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ScottW514 888b47abe8 forgetest: the hand-back never moves the head across a lost counter frame
Seen on the bench reference, twice in one session: at the end of a passing
run the hand-back jogged the head 30 mm into the back-left stop blocks,
from a head that had not moved.

The baseline compares the kernel's step counters at the end of a run with
the start and jogs the head back by the difference. The GRBL controller
zeroes those counters at every start (the lens's startup reference) and at
every home (home_completed()), and rewrites its anchor, /run/grblhal.homed,
each time. Across either event the difference between two counter readings
is not a distance the head traveled. It stayed hidden because the counters
normally read zero between tests. homing.manual broke that: a manual home
zeroes the counters 30 mm out from where the test began, so after the
test's own correct return they read -6400, and the next test that restarts
the controller (setup.check-flow-verify, then motion.release) ended at 0,
"expected -6400", and was "returned" by 30 mm. An operator who jogs the
head from a Grbl client and then starts any takeover test from the page
would have met the same thing, by whatever distance they had jogged.

The baseline's capture() now records the counters' frame, the anchor's
inode and mtime. If the frame changed during the run and the test did not
vouch for the new one, the hand-back logs that the two readings share no
frame, and moves nothing. ctx.counters_rezeroed() is how a test vouches: it
now sets rezero_declared beside the position it expects. The start_reads
argument it briefly took is gone, since it made the baseline accept
counters that nothing after it could live with.

homing.manual restarts the controller once more after returning the head,
so it ends with the counters at zero where it began, and declares that.

events.stream waits for its three places. A stream an earlier test closed
keeps its place until the daemon's next write to it (its keep-alive), as
documented, so run straight after forgectrl.lease the third stream drew
503. The test now opens the three once they can be opened, and says so in
its log.

Proven. test_baseline gains test_a_lost_counter_frame_never_moves_the_head:
counters at -6400, a new anchor, counters at 0: no jog, no leftover, and the
log says why; the same counters with the frame intact are still a displaced
head; a declared re-zero is held to the position it declared. With the
frame check unable to see the change (the first cut of the test reused an
inode inside one clock tick) the case fails with ['position'], which is the
old behavior. The unit suite passes. On the bench reference, arranged so a
failure would move the head away from the stop: the head jogged to +60 mm
(counters 12800), motion.release run, PASS, "the controller re-zeroed its
counters during the run ... the head is not moved", and nothing moved.
forgectrl.lease then events.stream: two logged waits, PASS. homing.manual
then setup.check-flow-verify, the sequence that drove the head into the
stop: both PASS with a clean hand-back.
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forgetest - the ForgeFIRM release acceptance tool

The daemon behind http://<machine>:8090/ on the dev image: runs the acceptance catalog against the machine, keeps the append-only result log, decides which results still apply to the image that is running, exports the release artifact scripts/release.sh gates on, and serves the bench diagnostics page. The contract - catalog, campaigns, fingerprints, inheritance, the gate, the coverage rule - is the Acceptance page of the documentation site.

Run the host tests

cd forgetest
python3 -m unittest discover -s tests -v

Run the daemon on a workstation (against a mock or a manifest file)

FORGETEST_DATA=/tmp/ft FORGETEST_MANIFEST=../tree-manifest.json \
FORGECTRL_URL=http://<machine> python3 -m forgetest --port 8090

scripts/manifest-from-tree.py produces tree-manifest.json from the recipe pins; the coverage lint is python3 -m forgetest.coverage --manifest ....

Environment

Variable Default Purpose
FORGETEST_DATA /data/forgetest results.jsonl, bench.jsonl, token, export/
FORGETEST_MANIFEST /etc/forgefirm-manifest.json the image manifest
FORGETEST_PORT, FORGETEST_HOST 8090, 0.0.0.0 listener
FORGETEST_BENCH_DIR /usr/share/forgetest/bench the installed bench scripts
FORGETEST_BENCH_DATA <FORGETEST_DATA>/bench passed to bench tools: where they keep their data files (with GF_HOST=127.0.0.1 and the panel token in GF_TOKEN)
FORGETEST_MARKER /run/forgetest.active takeover marker
FORGECTRL_URL, FORGECTRL_TOKEN_FILE http://127.0.0.1, /data/forgefirm/panel.token forgectrl client (HTTP; the token authorizes writes from the board)
FORGECTRL_TLS_URL https://127.0.0.1 forgectrl over HTTPS (self-signed, unverified), for the login test
GF_SYSFS_ROOT /sys/glowforge/ kernel module sysfs
GRBL_HOST, GRBL_PORT 127.0.0.1, 23 Grbl TCP

Adding a test

Register it in the subsystem module under forgetest/suite/ with @test(...): id subsystem.name, kind, hardware, mode (the controller mode the test needs; the runner switches to it first), covers, requires, always, steps. The body gets a Context (log, check, fail, prompt, confirm, instruct, sleep, evidence, forgectrl, sysfs, grbl, takeover). Return normally for PASS, raise runner.Failed for FAIL. Then run the unit tests and the coverage lint.