fix(preview): recover automation after timeouts and paused rendering - #14826
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| // typed timeout, arrives within the grace. A late answer is discarded: the | ||
| // caller already failed and no action is replayed. | ||
| const watchForEviction = Effect.gen(function* () { | ||
| const late = yield* Deferred.await(deferred).pipe( |
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🟠 High mcp/PreviewAutomationBroker.ts:813
watchForEviction evicts the connection after the grace period whenever this timed-out request's deferred remains unresolved, even if a later independent request on the same connection receives a valid response. That makes a responsive host look dead and interrupts subsequent automation; the watcher should reset or cancel eviction when any activity from the connection is observed during the grace period.
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In file @apps/server/src/mcp/PreviewAutomationBroker.ts around line 813:
`watchForEviction` evicts the connection after the grace period whenever this timed-out request's `deferred` remains unresolved, even if a later independent request on the same connection receives a valid response. That makes a responsive host look dead and interrupts subsequent automation; the watcher should reset or cancel eviction when any activity from the connection is observed during the grace period.
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| if (startingLifecycle.grantStarted) { | ||
| // The startup budget is already exhausted; only genuine cleanup failures add diagnostics. | ||
| const cleanupCause = await cleanupFailedRecordingStart(bridge, recording, deadline, { |
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🟠 High browser/browserRecording.ts:871
A startup timeout while startScreencast is pending can admit a new recording for the same tabId before the original native start has finished. The old startup's late stopScreencast(tabId) then targets the new recording because native operations are keyed only by tab ID, stopping it unexpectedly. Keep the old recording reserved until the pending native operation and its cancellation have settled, or otherwise serialize cleanup and the next start for that tab.
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In file @apps/web/src/browser/browserRecording.ts around line 871:
A startup timeout while `startScreencast` is pending can admit a new recording for the same `tabId` before the original native start has finished. The old startup's late `stopScreencast(tabId)` then targets the new recording because native operations are keyed only by tab ID, stopping it unexpectedly. Keep the old recording reserved until the pending native operation and its cancellation have settled, or otherwise serialize cleanup and the next start for that tab.
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Navigate logical layers of code changes, visualize relationships, and explore their blast radius. 🧰 Additional context used📚 Code guidelines (1)📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughChangesPreview automation adds persistent host identity, explicit host selection, context-scoped routing, bounded operation deadlines, background capture, nullable screenshots, and close operations. Desktop capture and browser recording add serialization, cancellation, retry, and idempotent artifact handling. RPC delivery is multiplexed per request ID. Suggested reviewers: Priority: ➖ Normal Estimated code review effort: 5 (Critical) | ~120 minutes Change: Bug fix Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant PreviewAutomationHosts
participant PreviewAutomationRequestConsumer
participant PreviewAutomationBroker
participant PreviewManager
participant BrowserRecording
PreviewAutomationHosts->>PreviewAutomationRequestConsumer: submit operation with timeout
PreviewAutomationRequestConsumer->>PreviewAutomationBroker: route request with remaining budget
PreviewAutomationBroker->>PreviewManager: invoke selected host operation
PreviewManager->>BrowserRecording: start, stop, or save recording with deadline
BrowserRecording-->>PreviewManager: artifact or timeout result
PreviewManager-->>PreviewAutomationBroker: operation response
PreviewAutomationBroker-->>PreviewAutomationRequestConsumer: routed response
PreviewAutomationRequestConsumer-->>PreviewAutomationHosts: success or serialized error
Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to The change is mergeable with small follow-ups. Concurrent automation requests can leave the display awake until the app exits. Recording starts with very long timeouts from direct callers may be rejected by the desktop. Security Architecture ReviewSecurity architecture risk: 🔵 Low · up to The inspected changes preserve important access and ownership controls while improving recovery. No new security vulnerability was established. Remaining uncertainty concerns late browser operations after timeout and recovery behavior that could not be fully verified. Retained concerns Security review detailsSecurity Blast Radius
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Review comments at @apps/desktop/src/preview/Manager.ts:
- Around line 1737-1753: Make the blocker check, `powerSaveBlocker.start` call,
and `displayWake.blockerId` assignment atomic in `noteAutomationActivity` by
performing them in one `Effect.sync` block. Preserve the existing warning and
early-return behavior when starting fails, and return without starting another
blocker when one is already active.
Review comments at @apps/web/src/browser/browserRecording.ts:
- Around line 737-739: Clamp the timeout passed to
`bridge.recording.startScreencast` in `startBrowserRecording` to
`DESKTOP_PREVIEW_OPERATION_TIMEOUT_MAX_MS`, while preserving the minimum of 1
ms. Apply the same upper bound to both startup cleanup `stopScreencast` calls so
direct callers cannot exceed the desktop IPC timeout limit.
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- apps/web/src/components/preview/previewAutomationHostBudget.ts
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| displayWake.lastActivityAt = yield* currentMillis; | ||
| if (tabId !== null) displayWake.automationTabIds.add(tabId); | ||
| if (displayWake.blockerId !== null) return; | ||
| const started = yield* Effect.try(() => powerSaveBlocker.start("prevent-display-sleep")).pipe( | ||
| Effect.tapError((cause) => | ||
| Effect.logWarning("Preview automation could not start the display-sleep block.", { cause }), | ||
| ), | ||
| Effect.option, | ||
| ); | ||
| if (Option.isNone(started)) return; | ||
| displayWake.blockerId = started.value; | ||
| yield* Effect.logDebug("Preview automation started the display-sleep block.", { | ||
| blockerId: started.value, | ||
| reason, | ||
| tabId, | ||
| }); | ||
| displayWake.watcher = yield* Effect.forkIn(watchDisplayWakeInactivity, parentScope); |
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🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win
Make the display-sleep blocker start atomic.
noteAutomationActivity checks displayWake.blockerId !== null and then runs powerSaveBlocker.start and tapError/option as separate effect steps. The fiber scheduler can yield between these steps. If two automation requests start at the same moment, both fibers can pass the check, and each one calls powerSaveBlocker.start. The second ID overwrites the first one. Nothing ever stops the first blocker, so the display can stay awake until the app quits.
Do the check, the start, and the assignment in one Effect.sync block.
🔒️ Proposed fix
- if (displayWake.blockerId !== null) return;
- const started = yield* Effect.try(() => powerSaveBlocker.start("prevent-display-sleep")).pipe(
- Effect.tapError((cause) =>
- Effect.logWarning("Preview automation could not start the display-sleep block.", { cause }),
- ),
- Effect.option,
- );
- if (Option.isNone(started)) return;
- displayWake.blockerId = started.value;
+ const started = yield* Effect.sync(() => {
+ if (displayWake.blockerId !== null) return { _tag: "running" as const };
+ try {
+ displayWake.blockerId = powerSaveBlocker.start("prevent-display-sleep");
+ return { _tag: "started" as const, id: displayWake.blockerId };
+ } catch (cause) {
+ return { _tag: "failed" as const, cause };
+ }
+ });
+ if (started._tag === "running") return;
+ if (started._tag === "failed") {
+ yield* Effect.logWarning("Preview automation could not start the display-sleep block.", {
+ cause: started.cause,
+ });
+ return;
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| displayWake.lastActivityAt = yield* currentMillis; | |
| if (tabId !== null) displayWake.automationTabIds.add(tabId); | |
| if (displayWake.blockerId !== null) return; | |
| const started = yield* Effect.try(() => powerSaveBlocker.start("prevent-display-sleep")).pipe( | |
| Effect.tapError((cause) => | |
| Effect.logWarning("Preview automation could not start the display-sleep block.", { cause }), | |
| ), | |
| Effect.option, | |
| ); | |
| if (Option.isNone(started)) return; | |
| displayWake.blockerId = started.value; | |
| yield* Effect.logDebug("Preview automation started the display-sleep block.", { | |
| blockerId: started.value, | |
| reason, | |
| tabId, | |
| }); | |
| displayWake.watcher = yield* Effect.forkIn(watchDisplayWakeInactivity, parentScope); | |
| displayWake.lastActivityAt = yield* currentMillis; | |
| if (tabId !== null) displayWake.automationTabIds.add(tabId); | |
| const started = yield* Effect.sync(() => { | |
| if (displayWake.blockerId !== null) return { _tag: "running" as const }; | |
| try { | |
| displayWake.blockerId = powerSaveBlocker.start("prevent-display-sleep"); | |
| return { _tag: "started" as const, id: displayWake.blockerId }; | |
| } catch (cause) { | |
| return { _tag: "failed" as const, cause }; | |
| } | |
| }); | |
| if (started._tag === "running") return; | |
| if (started._tag === "failed") { | |
| yield* Effect.logWarning("Preview automation could not start the display-sleep block.", { | |
| cause: started.cause, | |
| }); | |
| return; | |
| } | |
| yield* Effect.logDebug("Preview automation started the display-sleep block.", { | |
| blockerId: started.value, | |
| reason, | |
| tabId, | |
| }); | |
| displayWake.watcher = yield* Effect.forkIn(watchDisplayWakeInactivity, parentScope); |
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Review comment at @apps/desktop/src/preview/Manager.ts around lines 1737 - 1753:
Make the blocker check, `powerSaveBlocker.start` call, and
`displayWake.blockerId` assignment atomic in `noteAutomationActivity` by
performing them in one `Effect.sync` block. Preserve the existing warning and
early-return behavior when starting fails, and return without starting another
blocker when one is already active.
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Note This comment is posted by Julius' dot The timeout and capture-recovery problem is clear, but the one-problem rule needs one scope question resolved: why are the new |
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@juliusmarminge, the routing changes protect remote automation when several desktop hosts or agents share an environment. Stable host assignments keep recovery on the selected device across reconnects, and per-caller tab selection prevents one agent's recovery call from targeting a sibling's tab. Those safeguards relate to safe recovery, but
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Note This comment is posted by Julius' dot Closing under the one-problem rule. Your scope explanation confirms that |
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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.
System-scheme browser guests attach CDP lazily so registration cannot leave initialization stuck behind a hidden guest. They now start with an opaque native canvas, keeping dark plain text readable before the first automation operation while preserving upstream's CDP background override and bounded session recovery.
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What changed
transparent=falseto the shared Electron guest preferences so retained, manual, and agent-opened previews have an opaque canvas before attachment. Non-system appearance restoration stays bounded, and timeout recovery remains tied to the exact acquired session.screenshot: null, a capture-failure reason, and host-rendering status when no image is available.Validation
488 baseline tests and 124 adaptation tests passed; source Windows Electron and representative iOS checks passed
54084ae1e6, the rebased preview branch passed 488 focused tests with one skipped across 31 files. 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. Scoped typechecks passed for desktop, web, server, contracts, and client-runtime. Targeted lint passed with seven warnings.4ac7cd556dpassed 124 focused tests acrossWebviewPreferences.test.tsandManager.test.ts, desktop typecheck, targeted lint, formatting, and branch whitespace checks. This is a separate targeted run, not 124 additional distinct tests.Proof
Saved screenshots from the isolated Windows source app at
4ac7cd556d, hosted on GitHub:The initial closure reasons for #12706 have been addressed. Pairing-token navigation and development desktop isolation are excluded from this replacement.