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Garry Tan 7fca42ad8b v1.91.12.0 v1.91.12.0: audit fix wave, ~11-minute paid eval lanes, eval reliability policy (#2999)
* test: delete test-infrastructure dead code (G)

- exit-propagation drives the runner's real strict verdict
  (BunTestOutputClassifier + strictTestExitCode); delete the unused
  shardRunLooksTruncated predicate.
- delete skill-coverage-matrix registry + its gate (nothing reads it; the
  floor already iterates skillCensus()).
- delete touchfiles-facade export-parity tests (Bun fails missing imports
  at link time) and the duplicated E2E_TIERS tier-value test.
- delete brain-cache-spec TRANSPORT_DEFAULT_POLICY, SKILL_RUN_RETENTION_DAYS
  and the now-unused BrainTrustPolicy type with their literal tests.
  AUTOPLAN_PREFLIGHT_BUDGET_BYTES stays: skill-preflight-budget enforces it
  against real resolver output.
- delete audit-compliance's JSDoc-comment grep.

* test: replace product tests that fake the product with real-boundary tests (F)

- design: serve.test.ts drove an inline mirror server; now two tests run the
  real serve() on an ephemeral port (reload confinement, submit exit 0).
- setup-gbrain: rollback + voyage tests execute the template-extracted init
  blocks (3 sites) instead of drifted local bash copies.
- terminal-agent: internalHandler source greps replaced by a behavioral
  /internal/grant + /internal/revoke auth matrix (no/wrong/valid token).
- /health: server-security-surface and the server-auth / security-audit-r2 /
  sidebar-tabs source greps fold into one liveness-only check on the real
  body; the L4 sidecar wiring gets a behavioral /pty-inject-scan test.
- delete tautologies (browser-manager onDisconnect, memory-command #12),
  ios swiftui tap fixture self-check, memory-ingest put_page grep, detach
  source greps, sidebar-agent absence pins, dead-CSS pins + the dead CSS,
  security-audit-r2 Task 1 + the test-only meta-commands re-export,
  duplicate generated-SKILL.md checks.
- make-pdf coverage-gaps cases move into their owner test files.

* test: delete tests of dead eval code (A)

- A1: the retired Eng lexical oracle (evaluateEngSeedCoverage,
  isEngSeedDecisionAUQ), the completion-handoff detector and the retained
  corpus had no paid caller since v1.87.6; delete their 26 replay files,
  ~2.6k helper LOC and fixtures, and the dead blocks in 8 mixed files
  (live hasNativePlanTerminal / batching assertions stay).
- A2: dead viewport approvers in autoplan-artifact-permission and their 11
  replay files + fixtures; recorder/launcher cases stay.
- A3: never-wired oracles and seeders (autoplan-phase-order,
  eng-finding-fixture, ceo-paired-fixture, design-ui-scope,
  plan-skill-completion, pty-current-screen, required-reads,
  transcript-section-logger); plan-seed-submission now decodes through the
  production createPtyScreen; section manifests name their actual guard.
- A4: zero-reference helper exports, plus execGit and invokeAndObserve
  found by the reachability pass.
- 52 fixtures orphaned by the deletions; touchfile and selection-table
  entries for every deleted path.

* test: clean up the paid eval lane (B1-B4, B6, B7)

- B1: delete paid files that assert nothing or cannot pass meaningfully:
  skill-llm-eval-spec and skill-e2e-spec-execute (test.todo), gemini-e2e
  (+ gemini-session-runner; no gemini CLI in CI), ship-idempotency (red
  since v1.63), the two opus-4-7 *-sonnet overlay wrappers, conductor-prose
  (+ its source-evaluation replay), codex-e2e-plan-format; drop their keys,
  scripts and census rows.
- B2: skill-llm-eval grades browse/sections/command-list.md with one union
  judge that also carries the baseline score pin; regression-vs-baseline
  deleted (paid run: pass, c4/c4/a4).
- B3: memory-pipeline, ios-qa, ios-qa-swift-build and plan-tune-cathedral
  make no model calls; renamed out of the paid glob so they run on every
  PR. Swift builds need GSTACK_TEST_SWIFT=1; device stub deleted.
- B4: codex-e2e*, outside-voice, aside and ios-device cannot run in the CI
  image; excluded from the weekly lane with a tracked re-entry condition.
- B6: fold opus-47's negative routing controls into skill-routing-e2e
  journey-negatives (paid run: 3/3 unrouted) and delete the file.
- B7: delete the never-green brain-privacy-gate eval; a free
  gstack-skill-start test now proves consent precedes artifacts egress.

* test: retire the finding-count cluster and trim its helpers (C)

- C0/C1: the five never-green evals (skill-e2e-autoplan-chain and
  skill-e2e-plan-{ceo,eng,design,devex}-finding-count) failed on harness and
  budget, never on skill behavior; delete them, their touchfile/tier ids,
  AUTOPLAN_CHAIN_BUDGET and the dedicated eighth periodic slice (--slices 7).
- C2: delete the helper groups whose only paid consumers were those files
  (11 modules), trim claude-pty-runner and eng-seeded-coverage to the paid
  closure, and delete the free replay tests whose assertions exercised only
  that dead code (89 files, 135 orphaned fixtures). Blocks that used dead code
  only as input for a live subject keep their assertions: the multiSelect
  default moved to plan-review-decisions, runner PTY tests use inline caller
  policies, and the timer-safe budget checks moved to eng-finding-retry-budget.
- The eight production-touching files stay except ceo-current-decision-record
  (its template read only feeds the retired counter).
- CARVE_GUARDS.autoplan is behavioral 'none'; TODOS records the lost chain
  and per-finding cadence coverage with their re-entry tests.

* test: fold per-incident replay series into their detector owners (D)

Twelve detector families move into one owner test each: 73 incident files
become describe blocks in ceo-section-loading-fixture (stale-fill race),
model-overlays, coverage-audit-evidence, autoplan-phase-observer,
native-auto-decide, outside-voice-evidence, eng-first-review,
plan-count-completion, plan-count-file-permission, ceo-mode-option,
plan-scope-selection and plan-count-prerequisite. Each block keeps its original
code and fixture, so every case still runs; only tests asserting the incident
file's own touchfile registration are dropped (41). Touchfile lists that named
an incident now name its owner.

* test: start the plan-count history PTY on its readiness marker (H)

The fake CLI prints a startup marker and the runner waits for it instead of the
fixed 8 s startup sleep (8.6 s -> 0.9 s locally). eng-semantic-terminal's
sleeping registration cases went with C; plan-count-timeout keeps the fixed wait
because it asserts deadline behavior.

* test: derive paid touchfiles from each eval's static closure (E)

touchfiles.test.ts now checks, per key, that the paid file's static
test/helpers and test/fixtures closure (plus fixture paths it names in string
literals) is covered, and names the file, path, chain and key to fix when it is
not. Free *.test.ts files are no longer touchfiles, so editing a free replay
test stops selecting paid evals: 950 entries removed, 653 real closure paths
added. The hand-copied inventories go: periodic-fixture-selection,
fake-impeccable-touchfiles and 45 per-file selection examples. Selection for
the sample edits (plan-eng-review template, claude-pty-runner,
plan-count-fixture, gstack-config) loses no case under either profile.
CONTRIBUTING documents the rule and its lower bound.

* test: skip hollow tier shards and census judges in the paid planner (B5)

A paid file is now skipped for a tier lane only when every E2E id it registers
is known statically and none has that tier; ids come from the touchfile
registrations and literal testName/*IfSelected arguments, so a comment or
skill path that quotes another id cannot unschedule it, and computed names
keep today's scheduling. --list and the manifest show each skip as
"skipped: no E2E_TIERS id has tier <tier>". The weekly gate census drops the
LLM judges (--skip-judges); they still run in the periodic census and PR gate
lanes. Gate lane 52 -> 42 files, census 41; periodic 77 -> 69.

* test: run seven paid evals on the current default capture model (B8)

skill-e2e-{auq-matrix,plan-format,qa-bugs,retro,workflow} pinned
claude-opus-4-7 and skill-e2e-office-hours plus -brain-writeback pinned
claude-sonnet-4-6; none tests a historical model, so they now capture with
resolveEvalModel('capture'), and the free harness tests that execute these
registrations receive the same resolver. The paid re-pin run passed all of
them. skill-e2e-{design,office-hours-phase4,plan-prosons,plan} keep
claude-opus-4-7: six of their cases failed on the default model (three
timeouts, a missing report file, a format miss and a posture score of 3), so
per the plan's fallback they keep their pins with a TODOS entry. The pre-spend
estimate and drop threshold are in docs/test-audit-2026-09.md.

* test: guard the reduced suite against new test-of-test files

- test/test-of-test-ratchet.test.ts records the 228 free tests that import only
  test/ code and fails on a new one, naming the owner test to extend instead;
  a stale baseline entry fails with the remove instruction.
- test/helpers/resolve-repo-path.ts is the one specifier/literal resolver for
  the ratchet and the touchfile closure invariant, with its own unit tests.
- CONTRIBUTING "Test tiers" describes the paid-failure workflow (fix, then one
  row in the detector's owner test) and the ratchet; TEST_PORTFOLIO gains the
  detector -> owner-test table and no longer claims an Autoplan chain eval.
- TODOS: automatic exclusion policy for chronically red periodic files (P3),
  the deferred native-completion table collapse, the unused CEO payment
  seeder; the PTY readiness item is narrowed to the paid runner.
- docs/test-audit-2026-09.md collects the triage, security mapping, inventories,
  selection proof, behavior-commit decisions and retained false positives.

* v1.91.8.0 test: smaller suite, derived paid selection, retired never-green evals

Release metadata for the test-reduction branch: VERSION 1.91.8.0 (1.91.7.0 is
claimed by #2983), CHANGELOG with the measured before/after table and a
contributor section, durations re-recorded on Ubicloud standard-16 (857 files,
0 failures), the agents digest, CONTRIBUTING's after-measurement row, the B8
fallback TODOS entry, and the after metrics, kept-vs-plan notes, B8 run and
census estimate in docs/test-audit-2026-09.md.

* fix(ubicloud): skip retrieval globs that match nothing instead of reporting a failed pull

* test: pin DISABLE_AUTOUPDATER in hermetic env and capture corrupt-seed warning

Both EVALS_HERMETIC branches of buildHermeticEnv now carry
DISABLE_AUTOUPDATER=1 (the allowlist scrubbed the workflow's copy, so every
PTY screen showed the updater's npm-prefix failure). Per-test overrides
still win. The corrupt durations-seed test now captures its expected
warning and restores the console spy.

* style(cso): format lib/cso TypeScript with pinned Prettier

Mechanical reformat only. Minified transpile output is byte-identical for
21 of 22 files; witness.ts differs only in three regex flag orders
(/mi -> /im), which JavaScript canonicalizes. Source-text assertions over
lib/cso now compare whitespace-insensitively with the same tokens.

* fix(cso): import join for compiled-launcher assertion witnesses

Compiled installs always take the non-Bun branch, which called an unimported
join and threw before any runtime-tested assertion could be witnessed. The
child command selection is now a pure, platform-aware function; a missing
sibling launcher fails with its expected path.

* fix(browse): make connect --supervise actually respawn a crashed server

The supervisor respawned with a block-scoped env that no longer existed, so
every attempt threw and the loop gave up after five tries. The headed env is
now one pure helper used by connect and respawn, the loop is an injectable
runHeadedSupervisor with behavioral tests, failures name the daemon log and
relaunch command, and connect's usage advertises --supervise.

* test: one finite PR world for the shared-libs fixture; name dual-voice probe evidence

The shared-libs shim served 2 PRs for pulls?state=all and endless full pages
for state=open. gh pr list, pulls?state=open|all|closed (per_page/page,
short last page, direction) and search/issues now page one deterministic
table: PR 7, 600 older open PRs, PR 42 and 3 closed PRs, so five 100-item
open-metadata pages still leave older open PRs unchecked. The Contents API
lists pinned directories (the captured attempt got 404 for contents/ and
contents/src while files resolved, then fell back to a raw host), unknown
endpoints return 404 instead of repo metadata, and the read-only detector
is unchanged. Free tests cover view agreement, the budget bound, gh/curl
agreement and the empty world.

Dual-voice outside-voice failures now report probeToolUseId, probeMode and
the canonical-match result with the reason the probe output was rejected.

* feat: require a zero-error product typecheck and a test type-debt ratchet

Adds tsconfig.json (strict) over product code, fixes its remaining 90
diagnostics (type-only, interface corrections, and explicit narrowing),
and adds a typecheck job to the required free-tests aggregate running
bun run typecheck, the test-code ratchet (identity -> count baseline, fails
on new, repeated, or unlocked fixed diagnostics), and the lib/cso format
check. Reuses fixes from #2447 where they still applied.

* test: follow the headed env helper and the typecheck gate in source-shape checks

* fix(test): pin the package.json change kind in shared-input selection tests

computePaidCaseSelection read the version-only exemption from git even when
changed files were injected, so the shared-input test failed on main and on
version-only branches. The exemption is now an optional input; the test pins
a real package.json change and covers the version-only case.

* test: judge plan-count completion on structured evidence, not wording

Replaying run 36385945043's two Design attempts showed the existing routes
rejected correct endings: attempt 1 at the typed-completion path field
('- Reviewed plan written to …' is not a 'Plan written to' line), attempt 2
at the leading-fence veto (its final message opens with the dashboard).

nativePlanTerminalPreconditions is the structural prefix of
hasNativePlanTerminal (behavior unchanged). structuredPlanCompletion adds,
inside the existing nativeSummary branch: a complete report (Design
binding for Design), a completed review-log row for the expected skill
appended during this attempt under the child's GSTACK_HOME/project slug
(resolved with bin/gstack-slug) and stamped with the fixture commit, timed
between the report/last answer (second resolution) and the final native
message, a final message with stop_reason end_turn (now carried on public
transcript messages), and no visible question or permission prompt.

Timeout summaries add idleFor and lastTerminalCandidate. Terminal and throw
captures copy the plan file and review-log rows into the artifact
directory; copies are best-effort and recorded in evidence-copy.json.
Free regressions: both captured Design endings (trimmed fixture with
provenance; report, row and end_turn reconstructed and labelled), the
negative controls, and real-PTY completion/timeout runs through the real
review logger.

* test: structural Design count boundary; TODO proposals are not findings

Replaying run 36385945043 through the Design count predicates: routing,
focus and learnings setup was not recognized as setup, Issue 1 was counted
pre-review in both attempts (the boundary fired on it), and attempt 2
counted the Font TODO proposal as a finding (review=4 and review=5 for five
issues). The paid caller now starts review at the first answered native
decision that is not setup (recognized packet, or setup header/question ID),
a completion handoff, artifact rendering or a TODO proposal (the review's
Add to TODOS.md / Skip / Build it now menu). TODO proposals are recorded as
administrative extra decisions. The replay asserts each counted call: both
attempts review=5 (Issues 1-5). isDesignCountFirstReview and its controls
are unchanged.

* test: CEO classifier throws name the question and matched predicates

Replaying run 36385945043's FAN-1 and ERR-1 throws (ledger rows
reconstructed from rendered diffs) through ceoPaymentFinding: the email
obligation's row, subject, option and proposal predicates pass and the
ELI10 explanation-defect predicate fails first ('lets that exception fly
out', 'the error bubbles up').

Binding the defect to the named ledger row instead (the planned fix) was
tried and reverted: scoped to the email seed it flips 30+ existing cf74
still-rejects replays, which require a vocabulary-free, ledger-bound email
question to earn credit only through a complete saved comparison. With
FAN-1's rendered currentDecision payload reconstructed, the recorded-
decision path counts it, so the real saved plan (not uploaded) must have
differed; failure artifacts now retain it.

The classifier stays fail-closed and unchanged. Its throw now prints the
header, the first 200 question characters and each obligation's predicate
results. Free regressions with provenance and negative controls: an
unrelated question, an email question whose row says it is already
rescued, and a ledger ID whose row belongs to another seed.

* chore: regenerate the test type-debt baseline on top of #2994

* fix(typecheck): strip the checkout root from ratchet diagnostic identities

* fix(test): recognize ledger row-ID split candidates so collection stops at the last ACK

Run 36385945043's split-overflow case asked all five candidate decisions by
8m55s, but the live candidate check required the question to open with
"E1:" and every option to be a known disposition. The skill cited ledger
row IDs ("D2.1 — R-E1: …") and offered "Hold, discuss first", so no
candidate was recognized and the attempt ran the whole review (1302s).

Identity now comes from the native header; the question must open with that
candidate's ledger reference, name only that candidate, and offer exactly one
include, defer and cut disposition. The selected answer must still be one of
those three. The semantic evaluator and every existing negative control are
unchanged; a trimmed capture from the run adds the positive case and four
row-ID negative controls.

* fix(test): stop the eng batching eval once its floor is proven

The case's only verdict is reviewCount >= FLOOR (3). Run 36385945043 had
three distinct acknowledged review decisions at 6m41s but kept answering
until the ceiling (7) at 12m13s. The registration now passes the runner's
existing isCollectionComplete stop once FLOOR non-setup, non-administrative
review decisions are acknowledged; the floor check, ceiling, budget and
counter are unchanged. A child-process registration test proves the stop
predicate and that below-floor and timeout outcomes still fail.

* test: add the non-blocking 'marathon' E2E tier

Full start-to-finish flows move out of the blocking lanes. E2E_TIERS and
E2ETier gain 'marathon'; describeE2ETier('marathon') is enabled only when
EVALS_TIER=marathon, so the gate/PR and periodic lanes (and the gate census)
never run those cases. The PR profile accepts marathon ids as scheduled
elsewhere and defers them with their own reason, even on full fallback.

* test: move the full office-hours workflow to marathon; add a periodic design-draft checkpoint

The full startup workflow runs 1–3 real spec-review rounds (~280s each) and
hit its 1200s capture in run 36385945043 at finalize. Review depth is the
product's loop, so the case cannot fit a blocking lane without cutting
rounds. It is now marathon tier with every assertion unchanged.

skill-e2e-office-hours-design-draft.test.ts (periodic) runs the same fixed
interview only through the Write that creates the design (269s in that run)
and applies the full validator's design-draft checks, the required section
reads and the launch/foreign-skill-read guards. validateOfficeHoursDesignDraft
is extracted from validateOfficeHoursCompletion, which still applies it.

Selection: office-hours-design-draft is registered periodic; the marathon-only
file is already excluded from the gate and periodic plans by the B5 planner
rule. Tier-alignment regexes and the valid-tier check accept 'marathon'.
A type-only cast in plan-scope-selection.test.ts removes a diagnostic whose
union print order made the ratchet identity unstable; baseline tightened.

* test: supply the split-overflow fixture's HOLD SCOPE mode as a prerequisite

The split actor always answered 0E's mode question with HOLD SCOPE. The
skill skips that question on an explicit choice, so the fixture now states
it and the attempt starts at the five candidate decisions (about 1.5 min
earlier in run 36385945043). Candidates, actor policy, floor and semantic
evaluation are unchanged; the fixture test pins the supplied choice.

* test: start the eng batching eval with its setup prerequisites supplied

Routing setup and cross-project learnings (D1/D2 in run 36385945043) are
never counted and are not what the case measures. The registration now uses
the runner's existing preconfiguredReviewActor so the attempt starts at the
review; engSetupAUQ still vetoes any late setup question. The registration
test pins the option.

* test: count the design-draft paid file and defer marathon ids in PR selection pins

The discovered paid-file census grows by one (skill-e2e-office-hours-design-draft).
Full-fallback PR selection defers every non-gate id; the shared-input pins now
expect periodic and marathon ids there.

* fix(review): resolve the judged revalidation, setup-authority, plan-gate and findings-record ambiguities

The census review workflow judge scored clarity/actionability 3 on both
attempts: smoke-clock limits appeared to forbid post-repair revalidation,
the caller deadline was undefined, 'ask for setup' conflicted with the
report-only browser rule, fallback-sourced HIGH discrepancies had no gate
decision, and the Step 5.8 record omitted adversarial findings.

* fix(office-hours): load the builder section for every builder-mode reply

Both census builder-wildness attempts answered a direct request for
adjacent unlocks without reading phase-2b-builder-brainstorm.md, whose
trigger read as applying only to the generative questions.

* fix(sync-gbrain): define Step 4 helper args and one atomic write path

Both census read-ready attempts spent turns reading the helper source to
resolve <user-args>, inspecting fixture internals kept inside the repo,
and reconciling 'Read + Edit' with the tmp+mv atomic write, then hit
max turns before the verdict.

* refactor(evals): share the import-closure walker and add the E2E shard reuse identity

sourceDependencyClosure moves from the workflow-judge adapter into
scripts/eval-input-cache.ts unchanged, so judge keys stay byte-identical.
scripts/e2e-shard-reuse.ts builds the consumed-input identity of one PR-lane
E2E shard (test import closure, every registered case's touchfiles, globals,
runner/workflow/setup actions, child env pins, CI image, Claude CLI) and fails
closed on anything unknown. Marathon joins the always-fresh purposes.

* feat(evals): ~12-minute blocking paid lanes and a non-blocking marathon lane

- Planner budget mode (--slice-budget S --jobs J): recorded per-tier wall
  times pack into as many ~9-minute executors as the work needs; the plan
  records per-slice estimates and the CI job timeout (supervised worst case
  + 20 min). evals.yml and evals-periodic.yml derive matrix size and
  timeout-minutes from it; max-parallel covers every slice at once.
- Case shards: plan/design/review-army/shared-libs(-paths) run one registered
  case per process (<file>#<case id>, exact name pattern, exactly one case).
- Retry rule: a timed-out attempt is a verdict. Only files whose every case
  budget is CAPTURE tier or shorter keep one retry; walls shrink to match.
- Marathon tier: positive selection, excluded from gate/periodic planners,
  run by the new evals-marathon.yml (weekly + dispatch, fresh, own report).
- PR-lane E2E reuse of verified first-attempt passes on identical inputs;
  the report rejects reuse outside the fast PR profile.
- Duration seed from census run 36385945043, per tier and per case shard.

* docs: blocking lane budget, marathon lane, retry policy and E2E reuse

* chore(typecheck): lock in two fixed test diagnostics

* fix(ci): drop a duplicated env/jobs block in evals-marathon.yml

* test(ship-docsync): shard the doc-sync lifecycle by case and drop the duplicate dispatch-only case

ship-docsync ran the same fixture and prompt as ship-docsync-completion and
asserted a subset of it. The file now runs one case per process, so its lane
wall is its longest case instead of half the sum of thirteen.

* fix(evals): plan CI-unrunnable cases as excluded entries, not empty case shards

design-review-fix drives the Aside browser and registers test.skip on Linux
runners, so its case shard executed zero cases and failed the exact-one-case
check in proof census 36597762183 (eval-slices 6). CASE_CI_EXCLUDE (reason +
tracking, beside PERIODIC_CI_EXCLUDE) now turns such cases into excluded
manifest entries that --list and the manifest surface; every planned case
shard still must execute exactly its case.

* docs(todos): list the case-level Aside exclusion with the CI-unrunnable evals

* fix(plan-ceo-review): restore experience-first expansion framing, require the mode handoff, skip pacing menus

Census 36597762183: both mode-routing runs logged provenance and moved on
without the mandated handoff chat; the EXPANSION run asked an unauthorized
batch/narrow pacing menu instead of the first per-addition question; the
expansion-energy proposals led with the spec because v1.87.6.0 dropped
'lead with the felt experience'. The HOLD review detector also rejected a
decision whose grounding line named no plan file although the owned source
Read binds it.

* test(outside-plan-disabled): bind quoted prior-record values by their sentence, not phrase order

The parent obeyed the off switch and twice named the seeded completed
record as pre-existing, once with the quotation after its owner and once
with slash separators; the order-specific stripper counted both as current
completion. Timestamp, location, current-claim and value-match controls
still reject.

* test(outside-plan-disabled): compare named record timestamps as instants; negated authorship is not a current claim

The repair rerun named the seeded record by its ISO second
(2026-09-29T16:58:52Z vs .727Z) and said 'I did not write'; both were
misread as a foreign timestamp and a current write.

* test(ceo-section-loading): recognize an arrow-ordered stale-fill execution by event roles

The census review traced the seeded race as 'R1 miss -> R1 store read (v1)
-> W commit v2 -> W cache.delete -> W fulfills -> R1 cache.set(v1) -> R2
(begun after W) hits v1', but the in-flight gate only accepted race
vocabulary or fixed sentence shapes. Order, actor, version and dismissal
mutations still fail.

* test(design-floor): answer the seed-declared all-seven 0D focus menu while it is pending

The actor declares 'Design: review all seven dimensions', but its picker
reused designReviewSetupAUQ, which only matches already-answered calls
(and a narrower header/label set), so the pending D1 focus menu was never
answered and the case waited out its 609 s deadline. The skill's Step 0D
requires asking; the fixture now answers it.

* test(ceo-mode-routing): accept the skill-mandated Note form and Recommendation reason as HOLD posture

HOLD Defer/Keep briefs must use 'Note: options differ in kind' (preamble),
but the answered-HOLD path demanded a Completeness score, rejected a
one-line Net with a semicolon, and read posture only from ELI10. The rerun's
brief applied HOLD SCOPE in its Recommendation reason. Revert the
ineffective 'always'/'handoff chat' wording: two runs still skipped the
mode handoff.

* test(qa-bugs): keep claude-opus-4-7 after qa-b6-static stalled on the default model

qa-b6-static timed out on claude-fable-5-1 in census 36597762183 and in one
of two targeted reruns. Both times the stream stopped mid-message with no
pending tool, right after the model found the disabled submit button, and
stayed silent until the 300 s deadline. Per the B8 fallback, re-pin with a
TODOS entry; budgets and retries are unchanged. A rerun on opus-4-7 passed
(125 s, 5/5 detected).

* test(evals): add E2E_KINDS, BEHAVIOR_WHY, EVAL_POLICY and CASE_QUARANTINE skeletons

Every E2E_TIERS and LLM_JUDGE_TOUCHFILES key starts as 'rule'; BEHAVIOR_WHY
and CASE_QUARANTINE start empty. EVAL_POLICY pre-registers the approved
panel (3, majority 2), quarantine entry 0.95/10 and exit 0.97/10, 10% cap,
8-weekly-run expiry, Fisher drift alarm and one INFRA re-dispatch.

* test(evals): add trial records, panelVerdict, expectContract and trial-outcomes JSONL

EvalTestEntry gains case_id, kind, trial, panel, failure_class and
policy_version, stamped from the runner's TRIAL_ENV on isolated trial
shards. panelVerdict() is the single verdict function (INCOMPLETE on
missing or duplicate trials, contract veto at any count, quarantine
hard-break rule, INFRA/INCOMPLETE machine classification). expectContract()
records failure_class 'contract' on the collector entry and a sidecar
before throwing. trial-outcomes JSONL has a fail-closed writer and a
data-only reader.

* test(evals): pin the fail-closed rule-shard gate through the real --report path

Synthetic slice artifacts for rule fail, timeout, missing slice, unreported
entry, hollow, never-started, collector failure and wrong-slice reports all
exit red before the panel-verdict gate change lands.

* test(evals): retire every paid automatic retry

Paid evals never retry (approved 2026-09-29): delete SHORT_CASE_RETRY_FILES
and retriesWithinCaseCap, drop the retry fields from the registered wall rows
(walls now cover one run plus reserve), make retriesForFiles return 0, pass
--retry 0 explicitly, and drop --retry 1 from the package.json paid scripts.
Add the eval:pass-rates alias. Tests that pinned the old retry allowance are
updated as a policy change; review-finalization-budget now proves late-result
recording under the production zero-retry arguments.

* test(llm-judge): sample every judge as a pre-registered 3-sample panel

Each of the 24 skill-llm-eval judges now draws EVAL_POLICY.judge.samples
independent samples of the same prompt concurrently inside the unchanged
JUDGE_MS budget. Numeric dimensions gate on the per-dimension panel mean
against the unchanged threshold; booleans (would_browse, consistent) on a
strict majority. An erroring sample fails the whole panel and is never
resampled; a refusal is an unscored panel only when every sample refused.
callJudge's 429 backoff stays: it is transport before any model output.

The workflow-judge cache stores and validates only complete panels, and its
identity now records the panel and zero file retries. Harness tests that
pinned one provider call per case now pin the panel size.

* test(evals): classify every live case and re-select a case when its kind changes

E2E_KINDS: rule by default (191 E2E ids), 22 behavior cases whose verdict is
a live model choice with an acceptable sub-100% per-trial rate, each with a
BEHAVIOR_WHY tolerance, and 25 judge entries (the 24 workflow judges plus the
fixed-fixture llm-judge-recommendation rubric check). Contract-shaped cases
(ask-before-decide, plan-mode no-writes, mandated steps, secrets, the batching
floor) stay rule. Behavior requires a known literal registration and an exact
Bun test name so the case runs as its own trial shard.

Map-diff selection now diffs E2E_KINDS and BEHAVIOR_WHY per key, and a base
revision without them selects every key, so a kind flip runs the panel it
introduces. test/eval-kinds.test.ts enforces coverage, tolerances,
isolatability and the reviewed counts, printing the literal to add.

* feat(evals): per-case pass rates with Wilson intervals, identity series and quarantine policy

scripts/eval-flake-rank.ts becomes eval:pass-rates (eval:flake-rank stays an
alias, and the legacy aggregate stays exported). It reads eval-store's
trial-outcomes JSONL from the last N completed evals-periodic runs on this
branch and main (gh, downloading only the trial-outcomes artifact, cached and
size-capped, parsed as data), plus local eval dirs, and prints per-case
per-trial pass rates with 95% Wilson intervals.

A series is a case's own touchfiles minus GLOBAL_TOUCHFILES
(caseSeriesIdentities, for the report job to stamp), per model, CLI version
and policy version. Labels: INCONCLUSIVE, BROKEN, FLAKY, FAILING, PASSING.
--backfill imports legacy slice artifacts as pre-policy trials (first
attempt only, attributed by registry id, never guessed) for display only.

--gate fails with ACTION REQUIRED on post-policy evidence only: drift below
the quarantine entry rule, a rule case behaving like behavior, a one-sided
Fisher drop against the previous identity (Holm-controlled), and quarantine
entries that met their exit rule, expired after 8 weekly runs, broke the
10% tier cap or are invalid. CASE_QUARANTINE entries now carry a
failureClass (detector, harness or model-latency); a product defect has no
class and is never quarantined. The policy test pins EVAL_POLICY's approved
constants.

* feat(eval-pass-rates): attribute legacy records by the exact slug of their display name

* ci(image): pin Claude Code 2.1.284 so the eval model is recognized

2.1.251 logs [claude-code:unrecognized_model] for claude-fable-5-1, the
eval capture/judge default. 2.1.284 does not. The gate PTY smoke subset
(plan-ceo/plan-devex plan-mode, plan-mode-no-op) parses on the new TUI;
plan-design-review-plan-mode passed at 293 s on 2.1.284 and timed out at
300 s on 2.1.251 on the same tree.

* test(eng-batching): grade the floor once the review report is complete

A completed GSTACK REVIEW REPORT ends the review, so the review-question
count is final there. Run 36606688266 wrote its report at 1,248 s and
closed the session at 1,318 s; the case now stops collection and applies
the unchanged floor at the report instead of waiting out the session.
No budget changes.

* test(eng-batching): bind unsourced native briefs through the report's target

Run 36606688266 asked ten separate native review questions (D1-D9 bound
to ledger records R1-R9) and failed reviewCount=0 < FLOOR=3: its briefs
named the plan by title instead of citing PLAN.md, its report declared
'Review target (fixed): PLAN.md' under '# Engineering review: <plan>', and
it kept an unfenced copy of the plan's own H1. The named-source route now
accepts those spellings and non-inline ledger briefs. The same replay
rejects a foreign, mixed, duplicate or missing target, another plan's
title or copied H1, a brief naming another plan or file, a mismatched
saved brief, and re-asks. The run-36597762183 capture still counts 3.

* fix(plan-design-review): treat a designer with no API key as unavailable

Both proof runs (36597762183, 36606688266) printed DESIGN_READY, hit
'No OpenAI API key found' on the first $D variants call, then hand-built
HTML/CSS wireframes, screenshots and a comparison board for ~195-245 s
before the first review question; the second run timed out at 600 s.
A failed first generation now takes the existing text-only path, and the
skill forbids substituting hand-built mockups.

* fix(deslop-shared-libs): read related sources together within the turn limit

Run 36606688266's opportunity audit read sixteen sources one per turn and
stopped at error_max_turns; the passing run 36597762183 read the same
files in three batched commands. The skill now says turns are bounded and
asks for parallel reads or one read-only command per step.

* test(ceo-mode-routing): submit a mode review that scrolled past the viewport

Run 36606688266 bundled routing, learnings and the mode choice into one
native call. Its review panel was taller than the terminal, so the tab
bar scrolled off, ceoModeSubmissionInput returned null for 240 s and HOLD
SCOPE was never submitted ('no posture match'). With no bar on screen the
viewport must still end at the focused Submit prompt, and the accumulated
screen text supplies the one complete panel, authenticated exactly as
before. Replay controls reject another mode, an unoffered answer, an
altered question, a quoted panel, trailing output, a moved cursor and an
answered or changed call.

* docs(evals): document the pre-registered verdict policy, quarantine, pass-rate history and arithmetic

AGENTS.md replaces the retry rule with the approved policy text (no retries;
kind fixes trials; no added trials, samples or dispatches after a result;
quarantine by CASE_QUARANTINE only; one INFRA/INCOMPLETE re-dispatch) and
notes that a pre-registered fixed panel is not rejudging. CONTRIBUTING gains
the kind rules, the judge panel, eval:pass-rates and an 'Add a paid eval'
checklist. TESTING_INTERNALS describes verdicts, quarantine, history and the
arithmetic, including the rule term: 1 trial vs 2-of-3 red rates at
p = 0.99/0.95/0.90/0.70/0.30 and lane all-green probabilities for the
current 191 rule / 22 behavior / 25 judge registry.

* feat(evals): trial planner, slice exit split and panel-verdict report

Planner: behavior and quarantined cases become panels of isolated trial
shards (<file>#<id>~t<N>) bound by EVALS_SELECTION_JSON=[id] and the exact
test name; the file shard excludes them by name. Trials of one case never
share a slice, result slugs are unique, panels are validated whole, unknown
registrations throw, and the planner prints a capacity preflight.

Executor: each trial shard gets its TRIAL_ENV identity and a trial record
(outcome, failure class, cause, cost); every shard writes a JUnit report.
The slice exit now means execution completeness: a failed rule shard or a
trial without a record reds the runner, a failed trial does not.

Report: panelVerdict() decides every panel of the first run attempt (later
attempts are reported, never replacing it); rule shards keep the unchanged
fail-closed checks; collector records all count (no last-attempt wins);
census runs enforce the quarantine cap and expiry. It writes
collector-outcomes v2, trial-outcomes.jsonl (trials plus JUnit rule/judge
cases), report-summary.md, and one headline + failure block with rerun
commands, and flags INFRA/INCOMPLETE-only reds for the one re-dispatch.

The fail-open suite gains the panel cases: behavior 1/3 red, 2/3 green
with its failed trial shown, missing trial INCOMPLETE, contract at 2/3 red,
quarantined 1/3 green, 0/3 and contract red, missing slice red, and a later
attempt never replacing the first.

* chore(evals): refresh paid duration seeds from proof runs 36597762183 and 36606688266

Both tiers, merged in run order (the later run wins). Notable: split-overflow
1332s -> 504s, section-loading 604s -> 342s, mode-routing 575s -> 444s;
multi-finding-batching 734s -> 1318s (its red path in run 36606688266).

* feat(evals): stamp trial series identities and fit panels to the live registry

- scripts/eval-trial-series.ts stamps series_identity (eval-flake-rank's
  caseSeriesIdentities) on a report's trial-outcomes JSONL as its own step,
  keeping the history tool out of the paid runner's closure;
  TrialOutcomeRecord gains the optional series_identity field.
- Slice-count plans let a registered trial spill into an ordinary lane when
  its siblings hold every long lane, so panels never share a runner.
- Re-audited test-selection.ts (Stream B added the E2E_KINDS/BEHAVIOR_WHY
  map-diff; no new module loading) and repinned its hash.
- Detach and release floors now count trial shards (66 periodic trials in
  22 panels): periodic floor 33,821s, still under eval:bg:periodic's 67,380s.
- Coordination fixtures supply the executor's trial records.

* ci(evals): attempt-scoped artifacts, verdict-v2 PR comment, weekly pass-rate gate and one INFRA re-dispatch

- Slice, census and marathon artifacts carry -a<run_attempt>; reports
  download them per artifact (no merge), so records never overwrite and a
  re-run never replaces the first attempt's verdict.
- Planners pass --max-parallel for the capacity preflight (24/16 unchanged:
  the refreshed periodic plan needs 24 slices, the gate census 12).
- PR comment: jq-only job reads collector-outcomes v2 (headline, sanitized
  failure block); the group_by(.name)|last recomputation is gone.
- Reports stamp series identities, upload trial-outcomes-* for history, and
  shard logs upload always (a failed trial no longer reds its runner).
- Weekly report: headline + failure block of both lanes in the issue body,
  the eval:pass-rates --gate step (fails closed without history), close the
  issue on a green run, and UC-E1: when every red is machine-classified
  INFRA/INCOMPLETE, one re-dispatch as a new run in its own concurrency
  group (redispatch_of), both runs reported.

* feat(evals): planner-side whole-panel reuse and negative receipts

The planner job restores this PR's receipt store once and ships a single
filtered set with the plan: a pass or panel receipt with a same-or-newer
FAIL for its input identity is dropped, and a panel receipt ships only as
a whole PASS panel (re-verified with panelVerdict) from one run. Executors
read only that set (no per-slice cache restore or save), so every trial of
a panel sees the same receipts; a trial reuses its own record from the
panel receipt, keeping a split PASS's failed trial.

Trial identities drop the trial index (run-scoped) and bind the panel
policy. Executed shards carry their input identity; the report turns a
whole fresh PASS panel into a panel receipt and a FAIL panel or failed rule
shard into a negative receipt, and marks a panel that mixes reused and
fresh trials INCOMPLETE. The report job merges plan, slice and report
receipts (newest per file) and saves one store per run.

Also fixes two TS2352 casts in browse/test/dia-macos-qualification.test.ts
whose diagnostic text drifted with program order (baseline locked, fix only).

* feat(evals): --case/--trials local diagnosis and panels in local sharded runs

bun run scripts/test-paid-shards.ts --case <id> [--trials N] runs N
independent trials of one case through the CI panel runner (trial shards,
TRIAL_ENV identity, name-pattern isolation) and prints its panelVerdict();
N defaults to the case's policy panel and CI never reads it. The local
sharded path (test:gate:sharded, test:periodic:sharded) now plans the same
trial shards and exclusions as CI and exits on execution completeness plus
panel verdicts.

* test(pty): grant an owned Create pane whose title row is cropped

The targeted batching rerun on Claude Code 2.1.284 left its first report
Write unanswered for 1,372 s and timed out: the viewport began at the
pane's relative file row and rule, with the 'Create file' title cropped
above, so the preview parser rejected the file row as foreign. That row
must now resolve to the owned path and is skipped before the unchanged
line-by-line preview match. Replay controls reject another file, another
directory and an edited preview row.

* fix(evals): tsx-safe generics in eval-flake-rank, legacy artifact names, no-retry wall docs

* test(evals): record the read-only and detector-row invariants as contracts

shared-libs-opportunity-judgment and review-design-lite are behavior
cases: their recommendation and checklist judgments may vary, but the
read-only invariant (commands, provider requests, fixture bytes, hooks,
state) and the deterministic fake-engine detector rows are contracts.
Both now go through expectContract, so any failure vetoes the panel.

* test(judges): sample the recommendation rubric as a panel; never re-ask armJudge

llm-judge-recommendation is a judge case: each fixture now draws a
3-sample judgePanel, gates reason_substance on the panel mean and the
present/commits/has_because checks on a 2-of-3 majority, thresholds
unchanged. armJudge no longer re-asks on a malformed verdict; it is a
failed sample, as the judge policy requires.

* test(evals): record a pre-turn API or CLI failure as infra

recordE2E sets failure_class 'infra' on a failed session whose runner
reports error_api, timeout_startup, error_output_stream or a non-zero CLI
exit with zero turns and no assistant event. A model refusal, a timeout
after model work, max turns, or an explicit caller pass/class keeps its
ordinary classification.

* test: pin every-record outcome counts and the twelve doc-sync callbacks

* test(eng-batching): read the report target as a field, not a spelling

The next targeted rerun (Claude Code 2.1.284) again asked eleven separate
native questions and again counted zero: its briefs named no plan and its
report declared '- **Review target (fixed):** `/abs/PLAN.md`' under
'# Eng Review — PLAN.md: <plan>'. An unsourced brief now inherits the one
current target field that names a PLAN.md file, whatever its list or
emphasis markup; its ledger record still supplies the cited finding and
must reproduce the brief exactly. A brief that names its plan must still
match the report title. Replays of all three captures count 9, 9 and 3;
controls reject a foreign, duplicate or missing target and an archived
title.

* fix(evals): --case list mode and name precheck; case-shard qa-callers; refresh batching and design-with-ui seeds

* chore(release): v1.91.9.0

* test: settle the post-response composer before seeding; give the TPA recorder adapter its infra helper

submitPlanSeed accepted a stale empty composer when the transcript recorded
end_turn before the CLI repainted (late-repaint-typed-current fails 5/5 on the
old helper, passes 5/5 now). The TPA recording fixture extracted recordE2E
without isPreTurnInfraFailure, so every failed case threw before recording.

* test(autoplan-dual-voice): unwrap Claude Code 2.1.284 subagent hand-back frames; accept read-only probe diagnostics; record before asserting

Census run 36626737820: the native CEO report arrived framed and indented, so
its INPUT line never matched, and the model's exact probe plus two variable
echoes was not canonical. A column-zero line inside a frame, command
substitution, backticks, redirects, assignments, CODEX_MODE echoes and output
line-count mismatches stay rejected. The failure now records before asserting.

* ci(image): keep Claude Code 2.1.251; test(ceo-mode-routing): keep HOLD's own deferrals in scope before assessing its rigor decision

2.1.284 enables per-turn effort for claude-fable-5-1: in gate census
36626737820, 66 of 84 sessions ran longer than on 2.1.251 (+20% session time,
+32% thinking tokens) and 11 cases timed out on unchanged budgets.

HOLD SCOPE's 0G step asks its own defer/keep menu; the actor answered it
Defer and the assessment then judged that scope question as the rigor
decision. The actor now answers that menu Keep and assesses the next one.

* test: attribute quoted prior-record field lists, state the judge reason bound in its schema, move split-overflow to marathon

Census 36629958451 reds:
- outside-plan-disabled-no-fallback: the model quoted the pre-existing record
  as a parenthesized field list with its exact timestamp; attribution now
  requires that exact timestamp and the record's own field values.
- plan-devex-peer-comparison-classification: the judge correctly returned
  missing but wrote a 1069-character reason, voiding the judgment; structured
  outputs cannot enforce maxLength, so the bound is stated on the field.
- plan-ceo-split-overflow ran 504-1188 s as one PTY flow and set the
  periodic lane's wall clock; it now runs weekly in the marathon lane.

* test: supply holdDeferKeepIndex to the CEO routing mocks and follow split-overflow into the marathon lane

The registered-callback fixtures mock ceo-mode-option and lacked the new
export; the split fixtures asserted the periodic tier; the registered-budget
check looked for split-overflow only in the periodic manifest.

* fix(qa): checkpoint receipts print the report link for their exploration file

qa-functional-webhook-report failed in two of three censuses because the
report linked .qa-evidence/NNN capture folders as "checkpoints" and never
linked exploration-NNN.json. The checkpoint receipt now prints
link: [checkpoint NNN](exploration-NNN.json), and the functional report
template says capture folders are not checkpoints.

* docs: final census numbers in the v1.91.9.0 entry; file the paid-eval follow-ups

* ci(evals): name the PR-comment loop's unused fields so shellcheck passes (SC2034)

* fix(plan-ceo-review): tighten expansion pacing wording to fit the skeleton cap after the main merge

The merged skeleton measured 80,166 bytes against its unchanged 80,150 cap.
Same instructions: ask separately for each addition, in turn, with no pacing
menu; lead each proposal with the felt experience, then shape, effort and impact.

* fix(eval-pass-rates): match trial-outcome files by basename so Windows backslash paths are read

* fix(evals): repair proof-run reds in design-consultation, document-release, design and QA fixtures

- design-consultation Phase 1 asks one brief that confirms context and decides
  research; the confirm-only first question scored substance 2.
- document-release defines ship-owned inputs, exact steps and the JSON result,
  and drops stale spawned-from-/ship text (judge actionability 3.67 -> 4/4/4).
- plan-design-with-ui accepts the Step 0D focus menu the same way the shared
  picker does ("focus on specific ones?").
- plan-design-review plan-mode saves in three Edits instead of one final Write.
- QA functional annotations ask for the full 40-character revision.
- Outside-disabled attribution judges quoted prior-record data by its exact
  timestamp or a dated, pre-existing-record sentence; four captured phrasings
  replay clean and current claims still fail.
- --case can select autoplan-dual-voice by its literal test name.

* test(design): revert the three-Edit plan-mode flow

A focused paid run still timed out at 300 s: the first three passes alone took
150 s of thinking. The case stays a named timeout red rather than cutting review depth.

* test: accept 'review mode = X' auto-decide declarations and parenthetical scope exclusions in the shared-libs actor

auto-decide-preserved: the product auto-decided HOLD SCOPE and said
"Decision: review mode = HOLD SCOPE"; the grammar knew only "is" and ":".
shared-libs-plan-callers: the recommended option said "(no hardening)" and the
actor read "hardening" as an expansion. Both replay the captured text, keep
negative controls, and passed focused paid runs.

* fix(review): pass Review Army checklists by path, run research alongside dispatch, always probe the design detector; state review-log invocation and statuses in the caller fixture

- review-army-perf-n-plus-one: the parent copied full checklists into agent
  prompts and ran web research before dispatch (290 s on a 12-line diff); 212 s now.
- review-design-lite: 5 of 6 captured trials reported the detector absent
  without probing; the probe is mandatory and its first line is reported, and
  the contract credits only fake-engine rule ids the checklist never names.
- review-exploratory-small-cli: the fixture never gave review-log's direct
  invocation or status vocabulary; the model ran it through bun and wrote
  status "blocked". The prompt states both and the validator rejects
  out-of-vocabulary review statuses.
Each case passed a focused paid run after repair.

* docs(changelog): proof-run product fixes

* fix(ship): always run the design-lite detector probe; test(shared-libs): credit a failed first file view and deferred-reuse Skip wording

- /ship design-lite: the probe is mandatory and any non-ready first line is
  stated, matching /review (5 of 6 captured /review trials had skipped it).
- shared-libs-pr-coverage: the first PR 42 page-1 read printed only a jq error,
  so the one refetch is a legitimate recovery, charged to the same budget.
- shared-libs-review-prior-coverage: the Skip option said a future review can
  "reuse it once snapshot coverage holds"; a conditional tail on the recorded
  decision is not product work. Captured-text regressions and negative controls.

* fix(ship,qa,document-release): repair proof-run regressions and fixture gaps

- ship-docsync-completion: yesterday's audit-scope result dropped the section's
  status, so /ship spliced one in; the section now opens with **Status:**.
- ship-docsync-missing-asset: a missing section or old Ship-owned mode blocks
  before launch.
- ship-docsync-late-result: the invocation record says prepare already saves
  the candidate selection (no extra Read; budget unchanged).
- qa exploratory: await the method Reads before the first probe.
- qa-callers fixture: quote the real review-log record template; allow the
  git log command plan-completion prescribes.
- qa functional observer: a receipt caught mid-link(2) is checked at stop
  instead of failing with ENOENT (reproduced from CI).
Each repaired case passed a focused paid run.

* ci(image): pin Claude Code 2.1.284, the version users run

Request-body capture shows both 2.1.251 and 2.1.284 send effort "high" to
claude-fable-5-1; 2.1.284 adds the model's own profile. The slower 2.1.284
census was mostly API latency: its SDK-only judges were 25% slower too. Nine
previously slow cases pass on 2.1.284 within unchanged budgets.

* test: one owner per case id, a structural devex 0B setup rule, and correct design/gbrain actors

- plan-design-review-plan-mode was registered by two files; the PTY smoke is
  now plan-design-review-plan-mode-smoke, and a registry test requires one
  owner per case in case-sharded files.
- plan-devex-finding-floor: the template's 0B narrative-confirmation question
  is classified as setup structurally instead of timing out a Haiku assessor.
- setup-gbrain-remote: the actor accepted 'skip' on the MCP-registration
  question the test asserts; it now accepts that question and declines others.
- design-review-plugin-handoff: the fake engine cited a file absent from the
  fixture repo and index.html linked a missing styles.css.
Captured-question regressions with negative controls; each case passed a
focused paid run.

* test: PTY harness handles clipped reviews and bundled setup tabs; AUQ judge uses structured output; design-consultation carve declines optional outside voices

- ceo mode routing: a Submit review taller than the viewport, a setup tab
  bundled after the mode tab, and a clip through the mode question each hung
  or misread the run; the native answer is still verified after Submit.
- judgeRecommendation requests a 1-5 enum schema; a malformed Haiku reply had
  scored substance 0 for a 4/5 brief. Judge failures now propagate.
- carve section-loading for design-consultation declines the optional outside
  voices (a supported path) and treats DESIGN.md as the report; timeout unchanged.
The Step 0E handoff defect is not fixed (0/15 samples across four wordings,
none shipped) and is filed in TODOS.

* test: fold the design-consultation completion replay into carve-section-sharding (test-of-test ratchet)

* docs(todos): record the pre-push hook shard-order hang

* test(qa-callers): disable git auto maintenance in the fixture repo (same guard as shared-libs; from #3002)

* test(office-hours-attempt): the fake judge SDK response carries stop_reason like the real API (structured judge requires end_turn)

* fix(qa): the caller STOP line says to await the method Reads before any probe

ship-exploratory-plan-checks: the model read exploratory.md and sent a capture
in the same response, before seeing the section's own await rule.

* fix(qa): number the qa value-bar questions from 1 and say reproduced bugs already answer the first two

* fix(qa): define evidence.json where it is built, point the preparation gate at the next section, name measured command durations in the report template

Recurring qa/qa-only workflow-judge complaints in CI (clarity/actionability 3.33).

* fix(plan-eng-review,review): a disallowed question tool is not headless; report kept tests only when some were skipped

* fix(plan-eng-review): keep the headless-rule contract phrases adjacent

* fix(evals): cut path variance at its measured sources

- gstack-qa-evidence capture prints startedAt/completedAt/durationMs and, for
  --deadline captures, remainingMs; the functional report takes durations from
  them. The section clock notice asks for one clock read up front instead of one
  after every checkpoint (QA runs spent 7-14% of tool calls on date -u).
- ship plan-completion: skip the audit dispatch when discovery already found no
  plan (the dispatch-vs-skip conflict produced an optional 60-100 s subagent).
- materialize/checkpoint validation errors state the expected schema, so a
  rejected annotations file is fixable in one call instead of blocking the phase.
- session-runner counts turns from the transcript when a run times out, so
  timeouts stop reporting 'turn 0'.

* fix(evals): count timeout turns only from object transcript events

* test(qa-callers): deterministic child transport, completion-time handoff reads, compact phase report

The exploratory caller cases exist to prove the caller starts and bounds
exploratory QA. Their native adversarial reviewer (review) and plan audit
(ship plan-checks) now come from recorded child outputs instead of a live
subagent, handoff freshness reads are required before completion records
rather than every bookkeeping log, and the phase report is compact. Measured:
194-257 s per case against 208-284 s before, no subagent calls.

* test(ship-docsync): seed fault cases at their gate instead of replaying attempt 1

The post-dispatch fault cases (missing-marker, launch-failure, timeout-unsettled,
late-result, stale-before, stale-after, recovery) now start from a fixture-owned
attempt 1: the real actor prepares and dispatches it, its verbatim output is saved
once, and the invocation journal carries its pre-dispatch entry with the child
asset hashes. The model resumes at Parent processing with a trimmed read list,
inspect named as the authoritative repository observation, and recovery's
intermediate checkpoint folded into the next attempt's pre-dispatch entry.
Assertions count only parent-issued transport events and require a read of the
saved attempt-1 output; missing-asset and the legacy failure case keep the full
model-driven first attempt, and their prompts are byte-identical.

* test(ship-docsync): name the seeded read list and cap journal/report length

The first seeded stale-before run spent calls locating documentation.md (two ls
sweeps), reading through cat and re-Reading the record before Edit, and ~40 s
composing 1.5-2.2 KB entries and report. Name every seeded read path, ask for
native Read, and bound entry/report length.

* test(ship-docsync): trim the seeded parent's measured model time

Measured on the seeded runs: one read the 78 KB ship/SKILL.md, the post-child
freshness comparison spent 18-32 s of thinking over full inspect contents, and
the final response restated the report (~1.1 KB). Say the phase excerpt stands
in for ship/SKILL.md, compare hashes first and read content only for changed
paths, and end with one status line.

* feat(qa-evidence): enforce the checkpoint sequence and fill report bookkeeping in code

- capture refuses to run another probe until a checkpoint anchored on the
  latest complete capture names this capture as its next command, and every
  complete capture prints that requirement.
- materialize fills revision, runtime, cwd and learning (checkpoints whose next
  native command differs) when omitted and prints the reportLinks the report
  must include; the QA section shrinks accordingly.

* test(qa-callers): hand the caller phase its invocation-start observations and review token; fix(next-version): fetch without auto maintenance

- Every caller case receives the diff, status, log, untracked list, HEAD and an
  already-captured review start token, so the phase spends its budget on the
  contract under test instead of re-running setup reads.
- gstack-next-version's fetches pass --no-auto-maintenance. On git 2.55 a
  completed fetch forks detached maintenance in the caller's repository; the
  free suite's live smoke test ran it inside the CI checkout, and every
  shard-12 pre-push hook hang so far followed a completed smoke fetch.

* feat(deslop-shared-libs): route every Git read through bin/gstack-safe-git

The skill made the model retype a long safe-Git prefix on each call and a
dropped flag failed shared-libs-read-only. bin/gstack-safe-git applies the
fixed env + flag prefix, adds --no-ext-diff --no-textconv to log/show/diff,
allows diff only between two explicit object IDs and ls-files only in the
NUL-delimited overlay form, and refuses every other shape with one line
naming the allowed forms. The template now points at the installed helper
(host global runtime via {{SAFE_GIT}}) and drops the prose it enforces.

Fixtures resolve the helper to this checkout, the git shim records the safety
environment, and isGuardedGitRequest requires the complete prefix (env
included) for every repository read.

* test(shared-libs): tee to a discard device is not a file write

Paid shared-libs-opportunity-judgment t1 on 1213b01 failed read-only on
'... | tee /dev/null | sha256sum'. The detector flagged any tee operand while
the same devices are allowed for redirection. tee now fails only when an
operand is a real file; tee to a file, -a file and -- -a stay violations.

* fix(qa-evidence,observer): reject placeholder metadata and replay-only learning; declare the docs atomic-write target

- materialize measures revision, runtime and cwd itself and rejects supplied
  values that differ (CI run wrote revision "HEAD" and runtime "bun"), and
  refuses learning checkpoints that replay the same probe, naming the fix.
- The docs write observer treats Claude Code's atomic temp for the authorized
  doc target as transient, so a temp renamed before its per-file watch no
  longer marks the observation incomplete (ship-docsync-completion flake).
  Per-file monitoring outside declared targets stays fail-closed.

* test(qa-functional): fix mode requires only the happy scenario from the model (carried byte-identical from #3002 183b01f4..3e6074b4)

verifyQANativeRegression already reruns all eight webhook scenarios on the
repaired source, so the model-side eight-scenario requirement in fix mode
duplicated harness coverage and pushed qa-functional-webhook-fix past its
budget. qa-only still requires every scenario.

* fix(deslop-shared-libs): probe the audited repository with -C <repo>

A CI run probed safe-git from the session directory above the target repo, so
the capability probe never touched the repository and the run fell back to the
API without a local attempt. The probe (and any call from elsewhere) now names
the audited repository.

* test(qa-deadline): never attach a reader to the full-pipe fixture's stdout

The full-pipe receipt test attached a 'data' listener (flowing mode) and then
paused; on CI the reader could drain the 2 MB write before the pause, so the
receipt write never blocked and the helper exited 0 in ~126 ms. The stdout pipe
now stays unread until the assertion, which is what the test means to model.

* feat(qa): helpers answer --help, and the QA eval interfaces declare it

Approved by Garry: asking gstack-qa-evidence or gstack-qa-deadline for usage
is read-only, so both helpers print usage and exit 0 on --help (the evidence
usage now names the annotation shape), and the functional and caller command
allowlists accept exactly 'bun <path>/bin/gstack-qa-{evidence,deadline} --help'.
Two CI runs failed only on that call.

* fix(qa): after an input change, a probe is affected unless shown otherwise

CI late-input run finished in time but revalidated only the happy probe after
the locale input changed and reported the stale adverse probe green. The
revalidation step now treats any probe not shown to be unaffected as affected.

* test(shared-libs): seed the lifecycle replay's first Step 3 pass instead of replaying it

shared-libs-review-lifecycle ran ~88% of its 300 s session budget (12-run
census median 265 s, 4/24 sessions timed out). The fixture now executes pass 1's
Step 3 once with the real logger and Git: a real unused REVIEW_START, then the
diff, inventories, attributes/config/index flags, gstack-review-read output and
every file's bytes and sha256, saved to one observation. The model resumes at
Step 4 with an exact four-file first read, the observation named as the
authoritative pass-1 repository read, one post-fix verification, an explicit
pass-2 read list and a twelve-line summary. Pass 2 still runs its own --start,
diff, reads, fingerprint and stage actor before --finish.

The actor scope now states that a current settled final-pass actor result
supplies the replaced QA/adversarial prerequisites and that the no-credit
disclosure is a reporting label: one r1 session persisted completed:false
from that ambiguity.

New assertions: the final binding never uses the seeded token's start or tree,
and the observation was read; free controls finish the seeded token (binding
changed) and omit the observation read, and both fail.

* test(shared-libs): trim the resumed review replays' setup and report

Every sibling review session (revalidation, path-eligibility, index-flags,
prior-coverage) loaded qa/sections/exploratory.md and often scope.md although
its QA and native adversarial results are supplied synthetic inputs, then spent
a second request on shared-code-reuse.md and base metadata. The resumed scope
now states that the supplied results replace Step 4's QA method loading; the
revalidation contract names one first response (workflow, checklist, finding,
prerequisites, shared-code-reuse.md, base metadata) and caps the summary at
twelve lines. Receipt order, direct source reads, the checker, the question and
final persistence are unchanged.

* fix(review): define what a Step 5c Skip option says

Step 5c named "B) Skip" without saying what its description may claim. Two
CI captures (path-eligibility on 131d43be, index-flags on 4643cb85) offered a
Skip whose description added effects beyond declining: "The extraction can be
applied in a later editing review pass" and "replacing the invalidated prior
Skip". Those read as change commitments, so the no-change actor refused both.
Step 5c now says to describe Skip only as no code/index change with the Skip
recorded; adjacent lines are compacted so the review parity caps hold
unchanged. Both exact packets are kept as a free regression: still refused,
and accepted once Skip follows the rule. The actor's classifier is unchanged.

* fix(qa-evidence): every complete capture needs an evidence row; test(tpa): accept the hyphenated app-specific-password spelling

- materialize refuses when a complete capture has no evidence row and is not
  named in limits (CI cli-report omitted capture 004), naming the missing IDs.
- tpa-apple-ban's detector required 'app-specific password' with a space; the
  CI answer said 'app-specific-password path' and was otherwise correct.

* test(qa-observer): fix mode treats atomic temps of authorized src/test writes as transient

CI webhook-fix failed with 'Could not watch test/worker.regression-1.test.ts.tmp...':
Claude Code's Write renamed its temp before the per-file watch was added. The
functional eval now tells the observer its mode, and a temp whose target that
mode may write is observed through its directory watch. Report-only mode and
undeclared paths keep failing closed.

* feat(qa-evidence): refuse evidence observed on an older input snapshot than the latest capture

When native probe output declares a top-level input snapshot, materialize
compares each evidence row with the latest capture's snapshot and refuses
stale rows unless they are classified superseded, naming the captures to
rerun. ship-exploratory-late-input kept reporting a pre-change adverse probe
green after the input changed.

* test(qa-functional): point the fixture at the helper's --help instead of its source

A CI webhook-fix run spent three turns reading lib/qa-evidence.ts to learn the
interface and timed out just before materialize (agreed with #3002's owner).

* feat(qa-evidence): captures list the caller's declared-but-unrun required probes

GSTACK_QA_REQUIRED_PROBES (a JSON array of native child commands) makes every
capture print requiredRemaining; it never judges pass or fail. The functional
eval passes the webhook list from QA_WEBHOOK_REQUIRED_SCENARIOS, which the
verdict now reads too, so the nudge and the verdict share one source (agreed
with #3002's owner). CI webhook-report kept stopping with scenarios unrun.

* test(review-army): record N+1's pre-dispatch stages and scope the session to Step 4.5

review-army-perf-n-plus-one timed out in 7 of 13 CI runs on this branch (passing
245-280 s of 300). Each session spent ~95 s on setup (the full extracted SKILL,
checklist, section greps, exploratory.md, diff-scope/stats/learnings, tooling
checks), ran Step 4's core pass, a search-before-recommending WebSearch, and
wrote a 10-16 KB report (~100 s after the Red Team returned).

The fixture now stages only review/sections/review-army.md plus the performance
and red-team checklists, and hands the session the recorded detect-scope,
specialist-stats and learnings outputs and the diff. The caller passes
--performance (every CI parent already treated the prompt as that force flag
against the <50-line skip), declares the core pass, QA, adversarial review, web
research, Fix-First and persistence out of scope, and caps the report at the
selection line, the SPECIALIST REVIEW block and the Red Team result (30 lines).
The Performance specialist and the conditional Red Team are still real
foreground subagents, and the report still has to surface the N+1.

New assertion: a foreground Performance specialist dispatch precedes the Red
Team dispatch. Free controls omit the Performance dispatch or background it, and
both fail; the budget lifecycle adapter supplies the current result shape.
Touchfiles now include the .rb fixture the case reads.

* test(review-army): share the recorded Step 4.5 staging with consensus and supply its Red Team

review-army-consensus (periodic) timed out in 2 of 13 census sessions; passing
runs took 213-297 s of 300. Like N+1 it spent ~30-50 s reading the whole
extracted SKILL, checklist and every specialist file, sometimes dispatched an
unrequested Maintainability specialist, then ran a Red Team (60-70 s) and a
second merge before writing a 9-15 KB report.

The N+1 staging and scope text move into stageReviewArmySession /
reviewArmyScope / reviewArmyChecklists (the N+1 prompt renders byte-identical).
Consensus now records its detect-scope, stats, learnings and diff, stages the
Review Army section with the security and testing checklists, forces
--security --testing, and caps the report like N+1. Its Red Team is outside
the multi-specialist contract, so the fixture supplies a labeled synthetic
NO FINDINGS result instead of a dispatch. The existing SQL-finding and
browser-error assertions are unchanged; the lifecycle adapter's spawnSync now
returns the git output the staging reads.

* docs(changelog): v1.91.10.0 records the flake census and its repairs

* test(strict-output): give the spool-prefix child time to finish before the pending stream times out

windows-free-tests failed on 9a7a7e54: the 150 ms shared deadline raced Bun
startup on Windows, so the child was killed mid-write and the spool held a
partial payload. Only the never-released extra stream should time out; the
child now has 3 s.

* fix(qa-evidence): accept a single limits string; test(qa-callers): read the handoff first when a probe snapshot changes

CI late-input spent a turn rewriting limits as an array after materialize
refused a string, and a ten-read sweep hunting for the changed input before it
read reports/HANDOFF.md, then timed out at 300 s.

* test(autoplan-dual-voice): unwrap the framed native report before Claude Code 2.1.284's agentId/usage trailer

* test(section-loading): credit a Bash print that contains every line of the carved section

* test(auto-decide): ask for the selected mode in the skill's mode handoff line, not a separate public decision

* test(plan-ceo floor): scope preservation approves no premise, approach or remedy

* test(autoplan-dual-voice): the fixture declares that delivered bash blocks run alone, diagnostics separately

* test(coverage-audit): a fenced plain-word caption in a successful && read chain is display only

Census 36776104571 plan-eng capture read both owned files with cat -n in one
successful && chain; the caption 'echo "=== git diff main --stat ==="' fell
outside the two-token caption grammar, so both reads lost credit. Accept a fenced
caption of plain words; unfenced command strings, expansions, redirection,
-e escapes and ; / || tails stay rejected.

* test(office-hours): a fork whose outer options are the seeded shapes is the Phase 4 question

Census trials 1-2 captured complete Phase 4 forks (A) Server-side B) Client-side
C) Hybrid, recommendation with because) whose prose used none of the vocabulary
words. Accept two seeded shapes as outer options as Phase 4 specificity; the
earlier-phase, nested, fenced and single-shape controls still fail.

* fix(review): design-lite rows keep the detector's [rule-id]; the e2e detector rows point at the diff

The output template had no rule-id slot, so rows merged with checklist items
dropped the detector id (census t2, local t1). Rows now carry [rule-id]. The
fake engine's sample rows named a foreign fixture path at line 0; the e2e remaps
them to landing.html/styles.css so trials stop spending turns reconciling it.

* test(shared-libs): the plan actor reads scheduler parity and unchanged-scope lists

Census 36776104571's question preserved the contract ('behaving exactly like the
scheduler', 'scheduler parity holds by construction') and excluded work with
'Existing copies and helper hardening stay unchanged'. Accept exactly/parity as
preservation (negated forms refuse) and a bare noun list that stays unchanged as
an exclusion for the expansion scan only; verb-led clauses still refuse.

* fix(qa-only,qa): name the exploratory read point and finalization order; judge qa with its browser assets

qa-only judges cited 'next section' pointing at the wrong heading, an exploratory
trigger that contradicted its read point, clock ownership in mixed runs and the
unstated order of exploratory section 4 vs reporting. The qa judge penalized the
absent qa-report-template and issue-taxonomy that qa-patterns loads; with them
in, it found issue-taxonomy's dangling 'rule 13' (the consent rule is browser rule 3).

* test(ship-docsync): seeded attempt 1 counts toward the limit; transport counts ignore calls that never reached the state file

- CI launch-failure retried after the seeded attempt 1 as if that attempt were
  the fixture's; the seeded prompt now says attempt 1 is this invocation's and
  a further attempt needs what Blocked recovery requires.
- A late-result run typo'd the state path once (ENOENT, the actor never ran),
  then repeated the call correctly; the per-action count compared both calls
  with one actor event. Only calls naming the real state file are counted.

* fix(plan-eng-review): show the accepted dedicated read form for coverage-diagram sources

CI plan-eng-coverage-audit mixed package/config and git diff into the source
read; the review variant, whose prompt shows the && display form, does not.
The plan trace step now shows it too, within the unchanged size cap.

* test(sync-gbrain-readiness): a negation earlier in the claim clause is not a search/write readiness claim

The census unknown actor wrote 'nothing about read, search, or write capability
is confirmed either way' after a YELLOW/WARN verdict. The claim window started
at 'write', so the leading 'nothing' was outside it. Check the clause subject for
nothing/neither/none/no; keep the original in-claim negations. Replay of the
captured output passes; positive controls still flag an unnegated claim.

* fix(office-hours): a forcing question's recommendation takes the position the founder's words support

auq-matrix office-hours asked D1 Demand as options about the founder's own
evidence and, with no rule for that shape, recommended 'answer whichever is
TRUE — A is marked recommended only because it is the strongest position'
(substance 2). Say what such a recommendation is: the option the founder's own
words support, why it matters for the next step, and what would change it.

* fix(plan-ceo-review): name the mode preference command and the exact handoff line

auto-decide-preserved at 6fcb0981: the model never ran the preference check,
read 'check ... through the preamble' as already done, auto-selected 'per your
preference setting', and wrote 'Selected mode: HOLD SCOPE, auto-decided from
your tuned preference' instead of the AUTO_DECIDE handoff line. At 9a7a7e54 it
ran the check but wrote 'Decision: HOLD SCOPE is the review mode for ...'.
Neither matched the handoff template the observer recognizes. Name
gstack-question-preference --check at the point of use and say the handoff
begins with the exact matching line. Collapse the audit block's comment
padding to stay within the unchanged 80150-byte skeleton cap.

* test(section-loading): record the CEO capture's report and transcript

The 6fcb0981 census failed hasStaleFillRaceFinding (line 98), but the case
records nothing beyond junit, so the report the detector judged is gone.
Return the SkillTestResult from captureSectionReads and record it, with the
full saved report, through the eval collector on pass and fail.

* test(design): plan-mode names its read list and caps its additions and summary

At 6fcb0981 plan-design-review-plan-mode timed out at 300 s (9 turns): 22 cat/sed
chunk reads (~50 s), then a 28 KB plan Write (~150 s), before the read-back
finished. The 9a7a7e54 pass took 240 s with a 24.6 KB Write. Read SKILL.md,
review-sections.md and plan.md natively in one response, keep additions under
14,000 characters and the summary within ten lines. Budgets unchanged.

* test(plan-mode-no-op): require prose evidence before a waiting verdict ends eng/design runs (carried byte-identical from #3002)

With the prose fallback forced, the gate renders as a lettered menu; a judge
'waiting' verdict on a spinner-only frame ended the run as 'asked' before the
menu rendered, so the scope-gate check failed on unchanged behavior.

* feat(qa-evidence): materialize computes the phase verdict; callers must report it

Approved by Garry: the helper, not the model, decides whether evidence can
pass. materialize writes verdict {status, open} into evidence.json and prints
it: fail or blocked from row classifications, inconclusive while any row is
superseded, a complete capture is withheld, a declared required probe is
unrun or there is no evidence, else pass. The caller fixture requires
receipt.status to equal that verdict. CI late-input kept reporting pass with a
superseded happy probe.

* test(qa-callers): compare the receipt with the helper verdict only when evidence.json was materialized

The producer free tests run captures without materialize; evidence.json is
optional for callers, so its absence is not a verdict mismatch.

* test(llm-judge): run the ship workflow judge at medium effort so its panel fits JUDGE_MS

claude-fable-5-1 accepts only adaptive thinking (thinking.type.enabled with
budget_tokens returns 400), so effort is the available thinking control.
Measured on the exact ship judge request (105,301 input tokens):

- default effort, 18 samples: thinking 5,086-10,881 tokens, 75.9-144.7 s;
  3 of 18 passed the 120 s deadline (about 42% of 3-sample panels).
- medium effort, 18 samples: thinking 2,749-5,762, output at most 6,144
  tokens, 43.1-77.9 s; scores 4/4/4 in 16 of 18 (clarity 3 in two), versus
  14 of 18 at default.

callJudge gains an effort option sent as output_config.effort; only the ship
judge sets it. Rubric, floors, panel size, deadline, model and max_tokens are
unchanged. The cache identity records effort.

* test(llm-judge): ask frontier workflow judges for 120-word reasoning under the unchanged 150-word check

Told "under 150 words", the ship judge's reasoning landed at 130-156 words
(3 of 18 probe samples at 152-156), so the structured-response check failed
about one panel in three independent of effort. The prompt's frontier block
and the response schema description now say under 120 words; the validator
still rejects 150 words or more. The changed prompt bytes reach only the two
frontier judges: ship/SKILL.md workflow (prompt and schema) and
review/SKILL.md workflow (prompt).

* test(llm-judge): type the stream transport mock call

* test(plan-ceo floor): the request answers only the questions it names

PR lane 36794871032 (head 20d6e98f): the CEO floor ran 608 s without a
question. Its Step 0 recorded the premise gap and approach choice as
unresolved ledger rows, then said "this session supplies all answers up
front, so no decision brief was dispatched" and wrote Sections 1-11.
2734e203 stopped scope preservation from approving the premise; this time
the actor block (declined setup, recall, outside voices, HOLD SCOPE) and the
fixture's "complete user request is available from the start" were read
as pre-answering every review question. The CEO actor now states that the
request answers only the routing, recall, outside-reviewer and review-mode
questions it names.

* test(plan-devex floor): a 'Partly wrong' 0B answer is the narrative confirmation

PR lane 36794871032: the DX floor asked its D1 narrative confirmation
(Accurate, proceed / Partly wrong, correct it / Way off, actual is...). The
deterministic setup rule accepted only 'Some ... wrong', so the question went
to the LLM assessor, which hit its 30 s spawnSync cap (ETIMEDOUT) and ended
the case as assessment_error at 141 s, the same failure as census
36641820398. The rule now accepts 'partly' beside 'some'; the captured
question is a free regression and the remedy-option controls still go to
the assessor.

* test(design-review plugin handoff): quoted report text is not an install command

PR lane 36794871032: every behavioral check passed except noInstallOrOverride,
which matched "no `npx impeccable`" inside the quoted heredoc that wrote
detector-output.md. Nothing was installed or downloaded. The check now drops
quoted-delimiter heredoc bodies (literal data) before matching; unquoted
bodies, which can expand $(...), and unterminated bodies stay checked. Free
controls cover the captured write, bare npx, an IMPECCABLE_BIN override, an
unquoted $(npx ...), npx after the delimiter and an unterminated body.

* test(review-army delivery audit): stage only the plan-completion section and record its git reads

PR lane 36794871032: the case timed out at its 120 s budget after 7 turns
(previous lane passed in 45 s). The session read the 46 KB extracted SKILL in
three passes (cat to persisted output, grep, sed), ran its own git reads,
wrote a 74-line report, then inspected and ran gstack-learnings-log and
rewrote the report's Learnings section. As in the Step 4.5 cases
(17ee2e54/2bd4651c), the fixture now stages only
review/sections/plan-completion.md, hands the session the recorded
git log and diff, declares the HIGH-impact question, its Scope Check,
learnings logging and later steps outside the capture, and caps the report
at the audit block and its DISCREPANCY entries (30 lines). The NOT DONE and
email assertions are unchanged.

* feat(qa-evidence): one capture call records the causal note for the previous capture

capture R NNN [--public] (--deadline D|--timeout-ms MS) --after PREV --hypothesis 'TEXT' -- CMD
publishes exploration-NNN.json {observationCapture, observationArgv, observed, hypothesis,
nextCapture, nextArgv} before running CMD, refusing unless PREV is the latest complete capture.
The receipt carries checkpoint/checkpointSha256; validators bind the note to the transcript's
capture calls by capture ID and receipt hash instead of exact command strings. The separate
checkpoint command and the capture guard keep working; materialize learning accepts both note
shapes and still rejects same-probe replays. Prose and eval fixture prompts teach the merged form.

* fix(qa-evidence): a superseded row stops holding the verdict open once its probe is rerun on current inputs

materialize requires an old-snapshot row to be classified superseded, and its verdict kept every
superseded row open, so rerunning the probe (what its own error tells the model to do) could never
reach pass; late-input reran 3 and 9 on the new snapshot and still got inconclusive. A superseded
row now closes only when a non-superseded row with the same captured argv observed the current
snapshot. Re-materializing an already-published evidence.json names the cause instead of failing
generically.

* test(plan-eng batching): count saved decisions whose label drops the (recommended) marker or whose report is titled 'Eng Review Report — <plan>'

* fix(qa): browser-only runs skip annotations/materialize; only Q captures can anchor evidence rows

* test(design): plan-mode length is a drafting target, not a check to measure and trim

* test(llm-judge): structured output for doc, outcome and posture judges so reasoning quotes cannot break JSON

* test(ship-docsync): steer skill file reads to Read; large cat output becomes an unpageable preview

* docs(changelog): browser-only QA evidence and structured judge output

* test(qa-only cleanup): refusal scenarios get a 1 s budget and an absolute worker deadline; 300 ms starved under parallel load

* fix(office-hours, design-consultation): ask the goal question and read the mode section first; ask the memorable-thing question on its own

* test(outside-disabled): a record named by the retained record's own clock and then disowned owns its completed status

* test(context-skills): install gstack-paths in the fixture bin; without it the model guessed the checkpoint root

* test(ceo mode routing): SCOPE EXPANSION posture credits plural 'expansions'

* test(ship-docsync): name the unmet atomic-replacement check on a forbidden temp-file write

* fix(qa): browser-only runs materialize an empty evidence list with checkpoints in limits, matching /qa-only

* test(qa callers): an accepted review-log record may cite checkpoints as finding evidence

* fix(plan-eng-review): state that a disallowed question tool never qualifies as headless before the headless action

* merge follow-up: re-record paid CLI parity for #2999's flags; trim merged review, qa-only and plan-eng wording toward the size caps

* test(golden): refresh codex/factory ship goldens for the trimmed caller QA wording

* test(coverage-audit fixture): disable git auto maintenance so cleanup is not racing a detached git writer

* test(parity): raise review, qa and plan-eng caps to the measured merged size of #2999 and #3002 (each fit alone), documented per cap

* fix(qa-evidence): materialize rejects an unrecognized classification before publishing, so the one-shot verdict cannot be locked inconclusive by a descriptive label
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/**
* Browser lifecycle manager
*
* Chromium crash handling:
* browser.on('disconnected') → log error → process.exit(1)
* CLI detects dead server → auto-restarts on next command
* We do NOT try to self-heal — don't hide failure.
*
* Dialog handling:
* page.on('dialog') → auto-accept by default → store in dialog buffer
* Prevents browser lockup from alert/confirm/prompt
*
* Context recreation (useragent):
* recreateContext() saves cookies/storage/URLs, creates new context,
* restores state. Falls back to clean slate on any failure.
*/
import type { ChildProcess } from 'node:child_process';
import { chromium, type Browser, type BrowserContext, type BrowserContextOptions, type Page, type Locator, type Cookie } from 'playwright';
import { writeSecureFile, mkdirSecure } from './file-permissions';
import { addConsoleEntry, addNetworkEntry, addDialogEntry, networkBuffer, type DialogEntry } from './buffers';
import { emitActivity } from './activity';
import { validateNavigationUrl } from './url-validation';
import { TabSession, type RefEntry } from './tab-session';
import { resolveChromiumProfile, cleanSingletonLocks } from './config';
import { launchWithXProtectHeal } from './xprotect-heal';
import { readPidStartTime, shouldSpawnXvfb, pickFreeDisplay, spawnXvfb, xvfbInstallHint, type XvfbHandle } from './xvfb';
import { withCdpSession } from './cdp-bridge';
import type { MemorySnapshot, MemoryStructureStats, MemoryTabSnapshot, MemoryProcess } from './memory-snapshot';
/**
* Headless GPU flags (#2709): on macOS 26 / Apple Silicon the headless-shell
* GPU process can peg ~800% CPU indefinitely after real page work, and
* --disable-gpu alone is not enough — the software-compositing GPU process
* still spawns and still spins. The reporter validated this exact flag set
* drops it to 0.0% with screenshots still working. darwin-gated: on Linux CI
* and Windows the GPU process behaves, and the flags are a mild automation
* tell. GSTACK_DISABLE_GPU=off opts out. Pure function (platform + env
* injected) so the darwin behavior is unit-testable on any host. Deliberately
* NOT in buildGStackLaunchArgs: that feeds the headed/GBrowser paths too,
* where GPU-off is user-visibly wrong.
*/
export function headlessGpuArgs(platform: string, env: NodeJS.ProcessEnv): string[] {
if (platform !== 'darwin') return [];
if ((env.GSTACK_DISABLE_GPU || '').toLowerCase() === 'off') return [];
return [
'--disable-gpu',
'--disable-software-rasterizer',
'--disable-gpu-compositing',
'--disable-gpu-watchdog',
];
}
/**
* Detect whether GSTACK_CHROMIUM_PATH points at a custom Chromium build that
* already bakes the gstack extension in as a component extension (e.g.,
* GStack Browser.app / GBrowser). Passing --load-extension against such a
* binary triggers a ServiceWorkerState::SetWorkerId DCHECK because two
* copies of the same service worker try to register.
*
* Resolution:
* 1. GSTACK_CHROMIUM_KIND === 'custom-extension-baked' (preferred, explicit)
* 2. GSTACK_CHROMIUM_PATH path substring contains 'GBrowser' or 'gbrowser'
* (fallback for callers that only set the path)
*/
export function isCustomChromium(): boolean {
if (process.env.GSTACK_CHROMIUM_KIND === 'custom-extension-baked') return true;
const p = process.env.GSTACK_CHROMIUM_PATH || '';
return p.includes('GBrowser') || p.includes('gbrowser');
}
/**
* Decide whether Playwright should request Chromium's sandbox.
*
* Returns false on Windows (Bun→Node→Chromium chain breaks the sandbox,
* GitHub #276) and on Linux under root / CI / container (sandbox needs
* unprivileged user namespaces, which are missing for root and typically
* disabled in containers).
*
* When false, Playwright auto-adds --no-sandbox to the launch args — the
* desired behavior in those environments. When true, Playwright does NOT
* add --no-sandbox, which keeps Chromium's "unsupported command-line flag"
* yellow infobar from appearing on every headed launch.
*
* The headless launch path also pushes an explicit '--no-sandbox' into args
* when CI/CONTAINER/root is set; that push is now defensively redundant
* (Playwright will add it anyway when this returns false) and harmless.
*/
export function shouldEnableChromiumSandbox(): boolean {
if (process.platform === 'win32') return false;
// Explicit user override for Ubuntu/AppArmor and similar environments where
// unprivileged Chromium sandboxing is blocked even for normal users (the
// sandbox needs unprivileged user namespaces that the host policy denies,
// so /qa hangs without --no-sandbox). Setting GSTACK_CHROMIUM_NO_SANDBOX=1
// forces the sandbox off without changing the default for everyone else.
// See #1562.
if (process.env.GSTACK_CHROMIUM_NO_SANDBOX === '1') return false;
const isRoot = typeof process.getuid === 'function' && process.getuid() === 0;
return !(process.env.CI || process.env.CONTAINER || isRoot);
}
/**
* Thrown by probePoisonedChromiumBundle() when it finds — and removes — a
* Chromium bundle poisoned by the pre-v1.64 in-place rebrand (#2242).
* Call sites rethrow on `instanceof` (never message-string sniffing) so the
* actionable remediation reaches the user instead of being swallowed by the
* probe's fall-through-on-failure catch.
*/
export class PoisonedBundleError extends Error {
constructor(message: string) {
super(message);
this.name = 'PoisonedBundleError';
}
}
/**
* Self-heal probe for bundles the OLD (pre-v1.64) rebrand code already
* poisoned (#2242): the mutation lives in the SHARED Playwright cache, so
* deleting the rebrand code fixes fresh installs only, and the documented
* deploy paths never run upgrade migrations. Detect the mutated plist and
* remove the bundle so the next `playwright install chromium` (or the
* upgrade migration) re-fetches a clean one.
*
* Removal scope: when the .app sits in the standard Playwright cache layout
* (chromium-<rev>/chrome-mac/<name>.app), the WHOLE chromium-<rev> revision
* dir is removed — Playwright's INSTALLATION_COMPLETE marker lives there,
* and `playwright install chromium` treats its presence as "is already
* downloaded", so removing only the .app would turn our own remediation
* command into a no-op that leaves the user with no browser at all. Outside
* that layout, the .app plus any sibling INSTALLATION_COMPLETE /
* DEPENDENCIES_VALIDATED markers are removed.
*
* Caller contract: pass ONLY Playwright-cache executables
* (chromium.executablePath()). A bundle supplied via GSTACK_CHROMIUM_PATH
* belongs to the wrapper/embedder — its plist legitimately says "GStack
* Browser" — and must never be deleted. Both call sites (launchHeaded and
* handoff) honor this, and as a second belt the probe refuses to act on the
* GSTACK_CHROMIUM_PATH executable itself.
*
* @param chromiumExecutablePath the Chromium binary inside the .app
* (…/<name>.app/Contents/MacOS/<name>), as returned by
* chromium.executablePath().
* @throws PoisonedBundleError after removing a poisoned bundle — the
* message carries the re-fetch command for the user.
*/
export function probePoisonedChromiumBundle(chromiumExecutablePath: string): void {
const fs = require('fs');
const path = require('path');
// Belt to the caller contract: never act on the custom/embedder bundle.
const customPath = process.env.GSTACK_CHROMIUM_PATH;
if (customPath && path.resolve(chromiumExecutablePath) === path.resolve(customPath)) {
return;
}
const chromeContentsDir = path.resolve(path.dirname(chromiumExecutablePath), '..');
const chromePlist = path.join(chromeContentsDir, 'Info.plist');
if (!fs.existsSync(chromePlist)) return;
if (!fs.readFileSync(chromePlist, 'utf-8').includes('GStack Browser')) return;
const appDir = path.resolve(chromeContentsDir, '..');
const revisionDir = path.resolve(appDir, '..', '..');
if (/^chromium-\d+$/.test(path.basename(revisionDir))) {
fs.rmSync(revisionDir, { recursive: true, force: true });
} else {
fs.rmSync(appDir, { recursive: true, force: true });
for (const marker of ['INSTALLATION_COMPLETE', 'DEPENDENCIES_VALIDATED']) {
fs.rmSync(path.join(path.dirname(appDir), marker), { force: true });
}
}
throw new PoisonedBundleError(
'Chromium bundle was mutated by a previous gstack version (broken codesign seal — ' +
'GPU exit_code=5 on macOS 26). The poisoned bundle has been removed. ' +
'Re-fetch a clean one with: bunx playwright install chromium — then retry.',
);
}
/** Playwright's public Browser type omits `process()`, which only browsers we launched provide. */
function launchedProcess(browser: Browser | null | undefined): ChildProcess | null {
const withProcess = browser as (Browser & { process?: () => ChildProcess | null }) | null | undefined;
return typeof withProcess?.process === 'function' ? withProcess.process() : null;
}
/**
* Resolve why the underlying Chromium ChildProcess is going away.
*
* The 'disconnected' Playwright event fires before the child process emits
* its own 'exit' in most cases, so .exitCode is null at that moment. Wait
* briefly (capped at 1s) for the exit then read .exitCode + .signalCode:
*
* exitCode === 0 && no signal → 'clean' (user Cmd+Q, normal shutdown)
* anything else → 'crash' (signal-kill, SIGSEGV, OOM, non-zero exit)
*
* Process supervisors (gbrowser's gbd HealthMonitor in cmd/gbd/health.go)
* read our exit code to decide whether to restart. The two callers in this
* file ride on top of this: a 'clean' result exits with code 0 (gbd skips
* restart, treats as user-intent); a 'crash' result keeps the existing
* per-path exit semantics (launch→1, launchHeaded→2, handoff→1) and gbd
* restarts on backoff.
*/
export async function resolveDisconnectCause(browser: Browser | null): Promise<'clean' | 'crash'> {
// `.process()` only exists on browsers we launched ourselves. A browser
// obtained via connectOverCDP() (or a stub in tests) has no such method —
// calling it blind throws inside the disconnect handler, which killed the
// whole daemon with "browser?.process is not a function".
const proc = launchedProcess(browser);
if (proc && proc.exitCode === null && proc.signalCode === null) {
await new Promise<void>((resolve) => {
const timer = setTimeout(resolve, 1000);
proc.once('exit', () => {
clearTimeout(timer);
resolve();
});
});
}
return proc?.exitCode === 0 && proc?.signalCode == null ? 'clean' : 'crash';
}
/**
* Exit-on-disconnect is DAEMON-ONLY semantics. The standalone server
* entrypoint opts in via markDaemonProcess() (under its import.meta.main
* gate, same contract as its signal handlers); embedders — gbrowser
* phoenix, and every test that launches a BrowserManager in-process —
* must never have a Chromium crash process.exit() their HOST. Observed
* live before this flag: a test-launched browser died mid-suite and the
* exit(1) killed the whole bun shard with no terminal summary (the
* truncation class the strict runner exists to catch).
*/
let daemonProcess = false;
export function markDaemonProcess(): void {
daemonProcess = true;
}
/**
* Headless `launch()` disconnect handler. In the standalone daemon: exits 0
* on clean user-quit, 1 on crash. Embedded contexts get the log line only.
* Inlined into the launch() body via a one-line dispatch so
* browser-manager's flow stays grep-friendly.
*/
export async function handleChromiumDisconnect(browser: Browser | null): Promise<void> {
const cause = await resolveDisconnectCause(browser);
if (!daemonProcess) {
console.error(`[browse] Chromium disconnected (${cause}) in an embedded context — host process continues.`);
return;
}
if (cause === 'clean') {
console.error('[browse] Chromium closed cleanly (user-initiated quit). Server exiting (0).');
process.exit(0);
}
console.error('[browse] FATAL: Chromium process crashed or was killed. Server exiting (1).');
console.error('[browse] Console/network logs flushed to .gstack/browse-*.log');
process.exit(1);
}
export type { RefEntry };
// Re-export TabSession for consumers
export { TabSession };
export interface BrowserState {
cookies: Cookie[];
pages: Array<{
url: string;
isActive: boolean;
storage: { localStorage: Record<string, string>; sessionStorage: Record<string, string> } | null;
/**
* HTML content loaded via load-html (setContent), replayed after context recreation.
* In-memory only — never persisted to disk (HTML may contain secrets or customer data).
*/
loadedHtml?: string;
loadedHtmlWaitUntil?: 'load' | 'domcontentloaded' | 'networkidle';
/**
* Tab owner clientId for multi-agent isolation. Survives context recreation so
* scoped agents don't get locked out of their own tabs after viewport --scale.
* In-memory only.
*/
owner?: string;
}>;
}
export class BrowserManager {
private browser: Browser | null = null;
private context: BrowserContext | null = null;
// Proxy config applied to chromium.launch() when set (D8). Set by server.ts
// at startup based on BROWSE_PROXY_URL. For SOCKS5 with auth, server.ts
// points this at the local bridge (socks5://127.0.0.1:<bridgePort>); for
// HTTP/HTTPS or unauth SOCKS5, it's the upstream URL directly.
private proxyConfig: { server: string; username?: string; password?: string } | null = null;
private pages: Map<number, Page> = new Map();
private tabSessions: Map<number, TabSession> = new Map();
private activeTabId: number = 0;
private nextTabId: number = 1;
private extraHeaders: Record<string, string> = {};
private customUserAgent: string | null = null;
// #2709: identity of the Chromium child WE launched (headless path). The
// headless launch has no userDataDir, so killOrphanChromium's SingletonLock
// walk is a structural no-op for it — `browse stop` reported success while
// the orphaned GPU process kept spinning. PID alone is not identity (reuse);
// start time makes the later reap safe (same contract as xvfbPid/xvfbStartTime).
private chromiumProcInfo: { pid: number; startTime: string } | null = null;
/** PID + start-time of the launched Chromium child, when we own one. */
getChromiumProcInfo(): { pid: number; startTime: string } | null {
return this.chromiumProcInfo;
}
// ─── Viewport + deviceScaleFactor (context options) ──────────
// Tracked at the manager level so recreateContext() preserves them.
// deviceScaleFactor is a *context* option, not a page-level setter — changes
// require recreateContext(). Viewport width/height can change on-page, but we
// track the latest so context recreation restores it instead of hardcoding 1280x720.
private deviceScaleFactor: number = 1;
private currentViewport: { width: number; height: number } = { width: 1280, height: 720 };
/** Server port — set after server starts, used by cookie-import-browser command */
public serverPort: number = 0;
// ─── Tab Ownership (multi-agent isolation) ──────────────
// Maps tabId → clientId. Unowned tabs (not in this map) are root-only for writes.
private tabOwnership: Map<number, string> = new Map();
// ─── Dialog Handling (global, not per-tab) ──────────────────
private dialogAutoAccept: boolean = true;
private dialogPromptText: string | null = null;
// ─── Cookie Origin Tracking ────────────────────────────────
private cookieImportedDomains: Set<string> = new Set();
// ─── Handoff State ─────────────────────────────────────────
private isHeaded: boolean = false;
private consecutiveFailures: number = 0;
// ─── Watch Mode ─────────────────────────────────────────
private watching = false;
public watchInterval: ReturnType<typeof setInterval> | null = null;
private watchSnapshots: string[] = [];
private watchStartTime: number = 0;
// ─── Headed State ────────────────────────────────────────
private connectionMode: 'launched' | 'headed' = 'launched';
/**
* Fired when a RUNNING daemon is promoted to headed mode (see handoff()),
* as opposed to starting headed. The server uses it to cancel the
* parent-process watchdog, which was registered on the assumption that mode
* is fixed at boot and would otherwise kill the freshly handed-off browser
* the next time the spawning shell exits.
*/
onHeadedPromotion?: () => void;
private intentionalDisconnect = false;
private xvfb: XvfbHandle | null = null;
private displayAllocation: Promise<void> | null = null;
private handoffPending: Promise<string> | null = null;
private closing = false;
private handoffPrevious: { browser: Browser; pages: Map<number, Page>; tabSessions: Map<number, TabSession>; activeTabId: number } | null = null;
getXvfbHandle(): XvfbHandle | null { return this.xvfb; }
async ensureHeadedDisplay(): Promise<void> {
if (this.closing) throw new Error('Browser is shutting down');
if (this.xvfb) return;
if (this.displayAllocation) return this.displayAllocation;
if (!shouldSpawnXvfb({ ...process.env, BROWSE_HEADED: '1' }, process.platform).spawn) return;
this.displayAllocation = (async () => {
const displayNum = pickFreeDisplay();
if (displayNum == null) throw new Error('no free X display in range :99-:120 — refusing to clobber existing X servers');
try {
const handle = await spawnXvfb(displayNum);
if (this.closing) {
handle.close();
throw new Error('Browser is shutting down');
}
this.xvfb = handle;
} catch (err) {
throw new Error(`${err instanceof Error ? err.message : String(err)}. ${xvfbInstallHint()}`);
}
})();
try { await this.displayAllocation; }
finally { this.displayAllocation = null; }
}
closeOwnedDisplay(): void {
this.xvfb?.close();
this.xvfb = null;
}
// ─── Tab Count Guardrail (D5 + Codex single-tab flag) ───────
// Idempotent threshold trackers: each guardrail fires exactly once per
// upward crossing of its threshold and re-arms when the tab count drops
// back below. Pre-guardrail, nothing tracked tab count growth and a
// user could accumulate hundreds of tabs (each holding 50–300 MB of
// Chromium-side RSS) without warning until the OS OOM-killer fired.
// The toast UX lives in the sidebar (extension/sidepanel.js); the
// server-side responsibility is the audit-trail activity entry that
// appears in the activity feed even when the sidebar is closed.
private static readonly TAB_GUARDRAIL_SOFT = 50;
private static readonly TAB_GUARDRAIL_HARD = 200;
private tabGuardrailSoftHit = false;
private tabGuardrailHardHit = false;
/**
* Called from context.on('page') after a new tab is tracked. Emits at
* most one activity entry per upward crossing of each threshold.
*/
private checkTabGuardrails(): void {
const total = this.pages.size;
if (!this.tabGuardrailSoftHit && total >= BrowserManager.TAB_GUARDRAIL_SOFT) {
this.tabGuardrailSoftHit = true;
const msg = `Tab count crossed ${BrowserManager.TAB_GUARDRAIL_SOFT} (now ${total}). Consider closing unused tabs — each Chromium tab holds 50–300 MB.`;
console.warn(`[browse] ${msg}`);
emitActivity({ type: 'error', command: 'tab-guardrail', error: msg, tabs: total });
}
if (!this.tabGuardrailHardHit && total >= BrowserManager.TAB_GUARDRAIL_HARD) {
this.tabGuardrailHardHit = true;
const msg = `Tab count crossed ${BrowserManager.TAB_GUARDRAIL_HARD} (now ${total}). OOM risk imminent. Open the sidebar to see top RAM consumers.`;
console.error(`[browse] ${msg}`);
emitActivity({ type: 'error', command: 'tab-guardrail', error: msg, tabs: total });
}
}
/** Called from page.on('close') so the guardrails re-arm. */
private recheckTabGuardrailsOnClose(): void {
const total = this.pages.size;
if (this.tabGuardrailSoftHit && total < BrowserManager.TAB_GUARDRAIL_SOFT) {
this.tabGuardrailSoftHit = false;
}
if (this.tabGuardrailHardHit && total < BrowserManager.TAB_GUARDRAIL_HARD) {
this.tabGuardrailHardHit = false;
}
}
// Called when the headed browser disconnects without intentional teardown
// (user closed the window). Wired up by server.ts to run full cleanup
// (terminal agent, state file, profile locks) before exiting with code 2.
// Returns void or a Promise; rejections are caught and fall back to exit(2).
// `exitCode` is the resolved process exit code from the disconnect cause:
// 0 on clean user-initiated quit (e.g., Cmd+Q on headed Chromium), 2 on
// crash/signal-kill. Callers (server.ts) forward it to their shutdown
// pipeline so process supervisors (gbrowser's gbd) read the right signal.
public onDisconnect: ((exitCode?: number) => void | Promise<void>) | null = null;
getConnectionMode(): 'launched' | 'headed' { return this.connectionMode; }
// ─── Watch Mode Methods ─────────────────────────────────
isWatching(): boolean { return this.watching; }
startWatch(): void {
this.watching = true;
this.watchSnapshots = [];
this.watchStartTime = Date.now();
}
stopWatch(): { snapshots: string[]; duration: number } {
this.watching = false;
if (this.watchInterval) {
clearInterval(this.watchInterval);
this.watchInterval = null;
}
const snapshots = this.watchSnapshots;
const duration = Date.now() - this.watchStartTime;
this.watchSnapshots = [];
this.watchStartTime = 0;
return { snapshots, duration };
}
addWatchSnapshot(snapshot: string): void {
this.watchSnapshots.push(snapshot);
}
/**
* Find the gstack Chrome extension directory.
* Checks: repo root /extension, global install, dev install.
*/
private findExtensionPath(): string | null {
const fs = require('fs');
const path = require('path');
const candidates = [
// Explicit override via env var (used by GStack Browser.app bundle)
process.env.BROWSE_EXTENSIONS_DIR || '',
// Relative to this source file (dev mode: browse/src/ -> ../../extension)
path.resolve(__dirname, '..', '..', 'extension'),
// Global gstack install
path.join(process.env.HOME || '', '.claude', 'skills', 'gstack', 'extension'),
// Git repo root (detected via BROWSE_STATE_FILE location)
(() => {
const stateFile = process.env.BROWSE_STATE_FILE || '';
if (stateFile) {
const repoRoot = path.resolve(path.dirname(stateFile), '..');
return path.join(repoRoot, '.claude', 'skills', 'gstack', 'extension');
}
return '';
})(),
].filter(Boolean);
for (const candidate of candidates) {
try {
if (fs.existsSync(path.join(candidate, 'manifest.json'))) {
return candidate;
}
} catch (err: any) {
if (err?.code !== 'ENOENT' && err?.code !== 'EACCES') throw err;
}
}
return null;
}
/**
* Set the proxy config applied to chromium.launch() in launch() and
* launchHeaded(). Called by server.ts at startup once the (optional) SOCKS5
* bridge is up.
*/
setProxyConfig(cfg: { server: string; username?: string; password?: string } | null): void {
this.proxyConfig = cfg;
}
/**
* Get the ref map for external consumers (e.g., /refs endpoint).
*/
getRefMap(): Array<{ ref: string; role: string; name: string }> {
try {
return this.getActiveSession().getRefEntries();
} catch {
return [];
}
}
async launch() {
this.closing = false;
// ─── Extension Support ────────────────────────────────────
// BROWSE_EXTENSIONS_DIR points to an unpacked Chrome extension directory.
// Extensions only work in headed mode, so we use an off-screen window.
const extensionsDir = process.env.BROWSE_EXTENSIONS_DIR;
const { STEALTH_LAUNCH_ARGS, buildGStackLaunchArgs } = await import('./stealth');
const launchArgs: string[] = [...STEALTH_LAUNCH_ARGS, ...buildGStackLaunchArgs()];
let useHeadless = true;
// Docker/CI/root: Chromium sandbox requires unprivileged user namespaces which
// are typically disabled in containers and are never available for the root
// user on Linux. Detect all three cases and add --no-sandbox automatically.
const isRoot = typeof process.getuid === 'function' && process.getuid() === 0;
if (process.env.CI || process.env.CONTAINER || isRoot) {
launchArgs.push('--no-sandbox');
}
if (extensionsDir) {
// Skip --load-extension when running against a custom Chromium build that
// already bakes the extension in (e.g., GBrowser / GStack Browser.app).
// Loading it twice causes a ServiceWorkerState::SetWorkerId DCHECK crash.
if (!isCustomChromium()) {
launchArgs.push(
`--disable-extensions-except=${extensionsDir}`,
`--load-extension=${extensionsDir}`,
);
}
launchArgs.push('--window-position=-9999,-9999', '--window-size=1,1');
useHeadless = false; // extensions require headed mode; off-screen window simulates headless
console.log(`[browse] Extensions loaded from: ${extensionsDir}`);
}
// #2709: headless-only — the extensions path above forces headed mode,
// and headed/GBrowser sessions must keep the GPU.
if (useHeadless) {
launchArgs.push(...headlessGpuArgs(process.platform, process.env));
}
// XProtect self-heal wrapper (P0 #2554): a macOS definition update can
// start SIGKILLing the pinned Chromium at spawn. On the classified
// signature, clear quarantine on the Playwright cache + force-reinstall
// once, then retry this launch once. This headless path always uses the
// Playwright cache (no executablePath), so the heal is never scoped out.
this.browser = await launchWithXProtectHeal(() => chromium.launch({
headless: useHeadless,
// #2220: the daemon owns signal policy, not Playwright. Playwright's
// default handlers close Chromium the moment THIS process receives
// SIGINT/SIGTERM/SIGHUP — which fights the deliberate headless
// SIGTERM-ignore in server.ts (the daemon survives the signal but
// loses its browser out from under it). All three are false; server.ts
// routes the signals it actually honors through activeShutdown, which
// closes Chromium itself.
handleSIGINT: false,
handleSIGTERM: false,
handleSIGHUP: false,
// On Windows, Chromium's sandbox fails when the server is spawned through
// the Bun→Node process chain (GitHub #276). Disable it — local daemon
// browsing user-specified URLs has marginal sandbox benefit. Also disabled
// on Linux root/CI/container, where the sandbox requires unprivileged user
// namespaces that aren't available.
chromiumSandbox: shouldEnableChromiumSandbox(),
...(launchArgs.length > 0 ? { args: launchArgs } : {}),
...(this.proxyConfig ? { proxy: this.proxyConfig } : {}),
}));
// Chromium disconnect → distinguish clean user-quit from crash. Both
// events look identical to Playwright (one 'disconnected' fires), but
// the underlying ChildProcess exit code separates them:
// exitCode === 0 → clean quit (user Cmd+Q on macOS, normal shutdown)
// exitCode !== 0 → crash, signal-kill, or OOM
// Process supervisors (gbrowser's gbd) consume our exit code: code 0
// means "user wanted this, don't restart"; non-zero means "crash, please
// bring me back." Without this distinction every Cmd+Q gets treated as
// a crash and the user-visible window keeps respawning.
this.browser.on('disconnected', () => {
void handleChromiumDisconnect(this.browser);
});
// #2709: record the child's identity so the CLI can reap a survivor after
// daemon shutdown. `.process()` exists here — we launched this browser.
{
const proc = launchedProcess(this.browser);
this.chromiumProcInfo = proc?.pid
? { pid: proc.pid, startTime: readPidStartTime(proc.pid) }
: null;
}
const contextOptions: BrowserContextOptions = {
viewport: { width: this.currentViewport.width, height: this.currentViewport.height },
deviceScaleFactor: this.deviceScaleFactor,
};
if (this.customUserAgent) {
contextOptions.userAgent = this.customUserAgent;
}
this.context = await this.browser.newContext(contextOptions);
if (Object.keys(this.extraHeaders).length > 0) {
await this.context.setExtraHTTPHeaders(this.extraHeaders);
}
// Apply Layer C stealth (applyStealth): masks navigator.webdriver,
// restores window.chrome.* shape, aligns Notification.permission, sets
// per-install hardware, and strips automation globals + the Permissions
// notifications tell. We still do NOT fake navigator.plugins/languages —
// faking those to fixed values flags more bot-like, not less (D7).
const { applyStealth } = await import('./stealth');
await applyStealth(this.context);
// Create first tab
await this.newTab();
}
// ─── Headed Mode ─────────────────────────────────────────────
/**
* Launch Playwright's bundled Chromium in headed mode with the gstack
* Chrome extension auto-loaded. Uses launchPersistentContext() which
* is required for extension loading (launch() + newContext() can't
* load extensions).
*
* The browser launches headed with a visible window — the user sees
* every action Claude takes in real time.
*/
async launchHeaded(authToken?: string): Promise<void> {
this.closing = false;
await this.ensureHeadedDisplay();
// Clear old state before repopulating
this.pages.clear();
this.tabSessions.clear();
this.nextTabId = 1;
// Find the gstack extension directory for auto-loading
const extensionPath = this.findExtensionPath();
const { STEALTH_LAUNCH_ARGS, buildGStackLaunchArgs } = await import('./stealth');
const launchArgs = [
'--hide-crash-restore-bubble',
// Anti-bot-detection: --disable-blink-features=AutomationControlled (and any
// future blink-level tells) via the shared STEALTH_LAUNCH_ARGS constant — the
// same flag launch() and handoff() use, kept in one place instead of a literal.
...STEALTH_LAUNCH_ARGS,
// GStack Pack 1: per-install hardware/GPU/UA-CH overrides for the
// C++ patches in gbrowser's Chromium build. Each switch is a no-op
// on Chromium builds without the corresponding patch (the patch's
// empty-fallback returns native), so this is safe on stock Playwright
// Chromium too.
...buildGStackLaunchArgs(),
];
if (extensionPath) {
// Skip --load-extension when running against a custom Chromium build
// that already bakes the extension in as a component extension
// (gbrowser / GStack Browser.app). Loading it twice causes a
// ServiceWorkerState::SetWorkerId DCHECK crash.
if (!isCustomChromium()) {
launchArgs.push(`--disable-extensions-except=${extensionPath}`);
launchArgs.push(`--load-extension=${extensionPath}`);
}
// Write auth token for extension bootstrap (still required even when
// the extension is component-baked — it reads ~/.gstack/.auth.json at
// startup to learn how to call the daemon).
// Write to ~/.gstack/.auth.json (not the extension dir, which may be read-only
// in .app bundles and breaks codesigning).
if (authToken) {
const fs = require('fs');
const path = require('path');
const gstackDir = path.join(process.env.HOME || '/tmp', '.gstack');
mkdirSecure(gstackDir);
const authFile = path.join(gstackDir, '.auth.json');
try {
writeSecureFile(authFile, JSON.stringify({ token: authToken, port: this.serverPort || 34567 }));
} catch (err: any) {
console.warn(`[browse] Could not write .auth.json: ${err.message}`);
}
}
}
// Launch headed Chromium via Playwright's persistent context.
// Extensions REQUIRE launchPersistentContext (not launch + newContext).
// Real Chrome (executablePath/channel) silently blocks --load-extension,
// so we use Playwright's bundled Chromium which reliably loads extensions.
const fs = require('fs');
const path = require('path');
const userDataDir = resolveChromiumProfile();
fs.mkdirSync(userDataDir, { recursive: true });
// Pre-launch cleanup of stale SingletonLock/Socket/Cookie. Chromium's
// ProcessSingleton refuses to start when these exist from a prior crash
// (SIGKILL, hard crash) — the lockfiles point at a PID that may no longer
// exist. Shutdown cleanup doesn't run on hard crashes, so we clean here
// too. Safe under external coordination: gbd.lock for gbrowser,
// single-instance CLI check for gstack.
cleanSingletonLocks(userDataDir);
// Support custom Chromium binary via GSTACK_CHROMIUM_PATH env var.
// Used by GStack Browser.app to point at the bundled Chromium.
const executablePath = process.env.GSTACK_CHROMIUM_PATH || undefined;
// NOTE (#2242): the in-place "rebrand" that patched the Chromium .app's
// Info.plist (global "Google Chrome for Testing" → "GStack Browser"
// replace) and overwrote its Resources/*.icns is deliberately GONE.
// Chrome for Testing is a code-signed bundle: the global replace renamed
// CFBundleExecutable to a binary that doesn't exist and the plist/icon
// writes broke the codesign seal — GPU process exit_code=5, headed mode
// dead on macOS 26 (#2242, #2138, #2139). Branding belongs in the
// GStack Browser.app wrapper (GSTACK_CHROMIUM_PATH), never in a mutation
// of the signed bundle. Do not reintroduce writes into the Chromium
// bundle here — browse/test/rebrand-signed-bundle.test.ts fails CI if
// you do.
//
// Self-heal for bundles the OLD code already poisoned: probe the
// Playwright-cache bundle and remove it when the mutated plist is
// present (see probePoisonedChromiumBundle for the removal-scope
// rationale). Scoped to the Playwright cache copy — a
// GSTACK_CHROMIUM_PATH bundle belongs to the wrapper/embedder and is
// never probed.
if (!executablePath) {
try {
probePoisonedChromiumBundle(chromium.executablePath());
} catch (err: unknown) {
if (err instanceof PoisonedBundleError) throw err;
// Probe failures (no bundle yet, EACCES) fall through to launch,
// which produces its own actionable error.
}
}
// Build custom user agent: report as stock Chrome with the version
// matching the underlying Chromium binary. D6 (codex #18 correction):
// the previous "GStackBrowser" branding suffix was itself a high-entropy
// classifier — sites grepping UA for known browser strings caught us
// immediately. Branding still lives in the wrapper .app name + Dock icon
// + tray; it does NOT need to be in the UA string for the product to be
// "GBrowser." Removing it resolves the "looks like Chrome but identifies
// as GStackBrowser" contradiction codex flagged.
let customUA: string | undefined;
if (!this.customUserAgent) {
// Detect Chrome version from the Chromium binary
const chromePath = executablePath || chromium.executablePath();
try {
const versionProc = Bun.spawnSync([chromePath, '--version'], {
stdout: 'pipe', stderr: 'pipe', timeout: 5000,
});
const versionOutput = versionProc.stdout.toString().trim();
// Output like: "Google Chrome for Testing 145.0.6422.0" or "Chromium 145.0.6422.0"
const versionMatch = versionOutput.match(/(\d+\.\d+\.\d+\.\d+)/);
const chromeVersion = versionMatch ? versionMatch[1] : '131.0.0.0';
customUA = `Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/${chromeVersion} Safari/537.36`;
} catch {
// Fallback: generic modern Chrome UA
customUA = 'Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/131.0.0.0 Safari/537.36';
}
}
// T1: strip Playwright's automation-tell defaults. STEALTH_IGNORE_DEFAULT_ARGS
// covers the originals (extension-loading blockers) plus --enable-automation
// (kills the "Chrome is being controlled by automated test software" infobar
// and the chrome-runtime shape changes Playwright otherwise triggers) and
// three more (--disable-popup-blocking, --disable-component-update,
// --disable-default-apps — each a documented automation tell per Patchright).
const { STEALTH_IGNORE_DEFAULT_ARGS } = await import('./stealth');
// XProtect self-heal wrapper (P0 #2554). usesCustomExecutable scopes the
// heal out when GSTACK_CHROMIUM_PATH supplies the bundle — that bundle
// belongs to the wrapper/embedder and is never quarantine-cleared or
// reinstalled over (probePoisonedChromiumBundle's scope contract).
this.context = await launchWithXProtectHeal(() => chromium.launchPersistentContext(userDataDir, {
headless: false,
...(this.xvfb ? { env: { ...process.env, DISPLAY: this.xvfb.display } } : {}),
// #2220: daemon owns signal policy — see launch() for the rationale.
handleSIGINT: false,
handleSIGTERM: false,
handleSIGHUP: false,
// Match the sandbox policy used by launch() above. Without this,
// Playwright auto-adds --no-sandbox on every headed launch and the user
// sees Chromium's "unsupported command-line flag" yellow infobar.
chromiumSandbox: shouldEnableChromiumSandbox(),
args: launchArgs,
viewport: null, // Use browser's default viewport (real window size)
userAgent: this.customUserAgent || customUA,
...(executablePath ? { executablePath } : {}),
...(this.proxyConfig ? { proxy: this.proxyConfig } : {}),
ignoreDefaultArgs: STEALTH_IGNORE_DEFAULT_ARGS,
}), { usesCustomExecutable: Boolean(executablePath) });
this.browser = this.context.browser();
this.connectionMode = 'headed';
this.intentionalDisconnect = false;
// ─── Anti-bot-detection patches ───────────────────────────────
// Apply Layer C stealth (applyStealth): masks navigator.webdriver,
// restores window.chrome.* shape, aligns Notification.permission, sets
// per-install hardware, and strips automation runtime artifacts (cdc_/
// __webdriver globals + the Permissions notifications 'denied' tell).
// We still do NOT fake navigator.plugins/languages — faking those flags
// more bot-like, not less (D7). The cdc/Permissions cleanup moved into
// applyStealth so headless launch() and handoff() get it too, not just
// this headed path.
const { applyStealth } = await import('./stealth');
await applyStealth(this.context);
// Inject visual indicator — subtle top-edge amber gradient
// Extension's content script handles the floating pill
const indicatorScript = () => {
const injectIndicator = () => {
if (document.getElementById('gstack-ctrl')) return;
const topLine = document.createElement('div');
topLine.id = 'gstack-ctrl';
topLine.style.cssText = `
position: fixed; top: 0; left: 0; right: 0; height: 2px;
background: linear-gradient(90deg, #F59E0B, #FBBF24, #F59E0B);
background-size: 200% 100%;
animation: gstack-shimmer 3s linear infinite;
pointer-events: none; z-index: 2147483647;
opacity: 0.8;
`;
const style = document.createElement('style');
style.textContent = `
@keyframes gstack-shimmer {
0% { background-position: 200% 0; }
100% { background-position: -200% 0; }
}
@media (prefers-reduced-motion: reduce) {
#gstack-ctrl { animation: none !important; }
}
`;
document.documentElement.appendChild(style);
document.documentElement.appendChild(topLine);
};
if (document.readyState === 'loading') {
document.addEventListener('DOMContentLoaded', injectIndicator);
} else {
injectIndicator();
}
};
await this.context.addInitScript(indicatorScript);
// Track user-created tabs automatically (Cmd+T, link opens in new tab, etc.)
this.context.on('page', (page) => {
const id = this.nextTabId++;
this.pages.set(id, page);
this.tabSessions.set(id, new TabSession(page));
this.activeTabId = id;
this.wirePageEvents(page);
// Inject indicator on the new tab
page.evaluate(indicatorScript).catch(() => {});
console.log(`[browse] New tab detected (id=${id}, total=${this.pages.size})`);
this.checkTabGuardrails();
});
// Persistent context opens a default page — adopt it instead of creating a new one
const existingPages = this.context.pages();
if (existingPages.length > 0) {
const page = existingPages[0];
const id = this.nextTabId++;
this.pages.set(id, page);
this.tabSessions.set(id, new TabSession(page));
this.activeTabId = id;
this.wirePageEvents(page);
// Inject indicator on restored page (addInitScript only fires on new navigations)
try {
await page.evaluate(indicatorScript);
} catch {}
} else {
await this.newTab();
}
// Browser disconnect handler — distinguish user Cmd+Q from real crash.
// Clean exit (Chromium exit code 0) → process.exit(0) so process
// supervisors (gbrowser's gbd) treat it as user intent and skip the
// restart loop. Crash → process.exit(2) preserves the legacy headed
// semantics that's distinct from launch()'s code 1.
// Always calls onDisconnect() first to trigger full shutdown (kill
// terminal agent, save session, clean profile locks + state file) so
// crashes don't strand resources either.
if (this.browser) {
this.browser.on('disconnected', () => {
if (this.intentionalDisconnect) return;
const browserRef = this.browser;
void (async () => {
const cause = await resolveDisconnectCause(browserRef);
const exitCode = cause === 'clean' ? 0 : 2;
if (cause === 'clean') {
console.error('[browse] Real browser closed cleanly (user-initiated quit). Server exiting (0).');
} else {
console.error('[browse] Real browser disconnected (crash or kill). Server exiting (2).');
console.error('[browse] Run `$B connect` to reconnect.');
}
if (!this.onDisconnect) {
process.exit(exitCode);
return;
}
try {
const result = this.onDisconnect(exitCode);
if (result && typeof (result as Promise<void>).catch === 'function') {
(result as Promise<void>).catch((err) => {
console.error('[browse] onDisconnect rejected:', err);
process.exit(exitCode);
});
}
// onDisconnect is responsible for exit on the success path.
} catch (err) {
console.error('[browse] onDisconnect threw:', err);
process.exit(exitCode);
}
})();
});
}
// Headed mode defaults
this.dialogAutoAccept = false; // Don't dismiss user's real dialogs
this.isHeaded = true;
this.consecutiveFailures = 0;
}
// How long close() waits for a graceful shutdown before falling back to
// SIGKILL (launched mode) or abandoning the context close (headed mode).
// A field, not a literal, so the SIGKILL fallback is unit-testable without
// a 5-second wait.
private closeRaceMs = 5000;
async close() {
this.closing = true;
const previousBrowser = this.handoffPrevious?.browser;
const currentBrowser = this.browser;
// unref'd race timer: without unref, every successful close still pins
// the caller's event loop for the full window.
const raceTimeout = (ms: number) => new Promise<false>((resolve) => {
const t = setTimeout(() => resolve(false), ms);
(t as { unref?: () => void }).unref?.();
});
if (this.browser || ((this.connectionMode === 'headed' || this.handoffPrevious) && this.context)) {
if (this.connectionMode === 'headed' || this.handoffPrevious) {
// Headed/persistent context mode: close the context (which closes the browser)
this.intentionalDisconnect = true;
if (this.browser) this.browser.removeAllListeners('disconnected');
await Promise.race([
this.context ? this.context.close() : Promise.resolve(),
raceTimeout(this.closeRaceMs),
]).catch(() => {});
} else if (this.browser) {
// Launched mode: close the browser we spawned.
this.browser.removeAllListeners('disconnected');
// Grab the child handle BEFORE the race: nulling this.browser after a
// race-timeout used to ABANDON a live Chromium whose sockets kept the
// caller's event loop (and keep-alive connections into test servers)
// open forever — the intermittent whole-suite wedge. If graceful close
// doesn't finish in time, the child gets SIGKILL, not freedom.
const child = launchedProcess(this.browser);
const closed = await Promise.race([
this.browser.close().then(() => true as const),
raceTimeout(this.closeRaceMs),
]).catch(() => false as const);
if (closed === false && child && child.exitCode === null && !child.killed) {
try { child.kill('SIGKILL'); } catch { /* already gone */ }
}
}
this.browser = null;
}
if (previousBrowser && previousBrowser !== currentBrowser) {
previousBrowser.removeAllListeners('disconnected');
const child = launchedProcess(previousBrowser);
const closed = await Promise.race([
previousBrowser.close().then(() => true), raceTimeout(this.closeRaceMs),
]).catch(() => false);
if (!closed && child && child.exitCode === null && !child.killed) {
try { child.kill('SIGKILL'); } catch {}
}
}
await this.displayAllocation?.catch(() => {});
this.closeOwnedDisplay();
}
/** Health check — verifies Chromium is connected AND responsive */
async isHealthy(): Promise<boolean> {
if (!this.browser || !this.browser.isConnected()) return false;
try {
const page = this.pages.get(this.activeTabId);
if (!page) return true; // connected but no pages — still healthy
await Promise.race([
page.evaluate('1'),
new Promise((_, reject) => setTimeout(() => reject(new Error('timeout')), 2000)),
]);
return true;
} catch {
return false;
}
}
// ─── Tab Management ────────────────────────────────────────
async newTab(url?: string, clientId?: string): Promise<number> {
if (!this.context) throw new Error('Browser not launched');
// Validate URL before allocating page to avoid zombie tabs on rejection.
// Use the normalized return value for navigation — it handles file://./x and
// file://<segment> cwd-relative forms that the standard URL parser doesn't.
let normalizedUrl: string | undefined;
if (url) {
normalizedUrl = await validateNavigationUrl(url);
}
const page = await this.context.newPage();
const id = this.nextTabId++;
this.pages.set(id, page);
this.tabSessions.set(id, new TabSession(page));
this.activeTabId = id;
// Record tab ownership for multi-agent isolation
if (clientId) {
this.tabOwnership.set(id, clientId);
}
// Wire up console/network/dialog capture
this.wirePageEvents(page);
if (normalizedUrl) {
await page.goto(normalizedUrl, { waitUntil: 'domcontentloaded', timeout: 15000 });
}
return id;
}
async closeTab(id?: number): Promise<void> {
const tabId = id ?? this.activeTabId;
const page = this.pages.get(tabId);
if (!page) throw new Error(`Tab ${tabId} not found`);
// Capture BEFORE close(): the page 'close' event handler wired in
// wirePageEvents() can fire while page.close() is awaited. It removes
// the tab from the maps and reassigns activeTabId (to 0 when no tabs
// remain), so a post-close `tabId === this.activeTabId` check is
// order-dependent — whether the event dispatches before or after
// close() resolves varies across Playwright/Chromium versions and
// machines, and losing the race means the last-tab auto-create below
// never runs, leaving the manager with zero tabs.
const wasActive = tabId === this.activeTabId;
await page.close();
this.pages.delete(tabId);
this.tabSessions.delete(tabId);
this.tabOwnership.delete(tabId);
// Switch to another tab if we closed the active one
if (wasActive) {
const remaining = [...this.pages.keys()];
if (remaining.length === 0) {
// No tabs left — create a new blank one
await this.newTab();
} else if (!this.pages.has(this.activeTabId)) {
// The 'close' handler may have already switched to a valid tab;
// only reassign when activeTabId no longer points at a live tab.
this.activeTabId = remaining[remaining.length - 1];
}
}
}
switchTab(id: number, opts?: { bringToFront?: boolean }): void {
if (!this.tabSessions.has(id)) throw new Error(`Tab ${id} not found`);
this.activeTabId = id;
// Only bring to front when explicitly requested (user-initiated tab switch).
// Internal tab pinning (BROWSE_TAB) should NOT steal focus.
if (opts?.bringToFront !== false) {
const page = this.pages.get(id);
if (page) page.bringToFront().catch(() => {});
}
}
/**
* Sync activeTabId to match the tab whose URL matches the Chrome extension's
* active tab. Called on every /sidebar-tabs poll so manual tab switches in
* the browser are detected within ~2s.
*/
syncActiveTabByUrl(activeUrl: string): void {
if (!activeUrl || this.pages.size <= 1) return;
// Try exact match first, then fuzzy match (origin+pathname, ignoring query/fragment)
let fuzzyId: number | null = null;
let activeOriginPath = '';
try {
const u = new URL(activeUrl);
activeOriginPath = u.origin + u.pathname;
} catch (err: any) {
if (!(err instanceof TypeError)) throw err;
}
for (const [id, page] of this.pages) {
try {
const pageUrl = page.url();
// Exact match — best case
if (pageUrl === activeUrl && id !== this.activeTabId) {
this.activeTabId = id;
return;
}
// Fuzzy match — origin+pathname (handles query param / fragment differences)
if (activeOriginPath && fuzzyId === null && id !== this.activeTabId) {
try {
const pu = new URL(pageUrl);
if (pu.origin + pu.pathname === activeOriginPath) {
fuzzyId = id;
}
} catch (err: any) {
if (!(err instanceof TypeError)) throw err;
}
}
} catch {}
}
// Fall back to fuzzy match
if (fuzzyId !== null) {
this.activeTabId = fuzzyId;
}
}
getActiveTabId(): number {
return this.activeTabId;
}
getTabCount(): number {
return this.pages.size;
}
// ─── Tab Ownership (multi-agent isolation) ──────────────
/** Get the owner of a tab, or null if unowned (root-only for writes). */
getTabOwner(tabId: number): string | null {
return this.tabOwnership.get(tabId) || null;
}
/**
* Check if a client can access a tab.
*
* Two policies, distinguished by `options.ownOnly`:
*
* - **own-only (pair-agent over tunnel):** the strict mode. Token must own
* the target tab for any access (reads or writes). Unowned user tabs
* and tabs owned by other clients are off-limits. Remote agents must
* `newtab` first to get a tab they can drive.
*
* - **shared (local skill spawns, default scoped tokens):** permissive on
* tab access. The token can read/write any tab — capability is gated
* elsewhere (scope checks at /command, rate limits, the dual-listener
* allowlist for tunnel-bound traffic). Tab ownership is not a security
* boundary for shared tokens; it only matters for pair-agent isolation.
* This matches the contract documented in `skill-token.ts:79`
* ("skill scripts may switch tabs as needed").
*
* Root is unconstrained.
*
* `isWrite` is preserved in the signature for callers that want to log or
* branch on it elsewhere, but the access decision itself only depends on
* `ownOnly` + ownership map state.
*/
checkTabAccess(tabId: number, clientId: string, options: { isWrite?: boolean; ownOnly?: boolean } = {}): boolean {
if (clientId === 'root') return true;
if (options.ownOnly) {
const owner = this.tabOwnership.get(tabId);
return owner === clientId;
}
return true;
}
/** Transfer tab ownership to a different client. */
transferTab(tabId: number, toClientId: string): void {
if (!this.pages.has(tabId)) throw new Error(`Tab ${tabId} not found`);
this.tabOwnership.set(tabId, toClientId);
}
/**
* Release all tab ownership held by a client (called on revoke / reducing
* re-pair). Deletes the ownership entries so an own-only client re-pairing
* under the same name can no longer inherit the revoked agent's
* authenticated tabs (checkTabAccess gates own-only on owner === clientId).
* Tabs are NOT closed — leaving the page open is the local human's call, not
* the daemon's; the residual is a root-only tab. Returns the released ids.
*/
releaseClientTabs(clientId: string): number[] {
const released: number[] = [];
for (const [tabId, owner] of this.tabOwnership) {
if (owner === clientId) {
this.tabOwnership.delete(tabId);
released.push(tabId);
}
}
return released;
}
async getTabListWithTitles(): Promise<Array<{ id: number; url: string; title: string; active: boolean }>> {
const tabs: Array<{ id: number; url: string; title: string; active: boolean }> = [];
for (const [id, page] of this.pages) {
tabs.push({
id,
url: page.url(),
title: await page.title().catch(() => ''),
active: id === this.activeTabId,
});
}
return tabs;
}
// ─── Session Access ────────────────────────────────────────
/** Get the TabSession for the active tab. */
getActiveSession(): TabSession {
const session = this.tabSessions.get(this.activeTabId);
if (!session) throw new Error('No active page. Use "browse goto <url>" first.');
return session;
}
/** Get a TabSession by tab ID. Used by /batch for parallel tab execution. */
getSession(tabId: number): TabSession {
const session = this.tabSessions.get(tabId);
if (!session) throw new Error(`Tab ${tabId} not found`);
return session;
}
/** Get the underlying Page for a tab id. Returns null if the tab doesn't exist.
* Used by the CDP bridge (cdp-bridge.ts) to mint per-tab CDPSessions. */
getPageForTab(tabId: number): Page | null {
return this.pages.get(tabId) ?? null;
}
// ─── Two-tier mutex (Codex T7) ─────────────────────────────
// Per-tab and global locks for the CDP bridge. tab-scoped methods take the
// per-tab mutex; browser-scoped methods take the global lock that blocks all
// tab mutexes. Hard timeout on acquire so silent deadlock can't happen.
// Every caller MUST use try { ... } finally { release() }.
private tabLocks: Map<number, Promise<void>> = new Map();
private globalCdpLockTail: Promise<void> = Promise.resolve();
/**
* Acquire the per-tab CDP lock with a timeout. Returns a release fn.
* Locks chain: each acquire waits on the prior tail's resolution.
* Browser-scoped global lock takes precedence: while the global lock is
* held, no tab lock can be acquired (and vice versa).
*/
async acquireTabLock(tabId: number, timeoutMs: number): Promise<() => void> {
const existing = this.tabLocks.get(tabId) ?? Promise.resolve();
// Wait for any held global lock first (cross-tier serialization).
const tail = Promise.all([existing, this.globalCdpLockTail]).then(() => undefined);
let release!: () => void;
const next = new Promise<void>((resolve) => { release = resolve; });
this.tabLocks.set(tabId, tail.then(() => next));
const timeoutPromise = new Promise<never>((_, reject) =>
setTimeout(() => reject(new Error(
`CDPMutexAcquireTimeout: tab ${tabId} lock not acquired within ${timeoutMs}ms.\n` +
'Cause: a prior CDP or browser-scoped operation has held the lock too long.\n' +
'Action: retry; if this repeats, the prior operation may be hung — file a bug.'
)), timeoutMs),
);
try {
await Promise.race([tail, timeoutPromise]);
} catch (e) {
// Acquisition failed; release the slot we reserved so we don't deadlock the queue.
release();
throw e;
}
return release;
}
/**
* Acquire the global CDP lock. Blocks until all tab locks are released, and
* blocks new tab-lock acquisitions until released.
*/
async acquireGlobalCdpLock(timeoutMs: number): Promise<() => void> {
const allTabTails = Array.from(this.tabLocks.values());
const priorGlobal = this.globalCdpLockTail;
const allPrior = Promise.all([priorGlobal, ...allTabTails]).then(() => undefined);
let release!: () => void;
const next = new Promise<void>((resolve) => { release = resolve; });
this.globalCdpLockTail = allPrior.then(() => next);
const timeoutPromise = new Promise<never>((_, reject) =>
setTimeout(() => reject(new Error(
`CDPMutexAcquireTimeout: global CDP lock not acquired within ${timeoutMs}ms.\n` +
'Cause: in-flight tab operations have not completed.\n' +
'Action: retry; if this repeats, file a bug — a tab op may be hung.'
)), timeoutMs),
);
try {
await Promise.race([allPrior, timeoutPromise]);
} catch (e) {
release();
throw e;
}
return release;
}
// ─── Page Access (delegates to active session) ─────────────
getPage(): Page {
return this.getActiveSession().page;
}
getCurrentUrl(): string {
try {
return this.getPage().url();
} catch {
return 'about:blank';
}
}
/**
* Diagnostic for `$B memory` and the /memory endpoint.
*
* Collects:
* - Bun process memory (cross-platform, accurate, no shelling).
* - Per-tab JS heap via CDP Performance.getMetrics — the most portable
* per-tab signal CDP exposes. Misses native/GPU/Skia/cache memory
* (Codex flag on the eng-review; see follow-up TODO "native/GPU
* memory breakdown").
* - Chromium process tree via SystemInfo.getProcessInfo — PID + type
* + CPU time. Per-process RSS is NOT exposed via CDP and the eng
* review (D2 USE_CDP) explicitly chose CDP over shelling to `ps`,
* so RSS columns are absent and `notes[]` says why.
*
* `structures` is passed in by the caller (read-commands / server) so
* browser-manager doesn't take a hard dep on every buffer-owning module.
*/
async getMemorySnapshot(structures: MemoryStructureStats): Promise<MemorySnapshot> {
const bunMem = process.memoryUsage();
const notes: string[] = [];
// Per-tab JS heap. Lazy: only the pages we already track. A target
// that died mid-snapshot is omitted, never throws.
const tabs: MemoryTabSnapshot[] = [];
for (const [id, page] of this.pages) {
try {
const url = (() => { try { return page.url(); } catch { return ''; } })();
const title = await page.title().catch(() => '');
const metrics = await withCdpSession(page, async (session) => {
await session.send('Performance.enable').catch(() => undefined);
const result = await session.send('Performance.getMetrics');
return ((result as { metrics?: Array<{ name: string; value: number }> }).metrics) ?? [];
});
const mm: Record<string, number> = {};
for (const m of metrics) mm[m.name] = m.value;
tabs.push({
id,
url,
title,
jsHeapUsed: mm.JSHeapUsedSize ?? 0,
jsHeapTotal: mm.JSHeapTotalSize ?? 0,
documents: mm.Documents ?? 0,
nodes: mm.Nodes ?? 0,
listeners: mm.JSEventListeners ?? 0,
});
} catch {
// Target died or CDP unavailable mid-snapshot — skip this tab.
}
}
// Chromium process tree. Browser handle may be on the `browser` field
// (launched mode) or accessible via `context.browser()` (persistent
// context / headed mode); try both.
let processes: MemoryProcess[] | null = null;
const browser: Browser | null = this.browser ?? (this.context ? this.context.browser() : null);
if (browser) {
try {
// `newBrowserCDPSession` is browser-wide. Not exposed on every
// Playwright TypeScript surface, but present at runtime on the
// Browser instance — use a typed cast to avoid the @ts-expect-error.
type BrowserWithCDP = Browser & {
newBrowserCDPSession?: () => Promise<{
send: (method: string, params?: unknown) => Promise<unknown>;
detach: () => Promise<void>;
}>;
};
const maybeFactory = (browser as BrowserWithCDP).newBrowserCDPSession;
if (typeof maybeFactory === 'function') {
const browserSession = await maybeFactory.call(browser);
try {
const info = (await browserSession.send('SystemInfo.getProcessInfo')) as {
processInfo?: Array<{ id: number; type: string; cpuTime: number }>;
};
processes = (info.processInfo ?? []).map((p) => ({
id: p.id,
type: p.type,
cpuTime: p.cpuTime,
}));
notes.push(
'Per-Chromium-process RSS not collected — SystemInfo.getProcessInfo exposes PID+type+CPU only. ' +
'See follow-up TODO "native/GPU memory breakdown" for the deferred fix.',
);
} finally {
await browserSession.detach().catch(() => undefined);
}
} else {
notes.push('Playwright build does not expose newBrowserCDPSession; per-process info skipped.');
}
} catch (err: any) {
notes.push(`CDP browser session unavailable: ${err?.message ?? String(err)}`);
}
} else {
notes.push('Browser handle unavailable (server connection mode); per-process info skipped.');
}
return {
bunServer: {
rss: bunMem.rss,
heapUsed: bunMem.heapUsed,
heapTotal: bunMem.heapTotal,
external: bunMem.external,
},
tabs,
processes,
structures,
capturedAt: Date.now(),
notes,
};
}
// ─── Ref Map (delegates to active session) ──────────────────
setRefMap(refs: Map<string, RefEntry>) {
this.getActiveSession().setRefMap(refs);
}
clearRefs() {
this.getActiveSession().clearRefs();
}
async resolveRef(selector: string): Promise<{ locator: Locator } | { selector: string }> {
return this.getActiveSession().resolveRef(selector);
}
getRefRole(selector: string): string | null {
return this.getActiveSession().getRefRole(selector);
}
getRefCount(): number {
return this.getActiveSession().getRefCount();
}
// ─── Snapshot Diffing (delegates to active session) ─────────
setLastSnapshot(text: string | null) {
this.getActiveSession().setLastSnapshot(text);
}
getLastSnapshot(): string | null {
return this.getActiveSession().getLastSnapshot();
}
// ─── Dialog Control ───────────────────────────────────────
setDialogAutoAccept(accept: boolean) {
this.dialogAutoAccept = accept;
}
getDialogAutoAccept(): boolean {
return this.dialogAutoAccept;
}
setDialogPromptText(text: string | null) {
this.dialogPromptText = text;
}
getDialogPromptText(): string | null {
return this.dialogPromptText;
}
// ─── Cookie Origin Tracking ────────────────────────────────
trackCookieImportDomains(domains: string[]): void {
for (const d of domains) this.cookieImportedDomains.add(d);
}
getCookieImportedDomains(): ReadonlySet<string> {
return this.cookieImportedDomains;
}
hasCookieImports(): boolean {
return this.cookieImportedDomains.size > 0;
}
// ─── Viewport ──────────────────────────────────────────────
async setViewport(width: number, height: number) {
this.currentViewport = { width, height };
await this.getPage().setViewportSize({ width, height });
}
// ─── Extra Headers ─────────────────────────────────────────
async setExtraHeader(name: string, value: string) {
this.extraHeaders[name] = value;
if (this.context) {
await this.context.setExtraHTTPHeaders(this.extraHeaders);
}
}
// ─── User Agent ────────────────────────────────────────────
setUserAgent(ua: string) {
this.customUserAgent = ua;
}
getUserAgent(): string | null {
return this.customUserAgent;
}
// ─── Lifecycle helpers ───────────────────────────────
/**
* Close all open pages and clear the pages map.
* Used by state load to replace the current session.
*/
async closeAllPages(): Promise<void> {
for (const page of this.pages.values()) {
await page.close().catch(() => {});
}
this.pages.clear();
this.tabSessions.clear();
}
// ─── Frame context (delegates to active session) ────────────
setFrame(frame: import('playwright').Frame | null): void {
this.getActiveSession().setFrame(frame);
}
getFrame(): import('playwright').Frame | null {
return this.getActiveSession().getFrame();
}
getActiveFrameOrPage(): import('playwright').Page | import('playwright').Frame {
return this.getActiveSession().getActiveFrameOrPage();
}
// ─── State Save/Restore (shared by recreateContext + handoff) ─
/**
* Capture browser state: cookies, localStorage, sessionStorage, URLs, active tab.
* Skips pages that fail storage reads (e.g., already closed).
*/
async saveState(): Promise<BrowserState> {
if (!this.context) throw new Error('Browser not launched');
const cookies = await this.context.cookies();
const pages: BrowserState['pages'] = [];
for (const [id, page] of this.pages) {
const url = page.url();
let storage = null;
try {
storage = await page.evaluate(() => ({
localStorage: { ...localStorage },
sessionStorage: { ...sessionStorage },
}));
} catch {}
// Capture load-html content so a later context recreation (viewport --scale)
// can replay it via setTabContent. Never persisted to disk.
const session = this.tabSessions.get(id);
const loaded = session?.getLoadedHtml();
// Preserve tab ownership through recreation so scoped agents aren't locked out.
const owner = this.tabOwnership.get(id);
pages.push({
url: url === 'about:blank' ? '' : url,
isActive: id === this.activeTabId,
storage,
loadedHtml: loaded?.html,
loadedHtmlWaitUntil: loaded?.waitUntil,
owner,
});
}
return { cookies, pages };
}
/**
* Restore browser state into the current context: cookies, pages, storage.
* Navigates to saved URLs, restores storage, wires page events.
* Failures on individual pages are swallowed — partial restore is better than none.
*/
async restoreState(state: BrowserState): Promise<void> {
if (!this.context) throw new Error('Browser not launched');
// Restore cookies
if (state.cookies.length > 0) {
await this.context.addCookies(state.cookies);
}
// Clear stale ownership — the old tab IDs are gone. We'll re-add per-tab
// owners below as each saved tab gets a fresh ID. Without this reset, old
// tabId → clientId entries would linger and match new tabs with the same
// sequential IDs, silently granting ownership to the wrong clients.
this.tabOwnership.clear();
// Re-create pages
let activeId: number | null = null;
for (const saved of state.pages) {
const page = await this.context.newPage();
const id = this.nextTabId++;
this.pages.set(id, page);
const newSession = new TabSession(page);
this.tabSessions.set(id, newSession);
this.wirePageEvents(page);
// Restore tab ownership for the new ID — preserves scoped-agent isolation
// across context recreation (viewport --scale, user-agent change, handoff).
if (saved.owner) {
this.tabOwnership.set(id, saved.owner);
}
if (saved.loadedHtml) {
// Replay load-html content via setTabContent — this rehydrates
// TabSession.loadedHtml so the next saveState sees it. page.setContent()
// alone would restore the DOM but lose the replay metadata.
try {
await newSession.setTabContent(saved.loadedHtml, { waitUntil: saved.loadedHtmlWaitUntil });
} catch (err: any) {
console.warn(`[browse] Failed to replay loadedHtml for tab ${id}: ${err.message}`);
}
} else if (saved.url) {
// Validate the saved URL before navigating — the state file is user-writable and
// a tampered URL could navigate to cloud metadata endpoints. Use the normalized
// return value so file:// forms get consistent treatment with live goto.
let normalizedUrl: string;
try {
normalizedUrl = await validateNavigationUrl(saved.url);
} catch (err: any) {
console.warn(`[browse] Skipping invalid URL in state file: ${saved.url} — ${err.message}`);
continue;
}
await page.goto(normalizedUrl, { waitUntil: 'domcontentloaded', timeout: 15000 }).catch(() => {});
}
if (saved.storage) {
try {
await page.evaluate((s: { localStorage: Record<string, string>; sessionStorage: Record<string, string> }) => {
if (s.localStorage) {
for (const [k, v] of Object.entries(s.localStorage)) {
localStorage.setItem(k, v);
}
}
if (s.sessionStorage) {
for (const [k, v] of Object.entries(s.sessionStorage)) {
sessionStorage.setItem(k, v);
}
}
}, saved.storage);
} catch {}
}
if (saved.isActive) activeId = id;
}
// If no pages were saved, create a blank one
if (this.pages.size === 0) {
await this.newTab();
} else {
this.activeTabId = activeId ?? [...this.pages.keys()][0];
}
// Clear refs — pages are new, locators are stale
this.clearRefs();
}
/**
* Recreate the browser context to apply user agent changes.
* Saves and restores cookies, localStorage, sessionStorage, and open pages.
* Falls back to a clean slate on any failure.
*/
async recreateContext(): Promise<string | null> {
if (this.connectionMode === 'headed') {
throw new Error('Cannot recreate context in headed mode. Use disconnect first.');
}
if (!this.browser || !this.context) {
throw new Error('Browser not launched');
}
try {
// 1. Save state
const state = await this.saveState();
// 2. Close old pages and context
for (const page of this.pages.values()) {
await page.close().catch(() => {});
}
this.pages.clear();
this.tabSessions.clear();
await this.context.close().catch(() => {});
// 3. Create new context with updated settings
const contextOptions: BrowserContextOptions = {
viewport: { width: this.currentViewport.width, height: this.currentViewport.height },
deviceScaleFactor: this.deviceScaleFactor,
};
if (this.customUserAgent) {
contextOptions.userAgent = this.customUserAgent;
}
this.context = await this.browser.newContext(contextOptions);
// Re-apply stealth: newContext() is a fresh context with no init scripts,
// so a useragent / viewport --scale rebuild would otherwise drop the
// webdriver mask, window.chrome.* shape, hardware spoof, and cdc/
// Permissions cleanup on every restored page. Must run before
// restoreState() navigates the restored tabs.
const { applyStealth } = await import('./stealth');
await applyStealth(this.context);
if (Object.keys(this.extraHeaders).length > 0) {
await this.context.setExtraHTTPHeaders(this.extraHeaders);
}
// 4. Restore state
await this.restoreState(state);
return null; // success
} catch (err: unknown) {
// Fallback: create a clean context + blank tab
try {
this.pages.clear();
this.tabSessions.clear();
if (this.context) await this.context.close().catch(() => {});
const contextOptions: BrowserContextOptions = {
viewport: { width: this.currentViewport.width, height: this.currentViewport.height },
deviceScaleFactor: this.deviceScaleFactor,
};
if (this.customUserAgent) {
contextOptions.userAgent = this.customUserAgent;
}
this.context = await this.browser!.newContext(contextOptions);
// Stealth applies to the fallback blank context too.
const { applyStealth } = await import('./stealth');
await applyStealth(this.context);
await this.newTab();
this.clearRefs();
} catch {
// If even the fallback fails, we're in trouble — but browser is still alive
}
return `Context recreation failed: ${err instanceof Error ? err.message : String(err)}. Browser reset to blank tab.`;
}
}
/**
* Change deviceScaleFactor + viewport size atomically.
*
* deviceScaleFactor is a context-level option, so Playwright requires a full context
* recreation. This method validates the input, stores the new values, calls
* recreateContext(), and rolls back the fields on failure so a bad call doesn't
* leave the manager in an inconsistent state.
*
* Returns null on success, or an error string if the new context couldn't be built
* (state may have been lost, per recreateContext's fallback behavior).
*/
async setDeviceScaleFactor(scale: number, width: number, height: number): Promise<string | null> {
if (!Number.isFinite(scale)) {
throw new Error(`viewport --scale: value must be a finite number, got ${scale}`);
}
if (scale < 1 || scale > 3) {
throw new Error(`viewport --scale: value must be between 1 and 3 (gstack policy cap), got ${scale}`);
}
if (this.connectionMode === 'headed') {
throw new Error('viewport --scale is not supported in headed mode — scale is controlled by the real browser window.');
}
const prevScale = this.deviceScaleFactor;
const prevViewport = { ...this.currentViewport };
this.deviceScaleFactor = scale;
this.currentViewport = { width, height };
const err = await this.recreateContext();
if (err !== null) {
// recreateContext's fallback path built a blank context using the NEW scale +
// viewport (the fields we just set). Rolling the fields back without a second
// recreate would leave the live context at new-scale while state says old-scale.
// Roll back fields FIRST, then force a second recreate against the old values
// so live state matches tracked state.
this.deviceScaleFactor = prevScale;
this.currentViewport = prevViewport;
const rollbackErr = await this.recreateContext();
if (rollbackErr !== null) {
// Second recreate also failed — we're in a clean blank slate via fallback, but
// with old scale. Return the original error so the caller sees the primary failure.
return `${err} (rollback also encountered: ${rollbackErr})`;
}
return err;
}
return null;
}
/** Read current deviceScaleFactor (for tests + debug). */
getDeviceScaleFactor(): number {
return this.deviceScaleFactor;
}
/** Read current tracked viewport (for tests + `viewport --scale` size fallback). */
getCurrentViewport(): { width: number; height: number } {
return { ...this.currentViewport };
}
// ─── Handoff: Headless → Headed ─────────────────────────────
/**
* Hand off browser control to the user by relaunching in headed mode.
*
* Flow (launch-first-close-second for safe rollback):
* 1. Save state from current headless browser
* 2. Launch NEW headed browser
* 3. Restore state into new browser
* 4. Close OLD headless browser
* If step 2 fails → return error, headless browser untouched
*/
async handoff(message: string): Promise<string> {
if (this.handoffPending) return this.handoffPending;
this.handoffPending = this.promoteToHeaded(message);
try { return await this.handoffPending; }
finally { this.handoffPending = null; }
}
private async promoteToHeaded(message: string): Promise<string> {
if (this.closing) return 'ERROR: Browser is shutting down';
if (this.connectionMode === 'headed' || this.isHeaded) {
return `HANDOFF: Already in headed mode at ${this.getCurrentUrl()}`;
}
if (!this.browser || !this.context) {
throw new Error('Browser not launched');
}
// 1. Save state from current browser
const state = await this.saveState();
if (this.closing) return 'ERROR: Browser is shutting down';
const currentUrl = this.getCurrentUrl();
const previousDisplay = this.xvfb;
// 2. Launch new headed browser with extension (same as launchHeaded)
// Uses launchPersistentContext so the extension auto-loads.
let newContext: BrowserContext;
try {
await this.ensureHeadedDisplay();
const fs = require('fs');
const path = require('path');
const extensionPath = this.findExtensionPath();
const { STEALTH_LAUNCH_ARGS, buildGStackLaunchArgs } = await import('./stealth');
// Same blink-level stealth flags as launch()/launchHeaded(). Without
// STEALTH_LAUNCH_ARGS the handed-off browser kept the AutomationControlled
// tell that the other two paths strip.
const launchArgs: string[] = ['--hide-crash-restore-bubble', ...STEALTH_LAUNCH_ARGS, ...buildGStackLaunchArgs()];
if (extensionPath) {
launchArgs.push(`--disable-extensions-except=${extensionPath}`);
launchArgs.push(`--load-extension=${extensionPath}`);
// Auth token is served via POST /extension-token (pinned-origin
// bootstrap, no file write needed). /health is liveness-only.
console.log(`[browse] Handoff: loading extension from ${extensionPath}`);
} else {
console.log('[browse] Handoff: extension not found — headed mode without side panel');
}
// Same profile resolution + singleton-lock cleanup as launchHeaded().
// This path previously hardcoded ~/.gstack/chromium-profile, silently
// ignoring $CHROMIUM_PROFILE / $GSTACK_HOME and skipping the lock
// cleanup — the third shipped drift between the three launch paths.
const userDataDir = resolveChromiumProfile();
fs.mkdirSync(userDataDir, { recursive: true });
cleanSingletonLocks(userDataDir);
// Self-heal probe (#2242): handoff always launches the Playwright-cache
// bundle (this launchPersistentContext call passes no executablePath),
// so a bundle poisoned by the old in-place rebrand would GPU-crash here
// exactly like launchHeaded(). Same probe, same contract: a
// GSTACK_CHROMIUM_PATH bundle is never passed in. The rethrown typed
// error surfaces through the outer catch as the actionable
// "Cannot open headed browser" message, headless browser untouched.
try {
probePoisonedChromiumBundle(chromium.executablePath());
} catch (err: unknown) {
if (err instanceof PoisonedBundleError) throw err;
// Probe failures (no bundle yet, EACCES) fall through to launch.
}
// T1: same automation-tell-stripping defaults as launchHeaded().
// The handoff path (headless → headed re-launch) takes the same
// anti-detection posture.
const { STEALTH_IGNORE_DEFAULT_ARGS } = await import('./stealth');
// XProtect self-heal wrapper (P0 #2554): handoff always launches the
// Playwright-cache bundle (no executablePath), so the heal applies
// exactly as in launch()/launchHeaded().
newContext = await launchWithXProtectHeal(() => chromium.launchPersistentContext(userDataDir, {
headless: false,
...(this.xvfb ? { env: { ...process.env, DISPLAY: this.xvfb.display } } : {}),
// #2220: daemon owns signal policy — see launch() for the rationale.
handleSIGINT: false,
handleSIGTERM: false,
handleSIGHUP: false,
// Match the sandbox policy used by launchHeaded() / launch(). The
// handoff path is the headless→headed re-launch and shares the same
// anti-detection posture, including no spurious --no-sandbox infobar.
chromiumSandbox: shouldEnableChromiumSandbox(),
args: launchArgs,
viewport: null,
...(this.proxyConfig ? { proxy: this.proxyConfig } : {}),
ignoreDefaultArgs: STEALTH_IGNORE_DEFAULT_ARGS,
timeout: 15000,
}));
if (this.closing) {
await newContext.close().catch(() => {});
throw new Error('Browser is shutting down');
}
} catch (err: unknown) {
if (!previousDisplay) this.closeOwnedDisplay();
if (this.closing) return 'ERROR: Browser is shutting down';
const msg = err instanceof Error ? err.message : String(err);
return `ERROR: Cannot open headed browser — ${msg}. Headless browser still running.`;
}
const previous = {
browser: this.browser, context: this.context,
pages: this.pages, tabSessions: this.tabSessions, tabOwnership: this.tabOwnership,
activeTabId: this.activeTabId, nextTabId: this.nextTabId,
connectionMode: this.connectionMode, isHeaded: this.isHeaded,
dialogAutoAccept: this.dialogAutoAccept, intentionalDisconnect: this.intentionalDisconnect,
chromiumProcInfo: this.chromiumProcInfo,
tabGuardrailSoftHit: this.tabGuardrailSoftHit, tabGuardrailHardHit: this.tabGuardrailHardHit,
};
this.handoffPrevious = previous;
try {
this.context = newContext;
this.browser = newContext.browser();
this.pages = new Map();
this.tabSessions = new Map();
this.tabOwnership = new Map();
// Same Layer C stealth as launch()/launchHeaded(). Must run BEFORE
// restoreState() navigates so the init scripts apply to the restored
// pages — without this the handed-off browser had cmdline args but no
// JS stealth (no webdriver mask, no chrome.* shape, no toString proxy).
const { applyStealth } = await import('./stealth');
await applyStealth(newContext);
if (Object.keys(this.extraHeaders).length > 0) {
await newContext.setExtraHTTPHeaders(this.extraHeaders);
}
await this.restoreState(state);
if (this.closing) throw new Error('Browser is shutting down');
if (this.browser) {
const browserRef = this.browser;
this.browser.on('disconnected', () => {
if (this.intentionalDisconnect) return;
void handleChromiumDisconnect(browserRef);
});
}
this.connectionMode = 'headed';
this.isHeaded = true;
this.dialogAutoAccept = false; // User controls dialogs in headed mode
this.chromiumProcInfo = null;
try { this.onHeadedPromotion?.(); }
catch (err) { console.warn('[browse] Headed promotion callback failed:', err); }
// 4. Close old headless browser (fire-and-forget)
previous.browser.removeAllListeners('disconnected');
previous.browser.close().catch(() => {});
return [
`HANDOFF: Browser opened at ${currentUrl}`,
...(this.xvfb ? ['DISPLAY: Off-screen Xvfb; a separate remote desktop is required for human interaction.'] : []),
`MESSAGE: ${message}`,
`STATUS: Waiting for user. Run 'resume' when done.`,
].join('\n');
} catch (err: unknown) {
await newContext.close().catch(() => {});
if (!this.closing) {
Object.assign(this, previous);
this.recheckTabGuardrailsOnClose();
}
if (!previousDisplay) this.closeOwnedDisplay();
if (this.closing) return 'ERROR: Browser is shutting down';
const msg = err instanceof Error ? err.message : String(err);
return `ERROR: Handoff failed during state restore — ${msg}. Headless browser still running.`;
} finally {
this.handoffPrevious = null;
}
}
/**
* Resume AI control after user handoff.
* Clears stale refs and resets failure counter.
* The meta-command handler calls handleSnapshot() after this.
*/
resume(): void {
// Clear refs and frame on the active session
try {
const session = this.getActiveSession();
session.clearRefs();
session.setFrame(null);
} catch {}
this.resetFailures();
}
getIsHeaded(): boolean {
return this.isHeaded;
}
// ─── Auto-handoff Hint (consecutive failure tracking) ───────
incrementFailures(): void {
this.consecutiveFailures++;
}
resetFailures(): void {
this.consecutiveFailures = 0;
}
getFailureHint(): string | null {
if (this.consecutiveFailures >= 3 && !this.isHeaded) {
return `HINT: ${this.consecutiveFailures} consecutive failures. Consider using 'handoff' to let the user help.`;
}
return null;
}
// ─── Console/Network/Dialog/Ref Wiring ────────────────────
private wirePageEvents(page: Page) {
const pages = this.pages;
const tabSessions = this.tabSessions;
// Track tab close — remove from pages and sessions maps, switch to another tab
page.on('close', () => {
for (const [id, p] of pages) {
if (p === page) {
pages.delete(id);
tabSessions.delete(id);
console.log(`[browse] Tab closed (id=${id}, remaining=${pages.size})`);
// If the closed tab was active, switch to another
const remaining = [...pages.keys()];
const fallback = remaining.length > 0 ? remaining[remaining.length - 1]! : 0;
if (pages === this.pages) {
if (this.activeTabId === id) this.activeTabId = fallback;
} else if (this.handoffPrevious?.pages === pages && this.handoffPrevious.activeTabId === id) {
this.handoffPrevious.activeTabId = fallback;
}
break;
}
}
if (pages === this.pages) this.recheckTabGuardrailsOnClose();
});
// Clear ref map on navigation — refs point to stale elements after page change
// (lastSnapshot is NOT cleared — it's a text baseline for diffing)
page.on('framenavigated', (frame) => {
if (frame === page.mainFrame()) {
// Find the TabSession for this page and clear its per-tab state
for (const session of tabSessions.values()) {
if (session.page === page) {
session.onMainFrameNavigated();
break;
}
}
}
});
// ─── Dialog auto-handling (prevents browser lockup) ─────
page.on('dialog', async (dialog) => {
const entry: DialogEntry = {
timestamp: Date.now(),
type: dialog.type(),
message: dialog.message(),
defaultValue: dialog.defaultValue() || undefined,
action: this.dialogAutoAccept ? 'accepted' : 'dismissed',
response: this.dialogAutoAccept ? (this.dialogPromptText ?? undefined) : undefined,
};
addDialogEntry(entry);
try {
if (this.dialogAutoAccept) {
await dialog.accept(this.dialogPromptText ?? undefined);
} else {
await dialog.dismiss();
}
} catch {
// Dialog may have been dismissed by navigation
}
});
page.on('console', (msg) => {
addConsoleEntry({
timestamp: Date.now(),
level: msg.type(),
text: msg.text(),
});
});
page.on('request', (req) => {
addNetworkEntry({
timestamp: Date.now(),
method: req.method(),
url: req.url(),
});
});
page.on('response', (res) => {
// Find matching request entry and update it (backward scan)
const url = res.url();
const status = res.status();
for (let i = networkBuffer.length - 1; i >= 0; i--) {
const entry = networkBuffer.get(i);
if (entry && entry.url === url && !entry.status) {
networkBuffer.set(i, { ...entry, status, duration: Date.now() - entry.timestamp });
break;
}
}
});
// Capture response sizes via requestfinished — but DO NOT call
// response.body() here. Pre-fix, this listener materialized every
// response body across CDP just to read .length: multi-GB/hour of
// Buffer churn on long-lived headed Chromium with media-heavy
// pages, the primary Bun-side accelerant on the gbrowser-OOM
// investigation. req.sizes() pulls from the Network.loadingFinished
// event Chromium already emits — accurate for chunked transfer,
// gzip-compressed responses, and streaming media, all the cases
// where the previous Content-Length-header approach would have
// missed the size.
//
// The "single context-level CDP listener" architecture (D10's
// stretch goal — would reduce per-page listener count from N to 1
// via Target.setAutoAttach) is deferred. TODOS.md tracks it.
page.on('requestfinished', async (req) => {
try {
const sizes = await req.sizes().catch(() => null);
if (!sizes) return;
const url = req.url();
const size = sizes.responseBodySize ?? 0;
for (let i = networkBuffer.length - 1; i >= 0; i--) {
const entry = networkBuffer.get(i);
if (entry && entry.url === url && !entry.size) {
networkBuffer.set(i, { ...entry, size });
break;
}
}
} catch {
// Best-effort: requestfinished fires for aborted/cached requests too,
// where sizes() is unavailable. Missing size is acceptable; an
// unbounded throw would noise the console for every cache hit.
}
});
}
}