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“haonan”andCursor bd1f2e211e feat(record): capture Trace v3 states after pages settle
Wait for DOM quiet after actions, match targets to VOM refs, and reduce
drafts into deduped state-linked Trace v3 while keeping the v2 reducer.

Co-authored-by: Cursor <cursoragent@cursor.com>
2026-08-22 17:01:16 +08:00

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import type { RenderedRef } from "@browser-skill/vom";
import { formatObservationFile, type ObservationAnnotation } from "@/lib/format-observation-file";
import { fallbackDescriptor, matchTarget } from "@/lib/match-target";
import { waitForPageSettled } from "@/lib/page-settled";
import {
CAPTURE_RETRY_DELAY_MS,
DEFAULT_MAX_PAGE_TOKENS,
OBSERVATION_MIN_INTERVAL_MS,
} from "@/lib/record-constants";
import { registerObservation, type StateRegistryEntry } from "@/lib/trace-reducer";
import { captureVomObservation } from "@/tools/capture-vom-observation";
import type { CdpRunner, ChromeTabsApi } from "@/tools/shared";
import type { CapturedNode } from "@/tools/vom/capture";
import type { DraftTraceStep, StepV3, StopReason, TraceState, TraceV3 } from "@/transport/types";
import { reduceTraceSteps, resolveTraceStartUrl } from "./trace-reducer";
export interface LastSettledObservation {
stateId: string;
captured: CapturedNode[];
refs: RenderedRef[];
url: string;
title?: string;
vomText: string;
}
/** A post-action observation that has been queued but not yet written down. */
interface PendingSettle {
draftIndex: number;
/** Set when a newer action has already decided where this step landed. */
cancelled: boolean;
}
/** Latest URL in an in-flight redirect chain awaiting coalesce + settle. */
export interface PendingRedirectLanding {
url: string;
/** Bumped on every hop so an in-flight `waitForPageSettled` can cancel. */
generation: number;
}
export interface RecordingObservationState {
stateRegistry: Map<string, StateRegistryEntry>;
lastSettled: LastSettledObservation | null;
maxPageTokens: number;
redactValues: boolean;
lastCaptureAtMs: number;
/**
* Tail of the settle chain. Observations run one at a time so that a slow
* capture can never land after a faster one and report the pages out of the
* order the user visited them.
*/
settleQueue: Promise<void>;
/** Queued and in-flight settles, by draft index, so newer actions can supersede them. */
settles: Map<number, PendingSettle>;
stepAnnotations: Map<number, ObservationAnnotation[]>;
/**
* OAuth / server redirects are coalesced here: intermediate hops only update
* `url`+`generation`, and one `navigate` is emitted after the page settles.
*/
pendingRedirect: PendingRedirectLanding | null;
redirectFlushQueue: Promise<void>;
}
export function createObservationState(options?: {
maxPageTokens?: number;
redactValues?: boolean;
}): RecordingObservationState {
return {
stateRegistry: new Map(),
lastSettled: null,
maxPageTokens: options?.maxPageTokens ?? DEFAULT_MAX_PAGE_TOKENS,
redactValues: options?.redactValues ?? false,
lastCaptureAtMs: 0,
settleQueue: Promise.resolve(),
settles: new Map(),
stepAnnotations: new Map(),
pendingRedirect: null,
redirectFlushQueue: Promise.resolve(),
};
}
function sleep(ms: number): Promise<void> {
return new Promise((resolve) => setTimeout(resolve, ms));
}
async function readTabMeta(
tabsApi: ChromeTabsApi,
tabId: number,
): Promise<{ url: string; title?: string }> {
try {
const tab = await tabsApi.get(tabId);
return { url: tab.url ?? "about:blank", title: tab.title };
} catch {
return { url: "about:blank" };
}
}
export async function captureAndRegisterObservation(
obs: RecordingObservationState,
cdp: CdpRunner,
tabId: number,
tabsApi: ChromeTabsApi,
urlOverride?: string,
): Promise<LastSettledObservation> {
const now = Date.now();
const waitMs = Math.max(0, OBSERVATION_MIN_INTERVAL_MS - (now - obs.lastCaptureAtMs));
if (waitMs > 0) await sleep(waitMs);
const { url, title } = urlOverride
? { url: urlOverride, title: undefined }
: await readTabMeta(tabsApi, tabId);
const meta = urlOverride ? await readTabMeta(tabsApi, tabId) : { url, title };
const resolvedTitle = title ?? meta.title;
const rendered = await captureVomObservation(cdp, tabId, url, {
maxTokens: obs.maxPageTokens,
redactValues: obs.redactValues,
conditionalSurfaceProbe: false,
});
const stateId = registerObservation(obs.stateRegistry, {
url,
title: resolvedTitle,
rawVomText: rendered.text,
truncated: rendered.truncated,
});
obs.lastCaptureAtMs = Date.now();
const settled: LastSettledObservation = {
stateId,
captured: rendered.captured,
refs: rendered.refs,
url,
title: resolvedTitle,
vomText: rendered.text,
};
obs.lastSettled = settled;
return settled;
}
/**
* Bind a draft to the page it was performed on: origin state, geometric target
* match, and the inline annotation. All three read the *current* observation,
* which is only the page the user acted on while the draft is still fresh —
* once the action settles, `lastSettled` is the destination page instead.
*/
export function applyTargetMatching(
obs: RecordingObservationState,
draft: DraftTraceStep,
stepId: number,
): void {
if (!obs.lastSettled) {
// Initial observation can fail or race the first action. Keep whatever
// the content script captured so the exported step is still teachable.
if ("target" in draft && "captureTarget" in draft) {
draft.target = fallbackDescriptor(draft.captureTarget);
}
rememberStepAnnotation(obs, stepId, draft);
return;
}
if ("target" in draft) {
draft.target =
"geometry" in draft && draft.geometry
? matchTarget({
geometry: draft.geometry,
captured: obs.lastSettled.captured,
refs: obs.lastSettled.refs,
fallback: draft.captureTarget,
})
: // No geometry to match on, but the capture still knew what the user
// touched — keep that instead of an anonymous unmatched target.
fallbackDescriptor(draft.captureTarget);
}
// A pending settle means `lastSettled` may still describe the page before
// the previous action. If the new control cannot be found there, attaching
// that stale state would be worse than leaving the origin unknown for the
// reducer to repair from the observations that do exist.
const originLooksStale =
obs.settles.size > 0 && (!("target" in draft) || draft.target?.unmatched === true);
if (originLooksStale) {
rememberStepAnnotation(obs, stepId, draft);
return;
}
draft.preStateId = obs.lastSettled.stateId;
rememberStepAnnotation(obs, stepId, draft);
}
function fillDetailForDraft(
obs: RecordingObservationState,
draft: DraftTraceStep,
): string | undefined {
if (obs.redactValues) return undefined;
if (draft.op === "fill") return JSON.stringify(draft.value);
return undefined;
}
function refLineForDraft(
obs: RecordingObservationState,
draft: DraftTraceStep,
): number | undefined {
if (!("target" in draft) || !obs.lastSettled) return undefined;
const targetRef = draft.target?.ref;
if (!targetRef) return undefined;
return obs.lastSettled.refs.find((r) => r.ref === targetRef)?.line;
}
function rememberStepAnnotation(
obs: RecordingObservationState,
stepId: number,
draft: DraftTraceStep,
): void {
const line = refLineForDraft(obs, draft);
if (line === undefined || draft.op === "navigate" || draft.op === "scroll") return;
if (!draft.preStateId) return;
const ann: ObservationAnnotation = {
stepId,
op: draft.op,
line,
stateId: draft.preStateId,
detail: fillDetailForDraft(obs, draft),
};
const bucket = obs.stepAnnotations.get(line) ?? [];
bucket.push(ann);
obs.stepAnnotations.set(line, bucket);
}
/** Record the step under the page it was performed on, not the one it led to. */
export function rememberStepOnPage(
obs: RecordingObservationState,
draft: DraftTraceStep,
stepId: number,
): void {
const stateId = draft.preStateId;
if (!stateId) return;
const entry = obs.stateRegistry.get(stateId);
if (entry && !entry.stepsHere.includes(stepId)) {
entry.stepsHere.push(stepId);
}
}
/** Drop an in-flight redirect coalesce (e.g. a real navigate superseded it). */
export function clearPendingRedirectLanding(obs: RecordingObservationState): void {
obs.pendingRedirect = null;
}
function enqueueRedirectFlush(obs: RecordingObservationState, task: () => Promise<void>): void {
obs.redirectFlushQueue = obs.redirectFlushQueue.then(task, task).catch(() => {});
}
/**
* Remember a redirect hop and schedule a settle-then-emit of a single navigate
* to the final URL. Later hops only bump `generation` / replace `url`.
*/
export function scheduleRedirectLandingFlush(
obs: RecordingObservationState,
steps: DraftTraceStep[],
cdp: CdpRunner,
tabId: number,
tabsApi: ChromeTabsApi,
url: string,
options: { cancelled?: () => boolean } = {},
): void {
const generation = (obs.pendingRedirect?.generation ?? 0) + 1;
obs.pendingRedirect = { url, generation };
enqueueRedirectFlush(obs, () =>
coalesceRedirectLanding(obs, steps, cdp, tabId, tabsApi, options),
);
}
/**
* Drain any coalesced redirect so the next action matches against the real
* landing page. Safe to call when nothing is pending.
*/
export async function flushPendingRedirectLanding(
obs: RecordingObservationState,
steps: DraftTraceStep[],
cdp: CdpRunner | undefined,
tabId: number,
tabsApi: ChromeTabsApi,
options: { cancelled?: () => boolean } = {},
): Promise<void> {
if (obs.pendingRedirect && cdp) {
enqueueRedirectFlush(obs, () =>
coalesceRedirectLanding(obs, steps, cdp, tabId, tabsApi, options),
);
}
await obs.redirectFlushQueue;
}
/**
* Wait until the redirect chain stops changing the document, then emit one
* `navigate` (cause `browser`) to the tab's final URL and settle its observation.
*/
async function coalesceRedirectLanding(
obs: RecordingObservationState,
steps: DraftTraceStep[],
cdp: CdpRunner,
tabId: number,
tabsApi: ChromeTabsApi,
options: { cancelled?: () => boolean },
): Promise<void> {
while (obs.pendingRedirect) {
if (options.cancelled?.()) {
obs.pendingRedirect = null;
return;
}
const snap = obs.pendingRedirect;
const outcome = await waitForPageSettled(cdp, tabId, {
cancelled: () =>
!!options.cancelled?.() ||
obs.pendingRedirect === null ||
obs.pendingRedirect.generation !== snap.generation,
});
if (options.cancelled?.()) {
obs.pendingRedirect = null;
return;
}
// A newer hop cancelled this wait — loop and settle against the latest URL.
if (outcome === "cancelled") continue;
if (!obs.pendingRedirect || obs.pendingRedirect.generation !== snap.generation) {
continue;
}
const finalUrl = (await readTabMeta(tabsApi, tabId)).url || snap.url;
// `tabs.get` is asynchronous. A newer redirect hop may have arrived while
// it was in flight; only the generation that initiated this read may
// consume the pending landing.
if (!obs.pendingRedirect || obs.pendingRedirect.generation !== snap.generation) {
continue;
}
obs.pendingRedirect = null;
if (!finalUrl || finalUrl === "about:blank") return;
if (obs.lastSettled?.url === finalUrl) return;
const last = steps[steps.length - 1];
if (last?.op === "navigate" && last.url === finalUrl) {
if (!last.postStateId) {
const draftIndex = steps.length - 1;
scheduleDraftSettle(obs, draftIndex, draftIndex + 1, cdp, tabId, tabsApi, steps);
await obs.settleQueue;
}
return;
}
if (outcome === "timeout") {
console.debug(
`[bsk record] redirect landing still changing after settle budget; ` +
`recording navigate to ${finalUrl}`,
);
}
const draft: DraftTraceStep = {
op: "navigate",
url: finalUrl,
page_url: finalUrl,
cause: "browser",
preStateId: obs.lastSettled?.stateId,
};
steps.push(draft);
const draftIndex = steps.length - 1;
const stepId = draftIndex + 1;
rememberStepOnPage(obs, draft, stepId);
scheduleDraftSettle(obs, draftIndex, stepId, cdp, tabId, tabsApi, steps);
// Callers that flush before the next action need `lastSettled` to already
// be the landing page so target matching does not use the pre-redirect view.
await obs.settleQueue;
return;
}
}
/**
* A capture that lands mid-navigation fails on a destroyed execution context.
* That is transient, so give it one more chance before the step has to fall
* back to a stale state.
*/
async function captureWithRetry(
obs: RecordingObservationState,
cdp: CdpRunner,
tabId: number,
tabsApi: ChromeTabsApi,
urlOverride?: string,
): Promise<LastSettledObservation> {
try {
return await captureAndRegisterObservation(obs, cdp, tabId, tabsApi, urlOverride);
} catch (err) {
console.debug("[bsk record] observation failed, retrying once", err);
await sleep(CAPTURE_RETRY_DELAY_MS);
return captureAndRegisterObservation(obs, cdp, tabId, tabsApi, urlOverride);
}
}
export async function settleDraftObservation(
obs: RecordingObservationState,
cdp: CdpRunner,
tabId: number,
tabsApi: ChromeTabsApi,
steps: DraftTraceStep[],
draftIndex: number,
pending?: PendingSettle,
): Promise<void> {
const cancelled = () => pending?.cancelled === true;
const outcome = await waitForPageSettled(cdp, tabId, { cancelled });
if (outcome === "cancelled") return;
if (outcome === "timeout") {
console.debug(
`[bsk record] step ${draftIndex + 1} was still changing the page after the settle ` +
"budget; observing it as it stands",
);
}
const started = steps[draftIndex];
if (!started) return;
// The URL attached to the draft may only be an intermediate redirect hop.
// Once the page is settled, register the capture against live tab metadata.
const settled = await captureWithRetry(obs, cdp, tabId, tabsApi);
// The observation still counts as the latest view of the page even when this
// step no longer wants it — the next action will start from it.
if (cancelled()) return;
// Re-read the slot: a navigation observed while the capture ran may have
// rewritten this draft, and the observation belongs to whatever occupies the
// slot now — writing to the object we started with would strand it.
const draft = steps[draftIndex] ?? started;
draft.postStateId = settled.stateId;
}
/**
* Recover landing states from the shape of the recording itself: wherever the
* next action was performed is, by definition, where the previous one landed.
* Only the immediately following draft counts — a later one would claim a page
* that several unobserved actions away, which is worse than admitting we saw
* no change.
*/
export function inferMissingPostStates(steps: DraftTraceStep[]): void {
for (let i = 0; i < steps.length - 1; i += 1) {
const draft = steps[i];
const next = steps[i + 1];
if (!draft || !next || draft.postStateId || !next.preStateId) continue;
draft.postStateId = next.preStateId;
console.debug(
`[bsk record] step ${i + 1} (${draft.op}) had no post-action observation; ` +
`using where step ${i + 2} started (${next.preStateId})`,
);
}
}
/**
* Last chance for the closing actions of a recording. Stopping right after the
* final action is normal, and so is that action navigating away, so take one
* final look at the page. Only trailing drafts may claim it: an earlier step
* did not land on whatever the user happens to be looking at when they stop.
*/
export async function settleUnsettledDrafts(
obs: RecordingObservationState,
cdp: CdpRunner,
tabId: number,
tabsApi: ChromeTabsApi,
steps: DraftTraceStep[],
): Promise<void> {
const trailing: DraftTraceStep[] = [];
for (let i = steps.length - 1; i >= 0; i -= 1) {
const draft = steps[i];
if (!draft || draft.postStateId) break;
trailing.push(draft);
}
if (trailing.length === 0) return;
let settled: LastSettledObservation;
try {
settled = await captureWithRetry(obs, cdp, tabId, tabsApi);
} catch (err) {
console.warn("[bsk record] final observation at stop failed", err);
return;
}
for (const draft of trailing) draft.postStateId = settled.stateId;
console.debug(
`[bsk record] settled ${trailing.length} trailing step(s) against the page at stop ` +
`(${settled.stateId} ${settled.url})`,
);
}
/**
* Performing a new action ends the previous one: the page the user reached for
* is, by definition, where the earlier step left them. Taking the landing from
* the newer step also keeps the trace monotonic — a capture that finished late
* would otherwise credit an earlier step with a page that only exists because
* of the newer action.
*/
function supersedeEarlierSettles(
obs: RecordingObservationState,
draftIndex: number,
steps: DraftTraceStep[],
): void {
const landing = steps[draftIndex]?.preStateId;
for (const [index, pending] of obs.settles) {
if (index >= draftIndex) continue;
pending.cancelled = true;
obs.settles.delete(index);
const draft = steps[index];
if (!draft || draft.postStateId) continue;
if (!landing) continue;
draft.postStateId = landing;
console.debug(
`[bsk record] step ${index + 1} (${draft.op}) was still settling when step ` +
`${draftIndex + 1} started; landing it on ${landing}`,
);
}
}
export function scheduleDraftSettle(
obs: RecordingObservationState,
draftIndex: number,
stepId: number,
cdp: CdpRunner,
tabId: number,
tabsApi: ChromeTabsApi,
steps: DraftTraceStep[],
): void {
supersedeEarlierSettles(obs, draftIndex, steps);
// Rescheduling the same step (a navigation showed up after the action)
// replaces the pending observation rather than racing it.
const superseded = obs.settles.get(draftIndex);
if (superseded) superseded.cancelled = true;
const pending: PendingSettle = { draftIndex, cancelled: false };
obs.settles.set(draftIndex, pending);
enqueueSettle(obs, async () => {
if (pending.cancelled) return;
try {
await settleDraftObservation(obs, cdp, tabId, tabsApi, steps, draftIndex, pending);
} catch (err) {
// Recoverable: stop-time repair still gives the step a landing page.
const op = steps[draftIndex]?.op ?? "?";
console.warn(`[bsk record] post-action observation failed for step ${stepId} (${op})`, err);
} finally {
if (obs.settles.get(draftIndex) === pending) obs.settles.delete(draftIndex);
}
});
}
function enqueueSettle(obs: RecordingObservationState, task: () => Promise<void>): void {
obs.settleQueue = obs.settleQueue.then(task, task).catch(() => {});
}
export function cancelPendingSettles(obs: RecordingObservationState): void {
for (const pending of obs.settles.values()) pending.cancelled = true;
obs.settles.clear();
}
/** Bound the drain loop so a self-rescheduling settle cannot block stop. */
const MAX_SETTLE_FLUSH_ROUNDS = 10;
/**
* Drain settle work before exporting, including work queued while draining —
* a navigation observed during the last capture schedules another one, and
* the trace would drop it if stop did not wait.
*/
export async function flushPendingSettles(obs: RecordingObservationState): Promise<void> {
for (let round = 0; round < MAX_SETTLE_FLUSH_ROUNDS; round += 1) {
const drained = obs.settleQueue;
await drained;
if (obs.settleQueue === drained) return;
}
console.warn("[bsk record] settle queue kept growing at stop; exporting what has been observed");
}
function finalizeStateBodies(
entries: StateRegistryEntry[],
annotationsByState: Map<string, ObservationAnnotation[]>,
stepIdByDraftId: Map<number, number>,
idByOldId: Map<string, string>,
): TraceState[] {
return entries.map((entry) => {
const id = idByOldId.get(entry.id) ?? entry.id;
const body = formatObservationFile({
stateId: id,
url: entry.url,
title: entry.title,
stepsHere: remapStepIds(entry.stepsHere, stepIdByDraftId),
body: entry.rawVomText,
annotations: annotationsByState.get(entry.id) ?? [],
});
return {
id,
url: entry.url,
...(entry.title ? { title: entry.title } : {}),
body,
...(entry.truncated ? { truncated: true } : {}),
};
});
}
/** Draft ids only become step ids after collapsing and filtering. */
function remapStepIds(draftIds: number[], stepIdByDraftId: Map<number, number>): number[] {
const mapped = new Set<number>();
for (const draftId of draftIds) {
const stepId = stepIdByDraftId.get(draftId);
if (stepId !== undefined) mapped.add(stepId);
}
return [...mapped].sort((a, b) => a - b);
}
function collectAnnotationsByState(
obs: RecordingObservationState,
stepIdByDraftId: Map<number, number>,
): Map<string, ObservationAnnotation[]> {
const byState = new Map<string, ObservationAnnotation[]>();
for (const anns of obs.stepAnnotations.values()) {
for (const ann of anns) {
const stepId = stepIdByDraftId.get(ann.stepId);
if (stepId === undefined) continue;
const bucket = byState.get(ann.stateId) ?? [];
bucket.push({ ...ann, stepId });
byState.set(ann.stateId, bucket);
}
}
return byState;
}
/**
* Keep only the pages the published steps point at. Redirect hops and
* mid-load captures land in the registry too, and shipping them would invite
* a reader to treat a page the flow merely passed through as a real stop.
* With no steps at all the first observation is the whole artifact, so it
* stays.
*/
function selectPublishedStates(
registry: Map<string, StateRegistryEntry>,
steps: StepV3[],
): StateRegistryEntry[] {
const entries = [...registry.values()];
if (steps.length === 0) return entries.slice(0, 1);
const referenced = new Set<string>();
for (const step of steps) {
referenced.add(step.state);
referenced.add(step.result.state);
}
return entries.filter((entry) => referenced.has(entry.id));
}
export function buildTraceV3(input: {
obs: RecordingObservationState;
steps: DraftTraceStep[];
startedAt: string;
purpose?: string;
startUrl?: string;
stoppedBy: StopReason;
bskVersion: string;
}): TraceV3 {
const { steps, stepIdByDraftId } = reduceTraceSteps(input.steps, input.obs.stateRegistry);
const published = selectPublishedStates(input.obs.stateRegistry, steps);
// Renumber so the shipped dictionary reads s1..sN without holes where the
// dropped captures used to be.
const idByOldId = new Map(published.map((entry, index) => [entry.id, `s${index + 1}`]));
for (const step of steps) {
step.state = idByOldId.get(step.state) ?? step.state;
step.result.state = idByOldId.get(step.result.state) ?? step.result.state;
}
const annotationsByState = collectAnnotationsByState(input.obs, stepIdByDraftId);
const states = finalizeStateBodies(published, annotationsByState, stepIdByDraftId, idByOldId);
const startUrl = resolveTraceStartUrl(input.steps, input.startUrl, states);
return {
version: 3,
...(input.purpose ? { purpose: input.purpose } : {}),
recorded_at: new Date().toISOString(),
started_at: input.startedAt,
stopped_by: input.stoppedBy,
entry: { start_url: startUrl },
recorder: { bsk: input.bskVersion, vom: 1 },
states,
steps,
};
}