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Summary

  • Discover and validate explicitly required browser-agent capabilities before allocating a browser session.
  • Return actionable route alternatives when the selected endpoint cannot satisfy a planned flow.
  • Support the datacenter proxy tier and validate secret/capture command ordering before a batch starts.

Related issues

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Changes

  • Forward the intended agent URL parameters to authenticated capability discovery.
  • Validate versioned capability manifests and avoid reflecting upstream error bodies.
  • Document residential and datacenter built-in proxy options.

Test plan

  • npm test passes locally (743 passing)
  • npm run lint passes locally
  • npm run coverage thresholds still met
  • Manual smoke test against a real Browserless token (describe below)
  • N/A — docs / chore / refactor only

Additional checks: Prettier validation, npm pack --dry-run, and git diff --check.

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  • I have read CONTRIBUTING.md (not present in this repository)
  • My commits follow the conventional-commit prefix convention
  • I have updated documentation where relevant (README, CHANGELOG, etc.)
  • I have not introduced new dependencies without flagging them in the summary

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  • New Features
    • Added residential and datacenter proxy routing, including geo and sticky settings; residential presets remain restricted to residential proxies.
    • Added optional capability checks before starting browser sessions.
    • Added required capability configuration for compliant agent usage.
    • Added session recording controls with downloadable WebM recordings.
    • Added a command to clear secrets and re-enable captures after secret entry.
  • Bug Fixes
    • Improved secret-capture handling across reused sessions and navigation.
    • Improved recording validation, reuse checks, and oversized-download protection.
    • Improved capability-check validation and errors without exposing response details.
  • Documentation
    • Updated proxy configuration guidance in the README and agent instructions.

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The agent now supports datacenter proxies, capability preflight checks, recording persistence, and secret-visibility tracking across browser sessions. Schemas, documentation, and tests cover these changes.

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Agent validation changes

Layer / File(s) Summary
Proxy routing contracts and documentation
src/lib/agent-client.ts, src/skills/system-prompt.ts, README.md, test/tools/schemas.spec.ts, test/skills/system-prompt.spec.ts
Proxy configuration supports residential and datacenter routing. Proxy-dependent options also support externalProxyServer, while proxyPreset remains residential-only.
Capability preflight flow
src/tools/schemas.ts, src/lib/agent-client.ts, src/tools/agent.ts, test/lib/agent-client.spec.ts, test/tools/agent.spec.ts, test/tools/schemas.spec.ts, test/tools/compliance-mode.spec.ts
The agent accepts validated required capabilities and checks /capabilities before browser creation.
Recording session and download flow
src/lib/agent-client.ts, src/tools/agent.ts, test/lib/agent-client.spec.ts, test/tools/agent.spec.ts
Sessions preserve the record option. stopRecording stores WebM output and returns a single-use download handle.
Secret-capture command ordering
src/@types/types.d.ts, src/tools/agent.ts, src/tools/schemas.ts, src/skills/system-prompt.ts, test/tools/agent.spec.ts, test/tools/schemas.spec.ts
Secret visibility persists across commands and reused sessions. clearSecrets restores capture access after secret entry.

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~60 minutes

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 128e4

Capability preflight and session-safety behavior are expanded, but reused sessions may still expose captured credentials or fail to honor recording requests, and malformed capability manifests may be accepted. These risks should be resolved before merge.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant AgentTool
  participant preflightAgentCapabilities
  participant CapabilitiesEndpoint
  participant BrowserSession
  AgentTool->>preflightAgentCapabilities: Validate required capabilities
  preflightAgentCapabilities->>CapabilitiesEndpoint: GET /capabilities with route parameters
  CapabilitiesEndpoint-->>preflightAgentCapabilities: Return capability manifest
  preflightAgentCapabilities->>BrowserSession: Allow session creation
  BrowserSession-->>AgentTool: Return browser session
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Capabilities meet the session there.
WebM recordings hop to store,
Hidden secrets stay secure once more.
Safe commands guide the agent’s lair.

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114-114: 🔒 Security & Privacy | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy lift

Persist the secret-capture restriction across agent calls.

secretVisible resets to false each time validateSecretCaptureOrdering runs. browserless_agent calls this function once per tool call. After one call executes loadSecret, a later call that reuses the same sessionId can execute screenshot or snapshot. The credential can then appear in model-visible output.

Store this state on the browser session. Clear it only after clearSecrets or a successful top-frame navigation. Add a two-call regression test.

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In `@src/tools/agent.ts` at line 114, Persist secret-capture state on the browser
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Addressed by @artiom in 6f71116. secretVisible now belongs to the reused ActiveSession, is checked before every command across calls that echo the same sessionId, and clears only after a successful clearSecrets response or a top-frame navigation response that passes failure classification and is non-null/non-rejected.

Real WebSocket regressions cover loadSecret followed by screenshot in a second call and a no-op back retaining the restriction. Verification: agent suite (79 passing), full npm test (750 passing), npm run lint, Prettier, package allowlist, and npm audit --audit-level=high.

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779-779: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Reject recording-mode changes on a reused session.

getSessionKey omits record, so getOrCreateSession returns an open session when a later call with the same handle requests record: true. The later call does not reconnect, and recording remains disabled. Reject explicit changes when record differs from existing.record, and add a regression test.

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Addressed by @artiom in 824ccaa. getOrCreateSession now rejects an explicit record value that differs from an open or in-flight session's effective recording mode, while omitted or matching values reuse the same browser. The mismatch is non-retryable, so the agent wrapper cannot silently destroy and replace the existing browser.

The real-WebSocket regression rejects enabling recording on a reused browser verifies rejection, non-retryability, and continued reuse for the matching disabled mode. Verification: targeted regression (1 passing), full npm test (751 passing), coverage thresholds (95.95% statements / 86.65% branches / 93.68% functions), lint, Prettier, package allowlist, and npm audit --audit-level=high (0 vulnerabilities).

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95-100: 🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Reject proxyPreset with proxy: 'datacenter'.

The validator accepts this combination because it checks only that proxy is defined. The URL builder then forwards both fields, but Browserless ignores proxyPreset for datacenter proxies. Validate proxyPreset separately and allow it only with proxy: 'residential'.

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Addressed by @artiom in b0b97f6. The Browserless proxy contract defines proxyPreset as residential-only. ProxyOptionsSchema now rejects a preset unless proxy is exactly "residential", and the public README plus agent guidance state the same restriction.

TDD evidence: the focused datacenter+preset regression first failed with 0 passing / 1 failing because the schema accepted the combination, then passed after the refinement. Verification: full npm test (752 passing), agent suite (79 passing), schema suite (38 passing), lint, Prettier, package allowlist, and npm audit --audit-level=high (0 vulnerabilities).

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401-402: 🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Reject array-valued capability maps.

If capability discovery returns capabilities: [], the guard accepts it because typeof [] === 'object'. preflightAgentCapabilities then indexes the array as a capability map and reports capabilities as unavailable instead of rejecting the manifest. Add Array.isArray(manifest.capabilities) to the guard.

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artiom commented Sep 4, 2026

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Addressed in 4263277:

  • The agent system prompt now documents proxy settings as fields of the top-level proxy object, including an exact nested example.
  • Capability discovery now rejects an array-valued capabilities payload as an unsupported manifest instead of treating it as a capability map.

Regression coverage: agent-client capability preflight rejects an array-valued capability map and agent system prompt contextual snapshot guidance documents proxy options inside the top-level proxy object. Verification at this commit: 754 full-suite tests and 79 focused agent tests pass; lint, Prettier, package-tarball verification, and the high-severity dependency audit also pass.

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243-252: 🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Validate clearSecrets in the single-command form.

ClearSecretsCommandSchema is used by the commands array, but AgentParamsSchema still validates top-level method and params with generic schemas. Therefore, { method: 'clearSecrets', params: { unexpected: 'x' } } passes AgentParamsSchema even though the typed command rejects it. The prompt documents the single-command form, so apply the same strict validation there and add a regression test.

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Addressed in 128e46b. AgentParamsSchema now applies ClearSecretsCommandSchema when clearSecrets uses the top-level single-command form, while preserving the existing generic BQL passthrough for other methods and ignoring top-level method/params when commands is supplied.

TDD evidence: rejects unexpected clearSecrets params in single-command form first failed with 0 passing / 1 failing (expected true to equal false), then the complete clearSecrets command group passed 4 tests. Final local verification: focused agent/schema/compliance/system-prompt coverage passed 260 tests; full npm test passed 760 tests; lint, Prettier, package-tarball verification, and npm audit --audit-level=high also passed.

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This has merge conflicts against main right now, so it can't be reviewed as-is — the diff GitHub shows isn't what would land. Could you rebase when you get a chance? Happy to pick it up straight after.

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