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fix(server): report the actual preview snapshot timeout - #24130

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Problem

preview_snapshot has a 10,000 ms capture deadline, but the broker rebuilds its timeout error with the outer request's 15,000 ms limit. A capture that expires after 10 seconds therefore tells the agent it waited 15 seconds. The generic “page too busy” message also hides which capture work is still pending.

This is the secondary diagnostic defect reported in #23936.

Change

Carry the capture deadline and bounded pending-stage names through the timeout error contract and broker. The error now reports the capture deadline and identifies pending metrics, frame reads, page state, screenshot, or accessibility work. Stage counts account for a retry overlapping an unanswered capture. A stage whose own Playwright timeout fired stays in the report after it stops running. A frame that does not answer reports its own 1,000 ms frame-read limit instead of the capture deadline.

Scope and approval

This qualifies for the small, focused obvious-bug exception in CONTRIBUTING.md: the error reports a different deadline from the one that actually expires. The contract, server, and regression tests all support correcting that diagnostic. Existing capture deadlines, rendering, and screenshot scheduling are preserved. This PR changes only what the error says; it does not stop snapshots of background tabs from timing out. The background-rendering fix is separate, and this PR does not close #23936.

Verification

  • Added three regressions and ran them against the original implementations. All three failed: the broker reported 15000 instead of 10000, and stalled metrics/screenshot captures omitted their deadline and stage details.
  • Two more regressions cover the review findings: an accessibility tree that hit its own timeout, and a frame that did not answer. Both failed on 839cd23: the first omitted accessibility tree, and the second reported 10000 with no stage instead of 1000 with frames.
  • vp run check:changed: formatting, lint, knip, GraphQL generation, affected package typechecks, and both adjacent test files pass. The two test files run 45 tests, including the existing headless Chromium snapshot cases.
  • A direct invocation of the production broker with a structured capture timeout returned:
Preview automation snapshot timed out after 10000ms. Waiting for: screenshot.

The native Electron background-tab failure has not been rechecked by this reporting-only PR.

Implemented with GPT-6.1 Sol (gpt-6.1-sol) in the Codex harness; review fixes by Claude Opus 5.5 (claude-opus-5-5) in the Claude Code harness, both run from T3 Code.

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Verdict: Approved at 839cd23

Macroscope's review found this PR approvable — This is a focused, backward-compatible fix to preview snapshot timeout reporting. Existing capture behavior and deadlines remain intact; the added production logic only tracks pending stages and propagates bounded diagnostic metadata, with targeted regression coverage.

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📝 Walkthrough

Snapshot capture errors now report the timeout duration and pending stages. The broker decodes valid remote timeout details and includes them in timeout errors. Tests cover stalled capture operations, frame timeouts, and remote timeout responses.

Changes: Snapshot timeout reporting

Layer / File(s) Summary
Timeout detail contract
packages/contracts/src/previewAutomation.ts
Defines snapshot-stage and timeout-detail schemas. PreviewAutomationTimeoutError can include pending stages in its message.
Snapshot stage tracking
apps/server/src/preview/ServerBrowserPage.ts, apps/server/src/preview/ServerBrowserPage.test.ts
Tracks pending metrics, frame reads, page-state evaluation, screenshot, and accessibility-tree operations. Timeout errors include the timeout duration and pending stages. Tests cover stalled operations and frame timeouts.
Broker timeout detail propagation
apps/server/src/mcp/PreviewAutomationBroker.ts, apps/server/src/mcp/PreviewAutomationBroker.test.ts
Decodes valid remote timeout details and adds pending stages and the smaller of the request and remote timeouts to broker errors. A test covers a remote screenshot timeout.

Priority: ⬇️ Low

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Change: Bug fix

Possibly related issues

  • pingdotgg/t3code#23936 — This PR improves the reported timeout duration and pending-stage diagnostics, but does not fix background-tab rendering.
  • pingdotgg/t3code#23514 — This PR reports pending screenshot work, but does not bound or release the recording capture.
  • pingdotgg/t3code#23261 — This PR corrects the reported deadline and adds pending-stage details.
  • pingdotgg/t3code#23015 — This PR adds snapshot timeout details, but does not fix unattended-tab automation.
  • pingdotgg/t3code#17483 — This PR adds timeout diagnostics, but does not fix background rendering or connection stalls.
  • pingdotgg/t3code#23004 — This PR corrects timeout diagnostics; the provider run-tracking problem remains separate.
  • pingdotgg/t3code#23139 — This PR reports the timeout duration and pending stages, but does not fix covered-window capture.
  • pingdotgg/t3code#24026 — This PR reports pending screenshot work, but does not prevent the renderer crash.
  • pingdotgg/t3code#16921 — This PR improves timeout reporting, but does not isolate shared browser host eviction.
  • pingdotgg/t3code#23022 — This PR identifies pending screenshot work, but does not release the capture lock or fix capture.

Suggested reviewers: juliusmarminge

Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to 60aa6

The timeout diagnostics are ready to merge after normal checks. This change does not address the separate background-tab snapshot limitation.

Pre-merge checks: Passed 3 · Failed 1

Failed Failed checks: 1 warning

Check name Status Explanation Resolution
Linked Issues check Warning Direct issue #23936 has two coding requirements. The diagnostic requirement is met: the contract, broker, server, and regression tests report the capture deadline and pending stages. The primary requi… Implement background-tab and delegated-child snapshot support with automated tests. If support is not possible, add an immediate clear error for the unsupported tab states, document the limitation, and add tests for that behavior. Keep the …
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Check name Status Explanation
Title check Passed The title clearly and concisely describes the main change: reporting the actual preview snapshot timeout in the server.
Description check Passed The description includes complete Problem, Change, Scope and approval, and Verification sections. It explains the defect, the implementation, the approval exception, focused regression coverage, check…
Out of Scope Changes check Passed The changed contract, broker classification, server stage tracking, and regression tests support the diagnostic requirement in issue #23936. Pending stage names and retry-overlap counts explain the ca…
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Explanation

The description includes complete Problem, Change, Scope and approval, and Verification sections. It explains the defect, the implementation, the approval exception, focused regression coverage, check results, observed output, and remaining verification limits.

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Explanation

The changed contract, broker classification, server stage tracking, and regression tests support the diagnostic requirement in issue #23936. Pending stage names and retry-overlap counts explain the capture work that remains when the deadline expires. The reported timeout uses the capture deadline instead of the outer request deadline. These changes do not alter rendering, capture deadlines, or screenshot scheduling, so no unrelated change is established.

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Explanation

Direct issue #23936 has two coding requirements. The diagnostic requirement is met: the contract, broker, server, and regression tests report the capture deadline and pending stages. The primary requirement is not met: the PR does not make snapshots work for background or delegated-child tabs. It also does not add an immediate failure path, documentation, or tests for that limitation. The PR description states that this behavior remains unchanged. The repository diff was unavailable, so this conclusion uses the supplied change summary and PR evidence.

Resolution

Implement background-tab and delegated-child snapshot support with automated tests. If support is not possible, add an immediate clear error for the unsupported tab states, document the limitation, and add tests for that behavior. Keep the timeout diagnostic correction as a separate valid change if required.

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Review comments at @apps/server/src/preview/ServerBrowserPage.ts:
- Line 607: Update the unread-frame branch in snapshot to report the frame-read
failure and its actual timeout or stage instead of calling snapshotTimedOut(),
which incorrectly attributes the failure to the overall capture deadline.
Preserve the existing condition that detects an unread frame.
- Around line 664-665: Update `track` and the `snapshotTimedOut` conversion so a
stage that times out is recorded before `finally` removes it from `pending`,
then include that timed-out stage in the reported stages. Keep `timeoutMs`
unchanged as the 10-second capture deadline.

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[Bug]: preview_snapshot always times out for tabs in delegated child threads and for open:false tabs (macOS 0.1.1)

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