GH#2747: Harden abilities bootstrap

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Summary

Coordinate category registration in the page-global registry and preserve local ability fallback after third-party core hydration errors.

Files Changed

src/abilities/tests/registry.test.js, src/abilities/registry.js

Third-party ownership

The reported wpforms/list-forms registration is not defined by this plugin: git grep -n -i "wpforms" -- . ":(exclude)build" found only WPForms Lite form creation/event integration and no WordPress Ability registration. This change does not patch or hide the provider defect. It emits one actionable core-registration diagnostic, retains local Superdav callbacks/descriptors, and avoids repeating the failed core hydration request. The affected third-party provider version was not available in the production report; the remaining provider-category defect is handed off with the captured error text.

Runtime Testing

• Risk level: Medium
• Verification: focused Playwright client-abilities spec completed successfully; local fallback behavior is covered by Jest module-isolation tests.

Worker self-verification

• PHPUnit: Tests: 4461, Assertions: 20855, Errors: 0, Failures: 0, Skipped: 139, Incomplete: 4
• Lint: PHP/JS/CSS all clean
• PHPStan: 0 errors
• Build: succeeded
• Bundle: budgets passed

Resolves #2747

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Completion Summary

• What: Coordinate category registration in the page-global registry and preserve local ability fallback after third-party core hydration errors.
• Issue: Harden abilities bootstrap against duplicate and missing categories #2747
• Files changed: src/abilities/tests/registry.test.js, src/abilities/registry.js
• Testing: pnpm run test:js -- src/abilities/tests/registry.test.js --runInBand; pnpm run lint:js; pnpm run test:e2e:playwright -- tests/e2e/client-abilities.spec.js
• Key decisions: Record one diagnostic and stop retrying the broken WordPress core abilities store while retaining local callbacks and descriptors.

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📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

The abilities registry now shares category-registration state across bundles, records core registration failures, emits one warning, and preserves local ability callbacks and descriptors. Tests cover concurrent registration, provider failure, bounded retries, local execution, and descriptor snapshots.

Changes

Abilities bootstrap resilience

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Shared registry state and failure handling src/abilities/registry.js	The page-global registry now stores category-registration and core-failure state. Failed core registration emits one warning and prevents repeated core requests while local callbacks and descriptors remain available.
Cross-bundle bootstrap regression tests src/abilities/__tests__/registry.test.js	Tests verify one category-registration call across isolated module instances and verify local ability execution and descriptor visibility after provider failure.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes

Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: Medium

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 37e75

An invalid or duplicate ability registration can prevent later valid abilities from reaching the WordPress store. Scope failures to the affected registration before merging.

🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 4 | ❌ 1

❌ Failed checks (1 warning)

Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
Linked Issues check	⚠️ Warning	Issue #2747 requires regression and browser coverage for duplicate registration and malformed provider relationships. The registry changes implement page-global coordination, bounded failure handling,…	Add Playwright coverage for multiple Superdav bundles and a malformed third-party category. Assert one category-registration attempt, no duplicate-category error, retained local callbacks and descriptors, and bounded retries. Run and record…

✅ Passed checks (4 passed)

Check name	Status	Explanation
Out of Scope Changes check	✅ Passed	The diff is limited to src/abilities/registry.js and src/abilities/__tests__/registry.test.js. The changes directly support issue #2747 by coordinating page-global registration, preserving local f…
Docstring Coverage	✅ Passed	Docstring coverage is 100.00% which is sufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 4 functions across 2 files.
Description Check	✅ Passed	Check skipped - CodeRabbit’s high-level summary is enabled.
Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly and concisely describes the main change: hardening the abilities bootstrap. The issue reference is relevant and does not obscure the change.

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Explanation

Issue #2747 requires regression and browser coverage for duplicate registration and malformed provider relationships. The registry changes implement page-global coordination, bounded failure handling, local fallback preservation, and one diagnostic warning. The added Jest tests cover the duplicate and malformed-provider cases. However, the changed test file adds no browser scenario for two bundles or an absent third-party category. The recorded Playwright command covers the existing normal client-abilities flow. The supplied verification also does not record build, check:bundle, or verify.

Resolution

Add Playwright coverage for multiple Superdav bundles and a malformed third-party category. Assert one category-registration attempt, no duplicate-category error, retained local callbacks and descriptors, and bounded retries. Run and record the required build, bundle, and repository verification commands.

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In `@src/abilities/registry.js`:
- Around line 226-227: Update the registration error handling in the category
and ability registration flows, including registerAbility(), so individual
duplicate-category, validation, provider, or ability registration failures are
handled only for the affected operation and do not set coreRegistrationFailed.
Treat known duplicate categories as already registered, and set
coreRegistrationFailed only for category-hydration or store-wide failures.

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