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Problem

The server kept the browser profiles that web and desktop clients report only in memory. After a restart, until one of those clients reconnects, agents see only Default and Incognito: preview_open with profileId: "Work" fails with No browser profile is named "Work", and an open with no profile gets throwaway storage, though Work's storage is still on disk. Mobile clients don't report profiles, so phone-only use and scheduled tasks hit this after every restart.

Change

ServerBrowser saves the catalog it resolves from a report (user profiles and the default id) to userdata/server-browser/reported-profiles.json and loads it at startup. A missing or invalid file falls back to the built-in profiles, as before. How reports combine is unchanged.

Scope

Bug fix: reported profiles stop resolving after a restart while their storage is still on disk. Fixes https://git.cafe/pingdotgg/t3code/issues/19805.

Verification

To see it on Linux (server only): 1. start t3 serve and have a client report a profile named Work; 2. restart the server with no client connected; 3. have an agent call preview_open with profileId: "Work".

Real server restart on Linux, from source, on main f419698aea first, then on this branch merged with that main (39bd02f5c6); a scripted ACP agent opens Work before and after a SIGTERM restart with no client reporting profiles:

• main: nothing is saved; after the restart Work is unknown and an open with no profile gets isolated storage.
• This branch: Work is saved; after the restart it opens in profile-work with the value set before the restart, an open with no profile uses Work, and Incognito stays empty.

The new test in ServerBrowser.test.ts fails on main f419698aea's ServerBrowser.ts and all 74 tests in the PR's test file pass on this branch (39bd02f5c6).

Not checked:

• macOS, Windows, a packaged installer, a production desktop build and a real provider. The run above is from source.

Change detail, issue history and run transcripts

• Encoding and decoding use a schema of BrowserProfile entries and the default id. A missing or invalid file falls back to the built-in profiles, as before.
• Writes use writeFileStringAtomically, as serverSettings.ts does, and skip an unchanged resolved catalog.
• A one-permit Semaphore keeps memory and disk in report order. A failed write logs a warning.

How reports combine is unchanged: main serves the union of the connected clients' reports. The server saves that catalog after each report. A disconnect changes only the live catalog, so the order clients close in at shutdown can't drop a profile from the saved file. The saved file has no profile cap, since a union can hold more than one report's 24.

https://git.cafe/pingdotgg/t3code/issues/19805 reports the bug. On 2026-10-22 juliusmarminge added needs more info, then removed it after JustYannicc replied that the web-client steps were invalid and corrected the issue. The corrected issue asks for a desktop setup that reports a named profile, then raw preview_status and preview_open before and after a restart, with the second calls made before any client reconnects. The runs below make those calls through a real server from source; a production desktop build was not run on this commit.

Run setup: Real server restart on Linux, from source: t3 serve over an isolated base dir with synthetic data, on main f419698aeaf78fb0c3299b4599f118d2d66ef694 and on this branch merged with that main (39bd02f5c61063e775fc1d20c8fd44bcae001aeb). A WS client reports Work, and a scripted ACP agent behind the Grok driver opens Work and sets local storage. The process is stopped with SIGTERM and started again over the same base dir, and no client reports profiles.

Tests: "an agent opens a reported profile after a restart, before any client reports again". Two clients report 26 profiles between them, one save is held mid-write while another report waits, and the client that reported Work disconnects. A second ServerBrowser then starts over the same state directory with no report, and an agent opens profileId: "Work". With main f419698aea's ServerBrowser.ts it fails with save finished before the cleanup gate, since main never saves the catalog (4 failed, 70 passed); on this branch all 74 pass, Node 26.12.1.

Run transcripts, each from the saved-catalog check to the end, unedited. Main f419698aea:

[main] saved catalog on disk: (none)
[main] server process 1171841 stopped by SIGTERM (exit 130)
[main] server process started, pid 1174019
[main] connected without reporting profiles
[main] agent turn "After restart" (completed):
  > call preview_status {}
  > call preview_open {"url":"http://127.0.0.1:52621/","open":false,"reuseExistingTab":false,"profileId":"Work"}
  > call preview_evaluate {"tabId":"$tab","expression":"localStorage.getItem('pr23484')"}
  > call t3_preview_close {"tabId":"$tab"}
  > call preview_open {"url":"http://127.0.0.1:52621/","open":false,"reuseExistingTab":false}
  > call preview_evaluate {"tabId":"$tab","expression":"localStorage.getItem('pr23484')"}
  > call t3_preview_close {"tabId":"$tab"}
  > call preview_open {"url":"http://127.0.0.1:52621/","open":false,"reuseExistingTab":false,"profileId":"incognito"}
  > call preview_evaluate {"tabId":"$tab","expression":"localStorage.getItem('pr23484')"}
  > call t3_preview_close {"tabId":"$tab"}
  < preview_status ok: {"profiles":["Default","Incognito"]}
  < preview_open error: Preview automation open failed: No browser profile is named "Work". Use one of: Default (id default), Incognito (id incognito).
  < preview_evaluate error: MCP error -32602: Invalid parameters for tool 'preview_evaluate': Expected a non-blank string
  <   at ["tabId"]
  < t3_preview_close error: MCP error -32602: Invalid parameters for tool 't3_preview_close': Expected a non-blank string
  <   at ["tabId"]
  < preview_open ok: {"profiles":["Default","Incognito"],"tabProfileId":"(none: isolated storage)"}
  < preview_evaluate ok: {"value":null}
  < t3_preview_close ok: {}
  < preview_open ok: {"profiles":["Default","Incognito"],"tabProfileId":"incognito"}
  < preview_evaluate ok: {"value":null}
  < t3_preview_close ok: {}
[main] server process 1174019 stopped by SIGTERM (exit 130)

This branch merged with main, 39bd02f5c6 (the harness labels it 23484):

[23484] saved catalog on disk: {"profiles":[{"id":"profile-work","name":"Work","kind":"persistent"}],"defaultProfileId":"profile-work"}
[23484] server process 1175656 stopped by SIGTERM (exit 130)
[23484] server process started, pid 1178110
[23484] connected without reporting profiles
[23484] agent turn "After restart" (completed):
  > call preview_status {}
  > call preview_open {"url":"http://127.0.0.1:38881/","open":false,"reuseExistingTab":false,"profileId":"Work"}
  > call preview_evaluate {"tabId":"$tab","expression":"localStorage.getItem('pr23484')"}
  > call t3_preview_close {"tabId":"$tab"}
  > call preview_open {"url":"http://127.0.0.1:38881/","open":false,"reuseExistingTab":false}
  > call preview_evaluate {"tabId":"$tab","expression":"localStorage.getItem('pr23484')"}
  > call t3_preview_close {"tabId":"$tab"}
  > call preview_open {"url":"http://127.0.0.1:38881/","open":false,"reuseExistingTab":false,"profileId":"incognito"}
  > call preview_evaluate {"tabId":"$tab","expression":"localStorage.getItem('pr23484')"}
  > call t3_preview_close {"tabId":"$tab"}
  < preview_status ok: {"profiles":["Default","Incognito","Work"],"defaultProfileId":"profile-work"}
  < preview_open ok: {"profiles":["Default","Incognito","Work"],"defaultProfileId":"profile-work","tabProfileId":"profile-work"}
  < preview_evaluate ok: {"value":"saved-before-restart"}
  < t3_preview_close ok: {}
  < preview_open ok: {"profiles":["Default","Incognito","Work"],"defaultProfileId":"profile-work","tabProfileId":"profile-work"}
  < preview_evaluate ok: {"value":"saved-before-restart"}
  < t3_preview_close ok: {}
  < preview_open ok: {"profiles":["Default","Incognito","Work"],"defaultProfileId":"profile-work","tabProfileId":"incognito"}
  < preview_evaluate ok: {"value":null}
  < t3_preview_close ok: {}
[23484] server process 1178110 stopped by SIGTERM (exit 130)

Prior PRs

None for this issue. JustYannicc reported https://git.cafe/pingdotgg/t3code/issues/19805 with the cause and a service test, and on 2026-10-18 posted a branch with the same design. This PR follows it with a smaller diff and adds restart verification through a real server from source. https://git.cafe/pingdotgg/t3code/pulls/21745 (Marve10s, merged) combines reports across clients. This branch merged main on top of it.

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Fixes #19805

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Verdict: Approved at b8ff494

Macroscope's review found this PR approvable — This is a localized server bug fix that persists and restores the existing reported browser-profile catalog across restarts, with invalid or missing state retaining the prior fallback. It adds a targeted regression test and does not change APIs, product defaults, deployment behavior, or static-analysis configuration.

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Walkthrough

ServerBrowser now loads reported browser profiles from disk at startup and persists changed reports atomically. Tests cover profile availability after a server restart, startup handling of saved catalogs, and interrupted saves.

Changes: Browser profile catalog

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Load and resolve the saved catalog apps/server/src/preview/ServerBrowser.ts, apps/server/src/preview/ServerBrowser.test.ts	ServerBrowser loads and decodes saved profiles at startup. It resolves the saved default against the profile catalog. Tests cover restart behavior and warnings for invalid or unreadable catalogs.
Serialize and persist profile reports apps/server/src/preview/ServerBrowser.ts, apps/server/src/preview/ServerBrowser.test.ts	ServerBrowser merges reports by profile ID, excludes built-in profiles from saved data, skips unchanged content, and atomically writes changed reports. Tests cover interrupted saves and a report queued while an earlier save is in progress.

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

Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: Medium

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant Client
  participant ServerBrowser
  participant ProfileFile as reported-profiles.json
  Client->>ServerBrowser: Report browser profiles
  ServerBrowser->>ProfileFile: Atomically save changed catalog
  ProfileFile-->>ServerBrowser: Persist catalog
  ServerBrowser->>ProfileFile: Read catalog at startup
  ProfileFile-->>ServerBrowser: Return saved profile data

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Possibly related PRs

• pingdotgg/t3code#21745: Changes ServerBrowser to merge profile reports from multiple clients, which supplies the catalog this PR persists.
• pingdotgg/t3code#25462: Sends profile catalogs and defaults to server-browser environments, sharing the profile-report data flow.

Suggested reviewers: juliusmarminge

Merge Risk: Minimal · previous review 97c9b

The change restores saved browser profiles after a server restart, with atomic and serialized writes and a fallback to built-in profiles. No remaining correctness, data-integrity, or availability risk was identified, so it is ready to merge.

Pre-merge checks: 4

Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check		The title is concise, uses the conventional commit format, and accurately identifies the main change: preserving named browser profiles across server restarts.
Linked Issues check		[#19805] requires reported named profiles to remain available after restart before a client reconnects. ServerBrowser loads and schema-validates server-browser/reported-profiles.json, restores the…
Out of Scope Changes check		The whole-PR changes are limited to ServerBrowser.ts and ServerBrowser.test.ts. The source changes implement persistence, validation, startup restoration, serialized atomic writes, and failure han…
Description check		The description follows the repository template closely. It has the Problem, Change, Scope, and Verification sections, and it includes a conventional-style issue link (Fixes #19805). T…

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[#19805] requires reported named profiles to remain available after restart before a client reconnects. ServerBrowser loads and schema-validates server-browser/reported-profiles.json, restores the resolved catalog and default ID, and atomically saves changed catalogs. The regression tests cover multi-client reports, serialized saves, disconnects, interrupted saves, and reopening Work after restart with the restored profile ID and default. The reported source-level restart check also verifies existing profile storage.

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The whole-PR changes are limited to ServerBrowser.ts and ServerBrowser.test.ts. The source changes implement persistence, validation, startup restoration, serialized atomic writes, and failure handling for [#19805]. The tests support these behaviors. No unrelated client UI, contract, setting, built-in profile, or report-semantics changes are shown.

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The description follows the repository template closely. It has the Problem, Change, Scope, and Verification sections, and it includes a conventional-style issue link (Fixes #19805). The Problem section states the expected behavior and reproduction steps. The Change section explains the save-and-load design and the fallback to built-in profiles. The Scope section frames the work as a bug fix and links the issue. The Verification section gives reproduction steps, real-server restart transcripts for main and for this branch, the focused test result (4 failed on main, 74 pass on the branch), and an explicit list of what was not checked (macOS, Windows, packaged installer, production desktop build, real provider). The template asks for the model and harness that did the work, and the description ends with a generation note that names the models and harness, so that requirement is met. The description is long and includes detail that the template would place in a collapsed section. It is still mostly complete and specific, so this check passes.

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apps/server/src/preview/ServerBrowser.ts: 1

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Add a named Effect.fn span to reportProfiles.

reportProfiles performs reusable profile-catalog persistence through writeFileStringAtomically. It is called as a service operation, not as an internal per-event helper. Add the named span. The existing ServerBrowser["Service"]["reportProfiles"] type remains compatible with the wrapped function.

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-  const reportProfiles: ServerBrowser["Service"]["reportProfiles"] = (input) =>
-    saveProfilesLock.withPermits(1)(
+  const reportProfiles: ServerBrowser["Service"]["reportProfiles"] = Effect.fn(
+    "ServerBrowser.reportProfiles",
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+    saveProfilesLock.withPermits(1)(
       Effect.suspend(() => {
         ...
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Wrap the reportProfiles service operation in a named Effect.fn span using
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Assert the restarted Work open passes the saved profile's storage key to the context layer.

The restart test checks the tab's profileId, defaultProfileId, and the profiles list. It does not check which storage key the context layer receives. A regression that resolves profile-work but calls contextFor with another key, or with a new profile, would still pass these assertions.

Add a recording to the ServerBrowserContexts mock. Then assert that the restarted open for Work calls contextFor for profile-work. The tab's profileId alone does not show which storage the agent used.

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Written by gpt-6.1-sol on behalf of Maria

thanks @only21mil. the schema-validated startup load, serialized atomic saves, unchanged-report skip, and fallback warnings are preserved. i updated this branch directly, keeping all contributor commits and merging main at 3433ba15fdfe.

• simplified the save operation into one named generator under the existing semaphore.
• added the requested assertion that reopening Work after restart uses the existing profile-work context storage key.
• fixed an interruption race found during review: a disconnect after rename could leave the saved-content cache stale and make a later report skip a necessary write. the write and cache update now finish together under the lock. a deterministic regression in the existing test file reproduces the failure before this fix.

verification at 3864bd79dba442329ca8a645459b139962dd704c:

• current main fails the restart regression with No browser profile is named "Work".
• blacksmith: vp run check:changed passes format, lint, both knip checks, graphql, affected typechecks, and all 32 ServerBrowser tests. all 11 ServerBrowserStream tests also pass.
• real system google chrome, real ServerBrowser and automation broker, isolated temporary state: report Work, open it, set local storage, dispose the service, start a fresh service over the same directory without reporting again, then reopen Work. its catalog, default, and storage survive; incognito stays isolated.

before restart: Work / default profile-work / storage saved-before-restart
after restart without report: Work / default profile-work / storage saved-before-restart
open without profile: profile-work
incognito storage: null

unverified this run: a real provider model, full server-process restart through the client/MCP transport, packaged desktop, macos, windows, mobile, and remote/relay/tunnel. no client ui changed, so no new visual captures were taken. the original pr's historical desktop evidence remains in its body.

all 28 ci checks are green on this head, with no conflicts. two independent final reviews found no remaining findings. the existing bot warning about saved-profile read/decode failures was already fixed by the contributor and is now resolved; its storage-key suggestion is covered by the new assertion above. no remaining review findings are deferred.

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Verified in a real dev environment

partial coverage only. the named-profile restart fix is unverified, so this run is not a verification sign-off.

• inspected the description, discussion, diff and commit authors. the pr is open; neither blocked author appears among its listed commit authors.
• fetched github/main at eb751fa073, created ../main, and ran vp i. its real dev server started on backend 16733 / web 8693.
• checked out exact pr head 3864bd79dba442329ca8a645459b139962dd704c, ran vp i, then started the real dev environment on backend 13773 / web 5733. only one dev environment ran at a time.
• drove /usr/bin/google-chrome using the repository playwright dependency. created a project pointing at real git repository /home/user/profile-verification, then started a thread through the web composer using codex gpt-6.1-sol and the local proxy. no mocks, replay turns, fixtures or demo data.
• the real provider turn completed. persisted server turn items confirm preview_status, an expected unknown-profile error for unconfigured Work, successful incognito background preview_open, preview_status with profileId: "incognito", and successful t3_preview_close.
• the unknown-profile error is a neighboring check, not a restart reproduction: Work was never configured in this run.
• observed ci: 20 successful and 9 skipped checks, 0 failing, 0 pending. no source changes, commits or pushes.

short runtime and provider-tool transcript

Not verified

• the original bug on main and the fix after a full server-process restart before any client reconnects. profile creation is disabled in the web client and requires desktop. main desktop startup first failed because libsecret-1-dev was missing. after installing it, the retry stalled at the web build transforming... stage and expired without a usable desktop client. i failed to cap that attempt at the requested ten minutes; it consumed most of the budget. a later isolated desktop bundle step completed, but the end-to-end desktop scenario was not completed.
• named-profile catalog, reported default, cookies/local storage after restart, client re-report updates, profile removal, and incognito storage isolation. opening and closing an incognito tab alone does not establish storage isolation.
• packaged desktop, native ios/android, macos/windows, remote/relay/tunnel, and scheduled-task paths.
• no before/after restart captures or interaction recording: the target scenario was not reached. the screenshot above shows only neighboring provider/browser checks.

result: unverifiable for the changed behavior, with partial neighboring coverage. the linux startup blocker is not evidence that the pr itself is broken.

media inspection: the uploaded image loads at 937 × 773 and was inspected. reopening this comment shows that git.cafe renders its external image as a link; inline rendering there is unavailable in this session.

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@maria-rcks this branch conflicts with main since #21745 moved profile reports to one reporter per connected client. A merge of main is ready on our fork. It fast-forwards your head 3864bd79dba4. Nothing is pushed to this branch.

• Commit: 650dde8c21d3c00368d5d011161e026950a64051 (one merge commit of main fa2f4ff2a2ba)
• Fork branch: only21mil/t3code r13/a116-server-browser-profiles-survive-a-restar-offer

git fetch https://github.com/only21mil/t3code r13/a116-server-browser-profiles-survive-a-restar-offer && git merge --ff-only FETCH_HEAD

What the merge does:

• The saved catalog follows main's union of connected clients. Each client report records it and writes it, skipped when unchanged.
• A disconnect changes only the live catalog. A save waiting for the lock still writes the catalog from the last report. At shutdown every connection closes in some order. Without this, the saved catalog could shrink to whichever client closed last, for example a web tab that reports no profiles. The desktop's Work would then be gone after the restart.
• The saved file has no profile cap. One report is still capped at 24, but the union of several clients can exceed that.
• rebuildReportedProfiles reuses resolveReportedProfiles instead of repeating it.
• Nothing is dropped. Main still keeps the catalog in memory only.

On your 10-28 note that the restart fix was unverified, here is a run with a real server process restart. Two t3 serve processes ran over one isolated base dir with synthetic data. A scripted ACP agent behind the Grok driver made the MCP calls. Before the restart a WS client reported Work and the agent stored local storage in it. The process was stopped with SIGTERM and started again, and no client reported profiles afterwards.

main fa2f4ff2, after restart:
  preview_status       profiles Default, Incognito (no defaultProfileId)
  preview_open Work    No browser profile is named "Work". Use one of: Default (id default), Incognito (id incognito).
  preview_open         tab profile: none (isolated storage), localStorage null
merge 650dde8c, after restart:
  saved catalog        {"profiles":[{"id":"profile-work","name":"Work","kind":"persistent"}],"defaultProfileId":"profile-work"}
  preview_status       profiles Default, Incognito, Work; defaultProfileId profile-work
  preview_open Work    tab profile profile-work, localStorage "saved-before-restart"
  preview_open         tab profile profile-work, localStorage "saved-before-restart"
  preview_open incognito  tab profile incognito, localStorage null

Other checks:

• vp run check:changed passes.
• src/preview/ and ws.test.ts pass: 209 tests.
• The restart test now has two clients reporting 26 profiles between them. One save is held mid-write while another report waits, and the client that reported Work disconnects before both finish.
• That test fails with No browser profile is named "Work" on main's ServerBrowser.ts, and also when the save reads the live catalog. With the saved file capped at 24 profiles, it fails with Expected a value with a length of at most 24.

What this can't clear:

• It doesn't touch the pr:gate-failed label. No workflow on main applies that label, and no comment says which gate failed.
• It doesn't cover the packaged desktop app, macOS, Windows, mobile or remote connections.

I can push this to your branch if you'd like.

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@maria-rcks One more result on this, from packaged Linux builds of main (d313b2aff3), this head (3864bd79db) and our offer (650dde8c21): after quitting the app and starting its bundled t3 serve with no window, main no longer knows the Work profile, while this branch and the offer keep it. Quitting and reopening the app alone does not show the bug on main, because the window reports its profiles again on connect, so the fix matters for t3 serve, the background service, phone-only use and scheduled tasks. Under t3 serve Work starts empty, since the desktop keeps agent-tab storage in its own browser partitions; the description may want to say that. macOS and Windows are still unchecked.

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@maria-rcks I moved this branch from 3864bd79db, the head you ran, to 31afaefc38 to clear its conflict with main. It adds two merges of main: 650dde8c21 (the offer from my 11-10 comment, main fa2f4ff2a2) and 31afaefc38 (main d2c25950b4, no conflicts). The persistence changes are in the 650dde8c21 resolution against #21745: the saved catalog follows main's union of connected clients, a disconnect no longer saves, and the saved file has no 24-profile cap. The second merge changes no fix code; it also brings in main's ambiguous-selector test. On the new head the restart test passes, and a real t3 serve restart keeps Work, its storage and the default, while main no longer resolves Work or the reported default.

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Review comments at @apps/server/src/preview/ServerBrowser.test.ts:
- Line 2330: Update the race involving Deferred.await(cleanupStarted) and
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@maria-rcks I pushed 97c9b0e689 on top of 31afaefc38. A report that a client disconnect interrupts while an earlier save holds the lock now still saves, because the report's update and save run uninterruptibly together, in place of the save's own uninterruptible write. The commit adds one test for that case, and the restart test now fails if its held save never reaches the cleanup gate.

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I merged main f419698aea into this branch with no conflicts (97c9b0e689 to 39bd02f5c6), bringing in its seven changes to ServerBrowser.ts and its test; nothing else changed.

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Evidence

Report Work as the default, disconnect the reporting client, write a local-storage marker through an agent-opened Work tab, then restart only the standalone server. Before any desktop/web reconnect, inspect profiles and open by name, ID, and unspecified profile.

Environment on both sides: Linux standalone T3 server, real server-hosted Chromium, fresh synthetic data, identical scripted RPC/MCP sequence. These captures show live server-output transcripts, not product UI.

Before	After
0bc993ac09	14b5cf3cda
Before recording	After recording

Base lists only Default and Incognito, rejects Work by name and ID, and returns null from the implicit isolated tab. Head restores default work-proof; name, ID, and implicit opens all read work-storage-survives.

Driver, scripted ACP agent, before raw MCP responses, after raw MCP responses, complete source and transcript bundle.

Both stills were identical across captures 500 ms apart; stills and video frames were visually inspected. Temporary servers, checkouts, and scratch data were removed.

AI-assisted; verified with the tests and tools listed above.

Not shown:

• Desktop Browser-settings creation and the mobile UI were not exercised; their server-facing behavior was driven through the public profile-report RPC and real thread MCP calls.
• Desktop-local browser partitions, concurrent profile reports, interrupted writes, and corrupt saved catalogs were not exercised.