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An agent opening a browser for a background local thread can fall back to headless while its Electron desktop is connected. ElectronBrowserHost stays mounted outside the router, but its session index depended on subscriptions in mounted chat/preview views. Without those views, the native tab did not attach during the server's ten-second wait.

The persistent host now loads its primary environment's existing tabs and subscribes to live preview events. preview.list accepts an omitted thread filter for that baseline; existing thread-scoped callers keep their filter. Reconciliation handles startup, reconnects, missing tabs, server epochs, and events that overtake the initial list. The host applies primary events once when a chat is also mounted. On an epoch change, it refreshes the separate thread queries; late results from a retired primary server cannot restore its native tabs. Remote chat queries can still adopt a new server epoch.

Addresses the local desktop fallback reproduced while investigating #16596. This qualifies as a focused fix for an existing hosting contract: ServerBrowser.desktopRenders already expects the attached desktop to render its server's tabs. The change repairs session synchronization within that contract. It adds no host selection, browser engine, identity override, or challenge handling. Remote environments retain their existing streaming path.

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  • The original regression fails on the baseline with zero native tab creations when no chat is mounted. Both additional epoch regression cases fail on 92c1d426: a completed retired thread list restores old sessions, and the mounted chat query misses its refresh. They pass after this correction. Tests also cover startup hydration, close/release, reconnect, server restart, higher event revisions, one event application, and environment isolation.
  • On macOS 26.5.1 arm64, used an isolated copy of 0.0.46-nightly.20261006.2735 with Electron 44.4.2, separate T3 state, and fresh Electron profiles. The existing PreviewAutomationBroker open/evaluate/snapshot flow ran for a background test thread with no ChatView mounted. The shipped client used HeadlessChrome 154 and returned HTTP 403 with the verification prompt below. For the final correction, the copied app used the current client build and the unchanged server bundle from 92c1d426; every copied client file matched the local build by SHA-256. A tab created before the renderer was ready attached to native Electron/Chrome 152 and reached https://platform.openai.com/login. DOM inspection and the screenshot show the actual login form. No credentials or challenge interaction were used. The installed app was untouched.
  • 96 focused tests pass across HostedBrowserWebview.test.tsx, previewStateStore.test.ts, Manager.test.ts, ServerBrowser.test.ts, BrowserSession.test.ts, and CdpRelay.test.ts. Commands and results are in the linked JSON.
  • Web typecheck with --checkers 2, web build, and formatting/lint of the three updated files pass. Server and contracts typechecks and the server bundle passed at 92c1d426; their production code is unchanged in this update. The earlier changed-file lint run retained the existing extra resolvedTheme dependency warning in ElectronBrowserHost. All validation on the DevBox ran through devbox-heavy-check.
Shipped client: verification prompt Corrected client and server: actual login form
Before: Cloudflare verification prompt After: OpenAI Platform login form

Sanitized results and setup for 1722a7ae. These anonymous evidence assets are uploaded on the fork and kept out of the PR diff.

Limits: the authenticated organization portal was not exercised, and the original session's exact fallback cause and Cloudflare discriminator were not instrumented. Standalone remote headless browsers still face Cloudflare's documented support limit. An entirely offscreen native snapshot timed out during the initial verification. After the broker inspected the login page, bringing the isolated viewport on-screen allowed the snapshot to complete. This PR addresses session synchronization and hosting lifetime; that capture behavior remains separate.

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Keep the primary desktop preview event subscription in ElectronBrowserHost so background agent tabs attach natively before the server falls back to headless. Reset stale pages when the primary server epoch changes.

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Macroscope's review found this PR not approvable — This PR adds an always-on Electron synchronization layer spanning the server preview API, browser host, and shared preview state, including cross-thread hydration and server-epoch handling. The resulting change to native tab lifetime and event ownership is broader than a small isolated fix and warrants human review.

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The Electron browser host now synchronizes preview events and session lists for the primary environment. The server supports environment-wide session lists. The preview state store reconciles these lists and resets matching thread state when the server epoch changes.

Changes

Desktop preview sessions

Layer / File(s) Summary
Support environment-wide preview lists
packages/contracts/src/preview.ts, apps/server/src/preview/Manager.ts, apps/server/src/preview/Manager.test.ts
The preview list input accepts an optional thread ID. When it is omitted, the server returns sessions across threads. Tests cover filtered and unfiltered results and revision updates.
Reset and reconcile preview state
apps/web/src/previewStateStore.ts, apps/web/src/previewStateStore.test.ts, apps/web/src/components/preview/usePreviewSession.ts
The store resets changed thread state for an environment on a server-epoch change and reconciles environment-level lists. Preview-session reconciliation skips a mismatched-epoch result when the host applies events or the result is waiting. Tests cover environment isolation and list revision handling.
Wire primary-environment desktop synchronization
apps/web/src/browser/useDesktopBrowserSessions.ts, apps/web/src/browser/ElectronBrowserHost.tsx, apps/web/src/browser/HostedBrowserWebview.test.tsx
The Electron host starts event and list synchronization for the primary environment. The hook applies scoped events and reconciles successful non-waiting lists. Tests cover tab creation, closure, environment filtering, and epoch replacement.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes

Change: Bug fix

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant ElectronBrowserHost
  participant useDesktopBrowserSessions
  participant PreviewEventAtom
  participant PreviewListAtom
  participant previewStateStore
  ElectronBrowserHost->>useDesktopBrowserSessions: pass primary environment ID
  useDesktopBrowserSessions->>PreviewEventAtom: subscribe to environment events
  PreviewEventAtom->>useDesktopBrowserSessions: deliver preview event
  useDesktopBrowserSessions->>previewStateStore: reset epoch state and apply event
  useDesktopBrowserSessions->>PreviewListAtom: request environment session list
  PreviewListAtom->>useDesktopBrowserSessions: return list result
  useDesktopBrowserSessions->>previewStateStore: reconcile sessions
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Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to 1722a

The change lets the Electron host attach local server browser tabs when no chat view is mounted. The supplied evidence shows no concrete merge-blocking defect. One edge case is unverified: a delayed old-server list arriving after a server restart. Upstream CI has not yet run, so that result is still pending.

Security Architecture Review

Security architecture risk: 🔵 Low · up to 1722a

The change synchronizes browser tabs across threads on the connected local server while retaining existing access checks and environment separation. No new authorization bypass was established. Recovery ordering and compatibility between different client and server versions remain partially verified.

Retained concerns
No architecture-level concerns identified.

Security review details

Security Blast Radius

  • inferred — The new baseline spans all preview sessions across threads in one selected server manager, and persistent native hosting is activated for the primary environment. Isolation depends on the existing environment connection boundary; the inspected flow does not select another environment through the optional thread filter.

Security Findings and Attack Paths

  • inferred — Removing the required thread filter broadens one request's metadata result, but does not establish a new authorization bypass. Before this PR, orchestration:read already authorized arbitrary thread-filtered preview lists and the unfiltered preview event stream. The inspected changes do not demonstrate additional cross-environment access.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

  • observed — preview.list and preview events retain orchestration:read scope requirements, while preview mutations require orchestration:operate. The authorization layer checks each RPC against the authenticated connection's scopes before allowing its effect.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

  • inferred — Cross-epoch correctness relies partly on query lifecycle guarantees: the host accepts any successful non-waiting list epoch, while queries observe connection/session changes and are refreshed after an epoch event. Existing tests cover interrupted-query recovery, but do not demonstrate whether a retired successful host baseline can be delivered after a newer epoch. This remains a coverage gap, not a verified stale-tab attack path.

Hardening Proposals

  • proposed — Make the retired-baseline rejection guarantee explicit for the host, either through demonstrated query cancellation semantics or connection-generation provenance on accepted results. This is a defensive proposal, not an observed vulnerability.
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Approvability ✅ Passed The pull request is a focused fix for desktop browser session synchronization. It adds a host hook and updates the existing preview list path. The contract change only makes `PreviewListInput.threadId…
Title check ✅ Passed The title clearly and concisely describes the main change: hosting local server browser tabs outside chat views.
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- Around line 10-36: Update the event handler in `desktopBrowserSessionsAtom` so
it does not call `applyPreviewServerEvent` for primary-environment events in
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The Actions runs on 1722a7a are waiting for fork-workflow approval. Each checked run page explicitly says it is awaiting approval from a maintainer, and each run has zero jobs:

The six completed status contexts currently shown for this commit are CodeRabbit and PR Size/PR Vouch jobs, including one skipped job. CI still awaits fork approval and has zero jobs.

The five original notifications on 92c1d42 were checked and had the same approval gate:

No test failure is established by these action_required results. The fork author has read-only access to upstream. A maintainer with write access must approve the fork workflows, as described in GitHub's approval instructions. Existing preview eligibility and secret checks still apply; this request does not ask to deploy a preview or change workflow policy.

The latest focused verification is 96 passing tests, scoped typechecks/builds, and the real Mac login-page result linked in the PR. Upstream CI has not run, so its result remains pending.

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🟠 Major · Refresh the per-thread list when the primary server epoch changes. · usePreviewSession.ts:43-53

apps/web/src/components/preview/usePreviewSession.ts:43-53
🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Refresh the per-thread list when the primary server epoch changes.

When the primary desktop host detects a new epoch, it refreshes only the environment-wide list atom. A mounted usePreviewSession uses a separate list atom keyed by { environmentId, threadId }. Its successful, non-waiting result can therefore arrive after resetPreviewServerEpoch and pass the current guard, because the guard checks only result.waiting.

reconcilePreviewServerSessions accepts that result across epochs and assigns its serverEpoch. An old-epoch result can therefore restore sessions from the previous server epoch.

Suggested fix
       if (result.waiting && currentEpoch !== null && result.value.serverEpoch !== currentEpoch)
         return;
+      if (!result.waiting && currentEpoch !== null && result.value.serverEpoch !== currentEpoch)
+        return;
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Update the epoch guard in usePreviewSession’s reconcileSessions so successful
non-waiting results are also rejected when their serverEpoch differs from the
current non-null epoch. Prevent stale per-thread session results from reaching
reconcilePreviewServerSessions and restoring sessions from a previous epoch.

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- Around line 43-53: Update the epoch guard in usePreviewSession’s
reconcileSessions so successful non-waiting results are also rejected when their
serverEpoch differs from the current non-null epoch. Prevent stale per-thread
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Addressed the outside-diff epoch finding in 1722a7ae. The primary desktop host now refreshes affected thread-specific list queries when either its event stream or environment-wide list adopts a new epoch. The mounted chat rejects both waiting and completed results from another primary-server epoch. Completed new-epoch lists remain valid for remote environments, where there is no primary desktop host to adopt the epoch.

Both added regression cases failed on 92c1d42: a completed retired list replaced the current sessions, and the separate mounted-chat query did not refresh after restart. They now pass, including remote epoch adoption, within 96 focused tests. Web typecheck, build, targeted lint, and formatting pass. Repeated the real Mac broker flow with a fresh isolated profile and the final client build: the preexisting tab attached natively without a mounted chat and reached the OpenAI Platform login form. The PR has the updated screenshot and sanitized evidence. The authenticated portal remains untested.

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