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Why the change

让用户在远程 Bot 对话中查看并操作该 Host 的 Browser 与共享 Computer 桌面,并在离开画面时向原来源交还控制权。

Requested by Vain. Refs #2500 · Track 7。认领 · Agent-Task: codex/local/01a15f0c-9191-70a2-beb2-0b3c63cf311b。

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  • Merge risk: two-way door / medium blast radius。回退即可移除入口,无数据迁移;影响远程 Browser/Computer 的控制与共享 mobile 帧恢复逻辑。重点审查控制代次、原来源释放和移除顺序。Remove 最多等待五秒清理;断网、强制关页或撤权后仍可能需要 Host 操作者恢复 Browser。
  • Verification: 本轮 pnpm install --frozen-lockfile、pnpm build、pnpm typecheck(root + mobile)、pnpm lint、pnpm format:check 均 exit 0;21 文件 / 207 项相关测试通过,GO2/Vitest 单 worker。英文 Reconnect 实际可见、可点击,恢复只读且须明确接管,浅深色截图如下。中文两次有界驱动受 Host Feed 断开影响,未取得按钮点击证据。Docker Engine 不可用,本轮 Computer 静态 204、可见输入、晚到接管 Remove 未运行;前轮 Browser 静态同 seq 恢复、旧队列丢弃、release-before-unpair 的证据保留。不是全套本地、native 或 Human QA 通过。
  • CI test plan: 本地预览 affected、mobile export yes,沿用原门禁,最终新 head 的 CI 由父任务接管。基于 main ac393cde533b,保留 T1/T2/T3 行为;公共 StyleX/Expo 修复来自 main,无重复生成器或升级补丁。四个 Browser/Computer .js/.map 自然重建后字节未变。复用现有 CLI,无新 route、bridge method 或 settings;未运行 962 文件完整套,也未调用模型。

Change outline

Remote Bot conversation → Browser / Computer panel
  source-scoped owner → existing shared viewer → HostClient → original Host
  Device-authenticated HTTP frames/input · Host Feed WebSocket uses a stream ticket

Resume / frame loss → invalidate control generation → discard old queued input
frame failure → reset cursor → fetch actual current frame → recover read-only
Remove → stop input → await original viewer release (≤5s) → revoke pairing

remote-hosts.ts 相对 main 只加 7 行;保留 #2508 icon-only strip、T1 头像、T2 unread/read observer 和 T3 source identity。没有 environment tabs 或 full-client fallback。Web 将原始错误转成当地语言的恢复提示,原始 cause 留在诊断;共享 mobile wire 不承载 Web 文案。

当前 head 6f6465172aefb48a70a086724508e0f0e1604ff0:下列英文截图来自本轮实际构建,故障只注入帧请求失败,未伪造画面。Reconnect 位于 viewer controls,避开被 workspace CSS 隐藏的通用空状态区域。

主题 帧失败:按钮可见 点击后:只读恢复
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保留初次功能交付的真实前后截图,以下属于历史证据,不替代本轮 Computer 验证:

主题 添加查看器前 Browser Container Computer
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Computer 指 Bot 的共享桌面,历史 QA 使用独占 Linux Webtop / cua-driver 0.28.0 容器。当前 Docker Linux Engine 管道缺失,未重启共享服务。两台任务 Host 与 fixture 已停止,保留 profiles/evidence/volume;容器当前状态无法复核。

共享 mobile 恢复逻辑的 iOS/Android 新 SDK binary、浅深色与大字验收转统一外部 handoff;DSH Desktop、实体双机 real tailnet 未验。远程聊天仍仅文字和附件名称,图片/卡片缺失;Host looks 按设计为设备本地。前轮提及的 workspace-grant-roundtrip.test.ts 与 client-observer.test.ts 共 11 项独立通过,未复现 node:sqlite 失败;本轮未重复这两个测试。中文 live action-unconfirmed 文案目前只有源码测试。

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features
    • Added browser and computer viewers for remote Hosts, with live frames and interactive mouse, keyboard, wheel, and text input.
    • Added controls to take over, pause, resume, retry, and close viewer sessions.
    • Added localized English and Chinese viewer labels, statuses, controls, and recovery messages.
  • Bug Fixes
    • Improved recovery after connection failures, invalid frames, and interrupted polling while preventing stale input.
    • Host removal now safely releases active viewers before access is revoked, with bounded cleanup time.
  • Documentation
    • Added user guidance for remote viewer controls, recovery, reconnection, and cleanup behavior.

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The PR adds remote Browser and Computer viewers for paired Hosts. It adds viewer controls, input forwarding, session cleanup, frame recovery, and localized status messages.

Changes: Remote viewers

Layer / File(s) Summary
Frame polling recovery
apps/mobile/src/host/*-viewer.ts, packages/client/test/remote-host-viewer-recovery.test.ts
Browser and Computer polling clear stale frame cursors after request failures and invalid responses. Empty responses clear the cursor when the viewer is not live. Tests cover recovery with unchanged frames and require explicit control reacquisition before input.
Viewer sessions and host cleanup
packages/client/src/client/remote-host-viewer.ts, packages/client/src/client/remote-hosts.ts, packages/client/test/remote-host-viewer.test.ts, packages/client/test/remote-host-viewer-removal.test.ts, packages/client/test/remote-viewer-auth.test.ts, docs/architecture/botharness-architecture.md, .agents/skills/verify-deepseekbot/features/remote-hosts.md
The client manages viewer sessions, control, serialized input, connection changes, and release cleanup. Host removal waits for viewer cleanup for up to five seconds before pairing revocation. Tests cover session lifecycle, removal, and device-authenticated requests.
Viewer interface and localized states
packages/client/src/client/remote-conversation-view.tsx, packages/client/src/client/remote-host-viewer-panel.tsx, packages/client/src/client/locale.ts, packages/client/test/remote-host-viewer-panel.test.tsx, changes/2500-remote-viewers.md
The conversation view exposes viewer controls when the selected Bot has the corresponding access capability. The panel renders frames, forwards input, and displays localized states. English and Chinese translations, UI tests, and release notes cover these changes.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes

Change: Feature

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  actor User
  participant RemoteConversationView
  participant RemoteHostViewerPanel
  participant RemoteHostViewer
  participant HostClient
  participant BrowserViewer
  User->>RemoteConversationView: Select Browser viewer
  RemoteConversationView->>RemoteHostViewerPanel: Render selected viewer
  RemoteHostViewerPanel->>RemoteHostViewer: Create and subscribe
  RemoteHostViewer->>HostClient: Request frames or send control/input
  HostClient->>BrowserViewer: Forward frame or input request
  BrowserViewer-->>HostClient: Return frame or response
  HostClient-->>RemoteHostViewer: Return frame or response
  RemoteHostViewer-->>RemoteHostViewerPanel: Publish viewer state
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Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 6f646

Remote viewers work as intended in the main flows. Two small issues remain. A Computer viewer can briefly show "unreachable" with a blank frame after the Bot is resumed during input. A no-access message can also say "Browser" for the Computer viewer. Neither blocks merging, but both are quick to fix.

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Exact-head review handoff: 7b8a61f1202a58594df8b04c40add6d0a306c3e4, based on b1cf50ed22c65fe0292c236b07d9b11d1d7afbb3.

The HTML explainer was regenerated with the repository's answer-me-with-html CLI, with exact-head code links and desktop/narrow preview checks. It is available in the local task handoff and this task's T3 inline artifact. No authorized public HTML attachment/hosting path was available, so this is not a GitHub-accessible explainer link. The eight real UI screenshots in the PR body were separately verified rendered at 1440×900.

Only T2's independent StyleX fix e826699150a4 was integrated. Final pnpm build, typecheck, lint and format passed; generated Browser/Computer JS/maps are clean. The generator change triggers existing full CI/mobile checks; those are pending parent review. Prior isolated Host/UI evidence remains applicable to unchanged viewer source; no physical-machine tailnet, DSH Desktop or native phone qualification is claimed. Supplemental Windows memory-test timeouts and the independent main reproduction are recorded in the PR body. Parent owns Human QA and merge; no merge performed.

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Track 7 r1 fixes are source-ready, not yet pushed. Reviewed head remains 7b8a61f12; its green CI does not validate these new changes.

  • Spec P2 input generation: reproduced Browser/Computer click → queued text → Resume → new takeover; old input is now invalidated. The Web adapter also rejects the shared Computer viewer's implicit not-paused retry after control loss.
  • Spec P2 Remove: reproduced late takeover with real shared HostClient and an in-memory carrier. Viewers stop input synchronously; original-Host takeover/release cleanup precedes unpair, bounded by five seconds. Timeout continues removal with the documented possible Browser operator-recovery limit. remote-hosts.ts adds only three cleanup lines relative to the reviewed head.
  • Spec P2 frame-only loss: Feed stays connected throughout the regression; frame failure clears control/frame and invalidates queued input, recovery requires explicit takeover.

Local source head fb50a879990a7ee9bbcc168b6a3ffe6aa4a26174, rebased on main e0bbe34a4d4fcb36973fde9f1fa907102736640c. Preserved T1 RemoteAvatar in header, messages and drafts plus T7 viewer entry. Duplicate canonicalStyleX patch was dropped as already upstream. Five focused files / 40 tests pass with process-local GOMAXPROCS=2, Vitest one worker; touched oxlint/oxfmt pass. Full build/typecheck/lint, new-head CI and live r1 QA await the parent-owned heavy slot. No Host/device/build was started in this fix round. Previous evidence and limitations remain; parent owns new independent r2 and merge.

Task: codex/local/01a15f0c-9191-70a2-beb2-0b3c63cf311b · Refs #2500.

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T7 heavy-window handoff — Agent-Task: codex/local/01a15f0c-9191-70a2-beb2-0b3c63cf311b; Refs #2500, PR #2539.

已 rebase main 30f62e48c7d9,保留 T1 avatars/preview、T2 activity/unread/read observer 和 icon-only Host strip;remote-hosts.ts 仍为 additive 7 行。公共 canonical StyleX 修复已在 main,无重复 diff。

本轮 build/typecheck/lint/format 各自通过,关联 144 项与 workspace-grant-roundtrip/client-observer 11 项通过。Browser/Computer 四个生成文件由完整 build 重生成后与 HEAD/main 相同,无人工 hash 修改。

真实 Browser 验证:静止同 seq 当前帧恢复、后续 204、恢复只读、显式接管、旧队列丢弃、晚到 takeover 的 Remove 先 release 后 unpair。Computer 的正常画面/控制和旧队列丢弃有证据;静止恢复受运行时连续新 seq 影响,45 秒内 117 个 200、无 204,后续 Computer Remove 未执行。先前 cua-driver capture-failed 会话已结束也保留为运行时前提记录。没有用假帧证明通过。

截图复核发现工作区 CSS 隐藏通用空状态操作区,离线 Reconnect 按钮实际不可见。已在本地 b526b5cdc1894b8ffa3e9ab95c0aec7f95febbe5 把它移入 viewer 自身 controls,轻量 28 项及 touched lint/format 通过。该最后修正尚未 build/runtime,未推送;旧 PR head/CI 不证明它通过。 等父任务重排窗口后补验证与最终提交。

状态:handed-off(重型窗口已释放)。自有两个 Host、fixture 与独占容器均已停止,profiles/evidence/volume 保留。共享 mobile 六行恢复逻辑的 native QA 留统一交接;不启动设备,不合并。英文故障文案有实际截图,中文及 live action-unconfirmed 文案当前仅 SSR 覆盖。

限制不变:remote chat 仅文字/附件名;Host looks 按设备保存;DSH Desktop、物理双机 tailnet 和原生手机未验证。所有早期失败证据保留;父任务管理新 head CI 和复审。

Issue: #2500

Agent-Task: codex/local/01a15f0c-9191-70a2-beb2-0b3c63cf311b
Issue: #2500

Agent-Task: codex/local/01a15f0c-9191-70a2-beb2-0b3c63cf311b
Bind queued input to explicit control generations, clear control on frame-only loss, and close viewers with a bounded cleanup wait before removing their credential. Cover Browser and Computer interleavings through the shared modules and HostClient carrier.

Issue: #2500
Agent-Task: codex/local/01a15f0c-9191-70a2-beb2-0b3c63cf311b
Clear shared Browser/Computer cursors after failures and stale 204 replies so unchanged screens recover through the existing current-frame route. Keep Web recovery read-only and present localized guidance without replacing raw diagnostic causes.

Issue: #2500
Agent-Task: codex/local/01a15f0c-9191-70a2-beb2-0b3c63cf311b
Place reconnect in viewer controls because the workspace hides generic empty-state actions. Align regression helpers with the current TypeScript library and locale key types.

Issue: #2500

Agent-Task: codex/local/01a15f0c-9191-70a2-beb2-0b3c63cf311b
Issue: #2500

Agent-Task: codex/local/01a15f0c-9191-70a2-beb2-0b3c63cf311b
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最终交接:6f6465172aefb48a70a086724508e0f0e1604ff0,base ac393cde533b6d954c3aef3494e9388ace9e2ed4,Requested by Vain。

Task codex/local/01a15f0c-9191-70a2-beb2-0b3c63cf311b;原认领。状态:handed-off;父任务负责新 CI、后续统一验收及合并,本轨未 merge。

  • R1/R2 修复与 R4 0/0 源码已整合最新 main;保留 T1/T2/T3 的来源身份和行为。公共 StyleX/Expo 基线来自 main,移除旧 hash-only 往返历史。relative main 的 remote-hosts 仅 +7 行。
  • frozen install、完整 build、root/mobile typecheck、lint、format 独立 exit 0;21 文件 /207 相关测试通过。四个 bundle 自然重建后无实际差异。最终 head 相对被检查源码只新增四张截图;推送前再次 fetch/rebase,main 未变化。没有跑 962 文件完整套或模型。
  • 本轮英文 Reconnect 的可见性、实际点击、只读恢复与明确接管通过。中文驱动两次均保留失败:第二次已进入真实帧,但 Host Feed 断开并卸载 viewer,按钮点击未验。Computer 三个待补项因 Docker Engine 管道缺失未运行:静态204恢复、可见文字、晚到 takeover 的 Remove。前轮 Browser 同seq静态恢复、旧队列丢弃和 release-before-unpair 保留为历史证据,不能扩大成所有运行场景通过。
  • 自有 Host PID86164/36144、fixture62904 已核实后停止;47711/47712/8119 无监听,Browser 已恢复并停止。Docker Engine 不可用使容器 stop/inspect 无法完成,当前容器状态未确认;未动共享服务,保留 profiles/evidence/volume。重型窗口已释放给父任务。
  • PR body 已更新并读回,10 张 GitHub 图片均实际解码为1440×900。新 exact-head HTML 通过桌面/窄屏预览,无控制台错误;本地及本任务 T3 可用,没有已授权的公开 HTML 托管链接。旧 HTML 及旧 exact-head 评论仅为历史,不适用于新 head。

共享 mobile 恢复逻辑与新 Expo SDK binary 的 iOS/Android 浅深色/大字验收转统一外部 handoff。DSH Desktop、实体双机 real tailnet 未验;远程聊天仍仅文字和附件名称,图片/卡片缺失;Host looks 按设计为设备本地。新 CI 结果不由旧 head 的绿灯替代。

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- Line 25: Update the `remoteViewer.noAccess` locale strings in both Chinese and
English to use kind-neutral wording that refers to access to the screen rather
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- Around line 109-115: In the remote host viewer API wrapper, keep throwing
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'remoteViewer.browserStopped': '浏览器尚未运行。请让这个 Bot 打开它。',
'remoteViewer.computerStopped': '电脑尚未运行。请在远程启动它。',
'remoteViewer.refused': '此 Host 已撤销访问权限,请重新添加。',
'remoteViewer.noAccess': '此 Bot 没有浏览器权限。',

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

The remoteViewer.noAccess text names the Browser, but the Computer viewer also uses it.

RemoteHostViewerPanel shows this string for status === 'no-access' for both browser and computer kinds. A Computer viewer user sees "This Bot has no Browser access." or "此 Bot 没有浏览器权限。". The text misdirects the user.

Make the text kind-neutral:

Proposed fix
-  'remoteViewer.noAccess': '此 Bot 没有浏览器权限。',
+  'remoteViewer.noAccess': '此 Bot 没有查看这个画面的权限。',
-  'remoteViewer.noAccess': 'This Bot has no Browser access.',
+  'remoteViewer.noAccess': 'This Bot has no access to this screen.',

As per coding guidelines: "keep hints, captions and errors short and plain in both English and Chinese."

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Review comment at @packages/client/src/client/locale.ts at line 25:
Update the `remoteViewer.noAccess` locale strings in both Chinese and English to
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if (
(path === inputPath && (inputGeneration !== controlGeneration || !state.control)) ||
(path === takeoverPath &&
init?.body?.['active'] === true &&
(!requestedControl || state.status !== 'live'))
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throw new DOMException('Viewer control expired', 'AbortError');

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

A rejected Computer takeover retry makes the viewer report unreachable and blank the frame.

The Host can answer an input with not-paused, for example when the operator resumes the Bot. Here is what happens next:

  1. computer-viewer.ts deliver sets control to false.
  2. read calls invalidateControl(), so requestedControl becomes false.
  3. deliver retries once and calls takeover(true).
  4. This api wrapper throws DOMException('Viewer control expired', 'AbortError').
  5. The takeover catch block in computer-viewer.ts calls fail(error), which sets status: 'unreachable'.
  6. read then drops the frame and publishes the raw notice Viewer control expired.

On a static screen, the viewer stays in unreachable until the pending after=seq poll returns 204, which the docs say takes about 10 s. The Host is still reachable during this time, so this is a misleading state.

The Browser viewer does not have this problem. It handles a 409 without calling fail.

For the takeover path, return a synthetic refusal instead of throwing. The viewer then only clears control and sets a notice. The throw is still correct for stale input.

The test at remote-host-viewer.test.ts line 108 asserts only control and the call counts. It does not check status, so it does not catch this.

🐛 Proposed fix
--- "a/packages/client/src/client/remote-host-viewer.ts"
+++ "b/packages/client/src/client/remote-host-viewer.ts"
@@ -106,13 +106,14 @@
       async api(path, init) {
         if (!active && !(releasing && path === takeoverPath && init?.body?.['active'] === false))
           throw new DOMException('Viewer closed', 'AbortError');
-        if (
-          (path === inputPath && (inputGeneration !== controlGeneration || !state.control)) ||
-          (path === takeoverPath &&
-            init?.body?.['active'] === true &&
-            (!requestedControl || state.status !== 'live'))
-        )
-          throw new DOMException('Viewer control expired', 'AbortError');
+        if (path === inputPath && (inputGeneration !== controlGeneration || !state.control))
+          throw new DOMException('Viewer control expired', 'AbortError');
+        if (
+          path === takeoverPath &&
+          init?.body?.['active'] === true &&
+          (!requestedControl || state.status !== 'live')
+        )
+          return { status: 409, body: { code: 'not-paused', error: 'Viewer control expired' } };
         if (init?.body?.['active'] === true && path === takeoverPath) releaseNeeded = true;
         const taking = path === takeoverPath;
         const signal = taking
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if (
(path === inputPath && (inputGeneration !== controlGeneration || !state.control)) ||
(path === takeoverPath &&
init?.body?.['active'] === true &&
(!requestedControl || state.status !== 'live'))
)
throw new DOMException('Viewer control expired', 'AbortError');
if (path === inputPath && (inputGeneration !== controlGeneration || !state.control))
throw new DOMException('Viewer control expired', 'AbortError');
if (
path === takeoverPath &&
init?.body?.['active'] === true &&
(!requestedControl || state.status !== 'live')
)
return { status: 409, body: { code: 'not-paused', error: 'Viewer control expired' } };
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Review comment at @packages/client/src/client/remote-host-viewer.ts around lines
109 - 115:
In the remote host viewer API wrapper, keep throwing DOMException('Viewer
control expired', 'AbortError') for stale input requests, but change the
rejected takeover condition in the takeoverPath branch to return the synthetic
409 not-paused response so takeover handling clears control without marking the
viewer unreachable.

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