fix(server,desktop): browser tools report why a page failed to load#18588

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Problem

After loading https://self-signed.badssl.com/ in the Browser panel, preview_status and preview_snapshot show Chromium's error-page URL without a direct explanation of the failed navigation. Agents cannot reliably identify the failed URL and browser error from those results.

Change

Status and snapshots include an optional loadError containing the failed URL, browser error code, and description. Server-rendered tabs retain main-frame failures; desktop-rendered tabs forward failures that happen before server attachment. A new main-frame navigation clears the diagnostic, and replaced guests cannot overwrite the current tab's failure. Diagnostic URLs retain the existing data: payload redaction.

Preserves robertnisipeanu's implementation and the existing takeover work, with main merged into the branch.

Scope and approval

Fixes #18555 GitCafe: https://git.cafe/pingdotgg/t3code/issues/18555 Triaged bug via the automated issue flow. Issue #18555.

Verification

apps/server: vp test run src/preview/ServerBrowser.test.ts — 24 passed.
apps/desktop: vp test run src/preview/Manager.test.ts — 56 passed.
Two existing regression tests were extended for data: failure URLs. Both failed before redaction with an unredacted payload and pass after the fix.
Scoped tsc-rs --noEmit in contracts, server, and desktop — no errors.
Targeted lint — clean except the existing ClipboardItem warning in Manager.test.ts.

Evidence at 5dbd412d69, compared with 8acbefefc5:

Fixture	Before: status and snapshot	After: status and snapshot
Reporter self-signed.badssl.com	No direct load diagnostic	Failed URL, `-202 ERR_CERT_AUTHORITY_INVALID`
Local self-signed HTTPS	No direct load diagnostic	Failed URL, `-202 ERR_CERT_AUTHORITY_INVALID`
Blocked port 1	No direct load diagnostic	Failed URL, `-2 ERR_UNSAFE_PORT`
Recovery to working HTTP	Diagnostic absent	Diagnostic absent

All four rows and eight tool reads passed using the real ServerBrowser, broker, and Chromium 148.0.7778.96 on Linux at 1280×800 with isolated temporary state. Fixture infrastructure used T3CODE_SERVER_BROWSER_SANDBOX=0.

Evidence index, before transcript, after transcript, commands, harness.

Two fresh independent reviews of the complete final diff found no blocking bugs.

This changes tool output without a rendered UI change; the visual fixture matrix is empty. cannot-verify desktop: live Electron and native mobile execution were not verified on this Linux VM. Desktop attachment and guest replacement are covered by focused tests.

Implemented with Claude Opus 5.5 and GPT-6.1-Sol through the Claude and Codex harnesses in T3 Code; reviewed with Claude Opus 5.5 and GPT-6.1-Sol.

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Added 1 commit10d ago

fix(server,desktop): browser tools report why a page failed to loadea692c6

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Verdict: Approved at 5dbd412

Macroscope's review found this PR approvable — This is a bounded browser diagnostics fix that adds optional load-error metadata to existing status and snapshot responses, including early desktop failures. It preserves existing navigation behavior and uses backward-compatible contracts with targeted regression coverage.

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📝 Walkthrough

Desktop and server preview flows now capture and relay main-frame load failures. Preview status and snapshots can include the failed URL, browser error code, and description. The flow also handles failures that occur before desktop tab registration and clears failure details when a new navigation starts.

Changes: Preview load error reporting

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Capture and report desktop failures `packages/contracts/src/desktopBrowser.ts`, `packages/contracts/src/previewAutomation.ts`, `apps/desktop/src/preview/Manager.ts`, `apps/desktop/src/preview/DesktopBrowserHost.ts`, `apps/desktop/src/preview/Manager.test.ts`	The contracts define load-failure events and optional load-error fields for status and snapshots. Desktop preview code retains early failures, reports failures for attached tabs, and guards against stale guests. Tests cover registration, replacement, and navigation behavior.
Retain desktop failures in the server channel `apps/server/src/preview/DesktopBrowserChannel.ts`	The channel stores failure details by tab, truncates stored URLs, provides a lookup, and clears the failure when the tab detaches.
Expose failures in preview results `apps/server/src/preview/ServerBrowser.ts`, `apps/server/src/preview/ServerBrowser.test.ts`, `apps/server/src/mcp/toolkits/preview/tools.ts`	ServerBrowser records sanitized main-frame failures, clears them on a new main-frame navigation, and includes available errors in status and snapshots. Tests cover server and desktop tabs. Tool descriptions state that results can include failure details.

Priority: ⬇️ Low

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

Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: Low

Sequence Diagram(s)

mermaid

1	sequenceDiagram
2	participant PreviewManager
3	participant DesktopBrowserHost
4	participant DesktopBrowserChannel
5	participant ServerBrowser
6	participant PreviewTools
7	PreviewManager->>DesktopBrowserHost: report failure for attached tab
8	DesktopBrowserHost->>DesktopBrowserChannel: emit loadFailed event
9	ServerBrowser->>DesktopBrowserChannel: look up failure for desktop tab
10	DesktopBrowserChannel-->>ServerBrowser: return stored failure details
11	PreviewTools->>ServerBrowser: request preview status or snapshot
12	ServerBrowser-->>PreviewTools: return result with loadError when available

Possibly related issues

Issue 17009: The change reports desktop load failures that can occur before registration, but does not address desktop attachment.
Issue 7212: The change adds the failed URL and browser error details to preview status and snapshots. Its blank-panel UI request is outside this change.

Possibly related PRs

pingdotgg/t3code#16835: This PR implements the same load-failure reporting path. The current change adds guest replacement guards, navigation clearing, and URL sanitization.

Suggested reviewers: maria-rcks

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 5dbd4

Preview diagnostics can be missing for an early desktop load failure or briefly omitted for a later failure. Resolve the first-load delivery risk before merging.

Security architecture risk: 🔵 Low · up to 30c0b

The change adds optional failure diagnostics without granting additional browser control or weakening certificate checks. Tab ownership checks limit attribution errors. Remaining uncertainty concerns diagnostic delivery during startup and recovery rather than a demonstrated security bypass.

Retained concerns No architecture-level concerns identified.

Security review details

Security Blast Radius

inferred — The added exposure is failed-navigation diagnostic data for a selected preview tab. Existing reads permit inspecting other tabs in the same thread; the examined changes do not introduce cross-thread selection or additional browser-control authority.

Security Findings and Attack Paths

observed — Navigation targets can influence the reported URL. In the examined flow, URL, code, and description remain diagnostic output; they are not used to execute commands, grant browser control, or alter certificate policy. No introduced attack path was established through these consumers.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

observed — The server accepts failure reports through its existing desktop event stream. Attribution relies on desktop ownership checks and thread/tab keys; the new event carries no navigation command or additional privilege.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

inferred — Diagnostic recovery is not proven lossless. If a failure is published before the event-stream subscription exists, later announcement replays attachment only. Process-spawner subscription ordering remains unresolved, so this is a possible omission of diagnostics, not an established security-control failure.

Pre-merge checks: ^Passed 4

Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check	Passed	The title is concise, specific, and accurately summarizes the main change: browser tools now report the reason a page failed to load.
Linked Issues check	Passed	The PR satisfies the coding requirements in [`#18555`]. Contracts add optional `loadError` data with the failed URL, browser error code, and description to `preview_status` and `preview_snapshot`. `Serv…
Out of Scope Changes check	Passed	The changes remain within [`#18555`]. Contract updates, server handling, desktop failure forwarding, tool documentation, and focused tests directly support load-failure reporting. No unrelated change is…
Description check	Passed	The description is complete and follows the required sections. It explains the problem, implementation, scope, focused verification, limitations, evidence, and tooling. It links issue `#18555` and ident…

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Explanation

The PR satisfies the coding requirements in [#18555]. Contracts add optional loadError data with the failed URL, browser error code, and description to preview_status and preview_snapshot. ServerBrowser records main-frame failures, clears the diagnostic on navigation, preserves it across subframe failures, and uses desktop failure data when required. Desktop channel and manager changes forward early and later guest failures. Focused tests cover server reporting, desktop forwarding, navigation clearing, guest replacement, and data: URL redaction.

Full details: Out of Scope Changes check

Explanation

The changes remain within [#18555]. Contract updates, server handling, desktop failure forwarding, tool documentation, and focused tests directly support load-failure reporting. No unrelated change is identified.

Full details: Description check

Explanation

The description is complete and follows the required sections. It explains the problem, implementation, scope, focused verification, limitations, evidence, and tooling. It links issue #18555 and identifies the triage source, although it does not quote an explicit maintainer approval comment.

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JJulius Marminge3d ago

Taking over this one for batch terminal-preview-18b. I will merge current main into the existing branch, keep the original commits, and rebuild and verify the load-failure reporting without merging the PR.

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Merge remote-tracking branch 'origin/main' into feat/preview-load-error-v2e4dc55b
test(preview): tighten load failure regression coveragee750fdb
fix(preview): keep load failures tied to the current page30c0b0b

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JJulius Marminge1d ago

Fresh review confirms both older findings are withdrawn and do not apply: the browser event subscription precedes server-created tabs, and loadErrorOf follows the existing Playwright Promise-to-Effect boundary. Resolving those two threads.

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Merge origin/main (8acbefefc5) into fix/issue-185550ddb7c9
fix(preview): redact data: payloads from reported load errors5dbd412

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