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Problem

On a phone, the Browser page shows a page that runs on the environment, and typing reaches it through a hidden input. The phone's paste menu, copy and password AutoFill don't reach that page: there is no way to paste from the phone, copy a page selection to the phone, or sign in with a saved password without typing it out.

Change

While a page field has the keyboard and this device has control, a clipboard button sits above the keyboard. Its native menu has three actions:

  • Paste from clipboard reads the phone's clipboard (iOS asks first) and types it into the page as one text input. If the tab changes while the read waits on that prompt, nothing is pasted.
  • Copy selection sends Cmd+C to the page. The server already sends page copies back to the controlling viewer, and the phone now copies them with the app's usual haptic.
  • Fill password opens a small card that names the site (the page's origin when the card opened), with a username field and a password field marked for AutoFill (textContentType on iOS, autoComplete and importantForAutofill on Android), so the keyboard offers the phone's saved logins (the Passwords key on iOS). Fill sends the login and that origin as one new fillLogin input. The card clears its fields before closing, so iOS does not offer to save a password. A page without an http(s) origin gets no Fill password action.

On the server, fillLogin does nothing unless the page's own URL is still on that origin, and nothing goes into a field inside a cross-origin frame. Otherwise it types the username, presses Tab, then types the password only if a password input now has focus (looked up through shadow roots and same-origin frames). If a password field already has focus, it gets only the password. A password never goes into a field that would show it. A server without fillLogin ignores the message.

The webview document now reports when its input gains or loses focus, which is how the button knows a page field is being typed into. The two new menu icons get Android equivalents in AppSymbol, and docs/user/remote-access.md gets a paragraph.

Desktop and web are unchanged: their Browser surface already pastes on Cmd/Ctrl+V and copies on Cmd/Ctrl+C.

Scope and approval

There is no triaged issue or approved discussion for this yet. It brings the clipboard handling the desktop Browser surface already has (paste in, page copies back to the controlling viewer) to the phone, and adds one server input so a saved login can be filled without the page or the stream ever showing the password. Happy to move this to a discussion first if the direction needs one.

Verification

Automated:

  • ServerBrowser.test.ts in apps/server: 39 passed, including five new fillLogin cases (username, Tab, then password; Tab landing outside a password field types only the username; a focused password field gets only the password; a page that left the confirmed site gets nothing; a field in a cross-origin frame gets nothing).
  • serverBrowserStream.test.ts in packages/client-runtime: 7 passed.
  • Typecheck passes for client-runtime, server, mobile and web. Format is clean, and lint is clean apart from an unused FILL_PREVIEW_VIEWPORT import that BrowserPreviewRouteScreen.tsx already has on main.

Manual, on the iOS Simulator (iPhone 16, iOS 18.3), with a dev build and a dev server from this branch, on https://the-internet.herokuapp.com/login:

  • The button shows above the keyboard while a page field is focused and is absent on main (first pair below).
  • Paste: iOS asked to allow paste, then the clipboard text landed in the page's Username field.
  • Copy: after double-tapping a word in a page field, Copy selection put that word on the simulator's clipboard (read back from the simulator).
  • Fill password: the card's fields bring up the QuickType Passwords key. With a login entered in the card, Fill typed the username into Username and the password into Password, and Login reached the secure area. With the page's Password field focused, Fill typed only the password and left Username empty.

After the review fixes (now 637bbab) I repeated the fill on the simulator: the card named the-internet.herokuapp.com, Fill typed both fields, and Login reached the secure area. The fill card screenshot below is from that run; the others are from the first commit (now 6b45a65; both were rebased onto main since).

Not checked: choosing a login from the iOS Passwords sheet (the simulator has no saved logins and no Face ID in this runtime), Android, and a physical device.

Before (main) After
Browser page with the keyboard up and no clipboard button Browser page with the clipboard button above the keyboard
Menu Paste Fill password card
Clipboard menu with Fill password, Copy selection and Paste from clipboard Pasted text in the page's Username field Fill password card naming the site, with the iOS Passwords key above the keyboard
After Fill After Login Fill with Password focused
Username and password filled into the page The page's secure area after logging in Only the password filled, Username left empty

Follow-up: passkeys for these pages from the phone's passkey sheet are in #17762, stacked on this PR.

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const pasteFromClipboard = async () => {
const text = await Clipboard.getStringAsync().catch(() => "");
if (text) send({ type: "text", text });
};

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🟠 High browser/BrowserPreviewRouteScreen.tsx:129

If the user switches tabs or the originating tab closes while Clipboard.getStringAsync() is pending, pasteFromClipboard sends the returned text to the newly selected page, injecting clipboard contents into the wrong tab. Capture the originating stream before awaiting and send only if it is still current.

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const pasteFromClipboard = async () => {
const text = await Clipboard.getStringAsync().catch(() => "");
if (text) send({ type: "text", text });
};
const pasteFromClipboard = async () => {
const stream = streamRef.current;
const text = await Clipboard.getStringAsync().catch(() => "");
if (text && streamRef.current === stream) stream?.command({ type: "text", text });
};
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In file @apps/mobile/src/features/browser/BrowserPreviewRouteScreen.tsx around lines 129-132:

If the user switches tabs or the originating tab closes while `Clipboard.getStringAsync()` is pending, `pasteFromClipboard` sends the returned text to the newly selected page, injecting clipboard contents into the wrong tab. Capture the originating stream before awaiting and send only if it is still current.

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Fixed in 9133e97: the paste keeps the stream it started from and sends only if that stream is still current after the clipboard read.

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Verdict: Not approved

Macroscope's review found this PR not approvable — This PR adds a new cross-layer mobile browser feature for clipboard operations and password-manager autofill, including sensitive credential handling and server-side field validation. An unresolved race can inject clipboard contents into a different tab after switching, so the new behavior requires human review.

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Walkthrough

The mobile browser preview adds clipboard actions and a login-fill card. The preview stream reports page-input focus and carries login-fill requests. The server checks the page origin and focused field before inserting credentials.

Changes

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Layer / File(s) Summary
Page-input focus reporting
apps/mobile/src/features/browser/preview-stream-document.ts, apps/mobile/src/features/browser/preview-stream.browser.ts, apps/mobile/src/features/browser/PreviewStreamWebView.tsx
The browser document posts input focus and blur messages. The WebView forwards focus state to the preview screen and clears it on stream failure or unmount.
Clipboard and password-fill controls
apps/mobile/src/features/browser/browserTabs.ts, apps/mobile/src/features/browser/BrowserPasswordFill.tsx, apps/mobile/src/features/browser/BrowserClipboardMenu.tsx, apps/mobile/src/features/browser/BrowserPreviewRouteScreen.tsx, apps/mobile/src/components/AppSymbol.tsx, docs/user/remote-access.md
The preview screen presents paste, copy-selection, and password-fill actions while page typing is active and the keyboard is visible. The login card collects credentials for the tab origin. Android symbol fallbacks and remote-access instructions describe the controls.
Guarded login insertion
packages/client-runtime/src/preview/serverBrowserStream.ts, apps/server/src/preview/ServerBrowser.ts, apps/server/src/preview/ServerBrowser.test.ts
The stream accepts login-fill credentials with an origin. The server checks the page origin and focused field before inserting credentials. Tests cover focus transitions, origin mismatch, and cross-origin frames.

Priority: ⬇️ Low

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

Change: Feature

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant BrowserPreviewRouteScreen
  participant PreviewStream
  participant ServerBrowser
  participant Page
  BrowserPreviewRouteScreen->>PreviewStream: Send fillLogin with origin and credentials
  PreviewStream->>ServerBrowser: Forward viewer input
  ServerBrowser->>Page: Check origin and focused field
  ServerBrowser->>Page: Insert eligible credential text
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Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 637bb

The new paste, copy, and password-fill controls work in the happy path. Two issues should be resolved or explicitly accepted before merge. Saved credentials may be sent over an unencrypted local-network connection. A fill can also proceed when focus is not on a writable field, which can put the password into a field the user did not target.

Security Architecture Review

Security architecture risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 637bb

Saved passwords now leave the phone for a remote page. Viewer and origin checks reduce exposure, but navigation or focus changes between checking and typing could redirect a submitted login. Exposure requires an explicit fill action by a controlling user.

Retained concerns

  • High · security · inferred: The credential authorization check and insertion are separate asynchronous operations. The server checks the current origin, evaluates the focused field, and then inserts into whichever field has focus when CDP processes Input.insertText. Navigation or focus changes during that interval can invalidate the checked origin, frame, or password-field classification and potentially redirect credentials. Both password insertion branches have this gap. The exposure requires a controlling user's fill action and concurrent browser-state changes; exploitation has not been dynamically reproduced.
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Security Blast Radius

  • inferred — The new authority transfers a user-selected login from the phone into the attached remote browser. The immediate exposure is the submitted username and password and the corresponding account, not automatic access to the entire password vault. The inferred race could extend recipients beyond the confirmed page origin; broader environment or tenant compromise is not established.

Security Findings and Attack Paths

  • inferred — A controlling user submits a login for the displayed origin. If navigation or focus changes after the server's checks but before insertion, credentials can reach an unchecked destination or field. Stable-state rejection tests are counterevidence against a simple mismatched-origin or noncontroller attack, but do not resolve this timing-dependent path. The supplied Security candidate remains deferred, not verified.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

  • observed — Native UI visibility is backed by independent transport and server ownership checks. SessionControl rejects stale queued actions before execution. Clipboard output remains limited to the current controller after recent input; comparison with the base confirms that recipient policy predates this PR.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

  • observed — Control release invalidates queued work but drains an already-running action rather than cancelling it; this behavior is unchanged from the base. On mobile, tab selection clears the fill origin, while the password component's scheduled callback retains its login. Current connection and controller checks constrain stale sends, but the callback has no explicit cancellation handle.

Hardening Proposals

  • proposed — Bind credential authorization and insertion to the same document and eligible element, with navigation and ownership invalidation preventing subsequent sensitive steps. Validate the guarantee with controlled navigation, focus, frame, and disconnect transitions between evaluation and insertion; another pre-insertion snapshot alone does not establish atomicity.
  • proposed — Cancel pending native fill callbacks on tab, stream, or control changes and bind submission to the stream identity captured when filling began. Define fill completion and partial-failure behavior so repetition does not silently reuse stale credentials or duplicate insertion.

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The Browser page draws a page that runs on the environment, so this
device's paste menu and AutoFill never reach its fields: a login needs
the password typed by hand.

- While a page field has the keyboard, a clipboard button sits above it.
  Its menu pastes this device's clipboard into the field, copies the
  page selection back (Cmd+C, which the server already runs as the copy
  command), or fills a saved password.
- Fill password opens a card whose username and password fields take
  iOS Password AutoFill (or Android's autofill service). Fill sends one
  fillLogin message: the server types the password straight into a
  focused password field; otherwise it types the username, presses Tab,
  and types the password only if Tab reached a password field, so a
  password never lands in a field that would show it. A server without
  fillLogin ignores the message.
- The viewer script reports when its input gains or loses focus, so the
  button only shows while typing into the page. A page copy that reaches
  this device now gives haptic feedback, like the app's other copies.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- The fill card shows the page's site, and fillLogin carries that origin.
  The server fills only while the page's own URL is on that origin, and
  never into a field inside a cross-origin frame.
- A paste whose clipboard read finishes after the tab changed is dropped
  instead of reaching the new tab.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Reject focus outside a writable field.

If document.activeElement is the body, a button, or a read-only input, this script still returns "field". fillLogin then sends the username and presses Tab. If Tab reaches a password field, it fills the password although no writable field was initially focused. Return no target unless the active element is an enabled, writable text input, textarea, or editable element. Keep the separate password and inaccessible-frame results. This also covers cases where page script changes focus while the mobile textarea remains focused.

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