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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThis change adds server-hosted Chromium previews for web and mobile clients. The server manages browser tabs, automation, recordings, and authenticated preview streams. Preview contracts and environment capabilities identify server-runtime tabs, while client interfaces display and control their streams. ChangesServer-hosted browser previews
Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~60 minutes Change: Feature Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant PreviewClient
participant ServerBrowserStream
participant ServerBrowser
participant Chromium
PreviewClient->>ServerBrowserStream: Open authenticated preview WebSocket
ServerBrowserStream->>ServerBrowser: Attach viewer for thread and tab
ServerBrowser->>Chromium: Capture frames and dispatch input
Chromium-->>ServerBrowser: Return screencast frames
ServerBrowser-->>ServerBrowserStream: Send viewer output
ServerBrowserStream-->>PreviewClient: Forward frames and viewport
PreviewClient->>ServerBrowserStream: Send preview input
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Review comments at @apps/mobile/src/features/browser/PreviewStreamWebView.tsx:
- Around line 81-94: Update the onUnauthorized handler in PreviewStreamWebView
to stop retrying after a bounded number of consecutive refusals and call
fail(...) so the existing error UI and Reconnect button appear. Preserve the
current retry backoff for attempts below the limit.
Review comments at @apps/server/src/preview/ServerBrowser.ts:
- Around line 1059-1072: Move the declarations of framesInFlight,
mayHaveDropped, motion, recentFrames, screencastParams, quality, and
startScreencast above the ViewerState object so its pause and resume callbacks
cannot access them before initialization when the viewer is registered.
- Around line 1186-1211: Update the server-host connection flow around
broker.connect to repeat registration whenever the event stream ends, clearing
hostConnectionId between attempts so stale IDs are not retained. Also give
evaluate’s Runtime.evaluate operation a deadline shorter than the broker
timeout.
Review comments at @apps/web/src/browser/serverPictureInPicture.ts:
- Line 136: Add an exponential retry backoff and a fixed attempt limit to the
`onUnauthorized` callback in `connect`; close the server picture-in-picture
window when the limit is reached. Reset the failure count when `painter.paint`
receives a frame, and clear any pending retry timer in `stop`.
Review comments at @apps/web/src/components/ChatView.tsx:
- Around line 5131-5139: Prevent the server-preview baseline from being recorded
while the initial preview list is still pending. Expose a loaded flag when the
first authoritative list result is applied, and have the baseline-recording
effect in ChatView wait for that flag before reading activePreviewState.sessions
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- Line 1: Add src/features/browser/preview-stream.browser.ts to the mobile Knip
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- Around line 888-894: Update createTab to retain the initial page.goto
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- Around line 577-580: Update handleKey to provide a keyboard-only way to
release focus from the page input, such as Escape with a modifier; blur the
input on keydown and do not forward that key to the page. Keep forwarding Tab so
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🟠 Major · Route existing-tab operations to the tab owner before applying… · PreviewAutomationBroker.ts:532
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick winRoute existing-tab operations to the tab owner before applying host preference.
When a new provider session has no
tabId, the sort can choose the preferred server host before checking which host owns a live tab for the thread. The server host can then reportavailable: falseor fail a tab action withPreviewAutomationTabNotFoundError. The assignment pins that session to the server host. Prefer live-tab owners for operations that target an existing tab, while keeping the current preference foropenoperations.Suggested routing fix
Number(input.tabId !== undefined && ownsTargetTab(right)) - Number(input.tabId !== undefined && ownsTargetTab(left)) || + Number(input.operation !== "open" && ownsTargetTab(right, true)) - + Number(input.operation !== "open" && ownsTargetTab(left, true)) || + Number(input.operation !== "open" && ownsTargetTab(right)) - + Number(input.operation !== "open" && ownsTargetTab(left)) || Number(right.preferred) - Number(left.preferred) || - Number(ownsTargetTab(right, true)) - Number(ownsTargetTab(left, true)) || - Number(ownsTargetTab(right)) - Number(ownsTargetTab(left)) || Number(right.focused) - Number(left.focused) ||🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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- Around line 510-513: Update the initialNavigation rejection handler in
ServerBrowser.open so a failed page.goto propagates to open instead of resolving
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- Line 192: Update the close-event handling in serverBrowserStream so pre-open
1006 closes remain retryable and do not trigger onUnauthorized(); keep confirmed
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🟠 Major · Do not retry without Chromium’s sandbox. · ServerBrowser.ts:250-341
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🔒 Security & Privacy | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick winDo not retry without Chromium’s sandbox.
When
launch(true)fails, the code retries withchromiumSandbox: false. Thepreview_navigatetool accepts public URLs and routes them to this browser. If page content compromises Chromium, the unsandboxed process can access files available to the environment-server account. The repository defines the environment—not each project—as the filesystem boundary. Fail the launch when Chromium’s sandbox is unavailable.Suggested fix
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- Line 3449: Move the runtime selection and request rewriting from the WebSocket
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| ServerBrowserPage.captureViewport(tab.page, session, { | ||
| format: "jpeg", | ||
| quality, | ||
| scale: 1, |
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🟠 High preview/ServerBrowser.ts:1385
pushStill sends an unscaled full-viewport JPEG, so a viewer requesting smaller input.maxWidth/input.maxHeight receives a frame larger than its stream bounds and can exceed the 8 MiB socket budget before capped screencast frames begin. Compute the capture scale from the current viewport dimensions and the requested bounds instead of always using scale: 1.
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`pushStill` sends an unscaled full-viewport JPEG, so a viewer requesting smaller `input.maxWidth`/`input.maxHeight` receives a frame larger than its stream bounds and can exceed the 8 MiB socket budget before capped screencast frames begin. Compute the capture scale from the current viewport dimensions and the requested bounds instead of always using `scale: 1`.
| // The stream only ends on `gone`, so it replaces a stalled backlog. | ||
| else if (next._tag === "gone" || next._tag === "control") { | ||
| runFork( | ||
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🟡 Medium preview/ServerBrowser.ts:1341
A viewer can receive an older control update after a newer one and remain on stale owner/dialog state until another broadcast. Each replacement starts an independent runFork; while the first waits for dropped frame acknowledgements, a later update can clear the queue and enqueue its newer state, then the first fiber enqueues the older state afterward. Serialize these replacements or discard a replacement when a newer control generation is already queued.
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A viewer can receive an older `control` update after a newer one and remain on stale owner/dialog state until another broadcast. Each replacement starts an independent `runFork`; while the first waits for dropped frame acknowledgements, a later update can clear the queue and enqueue its newer state, then the first fiber enqueues the older state afterward. Serialize these replacements or discard a replacement when a newer control generation is already queued.
| [WS_METHODS.previewClearProfile]: (input) => | ||
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🟠 High src/ws.ts:3497
previewClearProfile can delete a profile directory after a replacement contextFor(profileId) has already opened it. Because clearProfile removes the old context before close() and rm() finish, a concurrent server-tab open can create a new Chromium context in the same directory, whose cookies and storage are then erased. Serialize profile clears with context creation, or retain a per-profile tombstone until cleanup completes.
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clearProfileremoves the profile's entry fromcontextsbefore it has closed the old context or removed its directory. A concurrentcontextFor(profileId)can therefore start a new persistent Chromium context for the same directory; this call then closes/removes the old directory after the new context has begun using it. For example, a second client reopening the profile while another client clears it can have its newly created cookies/storage deleted (and can leave Chromium using a removed profile directory). Keep a per-profile clear/create lock or retain a tombstone untilclose()andrm()finish.
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`previewClearProfile` can delete a profile directory after a replacement `contextFor(profileId)` has already opened it. Because `clearProfile` removes the old context before `close()` and `rm()` finish, a concurrent server-tab open can create a new Chromium context in the same directory, whose cookies and storage are then erased. Serialize profile clears with context creation, or retain a per-profile tombstone until cleanup completes.
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- apps/server/src/preview/ServerBrowserContexts.ts:110 -- `clearProfile` removes the profile's entry from `contexts` before it has closed the old context or removed its directory. A concurrent `contextFor(profileId)` can therefore start a new persistent Chromium context for the same directory; this call then closes/removes the old directory after the new context has begun using it. For example, a second client reopening the profile while another client clears it can have its newly created cookies/storage deleted (and can leave Chromium using a removed profile directory). Keep a per-profile clear/create lock or retain a tombstone until `close()` and `rm()` finish.
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🟡 Medium settings/IntegrationsSettings.tsx:153
The ordinary “Clear cookies and cache” action now calls server.clear, which closes every open server tab using the profile before deleting its storage and can discard in-page work. This action has no warning or confirmation; restrict server.clear to the profile-removal path or add an equivalent confirmation before invoking it.
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The ordinary “Clear cookies and cache” action now calls `server.clear`, which closes every open server tab using the profile before deleting its storage and can discard in-page work. This action has no warning or confirmation; restrict `server.clear` to the profile-removal path or add an equivalent confirmation before invoking it.
| const id = NodeCrypto.randomUUID(); | ||
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🟠 High preview/ServerBrowser.ts:683
Downloads larger than DOWNLOAD_MAX_BYTES are fully written to disk before the limit is checked, so a multi-GB download can exhaust the environment's storage despite the advertised 1 GiB cap. download.failure() waits for completion and download.saveAs(path) copies the completed file, making the deletion at line 688 too late; enforce or cancel the size limit while streaming, before persisting the full download.
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Downloads larger than `DOWNLOAD_MAX_BYTES` are fully written to disk before the limit is checked, so a multi-GB download can exhaust the environment's storage despite the advertised 1 GiB cap. `download.failure()` waits for completion and `download.saveAs(path)` copies the completed file, making the deletion at line 688 too late; enforce or cancel the size limit while streaming, before persisting the full download.
| const connect = () => { | ||
| client?.stop(); | ||
| control = null; | ||
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🟡 Medium browser/preview-stream.browser.ts:157
When a larger frame cap causes connect() to replace an active client, the native UI remains streaming and shows the previous You have control state until the new socket reports back; if it never connects, that stale state persists while commands are dropped. client.stop() suppresses the old disconnect callback, and this path clears control only locally without reporting either state change. Report connecting and a null control state before stopping the old client.
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When a larger frame cap causes `connect()` to replace an active client, the native UI remains `streaming` and shows the previous `You have control` state until the new socket reports back; if it never connects, that stale state persists while commands are dropped. `client.stop()` suppresses the old disconnect callback, and this path clears `control` only locally without reporting either state change. Report `connecting` and a null control state before stopping the old client.
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Strong +1 from a user this would directly help. My setup: As a workaround I'm running the Linux desktop Happy to test a build on this setup (Linux x64, headless, T3 Connect) if that helps get it verified. |
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| const runOperation = async (request: PreviewAutomationRequest): Promise<unknown> => { | ||
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🟡 Medium preview/ServerBrowser.ts:1251
A second preview_open({}) creates a new tab instead of reusing the agent session's current tab, and subsequent tab-less opens then fail with tabRequired. existing is only resolved when request.tabId is defined; resolve latestThreadTab(...) when reuse is enabled without an explicit tabId.
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- reuse && request.tabId !== undefined
- ? await Effect.runPromise(
- findTab(request.threadId, request.tabId).pipe(
- Effect.catchTag("ServerBrowserTabNotFoundError", () => Effect.succeed(undefined)),
- ),
- )
- : undefined;
+ const existing =
+ reuse
+ ? request.tabId === undefined
+ ? latestThreadTab(request.threadId, request.agentSessionId)
+ : await Effect.runPromise(
+ findTab(request.threadId, request.tabId).pipe(
+ Effect.catchTag("ServerBrowserTabNotFoundError", () => Effect.succeed(undefined)),
+ ),
+ )
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A second `preview_open({})` creates a new tab instead of reusing the agent session's current tab, and subsequent tab-less opens then fail with `tabRequired`. `existing` is only resolved when `request.tabId` is defined; resolve `latestThreadTab(...)` when reuse is enabled without an explicit `tabId`.
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When the viewer output queue is full, a fileChooser notification is discarded, so the controlling viewer never receives the chooser id and cannot answer the pending file selection. Add fileChooser to the replacement/priority notifications so it is queued after the backlog is cleared.
- else if (next._tag === "gone" || next._tag === "control") {
+ else if (
+ next._tag === "gone" ||
+ next._tag === "control" ||
+ next._tag === "fileChooser"
+ ) {🤖 Copy this AI Prompt to have your agent fix this:
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When the viewer output queue is full, a `fileChooser` notification is discarded, so the controlling viewer never receives the chooser id and cannot answer the pending file selection. Add `fileChooser` to the replacement/priority notifications so it is queued after the backlog is cleared.
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Concurrent open requests can create more than SERVER_TAB_LIMIT renderer tabs, and a single agent can exceed AGENT_TAB_LIMIT (8), because atTabLimit counts pendingTabs only for the global check and never counts that agent's pending entries; reservations are added only after manager.open awaits. Reserve each pending open before the first await and include per-agent reservations so the 32-tab resource guard remains effective.
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Concurrent `open` requests can create more than `SERVER_TAB_LIMIT` renderer tabs, and a single agent can exceed `AGENT_TAB_LIMIT` (8), because `atTabLimit` counts `pendingTabs` only for the global check and never counts that agent's pending entries; reservations are added only after `manager.open` awaits. Reserve each pending open before the first await and include per-agent reservations so the 32-tab resource guard remains effective.
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An expression such as new Promise(() => {}) permanently blocks the serialized control queue, so later agent actions and takeover/release never run until the tab is closed. Because awaitPromise defaults to true and this Runtime.evaluate call sends no timeout, CDP waits indefinitely; pass a bounded evaluation timeout and translate expiry into PreviewAutomationTimeoutError, or make the evaluation cancellable.
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An expression such as `new Promise(() => {})` permanently blocks the serialized control queue, so later agent actions and takeover/release never run until the tab is closed. Because `awaitPromise` defaults to `true` and this `Runtime.evaluate` call sends no timeout, CDP waits indefinitely; pass a bounded evaluation timeout and translate expiry into `PreviewAutomationTimeoutError`, or make the evaluation cancellable.
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| const actualBytes = Buffer.byteLength(JSON.stringify(value ?? null), "utf8"); |
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The 64 KB check does not protect the server from oversized evaluation results: with the default returnByValue: true, an expression such as "x".repeat(1024 * 1024 * 1024) is fully serialized and transferred by CDP before Buffer.byteLength can reject it, allowing the request to exhaust server memory. Enforce a size bound in the browser before by-value serialization, or avoid by-value serialization for unbounded results.
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The 64 KB check does not protect the server from oversized evaluation results: with the default `returnByValue: true`, an expression such as `"x".repeat(1024 * 1024 * 1024)` is fully serialized and transferred by CDP before `Buffer.byteLength` can reject it, allowing the request to exhaust server memory. Enforce a size bound in the browser before by-value serialization, or avoid by-value serialization for unbounded results.
| const url = open.url === undefined ? undefined : normalizePreviewUrl(open.url); | ||
| const reuse = open.reuseExistingTab ?? true; | ||
| if ( | ||
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Concurrent default preview_open requests both pass this check before either tab is added to tabs, so reuseExistingTab creates duplicate tabs for the same agent. The requests are forked concurrently and the in-flight tab is tracked in pendingTabs, which this count ignores; serialize/coalesce reuse opens or include matching pending opens in the lookup to prevent duplicate tabs and later tabRequired failures.
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Concurrent default `preview_open` requests both pass this check before either tab is added to `tabs`, so `reuseExistingTab` creates duplicate tabs for the same agent. The requests are forked concurrently and the in-flight tab is tracked in `pendingTabs`, which this count ignores; serialize/coalesce reuse opens or include matching pending opens in the lookup to prevent duplicate tabs and later `tabRequired` failures.
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| }); | ||
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When a click opens a dialog, this branch lets the queued operation finish while locator.click() is still waiting for post-dialog navigation, so the next operation can run against the old document and target the wrong page. Await clicked after the dialog is resolved so subsequent operations remain ordered behind the click and navigation.
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When a click opens a dialog, this branch lets the queued operation finish while `locator.click()` is still waiting for post-dialog navigation, so the next operation can run against the old document and target the wrong page. Await `clicked` after the dialog is resolved so subsequent operations remain ordered behind the click and navigation.
| path: `/${secret}`, | ||
| }).pipe(Effect.orDie); | ||
| const queue = yield* Queue.unbounded<string>(); | ||
| inbound.set(id, queue); |
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When a tab detaches between awaitAttached and endpoint, endpoint still returns a WebSocket URL whose CDP commands are discarded, so connectOverCDP waits for its timeout and the preview remains unavailable. The detach handler runs before inbound.set, so it cannot shut down this newly created queue; recheck attachedTabs after registering the queue and abort the endpoint if the tab is already detached.
- inbound.set(id, queue);
+ inbound.set(id, queue);
+ if (!attachedTabs.has(id)) {
+ yield* Queue.shutdown(queue);
+ return yield* Effect.die("Desktop tab detached before the endpoint connected.");
+ }🤖 Copy this AI Prompt to have your agent fix this:
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When a tab detaches between `awaitAttached` and `endpoint`, `endpoint` still returns a WebSocket URL whose CDP commands are discarded, so `connectOverCDP` waits for its timeout and the preview remains unavailable. The detach handler runs before `inbound.set`, so it cannot shut down this newly created queue; recheck `attachedTabs` after registering the queue and abort the endpoint if the tab is already detached.
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serverBrowser: true enables server previews on macOS and Windows even though ServerBrowserToolchain does not install a pinned browser there. Without a system browser or Playwright cache, the first tab fails with ServerBrowserNotFoundError and the stream route returns 503; advertise this capability only when a usable browser runtime is available, or provide the browser installation on those platforms.
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`serverBrowser: true` enables server previews on macOS and Windows even though `ServerBrowserToolchain` does not install a pinned browser there. Without a system browser or Playwright cache, the first tab fails with `ServerBrowserNotFoundError` and the stream route returns 503; advertise this capability only when a usable browser runtime is available, or provide the browser installation on those platforms.
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Downloads initiated by an agent in a native <webview> are no longer saved in the server-side download directory, so saveDownload cannot offer or list them and Electron may show its native download UI instead. getBrowserSession no longer installs the will-download handler, while the CDP relay only acknowledges Browser.setDownloadBehavior without applying its requested path; retain an equivalent handler or forwarding path for serverTabs.
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Downloads initiated by an agent in a native `<webview>` are no longer saved in the server-side download directory, so `saveDownload` cannot offer or list them and Electron may show its native download UI instead. `getBrowserSession` no longer installs the `will-download` handler, while the CDP relay only acknowledges `Browser.setDownloadBehavior` without applying its requested path; retain an equivalent handler or forwarding path for `serverTab`s.
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| if (command.value.type === "release") { | ||
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release allows replies from the discarded relay to be emitted after a reconnect, so a delayed CDP response can enter the new connection's queue and satisfy a reused request id or corrupt the new session. Because relayFor emits without checking that the relay is still current, gate relay output by a generation or current-relay identity when releasing and recreating it.
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In file @apps/desktop/src/preview/DesktopBrowserHost.ts around line 149:
`release` allows replies from the discarded relay to be emitted after a reconnect, so a delayed CDP response can enter the new connection's queue and satisfy a reused request id or corrupt the new session. Because `relayFor` emits without checking that the relay is still current, gate relay output by a generation or current-relay identity when releasing and recreating it.
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announceAll never re-announces tabs attached after the host is created, so a backend restart loses those native tab attachments. [...tabs.values()] is evaluated while constructing the service, when tabs is empty; defer this iteration until the effect is run with Effect.suspend.
- announceAll: Effect.forEach(
- [...tabs.values()],
- (tab) => {
- tab.relay = null;
- return PubSub.publish(outbox, { type: "attached", ...tab.key });
- },
- { discard: true },
- ),
+ announceAll: Effect.suspend(() =>
+ Effect.forEach(
+ [...tabs.values()],
+ (tab) => {
+ tab.relay = null;
+ return PubSub.publish(outbox, { type: "attached", ...tab.key });
+ },
+ { discard: true },
+ ),
+ ),🤖 Copy this AI Prompt to have your agent fix this:
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`announceAll` never re-announces tabs attached after the host is created, so a backend restart loses those native tab attachments. `[...tabs.values()]` is evaluated while constructing the service, when `tabs` is empty; defer this iteration until the effect is run with `Effect.suspend`.
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After a backend restart, already-attached native webviews are not announced to the new server, so their CDP relays cannot be created until each webview detaches and reattaches. Stream.concat runs desktopBrowserHost.announceAll before subscribing to desktopBrowserHost.events, causing those PubSub messages to be discarded; subscribe before publishing the snapshot or emit the initial records directly through the writer stream.
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announceAllpublishes the reattach events intooutboxbeforeeventsis subscribed: the backend builds its writer asStream.concat(Stream.fromEffectDrain(desktopBrowserHost.announceAll), desktopBrowserHost.events), so the first stream completes beforeStream.fromPubSub(outbox)establishes a subscriber. Effect's PubSub docs state that a subscriber receives only messages published while actively subscribed. Consequently, when the backend restarts while native tabs are already attached, every re-announcement is discarded; the new server never records those tabs as attached and cannot reconnect/playwright-drive them until a webview happens to detach and attach again. Subscribe before publishing (or emit the initial attached records directly through the writer stream).
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In file @apps/desktop/src/backend/DesktopBackendManager.ts around line 950:
After a backend restart, already-attached native webviews are not announced to the new server, so their CDP relays cannot be created until each webview detaches and reattaches. `Stream.concat` runs `desktopBrowserHost.announceAll` before subscribing to `desktopBrowserHost.events`, causing those PubSub messages to be discarded; subscribe before publishing the snapshot or emit the initial records directly through the writer stream.
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- apps/desktop/src/preview/DesktopBrowserHost.ts:167 -- `announceAll` publishes the reattach events into `outbox` before `events` is subscribed: the backend builds its writer as `Stream.concat(Stream.fromEffectDrain(desktopBrowserHost.announceAll), desktopBrowserHost.events)`, so the first stream completes before `Stream.fromPubSub(outbox)` establishes a subscriber. Effect's PubSub docs state that a subscriber receives only messages published while actively subscribed. Consequently, when the backend restarts while native tabs are already attached, every re-announcement is discarded; the new server never records those tabs as attached and cannot reconnect/playwright-drive them until a webview happens to detach and attach again. Subscribe before publishing (or emit the initial attached records directly through the writer stream).
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| if (afterAttach.serverTab) { | ||
| yield* listenForAgentPointers; | ||
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Closing a server-backed tab leaves DesktopBrowserHost registered, so the server continues routing CDP commands to the detached guest and subsequent actions fail. closeTabUnlocked removes the tab from tabsRef before detachControlSession runs, so this lookup cannot find serverTab to emit the matching detached event. Capture closedTab.serverTab before removal or pass it explicitly to cleanup.
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Providing
DesktopBrowserHostmakes server-driven tabs attach to the relay, but closing such a tab never withdraws it.closeTabUnlockeddeletes the tab fromtabsRefbefore callingdetachControlSession; that function's new host-detach loop only finds entries still present intabsRef, so it emits nodetachedevent and leaves the relay registered against a debugger that has just been detached. Closing/detaching a native desktop view therefore leaves the server believing it can drive that tab, and subsequent CDP commands fail rather than falling back/reconnecting the server tab.
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In file @apps/desktop/src/preview/Manager.ts around line 2293:
Closing a server-backed tab leaves `DesktopBrowserHost` registered, so the server continues routing CDP commands to the detached guest and subsequent actions fail. `closeTabUnlocked` removes the tab from `tabsRef` before `detachControlSession` runs, so this lookup cannot find `serverTab` to emit the matching `detached` event. Capture `closedTab.serverTab` before removal or pass it explicitly to cleanup.
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- apps/desktop/src/main.ts:161 -- Providing `DesktopBrowserHost` makes server-driven tabs attach to the relay, but closing such a tab never withdraws it. `closeTabUnlocked` deletes the tab from `tabsRef` before calling `detachControlSession`; that function's new host-detach loop only finds entries still present in `tabsRef`, so it emits no `detached` event and leaves the relay registered against a debugger that has just been detached. Closing/detaching a native desktop view therefore leaves the server believing it can drive that tab, and subsequent CDP commands fail rather than falling back/reconnecting the server tab.
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Import pingdotgg#15328 at 3a94c6e and its HTML-render prerequisite (pingdotgg#15968). Preserve custom-local plugin, device, and KiCad integrations and adapt imports to the pinned Effect RC. Validation: 850 focused tests passed, 4 skipped. Three existing test failures reproduced on the original custom-local code. Server, desktop, mobile, contracts, and shared typechecks pass; web/client-runtime retain pre-existing type errors. Scoped lint has no errors. Server and mobile streaming bundles build. Native device, browser UI, and relay/tunnel runtime verification not performed.
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Thanks for this, the server-owned browser makes a lot of sense for web and mobile clients. I wanted to flag a regression for Windows + WSL users, since the PR lists Windows hosts as unverified. Setup: Windows desktop app, with the T3 server running inside WSL2 ( What happens: since this landed, preview tabs for the WSL environment are noticeably laggy. Before, the desktop app rendered them natively on Windows. Now they run in The browser is also launched with Possibly related: after about 40 minutes of uptime, the What would help:
Happy to test a build or share logs. Thanks for all the work on this. |
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@maria-rcks tagging you in case my comment above got lost in the noise, since this affects anyone using the desktop app with a WSL environment. Quick update: I ruled out my machine. After I freed memory and restarted the service, Is native rendering for WSL environments planned, or is there a workaround I'm missing? Happy to test a build. Thanks! |
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Heyo, I have a bunch of fixes in the pipeline, most of which are implemented and will go out tomorrow. And agree on the need to proxy some stuff through so it's still the local browser even when the dev server lives remote! |
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every environment now owns its browser engine: the server runs chromium for all preview tabs, so web clients, phones, and agents can browse without a connected laptop, and agents drive every tab through one code path. the desktop app renders its own server's tabs natively in a
<webview>for zero latency, but the server still drives them. there is no environment switch.verification
a3df1adca2; two independentgpt-6-astracode approvals, no unresolved review threads; ci passed on this head; final handoff/dialog UI evidence remains unverifiedcfc3a27494716a4fa356(before the shared browser)native subagents that share a provider credential must each open with
reuseExistingTab=falseand retain their explicittabId. separate browser contexts isolate storage; these callers are one authenticated session, not separate authorization identities.recordings from earlier head
716a4fa356were decoded and played to completion in chromium without media errors:native mobile keyboards, ios picture-in-picture/backgrounding, packaged executables, macos/windows hosts, and relay/tunnel paths remain unverified. responsive web checks do not establish native mobile behavior.
measurements
same gpu-less linux host (amd epyc 7b13, 16 exposed cores), 10 seconds per workload, loopback viewer acknowledging frames immediately. before is pre-cleanup pr
f6da63cc22; after isf31e5484b3. upstream has no server browser to benchmark. these single shared-host runs measure costs, not a demonstrated performance gain; the later recording and detach repairs were not rebenchmarked. cpu is the chromium process tree as a percentage of one core; bandwidth is per viewer.animation, scrolling, and webgl can consume substantial cpu and bandwidth.
runtime evidence
authenticated read-only stream after rejected mutation attempts at
cfc3a27494; this is a captured browser frame, not handoff/dialog UI evidence.real client recordings against server chromium. the client flow and responsive screenshot were captured at
c7dd80e4cc; later changes repair recording output and profile paths. the reveal recording comes from earlier integration. these are development-runtime evidence, not packaged/native-runtime claims. floating briefly reconnects its viewer before rendering.host browser parity (popups, clipboard, downloads, uploads)
captured against a live dev server at
a2a004f069. each tab runs in the environment's chromium; the panel is the streamed viewer.popups open as tabs and keep their opener (2dd8bb4). a sign-in popup becomes a second tab; approving it posts back to the opener through
window.opener, andwindow.close()ends the tab.downloads reach the viewer (cbd62b3). the file is kept on the environment until the tab closes; Save fetched
report.csvfrom the authenticated download route (200,attachment; filename="report.csv", correct bytes).file pickers take the viewer's files (1cf7711). the page's
<input type=file multiple>asks the controlling viewer, whose picked files are posted to the operate-scoped upload route and set on the page.copy and cut reach the viewer's clipboard (16d6eb8). a
navigator.clipboard.writeTextin the page arrived on the client; this automated browser refused the direct write, so the fallback toast is shown. ctrl/cmd+c, cut, and copy-event overrides were verified against real chromium in a script.server tabs get a viewport menu (a6589f1). the ⋯ menu now shows on server tabs with only the fill/responsive toggle, so a fixed viewport set by an agent can return to fill.
not covered here: mobile (typechecked; share sheet, document picker, and expo-clipboard paths not run on a device) and audio, which still does not reach the viewer.
agent limits and actions
proof below is a real agent (gpt-6-astra) in the dev app driving a fixture page through the T3
preview_*tools; the panel is the streamed server tab, and the page logs each event it receives.pointer actions and agent uploads (f728aa5, 48cefe5).
preview_clicktakesbutton(left/right/middle) andclickCount(1-3); server tabs addpreview_hover,preview_select(native<select>, by value or visible label),preview_drag, andpreview_upload, which answers thefileChooserreported bypreview_statuswith paths on the environment, or sets files on a named<input type=file>. these now work on desktop-rendered tabs too, since the server drives them.agent cursor on server tabs (1b4cfa5). before this, a server tab only showed the page changing, with no sign of where the agent acted. the server now sends viewers the agent's pointer before each click, hover, and drag lands: it glides to the target and pulses on a click. web draws it with the desktop cursor mark, mobile draws it in the stream viewer, and server recordings now show hovers and drags as well as clicks. unwatched tabs skip the glide delay. recordings draw the same blue agent pointer (338d0b9), so they never look like the person's own cursor.
tab limits (41ebf7a). each agent session gets 8 server tabs and the environment 32; past that,
preview_openfails with atabLimitreason that points the agent tot3_preview_close, and extra popups close. agent tabs nobody is watching close after 30 minutes without an agent request. the agent below opened tabs until one failed (7 new plus its existing tab), then closed them.found while capturing this (a530815, 26a2af6). after each action the MCP handler reads status with a 500ms budget to draw the tool's site icon; when the server browser was still settling after
preview_resize, that read timed out and the broker disconnected the host, so the agent's nextpreview_snapshotfailed withNoAvailableHostuntil it reconnected. background reads now time out without disconnecting; reproduced twice in the dev app before, clean after, with a broker test that fails without the fix. the four new tools also lacked work-log labels.verification: 1310 tests across
apps/server/src/mcp, the server browser, andpackages/sharedpass, plus the real-chromium page tests and the desktop click test; contracts, server, shared, web, and desktop typecheck.one engine, rendered natively on desktop
before, the desktop app ran its own agent automation for electron previews (an injected playwright runtime, its own keyboard mapping, an automation host in the web app, and three automation rpcs), and
T3CODE_SERVER_BROWSERpicked which engine an environment used. now the server always owns the engine, and that whole desktop path is deleted (+1,336 / −7,066 across 74 files).<webview>instead of streaming jpeg frames. the server attaches playwright to that webview and drives it with the sameServerBrowsercode as headless tabs: same snapshots, refs, and actions. agent tabs render in the desktop while it is attached and fall back to headless chromium otherwise. detaching the desktop reconnects viewers (close 1012) instead of ending the tab.webviewtarget, which playwright won't adopt, and doesn't supportTarget.createTarget.CdpRelaysits on the tab'swebContents.debugger, answers the browser-level commands itself, and presents the webview as one page under its real target id.live in the dev desktop app with a real agent (gpt-6-astra) on the fixture page: the tab is a native webview with no stream open, and the agent's right-click, hover, select, drag, and double-click all go through the server engine.
the floating mini player still draws no agent cursor; it never did for desktop tabs. 315 desktop preview tests and 104 server preview tests pass, and contracts, server, web, desktop, mobile, and client-runtime typecheck.
one browser install per host
rebased onto #15968, which added a pinned chrome for testing headless shell for html renders. this pr used to install a second chromium (the sparticuz pack plus noto fonts, glibc linux only) and look for a system chrome elsewhere. now
PreviewBrowserlives inapps/server/src/preview/andserver.tsprovides one instance to both the server browser and the html toolkit, so they share one install, one progress state, and one lock under<home>/tools/chrome-headless-shell(b1b659a).ServerBrowserToolchain,T3CODE_PREVIEW_BROWSER_PATH, and the font download are gone; an agent opening a tab during the first install gets the installer's progress message.checked: the 16 real-chromium page tests pass on the pinned 154 headless shell, and on debian 13 and ubuntu 26.04 hosts playwright drives it with clicks, aria snapshots, screencast frames, persistent profiles, mp4/webm recording, and cjk/emoji text. a bare debian or ubuntu container lacks 21 of its system libraries, which the old pack bundled, so the docs now name them.
browser host setup: one command, offered wherever it fails
ubuntu 23.10+ blocks the user namespace chrome's sandbox needs, and bare images lack chrome's libraries. html previews used to retry without the sandbox and remember it; server tabs just failed. now both keep the sandbox unless the operator sets
T3CODE_SERVER_BROWSER_SANDBOX=0, and every failure names the one command that fixes it (9c50390, ebab39f, 333caab):t3 browser setupinstalls the apparmor profile that allows the sandbox, and installs the libraries the installed browser cannot load (picking ubuntu 24.04 and debian 13'st64package names). without root it says what it would change and prints the sudo line. safe to rerun.sudo npx t3 browser setup), and carriesPATHthrough when node is installed only for the user, since sudo drops it.docs/user/remote-access.mdshrinks to that one command.checked: in bare
ubuntu:24.04anddebian:trixie-slimcontainers,t3 browser setupas a user reported all 21 missing libraries and the sudo line; as root it installed them, the browser then started, and a rerun said the host is ready. on nucbox-1 (ubuntu 26.04), with the apparmor profile loaded, tabs open with the sandbox on (renderer in its own user and pid namespaces with seccomp); a browser outside the profile fails with the setup message, andT3CODE_SERVER_BROWSER_SANDBOX=0runs it. the 14 html render tests pass against the pinned shell with the fallback removed.live on nucbox-1 (ubuntu 26.04) with the apparmor profile removed: the dev server logged the setup line at startup, and opening a browser tab in the web client showed the setup screen. running the command it showed allowed the sandbox, and try again loaded the page in the same tab.
t3 browser setupand try againreview fixes for desktop-rendered tabs
macroscope found gaps in the native tab hand-off; each fix has a test that fails without it (3a94c6e):
Browser.setDownloadBehaviorand forwards the download events, and the desktop saves the file under the cdp guid where the server's engine reads it.live in the desktop app: an agent clicked a download link in a native tab;
preview_statuslistsreport.csv(18 bytes, the page's content) in the server's download directory, with no save dialog.implemented with
claude-opus-5-5in claude code; reviewed and repaired withgpt-6-astrain pi and codex.