test(e2e): skip TUI check without expect

Signed-off-by: Carlos Villela <cvillela@nvidia.com>

Author: cv

test/deepagents-code-tui-startup-check.test.ts

@@ -77,6 +77,22 @@ describe("Deep Agents Code TUI startup check helpers", () => {
     expect(result.stderr).not.toContain("expect is required");
   });
 
+  it("skips Deep Agents TUI exercise when expect is unavailable", () => {
+    const result = runTuiStartupCheckHelperResult(
+      [
+        "PASSED=0",
+        "FAILED=0",
+        "sandbox_exec() { printf 'NEMOCLAW_DCODE_PROBE:deepagents\\n'; }",
+        'command() { if [ "$1" = -v ] && [ "${2:-}" = expect ]; then return 1; fi; builtin command "$@"; }',
+        "main",
+      ].join("; "),
+    );
+
+    expect(result.status).toBe(0);
+    expect(result.stdout).toContain("SKIP: expect is required");
+    expect(result.stderr).not.toContain("FAIL");
+  });
+
   it("matches prompt-shaped TUI readiness text without accepting banner-only startup text", () => {
     const readiness = (capture: string) =>
       runTuiStartupCheckHelper(

test/e2e/e2e-cloud-experimental/checks/10-deepagents-code-tui-startup.sh

@@ -45,17 +45,7 @@ is_positive_integer() {
 }
 
 ensure_expect_available() {
-  if command -v expect >/dev/null 2>&1; then
-    return 0
-  fi
-  if [ "${GITHUB_ACTIONS:-}" = "true" ] && command -v sudo >/dev/null 2>&1 && command -v apt-get >/dev/null 2>&1; then
-    info "expect is not preinstalled; installing expect for the Deep Agents Code TUI PTY check"
-    if sudo apt-get update -qq && sudo apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends expect; then
-      command -v expect >/dev/null 2>&1
-      return $?
-    fi
-  fi
-  return 1
+  command -v expect >/dev/null 2>&1
 }
 
 contains_secret() {
@@ -234,9 +224,8 @@ main() {
   esac
 
   if ! ensure_expect_available; then
-    fail_test "expect is required for the Deep Agents Code TUI startup check"
-    printf '%s\n' "${PREFIX}: $PASSED passed, $FAILED failed"
-    exit 1
+    info "SKIP: expect is required for the Deep Agents Code TUI startup check"
+    exit 0
   fi
 
   local capture_dir raw_capture_file expect_log_file combined_capture_file plain_capture_file