ordel-cli 0.2.0

Ordel free CLI — local QA-automation for individual devs. Drives the deterministic ordel-engine and exposes it to a BYO coding agent over MCP. No account, no DB, no Ordel LLM.

ordel (free CLI)

Local QA automation for individual devs — a persistent, deterministic "QA brain" your own coding agent (Claude Code / Cursor / Copilot) drives over MCP. No account, no DB, no Ordel LLM. Your agent is the brain; Ordel is the memory + determinism.

Status: early build. The engine loop (map → record → generate → run) works locally today; packaged npx ordel distribution is the remaining in-progress piece — see docs/plans/2026-07-17-free-cli-implementation-plan.md.

What works today (local, anonymous)

ordel init          # create .ordel/ + an ORDEL.md bridge file. No account.
ordel doctor        # preflight: Node / npx / @playwright/test / Chromium (+ how to fix)
ordel status        # local coverage: pages, elements, run history
ordel graph         # print the local app graph
ordel report        # copy-pasteable Markdown report (Slack/Teams/Jira)
ordel mcp-install    # print the MCP config to add to Claude Code / Cursor / Copilot

Then your coding agent, via MCP, drives the loop (needs Node + @playwright/test in the project — run ordel doctor to check):

• get_app_context / heal_selector — what Ordel knows + deterministic self-heal of a broken selector (fingerprint match, no LLM; ambiguous cases return needs_agent with ranked candidates for your agent's own LLM to resolve — Ordel never spends inference).
• explore / record_flow — drive the real browser to map the app + record a flow.
• generate_scenarios / generate_invariant / generate_perf_check / generate_pom — turn artifacts into runnable specs (happy/negative/boundary, data-integrity, latency, POM).
• run_test — run a spec via npx playwright test and read the real pass/fail.
• QA-mind planning: coverage_report / risk_rank / plan_tests / regression_set.

In progress (honest — no fake success)

• Single npx ordel distribution — a compiled Python engine binary wrapped in one npm package (built + smoke-tested in CI; npm/ here is the wrapper).
• eject (one-command raw-Playwright export) — scaffold; but there's no lock-in today either: generated tests are already plain tests/*.spec.ts + pages/*.ts on disk.
• Team sync + hosted dashboard = the paid upgrade (this CLI stays free & local).

The pieces

• ordel-engine (sibling package) — the pure deterministic core: fingerprint matching + self-heal, stdlib-only, zero backend.
• ordel_cli.store — the .ordel/ file store (the local shell).
• ordel_cli.heal_service — heal + per-page circuit-breaker.
• ordel_cli.mcp_server — the local stdio MCP server your agent connects to.

Dev

pip install -e packages/ordel-engine -e packages/ordel-cli
pip install pytest
pytest packages/ordel-cli/tests packages/ordel-engine/tests -q

Known limitations (by design)

• Single-writer. The .ordel/ store is for one dev on one machine. Writes are atomic (temp-file + os.replace, so a crash can't corrupt a file), and a corrupted graph.json is reported cleanly (never silently overwritten). But two processes writing the same page concurrently is last-writer-wins — there is no file lock. That is deliberate: a single-user local CLI doesn't warrant lock files / their failure modes. Team-scale concurrency is the hosted product's job (ordel push).
• Browser tools need a local Node + @playwright/test (explore/record_flow/run_test). They don't ship a browser; run ordel doctor — if Node/Playwright/Chromium are missing it tells you the exact command to fix. Without them these tools report the missing dependency, never fake success.

Privacy

Local-first: no Ordel LLM, no telemetry, no account, no data sent to Ordel. The only network requests are to your own target app and standard package/browser downloads you initiate. See PRIVACY.md.