Adds a full desktop Playwright E2E suite that launches the Electron app
against a mock inference server, exercising the full boot chain:
electron -> hermes serve -> mock provider -> renderer
Includes:
- Mock OpenAI-compatible inference server (mock-server.ts)
- Shared fixtures with sandbox isolation (credentials, HERMES_HOME,
userData, fixed window-state.json for reproducible screenshots)
- Test specs: boot, boot-failure, onboarding, mock-backend-setup, chat,
and packaged-app launch
- Visual regression: expectVisualSnapshot() wraps toHaveScreenshot in
try/catch so diffs are reported without failing the test suite
- CI workflow: xvfb at 1280x1024, baseline cache from main
(--update-snapshots on main, compare on PRs), step summary table with
diff/actual/expected image links, dedicated visual-diffs artifact
- dev:mock script for local fake-provider development
- test:e2e:visual + test:e2e:update-snapshots scripts using cage
- .gitignore: *-snapshots/ (baselines cached in CI, not committed)
