Rpa_Skills/.scratch/rpa-dashboard-skills/issues/02-no-ai-desktop-bot-wiring.md

02: No-AI desktop path: PyQt bot connected to the page

Part of: ../spec.md

What to build: A developer runs the no-AI skill in a PyQt project that already has a bot printing step markers. The skill chooses the desktop path and connects the bot to the dashboard:

• The bot runs as its own child process, and its output is read line by line.
• Specific step markers move the progress bar and step list.
• A friendly-rules table turns raw output lines into plain-English log lines.
• Error lines always appear, even when no rule matches.
• Dark mode is remembered between launches.

Blocked by: 01

Status: resolved

• The skill detects the PyQt project and the bot entry point, and fills in the host template's bot command, steps, step markers and friendly rules from the bot's real output.
• Clicking Run starts the bot in a separate process. The Run button disables itself while running, and the status dot goes ready → running → done/error.
• Step markers match on specific substrings and the first match wins. An unrelated line containing a common word does not move progress.
• Unmatched error lines are always shown. Unmatched non-error lines are hidden.
• The dark-mode choice persists across app restarts.
• A Python assert-based self-check covers line classification, step-marker matching and friendly-rule matching, including the "never hide an error" case.
• Skill eval on test project (b), a PyQt project with a step-marker bot: the skill doesn't ask the stack question, and the running page shows real steps and log lines.

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Resolved on branch integration/rpa-dashboard-skills (Oct 16, 2026). Tests: uv run --with pytest --with playwright pytest tests all green; skill eval results in tests/evals/results/.