Install Chrome so the puppeteer tests can run

[arnelirobles]

CI has been red since at least 15 August. verify (22) fails on packages/mermaid-export/src/index.test.ts, 11 of 13 tests:

Error: Could not find Chrome (ver. 131.0.6778.204). This can occur if either
1. you did not perform an installation before running the script
(e.g. `npx puppeteer browsers install chrome`) or
2. your cache path is incorrectly configured
(which is: /home/runner/.cache/puppeteer).

mermaid-export depends on puppeteer ^23.0.0, which fetches Chrome in a postinstall script. That script is not running on the runner, so the browser is never there.

Nothing in this repository changed

The suite passes locally, where the browser happens to be cached:

Test Files 12 passed (12)
Tests 160 passed | 1 skipped (161)

The only difference between that and CI is whether Chrome exists. This is the same shape as the other failures across the org this week: the world moved, the code did not, and nothing was waiting on the result so nobody saw it.

The fix

One step between install and typecheck:

- name: Install Chrome for puppeteerrun: pnpm exec puppeteer browsers install chrome

Explicit rather than relying on the postinstall, so it does not depend on lifecycle-script behaviour that has changed once and can change again. It is also what puppeteer's own error message tells you to do.

Not done here

The install adds time to every run and could be cached on ~/.cache/puppeteer keyed by the puppeteer version. Worth doing if it proves slow, and not worth guessing at before the job is green.

Summary by CodeRabbit

• Bug Fixes
  • Improved browser-based test reliability by ensuring Chrome is available during automated checks.
  • Automated validation now runs more consistently for browser-dependent functionality, helping catch issues before new versions are released.

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Walkthrough

The CI workflow installs Chrome for the mermaid-export package through Puppeteer after dependency installation and before typechecking, testing, and building.

Changes

CI browser setup

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Install Chrome before validation .github/workflows/ci.yml	The workflow runs puppeteer browsers install chrome through pnpm --filter mermaid-export before validation and build steps.

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The CI workflow now runs dependency-controlled installation steps, but its token permissions remain inherited and may be broader than necessary; restrict the job to read-only repository access or explicitly accept this bounded security risk before merging.

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In @.github/workflows/ci.yml:
- Around line 42-43: Update the “Install Chrome for puppeteer” workflow step to
run from the packages/mermaid-export package scope by setting its working
directory, so pnpm exec resolves the package-declared puppeteer dependency.

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[arnelirobles]

The fix was failing for a reason unrelated to Chrome: pnpm exec runs from the workspace root, where the puppeteer binary does not exist, so CI hit Command "puppeteer" not found and exited 254 before it ever reached mermaid-export.

Filtered to the one package that depends on it.

Reproduced both locally rather than assuming. The bare command fails the same way it does in CI; the filtered one installs chrome@131.0.6778.204, and the suite then reports 160 passed, 1 skipped across 12 files, including all eleven mermaid-export tests that were red.