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Problem

When the desktop app hosts a browser tab, a second device can see the stream and take control, but clicks, typing and scrolling do nothing. The desktop drives its own webview over CDP, and there Playwright's viewportSize() returns null. So the server never sends a viewport event, and the client cannot map input to page coordinates.

To reproduce: run the desktop app on macOS, open a browser tab, connect from a second device over LAN, take control and click. Nothing happens.

Change

  • Desktop tabs read innerWidth/innerHeight in an isolated CDP world, so page script cannot override it. The server sends that size when a viewer attaches, on Page.frameResized and in status(). The size already includes native zoom. Attaching does not wait for the read.
  • While a JS dialog blocks page script, the server uses the last measured size. It measures again when the dialog closes, whether a viewer or the host closes it. A dialog the host closes is now also cleared for viewers.
  • A read that fails during a navigation, finishes after a newer read, or measures 0x0 (hidden webview) keeps the newest size.

Why the queue change is part of this fix. Native resizes now send viewport events. On main, a viewport that meets a stalled viewer's full queue is dropped, so that viewer would keep a stale size. This PR lets viewport replace the backlog, as control already does. Clearing the backlog would also drop queued control state, popups, downloads, clipboard copies and picker closes, so the replacement keeps them. The replacing item always goes in first, so it can't be crowded out, and the kept items fill the rest. This applies to the existing control, fileChooser and gone replacements too. Once gone or reconnect is queued, the viewer accepts nothing more (frames are still acked), so a later viewport cannot clear it.

Scope and approval

This is a focused fix for an obvious bug in the remote browser from #15328. That feature already lets a second device take control of a desktop-hosted tab. This restores the input that gets lost, in one server file, with no new setting, workflow or wire contract.

Verification

  • ServerBrowser.test.ts: 41 tests pass, 5 runs in a row.
    • The desktop page test now checks that a page with a null Playwright viewport still sends its size. It failed before the fix.
    • 7 new tests cover native resize and zoom with input, dialogs, late/empty/failed reads, a late first size when a newer read fails, a stalled backlog that keeps state and notifications and acks dropped frames, a closing tab whose gone survives a backlog full of notifications, and a queued reconnect.
  • I broke each new guard in the source, one at a time (18 small changes). 17 made a test fail. The one that didn't is an ack for frames that arrive after gone/reconnect, on a session that is closing.
  • Targeted lint and the apps/server typecheck pass.
  • Resize cost: in headless Chromium 148, a size read takes about 0.4 ms (median), and Chromium reuses the named isolated world (1 context after 1,000+ reads). So there is no throttle.
  • Manual, on this revision: a dev desktop build on macOS hosts the tab in its own webview, and a separate browser connects as a web client. Before the fix, Take control works but clicks do nothing. With the fix, scrolling and clicking work.
  • Manual, on the first revision: desktop host on macOS with a separate laptop over LAN. Clicks, typing, scrolling, fixed and preset sizes, 200% zoom and reconnect worked.
  • Not tested: relay/T3 Connect tunnel and the native mobile app.

Before (pre-fix build: take control, clicks do nothing)

before-click-does-nothing.mp4

After (this PR: scroll and click work)

after-click-works.mp4

Model and harness: gpt-6.1-sol through Codex in T3 Code, and Claude Opus 5.5 through Claude Code in T3 Code.

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Verdict: Approved at f7de8df

Macroscope's review found this PR approvable — This is a localized server bug fix that restores viewport reporting for existing desktop browser streams, allowing the already-supported input path to work. It adds focused CDP measurement and lifecycle handling with regression coverage, without changing defaults, schemas, or deployment behavior.

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Desktop tabs measure and cache their CSS viewport through CDP. Status and viewer updates use those dimensions, including during dialogs and when reads fail. Full viewer queues replace stale output while preserving current state and queued notifications.

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Preview viewer updates

Layer / File(s) Summary
Measure and report desktop viewport
apps/server/src/preview/ServerBrowser.ts, apps/server/src/preview/ServerBrowser.test.ts
Desktop tabs measure and cache CSS viewport dimensions through CDP. Status reports measured or cached dimensions. Tests cover initial measurements, failed reads, stale results, and zero-sized readings.
Publish desktop viewport updates
apps/server/src/preview/ServerBrowser.ts, apps/server/src/preview/ServerBrowser.test.ts
Resize and dialog events trigger viewport broadcasts. Settings, rendering, viewer resizing, and initial attachment await viewport updates. Tests cover desktop resizing, dialogs, and mouse input.
Replace stalled viewer backlog
apps/server/src/preview/ServerBrowser.ts, apps/server/src/preview/ServerBrowser.test.ts
Full queues can replace stale output with state updates. Replacement preserves control and viewport state, chooser and other queued notifications, and acknowledges dropped frames. Streams ignore messages after gone or reconnect.

Priority: ➖ Normal

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

Change: Bug fix

Suggested reviewers: juliusmarminge





Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 120e6

The desktop input and viewport fix looks mergeable. One minor gap remains: the automation resize result on desktop tabs can report a size that differs from status. It does not affect viewer input.

Security Architecture Review

Security architecture risk: 🔵 Low · up to 120e6

The change restores input for already-authorized browser controllers without weakening the inspected ownership checks. Remaining limitations concern saturated-stream delivery and recovery; no privilege increase was demonstrated.

Retained concerns
No architecture-level concerns identified.

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Security Blast Radius

  • inferred — The restored input reaches an existing desktop browser tab and its browser privileges only through the inspected authenticated operate/controller path. Queue replacement affects both desktop and headless server viewers, but state and terminal tracking remain per viewer; no new cross-service or credential authority is introduced by these changes.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

  • observed — The stream route authenticates read access and derives interactive authority from operate scope. The browser service independently rejects non-operating viewers, checks controller identity, and uses generation-checked serialization before dispatching ordinary browser input. These controls are unchanged by the PR.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

  • inferred — A lost or reordered picker-close notification can leave stale viewer presentation, but it does not recreate an open picker on the server. Closing clears server state, uploads require operate scope and a currently matching chooser ID, and the client ignores closes for a different picker. This counterevidence limits the demonstrated impact of saturated notification loss.

Hardening Proposals

  • proposed — Define an explicit notification-overflow policy and guarantee terminal delivery or disconnection when reconnect cannot enter a full queue. This would strengthen failure containment without changing controller authority.



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- Line 639: Update the measurement validation near asRecord so invalid or
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Squashed this into one commit on top of latest main and slimmed it down a bit. The new tests are about a third smaller with the same coverage, plus a check that dropped frames still get acked. I pulled out the reconnect line because that bug was already on main and it'll get its own tiny PR. Attaching a viewer also no longer waits on page script. The description now has repro steps and explains why the queue bits belong here. Otherwise the fix is the same.

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🟡 Minor · Report the measured desktop viewport in the resize automation… · ServerBrowser.ts:1930-1935

apps/server/src/preview/ServerBrowser.ts:1930-1935
🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Report the measured desktop viewport in the resize automation result.

For a desktop tab, tab.page.viewportSize() returns null. This PR's test mock confirms that behavior. The resize result therefore reports UNATTACHED_FILL_VIEWPORT (1280×800) and not the real CSS size. An agent that reads this result gets wrong dimensions for later coordinate-based actions. status already uses layoutSize for desktop tabs, so resize and status now return different viewports.

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         await applySetting(tab, setting);
+        const viewport = tab.desktop ? await layoutSize(tab) : tab.page.viewportSize();
         return {
           tabId: tab.tabId,
           setting,
-          viewport: tab.page.viewportSize() ?? UNATTACHED_FILL_VIEWPORT,
+          viewport: viewport ?? UNATTACHED_FILL_VIEWPORT,
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Update the resize result after applySetting to report layoutSize(tab) for
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if (ended) {
if (next._tag === "frame") runFork(next.ack);
return;
}
if (next._tag === "gone" || next._tag === "reconnect") ended = true;
if (Queue.offerUnsafe(output, next)) return;
if (next._tag === "frame") runFork(next.ack);
// State a stalled viewer cannot miss replaces its backlog. It runs
// synchronously so an older replacement can never land after a newer one.
else if (next._tag === "gone" || next._tag === "control" || next._tag === "fileChooser") {
else if (["gone", "control", "viewport", "fileChooser"].includes(next._tag)) {
const dropped = Effect.runSyncExit(Queue.clear(output));
if (dropped._tag === "Failure") return;
Queue.offerUnsafe(output, next);
for (const tag of ["control", "viewport"] as const) {
if (next._tag === tag) continue;
const retained = dropped.value.findLast((item) => item._tag === tag);
if (retained) Queue.offerUnsafe(output, retained);
}
// The controller's open picker may have been in the dropped backlog.
const chooser = next._tag === "control" ? fileChooserMessage(tab) : null;
const chooser =
next._tag === "control" || next._tag === "viewport" ? fileChooserMessage(tab) : null;
if (chooser && tab.control.controller === viewer.id) Queue.offerUnsafe(output, chooser);
for (const item of dropped.value) if (item._tag === "frame") runFork(item.ack);
// One-time notifications cannot be rebuilt from state; keep them in order.
// A former controller may still cache an older picker, so closes stay too.
for (const item of dropped.value) {
if (["fileChooserClosed", "popup", "download", "clipboard"].includes(item._tag))
Queue.offerUnsafe(output, item);
else if (item._tag === "frame") runFork(item.ack);
}

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

🔎 Supported by static analysis

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rg -n -F --glob '*.ts' -- 'Queue.bounded' apps/server/src/preview
rg -n -F --glob '*.ts' -- 'ServerBrowserStream' apps/server/src/preview apps/server/src | head -80
printf '%s\n' '--- gone producers and push callers ---'
rg -n -F --glob '*.ts' -- 'goneMessage' apps/server/src/preview
rg -n -F --glob '*.ts' -- '_tag: "gone"' apps/server/src/preview
rg -n -F --glob '*.ts' -- '.push(' apps/server/src/preview/ServerBrowser.ts apps/server/src/preview/ServerBrowserStream.ts
printf '%s\n' '--- notification definitions and tests ---'
rg -n -F --glob '*.ts' -- 'fileChooserClosed' apps/server/src apps/server/test apps/server/tests 2>/dev/null || true
rg -n -F --glob '*.ts' -- 'popup' apps/server/src/preview apps/server/test apps/server/tests 2>/dev/null || true
rg -n -F --glob '*.ts' -- 'gone' apps/server/test apps/server/tests apps/server/src/preview 2>/dev/null | head -160
printf '%s\n' '--- relevant diff ---'
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printf '%s\n' '--- all terminal message production ---'
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printf '%s\n' '--- stream entrypoint and consumer ---'
sed -n '1,230p' apps/server/src/preview/ServerBrowserStream.ts
printf '%s\n' '--- notification producers ---'
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rg -n -F --glob '*.ts' -- 'download' apps/server/src/preview
rg -n -F --glob '*.ts' -- 'clipboard' apps/server/src/preview
rg -n -F --glob '*.ts' -- 'popup' apps/server/src/preview
printf '%s\n' '--- tests mentioning queue, terminal, or notifications ---'
rg -n -i -F --glob '*ServerBrowser*test*.ts' -- 'gone' apps/server
rg -n -i -F --glob '*ServerBrowser*test*.ts' -- 'fileChooserClosed' apps/server
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rg -n -F --glob 'package.json' -- '"effect"' .
rg -n -F --glob 'pnpm-lock.yaml' -- 'effect@' pnpm-lock.yaml
printf '%s\n' '--- queue-related tests and nearby assertions ---'
sed -n '1180,1265p' apps/server/src/preview/ServerBrowser.test.ts
sed -n '1590,1660p' apps/server/src/preview/ServerBrowser.test.ts
rg -n -i -F --glob '*.test.ts' -- 'stalled|backlog|replacement|dropped frame|queue' apps/server/src/preview
printf '%s\n' '--- local queue implementation or type declarations ---'
rg -n -F --glob '*.ts' -- 'interface Queue' . --glob '!apps/server/src/preview/**' || true
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Queue one-time notifications before gone.

The viewer queue has capacity 64. The replacement path can run with queued notifications when Queue.offerUnsafe rejects a full queue. That path enqueues gone before restoring download, clipboard, popup, and fileChooserClosed. ServerBrowserStream interrupts after consuming gone, so those notifications are discarded. Restore them before enqueueing gone.

Suggested fix
-            Queue.offerUnsafe(output, next);
+            if (next._tag !== "gone") Queue.offerUnsafe(output, next);
...
             for (const item of dropped.value) {
               if (["fileChooserClosed", "popup", "download", "clipboard"].includes(item._tag))
                 Queue.offerUnsafe(output, item);
               else if (item._tag === "frame") runFork(item.ack);
             }
+            if (next._tag === "gone") Queue.offerUnsafe(output, next);
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if (ended) {
if (next._tag === "frame") runFork(next.ack);
return;
}
if (next._tag === "gone" || next._tag === "reconnect") ended = true;
if (Queue.offerUnsafe(output, next)) return;
if (next._tag === "frame") runFork(next.ack);
// State a stalled viewer cannot miss replaces its backlog. It runs
// synchronously so an older replacement can never land after a newer one.
else if (next._tag === "gone" || next._tag === "control" || next._tag === "fileChooser") {
else if (["gone", "control", "viewport", "fileChooser"].includes(next._tag)) {
const dropped = Effect.runSyncExit(Queue.clear(output));
if (dropped._tag === "Failure") return;
Queue.offerUnsafe(output, next);
for (const tag of ["control", "viewport"] as const) {
if (next._tag === tag) continue;
const retained = dropped.value.findLast((item) => item._tag === tag);
if (retained) Queue.offerUnsafe(output, retained);
}
// The controller's open picker may have been in the dropped backlog.
const chooser = next._tag === "control" ? fileChooserMessage(tab) : null;
const chooser =
next._tag === "control" || next._tag === "viewport" ? fileChooserMessage(tab) : null;
if (chooser && tab.control.controller === viewer.id) Queue.offerUnsafe(output, chooser);
for (const item of dropped.value) if (item._tag === "frame") runFork(item.ack);
// One-time notifications cannot be rebuilt from state; keep them in order.
// A former controller may still cache an older picker, so closes stay too.
for (const item of dropped.value) {
if (["fileChooserClosed", "popup", "download", "clipboard"].includes(item._tag))
Queue.offerUnsafe(output, item);
else if (item._tag === "frame") runFork(item.ack);
}
if (ended) {
if (next._tag === "frame") runFork(next.ack);
return;
}
if (next._tag === "gone" || next._tag === "reconnect") ended = true;
if (Queue.offerUnsafe(output, next)) return;
if (next._tag === "frame") runFork(next.ack);
// State a stalled viewer cannot miss replaces its backlog. It runs
// synchronously so an older replacement can never land after a newer one.
else if (["gone", "control", "viewport", "fileChooser"].includes(next._tag)) {
const dropped = Effect.runSyncExit(Queue.clear(output));
if (dropped._tag === "Failure") return;
if (next._tag !== "gone") Queue.offerUnsafe(output, next);
for (const tag of ["control", "viewport"] as const) {
if (next._tag === tag) continue;
const retained = dropped.value.findLast((item) => item._tag === tag);
if (retained) Queue.offerUnsafe(output, retained);
}
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const chooser =
next._tag === "control" || next._tag === "viewport" ? fileChooserMessage(tab) : null;
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@coderabbitai thanks, checked both against the code:

  1. Notifications on gone: good catch. The replacement now re-queues one-time notifications ahead of the replacing item, so they land before gone and actually get read. Covered by a closing tab delivers a stalled viewer's notifications before it ends. (On main a gone replacement drops the whole backlog, so this wasn't a regression, but this PR says it keeps them, so now it does.)
  2. resize result for desktop tabs: accurate, but that line is unchanged from main, and it's the agent automation path rather than viewer input. I'll leave it for a separate fix so this PR stays one problem.

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for (const item of dropped.value) {
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🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy lift

Reserve capacity for replacement state and terminal events.

If a stalled queue contains 64 one-time notifications, this loop restores all 64. Queue.offerUnsafe(output, next) then drops an incoming gone or reconnect. Line 2269 has already set ended, so the stream never receives its terminal event. A nearly full notification backlog can also prevent retained control or viewport state from being queued. Preserve the notifications without consuming the slots needed for required state and termination.

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Update the dropped-item restoration loop to reserve output queue capacity for
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@coderabbitai agreed, and that one was on me: my reorder from the last round let a backlog full of notifications push out the replacing item. I've put the original order back. The replacing gone/control/viewport goes in first, right after the clear, so it always fits, and the kept items fill what's left. New test: a closing tab still ends a stalled viewer whose backlog is all notifications (it fails with the reorder).

The trade-off is your earlier point: on gone, notifications sit behind it and aren't read. That matches main, which drops the whole backlog on gone, and a guaranteed terminal event matters more for a tab that's closing. reconnect isn't a replacement trigger in this PR. A reconnect that meets a full queue is dropped on main too, and I'll fix that separately.

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🟡 Minor · Retry when the latest viewport read fails without a cached size. · ServerBrowser.ts:643

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Retry when the latest viewport read fails without a cached size.

If an initial read is pending when a second read starts, a failed second read returns null. The first read then fails the stale-read check and also returns null. The viewer remains attached, but its input coordinates can remain incorrect until another measurement runs. Schedule a bounded follow-up measurement when the latest read fails and no cached size exists. Add a regression test for this sequence.

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Update the viewport-read failure handling near the desktopViewportReads
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Desktop-hosted browser tabs run in the desktop's own webview over CDP,
where Playwright's viewportSize() is null. The server never sent a
viewport event, so remote viewers could not map clicks, typing or
scrolling to the page.

Desktop tabs now measure their CSS size in an isolated CDP world and
send it on attach, on native resize and in status. An open dialog uses
the last size, and a late, empty or failed read keeps the newest one.

Viewport updates now replace a stalled viewer's backlog, like control
updates, and keep its queued control state, one-time notifications and
terminal event.

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@coderabbitai good catch, confirmed it with a test before fixing. A late read now fills in the size whenever no newer read has stored one, so the overlap can't leave a viewer without a size. Went with that instead of a scheduled retry since it covers the case without a timer. Test: a late first desktop size still reaches viewers when a newer read fails (fails without the fix). @coderabbitai review

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@maria-rcks would you mind taking a look when you have a moment? This gets remote input working again for desktop-hosted tabs from #15328. Right now a second device can see the stream, but clicks go nowhere. Happy to change anything 🙂

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