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fix(server): a timed-out preview request no longer evicts the shared server browser - #34970
Cause: when a foreground request got no reply within timeoutMs + HOST_RESPONSE_GRACE_MS, PreviewAutomationBroker.invoke called disconnect(..., true). That disconnect was added in #12535 so a dead desktop host connection could re-register. The server browser (clientId SERVER_BROWSER_AUTOMATION_CLIENT_ID) is one in-process host shared by every thread. Disconnecting it failed every other thread's pending requests with PreviewAutomationClientDisconnectedError, dropped tab assignments, and made new calls fail with PreviewAutomationNoAvailableHostError until it re-registered. Fix: the timeout path skips the disconnect when the host is the server browser. Only the timed-out request fails, with PreviewAutomationTimeoutError. Desktop hosts are still disconnected on timeout, as before. Test change: the repro test passed preferred: true inside the host object, which connect() ignores and which failed typecheck. The other thread's open then fell back to the 15 s budget and timed out on its own, so the test could never pass. I moved the flag to the connect options, as ServerBrowser.ts does, and left the test's logic alone. Verified that the corrected test fails without the fix with PreviewAutomationClientDisconnectedError (the reported bug) and passes with it. No new regex or parser.
Commit: origin/main 1e438c8. I ran a scratch vitest file in apps/server (not committed; uploaded at https://gh-file-drop-api-prod-mi5fy3sowv63ufte.pinglabs.workers.dev/f/5a30bca961abf481/scratch16921.test.ts). It builds the production layers: ServerBrowser, PreviewAutomationBroker, PreviewManager, the real PreviewBrowser (Playwright Chrome headless shell) and the real DesktopBrowserChannel, which has no desktop attached. Two agent sessions, A on thread-a and B on thread-b, each opened their own tab on a local HTTP page. Then: (1) A called waitFor with text 'never-there' and timeoutMs 25000. The broker gave the request its default 15000 ms budget, while the browser kept waiting for 25 s. (2) 5 s later, B called click with selector '#appears-later' and timeoutMs 15000 on its own tab. Observed at +24.8 s, when A's broker deadline (15 s + 1 s grace) passed: A got PreviewAutomationTimeoutError. B's unrelated in-flight click failed with PreviewAutomationClientDisconnectedError (clientId server-browser). B's immediate next status failed with PreviewAutomationNoAvailableHostError, whose message says 'Do not retry'. B's status succeeded 2 s later, after the host re-registered. Transcript: https://gh-file-drop-api-prod-mi5fy3sowv63ufte.pinglabs.workers.dev/f/298b8e3e67a1a217/transcript.log. Control run: a snapshot on a tab whose main thread was busy timed out at about 10 s, but the browser answered within the grace window, and B's open and status kept working. So eviction needs a request the browser does not answer within its broker budget plus 1 s: a call whose own timeout outlasts the broker budget, or work queued behind a stuck call on the same tab, as described in #32866. Failing test on factory/repro-16921: PreviewAutomationBroker.test.ts 'keeps the server browser host for other threads when one request times out'. On main, the other thread's in-flight open fails with PreviewAutomationClientDisconnectedError.
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Ran from apps/server: vp test run src/mcp/PreviewAutomationBroker.test.ts passed 27/27 with the fix; with the fix stashed, the repro test failed with PreviewAutomationClientDisconnectedError. vp test run src/mcp/PreviewAutomationBroker.test.ts src/preview/ServerBrowser.test.ts src/mcp/toolkits/preview/handlers.test.ts passed except the repro test, before its setup was corrected. Ran from the repo root: vp run check:changed passed format, lint, knip, graphql, typecheck (3 packages) and test (2 files).
…owser host
Reproduces #16921: one thread's stalled snapshot fails another thread's
in-flight open on the same server-browser host.
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…server browser
A foreground preview request that got no reply within its budget made the
broker disconnect its host. The server browser is one in-process host shared
by every thread, so that failed other threads' in-flight calls and left new
calls with no host until it re-registered. Timeouts now fail only the
request for the server browser; desktop hosts are still evicted so a dead
connection can recover. The repro test now passes `preferred` through the
connect options, as ServerBrowser does.
Fixes#16921
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Macroscope's review found this PR approvable — A timed-out preview request now leaves the shared server browser connected, avoiding disruption to other threads. Individual timeout handling and desktop-host recovery remain unchanged, keeping the change narrowly scoped.
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The timeout handler now keeps the in-process server-browser host connected when an invocation times out. A regression test verifies that another thread can complete open and status calls after a snapshot request times out.
Changes: Server-browser timeout handling
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Timeout retention and regression coverage apps/server/src/mcp/PreviewAutomationBroker.ts, apps/server/src/mcp/PreviewAutomationBroker.test.ts
The timeout handler excludes the in-process server browser from host disconnection while preserving the existing condition for other hosts. The regression test checks that another thread can use the host after a snapshot timeout.
A timed-out preview request no longer disconnects the shared server browser, so other threads keep working. The change is small and covered by a regression test, and no merge-blocking risk remains.
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The broker change is limited to the server-browser exception in the timeout path and is in scope for #16921. The test file diff also removes Effect.scoped(...) wrappers from many existing, unrelated…
Restore the Effect.scoped(...) wrappers and original indentation in the existing tests unrelated to the timeout fix. Keep only the new regression test and the TestClock import. If the removal is required by a lint or style rule, state tha…
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The title names the main change: a timed-out preview request no longer disconnects the shared server browser host. It follows the conventional commit form and matches the raw summary and objectives. I…
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The description follows the template well. It states the problem and the cause (the timeout path disconnects the shared server-browser host, which fails other threads' requests). It explains the chang…
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[#16921] The primary objective is that a timed-out request must not evict the shared server-browser host or abort unrelated in-flight requests. The whole-PR diff for apps/server/src/mcp/PreviewAutomat…
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The description follows the template well. It states the problem and the cause (the timeout path disconnects the shared server-browser host, which fails other threads' requests). It explains the change, which skips the disconnect for the server browser and keeps desktop host eviction. It gives scope through the referenced issue #16921 and lists related out-of-scope items. Verification is detailed: the focused test results, the fail-without-fix and pass-with-fix evidence, and the reproduction on main. The Evidence section is a placeholder that says it will be filled before merge, so the before/after evidence is still pending. This is a minor gap for a bug fix, since the template asks for before/after screenshots only for UI changes. The template also asks for the model and harness if an agent was used. The description says it is AI-assisted but does not name the model and harness.
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[#16921] The primary objective is that a timed-out request must not evict the shared server-browser host or abort unrelated in-flight requests. The whole-PR diff for apps/server/src/mcp/PreviewAutomationBroker.ts adds connection.clientId !== SERVER_BROWSER_AUTOMATION_CLIENT_ID to the timeout branch (onNone in invoke). The server browser is no longer disconnected on timeout. The timed-out request still returns PreviewAutomationTimeoutError. Desktop hosts still disconnect on timeout. The replay safeguard is unchanged: the code adds no replay, and the 'Never replay possibly applied actions' rule remains. The test file adds 'keeps the server browser host for other threads when one request times out'. It stalls a snapshot, starts an open on another thread, advances TestClock by 17 s, and checks that the other open and a later status succeed. It passes preferred: true to connect() options, which matches the PR description. The issue's broader items (Cloudflare verification, initial stall, broader recovery reporting) are stated as unresolved and are not coding requirements of this change. Non-coding evidence capture is pending and is not assessed.
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The broker change is limited to the server-browser exception in the timeout path and is in scope for #16921. The test file diff also removes Effect.scoped(...) wrappers from many existing, unrelated tests, including 'atomically registers a connected host', 'targets multiple tabs explicitly', 'keeps an older target stable', 'does not let a no-tab response suppress an earlier tab decision', and 'announces a live replacement stream'. These hunks re-indent the bodies. The PR description does not mention this change, and it has no stated connection to the timeout isolation objective. The change is test-only and may be behavior-neutral, but the evidence does not show a need for it. The repro test itself still uses Effect.scoped, so the removal is not required by the new test.
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Restore the Effect.scoped(...) wrappers and original indentation in the existing tests unrelated to the timeout fix. Keep only the new regression test and the TestClock import. If the removal is required by a lint or style rule, state that rule in the PR description and confirm that check:changed still passes after the restore.
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The automated pipeline ran the reported steps in the real app without this change, and the problem did not appear. So it cannot show that this change fixes anything.
What was run on f313d0a6cb, the commit before this change:
Both threads opened separate tabs on a controlled local page. A requested preview_wait_for for absent text with timeoutMs 25000. Five seconds later B requested a delayed-element click. The initial run used an 18-second button delay and passed on both commits. One timing correction extended the delay to 28 seconds, with B's click timeout 30000, keeping B pending through A's actual timeout. Immediately after A timed out, B requested preview_status; its pending click subsequently completed. Identical corrected steps passed on both commits.
How: scenarios:prove drove the real Linux web app in Chromium, with fresh unseeded databases and two replay-agent threads. Browser requests used the real MCP endpoint and shared server browser. App viewport: 1280×800; server-browser viewport: 520×620. Chromium sandbox disabled for the VM. Final runner exit: 1, because both commits passed. Captures inspected and uploaded; temporary servers, worktree, and scratch files cleaned up.
Closing this pull request. #16921 has been asked for the missing steps; once the problem can be shown this can be reopened, or the fix built again.
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Cause: when a foreground request got no reply within timeoutMs + HOST_RESPONSE_GRACE_MS, PreviewAutomationBroker.invoke called disconnect(..., true). That disconnect was added in #12535 so a dead desktop host connection could re-register. The server browser (clientId SERVER_BROWSER_AUTOMATION_CLIENT_ID) is one in-process host shared by every thread. Disconnecting it failed every other thread's pending requests with PreviewAutomationClientDisconnectedError, dropped tab assignments, and made new calls fail with PreviewAutomationNoAvailableHostError until it re-registered. Fix: the timeout path skips the disconnect when the host is the server browser. Only the timed-out request fails, with PreviewAutomationTimeoutError. Desktop hosts are still disconnected on timeout, as before. Test change: the repro test passed
preferred: trueinside the host object, which connect() ignores and which failed typecheck. The other thread's open then fell back to the 15 s budget and timed out on its own, so the test could never pass. I moved the flag to the connect options, as ServerBrowser.ts does, and left the test's logic alone. Verified that the corrected test fails without the fix with PreviewAutomationClientDisconnectedError (the reported bug) and passes with it. No new regex or parser.Fixes #16921
Reproduction on main
Commit: origin/main 1e438c8. I ran a scratch vitest file in apps/server (not committed; uploaded at https://gh-file-drop-api-prod-mi5fy3sowv63ufte.pinglabs.workers.dev/f/5a30bca961abf481/scratch16921.test.ts). It builds the production layers: ServerBrowser, PreviewAutomationBroker, PreviewManager, the real PreviewBrowser (Playwright Chrome headless shell) and the real DesktopBrowserChannel, which has no desktop attached. Two agent sessions, A on thread-a and B on thread-b, each opened their own tab on a local HTTP page. Then: (1) A called waitFor with text 'never-there' and timeoutMs 25000. The broker gave the request its default 15000 ms budget, while the browser kept waiting for 25 s. (2) 5 s later, B called click with selector '#appears-later' and timeoutMs 15000 on its own tab. Observed at +24.8 s, when A's broker deadline (15 s + 1 s grace) passed: A got PreviewAutomationTimeoutError. B's unrelated in-flight click failed with PreviewAutomationClientDisconnectedError (clientId server-browser). B's immediate next status failed with PreviewAutomationNoAvailableHostError, whose message says 'Do not retry'. B's status succeeded 2 s later, after the host re-registered. Transcript: https://gh-file-drop-api-prod-mi5fy3sowv63ufte.pinglabs.workers.dev/f/298b8e3e67a1a217/transcript.log. Control run: a snapshot on a tab whose main thread was busy timed out at about 10 s, but the browser answered within the grace window, and B's open and status kept working. So eviction needs a request the browser does not answer within its broker budget plus 1 s: a call whose own timeout outlasts the broker budget, or work queued behind a stuck call on the same tab, as described in #32866. Failing test on factory/repro-16921: PreviewAutomationBroker.test.ts 'keeps the server browser host for other threads when one request times out'. On main, the other thread's in-flight open fails with PreviewAutomationClientDisconnectedError.
Evidence
Being captured: before and after in the real app. This section is filled in before the pull request can merge.
Tests
Ran from apps/server:
vp test run src/mcp/PreviewAutomationBroker.test.tspassed 27/27 with the fix; with the fix stashed, the repro test failed with PreviewAutomationClientDisconnectedError.vp test run src/mcp/PreviewAutomationBroker.test.ts src/preview/ServerBrowser.test.ts src/mcp/toolkits/preview/handlers.test.tspassed except the repro test, before its setup was corrected. Ran from the repo root:vp run check:changedpassed format, lint, knip, graphql, typecheck (3 packages) and test (2 files).Not in this change
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