From 1d95a800fdbf10ec4b48e69685a593a207ffe176 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Cyd <cyd@falloutshelterarcade.com>
Date: Fri, 10 Jul 2026 16:30:28 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] Add verify skill: drive the console against vPOD

A project verify skill (.claude/skills/verify) capturing the recipe used
this session: build the console + vPOD, launch both, drive the console's
WinForms UI via UI Automation, and observe real behavior -- pod connection
endpoint via netstat, egg contents in vPOD, the full Load/Run/Stop mission
lifecycle -- rather than relying on tests alone.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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+---
+name: verify
+description: Drive the TeslaConsole WinForms app against vPOD to verify console changes end-to-end on this machine.
+---
+
+# Verifying console changes against vPOD
+
+Build (Debug is what the exes below point at):
+
+```
+dotnet build Console/TeslaConsole.csproj
+dotnet build vPOD/vPOD.csproj
+```
+
+Launch both (the machine's `C:\ProgramData\Tesla Console\local.siteconfig`
+already has squad `bay1` with a provisioned `vPOD` pod at 127.0.0.1; vPOD's
+session key persists in `%LocalAppData%\vPOD\TeslaKeyStore.key`):
+
+```
+Start-Process vPOD\bin\Debug\net48\vPOD.exe -ArgumentList "-app","bt"   # or rp
+Start-Process Console\bin\Debug\net48\TeslaConsole.exe
+```
+
+Drive the UI with System.Windows.Automation (UIA) — WinForms on net48 exposes
+menus, buttons, checkboxes, and DataGridView rows/cells as real UIA elements:
+
+- Menus: ExpandCollapsePattern on "Games", InvokePattern on the item.
+- Pilots grid cells are named like `Enabled Row 1`, `Pilot Row 1`; real mouse
+  clicks at the cell's BoundingRectangle center behave exactly like a user
+  (needed for CellEndEdit paths — programmatic value sets bypass them).
+  Click another cell afterwards to commit a checkbox cell edit.
+- Type into a grid cell: click it, then `[System.Windows.Forms.SendKeys]::SendWait()`.
+- The WeifenLuo dock tabs are NOT UIA TabItems; switch documents with
+  Ctrl+Tab sent to the focused window.
+- Screenshots: Graphics.CopyFromScreen of the element's BoundingRectangle
+  (coordinates are physical pixels; fine to pass straight to SetCursorPos).
+
+Observe behavior:
+
+- Game connection endpoint: `Get-NetTCPConnection -OwningProcess <consolePid>
+  -RemotePort 1501`. vPOD binds 0.0.0.0:1501, so any 127.x.x.x target lands on
+  it — distinguish targets by the netstat RemoteAddress, not by whether vPOD
+  answered.
+- Mission content: vPOD's Current Egg pane shows the decoded egg (player IPs,
+  pilots, map) after clicking Load; its protocol log timestamps connects,
+  disconnects, and state transitions.
+- Full lifecycle: enable a pod row + pilot name → Load → Run Mission → Stop
+  Mission. With the watchdog checkbox on, vPOD drops the connection after a
+  mission ends and comes back in WaitingForEgg — an observed reconnect there
+  is normal.
+
+Gotchas: enabling a pod row only requests the connection once the cell edit
+commits. A helper script with these UIA primitives from a previous session:
+scratchpad `uia.ps1` (Get-Window / Find-ByName / Click-Elem / Screenshot) —
+recreate from this recipe if gone. Close both apps when done
+(`CloseMainWindow`, then Stop-Process stragglers).