fix(tests): sweep the tests that drifted from August/September code changes (#2802)

[trinity-ability]

Summary

Closes #2802.

Running every test tier by hand on the 2026-09-14 pre-release pass of dev (the full-suite script aborts before the api tier — #2801) surfaced tests that no longer match the code they test. None is a product defect; each was checked against the commit that changed the behaviour. This PR brings them back into line without touching product code.

Changes

Backend guards / Postgres

• tests/unit/test_1920_no_hand_rolled_single_flight.py — scan the OSS tree only; the enterprise submodule owns its own twin (bug: platform operator-queue alert emitters bypass #1632 ingestion caps — skill-not-found is agent-triggerable (flood residual, gates pull default-ON) #1677 convention).
• tests/integration/test_alembic_postgres.py — a pre-Alembic DB is stamped at the baseline and then upgraded, so assert head, not 0001_baseline (only true at v0.8.0).

Root live-backend tier (tests/test_*.py, not run in CI)

• test_cb_probe_execution_close.py — the credential_sanitizer stub now exports what the real module exports (REDACTION_PLACEHOLDER since 2026-02); all 10 tests pass again.
• test_agent_permissions.py — type retired in refactor: retire the vestigial agent type taxonomy (business-assistant everywhere) #2104.
• test_settings.py, test_setup.py — accept the feat(onboarding): browser admin claim, one first-run overlay, credentials without a terminal (trinity-enterprise#580, #581, #582) #2715 onboarding wording.
• test_activities.py — the activity layer's documented triggered_by sources are valid alongside the dashboard buckets.
• test_agent_git.py — 409 on sync for a read-only public-template agent is the ent#162 push blackhole: skip (nothing to push) / accept as owner-gate evidence.
• test_platform_default_model.py, test_subscription_auto_switch.py — stop asserting an instance default that stored state overrides.

Frontend e2e (outside the @smoke tier)

• schedules-toggle-scroll.spec.js — the panel renders Loading schedules… (Unicode ellipsis, refactor(ui): the non-chart skeleton sweep, and the sidebar ordered by most recent collaboration (#1921, abilityai/trinity-enterprise#491) #2573); match on a regex.
• ent438-agent-canvas.spec.js — probe-and-skip when the seeded weather-watch agent is absent (bug: 7 frontend e2e specs fail on stale constants and a missing fixture agent #2199 semantics kept: a broken probe still throws).
• agent-detail-request-dedupe, agent-detail-tasks-fill-height, background-refresh-invisible, schedules-toggle-scroll — prefer the long-lived harness agent (Test harness: honest full-suite runs — fix collection breakage, add PG/Alembic + git-sync tiers, skip-audit gate #2080) over agents[0], so an overlapping pytest run cannot delete the fixture mid-test.

Verification

• Touched backend tests against a live dev stack: 25 passed, 2 honest skips (read-only template; instance has WORKSPACE_ENABLED set).
• test_alembic_postgres.py on a fresh disposable Postgres with REDIS_URL exported: 6 passed.
• The five e2e specs against the live stack: 23 passed, 3 skipped (the ent438 probe).
• Observed but not addressed here: agent-detail-tasks-fill-height.spec.js:147 (short-viewport composer) failed twice and passed twice across four runs against the same agent — timing/agent-state flake, unrelated to this sweep.

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[vybe]

merge-train: deferred to the next train, not ejected. The sweep validated READY — every swept test still executes the behaviour it guards, and none was weakened into a source-text or no-op assertion. test_cb_probe_execution_close.py is the proof the sweep was needed: 10 failed on dev, 10 pass here.

It is held only because of a collision. #2797 rewrites the same function this PR patches: it replaces _iter_backend_py with _iter_guarded_py walking both trees, and its filter does not carry this PR's enterprise/, tests/, __pycache__/ exclusion. #2797 is on today's train, so this rebases on top afterwards and folds the rel.startswith((...)) guard into _iter_guarded_py.

Worth fixing in the same pass, because the rebase touches exactly this line. The PR body says the enterprise submodule "owns its own twin (#1677 convention)", and it does not — git ls-tree at the pinned SHA, the local checkout, and origin/main tip show no *1920* or *single_flight* test anywhere in the enterprise repo. Meanwhile the exclusion silences a real hit: with the submodule mounted, this guard on dev fails on enterprise/backend/siem/exporter.py:43, a hand-rolled per-tick leader lock (client.set(_LOCK_KEY, str(os.getpid()), nx=True, ex=_LOCK_TTL)) — exactly the #1920 class. Public CI never mounts the submodule so CI coverage is unchanged, but a core-team local run stops reporting it. Either file the enterprise issue to add the twin and migrate exporter.py to SingleFlightLock and cite it in the comment, or drop the enterprise/ prefix. Small nit on the same line: venv/ is not excluded either, so a local src/backend/venv trips the scan.

Two riders, both informational. test_subscription_auto_switch.py:48 now issues a real DELETE /api/settings/auto_switch_subscriptions, which wipes an explicit "false" an operator may have set on the dev DB to watch the default — deterministic, but it mutates shared operator state, so a restore in a finally would be kinder. And test_agent_git.py:480 widening the owner-gate list to include 409 is real (no_write_credentials maps there), but the list already accepted 403, so that assertion proves the endpoint answered rather than that the owner passed the gate. Pre-existing weakness, not introduced here.

[vybe]

merge-train: a mechanical fix was pushed to this branch

dev was merged in and the test_1920 conflict resolved, in commit c0235c8. Nothing else on the branch was touched.

Why it needed care: dev's #2742 (a7acc3dd7) replaced the single-tree _iter_backend_py() with the two-tree _iter_guarded_py() (src/backend + docker/base-image/agent_server), yielding (path, root, prefix). This branch edited the old single-tree signature, so git spliced dev's loop body under this branch's header, leaving root undefined.

Both naive resolutions are wrong:

• take this branch's side → NameError on root, and _collect_nx_true_files() calls a _iter_guarded_py() that no longer exists — plus it silently reverts bug(sync-health): the 60s poller takes .git/index.lock ~2×/min in every agent workspace and orphans a 0-byte lock on churn — silent commit failures fleet-wide #2742's two-tree walk, re-opening the exact Invariant Setup improvements #5 failure that commit's own docstring cites ("a guard that walks only one of the two trees is not a guard", ent#314)
• take dev's side → the enterprise/ exclusion disappears, i.e. the thing this PR fixes
• naive port → path.relative_to(_BACKEND) raises ValueError on every agent-server path, which lives under docker/base-image/

Resolved per-root: kept dev's iterator, moved the exclusion inside it against path.relative_to(root). I also added venv/ to the tuple — without it the guard is still red on a dev machine carrying a local src/backend/venv (reproduced: redis/lock.py + redis/asyncio/lock.py), so the PR's "passes now" claim didn't hold locally. CI was unaffected either way.

tests/unit/test_1920_no_hand_rolled_single_flight.py → 6 passed, including #2742's test_both_trees_are_actually_walked and test_agent_server_single_flight_has_exactly_one_home.

Not fixed — yours to judge

Validation raised these; none blocks the merge, and I left them alone rather than guess:

1. The stub in tests/test_cb_probe_execution_close.py:55-65 mirrors utils/credential_sanitizer.py by hand with no parity test — the second recurrence of that class (the file's own docstring at :96-103 records Async chat_with_agent: long execution silently fails with null response (reader-thread) #678 as the first). A public_names(real) ⊆ dir(stub) assertion would end it.
2. tests/test_platform_default_model.py:97-105 — the new skip removes the only live assertion of the feat: gate Agent Workspace behind admin feature flag (off by default) #860 WORKSPACE_ENABLED default-off claim, and this tier isn't in CI at all. A unit test over routers/settings.py:211 would restore it.
3. 'test-harness-agent' is hardcoded in 4 e2e specs while the harness reads TRINITY_TEST_AGENT_NAME (tests/harness/ensure_test_agent.py:35) — override it and the preference silently falls back to agents[0], which is the flake being fixed.
4. tests/test_agent_permissions.py:70 docstring still lists type among the fields after the assertion was removed.
5. The comment "the private repo owns its own twin (bug: platform operator-queue alert emitters bypass #1632 ingestion caps — skill-not-found is agent-triggerable (flood residual, gates pull default-ON) #1677 convention)" — no such twin exists in the enterprise submodule at the pinned pointer. Nothing is lost (the only enterprise nx=True site is a TTL-only lease, not the bug: fleet-restart lock — lease refresh isn't ownership-checked, and acquisition sits outside the try/finally (#1912 review follow-up) #1919 class), but the comment asserts a guard that isn't there.

The vacuity audit came back clean, which was the thing worth checking on a test sweep: exactly one assertion deleted (correct — the field is genuinely gone from the live payload), three skips all narrowly scoped, zero xfails, and test_alembic_postgres.py's ver == head is strictly stronger than the == "0001_baseline" it replaced.

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[vybe]

merge-train 2026-09-15: validated at lane depth; conflict resolution verified (6 passed incl. #2742's two-tree guards), all checks green on the merged head.