ci(repo): run the Expo end-to-end device tests on pull requests

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Description

Adds a workflow, Verify end-to-end tests (.github/workflows/verify-e2e.yml), that runs every test of the verify-clerk-expo skill from #10087 on an iOS simulator and an Android emulator. It also deletes the older tests in integration/tests/expo-native, whose flows the skill's tests now cover, and reduces the Expo workflow to its build jobs. It sits on #10087, which sits on #10052.

Four commits, in the order to read them.

1. The standalone build and the reuse of a stored native app. Read src/native-build.ts and references/freshness.md.
2. The workflow. Read verify-e2e.yml in full. It runs a pull request's code with a token that can comment on the pull request.
3. The deletion of the older tests. Most of its 880 removed lines are deleted files. Read the expo-native-build.yml, App.tsx, and package.json diffs.
4. Docs. Skim.

The workflow starts on a pull request to main that changes the skill's code, the fixture, packages/expo, packages/expo-biometrics, or packages/expo-google-signin. It can also be started by hand on any branch. A draft, a pull request from a fork, and a repository without the secret each get a notice and no device job. Marking a draft ready for review starts it. A failing job shows on the pull request, and nothing here makes it a required check.

It has one job per platform, on macos-26 and ubuntu-24.04. The repository variables VERIFY_CI_RUNNER_IOS and VERIFY_CI_RUNNER_ANDROID name other runner labels. Each job runs the skill's CLI with the device on the runner itself: up --backend local, run --all --retries 1 --github-report, and down. Each job creates its own Clerk application and deletes it in down. A test that fails and then passes on its one retry is reported as flaky and does not fail the job. A test that fails twice fails it. The job summary lists the results, and a run for a pull request posts them as one comment per platform and edits that comment on later runs.

The app under test is a Release build with the JS embedded, which VERIFY_LOCAL_BUILD=standalone selects, so the runner starts no Metro. src/host.ts no longer refuses a local build off macOS, because the Android job builds the fixture on Linux.

A job skips the native build when it can. src/native-build.ts computes a fingerprint of what decides the native build: the native sources, the app config and its plugins, the versions of the Expo and React Native packages, and on iOS the Xcode version. A job that builds natively stores the app as an artifact named verify-expo-native-<platform>-<fingerprint> for seven days. A later job with the same fingerprint takes that app, exports the JS bundle from its own checkout, compiles it with the fixture's hermesc, and puts it in a copy of the app. The build fails unless the app then holds exactly that bundle. A job takes an app only from a run of the same branch of this repository, never from a fork. references/freshness.md has the details.

The Platform API key is the repository secret MOBILE_VERIFICATION_PLATFORM_API_KEY. Only the three steps that call up, run, and down get it. The device job's token has contents: read, actions: read to fetch the stored app, and pull-requests: write for the comment. The step that runs the tests runs the pull request's code with that token. Each job uploads run.json, the video, the screenshots, and e2e's reports for three days, and only when the skill found no secret value in the run.

.github/actionlint.yaml ignores two actionlint messages for this one workflow file, because actionlint 1.7 does not know the background and wait step keys that the job uses to prepare the device image during the dependency install.

The older tests were seven tests in four files. Each flow has a test in the skill.

Deleted file	Flow	Skill test file
auth-view.e2e.ts	The React Native logo of AuthView, and a sign-in after it closes and reopens	native-auth-view/logo
session-sync.e2e.ts	A native sign-in reaches the JS hooks and survives a restart	native-js-sync/sign-in-from-native
session-sync.e2e.ts	A native sign-out reaches the JS hooks, and so does a second sign-in	native-js-sync/sign-in-from-native, native-js-sync/sign-out-from-native
user-profile.e2e.ts	onHostBack after native navigation, and a custom page with React Native content	user-button-and-profile/embedded-profile
native-modules.e2e.ts	useSignInWithGoogle and useBiometricCredentials reach their native modules	native-modules/native-modules

Two things the older tests covered are lost. They ran against a staging instance, and the skill's tests run against development instances that each job creates and deletes, so no device test exercises @clerk/expo against the staging API. They also ran the app that the Expo workflow built from packed tarballs of the three packages, and the skill's build links the packages from the workspace. The Expo workflow still builds the tarball install on SDK 54, 55, and 57, but nothing launches that app.

With the older tests gone, their config, page objects, package scripts, and scripts/resolve-instance-keys.mjs are deleted, and the fixture's App.tsx always renders the host from #10052. A launch with no verify input shows the home, signed out, with the publishable key the app was built with. In the Expo workflow, the two jobs named Native E2E (<platform>, sdk 57) become Native Build (<platform>, sdk 57), and the workflow no longer reads the staging keys secret. A branch rule that names a Native E2E check needs the new name.

SKILL.md and packages/expo/AGENTS.md now tell an agent to run and attach the test for its own change and to leave the full run to this workflow.

The skill has 517 unit tests on this branch, and the Verify Skill Tests job passes on this commit.

The workflow passed when started by hand on this branch (run 37685636703). No test needed its retry. Both jobs took a stored native app and put this commit's JS bundle in it.

Platform	Passed	Skipped	Native build	Job time
iOS	22	0	Taken from an earlier run	30 minutes
Android	19	3, for iOS only	Taken from an earlier run	11 minutes

The files of the present commit differ from the ones that run tested by one sentence in the skill's SKILL.md. The pull request run on this commit skipped the device jobs because this pull request is a draft.

Not proven:

• The six Native Build jobs on this commit. The Expo workflow skips a draft.
• A job that builds the native app, at this commit. Both jobs in the run took a stored one.
• Whether any branch rule names the Native E2E checks.
• A run that a pull request event starts, at this commit.

Checklist

• pnpm test runs as expected.
• pnpm build runs as expected.
• (If applicable) JSDoc comments have been added or updated for any package exports
• (If applicable) Documentation has been updated

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• 🐛 Bug fix
• 🌟 New feature
• 🔨 Breaking change
• 📖 Refactoring / dependency upgrade / documentation
• other: test tooling

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📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

The pull request adds fingerprint-based native build caching and JavaScript bundle embedding for Expo fixtures. Local builds can select standalone mode, and the local build path no longer rejects hosts based on operating system. A new GitHub Actions workflow runs golden specs on iOS and Android, reuses eligible native build artifacts, and conditionally uploads test evidence. Verification guidance documents CI coverage and directs contributors to run the changed behavior’s spec.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~50 minutes

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 7c930

Clarify the standalone-build guidance so contributors know when a cached app can be reused. The previously reported Expo artifact mismatch is resolved; the remaining documentation issue is bounded and does not block merging.

🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 4 | ❌ 1

❌ Failed checks (1 warning)

Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
Docstring Coverage	⚠️ Warning	Docstring coverage is 0.00% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 31 functions across 5 files. (2 skipped: 2…	Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.

✅ Passed checks (4 passed)

Check name	Status	Explanation
Linked Issues check	✅ Passed	Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Out of Scope Changes check	✅ Passed	Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly identifies the primary change: adding CI coverage for Expo end-to-end device tests on pull requests.
Description check	✅ Passed	The description directly explains the new workflow, platform jobs, test execution, artifact reuse, reporting, and related documentation changes.

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Docstring coverage is 0.00% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 31 functions across 5 files. (2 skipped: 2 unsupported.)

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Summary

Metric	Count
Packages analyzed	19
Packages with changes	0
🔴 Breaking changes	0
🟡 Non-breaking changes	0
🟢 Additions	0

No API Changes Detected

All packages have stable APIs with no detected changes.

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🟢 e2e android: 9 passed

All 9 tests in 8 files

	Test	Time
🟢	specs/golden/custom-flow-sign-in/complete.e2e.ts · 1 passed	55.0s
🟢	useSignIn completes with the email code	55.0s
🟢	specs/golden/custom-flow-sign-in/request-code.e2e.ts · 1 passed	16.7s
🟢	useSignIn sends an email code to an existing test user	16.7s
🟢	specs/golden/custom-flow-sign-up/complete.e2e.ts · 1 passed	25.4s
🟢	useSignUp completes with the email code	25.4s
🟢	specs/golden/custom-flow-sign-up/request-code.e2e.ts · 1 passed	12.4s
🟢	useSignUp sends an email code to a new test address	12.4s
🟢	specs/golden/native-auth-view/opens.e2e.ts · 1 passed	7.1s
🟢	nativeAuth shows the native AuthView start screen without a tap	7.1s
🟢	specs/golden/native-js-sync/sign-out-from-native.e2e.ts · 1 passed	10.7s
🟢	signing out in the native UserProfileView signs out the JS hooks	10.7s
🟢	specs/golden/token-cache-persistence/relaunch.e2e.ts · 1 passed	14.3s
🟢	the token cache keeps the session across a relaunch, and a new scope starts signed out	14.3s
🟢	specs/golden/user-button-and-profile/profile.e2e.ts · 2 passed	17.9s
🟢	the native UserProfileView shows the seeded user	8.7s
🟢	the native UserButton opens the profile	9.2s

_{e2e 0.18.0 · 2m 41s · android · run artifacts}

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• .changeset/expo-verify-ci-device-specs.md
• .claude/skills/verify-clerk-expo/SKILL.md
• .claude/skills/verify-clerk-expo/features/README.md
• .claude/skills/verify-clerk-expo/references/freshness.md
• .claude/skills/verify-clerk-expo/src/fixture.ts
• .claude/skills/verify-clerk-expo/src/host.ts
• .claude/skills/verify-clerk-expo/src/native-build.ts
• .claude/skills/verify-clerk-expo/test/native-build.test.ts
• .claude/skills/verify-clerk-expo/test/remote-host.test.ts
• .github/actionlint.yaml
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• .github/workflows/verify-e2e.yml
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🟢 e2e ios: 11 passed

All 11 tests in 10 files

	Test	Time
🟢	specs/golden/custom-flow-sign-in/complete.e2e.ts · 1 passed	1m 17s
🟢	useSignIn completes with the email code	1m 17s
🟢	specs/golden/custom-flow-sign-in/request-code.e2e.ts · 1 passed	27.4s
🟢	useSignIn sends an email code to an existing test user	27.4s
🟢	specs/golden/custom-flow-sign-up/complete.e2e.ts · 1 passed	44.6s
🟢	useSignUp completes with the email code	44.6s
🟢	specs/golden/custom-flow-sign-up/request-code.e2e.ts · 1 passed	27.8s
🟢	useSignUp sends an email code to a new test address	27.8s
🟢	specs/golden/native-auth-view/complete.e2e.ts · 1 passed	35.3s
🟢	signs in through AuthView with the email code	35.3s
🟢	specs/golden/native-auth-view/opens.e2e.ts · 1 passed	8.7s
🟢	nativeAuth shows the native AuthView start screen without a tap	8.7s
🟢	specs/golden/native-auth-view/request-code.e2e.ts · 1 passed	25.6s
🟢	an existing test user reaches the email code screen in AuthView	25.6s
🟢	specs/golden/native-js-sync/sign-out-from-native.e2e.ts · 1 passed	13.5s
🟢	signing out in the native UserProfileView signs out the JS hooks	13.5s
🟢	specs/golden/token-cache-persistence/relaunch.e2e.ts · 1 passed	24.3s
🟢	the token cache keeps the session across a relaunch, and a new scope starts signed out	24.3s
🟢	specs/golden/user-button-and-profile/profile.e2e.ts · 2 passed	28.8s
🟢	the native UserProfileView shows the seeded user	16.5s
🟢	the native UserButton opens the profile	12.3s

_{e2e 0.18.0 · 5m 15s · ios · run artifacts}

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