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Plugin shot --scenario: screenshot a check scenario without touching the live plugin - #37090

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ELI5

Plugin authors can describe "scenarios" (empty, busy, error…) that orca plugin check renders against fake data. Until now they could only read a text summary of those. With orca plugin shot --scenario <name> they get a real screenshot of the panel in that state, and the user's actual plugin is never touched.

What Changed

orca plugin shot <key|dir> --scenario <name> [--panel] [--theme] [--width] [--out] [--json]

  • CLI side (local only):
    • It checks the scenario name; an unknown name lists the panel's scenarios.
    • It runs the check runner in a separate Node process, against a mock host with the plugin's worker mounted, and re-validates the drawn tree.
    • Render issues still produce a shot, with the issues listed in errors.
  • Host side: a new plugins.shotReplay RPC.
    • Main validates the tree (a 640 KiB cap, plus the normal tree parser), never opens or looks up the plugin's real panel, and never touches its guests, logs or storage.
    • It requires Orca's window to be hidden or minimized.
  • Renderer side: a throwaway, inert surface draws the tree with Orca's components (no-op events, images as placeholders), is captured, then unmounted. The theme override is restored.
  • Refusals: --act with --scenario, remote hosts, bridged shells, installed plugins and HTML panels.
  • Result: the normal shot fields plus replay: true and scenario. The default file is .orca/shots/<key>-<panel>.<scenario>.png.

dev watch: the shot event now carries pendingRequests.

Why

  • The safety constraint: scenario test data must never reach the user's live panel, the plugin's real storage or settings, or its real worker. Replaying a tree the check runner already produced, in a separate throwaway surface, keeps it out of all of them.
  • Why a new RPC rather than a param on plugins.shot: an older host silently ignores unknown params, so it would have taken a LIVE shot instead. A new method answers method_not_found on older hosts, and nothing is touched.

Linked Issue

N/A (maintainer change).

Visual Proof

N/A: this produces PNGs and changes no app UI. The e2e test asserts that shot --scenario counted on a scaffolded worker-panel plugin is a non-blank PNG showing "Counter 41", in dark, at 320 px. It also asserts replay: true, the live sidebar tab unchanged, the plugin's storage files unchanged, and the worker still idle.

Testing

  • Unit:

    • CLI: name validation, the refusals, older hosts, render issues;
    • main: param validation, the size cap, that the panel is never opened, the visible-window refusal;
    • renderer: draw and unmount, width defaults;
    • dev watch pendingRequests.
  • e2e: all plugin specs pass, 31/31, on a fresh build (macOS).

  • Gates:

    • the full pnpm lint and the quality gates pass.
  • pnpm tc passes in full on the rebased branch (main's unrelated test breakage was fixed in fix(test): correct structured session lifecycle imports #37088).

  • I manually tested these changes locally

  • Automated tests added/updated, or explained why not below

Agent skill upstream boundary

  • Not applicable, or this change copies or mechanically translates no upstream skill-installer source, tests, fixtures, registry entries, path tables, comments, or documentation.

Notes

  • Security:
    • No scenario data reaches the live host.
    • The CLI part runs plugin code locally, unsandboxed, as check does, and the help says so.
  • Limitation: with a plugin key rather than a folder, it only works when run inside that plugin's folder, because the host doesn't publish dev folder paths.

Checklist

  • This PR is small and focused
  • I explained what changed and why (ELI5, the user-facing before/after, the mechanism, and why over the alternatives)
  • Before/after screenshots or videos attached for UI changes, or N/A with reason
  • Self-reviewed for correctness, security, and performance
  • Cross-platform, SSH/remote, and path/shortcut impact considered (or N/A)
  • pnpm lint, pnpm typecheck, pnpm test, and pnpm build pass (or CI will cover; local preferred)

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Minor A valueless --scenario silently takes a live shot.

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Review comments at @src/cli/handlers/plugin-view.ts:
- Around line 266-270: **A valueless `--scenario` silently takes a live shot.**

`stringFlag` returns `undefined` for a boolean flag value. `parseArgs` stores
`true` when `--scenario` has no value, or when the next token starts with `--`.
Examples: `orca plugin shot x --scenario` and `orca plugin shot x --scenario
--theme dark`.

In both cases `scenario` is `undefined`, so the handler skips `scenarioShot`.
The command then opens and captures the live panel. The PR states that
`--scenario` never falls back to a live shot. A valueless `--scenario` combined
with `--act` also drives the live panel, so the `--act` conflict check is
bypassed.

Check that the flag is present, and fail when it has no name.

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<summary>🐛 Proposed fix</summary>

```diff
-    const scenario = stringFlag(ctx, 'scenario')
-    if (scenario !== undefined) {
-      await scenarioShot(ctx, scenario)
-      return
-    }
+    if (ctx.flags.has('scenario')) {
+      const scenario = stringFlag(ctx, 'scenario')
+      if (scenario === undefined) {
+        throw new RuntimeClientError('invalid_argument', '--scenario takes a scenario name.')
+      }
+      await scenarioShot(ctx, scenario)
+      return
+    }
```
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Walkthrough

The orca plugin shot command adds scenario-based captures from plugin check fixtures. It renders the scenario against a stand-in host, displays it in a separate renderer preview, and saves the captured image with replay metadata and errors. The change also adds an optional pending-request count to development watch shots and reports a loading-state note when the count is nonzero.

Merge Risk: Low · up to a7549

A missing scenario name can unexpectedly capture or act on the live panel. Reject the malformed flag before dispatching a shot; this is a bounded merge risk.

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Comment on lines +266 to +270
const scenario = stringFlag(ctx, 'scenario')
if (scenario !== undefined) {
await scenarioShot(ctx, scenario)
return
}

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Minor · Functional Correctness · Quick win

A valueless --scenario silently takes a live shot.

stringFlag returns undefined for a boolean flag value. parseArgs stores true when --scenario has no value, or when the next token starts with --. Examples: orca plugin shot x --scenario and orca plugin shot x --scenario --theme dark.

In both cases scenario is undefined, so the handler skips scenarioShot. The command then opens and captures the live panel. The PR states that --scenario never falls back to a live shot. A valueless --scenario combined with --act also drives the live panel, so the --act conflict check is bypassed.

Check that the flag is present, and fail when it has no name.

🐛 Proposed fix
--- "a/src/cli/handlers/plugin-view.ts"
+++ "b/src/cli/handlers/plugin-view.ts"
@@ -263,11 +263,14 @@
     )
   },
   'plugin shot': async (ctx) => {
-    const scenario = stringFlag(ctx, 'scenario')
-    if (scenario !== undefined) {
-      await scenarioShot(ctx, scenario)
-      return
-    }
+    if (ctx.flags.has('scenario')) {
+      const scenario = stringFlag(ctx, 'scenario')
+      if (scenario === undefined) {
+        throw new RuntimeClientError('invalid_argument', '--scenario takes a scenario name.')
+      }
+      await scenarioShot(ctx, scenario)
+      return
+    }
     const pluginKey = requirePluginKey(ctx)
     const colorScheme = parseTheme(ctx)
     const out = stringFlag(ctx, 'out')
Committable suggestion

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Review the replacement and indentation, then test before committing.

Suggested change
const scenario = stringFlag(ctx, 'scenario')
if (scenario !== undefined) {
await scenarioShot(ctx, scenario)
return
}
if (ctx.flags.has('scenario')) {
const scenario = stringFlag(ctx, 'scenario')
if (scenario === undefined) {
throw new RuntimeClientError('invalid_argument', '--scenario takes a scenario name.')
}
await scenarioShot(ctx, scenario)
return
}

…dev watch shot pendingRequests

- shot <key|dir> --scenario <name> renders the panel in that check scenario through the check
  runner (a separate Node process on a mock host and mounted worker), sends the validated drawn
  tree to a new plugins.shotReplay, and captures it in a throwaway preview surface: no guest,
  no live host, no real storage or settings, no real worker, images as placeholders. Window
  hidden or minimized only; --act, --environment and bridged shells refused; an older host
  answers method_not_found (runtime_unsupported) rather than doing a live shot.
- dev watch's shot event carries pendingRequests.
@nwparker
nwparker force-pushed the nwparker/plugin-shot-scenario branch from a754990 to 9b93a29 Compare November 1, 2026 18:05
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nwparker merged commit af6dabd into main Nov 1, 2026
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Nenzyz pushed a commit to Nenzyz/orca that referenced this pull request Nov 2, 2026
…dev watch shot pendingRequests (stablyai#37090)

- shot <key|dir> --scenario <name> renders the panel in that check scenario through the check
  runner (a separate Node process on a mock host and mounted worker), sends the validated drawn
  tree to a new plugins.shotReplay, and captures it in a throwaway preview surface: no guest,
  no live host, no real storage or settings, no real worker, images as placeholders. Window
  hidden or minimized only; --act, --environment and bridged shells refused; an older host
  answers method_not_found (runtime_unsupported) rather than doing a live shot.
- dev watch's shot event carries pendingRequests.
Nenzyz pushed a commit to Nenzyz/orca that referenced this pull request Nov 2, 2026
…dev watch shot pendingRequests (stablyai#37090)

- shot <key|dir> --scenario <name> renders the panel in that check scenario through the check
  runner (a separate Node process on a mock host and mounted worker), sends the validated drawn
  tree to a new plugins.shotReplay, and captures it in a throwaway preview surface: no guest,
  no live host, no real storage or settings, no real worker, images as placeholders. Window
  hidden or minimized only; --act, --environment and bridged shells refused; an older host
  answers method_not_found (runtime_unsupported) rather than doing a live shot.
- dev watch's shot event carries pendingRequests.
Nenzyz pushed a commit to Nenzyz/orca that referenced this pull request Nov 2, 2026
…dev watch shot pendingRequests (stablyai#37090)

- shot <key|dir> --scenario <name> renders the panel in that check scenario through the check
  runner (a separate Node process on a mock host and mounted worker), sends the validated drawn
  tree to a new plugins.shotReplay, and captures it in a throwaway preview surface: no guest,
  no live host, no real storage or settings, no real worker, images as placeholders. Window
  hidden or minimized only; --act, --environment and bridged shells refused; an older host
  answers method_not_found (runtime_unsupported) rather than doing a live shot.
- dev watch's shot event carries pendingRequests.
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