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Preview navigation could finish successfully near its own deadline after the broker had already timed out during delivery or host setup. The host now signals when navigation starts, giving navigation its full timeout and a short window to return the result.

The request advertises support for interim responses. Updated hosts send only the final result to older brokers, and updated brokers still accept older hosts that do not report navigation start.

Closes #8732

Validation: focused broker, handler, request-consumer, and navigation-readiness tests pass; server, web, and contracts typechecks and targeted lint pass. Added interoperability coverage for brokers with the capability present, false, and absent.

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Changes preview automation timeout and response semantics on the MCP broker path; behavior is regression-tested but any host or client that assumed a single deadline may see different timing for preview_navigate.

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Fixes preview navigation timing so successful loads are not dropped when setup and navigation run close to the broker’s old single deadline.

Contracts and web host: PreviewAutomationResponse can include an optional phase: "started". The preview request consumer exposes notifyStarted(), and the browser host calls it right before bridge.navigate so the server knows navigation has actually begun.

Broker: invoke now races started vs final completion within an initial window (navigate: 2 × timeoutMs + 1s; other ops: timeoutMs). After a successful started, it waits for the final result with a fresh timeoutMs + 1s grace. Failed or malformed started responses still fail the request; hosts that never send started can still complete within the longer initial navigate window.

MCP handlers: normalizePreviewNavigateInput defaults navigation timeoutMs to 15s so the host always receives an explicit budget.

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Add started phase to PreviewAutomationBroker to preserve navigation results

  • Navigation requests now have a two-phase response: the host sends an interim phase: 'started' response before the final result, so the broker does not time out during host setup or browser navigation.
  • initialResponseTimeoutMs computes an extended initial timeout for navigate (timeoutMs * 2 + 1000ms); after started, the response window resets to timeoutMs + 1000ms.
  • normalizePreviewNavigateInput defaults timeoutMs to 15,000 when unspecified, ensuring consistent budgeting.
  • The host calls controls.notifyStarted() before performing navigation; the consumer emits a single phase: 'started' ok response per request.
  • Behavioral Change: a started response with ok: false now fails the invocation with PreviewAutomationMalformedResponseError instead of being ignored. Hosts that never send started still get the original grace period.

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  • New Features

    • Preview navigation now reports when an operation has started before returning its final result.
    • Navigation requests without a specified timeout receive a 15-second default.
    • Navigation operations have improved timeout handling for slower previews.
  • Bug Fixes

    • Failed navigation-start responses now surface as errors instead of being silently ignored.
    • Improved handling for preview hosts that do not emit navigation-start notifications.
    • Preview hosts without support for interim status updates continue to receive final results correctly.

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Preview navigation now emits a started acknowledgment before final completion. The broker uses staged timeouts, navigation receives a 15,000 ms default timeout, and tests cover timing, malformed responses, and response ordering.

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Preview navigation timing

Layer / File(s) Summary
Started response protocol and web signaling
packages/contracts/src/previewAutomation.ts, apps/web/src/components/preview/previewAutomationRequestConsumer.ts, apps/web/src/components/preview/PreviewAutomationHosts.tsx, apps/web/src/components/preview/previewAutomationRequestConsumer.test.ts
Responses can include a "started" phase. The consumer emits it once when requested. Navigation requests trigger it before runtime navigation. Tests verify response ordering and capability negotiation.
Broker staged response handling
apps/server/src/mcp/PreviewAutomationBroker.ts, apps/server/src/mcp/PreviewAutomationBroker.test.ts
The broker tracks started and completed responses separately. Navigation uses staged timeouts and a completion grace period. Tests cover delayed starts, missing start notifications, timeout behavior, and malformed start responses.
Navigation timeout normalization
apps/server/src/mcp/toolkits/preview/handlers.ts, apps/server/src/mcp/toolkits/preview/handlers.test.ts
Navigation defaults to a 15,000 ms timeout when none is provided. Explicit timeout values remain unchanged. Tests cover both cases.

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

Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: Medium

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sequenceDiagram
  participant Client
  participant PreviewAutomationBroker
  participant PreviewAutomationRequestConsumer
  participant PreviewAutomationHosts
  participant RuntimeTab
  Client->>PreviewAutomationBroker: preview_navigate(url, timeout)
  PreviewAutomationBroker->>PreviewAutomationRequestConsumer: invoke request with started support
  PreviewAutomationRequestConsumer->>PreviewAutomationHosts: handle(request, controls)
  PreviewAutomationHosts->>PreviewAutomationRequestConsumer: notifyStarted()
  PreviewAutomationRequestConsumer-->>PreviewAutomationBroker: started response
  PreviewAutomationHosts->>RuntimeTab: navigate(url)
  PreviewAutomationRequestConsumer-->>PreviewAutomationBroker: final response
  PreviewAutomationBroker-->>Client: completed result
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No actionable merge-blocking risk remains. Navigation start acknowledgments are gated for legacy brokers, and only navigation emits them in production.

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Docstring Coverage ⚠️ Warning Docstring coverage is 50.00% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 4 functions across 8 files. Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.
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Linked Issues check ✅ Passed The changes satisfy the coding requirements for #8732. preview_navigate defaults to a 15-second timeout. The broker advertises supportsStartedResponse, waits for the navigation-start response, the…
Out of Scope Changes check ✅ Passed The broker, preview navigation handler, browser host, request consumer, response contract, and automated tests directly implement or verify the #8732 timeout and compatibility fix. No unrelated produc…
Title check ✅ Passed The title clearly summarizes the main change: preserving successful preview navigation results despite timeout-related delivery delays.
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Macroscope's review found this PR not approvable — This PR changes preview navigation timing and response semantics across the MCP broker, web host, request consumer, and shared contract, including a new interim response phase and reset deadlines. The changes are tested and backward-compatible at the schema level, but the cross-component runtime impact and explicit default handling warrant human review.

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@yashranaway yashranaway changed the title fix(server): preserve preview navigation results fix(preview): preserve completed navigation results Aug 30, 2026

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Verified #8752 fix(preview): preserve completed navigation results on pr-8752 (55bcee5) — 46/46 PASS.

Broker now uses two-phase phase:started. Initial window 31s (2*timeout+1s) then fresh timeout+1s after host notifyStarted() before bridge.navigate. Failed started now surfaces PreviewAutomationMalformedResponseError instead of swallow.

Tests (Windows 11, pnpm vitest, CDVolvik):

  • PreviewAutomationBroker.test.ts — 29 passed (4 new navigate-deadline tests)
  • handlers.test.ts — 4 passed (default 15s budget)
  • previewAutomationRequestConsumer.test.ts — 12 passed (started→final ordering)
  • previewNavigationReadiness.test.ts — 1 passed
    Combined 46 passed

No type regressions on touched paths; change is 8 files and remains compatible with older hosts that never send started.

Verified locally as CDVolvik, Windows 11.

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Note: GPT-6 on behalf of shivam (@shivamhwp).

The new client is not compatible with an older server. notifyStarted() unconditionally sends { phase: "started", ok: true }, but the existing broker treats every successful response as completion. It removes the pending request and resolves navigation with undefined; the later final status is discarded. This affects a newer web or desktop client connected to an environment whose server has not been upgraded.

Advertise support for start acknowledgements in the request or connection handshake, and send them only when the broker explicitly supports them. Without that signal, send only the final response. That preserves both new-client/old-server and old-client/new-server behavior while retaining the new completion deadline for upgraded pairs.

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In `@apps/server/src/mcp/PreviewAutomationBroker.ts`:
- Around line 447-448: Add explicit negotiation for interim started responses
between createPreviewAutomationRequestConsumerAtom and PreviewAutomationBroker,
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Preserve legacy behavior by withholding phase: "started" so successful responses
continue resolving only on the final preview_navigate result, and add
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Fixed in the current head. The broker advertises supportsStartedResponse, and the client sends a start acknowledgement only when that flag is true. Tests cover the absent and false flags as well as upgraded pairs.

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[Bug]: preview_navigate reports a timeout even when the navigation actually completed

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