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fix(server): preview clicks fail within their timeout and say why - #34922
Merged origin/main into the branch. The only conflict was in targetPoint in apps/server/src/preview/ServerBrowserPage.ts: main's #30600 (a4a8c61) replaced locator.scrollIntoViewIfNeeded with a scrollIntoView(locator, ms) helper that retries when the target is replaced during the scroll. The resolution keeps main's helper and gives it the click's remaining time (scrollIntoView(locator, timeout())), and boundingBox also uses timeout(). The fix behaves as before: one deadline covers the queue, target positioning and the Playwright click, and timeout errors carry Playwright's last actionability reason with ANSI escapes removed. Main's detached-target retry still applies, inside that same budget.
Read-only reproduction instructions, not executed: Serve a page that inserts Save six seconds after loading. In a T3 Code thread, ask the agent to use preview_open on that page and immediately use preview_act with action click, selector #save, and timeoutMs 8000; ensure the click starts while the button is still absent with more than one second before insertion. On main, expect the generic timeout around the broker's nine-second deadline; with this change, expect failure around the eight-second click budget with the target diagnostic and 'element is not enabled'. Reload before repeating. As a second case, insert the button at one second and enable it at 2.5 seconds, then click immediately with timeoutMs 2000: main can click after the requested budget, whereas this change should reject without clicking.
Evidence
Run the same three cases in the real web app on fresh synthetic state: (1) insert disabled Save at 6s and immediately click with an 8s budget; (2) insert at 1s, enable at 2.5s, and click with a 2s budget; (3) hold the same tab with a 1.4s evaluation, queue a 2s click behind it, and enable Save at 2.6s. Chromium, 1280×800, light theme. Both final screenshots show Done.
Disabled target: generic broker timeout at 9031 ms. Late-enable click: succeeded at 2781 ms, one click. Queued click: succeeded at 2692 ms, one click.
Disabled target: failed at 8032 ms with #save diagnostic and 'element is not enabled'. Late-enable click: rejected at 2019 ms, zero clicks. Queued click: rejected at 2020 ms with 'element is not enabled', zero clicks.
vp test run src/preview/ServerBrowserPage.test.ts (apps/server): 38 passed. vp run check:changed: format, lint, knip, graphql, typecheck (3 packages) and tests (3 files) all pass.
… dropping its reason
Refs #25557. Both tests fail on main: a click whose target appears late
still succeeds after timeoutMs, and a disabled target's timeout does not
say it is not enabled.
AI-assisted; verified with the tests and tools listed above.
A preview click gave scrollIntoViewIfNeeded, boundingBox and click each the
full timeoutMs, so a target that appeared late could outlive the broker's
grace and reach the agent as a generic timeout. Its timeout message also
kept only Playwright's first line, dropping the call-log reason such as
"element is not enabled".
The click now shares one deadline across its steps, and timeout errors
append the last "element is ..." line from Playwright's call log.
Fixes#25557
AI-assisted; verified with the tests and tools listed above.
A click queued behind other work on its tab started its own timeoutMs
only once it ran, so it could still outlive the broker. The click now
gets the request's remaining budget. Playwright also dims call-log lines
with ANSI escapes when colour is on, which hid the actionability reason;
the escapes are stripped before matching.
Refs #25557
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Macroscope's review found this PR requires human approval — This change shares the remaining deadline across preview-click steps and adds actionability details to timeout errors. An unresolved concern remains that clicks can dispatch after timeout, potentially duplicating an action when a caller retries.
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Browser click operations now use the remaining request deadline. Page clicks share that timeout across target positioning and clicking. Timeout errors can include Playwright’s last actionability reason.
Changes: Preview click behavior
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Summary
Propagate and apply click deadlines apps/server/src/preview/ServerBrowser.ts, apps/server/src/preview/ServerBrowserPage.ts
Browser operations pass the remaining request deadline to page operations. Clicks use the remaining deadline across target positioning and locator clicking. Hover and drag provide timeout callbacks to target positioning.
Timeout errors append the last reported Playwright actionability reason when available. Tests cover the reported visibility reason and verify that a delayed, disabled target is not clicked after the timeout budget expires.
sequenceDiagram
participant ServerBrowser
participant ServerBrowserPage
participant Playwright
ServerBrowser->>ServerBrowserPage: Pass click timeout from remaining request deadline
ServerBrowserPage->>Playwright: Position target using current remaining timeout
ServerBrowserPage->>Playwright: Click locator using current remaining timeout
Playwright-->>ServerBrowserPage: Return click result or timeout call log
ServerBrowserPage-->>ServerBrowser: Return result or enriched timeout
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Suggested reviewers:shivamhwp, yuruzuu
Merge Risk: Moderate · up to c23c0
Preview clicks can run longer than the timeout the caller asked for, which undercuts the main goal of this change. Two lower-impact diagnostic and deadline gaps also remain. Fix the timeout clamp before merging.
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The title names the main change: preview clicks now stay within their timeout, and timeout errors state the actionability reason. It matches the diff, which adds one shared click deadline and appends …
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[#25557] Coding objectives, checked against the whole-PR diff (merge base to head c23c096):
Every changed hunk in the whole-PR diff supports the click-deadline objective of [#25557]: - ServerBrowser.ts: passes the remaining broker deadline into the click input timeout. - ServerBrowserPage.ts…
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The description covers the problem (preview clicks ignore the request timeout and give generic errors, linked to issue #25557), the change (one shared deadline across queueing, target positioning, and…
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The title names the main change: preview clicks now stay within their timeout, and timeout errors state the actionability reason. It matches the diff, which adds one shared click deadline and appends Playwright's last reason to timeout errors. The title uses the conventional commit format with a clear scope.
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[#25557] Coding objectives, checked against the whole-PR diff (merge base to head c23c096):
Shared request deadline. ServerBrowser.ts (click case) replaces timeoutMs with Math.max(1, Math.floor(deadlineMs - performance.now())). Queue time before the click starts reduces the click budget. ServerBrowserPage.click computes one deadline from input.timeoutMs (default 15 000 ms) and passes a remaining() supplier to targetPoint (scrollIntoViewIfNeeded, boundingBox) and to locator.click. Each step uses the remaining time, so the click cannot extend the budget.
Actionability reason. withActionabilityReason strips ANSI escapes with NodeUtil.stripVTControlCharacters and appends the last '- element is ...' call-log line. It applies to the named-target error (namedTargetTimeout) and to the generic toOperationError TimeoutError path. The test at ServerBrowserPage.test.ts expects 'Playwright last saw: element is not visible.'
Late target. The new test in ServerBrowserPage.test.ts adds a target at 1 s, enables it at 2.5 s, and checks that a 2 000 ms click rejects without clicking (data-clicked remains null).
The author's removal of the disabled-button test case does not remove coverage of a requirement. The reason-text path is covered by the hidden-element test. Hover and drag keep per-step timeouts. The issue places them under #33550 and the PR states this scope. Queued-click behavior has no committed test. The issue does not require one. Validation was not rerun in this review.
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Every changed hunk in the whole-PR diff supports the click-deadline objective of [#25557]:
ServerBrowser.ts: passes the remaining broker deadline into the click input timeout.
ServerBrowserPage.ts: one click deadline, the actionability reason in timeout errors, and a timeout-supplier signature for targetPoint. The hover and drag call sites pass () => timeout and keep their existing values. This is an interface adaptation only, and the PR description states it.
ServerBrowserPage.test.ts: updates the expected timeout message and adds the late-target test.
The PR uses Date.now() in ServerBrowserPage.click and performance.now() in ServerBrowser.ts. These are separate clocks, but each computes a relative duration, so this is a code-quality note and not a scope issue. No unrelated change was found.
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The description covers the problem (preview clicks ignore the request timeout and give generic errors, linked to issue #25557), the change (one shared deadline across queueing, target positioning, and the Playwright click, plus the actionability reason in timeout errors), verification (38 tests passed, check:changed passing, before/after evidence with a reproduction driver), and attribution. The Scope section links the issue that shows the bug, which fits the template. Two gaps remain. The Problem section does not state the expected behavior in its own words, though the reproduction notes imply it. The Verification section does not clearly say what could not be checked. The description also repeats the 'hover and drag' sentence in the 'Not in this change' section, and it contains a merge-conflict narrative that does not serve reviewers. None of these gaps is critical, so the description is mostly complete.
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Review comments at @apps/server/src/preview/ServerBrowserPage.ts:
- Line 692: Update clickTarget to check the deadline after targetPoint and
immediately before dispatch on both coordinate and locator paths, rejecting with
the same timeout error used by the locator path. Ensure the pointer wait is
bounded by the remaining deadline budget or skipped once the deadline has
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Minor · Functional Correctness · Quick win
Check the deadline before the click is dispatched.
remaining() clamps to 1 ms after expiry, but nothing stops a click that starts late. clickTarget awaits pointer(point, "click") before dispatch (ServerBrowserPage.ts:745). That reporter in ServerBrowser.ts (lines 2300–2410) sleeps for AGENT_CURSOR_MOVE_MS and AGENT_CURSOR_CLICK_LEAD_MS and does not check the deadline. A coordinate click then calls page.mouse.click, which accepts no timeout (ServerBrowserPage.ts:748), so it dispatches even after the deadline has passed.
A coordinate click that starts near the deadline can therefore run after the request has timed out. A caller that retries after the timeout can repeat the action.
Check the deadline after targetPoint and again before dispatch. Reject with the same timeout error the locator path uses. Bound the pointer wait by the remaining budget, or skip it when the deadline has passed. Apply the check to both the coordinate path and the locator path.
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Review comment at @apps/server/src/preview/ServerBrowserPage.ts at line 692:
Update clickTarget to check the deadline after targetPoint and immediately before dispatch on both coordinate and locator paths, rejecting with the same timeout error used by the locator path. Ensure the pointer wait is bounded by the remaining deadline budget or skipped once the deadline has expired, so neither path dispatches a click after timeout.
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This test depends on browser timers firing within a 500 ms margin. If insertion occurs after the click deadline, the test can pass without exercising the transition from target positioning to clicking.
Test the budget bookkeeping with a controlled clock and promise gates at the page-adapter layer. Keep the existing browser test for native visibility diagnostics.
As per coding guidelines, “Test at one layer: the lowest one that fails on main.” As per path instructions, “Do not use sleeps or polling for test synchronization.”
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Review comment at @apps/server/src/preview/ServerBrowserPage.test.ts around lines 182 - 184:
Make the timeout-budget regression deterministic by moving its budget-bookkeeping assertions to the page-adapter layer, using a controlled clock and promise gates to verify the transition from target positioning to clicking. Keep the existing browser test for native visibility diagnostics, and do not use sleeps or polling for synchronization.
Cover the queued-click budget at the service boundary.
The new page test calls ServerBrowserPage.click directly. It would still pass if this timeout replacement were removed. Add a service regression where earlier tab work consumes part of the request budget, but leaves enough time for the click to start. Assert the caller-visible timeout and absence of a late click side effect.
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Review comment at @apps/server/src/preview/ServerBrowser.ts at line 2587:
Add a focused service-level regression for the queued-click timeout budget in the service method that uses the shown timeout calculation. Have earlier tab work consume part of the request deadline while leaving enough time for the click to start, then assert the caller-visible timeout and that no late click side effect occurs; do not rely only on a direct ServerBrowserPage.click test.
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Review comments at @apps/server/src/preview/ServerBrowserPage.ts:
- Line 94: Update the failure-reason selection around the `.findLast` predicate
so it selects failed actionability checks rather than the successful “visible,
enabled and stable” check. Normalize pointer-interception failures to a bounded
reason without exposing the overlay’s raw element description, and extend the
existing timeout test with an overlay case.
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Review comments at @apps/server/src/preview/ServerBrowser.ts:
- Line 2587: Add a focused service-level regression for the queued-click timeout
budget in the service method that uses the shown timeout calculation. Have
earlier tab work consume part of the request deadline while leaving enough time
for the click to start, then assert the caller-visible timeout and that no late
click side effect occurs; do not rely only on a direct ServerBrowserPage.click
test.
Review comments at @apps/server/src/preview/ServerBrowserPage.test.ts:
- Around line 182-184: Make the timeout-budget regression deterministic by
moving its budget-bookkeeping assertions to the page-adapter layer, using a
controlled clock and promise gates to verify the transition from target
positioning to clicking. Keep the existing browser test for native visibility
diagnostics, and do not use sleeps or polling for synchronization.
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Minor · Functional Correctness · Quick win
Select a failure reason, not a successful actionability check.
When an overlay blocks a button, Playwright 1.64.1 logs element is visible, enabled and stable, followed by a description ending in intercepts pointer events. This predicate selects the successful check and discards the actual blocker. The timeout then gives the caller a misleading reason. (raw.githubusercontent.com)
Select failed checks explicitly. Normalize pointer interception to a bounded reason instead of exposing the overlay's raw element description. Extend the existing timeout test with an overlay case.
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Review comment at @apps/server/src/preview/ServerBrowserPage.ts at line 94:
Update the failure-reason selection around the `.findLast` predicate so it selects failed actionability checks rather than the successful “visible, enabled and stable” check. Normalize pointer-interception failures to a bounded reason without exposing the overlay’s raw element description, and extend the existing timeout test with an overlay case.
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Review comments at @apps/server/src/preview/ServerBrowser.ts:
- Line 2632: Update the timeout assignment in the click flow to cap the
remaining broker budget at the original click timeout, using the 15-second
default from ServerBrowserPage.click when input.timeoutMs is omitted. Preserve
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Major · Functional Correctness · Quick win
Preserve the click's shorter timeout.
This assignment replaces input.timeoutMs with the remaining broker budget. If the broker has 8 seconds left and the click specifies 2 seconds, the click now receives 8 seconds. When the input omits timeoutMs, this assignment also bypasses the 15-second default in ServerBrowserPage.click.
Use the minimum of the remaining broker budget and the original click timeout, with the 15-second fallback. Otherwise, a target can become actionable and receive a click after the click's requested timeout.
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Update the timeout assignment in the click flow to cap the remaining broker budget at the original click timeout, using the 15-second default from ServerBrowserPage.click when input.timeoutMs is omitted. Preserve the existing positive, floored timeout behavior so the click cannot outlast either limit.
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Merged origin/main into the branch. The only conflict was in targetPoint in apps/server/src/preview/ServerBrowserPage.ts: main's #30600 (a4a8c61) replaced locator.scrollIntoViewIfNeeded with a scrollIntoView(locator, ms) helper that retries when the target is replaced during the scroll. The resolution keeps main's helper and gives it the click's remaining time (scrollIntoView(locator, timeout())), and boundingBox also uses timeout(). The fix behaves as before: one deadline covers the queue, target positioning and the Playwright click, and timeout errors carry Playwright's last actionability reason with ANSI escapes removed. Main's detached-target retry still applies, inside that same budget.
Fixes #25557
Reproduction on main
Read-only reproduction instructions, not executed: Serve a page that inserts Save six seconds after loading. In a T3 Code thread, ask the agent to use preview_open on that page and immediately use preview_act with action click, selector #save, and timeoutMs 8000; ensure the click starts while the button is still absent with more than one second before insertion. On main, expect the generic timeout around the broker's nine-second deadline; with this change, expect failure around the eight-second click budget with the target diagnostic and 'element is not enabled'. Reload before repeating. As a second case, insert the button at one second and enable it at 2.5 seconds, then click immediately with timeoutMs 2000: main can click after the requested budget, whereas this change should reject without clicking.
Evidence
Run the same three cases in the real web app on fresh synthetic state: (1) insert disabled Save at 6s and immediately click with an 8s budget; (2) insert at 1s, enable at 2.5s, and click with a 2s budget; (3) hold the same tab with a 1.4s evaluation, queue a 2s click behind it, and enable Save at 2.6s. Chromium, 1280×800, light theme. Both final screenshots show Done.
Scenario and replay driver. scenarios:prove exited 0: failed on base, passed on head.
Tests
vp test run src/preview/ServerBrowserPage.test.ts (apps/server): 38 passed. vp run check:changed: format, lint, knip, graphql, typecheck (3 packages) and tests (3 files) all pass.
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