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Asked to open a dev server in the T3 preview, agents either open a blank tab and then navigate it to the port (121 such pairs over Oct 3 to 31), or pass target to preview_open. preview_open has no target, so T3 drops it and the agent gets a blank tab: 21 real calls did this, and 11 of them recovered with a second preview_navigate.

preview_open now takes the same dev-server target as preview_navigate ({kind:'environment-port', port, path?, protocol?}). The server opens the tab and navigates it, so it's one tool call. When a model passes both url and target, the target wins, since it knows the environment. No contracts change; the parameter lives in the MCP tool schema only.

The mcp-tool-use eval now grades T3 tool inputs as T3 decodes them, so keys a tool doesn't declare are dropped like in production. Before, a target passed to main's preview_open counted as a pass. Across 7,072 recorded T3 calls from earlier runs, no other call had a dropped key. New case: dev-server-opened-blank-then-navigated (bad), built from the real pattern.

Results

Eval, 5 samples per cell. Baseline is main's preview tools; candidate is 5a0fe5b317. Simulated thread, real T3 tool text.

	Sonnet 5.5 main → new	GPT-6.1 Sol main → new
dev-server-opened-blank-then-navigated	0/5 → 5/5	0/5 → 5/5
Preview calls per sample	1.2 → 1.0	2.2 → 2.0
Wall time	10.6 s → 6.4 s	25.2 s → 28.1 s

Sol also calls preview_status first in both conditions, which is why it stays near 2 calls. Its wall time didn't improve.

Regression, 9 existing preview cases, GPT-6.1 Sol, 2 samples each: main 18/18, new 18/18.

Real path

Second dev server from this branch, prompt "open the dev server on port 6381 in the t3 preview in the background, i just want to see it loaded. don't click anything." Claude Haiku 5.5 and Codex GPT-6 Luna each called preview_open once with target: {kind: "environment-port", port: 6381} and open: false. Both tabs landed on http://localhost:6381/, title "T3 Code (Beta)".

Limits

• The desktop preview host was not exercised; the server-side browser host was. Both receive the same open then navigate requests that preview_navigate already sends.
• The tool list grows by 464 bytes; this needs the agent-context-increase label.

Opus 5.5 in Claude Code, running in T3 Code. Implementation drafted by GPT-6.1 Sol.

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Reviewed with sol-loop: 1 round with gpt-6.1-sol at high, plus a nit fix. Verdicts: approved, approved. Final merge judge after rebase onto main: claude-opus-5-5, merge.

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Thread transfer impact

✅ Thread transfer remains within every enforced ceiling.

Provider	Metric	Main baseline	This PR	Impact	PR ceiling
Codex	Total thread wire	5.0 KiB	5.0 KiB	0 B (0.0%)	6.8 KiB	✅
Codex	Thread snapshot wire	3.8 KiB	3.8 KiB	0 B (0.0%)	4.9 KiB	✅
Codex	Live turn WebSocket wire	1.2 KiB	1.2 KiB	0 B (0.0%)	2.0 KiB	✅
Codex	Live turn WebSocket decoded	21.6 KiB	21.6 KiB	0 B (0.0%)	24.4 KiB	✅
Codex	Live turn messages	2	2	0 (0.0%)	8	✅
Claude	Total thread wire	5.0 KiB	5.0 KiB	+29 B (+0.6%)	6.8 KiB	✅
Claude	Thread snapshot wire	3.8 KiB	3.8 KiB	0 B (0.0%)	4.9 KiB	✅
Claude	Live turn WebSocket wire	1.2 KiB	1.3 KiB	+29 B (+2.3%)	2.0 KiB	✅
Claude	Live turn WebSocket decoded	21.9 KiB	21.9 KiB	+41 B (+0.2%)	24.4 KiB	✅
Claude	Live turn messages	1	2	+1 (+100.0%)	8	✅

Baseline: 7195b69 · PR result: 8575b66 · Source CI: success

Scenario and decoded snapshot size

10 historical turns, 5 command tools per turn, 878.9 KiB retained MCP result per historical turn, and a 1.05 MiB retained result in the measured turn.

• Codex decoded thread snapshot: 108.5 KiB
• Claude decoded thread snapshot: 108.8 KiB

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Approvability

Verdict: Approved at 8575b66

Macroscope's review found this PR approvable — Adds direct dev-server targeting to preview_open using existing tab navigation, while preserving behavior when no target is supplied. The change is limited to preview tooling and evaluation normalization, with no evident material risk requiring human judgment.

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Walkthrough

preview_open accepts an optional environment-port target. When a target is provided, it opens a tab and navigates that tab to the target. The evaluation harness decodes T3 tool inputs with parameter schemas and adds a visual-preview regression case.

Changes: Preview Open Target Navigation

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Tool schema and target-based opening apps/server/src/mcp/toolkits/preview/tools.ts, apps/server/src/mcp/toolkits/preview/handlers.ts, apps/server/src/mcp/toolkits/preview/tools.test.ts, apps/server/src/mcp/toolkits/preview/handlers.test.ts, apps/server/src/provider/agentContextBudget.json	preview_open accepts an optional target. When a target is provided, the handler opens a tab and navigates that tab to the target. Tests cover accepted and rejected parameters and the open-then-navigate request flow. The configured tool-list byte count increases.
Evaluation input normalization and regression case evals/mcp-tool-use/run.ts, evals/mcp-tool-use/cases/visual-preview.ndjson	The evaluation harness decodes T3 tool inputs with parameter schemas when available. The visual-preview case expects the agent to use preview_open once with environment port 5173 and not call preview_navigate.

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

Change: Feature

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant Caller
  participant PreviewOpen
  participant PreviewAutomationBroker
  Caller->>PreviewOpen: Invoke with target
  PreviewOpen->>PreviewAutomationBroker: Send open request
  PreviewAutomationBroker-->>PreviewOpen: Return opened tab ID
  PreviewOpen->>PreviewAutomationBroker: Navigate opened tab to target
  PreviewAutomationBroker-->>PreviewOpen: Return navigation result
  PreviewOpen-->>Caller: Return final status

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Suggested reviewers: t3dotgg, juliusmarminge

Merge Risk: Minimal · up to ffb85

Target-based preview opening is implemented correctly; the remaining decoder coverage is a low-risk follow-up.

Pre-merge checks: 3 · 1

Failed checks: 1 warning

Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
Description check		The description covers the problem, the change, the verification, and the limits. The Problem and Change content is clear and specific: agents pass target to preview_open, T3 drops it, and the tab ope…	Add a Scope and approval section. Link the triaged bug issue or the discussion where a maintainer approved this direction and scope, including the approval comment. If no prior issue exists, explain why this change qualifies as a very small…

Passed checks: 3 passed

Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check		The title names the main change: preview_open now opens a dev-server port directly through the new target parameter. It matches the changeset, which adds target to preview_open's schema and handler, a…
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The title names the main change: preview_open now opens a dev-server port directly through the new target parameter. It matches the changeset, which adds target to preview_open's schema and handler, and the objectives describe the same change. The title is short and specific. It uses the conventional commit format the template recommends.

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The description covers the problem, the change, the verification, and the limits. The Problem and Change content is clear and specific: agents pass target to preview_open, T3 drops it, and the tab opens blank. The Verification section gives eval results, a regression run, and a real-path test with observed outcomes. The Scope and approval section is missing. The description does not link a triaged bug issue or a discussion with maintainer approval, and it does not explain why the change qualifies without one. The description also does not mention the CONTRIBUTING.md requirements. The template asks for approval for new behavior, and this change adds a new tool parameter, so the approval gap is significant.

Resolution

Add a Scope and approval section. Link the triaged bug issue or the discussion where a maintainer approved this direction and scope, including the approval comment. If no prior issue exists, explain why this change qualifies as a very small, focused fix of an obvious bug, or as focused configuration of an established capability. Explain what the existing preview_navigate target capability covers and why this change stays within it. The description also should state which template section headings it follows: Problem, Change, Scope and approval, and Verification.

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Minor · Clean up newly created tabs when target navigation fails. · handlers.ts:199-211

apps/server/src/mcp/toolkits/preview/handlers.ts:199-211
Minor · Stability & Availability · Quick win

Clean up newly created tabs when target navigation fails.

When target is supplied, preview_open creates or reuses a tab, then navigates it. If navigation fails, the error propagates but a newly created background tab remains open. Repeated failures can consume the per-agent tab limit.

Close only a tab created by this call on navigation failure. Do not close a tab that preview_open reused.

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Update the `preview_open` flow to close the opened tab if the subsequent
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Require target.kind in the previewopen expectation.

30-30: Minor · Functional Correctness · Quick win

Require target.kind in the preview_open expectation.

{"target.port": 5173} does not check the target kind. A call with target.port 5173 and a wrong target.kind can satisfy this expectation. Adding target.kind closes that gap. It does not check other invalid target fields.

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-{"tool": "preview_open", "args": {"target.port": 5173}}
+{"tool": "preview_open", "args": {"target.kind": "environment-port", "target.port": 5173}}

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Update the expected arguments for the preview_open call in
dev-server-opened-blank-then-navigated to require target.kind to be
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Add focused decoder coverage to run.test.ts.

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Add focused decoder coverage to run.test.ts.

recordedCall and the code-mode path both normalize T3 inputs before grading. Existing tests pass only empty T3 inputs through these paths and assert tool names, not decoded fields. The nested target.options tests construct graded calls directly and bypass normalization.

Add cases for declared and undeclared top-level fields and for declared and undeclared nested fields. A regression that grades raw T3 input instead of decoded input would otherwise pass.

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