Daytona

Use this skill for Daytona infrastructure, not test placement.

Setup

Install the Daytona CLI with brew install daytonaio/cli/daytona, then authenticate:

daytona login

To run tests, just use pnpm evals:e2e <slug> — it picks Daytona automatically when the CLI is authenticated. --local forces local; --daytona requires Daytona and fails when it is unavailable.

Long-lived manual Electron sandbox

Run bash .devcontainer/test-on-daytona.sh <ref>. The maintained helper uses the reusable desktop snapshot, starts XFCE/noVNC, Vite, and Electron, and prints the sandbox and preview URLs. Keep that sandbox for exploration or debugging instead of reproducing its provisioning commands.

Long-lived manual server sandbox

Run bash .devcontainer/test-server-on-daytona.sh <ref>. It starts the separate MySQL, Den API, and Den Web sandbox and prints public URLs for a desktop sandbox to consume. Use this helper rather than assembling the server manually.

Debugging

Inspect /tmp/start-vnc.log, /tmp/vite.log, /tmp/electron.log, and /tmp/den-api.log in the relevant sandbox. Electron CDP is port 9825; get CDP and noVNC URLs with:

daytona preview-url <sandbox> -p 9825
daytona preview-url <sandbox> -p 6080

Secrets

bash .devcontainer/setup-daytona-secrets-volume.sh <local-env> <name>.env

Electron sandboxes mount the reusable secrets volume at /daytona-secrets.

Snapshot refresh

bash .devcontainer/create-daytona-openwork-snapshot.sh
bash .devcontainer/create-daytona-openwork-server-snapshot.sh

Teardown

daytona delete <sandbox>