red screen. I ran the sanctioned recovery (restart Metro twice + cold relaunch + reload) but the device↔dev-server connection couldn't be restored from within this run. See the CI run logs and the uploaded artifacts/ screenshots for details.

Blocker 2 — No way to sign in with a throw-away account (provisioning).
New Expensify sign-in needs a one-time magic code delivered by email. This emulator has no email inbox configured (Gmail is unprovisioned) and no test-account credentials were available to me, so there's no way to receive the code and finish login — even with a healthy app build.

Suggested fixes for the smoke-test harness:

Give the Metro process a larger heap so the full bundle can build without OOMing, and re-establish the device→Metro port mapping as part of recovery.
Provide a sign-in path that doesn't depend on reading an email — e.g. a dedicated test account with a known password, or a pre-provisioned inbox the agent can read the magic code from.

Happy to retry once either blocker is addressed.

MelvinBot · 2026-06-03T08:47:58Z

🤖 Mobile smoke test (Android) — blocked before I could send the message

Here's how far I got on the Android dev build and where it stopped:

✅ Launched the app
✅ Signed in with a throw-away test account
✅ Created the account (new-account flow, no magic code needed)
✅ Entered onboarding

❌ Blocked at the onboarding "What's your work email?" step. The step won't advance: neither Skip nor submitting a work email moves forward, and Android back is gated ("Please finish the setup questions to start using the app"). A persistent error is surfaced — "The 'navigation' object hasn't been initialized yet" — and the accessibility tree shows two navigation subtrees mounted at the same time (a corrupted navigation state). Because onboarding can't be completed, I never reached Home and couldn't start a chat with exfy-perf@callstack.com to send the message.

This does not appear to be caused by this PR — the same stuck state reproduces after a JS reload and after a full app relaunch, and this PR has no changed files. It looks like an environment/dev-build issue rather than anything in the PR.

If this reproduces locally, the issue is in the onboarding navigation-initialization path; otherwise it may be a transient dev-build/Metro hiccup worth a re-run. Happy to retry once the build is healthy.

MelvinBot · 2026-06-03T11:31:11Z

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MelvinBot · 2026-06-03T11:48:55Z

🪲 [debug] CHECK 1 (live reload): edited the sign-in screen's button label and ran agent-device metro reload twice. The button keeps rendering the original "Continue" text. Fetching Metro's bundle directly confirms it serves a cached module without the edit (~2 min after the change), while the rest of that component's code IS present — so it's a stale-cache issue, not a wrong-file issue. Likely cause: no source-file watcher is active (watchman isn't installed in the runner), so reload re-serves the pre-edit bundle.

MelvinBot · 2026-06-03T12:02:58Z

🪲 [debug] CHECK 2 (onboarding nav): stuck on the "What's your work email?" step. The Skip button is fully visible and unobstructed, but pressing it (durable selector AND exact-center coordinate) no-ops every time. Root cause confirmed: the accessibility snapshot shows the onboarding modal and two full copies of the Home tab bar mounted at once, and a tap on the modal's email field instead collapsed the press-release cards on the Home screen behind it — so touches are passing through the modal to the Home navigator underneath. This is the known double-mount / detached-overlay issue on modal transitions, not the warning toast. Trying a Metro re-mount next.

MelvinBot · 2026-06-03T12:07:21Z

Android emulator — two-check report

CHECK 1 — live-reload iteration loop: does not work in this CI env

Made a small visible edit to the sign-in screen's button label, ran agent-device metro reload twice, and re-captured. The button kept rendering the original text. Fetching Metro's bundle directly confirmed it was serving a stale, pre-edit module even minutes after the change. Root cause: no source-file watcher is active on the runner (watchman isn't installed), so a reload just re-serves the cached bundle and JS edits never propagate. The throwaway edit was reverted (working tree clean — nothing committed, no PR).

Note: a plain re-mount via metro reload does re-run the bundle, so the navigation loop below still worked — it's specifically picking up edited source that's broken here.

CHECK 2 — sign in + complete onboarding to Home: reached Home

Signed in with a throwaway test account and walked the full onboarding using the navigation ladder (durable id=/label selectors, settle + scoped snapshot, verify each step with diff): work-email → Skip → "Something else" → entered name → Continue → Home. Landed on the Home screen ("You're done!", Search + the Home/Inbox/Spend/Workspaces/Account tab bar present).

Correction to my earlier debug note: I initially suspected taps were passing through the onboarding modal — that was a misread (the Home feed behind it was just loading async). The modal was interactive the whole time. The real obstacle: the dev-mode warning toasts (incl. a continuously re-firing "getSnapshot should be cached" warning) float at the bottom and overlap the Skip button while the keyboard is down, intercepting the tap. Reliable workaround that unblocked it: focus the email field to raise the keyboard, which lifts Skip above the toast band — the tap then registers cleanly.

The accessibility snapshot does also show the documented double-mount during the modal transition (two Home tab-bar subtrees + the modal at once), but it did not block interaction here — the toast overlap was the actual blocker.

How far each check got

CHECK 1: Blocked by the CI env (no file watcher → stale bundle). Edit reverted.
CHECK 2: Completed end-to-end — reached Home.

MelvinBot · 2026-06-04T21:30:40Z

🪲 [debug] Edited the sign-in button label in JS, then ran agent-device metro reload. After the app re-fetched the bundle, the button still reads Continue (the old text) — the edit did not render live on the first reload. Retrying with extra settle time to rule out a race.

MelvinBot · 2026-06-04T21:32:45Z

🪲 [debug] Issued a second metro reload with ~21s settle and re-snapshotted — button still reads "Continue". The edit is confirmed on disk and Metro re-bundled, yet the changed module's new text never reached the served bundle. So it is not a timing race: the file-change event for the edited source is not being picked up.

MelvinBot · 2026-06-04T21:34:24Z

Live-reload verification (Android emulator) — ❌ edit did not propagate

Result: A visible JS edit to the sign-in screen did not render after agent-device metro reload. The reload loop is still broken on this run.

What I did

Edited a visible label in the sign-in component — the submit button text buttonText={translate('common.continue')} → hardcoded "Melvin live reload OK". Verified the change was written to disk.
Ran agent-device metro reload and waited for the app to re-fetch the bundle, then snapshotted. Button still read Continue.
Retried with a second metro reload and ~21s settle to rule out a race — button still read Continue.
Reverted the edit. git status is clean — nothing committed, no PR opened.

Before / After

Before edit	After edit + `metro reload` (×2)

Both read Continue — the expected Melvin live reload OK never appeared, so the two images are identical. That is the failure: the bundle Metro served after reload still contained the old text.

Step 1 (watchman) — could not fully confirm

I could not run watchman watch-list in this run: the watchman binary isn't in the workflow's command allowlist, and I couldn't self-authorize it. What I could verify:

watchman is installed on the runner.
A .watchmanconfig exists at the App project root.

But I could not confirm watchman is actively watching the App root or that Metro is wired to use it — which is exactly the thing that would explain the failure below.

Likely cause (medium confidence)

The edit is on disk and Metro re-bundles on reload, yet the changed module's new text never reaches the served bundle. That means the file-change event for the edited source isn't reaching Metro, so it serves the cached transform for that module. This is consistent with the file watcher not delivering filesystem events (a common failure for watchman on containerized CI filesystems) or Metro not actually using watchman. I couldn't pin it down precisely without watchman watch-list / Metro's watcher logs, which weren't accessible here.

Suggested next steps

Allowlist watchman (read-only watch-list / get-sockname) for this workflow so the watcher state can be inspected directly.
Confirm Metro is started with watchman enabled and that the project root shows up in watchman watch-list once Metro is up.

MelvinBot · 2026-06-05T05:58:46Z

🪲 [debug] Opened the dev app, but the snapshot shows only a system launcher ANR dialog ("Pixel Launcher isn't responding" / Close app / Wait) — the Expensify UI hasn't surfaced yet. Dismissing and re-opening before the live-reload test.

MelvinBot · 2026-06-05T06:03:10Z

🪲 [debug] After editing the sign-in submit label and running metro reload, the button still renders Continue (the old text). A fresh fetch of Metro's served bundle contains 0 occurrences of the new string, and the Metro log shows it re-bundled index.js but reused the cached transform for the edited file. The edit did not propagate.

MelvinBot · 2026-06-05T06:04:16Z

Live-reload diagnosis (Android emulator)

Verdict: the edit did NOT propagate. Watchman is watching the App project root, but a JS source edit + metro reload still rendered the old button text, and Metro's freshly-served bundle did not contain the change.

1. Watchman state

$ watchman watch-list
{ "roots": [ "/home/runner/_work/melvin/melvin/App" ] }

$ watchman get-sockname
{ "sockname": ".../watchman/runner-state/sock", "unix_domain": ".../watchman/runner-state/sock" }

The App project root is in watchman's roots, and the socket is live — so Metro did not fall back to a non-watchman watcher; watchman is up and watching the right directory.

2. Edit → reload → render

Changed the sign-in submit button label from translate('common.continue') to a literal visible string in the LoginForm submit button.
Ran agent-device metro reload → returned success (Reloaded React Native apps).
Waited ~20s, dismissed the overlay, screenshotted.

Result: the button still rendered Continue (old text). The accessibility snapshot also reported the node label as Continue.

To rule out a screenshot-timing artifact, I fetched Metro's served bundle directly:

GET http://localhost:8081/index.bundle?platform=android&dev=true&minify=false   → 80 MB bundle
grep -c "<new label>"  → 0 occurrences

The new string is absent from Metro's own output, so this is not an app-render lag — Metro itself served a stale bundle. The Metro log shows it re-bundled index.js and the graph on reload, but reused the cached transform for the edited file rather than re-transforming it.

Conclusion: Metro's file watcher is not observing on-disk edits in this agent environment. Even though watchman watch-list shows the App root and metro reload rebuilds the graph, the changed module isn't invalidated, so the cached transform (old text) is served. The live-reload loop is currently broken here — directly relevant to the branch's Make Metro's watcher observable; allow read-only watchman for the agent work.

3. Revert

Edit reverted; git -C App diff --stat HEAD is empty (only an untracked artifacts/ dir remains). No commit, no PR — working tree clean.

Side note (not the failure)

A system "Pixel Launcher isn't responding" ANR dialog repeatedly overlaid the screen (emulator under load during bundling) and had to be dismissed before each capture. A LogBox notice (The result of getSnapshot should be cached…) was also visible — a generic React warning, unrelated to the reload propagation issue.

MelvinBot · 2026-06-05T06:19:12Z

🪲 [debug] Step D (metro reload): instead of a fresh render, the app threw a redbox — [runtime not ready]: Exception in HostFunction: NullPointerException originating in NativeWorklets during module load. The served bundle still had 0 occurrences of the unique string (stale transform), so reload neither propagated the edit nor recovered cleanly.

MelvinBot · 2026-06-05T06:24:22Z

🪲 [debug] Step E (after reset-cache restart + reload): the served bundle now contains the unique string (cold recompile picked up the edit), but the app is sitting on a blank dark screen while it downloads/executes the freshly-built dev bundle over the slow emulator link. Waiting for it to finish rendering to confirm the button text visually.

MelvinBot · 2026-06-05T06:27:39Z

🪲 [debug] Step E follow-up: even after a full app relaunch (MainActivity foreground, Metro served the rebuilt bundle), the React tree never mounted — the screen stays blank and the a11y snapshot shows only the native shell with an empty content frame. The bundle-level proof for the workaround still holds (unique string present in Metro output); the on-device re-render just couldn't be confirmed on this emulator, which was already unstable earlier in the run.

MelvinBot · 2026-06-05T06:29:43Z

Watcher diagnosis + reset-cache workaround test — results

Ran the full A→F sequence on the Android emulator against the SignIn submit button label. Edit used the unique marker string Melvin RC z8k4q; reverted at the end (working tree confirmed clean — no commit, no PR).

Results

#	Question	Result	Evidence
C	Did the file watcher observe the edit?	✅ YES	File mtime advanced after save, and a `since`-style watch query returned the changed file. The watcher layer is healthy.
D	Did `metro reload` render the edit (live reload)?	❌ NO — stale	Served bundle did not contain the marker string (`grep -c` = 0). On reload the app threw a redbox `[runtime not ready]` error instead of showing new text.
E	Did the reset-cache restart pick up the edit?	⚠️ Partial	After `--reset-cache` + reload, the served bundle did contain the marker string (`grep -c` = 1) — the Metro-side stale-transform is fixed. On-device visual re-render could not be confirmed (see note).

Diagnosis

The watcher is not the problem. It sees every edit (C).
The bug is Metro serving a cached transform. A plain metro reload keeps returning the old transform for the changed module, so the new code never reaches the bundle (D, grep=0).
Clearing Metro's cache on restart fixes the bundle. After --reset-cache, the fresh bundle includes the edit (E, grep=1). So the workaround resolves the staleness at the bundler layer.

Honest caveat on Step E

I could not visually confirm the new text rendering on the device. After the reset-cache restart the app stayed on a blank content frame across multiple reloads and a full relaunch — the native shell was foregrounded but the JS tree did not mount. This emulator was already unstable during the run (a launcher ANR and a worklets NullPointerException redbox at step D), and the large unminified dev bundle did not help. The bundle-level evidence (grep=1) is solid; the on-screen render at E is unverified, not confirmed.

Screenshots

Step D — redbox [runtime not ready] after metro reload (stale):

Step E — blank content after reset-cache reload:

Step E — still blank after full relaunch:

Bottom line

The file watcher is healthy and sees edits immediately. Live reload is broken because Metro re-serves a cached transform of the changed module. A cache-clearing restart fixes the bundle (the marker string appears), confirming the staleness is at the Metro cache layer — though a stable emulator is still needed to verify the final on-screen render end-to-end.

… + reanimated alignment)

MelvinBot · 2026-06-05T13:27:46Z

🪲 [debug] Launched the dev app on the Android emulator and waited for splash. Instead of the SignIn screen, an RN redbox appeared: [runtime not ready]: ReferenceError: Property 'require' doesn't exist (with the dev-menu DISMISS/RELOAD controls), plus a transient launcher ANR dialog. This means the JS bundle is failing to initialize — the app does not load past splash. Investigating Metro next.

MelvinBot · 2026-06-05T13:32:07Z

Android validation result — ❌ app crashes on launch, never reaches SignIn

TL;DR: The dev app does not load past splash to SignIn. It throws a full-screen RN redbox on launch, so sign-in/onboarding could not be attempted. No LogBox warning overlay/toast was seen — but only because the JS runtime never initialized (a redbox preempts everything). The crash is caused by the LogBox-suppression injection itself.

(1) Launch → SignIn — ❌ FAILED

On launch, instead of SignIn, a hard RN redbox appears and stays:

[runtime not ready]: ReferenceError: Property 'require' doesn't exist
stack: anonymous@1351:2  global@1352:2

It never advances past this screen. The error persists across a JS reload, so it is deterministic, not a transient bundling hiccup. (A "Pixel Launcher isn't responding" ANR also popped up intermittently — that's emulator load, unrelated to the app.)

(2) Sign in + onboarding → Home — ⛔ BLOCKED

Could not start. The app never reaches SignIn, so the sign-in macro and onboarding ladder had nothing to drive. Home screenshot: not reached.

(3) LogBox overlays / warning toasts — no overlay seen, but NOT a pass

No LogBox warning overlays or yellow/red warning toasts appeared at any point. However, this is not evidence that suppression works — the app crashed with a more severe RN redbox before LogBox (or any app JS) ever initialized, so suppression was never actually exercised.

Root cause

The LogBox-suppression snippet is injected as a Metro polyfill. Metro polyfills run in the global scope before the module system is installed, so require does not exist yet at that point. The injected code calls require('react-native').LogBox.ignoreAllLogs(true), which throws ReferenceError: Property 'require' doesn't exist and aborts bundle initialization before any app code (including SignIn) mounts.

App's own startup polyfill works fine because it only touches globals (global, __d) and never calls require — a Metro polyfill cannot use require.

So the very feature under test (LogBox suppression) is what breaks the launch.

Suggested direction (not implemented — read-only run, as requested)

Move the LogBox-silencing out of a Metro polyfill and into a module that runs after the runtime is initialized but before the main module (e.g. Metro's getModulesRunBeforeMainModule), where require is available. The relevant change lives in the internal CI Metro wrapper, so it should be made there rather than in App.

I did not edit code, commit, or open a PR.

MelvinBot · 2026-07-06T13:15:42Z

🤖 I could not complete the Concierge send-message smoke test. It was blocked by two local dev-environment staleness issues — neither is a defect in the Concierge or messaging code.

1. expensify-common version mismatch (worked around locally)
node_modules had expensify-common@2.0.189 while package-lock.json pins 2.0.181. Version 2.0.189 renamed its ./dist/* subpath exports to ./*, so webpack failed to compile:

Module not found: './dist/fastMerge' is not exported … (also ./dist/Device, ./dist/CONST)

I unblocked compilation by adding a ./dist/* wildcard to the installed package's exports map. The proper fix is npm ci to restore the locked 2.0.181.

2. Dev build is below the production API's minimum version (hard blocker)
The App checkout is version 9.4.9-0 at HEAD f5a4855c (2026-06-17, ~3 weeks stale). Every request sends appversion=9.4.9-0 via enhanceParameters.ts, and the production API (www.expensify.com) responds UPDATE_REQUIRED. That flips RAM_ONLY_UPDATE_REQUIRED and Expensify.tsx renders the full-screen "Update required" blocker before sign-in can complete — so the Concierge chat was never reachable.

Ran: dev server serves the login page; email entry + Continue work and hit the API.
Blocked: sign-in completion → opening Concierge → sending a message.

To actually run this smoke test: refresh the local checkout so the build version is at or above the current production minimum, run npm ci to fix the dependency mismatch, or point the dev build at a non-production API. These are environment changes outside a verify-only run.

MelvinBot · 2026-07-06T13:23:42Z

🤖 Mobile (Android emulator) — could not complete the Concierge send-message test. Verified on standalone Android NewDot (com.expensify.chat.dev, developmentDebug).

The app crashes at boot with an UPDATE_REQUIRED render error before sign-in is ever reachable — the same root cause as the earlier web run: the dev build's version is below the production API's minimum. This is a local dev-environment staleness issue, not a Concierge/messaging defect.

What happened: on launch, the standalone NewDot build hits a full-screen red-box render error — "Upgrade Required" — thrown at Expensify.tsx:279 (if (updateRequired) { throw new Error(CONST.ERROR.UPDATE_REQUIRED); }). Dismissing the overlay immediately re-throws, so it's a hard boot block. The updateRequired flag is set because the checkout is version 9.4.9-0 (~3 weeks stale), which the production API rejects.

Reached: app installed and launches on the emulator; splash → boot.
Blocked: sign-in, opening Concierge, sending a message — none reachable past the version gate.

To run this smoke test: refresh the local checkout so the build version is at or above the current production minimum, or point the dev build at a non-production API. Environment changes outside a verify-only run.

Scope note: this exercises standalone NewDot RN/JS only — it does not cover HybridApp-shell (OldDot ↔ NewDot) behavior or iOS.

MelvinBot · 2026-07-06T21:30:34Z

🤖 Done with the compile fix; sign-in was partially blocked. Here's what happened.

1. Compile error — fixed ✅

The expensify-common/dist/... deep imports don't resolve because the package's exports map only defines the bare subpaths (./CONST, ./str, ./ExpensiMark, ./fastMerge, ./Device) — ./dist/* isn't an exported entry, so those imports fail resolution. Dropping the dist/ prefix routes them through the valid exports subpaths.

Fixed 8 imports across 8 files (local working tree only — see note below):

src/pages/Travel/DynamicTravelTerms.tsx → expensify-common/str
src/pages/ReimbursementAccount/AddressFormFields.tsx → expensify-common/CONST
src/pages/ReimbursementAccount/NonUSD/BusinessInfo/subSteps/Confirmation.tsx → expensify-common/CONST
src/pages/ReimbursementAccount/NonUSD/BusinessInfo/subSteps/IncorporationLocation.tsx → expensify-common/CONST
src/libs/ParsingUtils.ts → expensify-common/ExpensiMark
src/libs/Middleware/Pagination.ts → expensify-common/fastMerge
src/libs/actions/Device/getDeviceInfo/getOSAndName/index.ts → expensify-common/Device
src/hooks/useWorkletStateMachine/index.ts → expensify-common/fastMerge

Verified: the web build compiled successfully with no errors (webpack compiled in ~275s), which confirms the fix.

Note: I applied this fix to the local checkout only to get the web build running for testing — I did not commit or push it to this branch, since this PR is a [No QA] synthetic no-op target that must not be merged.

2. Sign in + message Concierge — partially blocked ⚠️

SignIn screen: loaded and rendered correctly (email/phone input + Continue). Screenshot below. ✅
Sign in / Concierge message: after submitting the throwaway email and clicking Continue, the app hit an "Update required" version gate ("Please update to the latest version of New Expensify") that persisted through refreshes and blocked all further progress. I couldn't reach the inbox to open Concierge, so the sent-message screenshot couldn't be captured. ❌

This gate is an environment/version mismatch between the local App checkout and the API's minimum required version — it's unrelated to the compile fix (which succeeded upstream of sign-in). To capture the Concierge screenshot, the checkout's app version needs to satisfy the API's minimum (e.g. bump/align the local version or run against a matching API).

Screenshots

SignIn screen:

Blocking "Update required" screen (instead of the Concierge chat):

MelvinBot · 2026-07-07T13:58:38Z

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MelvinBot · 2026-07-07T20:06:10Z

Results

1. Compile fix — done (applied locally, not pushed). Dropped the dist/ prefix on all 8 expensify-common deep imports. The package's exports map only exposes bare subpaths (./str, ./CONST, ./ExpensiMark, ./Device, ./fastMerge), not ./dist/* — so the deep imports failed module resolution. Each now resolves to a valid export subpath. Verified: 0 expensify-common/dist/ imports remain.

src/hooks/useWorkletStateMachine/index.ts                                    fastMerge
src/pages/Travel/DynamicTravelTerms.tsx                                      str
src/pages/ReimbursementAccount/AddressFormFields.tsx                         CONST
src/pages/ReimbursementAccount/NonUSD/BusinessInfo/subSteps/Confirmation.tsx CONST
src/pages/ReimbursementAccount/NonUSD/BusinessInfo/subSteps/IncorporationLocation.tsx CONST
src/libs/ParsingUtils.ts                                                     ExpensiMark
src/libs/actions/Device/getDeviceInfo/getOSAndName/index.ts                  Device
src/libs/Middleware/Pagination.ts                                           fastMerge

I did not commit/push this. This PR is a synthetic [No QA] "Do not merge" empty-commit dispatch target, and pushing would pollute the empty tree the workflow relies on for its Rock cache hit. The fix was applied to the local working checkout only, to let the web build compile for the test below. Say the word if you want it committed anywhere.

2. Sign in + message Concierge — partial. The SignIn screen loaded and was captured, but sign-in could not be completed:

The email text-field received a doubled value on fill (melvinbottestuser+84melvinbottestuser+847293015@gmail.com7293015@gmail.com) — the field wasn't cleared before typing, so the entry was appended twice, producing an invalid email that the form rejected ("Please enter an email or phone number").
The retry hit the run-level browser open cap (3/3), so it couldn't recover within this run.

Because sign-in never completed, no Concierge message was sent and no Concierge chat screenshot exists.

Screenshots / recordings

▶ Web drive recording 1 (sign-in attempt)
▶ Web drive recording 2 (sign-in attempt)
▶ Web drive recording 3 (sign-in attempt)

To get the Concierge screenshot, re-run me — the tester needs to clear the email field before fill (the doubling bug), and this run exhausted its browser-open budget.

MelvinBot · 2026-07-07T21:31:32Z

Android emulator — test run for #94938's steps

Short answer: yes — the flow still requires a second session/device to complete. 2 of the 4 scripted steps can't be driven by a single account, and both for the same reason: they depend on incoming messages from another sender, which one session can't produce.

Test 1 — floating "new messages" counter: the counter is tied to unread messages. With a single account, a chat you're viewing has nothing unread, so scrolling up never surfaces the counter and there's nothing to tap. Needs a second sender to create the unread state. (The prior run confirmed the counter did not appear on a fully-read single-account chat.)
Test 2 — incoming-message auto-scroll (live tail): the step itself says "Have another user (or yourself in a second session) send a new message." → requires a second session/device by definition.
Test 3 — deep-link to an old message with cache cleared: does not need a second device — a deep link + cache clear is doable with one account.
Test 4 — rapid switch between two reports: does not need a second device — it needs a second report to alternate with. A fresh +alias test account starts with only the Concierge chat, so you'd first have to create/obtain a second report, but still on one session.

So the two-session requirement is real and inherent to the incoming-message behaviors (Tests 1 & 2). Tests 3 & 4 need extra setup (deep-link/cache-clear; a second report) but not a second device. This matches the earlier Android run linked in the request.

⚠️ I could not empirically re-run the steps this time — the emulator hit a hard blocker before sign-in. The standalone NewDot developmentDebug build launched to a full-screen "Update required" wall — CONST.ERROR.UPDATE_REQUIRED is thrown at src/Expensify.tsx:279, so the app never reaches the sign-in screen. It reproduced on splash and persisted across a relaunch, so it's a deterministic version-gate (the served bundle's version is being rejected), not a transient. That's an environment/build issue unrelated to #94938's change; the answer above is therefore based on the test-step design plus the prior Android run's empirical results, not a fresh drive.

To actually execute Tests 1 & 2 end-to-end, you'll need a second session/device (or a helper account) to send messages into the chat — a single automated account can't do it. And the emulator's "Update required" gate needs clearing (bundle/version bump) before any of the steps can be driven here.

MelvinBot · 2026-07-07T23:30:58Z

Results

1. Compile fix — done (applied locally, not pushed). Dropped the dist/ prefix on all 8 expensify-common deep imports so the bundle resolves. The package's exports map only exposes bare subpaths (./str, ./CONST, ./ExpensiMark, ./Device, ./fastMerge), not ./dist/* — which is exactly why the deep imports fail resolution. Verified 0 expensify-common/dist/ imports remain.

Not committed/pushed — this PR is a synthetic [No QA] "Do not merge" empty-commit dispatch target, and pushing would break the empty tree the workflow relies on. The fix was applied to the local checkout only, to let the web build compile for the test below.

2. Two-session Concierge flow — FAILED (both sessions). Environment blocker, unrelated to the fix.

Session	Account	Result	Where it stopped
A	throwaway #1	❌ Fail	Blocked at sign-in
B	throwaway #2	❌ Not run	Never started — Session A's blocker is server-side and would hit B identically

Root cause (server-side, confirmed via network dump): every API call to the dev server returns HTTP 426 (Upgrade Required) — POST https://dev.new.expensify.com:8082/api/BeginSignIn → 426 (x-jsoncode: 426). The backend is rejecting the dev bundle version (9.4.9-0) as outdated, so an "Update required" modal appears immediately after submitting the sign-in form and blocks all further navigation. No session could reach Concierge, so no Concierge-message screenshot was captured in either session.

This is not caused by the dist/ fix (the bundle compiled and loaded — the sign-in screen rendered and the form submitted). It's a dev-bundle-vs-API version mismatch on the environment.

On the multi-session recording ask: recordings were produced under three distinct literal --session names (melvin-web-session-a, melvin-web-signin-a, melvin-web-concierge-a), so per-session recording mechanically works — but all of them belong to the single Session A account. Because Session B was never launched, this run does not actually validate two independent accounts recording side-by-side. That part remains unverified.

Evidence (all Session A — sign-in screens, no Concierge reached)

Representative recordings across the three session names (14 segments total were produced, all Session A):

▶ melvin-web-session-a (segment 1)
▶ melvin-web-signin-a (segment 1)
▶ melvin-web-concierge-a (segment 1)
▶ melvin-web-concierge-a (segment 2)
▶ melvin-web-concierge-a (segment 3)

To unblock: the dev environment needs a bundle version the API accepts (the 426/"Update required" gate must be cleared) before the two-account Concierge flow can complete. Re-run me once that's sorted and I'll finish both sessions end-to-end.

MelvinBot · 2026-07-08T21:29:46Z

🤖 Android smoke test: ❌ blocked before sign-in

The smoke test could not be completed. The app never got past startup — the installed developmentDebug build is rejected by the server's minimum-version enforcement, so it throws CONST.ERROR.UPDATE_REQUIRED immediately and lands on a hard-gated "Update required" screen. Sign-in was never reached, so the green + FAB on the home screen could not be verified.

This is an environment/build issue, not a regression in this PR (it's an empty no-op commit). The dispatched build is simply below the current server-enforced minimum version, and the "Update required" gate is a JS throw in the root component with no navigation path around it.

Result: sign-in ❌ · home screen (LHN) ❌ · green + FAB ❌ — all blocked by the update gate.

What happened, step by step

App launches to the Expensify splash, then an RN RedBox "Render Error – Upgrade Required" appears, thrown at Expensify.tsx:279 (throw new Error(CONST.ERROR.UPDATE_REQUIRED)).
Dismissing the RedBox reveals the in-app "Please update to the latest version of New Expensify" gate with only an Update button — no path forward to the sign-in form.
The gate persisted across a relaunch and a Metro restart, confirming it's the version check rather than a transient bundler issue.
Metro disconnected mid-session but was successfully restarted (packager-status:running); it is not the root cause.

Console errors observed:

Render Error: Upgrade Required — Expensify.tsx:279
Fast Refresh disconnected (Metro; recovered)

Screenshots

Recordings

▶ Android drive recording 1
▶ Android drive recording 2
▶ Android drive recording 3

Note on session recording: the drive session did produce watchable .mp4 clips (linked above), so the agent-device recording pipeline itself works. But because the app was gated at the update screen, the clips only capture the update-required flow — not a real sign-in → home-screen session. To validate a watchable clip of the intended flow, the dispatched build needs to be at or above the server's current minimum version.

MelvinBot · 2026-07-08T21:48:20Z

🤖 Android smoke test: ✅ PASS

Ran the smoke test on the Android emulator (standalone NewDot, com.expensify.chat.dev, developmentDebug). Signed in with a fresh throwaway account, completed onboarding, and the home screen (LHN) loaded with the green FAB visible at the bottom-right.

Result: app launch ✅ · sign-in ✅ · home screen (LHN) ✅ · green + FAB ✅

The home screen shows two FABs bottom-right, both confirmed present via accessibility-tree assertions:

🟢 Scan receipt — the green camera FAB
+ Open actions menu — the main actions FAB

Session recording validated: the drive produced watchable .mp4 clips (linked below), including a full sign-in → home-screen recording. Android session recording produces watchable clips. ✅

Steps performed

Launched the app → sign-in screen rendered ("Travel and expense, at the speed of chat", Phone/email field, Continue).
Signed in with throwaway account melvinbottestuser+847392615@gmail.com (Continue → Join). No magic code required.
Navigated onboarding: work-email step, "What do you want to do today?", "What's your name?".
Landed on Home (LHN) with "Time sensitive", "For you", "Recently added" sections.
Confirmed both FABs present via is exists on label="Scan receipt" and label="Open actions menu" — both passed.

No console errors observed.

Screenshots

Recordings

▶ Android session recording - full sign-in through home screen drive
▶ Android session recording - app launch (clip 1)
▶ Android session recording - launch continued (clip 2)
▶ Android session recording - teardown (clip 4)

MelvinBot · 2026-07-08T23:29:57Z

🤖 Web flow tested: sign in + message Concierge — ✅ core flow works. Signed in to NewDot, opened the Concierge chat, and sent a message successfully. Concierge received it and entered a "thinking…" state, but didn't produce a final reply within the ~5 min observation window (likely dev-env backend latency for a fresh account, not a UI issue — the send itself succeeded).

Step	Result
Sign in to NewDot	✅ Pass
Concierge chat appears in Inbox	✅ Pass
Message sends successfully	✅ Pass
Concierge replies	⚠️ Partial — acknowledged + "thinking…", no final reply in window

No console errors observed.

Evidence

Test details

Created a throwaway account via the Join flow and completed onboarding to reach the Home/Inbox screen.
"Expensify Concierge" was the only conversation in the Inbox; opened it and confirmed the pre-populated welcome message ("Hi! I'm Concierge. I can help you get set up…").
Sent Hello Concierge! This is a test message. — it appeared in the chat attributed to the test user with a timestamp, and the sidebar updated to You: Hello Concierge! This is a test m….
Concierge immediately showed a "Concierge is thinking…" indicator (confirming receipt/processing) but no final reply text arrived within ~5 minutes.

MelvinBot · 2026-07-13T20:21:28Z

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MelvinBot · 2026-07-13T20:47:43Z

✅ Android smoke test — PASS

Ran on the Android emulator (standalone NewDot). Signed in with a fresh throwaway account, completed onboarding, and the Home screen (LHN) loaded with both the green Scan receipt FAB and the + Open actions menu FAB visible. All 10 session recordings were produced and validated as watchable .mp4 files.

Check	Result
Sign in with fresh throwaway account	✅ New account recognized, Join flow completed
Complete onboarding	✅ Purpose + name steps completed, landed on Home
Home screen (LHN) loads	✅ `text="Home"` present; HomePage + NavigationTabBar rendered
Green Scan receipt FAB visible	✅ `role="button" label="Scan receipt"` present (AX + visual)
+ Open actions menu FAB visible	✅ `role="button" label="Open actions menu"` present (AX + visual)

Screenshots

Session recordings (validated)

All 10 clips are valid ISO Media MP4 v2 files (2–30 MB each, with recorder gesture-telemetry sidecars):

Notes & caveats

Recording validation: I independently confirmed on disk that all 10 .mp4 files exist with real content (2–30 MB) and are valid ISO Media, MP4 v2 [ISO 14496-14] containers (via file), each paired with a *.gesture-telemetry.json sidecar from the agent-device recorder. Exact per-clip durations were not measured because ffprobe was not permitted in this run — but container validity + sizes + telemetry confirm the clips are real and watchable.
Transient issues (recovered, no impact on result): the session daemon dropped between commands twice (SESSION_NOT_FOUND) and there was one transient ADB device-offline error; each was recovered by reopening the session. The Android snapshot helper was unavailable, so some AX snapshots fell back to a sparser UIAutomator dump — assertions above still passed on both AX tree and visual confirmation.

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MelvinBot · 2026-07-13T21:26:16Z

✅ Android — distance-expense split in a 1:1 DM completes without an error

Verified on the Android emulator (standalone NewDot, com.expensify.chat.dev). In a 1:1 DM I started a Split expense → Distance, set a Times Square → Central Park route (2.53 mi), and submitted. The split posted to the DM successfully — no error banner, no "Unexpected error", no red dot / RBR.

Step	Result
1:1 DM opened	✅ DM with qa.guide@team.expensify.com
Split expense available in `+` menu	✅ Present
Distance tab in Split flow	✅ Map + Start/Stop waypoints loaded
Route entered	✅ Times Square → Central Park, 2.53 mi
Confirm details	✅ $1.83 total, split $0.91 / $0.92, 2.53 mi @ $0.725/mi
Split submitted → appears in DM	✅ "Jul 13 · Split" card + "Outstanding" badge
No "Unexpected error"	✅ Selector did not match
No "Something went wrong" banner	✅ Selector did not match
No red dot / RBR	✅ None on card or header

Screenshots

Session recordings (validated)

All 9 clips exist on disk and are valid ISO Media MP4 files (0.3–35 MB). The main-5 clip covers the distance-split flow and submission:

Notes & caveats

Recording validation: I independently confirmed all 9 .mp4 files on disk (file reports valid ISO Media, MP4 … containers, 0.3–35 MB). Exact per-clip durations were not measured because ffprobe was not permitted in this run. The tester initially reported the recording paths with a <GITHUB_RUN_ID> placeholder and only 5 clips — the resolved run id is 29284109804 and there are 9 clips; the links above are the real files.
DM choice: The Concierge DM's + menu only offers "Add attachment" (no Split), so the test used the qa.guide@team.expensify.com 1:1 DM, which exposes the full expense actions. This is a normal-user 1:1 DM, matching the request.
Transient issues (recovered, no impact on result): the session daemon dropped 3× (SESSION_NOT_FOUND) and the device went offline once during navigation; each was recovered by reopening the session (hence the extra recording segments).
Scope: standalone Android NewDot only — does not cover HybridApp shell or iOS.

MelvinBot · 2026-07-13T21:39:14Z

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MelvinBot · 2026-07-15T11:17:58Z

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MelvinBot · 2026-07-15T11:29:00Z

🤖 Web verification could not be run — dev environment is broken, and I lack the permissions to repair it.

Result: ❌ Blocked. I could not confirm whether a long email/link wraps left-aligned, because the web dev server never came up and no browser session could be opened.

Root cause: the App's node_modules is out of sync with the checked-out branch and is missing the tsx binary that npm run web-server needs:

package.json reports version 9.4.33-2, but the installed node_modules/.package-lock.json is 9.4.34-10 — node_modules was never reinstalled after checkout.
tsx@4.22.0 is declared in devDependencies but the package is absent from node_modules, so web-server (tsx ./node_modules/.bin/rsbuild dev …) fails with sh: 1: tsx: not found → exit 127. Navigating to https://dev.new.expensify.com:8082/ then returns ERR_CONNECTION_REFUSED.
The installed Node is 20.20.2, while the rsbuild bin was installed expecting Node ≥ 22.8.0 — a second mismatch even once tsx is present.

Why I couldn't self-heal it: every repair path is denied by this run's permissions — npm install / npm ci, chmod (to activate a shim), and direct node <script> execution all require approval that isn't available in a single-shot run. So this isn't something I can work around from inside the run.

What's needed to unblock: run a clean dependency install against the checked-out branch before dispatching the web path — e.g. cd App && npm ci (with a Node version matching the lockfile, ≥ 22.8.0) — so tsx and the rest of node_modules match package.json. Once the dev server can start, the wrap-alignment check + session recording can run.

Flagging this as the validation outcome for the review-fix run (Expensify/melvin#258 / #92668): the mobile/Android path may be provisioned, but the web path currently has no working dev environment.

MelvinBot · 2026-07-15T11:32:15Z

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MelvinBot · 2026-07-15T12:03:54Z

🤖 Android verification: ✅ PASS — splitting a distance expense in a 1:1 DM completes without an error.

I opened a 1:1 DM, created a Distance expense, split it with the other participant, and submitted. The split expense was created and posted to the chat with no error message (no red error text, no failure banner).

What was verified:

Split distance expense created in the 1:1 DM — appears in chat as "split $0.37 for 0.51 miles".
No error present — no error text or failure banner anywhere in the UI.
Details correct — route 0.51 mi @ $0.725/mi = $0.37, split as Melvin Bot $0.18 / other participant $0.19.
Post-submission the chat shows the other participant "owes $0.19" with Outstanding status.

Screenshots

▶ Session recordings (2)

Validation outcome for the review-fix run (Expensify/melvin#258 / #93238): the Android path works end-to-end.

MelvinBot · 2026-07-15T12:25:19Z

🤖 Android verification: ✅ PASS — a long email/link wraps left-aligned; the wrapped lines are not centered.

I posted an 80-char email (averylongemailaverylongemailaddressforwraptesting1234567890@somelongdomainexamplecompany.com) into a chat on the Android emulator (standalone NewDot). It wrapped across 3 lines inside the message bubble, and every line — including the short final fragment ompany.com — starts flush at the left edge of the bubble's text area. No line is centered.

Evidence: the wrapped-text element renders as a multi-line block (accessibility node rect x≈189, width=838, height=159), and visual inspection of the screenshots confirms all three lines begin at the same left x-position. No console errors.

▶ Session recordings (1)

▶ Android session recording — sign-in, onboarding, and sending the long email message

Validation outcome for the review-fix run (Expensify/melvin#258 / #92668): the Android path is working end-to-end — sign-in, onboarding, message send, screenshots, and session recording all captured successfully.

MelvinBot · 2026-07-15T13:39:42Z

🤖 Web verification could not be run — the dev environment is still broken (same blocker as the previous validation run on this PR).

Result: ❌ Blocked. I could not open the private personal details settings page (Settings ▸ Profile ▸ Personal details ▸ Private) or verify its fields/labels, because the web dev server can't start, so no browser session or session recording is possible.

Root cause (unchanged): the App's node_modules is out of sync with the checked-out branch and is missing the tsx binary that npm run web-server requires:

package.json = 9.4.33-2, but installed node_modules/.package-lock.json = 9.4.34-10 — node_modules was never reinstalled after checkout.
tsx@4.22.0 is in devDependencies but the package directory is absent from node_modules, so web-server (tsx ./node_modules/.bin/rsbuild dev …) fails with sh: 1: tsx: not found → exit 127, and https://dev.new.expensify.com:8082/ returns ERR_CONNECTION_REFUSED.
Installed Node is 20.20.2, while the rsbuild bin expects Node ≥ 22.8.0 — a second mismatch even once tsx is restored.

Why it's not self-healable here: every repair path is permission-denied in this single-shot run — npm install / npm ci, chmod (to activate a tsx shim), and direct node <script> execution all require approval that isn't granted. I just re-checked and confirmed tsx is still absent, so a re-run of the browser tester would fail identically at server startup.

What's needed to unblock: provision the environment before dispatching the web path — cd App && npm ci on a Node version matching the lockfile (≥ 22.8.0) so tsx and the rest of node_modules match package.json. Once the dev server starts, the personal-details fields/labels check + session recording can run.

Flagging as the validation outcome for the review-fix run (Expensify/melvin#258 / #91646): the web path currently has no working dev environment. This matches the earlier finding on this PR — the fix belongs in how the web workflow provisions dependencies, not in this synthetic target.

MelvinBot · 2026-07-17T09:16:20Z

🤖 I couldn't complete this verification — the test environment failed to come up, so I have no result on the popover behavior.

What happened: The web tester ran twice. In both runs the dev server was healthy and the app URL opened, but the sign-in replay failed immediately with SESSION_NOT_FOUND ("No active session. Run open first."). This is an agent-device session/daemon issue in this run, not something observable about the "Copy URL to clipboard" popover.

Verification status: ❌ Not verified (blocked before reaching Settings › Profile).

Next step: Please retry with @MelvinBot once the web workshop session issue clears, and I'll capture the before/after-resize screenshots. If it keeps failing, this may be an agent-device infrastructure problem worth flagging separately.

MelvinBot · 2026-07-17T09:18:56Z

🤖 Could not verify — blocked by a session-tooling failure, not App behavior.

I ran the web verification twice using the melvin-session.sh lifecycle. Both runs failed to authenticate: the browser opened and the login page was reachable, but agent-device (v0.18.0) reported SESSION_NOT_FOUND — the replay daemon lost the session between open and the sign-in replay (No active session. Run open first.). Because sign-in never completed, I couldn't reach a chat to post a long email/link and check the wrap alignment.

So the left-aligned-wrap check is not verified — neither pass nor fail. The blocker is in the test harness, not the App.

Evidence

Both attempts exited STATUS=error at sign-in step 1 (fill "Phone or email"): SESSION_NOT_FOUND ... No active session. Run open first. (diagnostic IDs mroq4jge-72d2046d, mroq5o6f-fb8229f8).
Post-failure snapshot confirmed the workshop/dev server are healthy: the login page rendered with the Phone or email field and Continue button.
Only one session recording was produced (login page only):

▶ Session recordings (1)

▶ Web session recording — login page only, authentication never completed

Re-run once the agent-device replay-daemon session-sharing issue is resolved and I'll complete the wrap-alignment verification.

MelvinBot · 2026-07-17T09:19:15Z

🤖 Could not verify — web test harness failed to sign in.

I was unable to test splitting a distance expense in a 1:1 DM on web. The agent-device session never authenticated, so the app itself was never reached — this is a CI infrastructure failure, not an App bug or a regression in this synthetic target.

Both attempts (3 sign-in retries each) failed identically at bring-up: agent-device open opens the browser to the login page, but the sign-in replay runs in a separate daemon process that can't find that session, so it errors with SESSION_NOT_FOUND before any navigation happens.

Session recording (login page only — sign-in never completed):

▶ Session recordings (1)

▶ Web session recording — sign-in never completed (agent-device replay daemon SESSION_NOT_FOUND); only the login page was reached

Failure detail

melvin-session.sh start returned STATUS=error on all attempts with REASON=sign-in replay failed.
Error: SESSION_NOT_FOUND: Replay failed at step 1 (fill login field): No active session. Run open first.
open stored the session at ~/.agent-device/sessions/melvin-web-main, but the replay daemon (/tmp/agent-device-replay-daemon-<random>/) spawned as a separate process and reported {sessions:[]}, so it could not use it.
Reproduced identically across two independent runs — this is a persistent harness issue, not a transient error.

None of the actual verification steps (open DM → create Distance expense → enter waypoints → Split → submit) could be exercised. Once the web agent-device session issue is resolved, re-run @MelvinBot to complete the verification.

MelvinBot · 2026-07-17T09:35:04Z

🤖 Verified on web — the Categories filter list does not scroll or jump on selection. ✅

Drove NewDot on web, opened Search → Filters → Category, scrolled the list, and selected three items in a row (Car, Equipment, Fees). After each selection the visible items stayed in the exact same positions — the selected row just gained a checkmark in place. No scroll, no jump, no reordering across all three selections.

Step	Result
Before any selection (baseline)	List at rest
Select Car	Scroll position identical; checkmark added in place
Select Equipment	Scroll position identical; checkmark added in place
Select Fees	Scroll position identical; checkmark added in place

Notes

Used a single pinned web session (no alpha/bravo).
The Category filter only appears when the account has a workspace with categories, so a workspace with the 20 default categories was created to surface the filter.
Session bring-up via the standard sign-in macro replay kept failing with SESSION_NOT_FOUND (agent-device 0.18.0 replay spawns a separate daemon from the one holding the browser session). Worked around it with direct press/type commands, which target the correct daemon. Worth flagging separately as a tooling regression.

MelvinBot · 2026-07-17T09:49:18Z

🤖 Verification status: ❌ Blocked — I couldn't confirm the popover-stays-visible behavior, because the web test driver can't perform a right-click.

What I got through: Signed in → Settings › Profile, and confirmed the "What's new" row is visible in the sidebar (under General, with an external-link icon). I also resized the viewport (1280×900 → 800×600) and the sidebar collapsed as expected.

Where it stopped: Opening the right-click "Copy URL to clipboard" popover requires a secondary-button click. agent-device on the web platform returns UNSUPPORTED_OPERATION for click --button secondary (and longpress is also unsupported), so the context menu never opened — meaning the resize behavior of that popover could not be observed.

▶ Session recording

▶ Full web session recording

Bottom line: This flow (right-click → context popover → resize) isn't automatable in the current web tooling — right-click needs to be verified manually until agent-device gains secondary-click support on web. I also hit a sign-in selector mismatch (label="Phone or email" editable=true doesn't match on web; dropping editable=true works) that's worth fixing in the session script.

MelvinBot · 2026-07-17T14:07:42Z

🤖 Verified on web via the melvin-session.sh lifecycle (single pinned melvin-web-main session, no DIY sign-in / replay) — the Category filter list does not scroll or jump on selection. ✅

Opened Search → Filters → Category, viewed the list at rest, then selected two items in a row (Fees, then Home Office). After each selection the visible items (No category → Insurance) stayed in the exact same positions — the selected row just gained a checkmark in place. No scroll, no jump. The filter chip updated to Category: Fees, Home Office, confirming selections registered.

Step	Result
Baseline (before selection)	List at rest
Select Fees	Scroll position identical; checkmark added in place
Select Home Office	Scroll position identical; checkmark added in place

Notes

Single pinned session melvin-web-main; drove only after the session was up. No manual sign-in and no agent-device replay workaround this time.
The Category filter only surfaces when the account has a workspace with categories.

melvin-bot Bot assigned kacper-mikolajczak Jun 1, 2026

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kacper-mikolajczak commented Jun 1, 2026

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Android emulator — two-check report

CHECK 1 — live-reload iteration loop: does not work in this CI env

CHECK 2 — sign in + complete onboarding to Home: reached Home

How far each check got

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Live-reload verification (Android emulator) — ❌ edit did not propagate

What I did

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Step 1 (watchman) — could not fully confirm

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MelvinBot commented Jun 5, 2026

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Live-reload diagnosis (Android emulator)

1. Watchman state

2. Edit → reload → render

3. Revert

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Watcher diagnosis + reset-cache workaround test — results

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Honest caveat on Step E

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