Store pickup selection and a stalled verification step

The verdict Kane CLI returned

The reason line records what happened and where the fault sits:

• What Kane CLI observed - the agent produced no action for three consecutive steps.
• The verdict - the agent stalled after the checkout summary had already met the verification target.
• The classification - automation_bug, agent_misstep, at confidence 0.98.

An automation_bug verdict points at the test, not the product. The pickup store and the time slot were on the page; the final step kept looking for something it had already found. Nothing here is a reason to hold a release, and the run says that plainly instead of leaving a triage engineer to work it out.

The flow under test

The test adds a grocery item, opens checkout, picks a store by name and distance, picks a free slot, and then re-checks that the summary carries both choices.

---
mode: testing
url: https://my-testing-repo-main.vercel.app/walmart-clone-app?reset=true
max_steps: 45
tags: [walmart, e-commerce, pickup]
---

# Wallmark 4.1: Store pickup selection

Catalog objective: add an item, choose free pickup at a nearby store, and reach checkout.
Key assertion: pickup store and time slot are shown in the order summary.

## Add a grocery item
Click "Add to cart" on "Whole Milk, 1 gal" and verify the cart shows "Whole Milk, 1 gal" with a subtotal of "$3.64".

## Open checkout
Click "Continue to checkout" and verify the checkout page shows "Free pickup at store" selected and a "Pickup store" section.

## Choose a nearby store
Select "Wallmark Neighborhood Market - Ben White · 3.8 mi" as the pickup store and verify the store address shows "710 E Ben White Blvd, Austin TX".

## Choose a free pickup slot
Click "Today, 4pm - 5pm" and verify the order summary shows a pickup fee of "Free".

## Confirm the summary carries store and slot
Verify the order summary shows the pickup store "Wallmark Neighborhood Market - Ben White" and the pickup slot "Today, 4pm - 5pm".

The fifth step is the weak one. It asserts facts that steps three and four already established, which gives the agent nothing new to do and no clear finishing condition. Reproduce it with:

kane-cli testmd run tests/walmart/store-pickup_test.md

How the failure surfaced

Steps one through four passed in sequence, and the timings are unremarkable. The stall is recorded in place, with its own duration, so the cost of the failed attempt is visible.

---
test: ../store-pickup_test.md
status: failed
started: 2026-09-15T09:52:03.229Z
duration_s: 256
session_id: c34dff7c-bf10-4ee7-a9af-c267e5bf7512
---

# Wallmark 4.1: Store pickup selection - Result

## Add a grocery item ✓ passed (69.1s)
md5: 52916693251f56a1a3150bdc9db2313b
Click "Add to cart" on "Whole Milk, 1 gal" and verify the cart shows "Whole Milk, 1 gal" with a subtotal of "$3.64".

## Open checkout ✓ passed (40.4s)
md5: 9e41fffc775b251501385bf5341c6ab1
Click "Continue to checkout" and verify the checkout page shows "Free pickup at store" selected and a "Pickup store" section.

## Choose a nearby store ✓ passed (49.5s)
md5: 3eba33ce8fcff3edd751eaa78f141602
Select "Wallmark Neighborhood Market - Ben White · 3.8 mi" as the pickup store and verify the store address shows "710 E Ben White Blvd, Austin TX".

## Choose a free pickup slot ✓ passed (41.3s)
md5: b69f94fbd0ebbced667cff65d4c32d8c
Click "Today, 4pm - 5pm" and verify the order summary shows a pickup fee of "Free".

## Confirm the summary carries store and slot ✗ failed (47.2s)
md5: 656e0647c18638f75b2f75a1df747496
Reason: AP produced no action for 3 consecutive steps - bug verdict: Agent stalled after checkout summary met verification target [automation_bug/agent_misstep, confidence 0.98]
Verify the order summary shows the pickup store "Wallmark Neighborhood Market - Ben White" and the pickup slot "Today, 4pm - 5pm".

Kane CLI spent 47.2 seconds on the stalled step before giving up rather than hanging indefinitely. The three-consecutive-no-action rule is what ends it, which is why the run finished at 256 seconds instead of running to the step ceiling.

Fixing the test

The fix is in the test file, not the application. Fold the summary assertion into step four, where the slot is chosen and the summary is already on screen, so the flow ends on an action with a result rather than on a re-verification of settled state.

The general lesson applies to any agent-driven suite: a final step that only re-checks what earlier steps proved gives the agent no exit condition. How live page assertions work explains why checks are decided against the page, and evidence based QA for agentic runs covers reading these verdicts at scale.