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fix(server): Claude and every other provider get T3's browser guidance - #31540
Claude never received T3's browser rule (T3_CODE_BROWSER_TOOL_INSTRUCTIONS: "When browser work was asked, preview_* is the browser you share with the user …"). The block was written for Codex in June and later shared with ACP, but ClaudeAdapterV2 appends only the orchestration, background-wait and device text. When a project's CLAUDE.md named a browser CLI that wasn't installed, Claude had nothing telling it that preview is the shared browser, so it fell back to ad hoc Playwright for requested QA.
The fix appends the existing block to Claude's system prompt when the thread's MCP session holds the preview capability, the same gate Codex uses. The text is not copied, so #23107's rewrite of the block will flow through. The second commit gives every other provider the same capability-gated block (see the list below).
Claude's T3 append on a thread with browser access, before → after (from the eval's t3SystemAppend):
before: (no browser block)
after: ## T3 Code browser When browser work was asked, `preview_*` is the browser you share with the user: `preview_status` first, then `preview_open` if no tab can be automated. …
Evals (stacked on #31536; Sonnet 5.5, shell gpt-6.1-terra, n=6):
What the evals support. Only br-flow-qa-missing-cli is a pre-registered "fixed" case (≥5/6 and ≥+3). It's a modest effect at n=6. br-look-on-web-missing-cli failed often enough on main in an earlier fixture (2/6) but not in the final one, so no fix is claimed for it.
Not fixed. On br-stripe-after-headless-captcha, Sonnet declines to get past an hCaptcha before opening any browser. Handing the tab to the user there is a separate change.
Variants tried. Three were measured. A narrow ToolSearch select: hint made Claude load too few tools; it then ran out of steps before closing its tab (an existing case went 3/3 → 1/3). Adding the close tool to the hint made Claude reopen preview after edits nobody asked to check. This PR ships the plain block, picked after seeing those results. The confirmation runs above were done after that choice.
Context size. On threads with agent browser access, which is the default, Claude's append grows from 6862 to 7247 chars (+385, the existing block). AgentContextBudget.test.ts builds Claude options without capabilities, so the budget check stays green without measuring this, the same way it doesn't measure the device block today. Requesting the agent-context-increase label for this. Making the budget test measure default capabilities is a separate follow-up.
Per-adapter decisions: every adapter now gets the block only when its session holds preview.
Codex: already had it; unchanged.
Claude: system-prompt append. Native subagents get it through the SubagentStart hook, next to the device text.
OpenCode v1/v2: system prompt.
Cursor: prompt-carried, delivered once, with late enabling and a reset after compaction (like device text).
ACP: prompt-carried. It was ungated before and is now gated on preview, with access changes detected. Grok, Kiro, fx, Antigravity and ACP-registry go through ACP.
Pi: its MCP extension adds the block when T3 sets T3_MCP_BROWSER_TOOLS=1.
Muse: per-turn runtime context.
Only Claude's top-level delivery is measured by the evals. Codex already had the block. The other adapters and Claude's subagent hook are covered by instruction-assembly unit tests.
A focused fix of an obvious delivery bug. The browser block exists, and Codex has had it since June, but no other provider received it. No new behavior or text; the eval evidence is in #31536 and above. The maintainer asked that the per-adapter follow-ups go in this PR.
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Claude never received T3_CODE_BROWSER_TOOL_INSTRUCTIONS; only Codex and ACP
did. Append it to Claude's system prompt when the thread's MCP session holds
the preview capability, as Codex already does.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
…r CLIs
Claude threads whose CLAUDE.md named a missing browser CLI fell back to ad
hoc Playwright for requested browser work and never tried T3's preview. No
eval combined requested QA with a project-named CLI that is not installed.
Add cases/browser-routing.ndjson: five bad cases (look on web, flow QA with
and without the CLI line, resume after command not found, Stripe after a
headless hCaptcha) and eight guards and controls (installed CLI, user-chosen
CLI, unasked edit, repo e2e, signed-in dashboard, PNG to attach, browser
access off, preview_open unsupported). Worlds show the prior edit and the
running dev server, and the CLAUDE.md context carries Claude Code's header.
Runner changes:
- shell checks read the scripts the agent wrote and ran in every case
- world.browserAgentAccess: false builds Claude and Codex text without
browser access and fails every preview call with T3's capability error
- a preview mock that decodes as a PreviewAutomationError fails the call
with that error's message
- claudeQueryOptions passes browserToolsAvailable, ignored by older refs
- minCalls/maxCalls keys may list alternatives that count together
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
…ccess
Gate shared OpenCode, Cursor and ACP browser guidance on preview access,
including late delivery and instruction-state changes. Propagate access to
Claude native subagents, Pi's MCP extension and Muse's turn context.
Extend existing tests for capability gating, compaction and subagent context.
Keep the shared browser text and Claude eval context unchanged.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Verified the unchanged head feb88301da33b2a11d279386a68882344f03dfc3 on a disposable Linux Boat VM. Installed dependencies on github/main (e4d86abca9) in a separate worktree, then on the exact PR head. Ran one dev server at a time and drove the real web client with repo Playwright and /usr/bin/google-chrome. Created a local git project through the app and used real Codex gpt-6.1-sol and Claude Sonnet 5.5 turns through the local provider proxy. No mocks or replay provider.
Main: Claude reported that its T3 instructions had no "T3 Code browser" section. It opened the requested page without first calling preview_status. It still completed the request, so this reproduces the missing guidance, not a claim that every main browser request fails.
PR, same project and prompt: Claude quoted the shared browser block, called preview_status before preview_open, inspected the actual page through snapshot and DOM evaluation, and closed its tab. The page title was "Example Domain"; the page currently has no heading elements.
Claude's native Agent subagent also quoted the block and identified it as SubagentStart hook context, without reading files.
With Agent browser access disabled in Settings, a new Claude session had no browser block. Calling preview_status returned the capability-denied error. Restored browser access afterward.
Codex completed status/open/snapshot/close on both main and the PR, reporting the real link destination. No project files changed.
Existing CI is green. Two focused Blacksmith runs passed 75 selected existing tests across Claude, shared instructions, Cursor, Muse, Pi and OpenCode v2. No source changes or pushes were needed.
Before, main:
After, exact PR head:
Real client interaction, trimmed to a 50-second animated recording. The MP4 export was also checked for playback and seeking in T3:
Short runtime transcript, summarized from real provider protocol events
main: server=16733 web=8693
Claude: ToolSearch -> preview_open -> preview_snapshot -> t3_preview_close
Claude result: success, error=false; browser section absent
Codex: preview_status -> preview_open -> preview_snapshot -> t3_preview_close
PR: server=13773 web=5733, explicit isolated .t3 home
Claude: ToolSearch -> preview_status -> preview_open -> preview_snapshot
-> preview_evaluate -> t3_preview_close
Claude result: success, error=false; browser section quoted
Claude native Agent: browser section quoted from SubagentStart context
Browser access off: preview_status -> MCP credential does not grant the preview capability
Codex: preview_status -> preview_open -> preview_snapshot -> t3_preview_close
blacksmith focused run 1: 52 passed (name-filtered)
blacksmith focused run 2: 23 passed (name-filtered)
Not verified
Native desktop, iOS/Android clients and macOS/Windows behavior were not exercised on this Linux VM. Live Cursor, OpenCode, ACP-family, Pi and Muse provider turns were not configured; their selected instruction-assembly checks passed, which is not live integration proof. Mid-thread access changes and compaction across those providers were not exercised. This pass does not reproduce the earlier statistical missing-CLI eval or claim a browser-routing success rate. No CAPTCHA or external authenticated-service flow was tested.
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The existing system-prompt cases already cover capability and MCP gating. Could you fold these browser assertions into those cases instead of adding another test?
Provider prompts now use the MCP preview capability to determine when to include browser guidance. The MCP tool-use evaluation harness also models browser access, preview errors, sequential mocks, and browser-routing checks.
Changes: Browser guidance and provider integration
ACP instruction state now tracks browser-tool availability. Orchestration and ACP prompts include browser guidance based on that state, and tests cover capability changes and prompt delivery.
Claude, Cursor, Muse, and OpenCode pass browser availability into prompt construction or add browser guidance to provider context. Tests cover capability-gated guidance and delivery.
Pi extension capability wiring packages/provider-pi/src/server/mcpInjection.ts, packages/provider-pi/src/server/mcpInjection.test.ts, packages/provider-pi/src/server/mcpExtensionSource.ts, packages/provider-pi/src/server/mcpExtensionSource.test.ts, packages/provider-pi/src/server/mcpBridge.testkit.ts
Pi launch setup sets a browser-tools environment flag from the MCP preview capability. The extension uses the flag to add browser guidance when enabled.
Browser routing evaluation support evals/mcp-tool-use/run.ts, evals/mcp-tool-use/run.test.ts, evals/mcp-tool-use/README.md
The evaluation harness models browser access, preview errors, sequential mocks, alternative tool-call limits, and shell-script checks. Tests and documentation cover browser-routing cases.
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Test browser access independently from device access.
The fixture now enables preview and device together. The expectation helper also sets browser: devices. These checks would accept a regression that gates browser guidance on device instead of preview.
Extend this existing case with preview-only and device-only capability sets. Assert each instruction block independently.
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Review comment at @packages/provider-cursor/src/server/adapter.test.ts at line 681:
Extend the existing adapter test case around the capabilities fixture to cover preview-only and device-only sets separately. Assert each instruction block independently, verifying browser guidance is enabled by preview without device and is not enabled by device without preview; avoid the combined expectation that could mask incorrect gating.
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fixture to cover preview-only and device-only sets separately. Assert each
instruction block independently, verifying browser guidance is enabled by
preview without device and is not enabled by device without preview; avoid the
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Claude never received T3's browser rule (
T3_CODE_BROWSER_TOOL_INSTRUCTIONS: "When browser work was asked,preview_*is the browser you share with the user …"). The block was written for Codex in June and later shared with ACP, butClaudeAdapterV2appends only the orchestration, background-wait and device text. When a project's CLAUDE.md named a browser CLI that wasn't installed, Claude had nothing telling it that preview is the shared browser, so it fell back to ad hoc Playwright for requested QA.The fix appends the existing block to Claude's system prompt when the thread's MCP session holds the
previewcapability, the same gate Codex uses. The text is not copied, so #23107's rewrite of the block will flow through. The second commit gives every other provider the same capability-gated block (see the list below).Claude's T3 append on a thread with browser access, before → after (from the eval's
t3SystemAppend):Evals (stacked on #31536; Sonnet 5.5, shell gpt-6.1-terra, n=6):
br-flow-qa-missing-cliis a pre-registered "fixed" case (≥5/6 and ≥+3). It's a modest effect at n=6.br-look-on-web-missing-clifailed often enough on main in an earlier fixture (2/6) but not in the final one, so no fix is claimed for it.br-stripe-after-headless-captcha, Sonnet declines to get past an hCaptcha before opening any browser. Handing the tab to the user there is a separate change.ToolSearch select:hint made Claude load too few tools; it then ran out of steps before closing its tab (an existing case went 3/3 → 1/3). Adding the close tool to the hint made Claude reopen preview after edits nobody asked to check. This PR ships the plain block, picked after seeing those results. The confirmation runs above were done after that choice.Context size. On threads with agent browser access, which is the default, Claude's append grows from 6862 to 7247 chars (+385, the existing block).
AgentContextBudget.test.tsbuilds Claude options without capabilities, so the budget check stays green without measuring this, the same way it doesn't measure the device block today. Requesting theagent-context-increaselabel for this. Making the budget test measure default capabilities is a separate follow-up.Per-adapter decisions: every adapter now gets the block only when its session holds
preview.preview, with access changes detected. Grok, Kiro, fx, Antigravity and ACP-registry go through ACP.T3_MCP_BROWSER_TOOLS=1.Only Claude's top-level delivery is measured by the evals. Codex already had the block. The other adapters and Claude's subagent hook are covered by instruction-assembly unit tests.
Coordination with open PRs:
available:false). Rebase the mocks after it lands.Scope and approval
A focused fix of an obvious delivery bug. The browser block exists, and Codex has had it since June, but no other provider received it. No new behavior or text; the eval evidence is in #31536 and above. The maintainer asked that the per-adapter follow-ups go in this PR.
Generated with Claude Opus 5.5 in Claude Code (T3 Code); GPT-6.1 Sol implemented the non-Claude adapters. Reviewed by GPT-6.1 Sol and Claude Sonnet 5.5.
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