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Make apps/api test fixtures cross-platform (Windows)

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3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
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78/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Active
Tech stack
typescript
Domain
api, testing

Research direction

Start with apps/api tests/scrub-data.test.ts, internal-reload.test.ts, and store.test.ts, then run each file independently on Windows and compare with the develop results. Inspect the fixtures that rely on POSIX-specific paths or write failures. Done means all three files pass on Windows while preserving the existing Linux behavior.

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Description

Surfaced while closing out plans/site-check-153.md (PR #154).

On a Windows dev box the apps/api suite finishes 3 failed | 30 passed files, 10 failed | 413 passed tests, on a tree where git diff develop..HEAD -- apps/api packages/ is empty. The failures spread across scrub-data.test.ts (4), internal-reload.test.ts (4), and store.test.ts (2), and reproduce with each file run alone, so it is not runner contention. Checking out develop and re-running store.test.ts reproduces its 2 failures exactly.

Mechanism (at least for store.test.ts): the fixture injects a write failure by pointing the private store at /dev/null/impossible-path and asserting the transaction rejects. On Windows that is an ordinary creatable directory, so the write succeeds and the expected throw never happens. The other seven likely share a POSIX-ism of the same flavor.

CI runs the gate on Linux where the fixtures behave as intended, so this only blocks the documented local validation gate on Windows. Worth a cross-platform fixture cleanup (e.g. a path that cannot exist on any OS, or a mocked write failure) if Windows dev boxes are to be supported.

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