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Agents could only answer in markdown, so charts, galleries, and mockups were out of reach. Agents can now build a self-contained HTML page, check it with screenshots, and publish it inline in the thread, above their final reply.

  • html_preview renders the page in a T3-managed headless shell and returns a screenshot, content height, and console output. The shell is a pinned Chrome for Testing build, installed into <T3 home>/tools on first preview and checked against its size and SHA-256. It never uses the user's browser.
  • html_render stores the page as a thread attachment, with local images inlined. It measures the page's height at nine widths, from phone to wide chat. Clients size a borderless frame from that for their own width, so there is no layout shift and no dead space.
  • Pages get the active theme, including custom themes, as CSS variables before first paint, and follow theme changes live.
  • Works for every provider, and on web, desktop, and mobile. Older clients show an ordinary tool row. Deleting a thread deletes its pages.

Image grids with hover states
Interactive tool map
Photo gallery at phone width

Important files:

packages/shared/src/htmlRender.ts

  • The render reference, frame-height interpolation, theme variables, and the head bootstrap that applies the theme from the URL fragment or postMessage.
  • Agent-facing theme and layout guides.

apps/server/src/htmlRender/HtmlRender.ts

  • Inlines local images, injects the bootstrap, publishes attachments, measures heights at publish, and runs previews.

apps/server/src/htmlRender/PreviewBrowser.ts, headlessChrome.ts

  • Single-flight pinned install with a 45s wait, then a progress message to the agent.
  • CDP-over-pipe rendering, with a sandbox-first launch and the AppArmor --no-sandbox fallback.

apps/server/src/mcp/toolkits/html/

  • The html_preview and html_render tools and their descriptions.

apps/server/src/provider/T3OrchestrationInstructions.ts

  • A short "Showing visuals" section in the per-turn agent instructions.

apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/ProjectionStore.ts, attachmentStore.ts

  • Thread deletion now removes the thread's published pages.

apps/web/src/components/chat/HtmlRenderFrame.tsx, MessagesTimeline.logic.ts, session-logic.ts

  • A new html-render row that stays visible when turns fold.
  • The sandboxed iframe, sized from measured heights, with an expand button that opens the right panel.

apps/web/src/hooks/useHtmlRenderTheme.ts

  • Resolves the active theme, including custom and server-published themes, and fonts for pages.

apps/mobile/src/features/threads/HtmlRenderWebView.tsx, apps/mobile/src/lib/threadActivity.ts

  • The mobile feed row: a WebView at a fixed, measured row size that only takes scroll gestures when the page overflows, with full-screen expand.

docs/user/html-renders.md

  • What visual replies are and the one-time browser download.

Built with Claude Opus 5.5 in Claude Code, driven through T3 Code.

🤖 Generated with Claude Code

Agents get two T3 MCP tools. html_preview renders a self-contained page in a
T3-managed headless shell (pinned Chrome for Testing build, installed on first
preview) and returns a screenshot, content height, and console output.
html_render stores the page as a thread attachment, measures its height at a
range of widths, and shows it borderless above the agent's final reply on web,
desktop, and mobile, themed with the app's CSS variables.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Thread transfer impact

✅ Thread transfer remains within every enforced ceiling.

Provider Metric Main baseline This PR Impact PR ceiling
Codex Total thread wire 5.0 KiB 4.9 KiB −40 B (−0.8%) 6.8 KiB ✅
Codex Thread snapshot wire 3.8 KiB 3.8 KiB 0 B (0.0%) 4.9 KiB ✅
Codex Live turn WebSocket wire 1.2 KiB 1.2 KiB −40 B (−3.3%) 2.0 KiB ✅
Codex Live turn WebSocket decoded 20.9 KiB 20.8 KiB −41 B (−0.2%) 29.3 KiB ✅
Codex Live turn messages 2 1 −1 (−50.0%) 8 ✅
Claude Total thread wire 5.0 KiB 5.0 KiB 0 B (0.0%) 6.8 KiB ✅
Claude Thread snapshot wire 3.8 KiB 3.8 KiB 0 B (0.0%) 4.9 KiB ✅
Claude Live turn WebSocket wire 1.2 KiB 1.2 KiB 0 B (0.0%) 2.0 KiB ✅
Claude Live turn WebSocket decoded 21.2 KiB 21.2 KiB 0 B (0.0%) 29.3 KiB ✅
Claude Live turn messages 2 2 0 (0.0%) 8 ✅

Baseline: 37de6cb · PR result: 07864cd · Source CI: failure

Scenario and decoded snapshot size

10 historical turns, 5 command tools per turn, 878.9 KiB retained MCP result per historical turn, and a 1.05 MiB retained result in the measured turn.

  • Codex decoded thread snapshot: 108.5 KiB
  • Claude decoded thread snapshot: 108.8 KiB

Updated in place by a trusted workflow. PR artifacts are strictly validated and never executed.

A page taller than its frame showed a scrollbar inside the reply. The injected
base stylesheet now hides the page's scrollbar (it still scrolls), and the
mobile feed's WebView hides its native scroll indicators.

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🟠 High src/zipArchive.ts:23

Cancelling while Yauzl.open() or openReadStream() is pending leaks the resulting ZipFile or Readable, so repeated cancelled operations leave file descriptors open and scoped cleanup can hang indefinitely. Neither Effect.callback returns cancellation cleanup: a late callback's resume is ignored, and the late-created stream is never destroyed. Return cleanup that closes a late-opened ZipFile and destroys a late-created Readable when cancellation occurs.

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Cancelling while `Yauzl.open()` or `openReadStream()` is pending leaks the resulting `ZipFile` or `Readable`, so repeated cancelled operations leave file descriptors open and scoped cleanup can hang indefinitely. Neither `Effect.callback` returns cancellation cleanup: a late callback's `resume` is ignored, and the late-created stream is never destroyed. Return cleanup that closes a late-opened `ZipFile` and destroys a late-created `Readable` when cancellation occurs.

createdAt,
runId: item.runId,
htmlRender,
...attemptMetadata,

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🟡 Medium src/session-logic.ts:709

Superseded-attempt folds hide completed html-render entries, so collapsing such a fold makes an already-published HTML page disappear from the timeline. Because this entry spreads attemptMetadata, deriveSupersededAttemptFolds treats it like ordinary foldable work; omit the attempt metadata from html-render entries.

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Superseded-attempt folds hide completed `html-render` entries, so collapsing such a fold makes an already-published HTML page disappear from the timeline. Because this entry spreads `attemptMetadata`, `deriveSupersededAttemptFolds` treats it like ordinary foldable work; omit the attempt metadata from `html-render` entries.

};
const onError = (cause: unknown) => {
zip.removeListener("close", onClose);
finish(Effect.die(makeError("Could not close the archive.", cause)));

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🟡 Medium src/zipArchive.ts:54

When closing the ZIP fails, openZipArchive dies with Effect.die(...) instead of returning the E produced by makeError, so callers' Effect.mapError and typed error handling are bypassed and the install failure is reported as an unrecoverable runtime defect. Use a typed failure for this close path.

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finish(Effect.fail(makeError("Could not close the archive.", cause)));
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When closing the ZIP fails, `openZipArchive` dies with `Effect.die(...)` instead of returning the `E` produced by `makeError`, so callers' `Effect.mapError` and typed error handling are bypassed and the install failure is reported as an unrecoverable runtime defect. Use a typed failure for this close path.

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const getFixedItemSize = useCallback(
(entry: ThreadFeedEntry) => {
if (entry.type === "html-render") {
return htmlRenderRowHeight(htmlRenderFrameHeight(entry.render, contentWidth));

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🟡 Medium threads/ThreadFeed.tsx:2889

Changing contentWidth changes the fixed height returned by getFixedItemSize for html-render rows, but LegendList keeps the old size cache, so rotation or split-pane resizing leaves item positions and scroll range incorrect. Invalidate the list's size cache when the width used by htmlRenderFrameHeight changes, not only when textSizeKey changes.

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In file @apps/mobile/src/features/threads/ThreadFeed.tsx around line 2889:

Changing `contentWidth` changes the fixed height returned by `getFixedItemSize` for `html-render` rows, but LegendList keeps the old size cache, so rotation or split-pane resizing leaves item positions and scroll range incorrect. Invalidate the list's size cache when the width used by `htmlRenderFrameHeight` changes, not only when `textSizeKey` changes.

* Inserts the theme bootstrap at the start of the document head, so a page's
* own styles and scripts come after it.
*/
export function injectHtmlRenderBootstrap(html: string): string {

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🟡 Medium src/htmlRender.ts:308

injectHtmlRenderBootstrap inserts the bootstrap into a leading HTML comment when that comment contains <head>, so the browser ignores the injected theme, base CSS, and viewport metadata and the render remains unthemed. The <head> search needs to skip complete comment blocks before selecting the actual head element.

-  const headOpen = /<head(?:\s[^>]*)?>/i.exec(html);
+  let headOpen: RegExpExecArray | null = null;
+  const headPattern = /<!--[\s\S]*?-->|(<head(?:\s[^>]*)?>)/gi;
+  let headMatch: RegExpExecArray | null;
+  while ((headMatch = headPattern.exec(html))) {
+    if (headMatch[1]) {
+      headOpen = headMatch;
+      break;
+    }
+  }
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`injectHtmlRenderBootstrap` inserts the bootstrap into a leading HTML comment when that comment contains `<head>`, so the browser ignores the injected theme, base CSS, and viewport metadata and the render remains unthemed. The `<head>` search needs to skip complete comment blocks before selecting the actual head element.

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yield* Effect.forEach(
files.filter((file) => file.size !== undefined),
(file) =>
fileSystem.readFile(filePathFor(file.path)).pipe(

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🟠 High htmlRender/HtmlRender.ts:201

readFile can buffer and encode an image that grew after the stat checks, so a concurrent workspace process can bypass both MAX_IMAGE_BYTES and MAX_PAGE_BYTES and drive the server into excessive memory use or OOM. Validate the actual bytes returned by readFile and enforce both limits from those bytes rather than relying on the earlier metadata.

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`readFile` can buffer and encode an image that grew after the `stat` checks, so a concurrent workspace process can bypass both `MAX_IMAGE_BYTES` and `MAX_PAGE_BYTES` and drive the server into excessive memory use or OOM. Validate the actual bytes returned by `readFile` and enforce both limits from those bytes rather than relying on the earlier metadata.

const head = html.slice(0, 4096);
return [
/<meta\s[^>]*charset/i.test(head) ? "" : '<meta charset="utf-8">',
/<meta\s[^>]*name\s*=\s*["']?viewport/i.test(html)

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🟡 Medium src/htmlRender.ts:296

A page containing <meta name="viewport" ...> inside a script or comment is treated as having a viewport tag, so no real viewport tag is injected. Mobile browsers then use the default wide layout viewport, causing responsive CSS and measured heights to be wrong. Detect the meta element from parsed HTML (or exclude scripts/comments before matching) instead of searching raw source text.

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A page containing `<meta name="viewport" ...>` inside a script or comment is treated as having a viewport tag, so no real viewport tag is injected. Mobile browsers then use the default wide layout viewport, causing responsive CSS and measured heights to be wrong. Detect the meta element from parsed HTML (or exclude scripts/comments before matching) instead of searching raw source text.

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const openLink = (url: string) => {
if (loadedRef.current && /^https?:/i.test(url)) void tryOpenExternalUrl(url, "html-render");
};
const scrollable = !props.nested || overflows;
return (
<View style={{ flex: 1 }}>
<WebView<object>
key={generation}
ref={webView}
source={source}
accessibilityLabel={props.title}
style={{ flex: 1, backgroundColor: "transparent" }}
setSupportMultipleWindows={false}
allowsInlineMediaPlayback
automaticallyAdjustContentInsets={!props.nested}
bounces={!props.nested}
showsVerticalScrollIndicator={!props.nested}
showsHorizontalScrollIndicator={!props.nested}
scrollEnabled={scrollable}
nestedScrollEnabled={props.nested && overflows}
overScrollMode={props.nested ? "never" : "always"}
onShouldStartLoadWithRequest={(request) => {
if (
request.isTopFrame === false ||
!loadedRef.current ||
withoutFragment(request.url) === withoutFragment(props.uri)
) {
return true;

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🟡 Medium threads/HtmlRenderWebView.tsx:111

External top-frame navigations triggered before the first load completes are rendered inside the inline WebView instead of being opened externally. The !loadedRef.current branch returns true, and openLink also refuses to call tryOpenExternalUrl while loading; remove this loading gate and route non-props.uri top-frame URLs through openLink.

   const openLink = (url: string) => {
-    if (loadedRef.current && /^https?:/i.test(url)) void tryOpenExternalUrl(url, "html-render");
+    if (/^https?:/i.test(url)) void tryOpenExternalUrl(url, "html-render");
   };
   const scrollable = !props.nested || overflows;
   return (
@@
           if (
             request.isTopFrame === false ||
-            !loadedRef.current ||
             withoutFragment(request.url) === withoutFragment(props.uri)
           ) {
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External top-frame navigations triggered before the first load completes are rendered inside the inline WebView instead of being opened externally. The `!loadedRef.current` branch returns `true`, and `openLink` also refuses to call `tryOpenExternalUrl` while loading; remove this loading gate and route non-`props.uri` top-frame URLs through `openLink`.

shownTheme.current = theme;
if (theme !== initialTheme) postTheme(webView.current, theme);
}}
onError={props.onLoadError}

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🟠 High threads/HtmlRenderWebView.tsx:150

On iOS, a provisional navigation failure leaves loaded false, so the full-screen ActivityIndicator permanently covers the failed HTML render and provides no retry path when AttachmentFileScreen omits onLoadError. Handle the error locally by marking the load as failed and rendering a retry control, while still invoking props.onLoadError when provided.

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On iOS, a provisional navigation failure leaves `loaded` false, so the full-screen `ActivityIndicator` permanently covers the failed HTML render and provides no retry path when `AttachmentFileScreen` omits `onLoadError`. Handle the error locally by marking the load as failed and rendering a retry control, while still invoking `props.onLoadError` when provided.

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Verdict: Not approved

Macroscope's review found this PR not approvable — This PR introduces a large cross-platform HTML-rendering capability with new MCP tools, browser installation/process execution, attachment lifecycle changes, and sandboxed client rendering. Default agent behavior and static-analysis suppressions also change, while unresolved medium/high findings cover resource leaks, memory limits, navigation, sizing, and mobile failure handling.

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📚 Code guidelines (2)
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📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

The change adds server-side HTML preview and publishing tools, shared render contracts, and web and mobile timeline viewers for completed HTML renders. It also adds thread attachment tracking, a shared ZIP archive reader, and MCP structured-output deduplication.

Changes

HTML Render Pages

Layer / File(s) Summary
HTML-render contracts and output parsing
packages/shared/src/htmlRender.ts, packages/shared/src/toolOutput.ts, packages/shared/src/t3McpToolPresentation.ts, packages/shared/src/htmlRender.test.ts, packages/shared/package.json
Shared helpers validate render references, set responsive frame heights, map themes, inject document bootstrap markup, and extract render data from tool results. The shared package exports the helpers.
Headless browser installation and control
apps/server/src/htmlRender/PreviewBrowser.ts, apps/server/src/htmlRender/headlessChrome.ts, apps/server/src/htmlRender/PreviewBrowser.test.ts
The server installs verified Chrome for Testing builds on supported platforms and uses Chrome DevTools Protocol operations to capture screenshots and measure page heights.
HTML preparation, preview, and publishing
apps/server/src/htmlRender/HtmlRender.ts, apps/server/src/htmlRender/HtmlRender.test.ts
The server injects the render bootstrap, embeds readable local images, publishes prepared pages as thread attachments, and captures themed previews. Publishing can include measured heights when a browser is already installed.
MCP tools and orchestration wiring
apps/server/src/mcp/toolkits/html/*, apps/server/src/mcp/McpHttpServer.ts, apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/Adapters/ClaudeAdapterV2.ts, apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/Adapters/ClaudeAdapterV2.test.ts, apps/server/src/mcp/toolkits/core.test.ts, apps/server/src/provider/T3OrchestrationInstructions.ts, packages/client-runtime/src/t3ToolSummary.ts
The MCP server registers html_preview and html_render, maps their results and failures, and adds both tools to the Claude read-only allowlist. Orchestration instructions and tool summaries include the new actions.
Timeline entries and attachment tracking
apps/web/src/session-logic.ts, apps/mobile/src/lib/threadActivity.ts, apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/ProjectionStore.ts, apps/server/src/attachmentStore.ts, apps/web/src/session-logic.test.ts, apps/mobile/src/lib/threadActivity.test.ts, apps/server/src/attachmentStore.test.ts
Completed render tool results become separate timeline entries. Thread attachment lookup includes render attachment IDs; running and failed render calls remain work-log entries.
Web and mobile render display
apps/web/src/components/chat/*, apps/web/src/components/files/*, apps/web/src/hooks/useHtmlRenderTheme.ts, apps/web/src/types.ts, apps/mobile/src/features/threads/*, apps/mobile/src/features/files/AttachmentFileScreen.tsx, apps/mobile/src/lib/htmlRenderTheme.ts, apps/mobile/src/lib/mobileTheme.ts, apps/mobile/src/lib/openExternalUrl.ts, docs/user/html-renders.md
Web and mobile timelines render HTML attachments with theme updates and responsive sizing. The viewers provide attachment navigation; the mobile viewer also handles load retries. Attachment size text is omitted when size is unknown or non-positive.

Shared ZIP Archive Reader

Layer / File(s) Summary
Scoped ZIP reading and provider integration
apps/server/src/zipArchive.ts, apps/server/src/provider/AntigravityInstallation.ts
A scoped archive reader provides entry iteration and member streams. Antigravity installation now uses it instead of its local archive reader.

MCP Structured Output Formatting

Layer / File(s) Summary
Avoid duplicate structured content
apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/Adapters/piT3McpExtensionSource.ts
The formatter adds serialized structured content only when the same string is not already present in text content.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~60 minutes

Change: Feature

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant Caller
  participant HtmlPreviewTool
  participant HtmlRender
  participant PreviewBrowser
  participant HeadlessChrome
  participant HtmlRenderToolkit
  participant AttachmentStore
  Caller->>HtmlPreviewTool: submit HTML and preview options
  HtmlPreviewTool->>HtmlRender: capture preview
  HtmlRender->>PreviewBrowser: request executable
  PreviewBrowser-->>HtmlRender: return executable
  HtmlRender->>HeadlessChrome: capture screenshot
  HeadlessChrome-->>HtmlRender: return PNG and page measurements
  HtmlRender-->>HtmlPreviewTool: return preview data
  HtmlPreviewTool-->>Caller: return preview result
  Caller->>HtmlRenderToolkit: submit HTML and render details
  HtmlRenderToolkit->>HtmlRender: publish HTML for thread
  HtmlRender->>AttachmentStore: store prepared HTML
  HtmlRenderToolkit-->>Caller: return render reference
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Suggested reviewers: juliusmarminge, t3dotgg

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 07864

The new inline HTML pages feature currently fails the repository's lint check, which blocks merging until the unused export is made private. On mobile, a failed URL refresh can leave a page stuck with no way to reload it. Both are small fixes.

Security Architecture Review

Security architecture risk: 🟠 High · up to 07864

Agent-created pages gain access to server-side file loading and browser execution. Browser isolation can be disabled automatically, and interrupted publication can leave sensitive pages outside normal deletion tracking. Existing display isolation and download verification reduce risk, but do not contain all of these new capabilities.

Retained concerns

  • High · security · observed: Local-image inlining reads agent-selected absolute paths through the server filesystem without caller-specific workspace or path authorization in the inspected flow. An image extension selects a MIME label rather than proving file provenance. The new tools therefore expose server-readable files with matching paths to publication and preview, including from modes explicitly allowed to use these tools without workspace writes. Effective exposure depends on server permissions and provider isolation.
  • High · security · inferred: Agent-controlled HTML and remote resources execute in a server-side browser without network filtering configured in the inspected launch and page-load flow. This creates a new route for requests from the server's network position, potentially reaching loopback or private services even when the provider's own execution environment restricts networking. Browser origin rules constrain response access but are not equivalent to destination authorization; deployed network controls and reachable services were not established.
  • High · security · observed: The new browser-execution boundary fails open: root hosts begin without Chrome's sandbox, and a sandbox-unavailable error retries the page without it and retains that setting for later launches. A fresh profile and verified browser download do not replace renderer containment. Exploitation of browser code would consequently have greater access to the host process's authority; compensating outer isolation was not established.
  • Medium · security · inferred: Publication writes the final HTML file before measurement and before the tool reference can be durably recorded, without failure cleanup in the publisher. Interruption or failure in that interval can leave a page that deletion discovery cannot find because it enumerates persisted tool outputs. The inspected stale-attachment sweeper excludes final thread-owned HTML files. This creates a privacy-relevant retention gap; normal successful publication is tracked, but broader orphan recovery was not established.
Security review details

Security Blast Radius

  • inferred — The independently attackable input is HTML supplied by a tool-authorized agent, potentially influenced by untrusted task content. The new server execution path reaches files readable by the server and destinations reachable by its browser. On sandbox-disabled hosts, browser exploitation would have greater host-process impact. The supplied evidence does not establish an anonymous entrypoint, a multi-tenant deployment, cloud privileges, or a verified cross-environment compromise.

Security Findings and Attack Paths

  • observed — Agent-selected absolute image paths flow into server stat and read operations, then into base64 page content. Size limits and image-suffix matching are present, but caller-specific file authorization is not enforced in that producer.
  • inferred — Remote-resource requests and page scripts run from the server browser's network position. This can bypass restrictions applied only to provider execution, although browser rules and deployed network controls determine which destinations and responses are usable.
  • observed — Sandbox failure changes shared launch state to unsandboxed execution and retries the same operation. Later previews and publication measurements inherit that weaker mode.
  • inferred — Interruption after the final file write but before durable tool-output recording can strand inlined content. Normal thread deletion discovers recorded render IDs, while the inspected stale-file recovery handles pending attachments and partial uploads rather than these final files.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

  • observed — Publication derives its thread from the invocation scope and rejects missing or deleted calling threads. Attachment IDs include a random UUID and a thread segment; cleanup rejects render references from another thread. Web display preserves an opaque-origin iframe boundary rather than granting the page parent-origin access.
  • observed — Attachment URLs use signed, expiring claims and resolve files inside the attachment store. The attachment branch does not bind the token to a thread identity. That authorization model predates this PR and remains unchanged in the full comparison; a new cross-thread exploit or material exposure increase was not established, so it is not retained as an independent PR concern.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

  • observed — Installation joins concurrent callers within one service, survives individual waiter timeouts, and permits retry after failure. Download verification and scoped ZIP resources constrain fresh-install failures. These controls do not establish cross-process ownership or integrity of an already-present executable; no attacker write access to the install root was demonstrated.

Hardening Proposals

  • proposed — Bind local-image access to an explicit caller-authorized root or asset capability, resolve canonical paths before reading, and apply file limits to the actual bytes read. Treat network access as a separately authorized capability rather than inheriting the server's unrestricted network position.
  • proposed — Fail closed when Chrome cannot provide its sandbox, or require a documented compensating execution boundary with a separate unprivileged identity, restricted credentials, filesystem, and network access.
  • proposed — Give attachment publication durable ownership before final visibility, with cleanup for failed or interrupted attempts and recovery that discovers unreferenced final files. Coordinate that lifecycle with deletion and repeated tool calls rather than relying only on successfully persisted tool output.
🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 3 | ❌ 2

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Review comments at @apps/mobile/src/features/threads/HtmlRenderWebView.tsx:
- Around line 209-212: Handle rejection from refresh() in HtmlRenderWebView by
setting failed to true, so the failed state and reload control are shown instead
of leaving an unhandled promise rejection. Preserve the existing success
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  • apps/mobile/src/features/files/AttachmentFileScreen.tsx
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  • apps/mobile/src/lib/htmlRenderTheme.test.ts
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Comment on lines +209 to +212
void refresh().then((next) => {
if (next !== null && next !== uri) setUri(next);
else setFailed(true);
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🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Retry failure leaves the stale URI and can hide the error.

refresh() can return a new URL. In that case, setUri(next) remounts HtmlRenderWebView, and retried.current stays true. If the second load fails, the frame shows "Page unavailable". The retry flow works in that case.

refresh() can also reject. The promise has no .catch, so a rejection becomes an unhandled promise rejection and failed never becomes true. The WebView then keeps its error state and shows no reload control. Handle the rejection.

Proposed fix
-    void refresh().then((next) => {
-      if (next !== null && next !== uri) setUri(next);
-      else setFailed(true);
-    });
+    void refresh()
+      .then((next) => {
+        if (next !== null && next !== uri) setUri(next);
+        else setFailed(true);
+      })
+      .catch(() => setFailed(true));
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Handle rejection from refresh() in HtmlRenderWebView by setting failed to true,
so the failed state and reload control are shown instead of leaving an unhandled
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export const HTML_RENDER_THEME_MESSAGE_TYPE = "t3-html-render-theme";

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📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Remove the export from HTML_RENDER_THEME_MESSAGE_TYPE to fix the knip CI failure.

The Lint job fails at vp run knip:check because no module imports HTML_RENDER_THEME_MESSAGE_TYPE. Only BOOTSTRAP_SCRIPT and htmlRenderThemeMessage use the constant, and both are in this file. Clients post the message through htmlRenderThemeMessage, so they do not need the constant. Make the constant module-private.

🔧 Proposed fix
-export const HTML_RENDER_THEME_MESSAGE_TYPE = "t3-html-render-theme";
+const HTML_RENDER_THEME_MESSAGE_TYPE = "t3-html-render-theme";

The coding guidelines say: "Did you run knip? A new export with no importer fails it."

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const HTML_RENDER_THEME_MESSAGE_TYPE = "t3-html-render-theme";
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[error] 254-254: Command 'vp run knip:check' failed: Knip reported unused export 'HTML_RENDER_THEME_MESSAGE_TYPE'.

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[error] 254-254: The knip:check step (vp run knip:check) failed: Knip reported the export HTML_RENDER_THEME_MESSAGE_TYPE as unused.

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Review comment at @packages/shared/src/htmlRender.ts at line 254:
Remove the export from HTML_RENDER_THEME_MESSAGE_TYPE in the
htmlRenderThemeMessage implementation, keeping the constant module-private while
preserving its internal use by BOOTSTRAP_SCRIPT and htmlRenderThemeMessage.

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Closing because #15968 merged

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