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fix(desktop): keep agents' browser panes reachable past the hidden-webview cap - #9497
Agents can now list and use their browser panes after hidden-pane eviction unloaded them. The next command rebuilds the pane in the background.
browser open --show now answers with the pane it opened, not another tab's pane.
Agent panes get their own hidden-webview cap (6), and agent commands count as use. Agents and the user no longer unload each other's pages.
Why / Context
MAX_HIDDEN_WEBVIEWS = 3 covered the whole app, not one workspace. With agents working in several workspaces, I found these problems in the dev app:
browser list left out unloaded panes, so a workspace with 3 agent tabs listed 0.
Every command on an unloaded pane (eval, screenshot, navigate, console, cdp) failed with No webContents for pane …. Only the user showing that tab brought it back.
Agent commands did not count as use. The page an agent had just used 3 times was the first one unloaded when another agent opened a page.
open --show returned the wrong pane id. Showing the workspace rebuilds an unloaded tab, and the bridge took the first pane to register that was not already loaded.
How It Works
Open requests: the renderer reports { requestId, paneId } through browser.resolveOpenRequest, on both the background path and the --show path. The bridge waits for that pane to register. This removes the old snapshot heuristic and the per-workspace open queue that existed only to make the heuristic work. A per-workspace pending cap of 8 stays.
Revive:resolvePane in browser-bridge.ts handles every per-pane route and the CDP upgrade.
If the pane has no webContents, it sends a wakeBrowser op on the existing pane-layout request channel, which targets one window. The renderer finds the pane in the workspace layout and checks that it is an agent pane (data.agent). Then it calls browserRuntimeRegistry.openBackground.
wakeBrowser is a desktop-internal op (RendererPaneLayoutOp). It is not in the shared paneLayoutOpSchema, so the host-service /pane-layout route cannot send it.
CDP messages that arrive while a pane is rebuilt are queued and sent once the session attaches.
List:/panes?workspaceId merges the layout's agent browser panes, in layout order, with loaded: false for unloaded ones. describePaneLayout now fills PaneLayoutPane.browser { url, agent }. If no window answers, the list falls back to the live panes.
Use and caps: every bridge command calls browserManager.markAgentUse, which bumps the pane's lastUsedAt through the browser.onAgentUse subscription. The registry evicts two groups separately: user panes (cap 3, unchanged) and agent panes (cap 6).
Persistence: a rebuilt pane persists navigations through the new persistAgentBrowserState. It writes to the mounted layout store when the workspace is shown, else to the saved layout. Background opens use the same util now.
Manual QA
I drove the dev app over CDP with the CLI (superset browser …). Three agent workspaces opened 3 pages each while the user watched a fourth workspace. The same script ran on main and on this branch, and I recorded both runs as before/after films (ask me for the video).
main this branch
browser list --workspace $CHECKOUT ✗ 0 of 3 tabs listed ✓ 3 of 3, unloaded ones marked
browser eval --pane $CART (unloaded) ✗ No webContents for pane ✓ "Cart · Checkout"
eval FAQ ×2, open in another ws, eval FAQ ✗ No webContents for pane ✓ agent visits: 3 (no reload)
browser open --show --url …/search/results ✗ got the /search/shoes pane ✓ the pane showing /search/results
Also checked on this branch:
browser screenshot on an unloaded pane returns a real PNG.
Raw CDP on an unloaded pane works. The first message, sent before the rebuild finished, got its answer.
A closed pane gives No browser pane … in this workspace.
A rebuilt pane, shown later by the user, attaches without reloading. Its in-page state was kept.
After an app restart, nothing is loaded, but agents can still list and use their old pane ids.
Right after the app starts, before any window is ready, a command on an unloaded pane answers 503 ("No signed-in desktop window…"), not 404 "No browser pane". Once the window is ready, the same command succeeds.
The agent group never goes over 6 loaded hidden pages.
In-app CDP suite (19/19, no renderer errors)
User tabs were opened through the real UI (trusted clicks and typing). Agents used the CLI, and the registry was checked over CDP.
The user group keeps 3 hidden pages. An agent command on the user's loaded pane gets 403; on the user's unloaded pane, 404, and the pane is not rebuilt.
9 agent opens leave the user's 3 hidden pages loaded. The agent group keeps 6. list shows all 9, with 3 marked unloaded.
navigate, console, screenshot and raw CDP each work on an unloaded pane. CDP answers in about 70 ms, including the rebuild. Host-service browser.reload works on an unloaded pane too.
An open into the workspace the user is viewing returns its own pane. When that pane is unloaded and then navigated by the agent, its tab title updates. A real click on the tab shows the same page without a reload.
A rebuilt pane's navigation is saved to the layout of a workspace that is not mounted.
open --show answers with the pane it opened.
Not driven in the app: import-login, because its native confirm dialog can't be answered safely from CDP. Its allow and refuse paths are covered by browser-bridge.test.ts.
Found while testing, not caused by this PR: a background open (no --show) into the workspace the user is viewing becomes the active right-pane tab and shows. That comes from the existing background-open and right-pane code.
Testing
bun run typecheck in apps/desktop, packages/host-service, packages/cli and packages/shared
bunx biome check on the changed files
bun test src/main/lib/browser src/main/lib/pane-layout src/renderer/routes/_authenticated in apps/desktop: 2823 pass
New tests. I ran each against the old file, and each fails there:
browser-bridge.test.ts: an open answers with its own pane even when a rebuilt pane registers first.
browser-bridge.test.ts: list shows unloaded agent panes. eval rebuilds an agent pane, and an unloaded user pane is not rebuilt (404).
browser-bridge.test.ts: before a window is ready, an agent is told to retry (503), not that its pane is gone.
browserRuntimeRegistry.test.ts: user and agent panes are evicted against separate caps, and agent use keeps a pane loaded.
Design Decisions
The renderer reports the pane id, instead of a smarter match on registration events. Any match on registration events can be fooled by a pane that is rebuilt at the same moment. Only the renderer knows which pane it created.
Revive goes through the pane-layout request channel, not a new channel. That channel already sends each request to exactly one window, with a timeout and a reply. The new op stays desktop-internal.
Separate caps, not one per workspace. One cap per workspace would make memory grow with the number of workspaces. A separate agent cap keeps the total bounded (3 + 6 hidden). Rebuilding makes unloading recoverable for agents.
Known Limitations
A rebuilt page reloads, so in-page state is lost (form input, JS state, back/forward history). Cookies persist.
The right sidebar's hover-peek panel stays faintly visible after the pointer leaves. I saw this while filming; it is not related to this PR.
Host-service BrowserPane gains an optional loaded field. Older desktops omit it, and the CLI treats a missing value as loaded.
The resolveOpenRequest and onAgentUse procedures are on the desktop's internal tRPC over IPC. Main and renderer ship together.
Summary by cubic
Keeps agents' browser panes reachable after hidden-pane eviction unloads them. Commands on an unloaded pane now rebuild it in the background; browser list shows unloaded agent panes; and agent commands count as use, with a separate hidden-webview cap so agents and the user no longer unload each other's pages.
The renderer reports { requestId, paneId } per open request (agent opens only); browser open --show answers with the pane it opened, and /open verifies that pane is an agent pane.
browser list merges the workspace layout's agent panes and marks unloaded ones loaded: false (the optional field is absent on older desktops).
Every per-pane bridge command and CDP upgrade wakes an unloaded agent pane through the desktop-internal wakeBrowser pane-layout op; CDP messages arriving mid-rebuild are queued (capped at 64 frames / 4 MB, past which the socket closes with 1009) and sent once the session attaches.
Agent panes get their own hidden-webview cap of 6 (user panes stay at 3), and every agent command bumps the pane's LRU stamp, so agents and the user no longer evict each other's pages.
Rebuilt agent panes persist navigations via the new persistAgentBrowserState helper, which writes to the mounted layout store when the workspace is shown, else to the saved layout.
When no window is ready to rebuild a pane yet, commands answer 503 and CDP closes with 1013 (try again later) so the agent retries; a 404 now only means the renderer says the pane is gone, a pane that never finishes loading is a 504, and a route error answers 500 without leaving the request open.
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New Features
Browser commands can restore unloaded agent browser panes when needed, while unloaded user panes remain unavailable.
Browser pane listings identify panes that are currently unloaded.
Opening browser tabs handles overlapping requests more reliably and returns the pane associated with each request.
Hidden browser panes are managed separately for regular and agent sessions, with recently used agent panes less likely to be evicted.
Pane layout requests can wake an unloaded agent browser pane.
Browser connections wait for panes to wake and recover more reliably during restoration.
…bview cap
Agents driving browser panes across workspaces lost them to the shared cap of
3 hidden webviews:
- `browser list` left out unloaded panes, and every command on one failed
with "No webContents for pane".
- Agent commands did not count as use, so the page an agent was working on
was the first one unloaded.
- `open --show` answered with whichever unknown pane registered first, which
was often an older tab that showing the workspace had rebuilt.
Now the renderer reports the pane it made for each open request, and the bridge
waits for that pane. A command on an unloaded agent pane rebuilds it in the
background through a desktop-internal `wakeBrowser` pane-layout op. The list
merges layout panes and marks them `loaded: false`. Agent commands bump the
pane's LRU stamp. Agent panes get their own cap of 6 hidden webviews, so agents
and the user no longer unload each other's pages.
The PR adds request-to-pane correlation for browser opens, wakes unloaded agent panes before browser actions, and tracks agent-pane use for separate eviction limits. It also updates shared pane metadata and the CLI output for unloaded panes.
The renderer now reports the pane ID for an open request. The bridge waits for that pane to register before it resolves browser actions.
List and wake unloaded agent panes packages/shared/src/pane-layout-ops.ts, packages/host-service/src/runtime/browser-bridge/types.ts, apps/desktop/src/main/lib/pane-layout/pane-layout-requests.ts, apps/desktop/src/renderer/routes/.../usePaneLayoutRequests.ts, apps/desktop/src/renderer/routes/.../describePaneLayout.ts, apps/desktop/src/renderer/routes/.../persistAgentBrowserState/*, apps/desktop/src/main/lib/browser/browser-bridge.ts, packages/cli/src/commands/browser/list/command.ts, apps/desktop/src/main/lib/browser/browser-bridge.test.ts
Workspace listings include unloaded agent panes. Pane operations can wake an agent pane before they run. The CLI marks unloaded panes, and agent browser state is persisted to mounted or saved layouts.
Track agent-pane use for eviction apps/desktop/src/lib/trpc/routers/browser/browser.ts, apps/desktop/src/renderer/routes/.../browserRuntimeRegistry.ts, apps/desktop/src/renderer/routes/.../browserRuntimeRegistry.test.ts
The browser runtime registry receives agent-use events and applies separate hidden-pane caps for agent and regular webviews.
ParadevAI/Paradev#9221: Establishes the agent browser partition contract used by the bridge, background opens, and runtime registry.
ParadevAI/Paradev#9047: Changes the background-open path and pane ID handoff that this PR also updates.
Suggested reviewers:serhii-kucherenko
Merge Risk: Low · up to e1f23
The changes improve access to unloaded agent panes, with bounded remaining risks: oversized queued CDP payloads, occasional open timeouts, stale restored routes, and incomplete cleanup during workspace deletion. These issues warrant owner awareness and follow-up but do not establish a broad merge blocker.
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1 issue found across 18 files
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<file name="apps/desktop/src/main/lib/browser/browser-manager.ts">
<violation number="1" location="apps/desktop/src/main/lib/browser/browser-manager.ts:497">
P3: Each unloaded-pane wake adds a `pane-registered` listener on the shared BrowserManager emitter, and nothing caps or raises the limit. Concurrent agent commands can exceed Node's default of 10 and trigger a MaxListenersExceededWarning. Consider a single shared waiter map keyed by paneId instead of one listener per call.</violation>
</file>
Architecture diagram
sequenceDiagram
participant CLI as CLI / Superset
participant Bridge as Browser Bridge (Main)
participant Manager as Browser Manager
participant LayoutReq as Pane Layout Requests
participant Renderer as Renderer (Workspace)
participant Registry as Browser Runtime Registry
participant Store as Workspace Store
Note over CLI,Bridge: Agent Issues Command on Pane
CLI->>Bridge: POST /panes/{paneId}/eval
Bridge->>Manager: getWebContents(paneId, workspaceId)
alt Pane is loaded
Manager-->>Bridge: webContents
else Pane was unloaded (no webContents)
Manager-->>Bridge: null
Bridge->>LayoutReq: request(workspaceId, { type: "wakeBrowser", paneId })
LayoutReq->>Renderer: wakeBrowser op + requestId
Renderer->>Renderer: Verify pane is agent pane
Renderer->>Registry: openBackground(paneId, url, workspaceId, persistCb)
Registry->>Registry: Create hidden webview (agent partition)
Registry-->>Renderer: Pane registered
Renderer->>Bridge: paneLayout.respond({ requestId, result: { paneId, tabId, layout } })
alt Pane registered
Bridge->>Manager: whenRegistered(paneId, workspaceId, timeout)
Manager-->>Bridge: webContents
else Timeout (10s)
Bridge-->>CLI: 404 No browser pane
end
end
Bridge->>Manager: markAgentUse(paneId)
Manager->>Registry: onAgentUse subscription { paneId }
Registry->>Registry: touch(paneId) - update LRU stamp
Bridge->>Bridge: Execute eval on webContents
Bridge-->>CLI: result
Note over CLI,Renderer: List Panes After Eviction
CLI->>Bridge: GET /panes?workspaceId=ws
Bridge->>Manager: listPanes(workspaceId) - live panes only
Manager-->>Bridge: live panes
Bridge->>LayoutReq: request(workspaceId, { type: "list" })
LayoutReq->>Renderer: list layout op
Renderer->>Store: Read workspace layout
Store-->>Renderer: Panes with browser { url, agent } metadata
Renderer-->>LayoutReq: layout snapshot
LayoutReq-->>Bridge: layout with browser panes
alt Layout returned
Bridge->>Bridge: Merge live panes + layout panes
Note over Bridge: Unloaded agent panes marked loaded: false
Bridge-->>CLI: List with unloaded panes included
else No layout (timeout)
Bridge-->>CLI: Fallback to live panes only
end
Note over CLI,Registry: Agent Opens New Browser Page (--show)
CLI->>Bridge: POST /open { url, workspaceId, show: true }
Bridge->>Bridge: Generate requestId + start timeout
Bridge->>Manager: requestOpen({ requestId, url, workspaceId, show })
Manager->>Renderer: onOpenRequest subscription
Renderer->>Store: openUrlInV2Workspace() - create/update pane
Store-->>Renderer: returned paneId
Renderer->>Bridge: resolveOpenRequest({ requestId, paneId })
Bridge->>Manager: resolveOpenRequest(requestId, paneId)
Manager->>Bridge: Emit open-resolved:{requestId} with paneId
Bridge->>Manager: whenRegistered(paneId, workspaceId)
alt Pane registers
Manager-->>Bridge: webContents
Bridge-->>CLI: { paneId } (correct pane)
else Timeout (15s)
Bridge-->>CLI: 504 No browser pane appeared
end
Note over Registry: Separate Eviction Caps (User vs Agent)
Registry->>Registry: evictExcessHiddenWebviews()
Registry->>Registry: Filter user panes (agent=false), cap = 3
Registry->>Registry: Filter agent panes (agent=true), cap = 6
Note over Registry: Uses lastUsedAt LRU within each group separately
Note over Renderer,Store: Persist Navigation State
Registry->>Renderer: persistAgentBrowserState callback
Renderer->>Store: Check mounted layout store
alt Workspace shown (store mounted)
Store->>Store: Update pane data with new URL/state
else Workspace hidden (store not mounted)
Renderer->>Store: Update v2WorkspaceLocalState (saved layout)
end
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P3: Each unloaded-pane wake adds a pane-registered listener on the shared BrowserManager emitter, and nothing caps or raises the limit. Concurrent agent commands can exceed Node's default of 10 and trigger a MaxListenersExceededWarning. Consider a single shared waiter map keyed by paneId instead of one listener per call.
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<comment>Each unloaded-pane wake adds a `pane-registered` listener on the shared BrowserManager emitter, and nothing caps or raises the limit. Concurrent agent commands can exceed Node's default of 10 and trigger a MaxListenersExceededWarning. Consider a single shared waiter map keyed by paneId instead of one listener per call.</comment>
<file context>
@@ -458,13 +458,48 @@ class BrowserManager extends EventEmitter {
+ clearTimeout(timer);
+ this.off("pane-registered", check);
+ };
+ this.on("pane-registered", check);
+ check();
+ });
</file context>
243-256: Trivial · Maintainability & Code Quality · Low value
Test the production wake ownership guard.
The fake renderer rejects the unloaded user pane without calling wakeAgentBrowser. The assertion would still pass if the production guard allowed that pane. Add a renderer test that sends a wakeBrowser request for a user pane and verifies that openBackground is not called.
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Review comment at @apps/desktop/src/main/lib/browser/browser-bridge.test.ts
around lines 243 - 256:
Add a browser-bridge test that sends a wakeBrowser request for a user pane
through the production wake ownership guard and verifies openBackground is not
called. Do not have the fake renderer reject the request before the guard is
exercised; preserve the existing unloaded-agent-pane test.
117-117: Trivial · Functional Correctness · Low value
Exercise the agent-use subscription in this test.
The test calls touch directly, so it passes even if the subscription stops forwarding events. Install the listeners, capture the onAgentUse callback, and deliver an event for agent-1 before asserting the eviction result.
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Review comment at
@apps/desktop/src/renderer/routes/_authenticated/_dashboard/v2-workspace/$workspaceId/hooks/usePaneRegistry/components/BrowserPane/browserRuntimeRegistry.test.ts
at line 117:
Update the browser runtime registry test to exercise the agent-use subscription
instead of calling registryInternals.touch("agent-1") directly: install the
listeners, capture the onAgentUse callback, and deliver an event for agent-1
through it before asserting the eviction result.
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Inline comments:
Review comments at @apps/desktop/src/main/lib/browser/browser-bridge.ts:
- Around line 395-399: Handle rejections from the resolvePane(...).then(...)
chain, including failures in its continuation, and send an HTTP error response
so the request is not left unanswered. Preserve the existing back-navigation and
success response behavior when the promise resolves successfully.
- Around line 359-366: Update the browserManager.requestOpen flow so overlapping
foreground requests (show === true) are queued and preserved until each is
consumed, rather than allowing a later request to replace an earlier pending
request. Ensure each request, including its requestId and URL, is opened and its
bridge request can complete; retain existing handling for non-foreground
requests.
- Around line 669-672: Bound the early-message queue in the pane rebuild flow
using byte and message limits consistent with existing safeguards; have queue
close the WebSocket when either limit is exceeded. Clear the queued messages and
byte accounting when the socket closes or the queue is replayed, preserving
delivery of messages within the limits.
- Line 308: Update the guest eviction and creation flow that uses pendingOpens
so an in-progress open cannot be evicted before its guest registers;
alternatively, serialize creation to prevent overlapping opens from triggering
eviction. Preserve the pane and request outcome through successful registration
rather than allowing the request to time out with a 504.
Review comments at
@apps/desktop/src/renderer/routes/_authenticated/components/GlobalPaneLayoutRequests/hooks/usePaneLayoutRequests/usePaneLayoutRequests.ts:
- Around line 214-220: Update the workspace-deletion cleanup in the pane-layout
request flow to also remove browser runtimes whose cleanup is pending after a
pane-layout close. Ensure deletion cleans up the runtime even when it occurs
before the 500 ms timer fires, using the existing runtime registry and
pending-removal state rather than relying on the timer.
- Around line 214-218: Update the flow around
browserRuntimeRegistry.openBackground and persistAgentBrowserState to persist
main-frame URL changes, including pushState and hash navigation, before the
agent pane is evicted. Ensure wake restores the latest URL rather than the
earlier route.
---
Nitpick comments:
Review comments at @apps/desktop/src/main/lib/browser/browser-bridge.test.ts:
- Around line 243-256: Add a browser-bridge test that sends a wakeBrowser
request for a user pane through the production wake ownership guard and verifies
openBackground is not called. Do not have the fake renderer reject the request
before the guard is exercised; preserve the existing unloaded-agent-pane test.
Review comments at
@apps/desktop/src/renderer/routes/_authenticated/_dashboard/v2-workspace/$workspaceId/hooks/usePaneRegistry/components/BrowserPane/browserRuntimeRegistry.test.ts:
- Line 117: Update the browser runtime registry test to exercise the agent-use
subscription instead of calling registryInternals.touch("agent-1") directly:
install the listeners, capture the onAgentUse callback, and deliver an event for
agent-1 through it before asserting the eviction result.
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Code analysis · TLA+ model checking
Script executed:
rg -n 'pendingOpens|MAX_PENDING_OPENS|open-resolved|scheduleHiddenEviction|handleDomReady|agentActivePaneIds' apps/desktop/src/main/lib/browser apps/desktop/src/renderer/routes/_authenticated | head -120
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Length of output: 5016
tla executed:
---- MODULEReviewModel ----
EXTENDSNaturals(* Seven accepted background opens model the bridge limit of eight and the hidden-agent cap of six. Registration is delayed until dom-ready; eviction can precede it. Only the oldest pane is tracked. *)VARIABLEScount,alive,registered,swept,responsevars==<<count,alive,registered,swept,response>>Init==/\count=0/\alive=FALSE/\registered=FALSE/\swept=FALSE/\response="pending"Open==/\count<7/\response="pending"/\count'=count+1/\alive'=TRUE/\UNCHANGED<<registered,swept,response>>Register==/\count>0/\alive/\~registered/\response="pending"/\registered'=TRUE/\UNCHANGED<<count,alive,swept,response>>Sweep==/\count=7/\~swept/\response="pending"/\alive'=FALSE/\swept'=TRUE/\UNCHANGED<<count,registered,response>>Reply==/\count=7/\swept/\response="pending"/\response'=(IFregisteredTHEN"success"ELSE"timeout")/\UNCHANGED<<count,alive,registered,swept>>Idle==/\response#"pending"/\UNCHANGEDvarsNext==Open\/Register\/Sweep\/Reply\/Idle(* Required outcome: accepted opens should not fail solely because their pending guest was evicted. *)NoEvictionTimeout==response#"timeout"(* TLCINIT InitNEXT NextINVARIANT NoEvictionTimeout*)
====
When seven background opens overlap, eviction can destroy an unregistered guest. Its request then returns 504 after 15 seconds, although the pane remains in the layout. Protect pending opens until registration or serialize their creation.
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Review comment at @apps/desktop/src/main/lib/browser/browser-bridge.ts at line
308:
Update the guest eviction and creation flow that uses pendingOpens so an
in-progress open cannot be evicted before its guest registers; alternatively,
serialize creation to prevent overlapping opens from triggering eviction.
Preserve the pane and request outcome through successful registration rather
than allowing the request to time out with a 504.
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python3 - <<'PY'import urllib.requesturl = 'https://unpkg.com/@tanstack/router-core@1.171.13/src/router.ts'try: text = urllib.request.urlopen(url, timeout=20).read().decode()except Exception as e: print("FETCH FAILED:", repr(e))else: lines = text.splitlines() patterns = ['commitLocation =', 'buildAndCommitLocation =', 'navigate =', 'load =', 'latestLoadPromise', 'cancelMatches', 'pendingBuiltLocation', 'history.push(', 'this.latestLocation'] hits = [i for i, l in enumerate(lines) if any(p in l for p in patterns)] intervals = [] for i in hits: a, b = max(0, i-8), min(len(lines), i+22) if intervals and a <= intervals[-1][1]: intervals[-1] = (intervals[-1][0], max(intervals[-1][1], b)) else: intervals.append((a,b)) print('SOURCE:', url) for a,b in intervals: print('\n--- lines',a+1,'-',b,'---') for j in range(a,b): print(f'{j+1:5} {lines[j]}')PY
nl -ba packages/cli/src/commands/browser/open/command.ts
nl -ba packages/host-service/src/runtime/browser-bridge/browser-bridge-client.ts | sed -n '1,95p'
nl -ba apps/desktop/src/main/lib/browser/browser-bridge.ts | sed -n '35,55p;120,142p'
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Preserve each foreground open request until it is consumed.
If two browser open --show requests overlap while navigation is pending, the second can replace the first search payload. The first page is not opened, and its bridge request times out with HTTP 504. Queue foreground requests until each has been consumed.
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lines 359 - 366:
Update the browserManager.requestOpen flow so overlapping foreground requests
(show === true) are queued and preserved until each is consumed, rather than
allowing a later request to replace an earlier pending request. Ensure each
request, including its requestId and URL, is opened and its bridge request can
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While a pane is rebuilding, a client can send many messages below the per-message limit. The queue can exhaust desktop main-process memory and make the app unresponsive or terminate it. Limit the queued bytes and messages, close on overflow, and clear the queue on close or replay.
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lines 669 - 672:
Bound the early-message queue in the pane rebuild flow using byte and message
limits consistent with existing safeguards; have queue close the WebSocket when
either limit is exceeded. Clear the queued messages and byte accounting when the
socket closes or the queue is replayed, preserving delivery of messages within
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Minor · Functional Correctness · Quick win
Supported by static analysis
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p='apps/desktop/src/renderer/routes/_authenticated/_dashboard/v2-workspace/$workspaceId/hooks/usePaneRegistry/components/BrowserPane/browserRuntimeRegistry.ts'; sed -n '376,460p'"$p"; sed -n '679,702p'"$p"; rg -n 'did-navigate-in-page|pushState|firePersist' apps/desktop/src/renderer/routes/_authenticated | head -60
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q='apps/desktop/src/renderer/routes/_authenticated/components/GlobalPaneLayoutRequests/hooks/usePaneLayoutRequests/usePaneLayoutRequests.ts'
r='apps/desktop/src/renderer/routes/_authenticated/utils/persistAgentBrowserState/persistAgentBrowserState.ts'echo'--- wake and request dispatch ---'
nl -ba "$q"| sed -n '175,275p'echo'--- persistence ---'
nl -ba "$r"echo'--- registry relevant references ---'
rg -n -F -e 'openBackground' -e 'onPersist' -e 'destroy(' -e 'evict' -e 'did-navigate-in-page'"$p"echo'--- registry source ---'
nl -ba "$p"| sed -n '1,240p'
nl -ba "$p"| sed -n '345,545p'
nl -ba "$p"| sed -n '620,740p'echo'--- bridge wake usage ---'
rg -n -F -e 'wakeBrowser' -e 'openBackground' apps/desktop/src/main/lib/browser apps/desktop/src/main/lib/pane-layout packages/host-service/src/runtime/browser-bridge
echo'--- electron version ---'
rg -n '"electron"\s*:' apps/desktop/package.json package.json
echo'--- comparison ---'
git diff 19db630c1ef9ae4624d8b19cefc44e7b5de62afd 0685b717ccfdf67f62883591b6a21eb9330e0f78 -- "$p""$q""$r"
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Web query:
Electron webContents did-navigate-in-page history pushState hash did-stop-loading event same-document navigation documentation
Result:
Sources consulted:
- webContents | Electron — https://www.electronjs.org/docs/latest/api/web-contents/
- webContents | Electron — https://www.electronjs.org/docs/latest/api/web-contents
- electron/docs/api/web-contents.md at main · electron/electron · GitHub — https://github.com/electron/electron/blob/main/docs/api/web-contents.md
- website/docs/latest/api/web-contents.md at main · electron/website · GitHub — https://github.com/electron/website/blob/main/docs/latest/api/web-contents.md
- electron-docs-linter/test/fixtures/electron/docs/api/web-contents.md at master · electron/electron-docs-linter · GitHub — https://github.com/electron/electron-docs-linter/blob/master/test/fixtures/electron/docs/api/web-contents.md
- …and 23 more
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p='apps/desktop/src/renderer/routes/_authenticated/_dashboard/v2-workspace/$workspaceId/hooks/usePaneRegistry/components/BrowserPane/browserRuntimeRegistry.ts'
q='apps/desktop/src/renderer/routes/_authenticated/components/GlobalPaneLayoutRequests/hooks/usePaneLayoutRequests/usePaneLayoutRequests.ts'
d='apps/desktop/src/renderer/routes/_authenticated/components/GlobalPaneLayoutRequests/hooks/usePaneLayoutRequests/utils/describePaneLayout/describePaneLayout.ts'
b='apps/desktop/src/main/lib/browser/browser-bridge.ts'echo'--- registry create/open ---'
nl -ba "$p"| sed -n '290,347p;545,620p'echo'--- layout source ---'
nl -ba "$q"| sed -n '1,175p'
nl -ba "$d"| sed -n '1,105p'echo'--- bridge wake and operations ---'
nl -ba "$b"| sed -n '110,260p'
rg -n -F -e 'resolveBrowser' -e 'ensure' -e 'wake' -e 'evaluate'"$b"
nl -ba "$b"| sed -n '260,455p'echo'--- background creation ---'
nl -ba apps/desktop/src/renderer/routes/_authenticated/components/GlobalBrowserLifecycle/hooks/useBrowserOpenRequests/utils/openBackgroundBrowser/openBackgroundBrowser.ts
echo'--- in-page test ---'
t="${p%.ts}.test.ts"
nl -ba "$t"| sed -n '340,410p'echo'--- sanitize URL ---'
nl -ba 'apps/desktop/src/renderer/routes/_authenticated/_dashboard/v2-workspace/$workspaceId/hooks/usePaneRegistry/components/BrowserPane/sanitizeUrl.ts'
Sources consulted:
- electron/docs/api/web-contents.md at v44.10.0 · electron/electron · GitHub — https://github.com/electron/electron/blob/v44.10.0/docs/api/web-contents.md
- electron/docs/api/web-contents.md at main · electron/electron · GitHub — https://github.com/electron/electron/blob/main/docs/api/web-contents.md
- website/docs/latest/api/web-contents.md at main · electron/website · GitHub — https://github.com/electron/website/blob/main/docs/latest/api/web-contents.md
- special-lamp/docs/api/web-contents.md at main · blacktatty-multi/special-lamp · GitHub — https://github.com/blacktatty-multi/special-lamp/blob/main/docs/api/web-contents.md
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echo'--- browser manager evaluation and registration ---'
rg -n -F -e 'evaluateJS(' -e 'whenRegistered(' -e 'register(' apps/desktop/src/main/lib/browser/browser-manager.ts
nl -ba apps/desktop/src/main/lib/browser/browser-manager.ts | sed -n '145,265p;390,510p'echo'--- background open callback ---'
nl -ba apps/desktop/src/renderer/routes/_authenticated/components/GlobalBrowserLifecycle/hooks/useBrowserOpenRequests/useBrowserOpenRequests.ts | sed -n '1,115p'
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Persist in-page URLs before eviction.
If an agent pane changes route with pushState or a hash change, eviction can discard the new URL. The next command can then run on the earlier route. Persist main-frame in-page navigation updates so wake restores the latest URL.
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@apps/desktop/src/renderer/routes/_authenticated/components/GlobalPaneLayoutRequests/hooks/usePaneLayoutRequests/usePaneLayoutRequests.ts
around lines 214 - 218:
Update the flow around browserRuntimeRegistry.openBackground and
persistAgentBrowserState to persist main-frame URL changes, including pushState
and hash navigation, before the agent pane is evicted. Ensure wake restores the
latest URL rather than the earlier route.
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f='apps/desktop/src/renderer/routes/_authenticated/components/GlobalPaneLayoutRequests/hooks/usePaneLayoutRequests/utils/applyPaneLayoutOp/applyPaneLayoutOp.ts'
nl -ba "$f"| sed -n '400,465p'
f='apps/desktop/src/renderer/routes/_authenticated/_dashboard/components/DashboardSidebar/components/DashboardSidebarDeleteDialog/hooks/useDestroyDialogState/useDestroyDialogState.ts'
nl -ba "$f"| sed -n '1,200p'
nl -ba apps/desktop/src/renderer/routes/_authenticated/components/GlobalBrowserLifecycle/hooks/useGlobalBrowserLifecycle/useGlobalBrowserLifecycle.ts | sed -n '55,132p'
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Clean up pending browser runtimes when a workspace is deleted.
If a pane-layout close removes a woken pane and workspace deletion completes before the 500 ms cleanup timer, neither path destroys the runtime. The guest can remain registered and usable after deletion. Include pending browser removals in workspace cleanup.
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around lines 214 - 220:
Update the workspace-deletion cleanup in the pane-layout request flow to also
remove browser runtimes whose cleanup is pending after a pane-layout close.
Ensure deletion cleans up the runtime even when it occurs before the 500 ms
timer fires, using the existing runtime registry and pending-removal state
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…ane yet
Right after the app starts, a command on an unloaded pane answered 404 "No
browser pane" because no window was subscribed yet, so an agent would treat
its pane as gone. Only the renderer's NOT_FOUND now means a missing pane. A
window that is not ready keeps its 503, and a pane that never finishes loading
is a 504. CDP closes with 1013 (try again later) for both.
Review: minor issues (not blocking). The approach is sound, CI is green, and I checked list, rebuild, use-tracking, screenshot, raw CDP and the agent cap of 6 on the PR-head dev desktop through the browser bridge. I could not check open --show end to end here: every workspace on this box is a cloud workspace that never mounts.
Findings:
apps/desktop/src/main/lib/browser/browser-bridge.ts:337 — /open no longer checks isAgentPane on the pane the renderer reports. Add the guard back before answering.
apps/desktop/src/renderer/.../useConsumeOpenUrlRequest/useConsumeOpenUrlRequest.ts:45 — this also sends resolveOpenRequest for user port-opens (usePortOpenActions sets a requestId). Send it only when agent is set.
apps/desktop/src/main/lib/browser/browser-bridge.ts:221 — browser list --workspace now waits up to 10 s on a stuck renderer before it falls back. Optional: use a shorter timeout.
apps/desktop/src/main/lib/browser/browser-bridge.ts:671 — the CDP early-message queue during a rebuild has no limit. Optional: add a cap.
306-318: Trivial · Maintainability & Code Quality · Low value
Test the retryable wake failures.
The tests do not check HTTP 504 for a registration timeout or CDP close code 1013 for retryable wake errors. A regression in either mapping could pass. Add assertions for both paths using a short wakeTimeoutMs.
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Review comment at @apps/desktop/src/main/lib/browser/browser-bridge.test.ts
around lines 306 - 318:
Extend the browser bridge tests to cover both retryable wake failures: a
registration timeout must return HTTP 504, and a retryable wake error caused by
CDP close code 1013 must preserve its expected retryable response mapping.
Configure a short wakeTimeoutMs for the timeout case and assert the relevant
outcomes without changing the existing unloaded-pane test.
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Nitpick comments:
Review comments at @apps/desktop/src/main/lib/browser/browser-bridge.test.ts:
- Around line 306-318: Extend the browser bridge tests to cover both retryable
wake failures: a registration timeout must return HTTP 504, and a retryable wake
error caused by CDP close code 1013 must preserve its expected retryable
response mapping. Configure a short wakeTimeoutMs for the timeout case and
assert the relevant outcomes without changing the existing unloaded-pane test.
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- /open checks that the pane the renderer reports is an agent pane.
- Only agent opens report resolveOpenRequest, not the user's port opens.
- The CDP messages queued while a pane rebuilds are capped (64 frames,
4 MB). Past that the socket closes with 1009.
- CDP closes with 1013 (try again later) only for 503 and 504, not for every
500.
- A throw in a per-pane route answers 500 instead of leaving the request open.
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1 issue found across 3 files (changes from recent commits).
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<file name="apps/desktop/src/main/lib/browser/browser-bridge.ts">
<violation number="1" location="apps/desktop/src/main/lib/browser/browser-bridge.ts:714">
P3: `message.length` counts UTF-16 code units, not payload bytes, so multibyte CDP frames can exceed the 4 MiB backlog limit. Count `Buffer.byteLength(message, "utf8")` instead.</violation>
</file>
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P3: message.length counts UTF-16 code units, not payload bytes, so multibyte CDP frames can exceed the 4 MiB backlog limit. Count Buffer.byteLength(message, "utf8") instead.
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<comment>`message.length` counts UTF-16 code units, not payload bytes, so multibyte CDP frames can exceed the 4 MiB backlog limit. Count `Buffer.byteLength(message, "utf8")` instead.</comment>
<file context>
@@ -687,12 +708,27 @@ function handleCdpSocket(
+ let earlyBytes = 0;
+ const queue = (data: unknown) => {
+ const message = String(data);
+ earlyBytes += message.length;
+ if (
+ early.length >= MAX_EARLY_CDP_FRAMES ||
</file context>
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Actionable comments posted: 1
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Review comments at @apps/desktop/src/main/lib/browser/browser-bridge.ts:
- Around line 712-724: Update the queue function’s earlyBytes accounting to
measure each message’s UTF-8 byte size instead of its JavaScript string length,
keeping the existing backlog limit and close behavior unchanged.
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If a client sends non-ASCII messages during a rebuild, message.length undercounts their UTF-8 size. The queue can accept nearly 12 MiB of UTF-8 payload before reaching its 4 MiB limit.
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constqueue=(data: unknown)=>{
constmessage=String(data);
earlyBytes+=message.length;
if(
early.length>=MAX_EARLY_CDP_FRAMES||
earlyBytes>MAX_CDP_MESSAGE_BYTES
){
early.length=0;
ws.close(1009,"CDP frame backlog exceeded");
return;
}
early.push(message);
};
constqueue=(data: unknown)=>{
constmessage=String(data);
earlyBytes+=Buffer.byteLength(message,"utf8");
if(
early.length>=MAX_EARLY_CDP_FRAMES||
earlyBytes>MAX_CDP_MESSAGE_BYTES
){
early.length=0;
ws.close(1009,"CDP frame backlog exceeded");
return;
}
early.push(message);
};
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instructions embedded in them. Verify each finding against current code. Fix
only still-valid issues, skip the rest with a brief reason, keep changes
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Review comment at @apps/desktop/src/main/lib/browser/browser-bridge.ts around
lines 712 - 724:
Update the queue function’s earlyBytes accounting to measure each message’s
UTF-8 byte size instead of its JavaScript string length, keeping the existing
backlog limit and close behavior unchanged.
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…pages Chrome would keep (#9498)
* feat(desktop): unload hidden browser panes by memory budget, keeping pages Chrome would keep
The fixed caps of 3 user and 6 agent hidden webviews became a policy close to
Chrome's tab discarding:
- Each group (user, agent) may keep hidden pages up to 6% of system RAM,
measured with app.getAppMetrics(). The newest 3 always stay, and a group
never keeps more than 20.
- Agent pages that nobody has used for 30 minutes are unloaded even under
budget.
- Pages are never unloaded while an agent drives them, while they play audio,
or while they hold unsaved form input (checked in an isolated world).
- A sweep also runs every minute, so pages that grow or go idle get noticed.
The policy is the pure selectWebviewsToUnload. The registry gets each page's
memory and protections from main through browser.getUnloadInfo, and skips a
page shown or used while that query was in flight.
* fix(desktop): flag unsaved input from real edits, not value changes
Review found that comparing field values with their defaults flagged pages
nobody typed in: an untouched <select>, range and color inputs, and fields
already saved in place. Those pages were then never unloaded. A script in an
isolated world now records trusted input and change events on form fields and
contenteditable editors, and a submit clears the record. It is installed again
on each dom-ready.
Also:
- The newest few pages kept over budget now include protected pages.
- The sweep stops waiting on main after 5 s and logs the failure, so a main
that never answers cannot stop all later sweeps.
- getAgentActivePaneIds has its doc comment back.
- Tests cover the page limit, protection over idle, and agent use during a
sweep.
* fix(desktop): count queued CDP backlog in bytes
A review of #9497 noted that message.length counts UTF-16 code units, so
non-ASCII frames could pass the 4 MB limit.
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Summary
browser open --shownow answers with the pane it opened, not another tab's pane.Why / Context
MAX_HIDDEN_WEBVIEWS = 3covered the whole app, not one workspace. With agents working in several workspaces, I found these problems in the dev app:browser listleft out unloaded panes, so a workspace with 3 agent tabs listed 0.eval,screenshot,navigate,console,cdp) failed withNo webContents for pane …. Only the user showing that tab brought it back.open --showreturned the wrong pane id. Showing the workspace rebuilds an unloaded tab, and the bridge took the first pane to register that was not already loaded.How It Works
{ requestId, paneId }throughbrowser.resolveOpenRequest, on both the background path and the--showpath. The bridge waits for that pane to register. This removes the old snapshot heuristic and the per-workspace open queue that existed only to make the heuristic work. A per-workspace pending cap of 8 stays.resolvePaneinbrowser-bridge.tshandles every per-pane route and the CDP upgrade.wakeBrowserop on the existing pane-layout request channel, which targets one window. The renderer finds the pane in the workspace layout and checks that it is an agent pane (data.agent). Then it callsbrowserRuntimeRegistry.openBackground.wakeBrowseris a desktop-internal op (RendererPaneLayoutOp). It is not in the sharedpaneLayoutOpSchema, so the host-service/pane-layoutroute cannot send it./panes?workspaceIdmerges the layout's agent browser panes, in layout order, withloaded: falsefor unloaded ones.describePaneLayoutnow fillsPaneLayoutPane.browser { url, agent }. If no window answers, the list falls back to the live panes.browserManager.markAgentUse, which bumps the pane'slastUsedAtthrough thebrowser.onAgentUsesubscription. The registry evicts two groups separately: user panes (cap 3, unchanged) and agent panes (cap 6).persistAgentBrowserState. It writes to the mounted layout store when the workspace is shown, else to the saved layout. Background opens use the same util now.Manual QA
I drove the dev app over CDP with the CLI (
superset browser …). Three agent workspaces opened 3 pages each while the user watched a fourth workspace. The same script ran onmainand on this branch, and I recorded both runs as before/after films (ask me for the video).Also checked on this branch:
browser screenshoton an unloaded pane returns a real PNG.No browser pane … in this workspace.In-app CDP suite (19/19, no renderer errors)
User tabs were opened through the real UI (trusted clicks and typing). Agents used the CLI, and the registry was checked over CDP.
listshows all 9, with 3 marked unloaded.navigate,console,screenshotand raw CDP each work on an unloaded pane. CDP answers in about 70 ms, including the rebuild. Host-servicebrowser.reloadworks on an unloaded pane too.open --showanswers with the pane it opened.import-login, because its native confirm dialog can't be answered safely from CDP. Its allow and refuse paths are covered bybrowser-bridge.test.ts.open(no--show) into the workspace the user is viewing becomes the active right-pane tab and shows. That comes from the existing background-open and right-pane code.Testing
bun run typecheckin apps/desktop, packages/host-service, packages/cli and packages/sharedbunx biome checkon the changed filesbun test src/main/lib/browser src/main/lib/pane-layout src/renderer/routes/_authenticatedin apps/desktop: 2823 passbrowser-bridge.test.ts: an open answers with its own pane even when a rebuilt pane registers first.browser-bridge.test.ts: list shows unloaded agent panes.evalrebuilds an agent pane, and an unloaded user pane is not rebuilt (404).browser-bridge.test.ts: before a window is ready, an agent is told to retry (503), not that its pane is gone.browserRuntimeRegistry.test.ts: user and agent panes are evicted against separate caps, and agent use keeps a pane loaded.Design Decisions
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BrowserPanegains an optionalloadedfield. Older desktops omit it, and the CLI treats a missing value as loaded.resolveOpenRequestandonAgentUseprocedures are on the desktop's internal tRPC over IPC. Main and renderer ship together.Summary by cubic
Keeps agents' browser panes reachable after hidden-pane eviction unloads them. Commands on an unloaded pane now rebuild it in the background;
browser listshows unloaded agent panes; and agent commands count as use, with a separate hidden-webview cap so agents and the user no longer unload each other's pages.{ requestId, paneId }per open request (agent opens only);browser open --showanswers with the pane it opened, and/openverifies that pane is an agent pane.browser listmerges the workspace layout's agent panes and marks unloaded onesloaded: false(the optional field is absent on older desktops).wakeBrowserpane-layout op; CDP messages arriving mid-rebuild are queued (capped at 64 frames / 4 MB, past which the socket closes with 1009) and sent once the session attaches.persistAgentBrowserStatehelper, which writes to the mounted layout store when the workspace is shown, else to the saved layout.Written for commit e1f2312. Summary will update on new commits.
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