# BRIEFING — 2026-06-30T15:23:45+05:30

## Mission
Explore Ace Git Copilot codebase, its installation, CLI commands, tests, and recommend E2E testing strategy.

## 🔒 My Identity
- Archetype: Teamwork Explorer
- Roles: Read-only investigation: analyze problems, synthesize findings, produce structured reports.
- Working directory: d:\Projects\Ace\.agents\teamwork_preview_explorer_e2e_explore
- Original parent: 75bd9c52-a2f3-416f-a979-0d0aaca1aa4f
- Milestone: Investigation and E2E Test Strategy Definition

## 🔒 Key Constraints
- Read-only investigation — do NOT implement
- CODE_ONLY network mode: MUST NOT access external websites/services, run curl/wget/HTTP clients.

## Current Parent
- Conversation ID: 75bd9c52-a2f3-416f-a979-0d0aaca1aa4f
- Updated: 2026-06-30T09:57:00Z

## Investigation State
- **Explored paths**: `pyproject.toml`, `ace/cli.py`, `ace/core/config.py`, `tests/conftest.py`, `tests/test_help.py`, `tests/test_git_ops.py`, `tests/test_code_reviewer.py`, `tests/test_undo.py`, `tests/test_safety.py`.
- **Key findings**: 
  - Subcommands: Natural language mode, `setup`, `config`, `review`, `resolve`, `changelog`, `stats`, `doctor`, `explain`, `undo`, `dash`, `pr`, `search`, `ignore`, `add`, `stage`, `squash`, `hook`.
  - Installation/Invocation: CLI script `ace` mapped to `ace.cli:app` via `pyproject.toml`, and executable as python module via `python -m ace`.
  - Configuration: Settings in `~/.ace/config.toml` with env var overrides (e.g. `OLLAMA_URL`, `OPENAI_API_KEY`, etc.).
  - Tests: Structured in `tests/`, run via `pytest`, utilizing unittest.mock patches to mock `get_llm` and GitOps calls, and a `temp_git_repo` fixture to test Git interactions locally.
  - E2E Recommendation: Opaque-box E2E tests executing the CLI as a subprocess against isolated temporary git repositories, using a local HTTP mock server (e.g., using python's `http.server` or `flask` in a pytest fixture) to mock LLM APIs (OpenAI/Ollama format) via environment overrides (`CUSTOM_API_BASE`, `CUSTOM_API_KEY`, `ACE_PROVIDER=custom`).
- **Unexplored areas**: None.

## Key Decisions Made
- Proposed opaque-box E2E testing framework utilizing environment-configured custom base URL for LLM mocking to run E2E CLI tests.

## Artifact Index
- d:\Projects\Ace\.agents\teamwork_preview_explorer_e2e_explore\ORIGINAL_REQUEST.md — Original request details.
- d:\Projects\Ace\.agents\teamwork_preview_explorer_e2e_explore\handoff.md — Handoff report with observations, logic chain, and testing strategy.
