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Summary

Preview automation could time out while Electron kept working, leaving later actions stuck or losing a recording during retry. A slow WebSocket subscription could block unrelated browser requests, agents sharing a credential could overwrite each other's selected tab, and a hidden host window could stop painting while input appeared to succeed.

Requests now carry one deadline through MCP, renderer readiness, IPC, and Electron. Timed-out control sessions recover, independent RPC requests keep moving, and native caller metadata separates each agent's host and tab selection. Bounded automation resumes the host compositor without showing or focusing its window. Snapshots preserve page data when image capture fails, while recording finalization and transfer can be retried without saving duplicate desktop artifacts.

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What changed

  • Bound automation work and reset only the stalled debugger session. Preserve selected hosts and tabs across reconnection, and allow a short eviction grace for late responses without replaying timed-out actions.
  • Isolate host and tab selection by native caller context within the credential's conversation. Deliver independent RPC requests concurrently while preserving each request's ordering and ACK backpressure.
  • Temporarily disable host-window background throttling during bounded automation. Native input and screenshots wait for a committed host frame, and the last operation restores throttling unless recording or picture-in-picture still needs it.
  • Capture background tabs without selecting or focusing them. Return semantic snapshots with screenshot: null, a capture-failure reason, and host-rendering status when no image is available.
  • Restore captures when a live guest re-registers after a failed replacement. Preserve outstanding native captures and interruption gates, and stop old requests from retrying through a replacement generation.
  • Keep the display awake during automation activity, releasing the block after five minutes without requests, when the last automation tab closes, or at shutdown.
  • Retain recording data across finalization and upload timeouts, share pending work, and reuse artifact idempotency keys. Recognize timeout messages preserved by Electron IPC, reject new starts while stopped recordings await finalization retry, and clamp desktop stop and save waits to the IPC limit.
  • Preserve browser profiles, runtime tab identity, and explicit background presentation. Bound open, resize, and appearance readiness; support idempotent tab closure; reduce unrelated guest rerenders; serialize pairing tokens; and isolate development desktop profiles and loopback routing.

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606 focused tests passed; prior Windows Electron evidence is historical
  • The focused branch suite passed 606 tests with one skipped across 37 files on the current upstream base. Coverage includes capture re-registration and generation replacement, degraded snapshots, broker eviction grace, caller isolation, concurrent RPC delivery, recording finalization, compositor startup, and upload retries. Branch whitespace checks passed.
  • Recorded scoped typechecks passed for desktop, web, server, contracts, and client-runtime. The desktop auth fixture passed all eight tests in the branch and the same-host upstream control. Targeted fixture lint and commit formatting checks passed.
  • Prior isolated Windows Electron checks covered independent caller tabs, navigation, input, implicit-target preservation, and background snapshots. Hidden and minimized host checks verified compositor recovery without window activation. A real WebSocket experiment reproduced cross-request blocking and preserved all 18 stream values in order with the fix. A one-second renderer timeout retained the assigned host, and the next evaluation succeeded.
  • Prior display-wake checks kept rendering active through eight minutes without session input and returned a snapshot in 82 ms. Inactivity and closing the last automation tab both released the block.
  • Integrated runtime checks were not rerun on the current upstream base. Full Electron recording transfer, native mobile UI, physical display sleep, and GPU suspension remain unverified for the latest changes. Input remains bounded and snapshots retain semantic data when the host cannot commit a frame. The original production subscriber slowdown remains unproven; the transport failure was reproduced independently.
  • Upload response loss can leave a pending server copy when a retry creates a new upload. Best-effort deletion and existing cleanup apply; abandoned uploads become eligible after 24 hours, with no promised deletion deadline.

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Verdict: Not approved

Macroscope's review found this PR not approvable — This is a large, cross-layer preview automation feature that changes production behavior, adds host selection and close workflows, and modifies recording, snapshot, and timeout lifecycles. Product defaults are changed, integrated Electron verification is incomplete, and unresolved findings include host-routing isolation and recording/resource-retention risks.

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📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

Preview automation adds caller-scoped host routing, operation deadlines, background snapshots, and explicit tab closure. Desktop and browser recording support bounded operations and retries. Pairing, RPC delivery, desktop profiles, development networking, and preview attribution also change.

Changes

Preview automation and supporting changes

Layer / File(s) Summary
Contracts, host identity, and desktop configuration
packages/contracts/src/preview*.ts, packages/contracts/src/ipc.ts, apps/desktop/src/app/*, apps/desktop/src/ipc/*
Contracts add host metadata, caller context, timeout inputs, close operations, and nullable screenshot details. Desktop configuration accepts a user-data path, and IPC exposes host metadata and forwards timeouts.
Server routing and MCP tools
apps/server/src/mcp/*, apps/server/src/preview/Manager.ts
MCP tools list and select hosts, close tabs, propagate timeouts, and report unavailable screenshots. The broker routes by caller context and stable host identity, and delays host eviction after request timeouts.
Desktop automation and capture
apps/desktop/src/preview/Manager.ts, apps/desktop/src/preview/Manager.test.ts
The manager bounds automation and recording operations, serializes native captures and color-scheme changes, supports background snapshots, and reports capture failures and display-sleep state.
Web automation and presentation
apps/web/src/components/preview/*, apps/web/src/browser/browserSurfaceStore.ts, apps/web/src/browser/hostedBrowserWebviewStyle.ts, apps/web/src/browser/HostedBrowserWebview.tsx
The web host applies operation budgets, scopes preview state by context, and coordinates readiness, background capture, and tab closure. Browser surfaces track capture leases and stage webviews for snapshots.
Recording deadlines and retries
apps/web/src/browser/browserRecording*, apps/web/src/browser/recordingCompositor.ts
Recording start, stop, save, and upload use deadlines. Retries can join pending work and reuse a stable artifact key. Compositor initialization supports cancellation.
Pairing, RPC, and development setup
apps/web/src/components/auth/*, packages/client-runtime/src/rpc/*, packages/shared/src/devProxy.ts, scripts/dev-runner.ts, apps/web/vite.config.ts
Pairing tokens are claimed once and submissions are serialized. RPC messages are multiplexed by request ID. Development proxy resolution uses shared loopback configuration, and desktop development sets a user-data path.
Attribution and verification notes
packages/contracts/src/preview.ts, apps/server/src/preview/Manager.ts, apps/web/src/components/RightPanelTabs.tsx, .agents/skills/test-t3-app/SKILL.md, BRANCH_DETAILS.md
Preview sessions retain automation origin metadata for display in tab labels and tooltips. Test guidance describes closing owned tabs, and branch notes record implementation details and verification information.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 5 (Critical) | ~90 minutes

Suggested reviewers: juliusmarminge, t3dotgg

Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to e00af

Host registration and capture recovery have no remaining concrete regression in the reviewed paths, and normal RPC responses are not interrupted by the new wrapper. No actionable merge-blocking risk remains.

Security Architecture Review

Security architecture risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to e00af

Authentication controls remain visible, but overlapping stop requests can undermine recording-transfer recovery. No privilege-escalation path was established. Incomplete validation of isolation and recovery prevents a minimal-risk assessment.

Retained concerns

  • Medium · reliability · inferred: The new recording-transfer recovery state has last-writer-wins ownership. An upload-preserving stop sets retainForUpload to true, but an overlapping ordinary stop can reset it to false. Finalization or the joining stop then removes the active slot while the upload caller still holds the recording object. After a deadline or transfer failure, a later retry cannot discover and join that transfer. The local artifact remains saved; cross-request recovery ownership is what is lost. Production scheduling of this interleaving remains partially verified.
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Security Blast Radius

  • inferred — The inspected remote control path requires a resolved bearer credential and preview capability. Caller metadata partitions routing rather than creating independently authenticated agents. Its effective authority remains bounded by that credential's conversation and the selected desktop preview; broader tenant or environment isolation was not exhaustively assessed.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

  • observed — The main window receives the privileged desktop preload with context isolation, sandboxing, and Node integration disabled. Standard preview guests receive a separate picker preload and enforced sandboxing with Node integration disabled, although guest context isolation is deliberately disabled. The new hostname/platform metadata handler does not validate the sender. These configured separations are counterevidence to direct guest access, but picker-preload capabilities were not fully inspected, so untrusted reachability remains unresolved.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

  • observed — Native control sessions check a captured epoch before and after commands, bound initialization and execution, detach interrupted sessions, and finalize controller state. Cleanup intentionally remains available after epoch invalidation to release held input and focus state.

Hardening Proposals

  • proposed — Represent retained transfer ownership independently from an individual stop caller's preference, so an ordinary stop cannot revoke a pending upload's recovery slot. Define explicit completion and abandonment states for retained recordings.
  • proposed — As defense in depth, restrict native host metadata to the trusted host renderer and explicitly constrain guest preload selection. This is a hardening proposal, not a verified guest-to-native bypass.
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In @.agents/skills/worktrees/SKILL.md:
- Around line 68-82: Update the worktree runtime workflow documentation to
either add the missing worktree-runtime-slot.ts and worktree-android-avd.ts
helper scripts with the documented commands and subcommands, or remove all
instructions that depend on them; ensure the documented workflow remains
executable in this checkout.

In `@apps/web/src/browser/browserRecording.ts`:
- Around line 595-597: Update startBrowserRecording and its prerequisite waits
to apply remainingStartupBudget to ensureClientSettingsHydrated, queued grant
acquisition, and waitForBrowserRecordingPaint instead of relying only on
cancellation or the fixed fallback. When the grant wait reaches the deadline,
trigger the existing pre-grant cancellation path before rejecting, while
preserving normal completion when prerequisites finish within the absolute
deadline.
- Around line 823-827: Update the stop flow around stopMediaRecorder and
ActiveRecording to retain the initial pending stop promise across deadline
retries, reusing it instead of calling stopMediaRecorder again for an
already-inactive recorder. Clear or finalize the stored promise only after the
recorder’s stop event completes, so Blob creation remains after all
dataavailable chunks are appended.

In `@apps/web/src/browser/browserRecordingUpload.ts`:
- Around line 75-78: Update runAttachmentUploadCycle to classify the rejected
transfer error before checking the wall-clock deadline: preserve explicit HTTP
and unrelated transport failures as PreviewAutomationRecordingTransferError, and
create PreviewAutomationRecordingDeadlineExpiredError only for the pre-expired
path or an actual timeout. Ensure terminal transfer failures are not retried as
joined uploads merely because they settle after deadlineMs.

In `@apps/web/src/components/preview/previewAutomationClientId.ts`:
- Around line 63-68: Update the nativeLabel handling in the preview automation
client so the value is trimmed after limiting it to 128 characters and before
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The Macroscope rollup and CodeRabbit walkthrough are addressed in the inline replies and the three pushed commits. Recording startup, encoder flush retries, viewport reads, upload error classification, and stale restoration cleanup now have focused regressions. The fork-only worktree skill was removed.

The validation section now records 160 passing focused tests, targeted checks, and the source web check. It explicitly retains the missing source-built native Electron proof. The interactive demo is unchanged. Extra checklist sections and an 80% docstring target are not project requirements; the project guidance favors focused documentation.

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Inline comments:
In @apps/web/src/browser/browserRecording.ts:
- Around line 1085-1092: Update the stop-deadline handler in the stopPromise
lifecycle check so it does not reset a possibly stopped recorder to the
"recording" phase. Preserve the ability to retry stopping while ensuring
startBrowserRecording rejects a new start for this still-active recording, for
example by validating recorderStopped before returning the existing startedAt.
- Around line 547-563: Update isDesktopRecordingTimeout and the
stop-recording/save-recording IPC path so the PreviewAutomationTimeoutError
discriminant survives serialization and is decoded in the renderer; if matching
by message, use PreviewManager’s stable timeout message. Add a bridge-shaped
test that verifies a timeout remains detectable after IPC.

In @apps/web/src/components/preview/previewHostRendering.ts:
- Around line 26-30: Update the probe around the timer and animation-frame
handling to resolve as "paused" immediately when the document is hidden, rather
than waiting for a throttled timer. Keep the remaining probe bounded by the
request deadline.

In @BRANCH_DETAILS.md:
- Line 67: Update the automation snapshot lease guarantee to distinguish the
caller’s wait, which is bounded by the remaining response budget, from the lease
lifetime: once desktop capture starts, keep the lease held until capture
settles.

In @packages/contracts/src/ipc.ts:
- Around line 1114-1119: Update the recording.save IPC schema to accept an
optional idempotencyKey, and update the save handler to use the previous
time-based artifact ID when the key is absent while preserving the keyed
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Regarding the edited security summary, I traced the upload acceptance, retry, and cleanup paths. No further source change is needed for this PR.

A caller deadline leaves an unsettled transfer available for the next stop to join. A new attachment ID is minted only after that transfer rejects. The server writes through a temporary file and commits it after receiving the complete body. If acceptance wins a race with a lost response, and deletion fails or runs before the final rename, an unclaimed pending copy can remain. Only the successful stop result is claimed for the thread.

That residual pending copy follows the existing attachment cleanup model shared with chat uploads. It becomes eligible for cleanup after 24 hours; actual removal requires a later startup or upload-mint sweep and successful deletion. This is not a strict retention deadline, and native artifact idempotency does not imply exactly-once attachment storage. Adding a transactional attachment protocol is outside this recording-recovery change.

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🟡 Minor · Reset the capture queue when listeners attach. · Manager.ts:1990

apps/desktop/src/preview/Manager.ts:1990
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Reset the capture queue when listeners attach.

detachListeners retires the queue for a WebContents. attachListeners does not replace it. If the same guest registers again, later capture operations can still throw Preview capture target is no longer active.

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+      const previousQueue = captureQueues.get(wc);
+      captureQueues.set(wc, {
+        tail: previousQueue?.tail ?? Promise.resolve(),
+        retired: false,
+        unavailableUntil: previousQueue?.unavailableUntil ?? null,
+      });
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Update attachListeners to reactivate the capture queue for the registering
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Review comments at @BRANCH_DETAILS.md:
- Line 62: Update the browser-recording upload description to note that the
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- Line 1990: Update attachListeners to reactivate the capture queue for the
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queue tail and unavailableUntil value, but ensure the queue is no longer retired
so subsequent capture operations can proceed.

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In response to the review and the updated summary:

  • Fixed capture recovery in 14c912c and a1dfb58. Re-registering a live guest installs a new capture generation while retaining the pending native tail. Interruption before or after re-registration closes the current gate until that exact tail settles. Retired requests cannot retry through the new generation, and fresh requests recover. All 117 manager tests and desktop typechecking pass.
  • Documented the accepted-upload/lost-response limitation and cleanup eligibility in BRANCH_DETAILS.md. The PR description now distinguishes duplicate desktop artifacts from pending upload copies.
  • The host-label warning does not reproduce with the actual schema. TrimmedNonEmptyString trims during both encode and decode; a 128-character slice ending in whitespace becomes the accepted trimmed value. No schema change is needed.
  • Local Stop deliberately releases retained transfer state so another recording can start. An already-running upload retains its own blob and can still finish. That behavior is documented and does not discard the upload's data.
  • The docstring coverage warning identifies no specific missing guidance. Repository documentation rules favor meaningful constraints over method-by-method narration, so I left it unchanged.

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@Quicksaver, thanks for the detailed follow-up. I inspected the capture queue and recording paths. The capture changes retain the pending native tail across re-registration, and BRANCH_DETAILS.md documents the upload limitation. I also accept the host-label schema correction and the intended Local Stop behavior. I did not rerun the reported tests.

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Learning: In pingdotgg/t3code, `apps/web/src/browser/browserRecording.ts` deliberately releases retained recording transfer state on Local Stop so another recording can start. An upload already in progress retains its own blob and can still finish.

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Learning: In pingdotgg/t3code, re-registering a live guest in `apps/desktop/src/preview/Manager.ts` creates a new capture queue generation but carries forward the pending native capture tail and its interruption gate. Retired-generation capture requests must not retry through the new generation; fresh requests can capture after the exact pending tail settles.

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Learning: For automation background snapshots in `apps/web/src/components/preview/previewAutomationPresentation.ts`, the caller wait is bounded by the remaining response budget. Once native capture starts, the presentation lease remains held until capture settles, even after the caller times out.

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File: apps/web/src/components/preview/previewAutomationClientId.ts:63-68
Timestamp: 2026-09-20T13:53:18.231Z
Learning: In `apps/web/src/components/preview/previewAutomationClientId.ts`, `resolvePreviewAutomationHostMetadata` can cast a truncated native label to `PreviewAutomationHostLabel` without a second local `.trim()`. `PreviewAutomationHostLabel` is based on `TrimmedNonEmptyString`, whose contract encoder trims values before the `PreviewAutomationHost` payload is serialized.
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Reassessed the edited security section on e00af5a.

The overlapping Stop interleaving is possible, but ordinary Stop intentionally releases future transfer retry state. BRANCH_DETAILS.md documents that exception, and the recording tests cover releasing failed-transfer retention so another recording can start. The current upload keeps its recording/blob reference and the saved desktop artifact remains available. A later independent retry after that explicit release is intentionally unavailable.

The metadata handler follows the existing synchronous IPC path. The inspected preview picker preload exposes neither this host method nor generic IPC, and no guest-to-handler route was established. We are not treating the missing sender check as proof of security; broader sender validation and preload restrictions remain separate hardening proposals.

The docstring warning identifies no specific missing explanation, and the repository configures no 80% threshold. No source change is needed for these items.

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Closing under the one-problem rule. This combines preview timeout/capture recovery with fixes for later pairing-token navigation and development Electron profiles that fail to start because of incompatible IndexedDB state. Those pairing and startup fixes are independently useful and do not require the preview recovery changes. Please split them into focused PRs, keep the necessary preview changes together with their verification, and request reconsideration.

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