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fix(server): queued preview actions no longer start after their deadline, except recording stop - #16941

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Problem

On a server-rendered preview tab, a click queued behind a stalled snapshot can execute after its caller has timed out. Retrying can then click twice. This PR prevents an agent action from starting once its host-side request budget has expired; it does not cancel work already running.

Change

Record performance.now() + request.timeoutMs when the in-process host receives the request. Pass that deadline to the existing tab queue and check it immediately before dispatch, after the ownership and epoch checks. An expired action rejects with the existing PreviewAutomationTimeoutError mapping instead of touching the page.

recordingStop remains exempt: a late stop must still stop the capture. Running work retains its queue reservation until it settles, so a stalled capture cannot overlap another one. No timer, wire-contract change or product-default change is added.

The production change is confined to ServerBrowser.ts and SessionControl.ts; the other two files test that same dispatch rule. Much of the displayed ServerBrowser.ts diff is re-indentation around the added argument.

Scope and approval

This addresses one consequence of the #16921 triage, posted by Grok on behalf of Julius: server-side work survives caller failure and a stalled snapshot holds the tab queue. The late-click regression is reproduced by the added test; the triage is not approval of this specific implementation.

Current main@ab3a3cd1 still lacks the dispatch deadline check. Merged #19561 changes clipboard copying in the same file and is retained in the tested combination. Open #17871 (host retention) and #18873 (capture/page continuity) are complementary, not dependencies.

This does not fix shared-host eviction, the underlying snapshot stall or Cloudflare challenges. Actions that start before their deadline retain their full operation timeout. The deadline starts at host receipt; it is not an end-to-end cancellation signal. A different request can still disconnect a caller before this request's own deadline.

This head supersedes the earlier broad revisions: broker changes and snapshot/MCP defaults are absent from the four-file net diff. Earlier reviews of those revisions are historical. Please squash-merge to take only the final change.

Verification

  • Regression fixtures fail against the original production sources (main@85272ee and fix(preview): keep browser sessions available after action timeouts #17871 695f58d): a timed-out queued click, a click exactly at its deadline, and the queue skip while allowing subsequent work. They pass with this patch.
  • Boundary coverage keeps actions 1 ms before deadline, running actions, in-flight capture reservations and late recording stops working. The server tests use the real broker, manager and queue with Chromium I/O stubbed.
  • On 15 October, head 2c73a63 merges cleanly with main@ab3a3cd1. In an isolated combination with fix(shared): match Windows home paths case-insensitively in file links #19627 (a1f9d1c, compatibility check only), 54 browser/control tests pass; the shared-path suites also pass (59), for 113 total. Server/shared typechecks, targeted lint, formatting and git diff --check pass.
vp test run apps/server/src/preview/ServerBrowser.test.ts apps/server/src/preview/SessionControl.test.ts
vp run --filter t3 typecheck
Earlier compatibility checks and known native-browser test limitation

Earlier combinations with #17871 695f58d and #18873 b9fa58f passed 53 and 62 tests plus typecheck. They used 5b4bec9, differing from this head only in a code comment; these are not new current-main measurements.

Earlier unchanged PreviewAutomationBroker/ServerBrowserPage suites passed 58 tests in 2 of 4 runs. The other two failed in clicks the fifth repeated delete control without touching row one with Protocol error (Page.captureScreenshot): Unable to capture screenshot. The same test failed on original main 85272ee in 3 of 6 runs. The new 54-test check uses stubbed Chromium I/O and does not establish that this native capture failure is fixed.

Not tested: packaged desktop or native macOS. Fork CI still requires maintainer authorization; local checks do not replace it.

Implemented with GPT-6.1-Sol in Codex. The source was previously reviewed with Claude Opus 5.5 and Claude Fable 5.1 in Claude Code; this description update was prepared with GPT-6.1-Sol in Codex.

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Browser requests now calculate absolute deadlines and pass them to controlled session operations. SessionControl rejects queued actions at dispatch when their deadlines have arrived. Running actions retain their queue reservation. Tests cover dispatch boundaries and browser operations queued behind snapshots or captures.

Changes: Preview operation deadlines

Layer / File(s) Summary
Session dispatch deadline checks
apps/server/src/preview/SessionControl.ts, apps/server/src/preview/SessionControl.test.ts
SessionControl accepts an optional deadline and rejects queued actions when dispatch occurs at or after it. Tests cover deadline boundaries and confirm that running work retains its queue reservation.
Browser request deadline propagation
apps/server/src/preview/ServerBrowser.ts, apps/server/src/preview/ServerBrowser.test.ts
ServerBrowser computes a deadline from the request timeout and passes it to controlled tab operations. Tests cover queued clicks, screenshot captures, and a recording stop that executes after its deadline.

Priority: ➖ Normal

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

Change: Bug fix

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant Client
  participant ServerBrowser
  participant SessionControl
  Client->>ServerBrowser: send request with timeout
  ServerBrowser->>ServerBrowser: compute deadline and run operation
  ServerBrowser->>SessionControl: invoke controlled operation with deadline
  SessionControl->>SessionControl: check deadline at dispatch
  SessionControl-->>ServerBrowser: run action or reject expired action
  ServerBrowser-->>Client: return operation result
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Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to 2c73a

Expired queued preview actions are rejected without starting, while recording stops can still complete. No issue identified here prevents merging after normal checks.

### Architecture Summary

Architecture risk: 🔵 Low · up to 2c73a

The change affects 1 system.

Changed systems: apps/server

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  • observed — apps/server (service) was modified; 4 changed files map to changed impact.

Before / after behavior

  • observed — Modified behavior in apps/server/src/preview/SessionControl.test.ts: The test imports add afterEach and vi for the deadline tests and mock cleanup.
  • observed — Modified behavior in apps/server/src/preview/SessionControl.test.ts: A new suite tests deadline behavior at dispatch: an action queued with a 100 ms timeout is rejected when dispatch occurs at 100 ms, while a subsequent action still runs; an action dispatched at 99 ms runs exactly once; and work that started before its deadline continues and holds the queue until completion, after which the next action runs.
  • observed — Modified behavior in apps/server/src/preview/SessionControl.ts: action accepts an optional deadline and, after its existing open, permission, and epoch checks, rejects queued work with a TimeoutError DOMException when performance.now() >= deadlineMs; otherwise it runs the action.
  • observed — Modified behavior in apps/server/src/preview/SessionControl.ts: The agent documentation now states that the monotonic deadline is checked at dispatch and running work keeps the queue; agent also accepts an optional deadlineMs.
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Superseded (14 Oct). This snapshot-compatibility reply concerned the earlier c8201d7 patch. Its contract, MCP-output and capture-preference changes are outside the current PR diff. See the PR description for current scope and verification. The original reply is preserved in the edit history.

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@hogeheer499-commits Thanks for clarifying the compatibility boundary. I inspected c8201d7 and withdraw the snapshot compatibility finding.

The code and tests support these conclusions:

  • @t3tools/contracts is private. The reference search found no web, mobile, or desktop decoder of PreviewAutomationSnapshot.
  • registerPreviewSnapshot advertises no outputSchema. Its structured metadata excludes PNG data, so the external MCP result is not the full internal snapshot shape.
  • Only includeImage: false without save: true requests capture omission. Default, explicit-image, and saved snapshots retain capture.
  • The tests cover both omitted screenshots and older hosts that still return PNG data. They check metadata preservation, image suppression, and the next default request.

This evidence resolves my concern for the identified consumers and older-host response path. It does not establish compatibility for arbitrary custom consumers.

I verified the code and test assertions, not the reported test execution. The maintainer review requirement remains unchanged.


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Learning: In pingdotgg/t3code, t3tools/contracts is a private TypeScript workspace package. PreviewAutomationSnapshot is an internal host-result schema used by server code. apps/server/src/mcp/McpHttpServer.ts registers preview_snapshot without an external MCP outputSchema and excludes PNG data from structured metadata. Do not treat the external MCP result as the full PreviewAutomationSnapshot shape. apps/server/src/mcp/toolkits/preview/handlers.ts requests capture omission only when includeImage is false and save is not true. Default, explicit-image, and saved snapshots retain capture. apps/server/src/mcp/McpHttpServer.test.ts covers older hosts that ignore the capture preference and return PNG data, while the formatter suppresses image content as requested.

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Superseded (14 Oct): this describes an earlier, broader revision of this PR. The current scope and evidence are in the PR description.

@juliusmarminge The fix for #16921 is ready for maintainer review, based on your merged #16939. CodeRabbit withdrew its snapshot compatibility finding; its remaining Approvability gate requires a maintainer review because the change spans the server and contracts.

CI, Mobile Fingerprint Check, Mobile EAS Preview and Web Preview are all action_required, with zero jobs started. Could you approve the fork workflow runs and review the PR?

Current head: c8201d7. The production changes passed 181 focused tests and native Windows checks; the tests-only compatibility follow-up passed all 24 MCP server tests. The PR documents the remaining hidden-guest PNG capture limitation.

adampeterhiggins added a commit to adampeterhiggins/t3code that referenced this pull request Oct 8, 2026
Port pingdotgg#16941, including compatibility and navigation timeout regression tests.

Upstream commits: f88dc5f, c8201d7, f07b86a.

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Superseded (14 Oct). This reply concerned navigation-budget changes in the earlier e9f5f2d patch. Those changes are outside the current PR diff. Started operations keep their full operation timeout; bounding them by the remaining budget is left for a follow-up. See the PR description for the boundary and verification. The original reply is preserved in the edit history.

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Current review map (14 Oct). The earlier, broader proposal in this comment is superseded. The PR description is the canonical scope and verification record.

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Verdict: Approved at 2c73a63

Macroscope's review found this PR approvable — This is a narrowly scoped preview-server bug fix that prevents expired queued actions from executing while preserving in-flight work and recording cleanup. The production diff is small, behavior is covered by focused tests, and it introduces no schema, default, infrastructure, or sensitive-package changes.

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@hogeheer499-commits hogeheer499-commits changed the title fix(server): isolate browser request timeouts and revoke expired work fix(server): queued preview actions no longer start after their deadline Oct 14, 2026
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A stop cannot act twice, and rejecting a late one at dispatch left capture running.
Cover a stop queued behind a timed-out snapshot with the real broker and control queue.
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