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E2E Ladder

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Use to build end-to-end coverage as a ladder of scenarios of increasing complexity, each rung a durable automated test that drives the real runtime boundary and stays in CI.

  1. Start from the simplest real-client scenario that proves the boundary works; add one rung at a time.
  2. Each rung exercises the running system through the interface-appropriate harness (browser, HTTP client, CLI, MCP client).
  3. Cite the acceptance criteria each rung covers with @covers.
  4. A rung is done only when it runs green in CI, not on a developer machine alone.

Procedure: workflows/actions/e2e-ladder.md (the full action prompt; this file is the contract).

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