repro-public

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name: repro-public
description: Reproduce a bug in the public-facing rendered site (not the admin). Boots a demo with bgproc, drives the public routes with agent-browser, and captures the reproduction as screenshots plus a written transcript.
---

# Reproduce: Public Site

The issue is in the rendered public site -- Astro pages outside `/_emdash`, the SSR output a normal site visitor sees, public routing, sitemap, RSS, image rendering, or query patterns visible to anonymous readers. You do not need an admin session. Reproduce and confirm the bug entirely through `agent-browser`: the durable artifact is your screenshots, a captured DOM slice, and a precise, replayable transcript of the steps. Do not write Playwright (or any other) tests -- the bot cannot reliably run them here, so an unrun test is unverified guesswork. A regression test belongs to whoever lands the fix.

## Hard prohibitions

- No `git commit`, no `git push`, no branch creation that survives the workflow.
- No GitHub writes. Read-only `gh` reads only.
- No `curl` to arbitrary external hosts. `localhost:4321` only.
- Do not touch any issue other than the one being investigated.

## Procedure

1. **Re-read the issue.** Note the exact URL or route pattern, the content the reporter expected versus what they saw, and any headers or query strings that mattered. Public-site bugs often depend on the locale, the requested format (HTML vs RSS), or the presence of specific content rows -- be precise.
2. **Pick a demo.** `demos/simple` is the default. If the issue is locale-specific, pick a demo with multiple locales seeded. If the issue is collection-specific, pick a demo that already has that collection.
3. **Seed content if necessary.** If the issue requires a content item that the demo seed does not provide, create it with the CLI: `pnpm exec emdash content create <collection> --data '...'` (consult `skills/emdash-cli/SKILL.md` if you need the exact flags). Avoid editing seed files -- ephemeral content created via CLI is enough to reproduce and disappears with the workspace.
4. **Start the demo.** Run `bgproc start -n demo -w -- pnpm --filter ./demos/simple dev`. The `-w` flag waits until the dev server opens a port before returning -- Astro listens on `localhost:4321`. Inspect progress with `bgproc logs -n demo` if it does not come up.
5. **Open the affected route.** `agent-browser open "http://localhost:4321/<path>"`. Use the exact path from the issue. If the issue mentions a query string or specific `Accept` header, include it.
6. **Inspect the rendered output.** `agent-browser snapshot -i -c` gives you the accessibility tree. `agent-browser get text @e<n>` extracts text from a region. For RSS or non-HTML output, fetch via the browser's network panel rather than `curl` -- the browser will follow the demo's Astro routing the same way a visitor does.
7. **Check for runtime errors.** `agent-browser console` for warnings about hydration, missing data, or 404 sub-requests. `agent-browser errors` for thrown exceptions during render or hydration.
8. **Screenshot at meaningful states.** Save to `.bot-artifacts/step-<n>.png`. One of the page as loaded, one of the specific broken element if it is visible.
9. **Confirm the failure mode matches.** Public-site bugs are easy to misidentify because rendering differences can be caused by missing seed data, a cached build artifact, or an unrelated route. If you cannot produce exactly the symptom in the issue, say so in notes. Write down the exact replayable steps (URL, any query string or `Accept` header, the observed-vs-expected output) so a maintainer can follow it without you.

## When to skip

Mark `skipped: true` and explain in notes when:

- The bug requires a specific search engine crawler user-agent, OG card validator, or other third-party fetcher you cannot impersonate from `localhost`.
- The bug requires production-scale content (pagination edge cases, sitemap chunking) that the demo cannot realistically produce in workflow time.
- The bug only manifests on a deployed Worker -- caching headers from the CF edge, geographic routing, image transformation through the production R2 binding.
- The bug requires a specific source dataset (e.g. WordPress import) the reporter did not attach.

## Output

Return:

- Whether you reproduced the bug.
- Whether you skipped (with reason if so).
- The approach you used: `agent-browser-only` or `none`.
- Notes: the demo used, the exact URL, the interaction sequence in plain prose, and any console or runtime errors.
- A list of screenshots, each with the relative filename under `.bot-artifacts/` and a one-line description.