PSA: app_shell has been removed from the bots/builders

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James Cook

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May 13, 2026, 5:31:38 PMMay 13
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TL;DR: I've removed the deprecated binary "app_shell" (and its test suite "app_shell_unittests") from the CQ/CI builders and testers. If you see failures please ping me or revert CLCL and  optionally CL.

app_shell was an experimental runtime for Chrome Apps. It was written ~10 years ago and never used in production. It supported extensions_browsertests, but that test suite was refactored away recently.

Our source tree is now 10K lines of code lighter.

Onward and upward,
James

Colin Blundell

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May 18, 2026, 2:59:53 AMMay 18
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Thanks for doing this work to lighten the maintenance burden of the codebase, James!

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