vr-planner— agent skill

<instructions> You help an OSADO developer figure out how to verify their changes to os-autoinst-distri-opensuse. Use the Perl helpers in scripts/ to do the work. Never duplicate their logic in shell or in your own reasoning.

Script paths below are relative to this skill's installed directory.

Pipeline overview

classify_changes.pl                 (orchestrator — call first)
  ├── tests/    → find_test_schedule.pl
  ├── lib/      → find_unit_test.pl + find_affected_tests.pl
  ├── data/     → find_data_consumers.pl
  └── schedule/ → find_openqa_job.pl  (NETWORK — confirm host first)

All scripts accept --repo /path/to/osado, --json, --verbose, and --help.

Process

Phase 1 — Classify and produce the testing plan

1. Identify the OSADO repo path. If the user did not state it, ask them.

Verify it exists and contains both lib/ and tests/. Most of the time it should be the current folder.

1. Precondition: only committed changes can be planned. An openQA VR

fetches the code from CASEDIR=<fork>.git#<branch>, so it only runs what is committed and pushed. classify_changes.pl always plans the commits on the current branch (git diff BASE...HEAD); staged, unstaged and untracked changes are ignored. BASE defaults to the closest local master ref (upstream remote, origin/master or master); pass --base REF only if the user asks for a different one. If the user has nothing committed yet, tell them to commit (and push) first.

1. Run the orchestrator with context-efficient JSON output:

   perl scripts/classify_changes.pl \
     --repo /path/to/osado --json

This only classifies files; it does NOT run any helper and does NOT contact openQA. Read base, warnings, categories.<name>.files and vr_needed from the JSON output.

1. Run only the helpers the change set needs, each with --json and

only the files of its category (skip empty categories):

• tests → find_test_schedule.pl
• lib → find_unit_test.pl and find_affected_tests.pl --base <base>

(the base from step 3; enables function-level analysis)

• data → find_data_consumers.pl
• t → no helper; the file itself is the prove target
• schedule → no helper; the files are already Phase 3 input

1. Summarise the plan to the user and proactively prompt for the host.

Start with the warnings (uncommitted changes, unpushed commits, branch not pushed): they mean the VR would not run what the user has locally. Then report per category:

• file count and whether VR is needed,
• the concrete next action (unit-test command, affected tests, data

consumers, or schedule files to clone from).

• Proactive Prompt: If Verification Runs (VRs) are required, immediately ask the user to confirm their target openQA host (--osd for SLE or --o3 for Tumbleweed/Leap) so we can proceed to Phase 3 without an empty wait turn.

Phase 2 — Targeted deep-dive (only when the user asks)

If the user wants more detail on one category, call the matching helper directly with the specific files. Examples:

• "Which unit tests cover lib/foo.pm?" →

perl scripts/find_unit_test.pl --repo REPO --verbose lib/foo.pm

• "What's affected by my lib change?" →

perl scripts/find_affected_tests.pl --repo REPO --verbose lib/foo.pm Add --base BASE to also get function-level analysis of the committed changes (which subs changed, who calls them).

• "Where is tests/X/Y.pm scheduled?" →

perl scripts/find_test_schedule.pl --repo REPO --verbose tests/X/Y.pm

• "Who consumes data/foo/bar.yaml?" →

perl scripts/find_data_consumers.pl --repo REPO --verbose data/foo/bar.yaml

Phase 3 — Find a clonable openQA job (network call gated)

Before querying openQA, always confirm the host with the user (usually --osd or --o3, prompted proactively in Phase 1). Do not guess. The canonical options are:

• --osd → http://openqa.suse.de (SLE, SLE Micro, SLES4SAP)
• --o3 → http://openqa.opensuse.org (Tumbleweed, Leap)
• --host URL → custom worker (e.g. dedicated cloud workers)

Apply a Hybrid Discovery Strategy depending on how the test is scheduled:

#### Tier 1 — YAML Scheduled Tests (Fast Path) If the test is mapped to a YAML schedule, pass those schedule paths to find_openqa_job.pl:

perl scripts/find_openqa_job.pl --osd --repo REPO schedule/A/B.yml

If starting from test files (tests/*.pm), resolve them to YAML schedules first:

perl scripts/find_test_schedule.pl --repo REPO --json tests/X/Y.pm \
| jq -r '.results[].matches[] | select(.type=="yaml_schedule") | .file' \
| xargs perl scripts/find_openqa_job.pl --osd --repo REPO

#### Tier 2 — Programmatically Loaded Tests (Slow Fallback) If a test file is loaded programmatically (e.g., via main_common.pm or load_testdir()) and has no YAML schedule, use the --modules fallback of the same helper. Do NOT hand-craft a raw openqa-cli call. Explain to the user that this lookup can take minutes for rarely-run modules, then run:

perl scripts/find_openqa_job.pl --osd --repo REPO --modules tests/publiccloud/download_repos.pm

The --modules value may be a tests/*.pm path or a bare openQA module name. The output lists recent passing jobs and copy-paste-ready openqa-clone-job commands.

Rules

• Do NOT modify any OSADO source code. This skill only analyses and reports.
• Do NOT plan uncommitted changes (do not pass file lists to

classify_changes.pl, it refuses them). A VR can only run committed and pushed code.

• Do NOT run openqa-cli or find_openqa_job.pl without first confirming

the openQA host with the user.

• Do NOT re-implement the helpers' logic in shell, grep, or file exploration

tools (ReadFile, SearchText, FindFiles). Always call the Perl scripts.

• When a Phase 1 helper already resolved test modules to schedule

files, pass those schedule paths directly to find_openqa_job.pl. Do NOT explore schedule directories with file tools to verify or supplement the output.

• When find_affected_tests.pl output includes a section labelled

"VR-CONFIRMED TARGETS function-level callers", use ONLY those test files for schedule and job lookups. The "Module-level candidates" (conservative blast radius) section may contain false positives: tests that import the changed library but do not call the modified functions. Never pass module-level candidates to find_test_schedule.pl or find_openqa_job.pl when function-level data is available.

• Resolve --repo to an absolute path before passing it. The scripts also

accept relative paths but absolute paths make the output easier to read.

• Database Safety Rule: Only use the find_openqa_job.pl --modules fallback

for tests identified as programmatic loaders (no YAML schedule). Never craft a modules= query by hand.

• Cross-Skill Synergy: If local unit tests are recommended, suggest using the local-lint-test skill to execute them efficiently.

Known limitations to surface to the user when relevant

• Schedule fan-out cap. find_openqa_job.pl refuses to query when a

change touches more than 25 schedule files (e.g. lib/virt_autotest/common.pm, lib/hacluster.pm). Report the cap and ask the user to pick 1–3 schedules manually.

• Dynamic/runtime loaders. publiccloud and parts of kernel/LTP load tests

via lib/main_*.pm with runtime conditions that find_test_schedule.pl cannot resolve statically. When find_test_schedule.pl reports a loadtest match inside a lib/main_*.pm file, fall back to find_openqa_job.pl --modules <test> to locate passing runs.

• Private workers. Hosts like vh012.qa2.suse.asia or

openqaworker15.qe.prg2.suse.org are VPN-only and not auto-detected; the user must pass them with --host.

• Function-level analysis in find_affected_tests.pl requires

--base BASE. Without it, only module-level blast radius is shown. VR-CONFIRMED TARGETS may still include a test calling a same-named method of another class. Callers marked [entry point, not followed] were not traced further; if no VR-CONFIRMED TARGETS remain, use recommended_tests (it falls back to the module-level list).

• Changes scoped to t/, .github/, Makefile, variables.md, or pure

comment/lint fixes typically do NOT require a VR.

Output expectations

Keep the user-facing summary short:

1. One line per category (count + VR needed).
2. The exact prove command for each touched t/ file or lib/ module

that has a unit test (recommend using local-lint-test to run them).

1. The schedule file(s) the user should clone from. Every clone command

must set BUILD='<user>_VR' TEST='<user>_VR' _GROUP=0 next to CASEDIR; add them if a command lacks them. If the test is programmatic, explain that we will use find_openqa_job.pl --modules to find baseline jobs.

1. A proactive request for the openQA host to proceed with job discovery.

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