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Record approved browser writes and block the rest - #3337
Rehearsal blocks every write. A browser that has to save needs to send exactly the writes a person approved, from the operation that makes them, and nothing else. Record mode does that.
A commit point is an operation of a step (an act, or an upload with into) plus the signature of the write it sends. A rehearsal keeps the act it stopped at as a commit point to approve, and so does a write that record mode blocked. Commit points live under browser/writes/<dag>/<step>.json, apart from the replay cache, together with the act's recorded actions.
With with.browser.write_gate: record, the step tells the gate which signatures the running operation's approved commit points send, for a bounded lease. An approved commit act replays its approved actions and asks no model. Any other write is blocked and fails the step with write_blocked: the write gate blocked POST …, which no approved commit point of this operation sends; nothing was saved (signature …).
Every sent write (approved, sign-in, person) continues with interceptResponse. The gate keeps its status and the start of its answer, masked, for the ledger.
Changes
writegate:
ModeRecord; Begin/End controls with a lease capped at 30 minutes.
Response capture (getResponseBody answered asynchronously, so no request is ever held waiting on the gate).
Event.Status, Response and ResponseError; response bodies are cut as a stream like request bodies.
A page armed on its own target and then on the browser target is decided once, deduped by network ID.
CommitStore (Note, Approve, Revoke, Allowed, Steps), locked per DAG.
Steps: record mode (allowance per operation, replay-only commit acts, write_blocked). Commit-point candidates are noted in rehearse and record. write-gate.json names the blocked write. A write sent while the last downloads settle, which Rehearse browser writes behind a write gate #3336 now catches before the step succeeds, also fails a record step with write_blocked.
Sessions:
--write-gate record.
do --allow-write SIG (repeatable). It is refused outside record mode, so a rehearsal never sends.
A blocked write fails the operation with write_blocked, and the result still prints its writes.
export keeps the step's writes as commit points (commit_points in its result).
CLI: dagu browser writes list|approve|revoke <DAG> [--step] [--signature]…. approve --from-dag OTHER copies only the chosen points of another DAG, such as the one a rehearsal ran as, and approves them.
Schemas and the DAG authoring reference document record.
Test plan
writegate against real Chrome:
record mode sends only the signature an operation may send, while it runs, and blocks it after End and after the lease
the answer is captured (status 200, body)
a pre-loaded page armed on both targets keeps each write once
Unit tests:
commit store: note keeps approval and actions, approve from another DAG, revoke
step record mode: the approved act replays without a model and only its signature is allowed; an unapproved write fails with write_blocked and is noted; a rehearsal notes its commit point
session: write_blocked, then --allow-write, then export keeps the point; a rehearsing session refuses --allow-write
CLI: approve --from-dag with --signature, list, revoke
spec072: rehearse → writes approve write_gate_record --from-dag write_gate → the record run sends the approved save (1 write reaches the ledger), replays its act without the model, blocks the unapproved postback with write_blocked, and keeps that postback as an unapproved commit point
spec079: a record session blocks a save (write_blocked), sends it with --allow-write, and export keeps it as a commit point
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Added a browser write-gate recording mode that blocks unapproved writes and records write details for review.
Browser sessions can approve specific write signatures for an operation; other writes remain blocked.
Added commands to list, approve, and revoke browser write approvals, with options to target steps or copy approvals from another workflow.
Approved browser actions can replay without another model call.
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Adds a record write-gate mode for browser steps and sessions. The change stores write signatures as commit points, supports approval and revocation, and allows approved writes while replaying recorded actions. Unapproved writes are blocked and reported.
Changes: Browser Write Gate
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Record mode and gate protocol internal/browserhost/writegate/*, internal/cmn/config/*, internal/cmn/schema/config.schema.json, internal/runtime/builtin/browser/config.go
Adds the record mode and its configuration. The gate accepts temporary signature allowances, intercepts responses for sent writes, and records response details.
Commit-point storage and approval commands internal/browserhost/writegate/commit.go, internal/browserhost/writegate/commit_test.go, internal/cmd/browser.go, internal/cmd/browser_writes*
Stores commit points by DAG and step. Adds commands to list, approve, copy, and revoke matching points.
DAG write blocking and approved replay internal/runtime/builtin/browser/{ask,engine,fakes_test,operator,ops,stagehand,write_gate*}.go, internal/cmn/schema/dag.schema.json, internal/service/mcp/reference.go, conformance/spec072_browser/*
Loads commit points for browser runs. Approved commits replay saved actions and allow matching writes; unapproved writes stop the operation with write_blocked.
Interactive session allowances and export internal/runtime/builtin/browser/{session,session_export,session_state,session_write_gate_test}.go, internal/cmd/browser_session.go, conformance/spec079_browser_session/write_gate_test.go
Adds --allow-write for record-mode session operations. Session exports record commit points and report their count.
sequenceDiagram
participant run
participant CommitStore
participant stagehandEngine
participant WriteGate
participant BrowserTarget
run->>CommitStore: Load commit points
run->>stagehandEngine: BeginWrites with approved signatures
stagehandEngine->>WriteGate: POST /begin with signatures and lease
BrowserTarget->>WriteGate: Submit a write request
WriteGate-->>BrowserTarget: Continue an allowed write or block an unapproved write
run->>stagehandEngine: EndWrites
stagehandEngine->>WriteGate: POST /end
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dagucloud/dagu#3336: Adds the write gate and rehearsal mode that this change extends with record mode, commit-point approval, and replay.
Merge Risk: Moderate · up to 008f0
Browser steps or sessions can block approved writes, stall on some responses, or permit a later write under an earlier operation’s approval if cleanup fails. Resolve the approval-lifecycle defects before merging.
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Rehearsal blocks every write, so a browser that must save has to be
told which writes it may send and from which operation.
In record mode the gate sends a write only while the operation running
may send its signature, as Begin tells it, for a bounded lease; End or
the lease ending blocks it again. Every sent write, sign-ins included,
continues with interceptResponse, so its status and the start of its
answer are kept. A page armed on its own target and then on the
browser target is decided once. Commit points, the operations a step
may write from and the signatures they send, are kept under
browser/writes apart from the replay cache, with the actions an
approved act replays.
A step must send the writes a person approved, from the act that makes
them, and nothing else, and a session must be able to send one write
it was allowed.
with.browser.write_gate: record tells the gate the signatures an act's
approved commit points send while it runs, and replays that act's
approved actions without a model. Any other write is blocked and fails
the step with write_blocked; the act is kept as a commit point to
approve, as a rehearsal keeps the act it stopped at. Sessions open with
--write-gate record, do --allow-write SIG sends one write, a blocked
write fails the operation with write_blocked, and export keeps the
step's writes as commit points. dagu browser writes list, approve, and
revoke manage them; approve --from-dag copies a rehearsal's points
into the DAG that runs for real.
A write nothing approved that the page sends while the last downloads
settle fails a record step with write_blocked, as one sent during an
operation does, and is kept as a commit point.
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Review comments at @internal/browserhost/writegate/gate.go:
- Around line 554-556: Before `g.nextID.Add(1)` in the response-handling flow,
skip body capture for attachments, `text/event-stream`, and content types other
than text, JSON, XML, or form data; continue the paused response immediately and
record the event without a body. Use `p.ResponseHeaders` to determine
readability and preserve the existing body-capture path for readable responses.
Review comments at @internal/runtime/builtin/browser/ops.go:
- Around line 756-759: Update the run state and beginWrites to store the
operation index and operation alongside r.opKey, and clear all three together
when the write gate is cleared. Change both noteCommit call sites in succeed to
use that stored operation identity instead of last and r.cfg.Do[last], keeping
the commit point consistent with the operation that started the write gate.
- Around line 395-401: Update `run.endWrites` to return an error, returning nil
when writes are not active and propagating the result of `r.eng.EndWrites(ctx)`
otherwise. At its call site, handle any returned error by failing the DAG before
the next operation starts.
- Around line 242-261: Keep the allowance and event collection started by
r.beginWrites active through final download settling, rather than ending them
immediately after r.runOperation; ensure r.endWrites runs on every exit path,
including failures.
Review comments at @internal/runtime/builtin/browser/session_export.go:
- Around line 262-264: Update the export handling around exported.noteCommits to
warn when an operation completed successfully, has no replay key, and
entry.Writes is non-empty; retain commit-point recording for keyed operations
and avoid warning for operations without writes.
Review comments at @internal/runtime/builtin/browser/session.go:
- Around line 796-800: In the act flow, keep the record-mode write allowance
active through WaitForDownloads, then run both eng.EndWrites and takeWrites
after the wait. This ensures writes received during download grace are collected
for the current command rather than attributed to the next one.
- Around line 796-800: Update the EndWrites handling in the session’s Do flow so
an error retires the session using a cleanup context that is not canceled with
the operation context; preserve the existing flow when EndWrites succeeds.
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The gate read the whole body of every sent write's answer before the
page got it, so a page reading an event stream waited until the stream
ended, and a download crossed DevTools as one message. Only text the
page reads whole is read first now; an event stream, an ndjson stream,
an attachment, or anything not text passes on at once, and its event
keeps no answer.
A page can send an operation's write after the operation returns: while
its downloads settle, or before the next operation starts. Such a write
was read with the next operation, so its commit point named the wrong
act, and an approved one was blocked because the allowance had already
ended. An operation's allowance and writes now last until the next
operation starts, an ask waits, or the browser closes.
A gate that did not hear the allowance end may still send those writes
under the next operation, so the step fails then instead of going on.
A write the page sent while a command's downloads settled was blocked
even when the command allowed it, and was reported with the next
command, whose export then named it. A command now keeps its allowance
until its downloads settle and reports the writes sent meanwhile.
A gate that did not hear the allowance end may still send those writes
under the next command, so the session ends then.
Only an act or an upload with into keeps commit points, so a write any
other operation of a session sent cannot be approved, and the exported
step in record mode blocks it. Export now says so for each such
operation instead of leaving the failure for the first run.
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Summary
Second of three write gate PRs, after #3336.
Rehearsal blocks every write. A browser that has to save needs to send exactly the writes a person approved, from the operation that makes them, and nothing else. Record mode does that.
into) plus the signature of the write it sends. A rehearsal keeps the act it stopped at as a commit point to approve, and so does a write that record mode blocked. Commit points live underbrowser/writes/<dag>/<step>.json, apart from the replay cache, together with the act's recorded actions.with.browser.write_gate: record, the step tells the gate which signatures the running operation's approved commit points send, for a bounded lease. An approved commit act replays its approved actions and asks no model. Any other write is blocked and fails the step withwrite_blocked: the write gate blocked POST …, which no approved commit point of this operation sends; nothing was saved (signature …).interceptResponse. The gate keeps its status and the start of its answer, masked, for the ledger.Changes
writegate:ModeRecord;Begin/Endcontrols with a lease capped at 30 minutes.getResponseBodyanswered asynchronously, so no request is ever held waiting on the gate).Event.Status,ResponseandResponseError; response bodies are cut as a stream like request bodies.CommitStore(Note,Approve,Revoke,Allowed,Steps), locked per DAG.write_blocked). Commit-point candidates are noted in rehearse and record.write-gate.jsonnames the blocked write. A write sent while the last downloads settle, which Rehearse browser writes behind a write gate #3336 now catches before the step succeeds, also fails a record step withwrite_blocked.--write-gate record.do --allow-write SIG(repeatable). It is refused outside record mode, so a rehearsal never sends.write_blocked, and the result still prints its writes.exportkeeps the step's writes as commit points (commit_pointsin its result).dagu browser writes list|approve|revoke <DAG> [--step] [--signature]….approve --from-dag OTHERcopies only the chosen points of another DAG, such as the one a rehearsal ran as, and approves them.record.Test plan
writegateagainst real Chrome:Endand after the leasewrite_blockedand is noted; a rehearsal notes its commit pointwrite_blocked, then--allow-write, then export keeps the point; a rehearsing session refuses--allow-write--from-dagwith--signature, list, revokewrites approve write_gate_record --from-dag write_gate→ the record run sends the approved save (1 write reaches the ledger), replays its act without the model, blocks the unapproved postback withwrite_blocked, and keeps that postback as an unapproved commit pointwrite_blocked), sends it with--allow-write, and export keeps it as a commit pointbrowserhost,browser,cmd,config,mcp, spec072 and spec079 suites;golangci-lint(darwin and windows);go fix -diffcleanSummary by CodeRabbit