obsidian-e2e

obsidian-e2e: automated testing against a live Obsidian

Relationship to manual-verify

manual-verify prepares a test vault (symlink, settings, fixture notes) and then hands the user a checklist to click through by hand. This skill instead drives that same running Obsidian over CDP so an agent can fire reminders, click UI, and read back internal state without a human in the loop.

They are complementary, not interchangeable:

• Things this skill can verify automatically: reminder firing timing, toast contents, button clicks and their effect on the file, settings state, Reminders/ReminderNotifier internal state.
• Things only a human can verify (see "What cannot be automated" below): the look and feel of macOS system notifications, whether a system notification click actually does the right thing, and anything that depends on the user's macOS notification style settings (Banners vs. Alerts, etc).

For anything touching src/plugin/ or src/ui/, prefer running both: this skill for the parts it can check unattended, manual-verify for the rest.

The absolute safety requirement

This machine typically has several vaults registered and multiple open at once. Only a vault explicitly and physically marked as safe for testing (see "The actual guard" below) may ever be touched. Every other vault — personal or work — must never be written to, and, per the incident below, not even read.

The wrong-vault write incident (read this before changing any guard)

Earlier in this skill's development, a guard was verified by actually calling app.vault.adapter.write(...) with OBSIDIAN_TEST_VAULT_NAME pointed at a real, non-test vault, on the reasoning that "the guard should reject this." It did not. The guard at the time only checked that the vault name in the CDP page title was unambiguous and matched what the in-page code re-read from app.vault.getName() — and a real vault's actual name is, by definition, a perfectly real, unambiguous, matching vault name. The write silently succeeded, creating a stray file in a real personal vault, which then had to be cleaned up.