forgectrl's start at the end of a takeover is a controller start, which
re-zeroes the step counters wherever the head then stands. After it a
head left out reads as home, so the baseline's position check after the
run could not see a head a test left out before its takeover.
setup.check-envelope did exactly that on 2026-09-23 and passed (fixed by
56af6ea).
The takeover now judges the head at the two moments it can, and moves
nothing: as the controller goes away, against the position the run's
baseline expects (when the counters are still in the frame the run began
in), and as the takeover ends, before forgectrl comes back, against where
it found the head (when the microstep mode has not changed under it). A
miss past the dead band is recorded on the run's baseline capture, and
the post pass turns it into an unrestorable leftover ("a controller
restart re-zeroed the counters there, so the head is not moved"), which
fails the run. A frame the test did not declare, cloud mode (its counters
are the cloud client's), a bench tool without a run, and a reading that
fails are not judged and never keep forgectrl down. ctx.counters_rezeroed()
now records the frame in force, so a takeover after a declared re-zero
can still judge.
The frame is read before the controller is stopped: forgectrl unlinks
/run/grblhal.homed when the controller exits (super.c), which the
bench's negative control found.
Proof: tests/test_takeover_position.py, 12 cases against a fake sysfs
tree and a fake anchor file (a head in place, a head left out at the
start, the frame read before the stop, the dead band, an undeclared
frame, cloud mode, a bench tool, a head left out by a drill at the end,
a changed microstep mode, the post pass failing the run and moving
nothing, a failed reading, a declared re-zero). forgetest's unit tests
pass on the host (474 OK, 4 skipped). On the bench reference, image
20260923232513 with the files bind-mounted: the old bedsize.py (56af6ea^)
fails as it must, "position at the takeover start=[2134, 2133, 0]
(expected [0, 0, 0])"; then 18 unattended tests that take over the
controller PASS in sequence (setup.check-envelope, kernel.k1-k2,
kernel.deadman-close, kernel.backtrack-bounds, kernel.fire-line,
kernel.resume-lead, setup.gate-blocks-controllers,
setup.advisories-rehash, setup.extensions-consent, setup.what-changed,
setup.mirror, setup.account-login, setup.first-run-flow,
exthost.service, exthost.events, exthost.hold-pause-tier,
exthost.motion-job, exthost.motion-jog). A second takeover in one run meets the frame the
first one's restart made, which no test declared, so its start is logged
and not judged.
Acceptance: forgetest is the dev-only harness, outside the catalog's
coverage; no test's fingerprint moves (runner.py and baseline.py are not
suite modules).
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.