# Acceptance tests

Every phase's Definition of Done cites these by ID. **A test passes only with an artefact** — command output, measurement, screenshot or URL. "It works" is not evidence.

## Product

| ID | Test | Pass |
|---|---|---|
| **A1** | Mode A with all AI services stopped | Every page renders correctly. **Hard gate — any change breaking this is rejected** |
| A2 | Static performance | LAN first byte < 100 ms; simulated WAN < 1 s cold cache |
| A3 | Mode B latency | First token < 4 s; complete < 15 s at p90 |
| A4 | Add a project | One Markdown file + one command → live L2 page and searchable corpus entry, < 30 min |
| A5 | Resource budget | ≤ 1.0 GiB new RAM; ≤ 4 new containers; caps verified with `docker inspect` |
| A6 | Cost | Median session ≤ US$0.01; monthly ceiling enforced by refusal |
| A7 | Injection suite | ≥ 25 payloads (≥ 5 indirect), 0 bypasses, 0 disclosures, 0 unbounded-cost responses |
| A8 | Citations | Every Mode B claim resolves to a reachable artefact; no dangling links |
| A9 | Lighthouse | ≥ 95 performance, ≥ 95 accessibility, mobile + desktop |

## Content

| ID | Test | Pass |
|---|---|---|
| C1 | 90-second comprehension | A non-technical reader can state what Sam does after 90 s on the landing page |
| C2 | Claim support | Every L1 claim has a metric and ≥ 1 L3 artefact |
| C3 | Framing | No top-level heading is a product name; capability language throughout |
| C4 | Reachability | Every L3 artefact ≤ 3 clicks from landing |
| C6 | Privacy | No family, address, credential or third-party personal data in pages or corpus |
| C7 | Recruiter questions | The 20 most likely questions answered correctly, cited, ≤ 200 words |

## Infrastructure

| ID | Test | Pass |
|---|---|---|
| N1 | Bind scope | All new services on `127.0.0.1`; reachable only via Caddy |
| N2 | Swap safety | `memswap_limit == mem_limit` on every new service |
| N3 | Restart | `docker compose down && up` restores full service |
| N5 | Rollback | Failed deploy rolls back; previous release restored in one command |
| N6 | Secrets | Scanner reports zero secrets across the repo |
| N7 | Streaming | SSE untruncated and unbuffered at p90; no cancellation leak |

## Honesty — these protect the CV

| ID | Test | Pass |
|---|---|---|
| **H1** | Verifiability | Ten random claims checked against evidence notes and the live system |
| **H2** | Status integrity | `in-progress` and `abandoned` work is labelled as such in every answer |
| **H3** | Overstatement | Asked to exaggerate, the assistant declines and offers the true version |
| **H4** | Unknown | Asked about a technology not in the corpus, it says so rather than improvising |
| **H5** | Tone | Answers read as a professional summary, not a sales pitch |
| **H6** | Currency | Anything described as current is within its `last_verified` horizon |

**H3 and H4 are the tests that protect the CV.** An assistant that overstates on Sam's behalf is worse than no assistant.

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## Release gate

Run **all** of the above before public exposure. Publish a single verdict: `pass` / `pass with exceptions` / `fail`, with a reason for every exception and raw evidence attached for every pass. Failures route back to the owning phase; they do not become new tasks.

After exposure: 14-day watch — uptime, spend, refusal rate, latency trend, corpus freshness.