feat(browser): deterministic private_browser lifecycle (Wave 5A)

Own each agent-browser session as a browser tree: the daemon's POSIX
session, its runtime files and its Chrome profile. Timeouts, launch
failures, bootstrap recovery, cancellation and shutdown clean that tree
and verify nothing survives, instead of killing only the daemon and
orphaning Chrome. Per-call cleanup no longer sweeps every Chrome under
the runtime TMPDIR.

Sessionless calls get an ephemeral browser closed before returning.
Actions on one session are serialized. Recovery is bounded by one
deadline with at most one retry for local HTML open, and the retry flag
is no longer model-visible. Observations after a failed navigation are
marked stale. read URL navigates and extracts in one batch because
agent-browser has no read command. Results carry a browser_lifecycle
receipt with stages, timings, ownership and cleanup evidence.

Playwright MCP tool calls are bounded by
ODYSSEUS_BROWSER_MCP_CALL_TIMEOUT_S and are not retried. research_navigator
now passes timeout_ms.
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Alexandre Teixeira
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"""Lifecycle ownership for private_browser's agent-browser sessions.
agent-browser runs a short-lived CLI client against a detached daemon. The
daemon calls ``setsid`` and every Chrome process it launches stays in that
POSIX session, so the daemon pid recorded in the session's own pid file
identifies the complete browser tree. Cleanup here is limited to that tree,
the session's runtime files and its ``agent-browser-chrome-*`` profile.
This is browser-specific ownership only. Generic process containment and
lifecycle primitives belong to the shared process layer; when those exist,
``kill_browser_tree`` is the single seam to replace.
"""
from __future__ import annotations
import asyncio
import os
import re
import shutil
import signal
import time
from dataclasses import dataclass, field
from pathlib import Path
from typing import Any, Callable
from core import platform_compat
PROFILE_PREFIX = "agent-browser-chrome-"
RUNTIME_SUFFIXES = (".pid", ".sock", ".stream", ".version", ".engine")
# Output that proves the browser never became ready. The daemon survives such
# a failure and a later ``close`` cannot reach a browser to shut down.
LAUNCH_FAILURE_RE = re.compile(
r"Chrome exited early|DevToolsActivePort|No usable sandbox|"
r"Failed to launch (?:the )?browser|Browser (?:process )?exited before",
re.IGNORECASE,
)
OBSERVATION_ACTIONS = frozenset(
{"snapshot", "read", "find", "evaluate", "screenshot", "scroll", "wait"}
)
def runtime_root(env: dict[str, str] | None) -> Path:
"""Directory where agent-browser keeps ``<session>.pid`` and its socket.
Mirrors agent-browser's own resolution for the environment the daemon is
launched with: an explicit socket directory, then the XDG runtime
directory, then ``$HOME/.agent-browser``.
"""
source = env or {}
def _get(name: str) -> str:
return str(source.get(name) or os.environ.get(name) or "").strip()
socket_dir = _get("AGENT_BROWSER_SOCKET_DIR")
if socket_dir:
return Path(socket_dir)
xdg = _get("XDG_RUNTIME_DIR")
if xdg:
return Path(xdg) / "agent-browser"
home = _get("HOME") or str(Path.home())
return Path(home) / ".agent-browser"
def _read_cmdline(pid: int) -> str | None:
try:
return (platform_compat.PROC_ROOT / str(pid) / "cmdline").read_bytes().replace(
b"\0", b" "
).decode("utf-8", errors="replace")
except (OSError, UnicodeError):
return None
def _read_stat(pid: int) -> tuple[str, int, int] | None:
"""Return ``(state, pgid, sid)`` for a pid, or ``None`` when unreadable."""
try:
raw = (platform_compat.PROC_ROOT / str(pid) / "stat").read_text()
except (OSError, UnicodeError):
return None
_, _, rest = raw.rpartition(")")
fields = rest.split()
if len(fields) < 4:
return None
try:
return fields[0], int(fields[2]), int(fields[3])
except ValueError:
return None
def _live_pids() -> list[int]:
if not platform_compat.has_procfs():
return []
pids = []
for entry in platform_compat.PROC_ROOT.iterdir():
if entry.name.isdigit():
pids.append(int(entry.name))
return pids
def daemon_pid(root: Path, key: str) -> int | None:
"""Pid recorded in this session's pid file, whether or not it is alive."""
try:
return int((root / f"{key}.pid").read_text().strip())
except (OSError, ValueError):
return None
def is_verified_daemon(pid: int | None) -> bool:
"""Whether ``pid`` is a live agent-browser process (requires procfs)."""
if not pid:
return False
stat = _read_stat(pid)
if stat is not None and stat[0] == "Z":
return False
command_line = _read_cmdline(pid)
return bool(command_line) and "agent-browser" in command_line
def browser_tree(leader: int) -> list[int]:
"""Processes owned by the browser session whose daemon pid is ``leader``.
While the daemon is verified alive, every member of its POSIX session is
owned. Once the daemon is gone the pid may be reused, so only Chrome
process groups whose root carries an agent-browser profile are claimed.
"""
members: list[tuple[int, int]] = []
for pid in _live_pids():
stat = _read_stat(pid)
if stat is None or stat[0] == "Z" or stat[2] != leader:
continue
members.append((pid, stat[1]))
if not members:
return []
if is_verified_daemon(leader):
return sorted(pid for pid, _ in members)
owned_groups = {
pgid for pid, pgid in members if _profile_dirs([pid])
}
return sorted(pid for pid, pgid in members if pgid in owned_groups)
def _profile_dirs(pids: list[int]) -> set[Path]:
profiles: set[Path] = set()
for pid in pids:
for token in (_read_cmdline(pid) or "").split():
if not token.startswith("--user-data-dir="):
continue
path = Path(token.split("=", 1)[1])
if path.name.startswith(PROFILE_PREFIX):
profiles.add(path)
return profiles
def kill_browser_tree(leader: int, *, settle_s: float = 1.0) -> tuple[list[int], list[int], set[Path]]:
"""SIGKILL one browser session tree and wait briefly for it to exit.
Returns ``(killed, survivors, profile_dirs)``. Synchronous so it can run
from cancellation and shutdown paths without awaiting.
"""
members = browser_tree(leader)
profiles = _profile_dirs(members)
ordered = [pid for pid in members if pid != leader]
if leader in members:
ordered.append(leader)
killed = []
for pid in ordered:
try:
os.kill(pid, signal.SIGKILL)
killed.append(pid)
except (ProcessLookupError, PermissionError, OSError):
continue
deadline = time.monotonic() + settle_s
survivors = list(killed)
while survivors and time.monotonic() < deadline:
survivors = [pid for pid in survivors if _alive(pid)]
if survivors:
time.sleep(0.02)
return killed, survivors, profiles
def _alive(pid: int) -> bool:
stat = _read_stat(pid)
if stat is None:
return False
return stat[0] != "Z"
@dataclass
class CleanupReceipt:
method: str
daemon_pid: int | None = None
killed: int = 0
survivors: list[int] = field(default_factory=list)
removed_files: list[str] = field(default_factory=list)
removed_profiles: int = 0
verified: bool = False
note: str = ""
def as_dict(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
return {
"method": self.method,
"daemon_pid": self.daemon_pid,
"killed": self.killed,
"survivors": list(self.survivors),
"removed_files": list(self.removed_files),
"removed_profiles": self.removed_profiles,
"verified": self.verified,
**({"note": self.note} if self.note else {}),
}
def force_cleanup(
root: Path,
key: str,
*,
method: str = "forced",
pid_alive: Callable[[int], bool] = platform_compat.pid_alive,
) -> CleanupReceipt:
"""Kill this session's browser tree and remove its owned resources.
Without procfs nothing can be attributed safely, so live processes are
left alone and only the pid file of a dead daemon is forgotten.
"""
pid = daemon_pid(root, key)
receipt = CleanupReceipt(method=method, daemon_pid=pid)
if not platform_compat.has_procfs():
if pid and not pid_alive(pid):
_remove_runtime_files(root, key, receipt)
receipt.verified = True
else:
receipt.note = "procfs unavailable; browser ownership could not be verified"
return receipt
profiles: set[Path] = set()
if pid:
killed, survivors, profiles = kill_browser_tree(pid)
receipt.killed = len(killed)
receipt.survivors = survivors
if not receipt.survivors:
_remove_runtime_files(root, key, receipt)
for profile in profiles:
if profile.name.startswith(PROFILE_PREFIX) and profile.is_dir():
shutil.rmtree(profile, ignore_errors=True)
if not profile.exists():
receipt.removed_profiles += 1
receipt.verified = not receipt.survivors and not (pid and browser_tree(pid))
return receipt
def _remove_runtime_files(root: Path, key: str, receipt: CleanupReceipt) -> None:
for suffix in RUNTIME_SUFFIXES:
path = root / f"{key}{suffix}"
try:
path.unlink()
receipt.removed_files.append(path.name)
except FileNotFoundError:
continue
except OSError:
continue
class StageClock:
"""Ordered stage timings for one browser call."""
def __init__(self) -> None:
self.stages: list[dict[str, Any]] = []
self.extra: dict[str, Any] = {}
self._start = time.monotonic()
def record(self, stage: str, started: float, ok: bool, **detail: Any) -> None:
entry = {
"stage": stage,
"ms": int((time.monotonic() - started) * 1000),
"ok": bool(ok),
}
entry.update({k: v for k, v in detail.items() if v not in (None, "")})
self.stages.append(entry)
def total_ms(self) -> int:
return int((time.monotonic() - self._start) * 1000)
@dataclass
class BrowserSession:
"""In-process lifecycle record for one owned agent-browser session."""
key: str
ephemeral: bool
root: Path | None = None
env: dict[str, str] | None = field(default=None, repr=False)
command_prefix: list[str] = field(default_factory=list, repr=False)
state: str = "idle"
navigation_generation: int = 0
page_url: str = ""
failed_navigation_url: str = ""
_lock: asyncio.Lock | None = field(default=None, repr=False)
_lock_loop: Any = field(default=None, repr=False)
def bind(self, env: dict[str, str], command_prefix: list[str]) -> None:
"""Record the environment and CLI prefix the daemon is launched with."""
self.env = dict(env)
self.root = runtime_root(env)
self.command_prefix = list(command_prefix)
def lock(self) -> asyncio.Lock:
loop = asyncio.get_running_loop()
if self._lock is None or self._lock_loop is not loop:
self._lock = asyncio.Lock()
self._lock_loop = loop
return self._lock
def navigated(self, url: str) -> None:
self.navigation_generation += 1
self.page_url = url
self.failed_navigation_url = ""
self.state = "ready"
def navigation_failed(self, url: str) -> None:
self.failed_navigation_url = url
self.state = "navigation_failed"
def discarded(self, state: str) -> None:
"""The browser and its page are gone; nothing earlier is observable."""
self.page_url = ""
self.failed_navigation_url = ""
self.state = state
def stale_observation_note(self) -> str:
if not self.failed_navigation_url:
return ""
shown = self.page_url or "an earlier page"
return (
f"Browser lifecycle: the most recent navigation to {self.failed_navigation_url} "
f"failed. This observation shows {shown} (navigation "
f"#{self.navigation_generation}), not {self.failed_navigation_url}."
)
def receipt(self, clock: StageClock) -> dict[str, Any]:
payload = {
"session": self.key,
"ownership": "ephemeral" if self.ephemeral else "retained",
"state": self.state,
"navigation_generation": self.navigation_generation,
"page_url": self.page_url,
"stages": clock.stages,
"elapsed_ms": clock.total_ms(),
}
payload.update({k: v for k, v in clock.extra.items() if v is not None})
return payload
_SESSIONS: dict[str, BrowserSession] = {}
def session_for(key: str, ephemeral: bool) -> BrowserSession:
record = _SESSIONS.get(key)
if record is None:
record = BrowserSession(key=key, ephemeral=ephemeral)
_SESSIONS[key] = record
return record
def forget(key: str) -> None:
_SESSIONS.pop(key, None)
def registered(key: str) -> BrowserSession | None:
return _SESSIONS.get(key)
def has_live_daemon(
root: Path,
key: str,
*,
pid_alive: Callable[[int], bool] = platform_compat.pid_alive,
) -> bool:
"""Whether this session has a daemon a ``close`` command could reach.
Without procfs a live pid from our own pid file is treated as a match,
because answering "no daemon" lets ``close`` bootstrap a fresh browser.
"""
pid = daemon_pid(root, key)
if not pid:
return False
if not platform_compat.has_procfs():
return pid_alive(pid)
return is_verified_daemon(pid)