Tell Agents that E2E tests manage their own lifecycle

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Why is this change necessary?

Claude is constantly trying to spin up services before running E2E tests

How does this change address the issue?

Updates AGENTS.md

Summary by CodeRabbit

• Documentation
  • Clarified that end-to-end tests automatically start and stop required application services, eliminating manual setup.
• Compatibility
  • Updated the minimum supported Faker version to 40.35.0 to ensure consistent template behavior.

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📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

Updates E2E testing guidance to use harness-managed services and raises the minimum python_faker_version constraint from >=40.28.1 to >=40.35.0.

Changes

Template maintenance

Layer / File(s)	Summary
E2E service lifecycle guidance AGENTS.md	Adds guidance that E2E tests should not manually start services because session fixtures manage service startup and teardown.
Python Faker version constraint extensions/context.py	Raises the python_faker_version minimum requirement to >=40.35.0.

Estimated code review effort: 1 (Trivial) | ~2 minutes

Possibly related PRs

• LabAutomationAndScreening/copier-base-template#137: Updates related testing guidance and ContextUpdater.hook() context values.
• LabAutomationAndScreening/copier-base-template#139: Updates related testing guidance and template context version values.

Suggested reviewers: zendern, idonaldson

🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 4 | ❌ 1

❌ Failed checks (1 warning)

Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
Description check	⚠️ Warning	The description only fills two template sections and omits link, side effects, testing, and other details.	Add the missing template sections, especially issue/thread link, side effects, how it was tested, and any other relevant notes.

✅ Passed checks (4 passed)

Check name	Status	Explanation
Docstring Coverage	✅ Passed	No functions found in the changed files to evaluate docstring coverage. Skipping docstring coverage check.
Linked Issues check	✅ Passed	Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Out of Scope Changes check	✅ Passed	Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly matches the main change: updating AGENTS guidance so E2E tests manage their own lifecycle.

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Actionable comments posted: 1

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Inline comments:
In `@extensions/context.py`:
- Line 66: Update the python_faker_version assignment in the context setup to
use a Faker version currently published on PyPI, such as >=40.32.0, or match the
existing lockfile version; do not require >=40.35.0 until that release exists.

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📒 Files selected for processing (2)

• AGENTS.md
• extensions/context.py