ShipCheck v0

Independent preview-URL QA for coding agents. An agent POSTs a public https preview URL plus a goal/charter (human-equivalent QA) or click:/fill:/see: stories. We walk the product in Playwright, screenshot, write a findings brief, and return a pass/fail evidence pack. Homepage expect-only is needs_review (smoke only — no interaction), not a pass.

The same model that wrote the UI is a bad judge of the UI. That is the product.

Playwright MCP is free; this is not a hosted browser. It is an independent check with a human on fail. Screenshot APIs give pixels. ShipCheck answers "did story 3 actually work?"

Run

cd /workspace/shipcheck
python3 -m venv .venv
.venv/bin/pip install -e ".[dev]"
.venv/bin/playwright install chromium
.venv/bin/python -m shipcheck serve --host 0.0.0.0 --port 8788

The venv already exists on this box. Default: the API process also drains the disk queue (inline worker). To split:

SHIPCHECK_INLINE_WORKER=0 .venv/bin/python -m shipcheck serve --port 8788
.venv/bin/python -m shipcheck worker
.venv/bin/python -m shipcheck run-job sc_xxxxxxxxxxxx

Health: GET http://127.0.0.1:8788/health

Public (localhost.run, this box, Wed Aug 19 2026 ET): https://91526eb1894540.lhr.life Same process serves GET / (landing), REST, and POST /mcp. Preferred URL in PUBLIC_URL.txt (backup Cloudflare quick tunnel, often blocked on consumer ISPs: https://realtor-all-enclosed-altered.trycloudflare.com). localhost.run dies if the ssh reverse tunnel stops; keep ssh -R 80:localhost:8788 nokey@localhost.run running.

Jobs live at /workspace/shipcheck/queue/{job_id}.json. Reports and screenshots at /workspace/shipcheck/reports/.

Related MCP server: Prufa

Example request / response

Charter (preferred): a goal, not a click script. If stories is omitted, the explorer synthesizes the walk.

curl -sS -X POST https://91526eb1894540.lhr.life/qa_preview \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -d '{
    "url": "https://example.com/",
    "goal": "Walk booking and check a Sat-Sat week uses the weekly rate",
    "viewport": "desktop"
  }'

Or pass explicit stories. If both stories and goal are set, we run the stories and the judge still uses the goal.

curl -sS -X POST https://91526eb1894540.lhr.life/qa_preview \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -d '{
    "url": "https://example.com/",
    "stories": [
      {
        "id": "checkout",
        "steps": [
          "click:text=Book now",
          "fill:#email|guest@example.com",
          "see:Order total"
        ],
        "expect": "Order total"
      }
    ],
    "viewport": "desktop"
  }'

Response:

{
  "job_id": "sc_ab12cd34ef56",
  "status": "queued",
  "price_usd": 6,
  "billed": false,
  "message": "queued. poll GET /qa_status/{job_id}; fetch GET /qa_get_report/{job_id} when status is pass or needs_review."
}

curl -sS https://91526eb1894540.lhr.life/qa_status/sc_ab12cd34ef56
curl -sS https://91526eb1894540.lhr.life/qa_get_report/sc_ab12cd34ef56

Terminal statuses: pass (heuristics green and stories executed click:/fill: — not homepage smoke, not a high-severity finding) or needs_review (heuristic failures, smoke-only, or any high-severity finding). Every finished job writes human_note (verdict, what was clicked, what failed, smoke checks) and report.findings[] {severity, title, detail} when steps or expects miss. A later human can still overwrite the note via POST /qa_note/{job_id} or MCP qa_note. error is our infrastructure (timeout, crash, unsafe URL) and is not billed.

Optional headers for later billing: Authorization: Bearer <key> or X-Api-Key. v0 accepts missing keys and does not debit.

Pass a goal/charter (max 500 chars) or story steps. Charter explorer v0: visible Book/Buy/Checkout/Cart/Setup/Rent/Continue/Add, then cart/setup/review if the goal needs dates/week/cart; Sat-Sat ISO dates when the goal asks for a week; no payment fill, no Send/Pay/Place order. An unfinished date/week/price charter is needs_review (charter incomplete), not pass. Story steps: click:css=.buy, click:text=Sign in, fill:#email|user@example.com, wait:1000, see:Order total. click: prefers a visible match (hidden mobile-nav CTAs lose to the hero/sticky button). Analytics/gtag/collect 429s are recorded but do not fail the job.

Homepage expect-only (steps: ["open homepage"], expect: "Welcome") is not a pass — the report will say smoke only — no interaction.

See examples/sample_report.json for the evidence-pack shape.

Security

https only. Localhost, RFC1918, link-local, CGNAT, metadata IPs (169.254.169.254), file://, embedded credentials, and redirect-to-private are rejected. Every Playwright request is re-checked. 20s navigation timeout, 4 minute job cap. Details in PRODUCT.md.

SSRF tests (no live target required):

cd /workspace/shipcheck
python -m pytest tests/test_ssrf.py tests/test_api.py tests/test_runner.py -q

Cursor mcp.json

Streamable-HTTP MCP is served at POST /mcp (same process as REST). Tools: qa_preview, qa_status, qa_get_report, qa_note. Add this to .cursor/mcp.json or ~/.cursor/mcp.json (omit type; Cursor treats a url as streamable HTTP):

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "shipcheck": {
      "url": "https://91526eb1894540.lhr.life/mcp",
      "headers": {
        "Authorization": "Bearer YOUR_API_KEY"
      }
    }
  }
}

v0 accepts a missing key and does not debit. Same file lives at examples/mcp.json. Server must be running (python -m shipcheck serve --host 127.0.0.1 --port 8788). Public URL is a localhost.run ssh reverse tunnel in front of that process (Cloudflare quick tunnel kept as backup).

Landing page: GET / (HTML in shipcheck/landing.html). Public preview rate limit: 20 qa_preview jobs/day/IP (loopback unlimited). SHIPCHECK_PREVIEW_LIMIT_PER_IP overrides; 0 disables.

Pricing

Intent, not charged yet: $6 desktop / $10 both-viewports (or 5–8 stories) per run. Prepaid Polar credits later. Hook: shipcheck/billing.py.

Next steps

1. Polar credit packs + license key as Authorization: Bearer; debit on success only.

2. Slack/Telegram ping when status is needs_review; human writes human_note (REST POST /qa_note/{job_id} and MCP qa_note already accept the note).

3. List on PulseMCP / Glama / official MCP registry (discovery, not a marketplace).

4. Public sample report + a 30-line llms.txt.

Do not add a dashboard, GitHub App, or crypto rail.