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Rehearse browser writes behind a write gate - #3336
A browser step or session that may write to a site now has a way to run without saving anything. The write gate decides every write in the browser's network layer, not from the words of an act: in rehearse mode it blocks every request that is not GET, HEAD, or OPTIONS, and reports exactly what it would have sent.
This is the first of three PRs (rehearse, then record mode and commit points, then ask mode).
The mechanics come from spikes against Chrome 155:
The gate pauses every request on the browser target, armed before any page loads. That one Fetch.enable covered all 40 write channels tested: fetch/XHR/PUT/PATCH/DELETE, form posts in pages and cross-site frames, a popup's first navigation, dedicated, nested and shared workers, service-worker fetches and background sync, beacons, <a ping>, CSP reports, keepalive and unload beacons, and fetchLater. Pages that loaded before the gate are armed on their own targets.
Decisions are instant. Chrome sends a paused request the moment the client's connection drops, whether by close, SIGKILL or Fetch.disable. So the gate never holds a request, and if it loses a browser that still runs it closes that browser. The reaper and the session watchdog (polled every second) close a browser whose gate died. "A person holds the browser" is a decision to send everything; the gate never disables Fetch.
Blocks use failRequest{AccessDenied}. The existing allowed_domains blocked-request count stays unchanged, and an act still completes and settles. A blocked page-load POST gets a fulfilled 200 "Not sent" page.
Bodies are read as a stream (no read limit) and cut to 64 KiB. A 30 MB upload produces a 230 MB DevTools message, which would have broken a capped connection and sent the paused write.
WebSockets:Network.setBlockedURLs does not stop them. A declarativeNetRequest extension, loaded over DevTools, refuses sockets from pages, frames and dedicated workers. Sockets that service workers and shared workers open past it are reported (write_gate unseen).
A gated launch deletes <profile>/Default/Service Worker first. Otherwise a pending background sync fires at startup, before any client can arm.
Each write carries a signature: method, origin, templated path, query names, body field names, plus __EVENTTARGET and operationName. Signatures stay stable across runs for JSON, multipart, ASP.NET postbacks and GraphQL. Password, token, csrf, __VIEWSTATE and similar fields, and policy secrets, are always masked.
Changes
internal/browserhost/writegate: the gate process (Serve, Main, Start, Events, SetPerson), policy (classify, signature, masking), streaming body cutter, event ledger, and socket extension. There is a hidden dagu browser write-gate command.
Steps: with.browser.write_gate: rehearse.
Writes are logged on the timeline as write blocked|sent.
The step stops at the first write of the work. It ends PartiallySucceeded with would send POST …; not sent; do[2]–do[3] did not run and leaves write-gate.json in its artifacts.
Beacons, CSP reports, noise hosts and listed sign-ins don't stop the step.
Host config: browser.write_gate (DAGU_BROWSER_WRITE_GATE) is a floor that a step or session can only tighten. browser.write_policy (DAGU_BROWSER_WRITE_POLICY) lists sign_in rules (host, path, optional secret), declared GET writes, and noise_hosts.
Sessions: open --write-gate rehearse --write-policy FILE.
open and do report writes, including writes the page made while the session waited.
dagu browser session gate --person|--guard tells the gate who holds the browser.
A session whose gate is gone ends with write_gate_lost.
list advertises the write_gate capability.
Browser records carry the gate's URL, PID and last event. A browser whose gate is gone is reaped.
Test plan
internal/browserhost/writegate against real Chrome:
fetch, beacon, worker and form writes blocked
a page loaded before the gate is covered
sign-in passes only with its secret; person mode sends
a page socket is refused and a service-worker socket is reported
a 30 MB body is handled
losing the gate closes the browser
the extension is not kept in the profile
Unit tests: body cutter, classify, signature stability, masking, step rehearsal (stop, floor beats off, noise/sign-in/socket, gate loss), session writes, idle writes, person/guard and gate loss, reaper cases, config loading
TestStagehandWriteGateDecidesFromTheFirstPage: the real launcher path; an act's save is blocked and the act completes
spec072: a rehearsing step blocks its save, stops there and partially succeeds; the host floor beats write_gate: off
spec079:
a session rehearses nine channels (fetch POST, form POST, declared GET delete, worker, beacon, WebSocket, ASP.NET postback, GraphQL, background sync) with 0 writes reaching the site
only the listed sign-in to another host is sent, and its password is masked
idle write; person/guard; the floor beats --write-gate off; killing the gate closes the browser
Full ./internal/runtime/builtin/browser, spec072 and spec079 suites; golangci-lint (darwin and windows) on the changed packages
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New Features
Added a browser rehearsal mode that blocks write requests, reports what would have been sent, and stops a workflow at its first consequential write.
Added write-gate options for browser sessions, including controls for handing browser control to a person and returning it to guarded mode.
Added write-event reporting and downloadable workflow reports, with sensitive values masked.
Added host-level settings and policies for write handling, including configured sign-in requests.
A browser step or session that may write to a site needs every write
decided in the browser's network layer, not by the words of an act.
The gate is a process of its own, beside the browser, on its own
DevTools connection. It pauses every request on the browser target
before any page loads, so pages, frames, popups, workers, and service
workers opened later are covered, and pages loaded earlier are armed
on their own targets. Each request is answered at once: a request a
gate held would be sent the moment its connection dropped, so losing
the connection closes the browser. Writes are blocked with
AccessDenied, and a page-load POST gets a "Not sent" page; sign-ins a
policy lists, and everything while a person holds the browser, are
sent. Bodies are read as a stream and cut, so a large upload cannot
break the connection. A declarativeNetRequest extension refuses
WebSockets, and sockets service workers and shared workers open past
it are reported. Each decision is kept with a signature that stays
the same across runs, with sensitive fields hidden.
A step needs a way to run its writing part without saving anything,
so what it would send can be checked before it runs for real.
with.browser.write_gate: rehearse starts the gate with the browser.
Every write the page sends is blocked and logged on the timeline; the
step stops at the first write of the work, ends partially succeeded
with "would send ...; not sent; do[n] did not run", and leaves
write-gate.json in its artifacts. Beacons, reports, and sign-ins the
host's write policy lists do not stop it. The host's browser.write_gate
(DAGU_BROWSER_WRITE_GATE) is a floor a step cannot loosen. A gated
launch first clears the profile's service workers, which could send a
pending background sync before the gate starts, and a browser whose
gate is gone is closed by the step and by the reaper.
A person or an agent exploring a site in a session must not save
anything by accident, and needs to see what a click would have saved.
dagu browser session open --write-gate rehearse --write-policy FILE
starts the gate, and every command reports what it decided under
writes, including what the page sent while the session waited. dagu
browser session gate --person sends what a person holding the browser
does, still reporting it, and --guard hands it back; the gate never
stops deciding. A session whose gate is gone ends, and its watchdog
checks gated sessions every second.
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The change adds a browser write gate with off and rehearse modes. It intercepts and reports browser writes, integrates decisions into DAG execution and browser sessions, and adds policy configuration, session controls, lifecycle handling, and conformance tests.
Changes: Browser write-gate behavior
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Summary
Gate modes, policy, and configuration internal/browserhost/writegate/writegate.go, internal/browserhost/writegate/policy.go, internal/cmn/config/*, internal/cmn/schema/*, internal/runtime/builtin/browser/config.go
Defines gate modes, policy rules, event data, request classification, redaction, and signatures. Adds host-level and DAG settings for the gate and policy file.
Request interception and event reporting internal/browserhost/writegate/*, internal/cmd/browser.go
Starts the gate process, connects to Chrome through CDP, intercepts requests, blocks WebSockets and WebTransport, and records bounded, sequenced events. Adds the hidden command used to run the gate.
DAG browser execution internal/runtime/builtin/browser/engine.go, internal/runtime/builtin/browser/stagehand.go, internal/runtime/builtin/browser/ops.go, internal/runtime/builtin/browser/write_gate.go, internal/runtime/builtin/browser/ask.go, internal/runtime/builtin/browser/clientcert.go, internal/runtime/builtin/browser/useragent.go
Starts and tracks the gate during browser execution. Rehearsal stops at the first consequential blocked write, reports the write and unrun operations, and partially succeeds the step.
Adds session gate settings, write-event results, and person/guard control. Persists gate state and retires sessions when the gate is lost.
Conformance and authoring reference conformance/spec072_browser/*, conformance/spec079_browser/*, internal/runtime/builtin/browser/*_test.go, internal/browserhost/browserhost_test.go, internal/service/mcp/reference.go
Adds tests for request blocking and reporting, mode precedence, session controls, redaction, and gate loss. Adds test workflows and authoring guidance.
sequenceDiagram
participant BrowserRuntime
participant writegateStart as writegate.Start
participant writegateServe as writegate.Serve
participant ChromeCDP
participant EventLedger
BrowserRuntime->>writegateStart: start gate process with configuration
writegateStart->>writegateServe: send versioned configuration
writegateServe->>ChromeCDP: attach and enable request interception
ChromeCDP->>writegateServe: deliver paused requests and socket events
writegateServe->>EventLedger: record classified decisions
BrowserRuntime->>writegateServe: request events after sequence
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The write gate blocks writes as designed, but its reports can miss late writes, writes before an ask, and some worker sockets. A misconfigured writes rule or host mode is not caught up front, and the docs promise more than rehearsal guarantees. These are bounded follow-ups, not blockers.
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Review comments at @internal/browserhost/writegate/gate.go:
- Around line 234-237: Update the Target.setAutoAttach configuration to pause
workers on startup, then update attached to enable Network before resuming
monitored targets with Runtime.runIfWaitingForDebugger; also resume targets
rejected by the webURL filter so they do not remain paused.
Review comments at @internal/browserhost/writegate/writegate.go:
- Around line 88-102: Update Policy.Validate to reject any writes rule with a
nonempty Secret, returning a validation error; retain host validation for both
SignIn and Writes rules and leave NoiseHosts validation unchanged.
Review comments at @internal/cmn/config/loader.go:
- Line 445: Validate the host browser write-gate mode during configuration
validation: add `writegate.ParseMode` for `cfg.Browser.WriteGate` in
`Config.Validate` and return a contextual error for invalid values. Leave
`writeGateMode` and `writegate.Stricter` unchanged.
Review comments at @internal/runtime/builtin/browser/ask.go:
- Line 34: Extend browserhost.Record to persist the write-gate events and
unrehearsable state alongside WriteGateSeq, save them before the ask wait, and
restore them in resumeSession so keepWriteGateReport retains pre-ask history and
the correct Rehearsable status. If rebuilding events from r.eng.Writes, avoid
logging those events a second time.
Review comments at @internal/runtime/builtin/browser/ops.go:
- Around line 673-675: Update the reportWrites call in the function containing
this error-handling branch to pass a context without the step’s cancellation,
matching the existing failure-screenshot behavior. Preserve the existing
errWriteGateLost condition and let boundCall continue enforcing pageCallTimeout.
- Around line 632-633: At the start of succeed, poll reportWrites for the final
operation before reporting success. Handle a gate error with the existing
write-gate failure path and a rehearsal stop with the existing rehearsed path,
matching the handling used in the operation loop.
Review comments at @internal/service/mcp/reference.go:
- Line 83: Update the `with.browser.write_gate` description so it qualifies the
no-write guarantee: configured sign-in requests and writes made while a person
holds the browser may pass. Describe rehearsal as stopping at the first blocked
work write, rather than implying every write is blocked.
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Reading a large body byte by byte took the gate over a minute under the
race detector, long enough for a page's request to time out. The part
of a body past its kept start is now scanned a buffer at a time for its
closing quote, escapes included.
Chrome's helpers can still write to a profile a moment after the
browser is ended, which failed the tests' temporary directory cleanup
on Linux runners. The profiles are removed with retries, as the other
browser tests do.
A service worker or shared worker the gate attached to ran at once, so
a socket it opened in its first statements could open before the gate
watched it, and go unreported. Workers now wait for the gate, which
watches a site's worker and lets every worker run. A writes rule that
names a secret never matched, so a declared write went out as a read;
the policy now refuses one.
The report missed writes in three cases: those before an ask, which a
resumed step rebuilt as empty with the site marked rehearsable; a
write sent while the last downloads settled, which did not stop the
rehearsal; and those decided before a cancellation, which the failure
path could not read with the cancelled context. A resumed step now
takes back what it reported from the gate, the step polls once more
before it succeeds, and the failure path reads the gate without the
step's cancellation.
The reference and the schemas said a rehearsal saves nothing, but the
sign-ins a write policy lists are sent, and in a session so is what a
person holding the browser does. They now say so, and that a step
stops at the first blocked write of the work.
Chrome applies an extension's declarativeNetRequest rule a moment after
it loads the extension, so under load a page's socket could still open
after the gate said it was ready. The gate now opens a socket from a
page in the background until the socket fails without reaching a port
the gate listens on, and only then reports ready.
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Summary
A browser step or session that may write to a site now has a way to run without saving anything. The write gate decides every write in the browser's network layer, not from the words of an act: in
rehearsemode it blocks every request that is not GET, HEAD, or OPTIONS, and reports exactly what it would have sent.This is the first of three PRs (rehearse, then record mode and commit points, then ask mode).
How it works
The mechanics come from spikes against Chrome 155:
Fetch.enablecovered all 40 write channels tested: fetch/XHR/PUT/PATCH/DELETE, form posts in pages and cross-site frames, a popup's first navigation, dedicated, nested and shared workers, service-worker fetches and background sync, beacons,<a ping>, CSP reports, keepalive and unload beacons, andfetchLater. Pages that loaded before the gate are armed on their own targets.Fetch.disable. So the gate never holds a request, and if it loses a browser that still runs it closes that browser. The reaper and the session watchdog (polled every second) close a browser whose gate died. "A person holds the browser" is a decision to send everything; the gate never disables Fetch.failRequest{AccessDenied}. The existing allowed_domains blocked-request count stays unchanged, and an act still completes and settles. A blocked page-load POST gets a fulfilled 200 "Not sent" page.Network.setBlockedURLsdoes not stop them. A declarativeNetRequest extension, loaded over DevTools, refuses sockets from pages, frames and dedicated workers. Sockets that service workers and shared workers open past it are reported (write_gate unseen).<profile>/Default/Service Workerfirst. Otherwise a pending background sync fires at startup, before any client can arm.__EVENTTARGETandoperationName. Signatures stay stable across runs for JSON, multipart, ASP.NET postbacks and GraphQL. Password, token, csrf,__VIEWSTATEand similar fields, and policy secrets, are always masked.Changes
internal/browserhost/writegate: the gate process (Serve,Main,Start,Events,SetPerson), policy (classify,signature, masking), streaming body cutter, event ledger, and socket extension. There is a hiddendagu browser write-gatecommand.with.browser.write_gate: rehearse.write blocked|sent.would send POST …; not sent; do[2]–do[3] did not runand leaveswrite-gate.jsonin its artifacts.browser.write_gate(DAGU_BROWSER_WRITE_GATE) is a floor that a step or session can only tighten.browser.write_policy(DAGU_BROWSER_WRITE_POLICY) listssign_inrules (host, path, optional secret), declared GETwrites, andnoise_hosts.open --write-gate rehearse --write-policy FILE.openanddoreportwrites, including writes the page made while the session waited.dagu browser session gate --person|--guardtells the gate who holds the browser.write_gate_lost.listadvertises thewrite_gatecapability.Test plan
internal/browserhost/writegateagainst real Chrome:off, noise/sign-in/socket, gate loss), session writes, idle writes, person/guard and gate loss, reaper cases, config loadingTestStagehandWriteGateDecidesFromTheFirstPage: the real launcher path; an act's save is blocked and the act completeswrite_gate: off--write-gate off; killing the gate closes the browser./internal/runtime/builtin/browser, spec072 and spec079 suites;golangci-lint(darwin and windows) on the changed packagesSummary by CodeRabbit