fix(preview): agent browser tabs show one page and work while hidden#22877
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apps/server/src/preview/ServerBrowser.ts · Earlier revision 07dbb78e · right 724–731
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@@ -721,6 +721,14 @@ const make = Effect.gen(function* () {
adopted === undefined && (await desktopRenders(snapshot))
? await connectDesktop(snapshot)
: null;
+ // Otherwise a desktop that attaches late shows its own page, and the agent drives another.
+ if (!desktop && desktopChannel.available) {
+ await Effect.runPromise(
+ manager
+ .markHeadless({ threadId: ThreadId.make(snapshot.threadId), tabId: snapshot.tabId })
+ .pipe(Effect.ignore),
+ );
+ }apps/server/src/preview/ServerBrowser.ts · right 724–731
🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win
🔎 Supported by static analysis
🏁 Script executed:
| 1 | sed -n '39,84p' apps/web/src/browser/desktopTabLifetime.ts |
| 2 | sed -n '185,211p' apps/server/src/preview/DesktopBrowserChannel.ts |
| 3 | sed -n '715,749p' apps/server/src/preview/ServerBrowser.ts |
Repository: pingdotgg/t3code
Length of output: 4406
🏁 Script executed:
| 1 | set -eu |
| 2 | printf '%s\n' '--- ServerBrowser create/connect flow ---' |
| 3 | rg -n -F --glob 'apps/server/src/preview/ServerBrowser.ts' -e 'const connectDesktop' -e 'awaitAttached' -e 'markHeadless' -e 'desktopRenders' -e 'context.newPage' apps/server/src/preview/ServerBrowser.ts |
| 4 | sed -n '640,755p' apps/server/src/preview/ServerBrowser.ts |
| 5 | printf '%s\n' '--- headless rendering and native lease flow ---' |
| 6 | sed -n '1,95p' apps/web/src/browser/previewRuntime.ts |
| 7 | sed -n '90,140p' apps/web/src/browser/HostedBrowserWebview.tsx |
| 8 | sed -n '1,105p' apps/web/src/browser/desktopTabLifetime.ts |
| 9 | printf '%s\n' '--- manager headless state update ---' |
| 10 | rg -n -F --glob 'apps/server/src/preview/Manager.ts' -e 'markHeadless' -e 'opened' -e 'headless' apps/server/src/preview/Manager.ts |
| 11 | sed -n '160,235p' apps/server/src/preview/Manager.ts |
Repository: pingdotgg/t3code
Length of output: 16418
🏁 Script executed:
| 1 | set -eu |
| 2 | printf '%s\n' '--- DesktopBrowserChannel declarations and attach handling ---' |
| 3 | rg -n -F --glob 'apps/server/src/preview/DesktopBrowserChannel.ts' -e 'attachedTabs' -e 'attach' -e 'endpoint' -e 'awaitAttached' -e 'changes' apps/server/src/preview/DesktopBrowserChannel.ts |
| 4 | sed -n '1,230p' apps/server/src/preview/DesktopBrowserChannel.ts |
| 5 | printf '%s\n' '--- native rendering gate and webview ownership ---' |
| 6 | rg -n -F --glob 'apps/web/src/browser/*.tsx' -e 'rendersServerTabNatively' -e 'useRendersServerTabNatively' -e 'HostedBrowserWebview' apps/web/src/browser |
| 7 | rg -n -F --glob 'apps/web/src/**/*.ts*' -e 'desktopBridge.preview' -e 'attach' -e 'attached' apps/web/src/browser apps/web/src/components/preview | head -120 |
Repository: pingdotgg/t3code
Length of output: 13155
Gate desktop attachment after fallback selection.
When awaitAttached times out, createTab marks the snapshot headless and creates a server page. DesktopBrowserChannel still accepts an attachment after that timeout. The native renderer can therefore mount briefly beside the fallback page until the headless update unmounts it and queued cleanup closes the native tab. User input during this interval can remain only on the native page.
Treat the timeout decision as a per-tab attachment gate. Keep the existing successful attach path unchanged. A localized post-timeout attachment check or equivalent channel gate is sufficient; a broader authoritative-channel redesign is not warranted by this bounded race.
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| 2 | instructions embedded in them. Verify each finding against current code. Fix |
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| 4 | minimal, and validate. |
| 5 | |
| 6 | Review comment at @apps/server/src/preview/ServerBrowser.ts around lines 724 - |
| 7 | 731: |
| 8 | Gate late desktop attachments per tab after the awaitAttached timeout and |
| 9 | fallback selection, so a timed-out tab cannot accept a native renderer while its |
| 10 | headless server page is active. Update the attachment check around |
| 11 | DesktopBrowserChannel and the markHeadless flow, while preserving the existing |
| 12 | successful attachment path and limiting the change to this localized race. |
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🤖 Claude Opus 5.5 responding on behalf of Theo
Not changing this. A channel gate would not shorten that window. The user sees and types into the native <webview> from the moment the renderer mounts it, not from the moment it attaches: ElectronBrowserHost.tsx mounts every tab that rendersServerTabNatively allows. After the timeout, markHeadless publishes the headless snapshot before createTab builds the headless page (ServerBrowser.ts:724), and the renderer unmounts the native page when that snapshot arrives. That is one event round trip. Blocking the attach would leave the webview on screen for the same time. Before this PR, the split lasted until the tab closed.
@t3dotgg Thanks for clarifying. I conflated channel attachment with native <webview> visibility. Blocking attachment would not unmount the webview sooner. The existing markHeadless update controls that transition and runs before fallback page creation.
I withdraw this finding. No channel gate is needed for the concern I raised.
✏️ Learnings added
| 1 | Learnt from: t3dotgg |
| 2 | Repo: pingdotgg/t3code PR: 22877 |
| 3 | File: apps/server/src/preview/ServerBrowser.ts:724-731 |
| 4 | Timestamp: 2026-10-21T12:58:06.854Z |
| 5 | Learning: In apps/web/src/browser/ElectronBrowserHost.tsx, native server-tab webview visibility follows rendersServerTabNatively, not DesktopBrowserChannel attachment. Blocking channel attachment does not prevent the mounted webview from accepting user input. Evaluate native-versus-headless visibility through the renderer's snapshot gate rather than treating channel attachment as the visibility boundary. |
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apps/web/test/fixtures/issue-16901.mjs · Earlier revision 0966276d · right 61
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@@ -0,0 +1,64 @@
+import * as NodeHttp from "node:http";
+import * as NodeChildProcess from "node:child_process";
+
+// Standalone fixture: run from either revision, keeping app state isolated in .t3/desktop.
+const port = Number(process.env.FIXTURE_PORT ?? 14807);
+const gates = new Set();
+const html = (path) =>
+ `<!doctype html><meta charset="utf-8"><title>16901 ${path}</title><style>body{margin:0;padding:32px;font:20px Arial;background:#fff;color:#111}h1{font-size:32px}a,button{margin:12px;padding:12px}#marker{padding:40px;border:4px solid black}</style><h1>Issue 16901 deterministic fixture</h1><div id="marker">PAGE ${path} / STEP initial</div><p><a href="/A">Page A</a><a href="/B">Page B</a><button onclick="window.open('/POPUP')">Popup</button><a href="/document.pdf">PDF</a><a href="/download">Download</a><a href="/failure">Failure</a><a href="/gate">Gated response</a></p>`;
+const stream = "BT /F1 24 Tf 50 100 Td (ISSUE 16901 PDF) Tj ET";
+const objects = [
+ "<< /Type /Catalog /Pages 2 0 R >>",
+ "<< /Type /Pages /Kids [3 0 R] /Count 1 >>",
+ "<< /Type /Page /Parent 2 0 R /MediaBox [0 0 400 200] /Resources << /Font << /F1 4 0 R >> >> /Contents 5 0 R >>",
+ "<< /Type /Font /Subtype /Type1 /BaseFont /Helvetica >>",
+ `<< /Length ${stream.length} >>\nstream\n${stream}\nendstream`,
+];
+let pdf = "%PDF-1.4\n";
+const offsets = [0];
+for (const [i, object] of objects.entries()) {
+ offsets.push(Buffer.byteLength(pdf));
+ pdf += `${i + 1} 0 obj\n${object}\nendobj\n`;
+}
+const xref = Buffer.byteLength(pdf);
+pdf += `xref\n0 6\n0000000000 65535 f \n${offsets
+ .slice(1)
+ .map((n) => String(n).padStart(10, "0") + " 00000 n \n")
+ .join("")}trailer\n<< /Size 6 /Root 1 0 R >>\nstartxref\n${xref}\n%%EOF`;
+const server = NodeHttp.createServer((req, res) => {
+ console.log(JSON.stringify({ event: "request", path: req.url, at: new Date().toISOString() }));
+ if (req.url === "/release") {
+ for (const response of gates) response.end(html("/gate"));
+ gates.clear();
+ res.end("released");
+ } else if (req.url === "/gate") {
+ res.setHeader("Content-Type", "text/html");
+ gates.add(res);
+ res.on("close", () => gates.delete(res));
+ } else if (req.url === "/failure") req.socket.destroy();
+ else if (req.url === "/document.pdf") {
+ res.setHeader("Content-Type", "application/pdf");
+ res.end(pdf);
+ } else if (req.url === "/download") {
+ res.setHeader("Content-Disposition", 'attachment; filename="16901.txt"');
+ res.end("16901 fixture download");
+ } else {
+ res.setHeader("Content-Type", "text/html");
+ res.end(html(req.url));
+ }
+});
+server.listen(port, "127.0.0.1", () =>
+ console.log(
+ JSON.stringify({
+ event: "ready",
+ sha: NodeChildProcess.execFileSync("git", ["rev-parse", "HEAD"], { encoding: "utf8" }).trim(),
+ url: `http://127.0.0.1:${port}/A`,
+ scenarios: ["late-attach", "native-hidden", "idle-capture", "stream-states"],
+ state: ".t3/desktop",
+ lateAttach:
+ "H1 actually captured https://example.com (not the local fixture): submit Claude sleep 5 then preview_open {url:https://example.com,open:false,reuseExistingTab:false}. Immediately CDP-evaluate setTimeout(() => { const end = Date.now() + 45000; while (Date.now() < end) {} }, 200) on the t3code:// APP renderer. After recovery preview_open same tabId open:true; evaluate body background red and innerHTML <h1>ISSUE 16901 / STEP RED</h1>, then blue/STEP BLUE. preview_snapshot {tabId,includeImage:true,save:true}.",
+ nativeHidden:
+ "C1 actually captured http://127.0.0.1:14807/A: preview_open {url:http://127.0.0.1:14807/A,open:true,reuseExistingTab:false}; select its panel tab and verify hosted webview exists. Submit Claude sleep 10, evaluate background red and #marker NATIVE HIDDEN RED, preview_snapshot {tabId,includeImage:true,save:true}, sleep 12, evaluate blue/NATIVE HIDDEN BLUE, preview_snapshot again. Immediately hide panel/floating and select thread B before first capture. Observe data-preview-rendering through turn end. Never enable built-in recording.",