[justgithubaccount]

Summary

• expose the existing manual real-backend integration check as npm run test:integration:backend
• align the check with the current FastAPI contract by verifying both user and assistant messages persist
• document that the check uses separately started sibling services and the loopback provider, and remains outside CI/live-provider execution

Validation

• typecheck, ESLint, 21 unit tests, formatting, and production build passed
• Playwright browser suite passed with installed Chrome: 19 tests
• automation proxy integration passed
• UI -> Next proxy -> real FastAPI -> loopback provider integration passed with persisted transcript
• npm audit: 0 findings
• actionlint passed

No UI GitOps deployment was invented; no provider, release, deployment, Kubernetes, or cloud operation was run.

Refs justgithubaccount/app-poly-gitops-infra#30
Refs justgithubaccount/app-poly-gitops-infra#27