test(expo): add the Expo host of the e2e tests, their CI, and the verify-clerk-expo skill

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Description

This is the third of four pull requests that replace the eleven of stack #10100. It sits on #10236, and #10238 sits on it. It holds the parts of #10087, #10090, and #10131 that are this repository's own, apart from the e2e tests in #10236.

With this pull request, integration/expo-native/bin/control-clerk-expo runs. It builds the expo-native fixture from #10235 on SDK 58, takes a simulator or an emulator, creates a Clerk development application for the worktree, runs the e2e tests from #10236, and keeps a video, screenshots, and logs of each run. On a machine that cannot run the device, it borrows one on a GitHub Actions runner. CI runs every e2e test on both platforms for a pull request that is ready for review.

Paths that begin src/, bin/, or test/ are inside integration/expo-native/.

• src/host.ts answers what the shared core asks of a platform.
• src/fixture.ts builds the fixture as a Debug dev client for a device on this machine, or as a Release app with its JS inside for a runner.
• src/native-build.ts keys a native build on what decides it, and puts new JS into a kept build.
• src/freshness.ts checks that the build of packages/expo is not older than its sources.
• src/platform/session-device.ts is the device recipe of a borrowed session.
• verify-e2e.yml runs every e2e test on iOS and Android. verify-remote.yml runs one borrowed-device session. bin/fetch-native-build.sh and bin/boot-ios-simulators.sh are steps that both use.
• .claude/skills/verify-clerk-expo/, its Cursor symlink, and the Verifying changes sections of AGENTS.md and packages/expo/AGENTS.md are the skill an agent follows to run it.
• The rest is the unit tests of the above. Three of them read the workflow files. test/remote-contract.test.ts is a copy from clerk-ios.

To review, read .claude/skills/verify-clerk-expo/SKILL.md first for what the CLI does, then src/host.ts, src/fixture.ts, and src/native-build.ts, then the two workflows. Apart from remote-contract.test.ts, nothing here is copied or generated. The changesets are empty. No published package changes.

What needs attention:

• verify-e2e.yml starts on a pull request to main that changes the package, the fixture, or an Expo package, and by hand. A draft, a pull request from a fork, and a repository without the secret get a notice and no device job. The device job runs the pull request's code with contents: read, actions: read, and pull-requests: write, and gives MOBILE_VERIFICATION_PLATFORM_API_KEY only to the steps that call up, run, and down. It uploads evidence only when the CLI found no secret value in the run.
• verify-e2e.yml keeps the native app it built as an artifact for seven days, named by its native fingerprint. A later job, or a session, takes one only from a run of the same branch of this repository, never from a fork. Artifacts of this repository are public, so a session stores none of its own.
• verify-remote.yml starts only by workflow_dispatch, which needs write access. It uses no secret, and its jobs have contents: read, with actions: read added for the session job. A session builds the pushed commit, or that commit with the uncommitted changes to the app sources that the CLI sends as one patch. Every route of its tunnel needs a bearer token that the CLI made. The tunnel is a Cloudflare quick tunnel, so Cloudflare can read the traffic, which includes sign-in tickets for test users of an application that down deletes.
• src/native-build.ts exports the JS from the checkout, compiles it with the fixture's hermesc, and puts it in a copy of a kept app. The build fails unless the app then holds exactly that bundle.

npm test in integration/expo-native/ passes 917 of 917 on this branch, and npm run typecheck is clean. The device suite passed on this stack's top commit (e828e76619) in run 39276831929: iOS 17 of 17, Android 16 of 16. One Android test passed on its second try, after the first launch of a cold emulator took longer than 60 seconds to show the home.

Example evidence. One test from the device run on this stack's top commit (run 39276831929): native-auth-view/complete.e2e.ts, "signs in through AuthView with the email code". It opens the native AuthView from the fixture's home, signs in a throwaway +clerk_test user with the test code, and checks the home shows that user. The full video, screenshots and logs of every test are the run's verify-e2e-ios and verify-e2e-android artifacts.

	iOS	Android
code-screen
signed-in

iOS	Android
expo-ios-authview-sign-in.mp4	expo-android-authview-sign-in.mp4

Checklist

• pnpm test runs as expected.
• pnpm build runs as expected.
• (If applicable) JSDoc comments have been added or updated for any package exports
• (If applicable) Documentation has been updated

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• 🐛 Bug fix
• 🌟 New feature
• 🔨 Breaking change
• 📖 Refactoring / dependency upgrade / documentation
• other: test

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📝 Walkthrough

The pull request adds an Expo Native verification system for iOS simulators and Android emulators, with local and remote execution paths. It adds standalone fixture builds, native-build caching, workspace and served-bundle freshness checks, and CI workflows for end-to-end tests and remote sessions. It also adds tests, CLI and feature documentation, evidence-handling guidance, and repository verification instructions.

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🟢 e2e android: 16 passed

All 16 tests in 12 files

	Test	Time
🟢	specs/features/custom-flow-sign-in/complete.e2e.ts · 1 passed	46.8s
🟢	useSignIn completes with the email code	46.8s
🟢	specs/features/custom-flow-sign-up/complete.e2e.ts · 1 passed	37.8s
🟢	useSignUp completes with the email code	37.8s
🟢	specs/features/native-auth-view/complete.e2e.ts · 1 passed	46.7s
🟢	signs in through AuthView with the email code	46.7s
🟢	specs/features/native-auth-view/logo.e2e.ts · 1 passed	46.5s
🟢	signs in with a password through the AuthView that has a logo, after it closed and reopened	46.5s
🟢	specs/features/native-auth-view/opens.e2e.ts · 2 passed	24.4s
🟢	the home full-screen sign-in button shows AuthView with no close button	9.1s
🟢	closing the AuthView that the home opened returns to the home	15.3s
🟢	specs/features/native-js-sync/sign-in-from-native.e2e.ts · 2 passed	1m 44s
🟢	a native password sign-in reaches the JS hooks and survives a relaunch	46.8s
🟢	a second native sign-in in the same process reaches the JS hooks	57.6s
🟢	specs/features/native-js-sync/sign-out-from-native.e2e.ts · 1 passed	18.7s
🟢	signing out in the native profile signs out the JS hooks	18.7s
🟢	specs/features/native-modules/biometric-availability.e2e.ts · 1 passed	10.5s
🟢	useBiometricCredentials reports what the expo-biometrics native module found on the device	10.5s
🟢	specs/features/native-modules/google-sign-in.e2e.ts · 1 passed	16.2s
🟢	useSignInWithGoogle opens the native Google sign-in, and cancelling it on iOS ends the flow with no session	16.2s
🟢	specs/features/token-cache-persistence/relaunch.e2e.ts · 1 passed	30.1s
🟢	the token cache keeps the session across a relaunch, and a new scope starts signed out	30.1s
🟢	specs/features/user-button-and-profile/embedded-profile.e2e.ts · 2 passed	32.6s
🟢	onHostBack closes the embedded profile after native navigation	20.0s
🟢	a custom page renders React Native content inside the embedded profile	12.5s
🟢	specs/features/user-button-and-profile/profile.e2e.ts · 2 passed	29.3s
🟢	the home UserButton opens the profile of the signed-in user	17.0s
🟢	the home sign-out button ends the session	12.3s

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🟢 e2e ios: 17 passed

All 17 tests in 12 files

	Test	Time
🟢	specs/features/custom-flow-sign-in/complete.e2e.ts · 1 passed	2m 8s
🟢	useSignIn completes with the email code	2m 8s
🟢	specs/features/custom-flow-sign-up/complete.e2e.ts · 1 passed	38.5s
🟢	useSignUp completes with the email code	38.5s
🟢	specs/features/native-auth-view/complete.e2e.ts · 1 passed	37.1s
🟢	signs in through AuthView with the email code	37.1s
🟢	specs/features/native-auth-view/logo.e2e.ts · 1 passed	56.0s
🟢	signs in with a password through the AuthView that has a logo, after it closed and reopened	56.0s
🟢	specs/features/native-auth-view/opens.e2e.ts · 3 passed	24.2s
🟢	the home full-screen sign-in button shows AuthView with no close button	6.3s
🟢	closing the AuthView that the home opened returns to the home	11.9s
🟢	the close button of a full-screen AuthView returns to the home	6.1s
🟢	specs/features/native-js-sync/sign-in-from-native.e2e.ts · 2 passed	2m 16s
🟢	a native password sign-in reaches the JS hooks and survives a relaunch	55.9s
🟢	a second native sign-in in the same process reaches the JS hooks	1m 20s
🟢	specs/features/native-js-sync/sign-out-from-native.e2e.ts · 1 passed	13.7s
🟢	signing out in the native profile signs out the JS hooks	13.7s
🟢	specs/features/native-modules/biometric-availability.e2e.ts · 1 passed	5.6s
🟢	useBiometricCredentials reports what the expo-biometrics native module found on the device	5.6s
🟢	specs/features/native-modules/google-sign-in.e2e.ts · 1 passed	13.9s
🟢	useSignInWithGoogle opens the native Google sign-in, and cancelling it on iOS ends the flow with no session	13.9s
🟢	specs/features/token-cache-persistence/relaunch.e2e.ts · 1 passed	17.0s
🟢	the token cache keeps the session across a relaunch, and a new scope starts signed out	17.0s
🟢	specs/features/user-button-and-profile/embedded-profile.e2e.ts · 2 passed	22.1s
🟢	onHostBack closes the embedded profile after native navigation	12.1s
🟢	a custom page renders React Native content inside the embedded profile	10.0s
🟢	specs/features/user-button-and-profile/profile.e2e.ts · 2 passed	16.2s
🟢	the home UserButton opens the profile of the signed-in user	9.7s
🟢	the home sign-out button ends the session	6.6s

_{e2e 0.18.0 · 8m 34s · ios · run artifacts}