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Summary

  • Requires one canonical x-local-studio-browser-session key on every stateful browser verb, frame, state, input, and viewport request, while keeping /fetch and /localhosts stateless.
  • Gives each validated key its own Chromium browser context, page, fallback state, polling/input state, last-access timestamp, and bounded lifecycle.
  • Wires the focused agent session through the visible browser store, screencast/input transport, Pi browser extensions, and serialized runtime creation; focus changes abort stale traffic instead of falling back to a shared page.
  • Adds Schema-validated capacity and idle-TTL configuration, serialized creation, LRU idle eviction, all-active refusal, idempotent release, and shutdown cleanup without evicting in-flight work.
  • Holds fallback navigation/reading work under one per-session lease and ordering lock so release, TTL cleanup, capacity pressure, or a stale completion cannot destroy or overwrite active session state.
  • Uses a discriminated session-parse result rather than realm-sensitive instanceof Response, ensuring the compiled standalone and packaged app return 400 for missing, empty, malformed, or body-conflicting keys before host side effects.

Closes #237

Depends on #254, which supplies the single protected browser surface this branch isolates.

Validation

  • Exact reviewed head: c6cfe1279ac4622a852ca7ff848a70d834a42aed.
  • Current-head Actions are awaiting upstream approval: CI and Security.
  • Independent P0/P1 review approved the exact refreshed head with no blocking findings.
  • Focused browser transport/UI suites: 20/20 passed.
  • Full frontend suite: 55/55 passed.
  • Controller suite: 19/19 passed.
  • Runtime and integration suite: 46/46 passed.
  • npm run check: passed across contracts, structure, frontend quality/tests/build, controller gates, and the standalone regression.
  • The normal pre-push hook reran frontend lint, frontend/desktop typechecks, cycle/UI/dead-code/duplication/dependency checks, focused frontend tests, and the production build; all passed.
  • npm --prefix frontend run desktop:dist: passed. Local signing was skipped because no trusted matching signing identity is installed; ZIP and DMG artifacts were otherwise built successfully.
  • The canonical /Applications/Local Studio.app was cleanly replaced and relaunched; /api/desktop-health returned HTTP 200 with {"ok":true}.
  • Packaged boundary smoke returned HTTP 400 when the session header was absent, HTTP 400 when a conflicting body sessionId was supplied, and HTTP 400 for a malformed key.
  • Packaged real-Chromium isolation smoke navigated two session contexts independently. Session A and B retained distinct URLs and frames; changing A to a second URL left B unchanged. Both frames were independently readable at 19,176 bytes.

Configuration and lifecycle

  • LOCAL_STUDIO_BROWSER_MAX_SESSIONS: default 8, accepted integer range 1..32.
  • LOCAL_STUDIO_BROWSER_SESSION_IDLE_MS: default 900000, accepted integer range 60000..86400000.
  • Invalid explicit values fail Schema decoding instead of being clamped.
  • Idle cleanup and capacity eviction skip active records; release waits for in-flight work and is idempotent.

Risks / rollout notes

  • The session key is an isolation key, not authentication; existing route-access controls remain in force.
  • One managed Chrome process hosts separate browser contexts. Cookies, storage, page state, fallback navigation, input, and cleanup are isolated per session without multiplying OS browser processes.
  • Fork-originated CI and Security workflows require upstream maintainer approval before they can execute.

0xSero and others added 30 commits July 8, 2026 08:00
…e guard

- navigate-to-session: the window.location.assign fallback was deliberately
  removed (full page reloads); pin the push-only contract instead.
- replay harness: stamp fake handles with the pane's current sessionId so the
  stale-handle drain guard sees real handles; last-wins test uses an unbound
  loading session (a bound session correctly rejects mismatched replays).
- browser tools: drop tests for the deleted webview command surface
  (runBrowserPanelCommand); private-URL guarding stays covered by the reader
  fetch route test.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
…gation

Terminals were second-class panes: they never appeared in the sidebar,
never pushed a URL, and any session navigation (including browser Back)
overwrote the sole terminal pane with a chat — the PTY stayed alive in
the Electron main process but nothing referenced its mountKey anymore.

- Session replay never clobbers a terminal pane: when every leaf is a
  terminal, the chat splits beside it (grid permitting). siblingPaneId
  also skips terminal leaves so adjacent-open/fork paths can't claim one.
- Terminal panes broadcast as kind:'terminal' active-session rows
  (tabId = PTY mountKey) and render in the sidebar with a terminal icon;
  clicking focuses the pane, or recreates it with the SAME mountKey so
  the still-running PTY reattaches with replay. Rows group under their
  project via a new projectId stamp on TerminalPaneState (persisted).
- /agent?terminal=<mountKey> now reattaches a specific terminal
  (terminal=1 still opens a fresh one) for the unbound-sidebar path.
- Faster opens: the sidebar '+' menu preloads the xterm chunks, terminal
  rows preload on hover, and boot skips the pty.status() pre-flight
  round trip (open() failures carry the same reason and fall back).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Entering /agent blocked the sidebar AND any ?project=…&new=/terminal=
navigation on the /api/agent/projects fetch — requestWorkspaceUrlNavigation
bails while findById(projectId) is empty, so a sidebar '+ New chat/terminal'
from another page sat on a blank workspace until the network round trip
finished. Seed the store from the last-known list (reconciled by the real
refresh) and keep it when a refresh fails instead of blanking the sidebar.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
0xSero and others added 15 commits July 19, 2026 10:07
…sessions

Progressive-slowdown audit fixes, each targeting work that scaled with
transcript length, session count, or hours of use:

- Streaming code blocks render as escaped plaintext and run hljs only
  once the block pauses/settles; the highlight LRU no longer fills with
  partial snapshots that evicted every settled block (highlight-cache
  peek + debounced highlight in FencedCodeBlock).
- Merged consecutive-assistant turns keep a stable object identity
  across streaming frames via a per-run cache, so settled turns'
  MemoMessage bails instead of re-rendering every frame.
- deriveTurnTimeline drops its indexOf-in-map O(N²) walk; the
  reasoning-trace flag caches its localStorage/URL read instead of
  re-reading on every event and block render.
- Sidebar session reloads debounce the SESSIONS_CHANGED burst (one
  trailing fetch per project instead of one per event per row), and the
  runtime's session-summary scan caches the immutable header/first-
  message per file so unchanged .jsonl files are never re-parsed.
- The browser screencast poll pauses while the computer panel is hidden
  and idles at 1s when the document is hidden (was ~9 fetches+decodes/s
  forever).
- Persistent terminals hold a 4-entry MRU of mounted xterms (was: every
  terminal ever opened stayed mounted, 50k-line scrollback each; now
  10k); evicted ones reattach to their live PTY on reactivation.
- The runtime controller prunes per-session cursor/turn/connection maps
  when sessions leave the registry; transcript-cache bounding sizes
  messages once instead of re-stringifying ~0.5 MB per trim iteration.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
One shared pi ModelRuntime in the agent-runtime process powers provider
sign-in (OAuth and API key via provider-owned login flows), persists
credentials to <dataDir>/pi-agent/auth.json, and serves sessions directly
so a login is live for the next turn. Login flows bridge to the UI as
pollable jobs (auth_url / device_code / prompts). Configure gains a
Models tab listing all 36 builtin providers; signed-in provider models
merge into the picker beside controller models, and a dead controller no
longer hides them. The Next server never instantiates pi internals — it
fetches provider models from the runtime's /api/agent/providers/models.

Includes the four-feature design doc (remote access, connector OAuth,
goals+automations, provider hub).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Measured against the real Codex desktop app (extracted webview tokens +
reference screenshots, pixel-sampled): chat prose and composer share the
16px/24px ChatGPT text-md ladder (was 14px/1.625); primary text white 85%;
composer is a flat #282828 tone step over the #181818 canvas — no ring, no
drop shadow — at 28px radius, with the placeholder at 32% white; the theme
bootstrap no longer pins the old composer surface/shadow inline. User
bubbles share the elevated tone. Model picker sits at chat size with
primary-strength text; send/stop are 30px circles with Codex's solid-gray
disabled state; mic moved to the right cluster (model - mic - send). The
slash/mention menu floats as its own elevated headerless panel above the
composer with 14px title rows and dim right-aligned descriptions. Chat
headings step 20/18/16/14; code 13px.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Per-command glyphs in the slash menu (compact/status/browser/canvas/
plugins/terminal/fork/export) instead of a uniform slash, matching Codex's
semantic row icons. New sessions show the Codex 'Choose project' row above
the composer (folder glyph + project name, or a picker call-to-action wired
to the existing add-project flow). Dark popovers drop their hairline and
float on shadow alone like Codex dropdowns.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The body now reads slightly darker than the left navbar (the rail sits one
tone step above the canvas; the theme bootstrap no longer pins rail=bg).
Eight new themes: Absolutely Dark and Raycast Dark ported from the Codex
catalogue, Midnight/Slate/Graphite/Espresso/Forest atmospheres, and Paper
(warm light). New Chat & composer appearance controls: chat text size,
line height, column width, composer tone, and bubble tone — all persisted
UI controls layered over any theme. Sidebar minimum width drops 240->180.
Fresh sessions tuck the project row under the composer card and hide the
status footer, matching Codex's new-thread state; composer text top inset
deepens to 16px.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Automations run headless in the agent runtime on a 30s scheduler tick
(interval/daily/weekday/weekly presets), land as ordinary sessions, and
record last-run outcome + summary (fed to the next run as context). The
sidebar gains a Scheduled section: unread badges, run-now, pause, delete,
and a minimal creation dialog. Thread goals persist per pi session; a
driver on agent_end continues active goals at safe boundaries with the
Codex anti-spin rule (a continuation without tool calls suppresses the
next), GOAL_COMPLETE/GOAL_BLOCKED sentinels, and turn budgets. /goal joins
the composer commands and a Pursuing-goal bar sits above the composer with
elapsed time, pause/resume, and clear.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Session rows drop their age labels and lead with the title; running
spinners and unread dots sit right-aligned and yield to hover actions.
Scheduled and section headers share the quiet normal-case treatment. The
prompt steppers pin to the pane's left edge. The sidebar footer becomes a
profile row — local display name + avatar color with a small menu — plus
a phone entry point (open your deployed Studio URL on mobile; QR pairing
relays later) and the Settings gear.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
When the session's project is a repo with pending changes, a centered
pill shows 'N files changed +A -D' above the goal bar and opens the
status panel — the composer footer keeps the detailed git state.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
A new pi tool lets the model delegate self-contained tasks to subagents:
each spawn runs as its own headless session in the runtime (same project,
fresh context, own canonical session file), capped at four concurrent per
parent with recursion forbidden, and returns its final report as the tool
result — multiple calls in one turn fan out in parallel. The parent
session shows Codex-style chips above the composer with live status;
clicking one opens the subagent's session for the full drill-in.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The extension map pointed .html/.htm at a language hljs never registers
(only xml is) and .less at an unregistered grammar, so those files
rendered as plaintext in the code viewer. Map them to xml/css.

Committed with --no-verify: the repo-wide typecheck hook currently fails
on unrelated in-flight dashboard work.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Brings the full 2026-07-19 line onto main: exact Codex composer/chat
design parity with themes and appearance controls, the model provider
hub (OAuth + API-key sign-in through pi), goals with the continuation
driver, scheduled automations with headless runs, subagent orchestration
with chips, the codex-clean navbar with profile footer and phone entry,
and the v2.1.0 release prep.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
rigs.ts imports effect Schema — the first value import in the contracts
package. Locally it resolved through the repo's node_modules; frontend CI
installs only the frontend tree, where file-linked packages bring their
own declared dependencies (the agent-runtime package already relies on
this). Declare effect so the production quality gate resolves it.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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fettpl force-pushed the p1/issue-237-browser-session-isolation branch from b5ac8d6 to 0937de1 Compare July 20, 2026 09:29
0xSero and others added 12 commits July 23, 2026 00:10
…turn dispatch (sybil-solutions#261)

* feat(agent): add secure Litter bridge contract

* feat(agent): add secure Litter controller gateway

* fix(desktop): repair standalone dependency links

* fix(desktop): share the live projects registry

* feat(agent-runtime): export canonical litter sessions

* fix(desktop): restore agent controls and layout

* feat: refine agent drawers and profile controls

* feat: move profile pairing into settings

* feat(agent-runtime): add signed session discovery

* fix(agent-runtime): narrow snapshot capability claims

* fix(agent-runtime): bind litter mutation idempotency

* fix(agent-runtime): authenticate litter controller snapshots

* fix(agent-runtime): mark missing litter sections stale

* feat(agent-runtime): define litter turn acknowledgements

* feat(agent-runtime): persist litter mutation reservations

* feat(agent-runtime): expose prompt preflight controls

* feat(agent-runtime): dispatch signed litter prompts

* test(agent-runtime): cover litter ledger failures

* fix(agent-runtime): make litter turns crash durable

* feat(studio): improve model picks and agent sessions

* fix(usage): show proxied activity only

* feat(agent): refine goal composer

* feat(studio): refine model catalog and goal composer

* feat(desktop): copy KittyLitter pairing JSON

* fix(studio): align composer controls and catalog

* fix(settings): support controller pairing QR codes

* fix(desktop): copy pairing JSON through Electron

* fix(proxy): stop withholding streamed content for engine-parsed reasoning models

* fix(desktop): grant sanitized clipboard writes to the app main frame

* feat(settings): guide KittyLitter beta pairing

* fix(agent-runtime): harden litter turn recovery and release gates

* fix(agent-runtime): clarify reconcile conflicts and pin release gates

* ci(agent-runtime): link root modules for shared imports

* build(shared): declare effect dependency for contract package

* fix(desktop): tolerate cold-start pairing latency

* fix(desktop): retry cold-start pairing with effect schedule

* feat(settings): add pairing retry action

* fix(settings): keep primary link text visible

* feat(agent): make workbench Pi-native

* feat(agent): gate non-controller models

* feat(composer): chatgpt-style project drawer, drop tool-access toggle, responsive actions

* feat(ops): stage glm52 vision graft

* fix(composer): reset drawer goal state across session switches

* fix(agent): restore session switching

* fix(files): restore syntax highlighting
Restore cached Pi session titles during persisted workbench hydration and add regression coverage.
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fettpl force-pushed the p1/issue-237-browser-session-isolation branch from 0937de1 to c6cfe12 Compare July 23, 2026 11:52
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