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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe change adds named launch and attach browser profiles. Profiles can be managed and selected for browser sessions, tasks, and skills. The desktop and API expose profile controls, and attached sessions connect to browsers through validated local DevTools endpoints. ChangesBrowser profiles and runtime
Task and skill profile selection
Desktop profile controls
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BrowserUI->>BrowserService: Open with selected profile
BrowserService->>DevToolsEndpoint: Validate endpoint and discover websocket
BrowserService->>Playwright: Connect over CDP
Playwright->>LocalBrowser: Attach to local browser
BrowserService->>LocalBrowser: Open a Sentient-owned page
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Issue #209 requires named profiles for tasks and skills, local DevTools attachment, refusal of non-local endpoints, and automated tests. The changes add task and skill profile propagation, launch and … |
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A local browser joins without losing its life.
Tasks pick a window; skills know the way,
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🟡 Minor · Refresh browser profiles after reconnect. · events.ts:271
desktop/src/lib/events.ts:271
🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick winRefresh browser profiles after reconnect.
If a profile changes while the socket is disconnected, the reconnect handler refreshes browser status but not browser profiles. An open Settings or task view can keep showing the old profile list. Add
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Review comments at @desktop/src/features/browser/BrowserPanel.tsx:
- Line 85: Update the profile selection logic using picked so that when the
profiles query refreshes and the selected profile no longer exists, it clears
the stale selection and falls back to an available profile; preserve the
existing default fallback when no profile is available.
Review comments at @desktop/src/features/settings/sections/BrowserProfiles.tsx:
- Around line 105-107: In the browser-profile delete handler’s catch block, keep
the toast and rethrow the caught error so the onConfirm rejection propagates and
ConfirmDialog stays open when deletion fails.
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- Line 271: Add browserKeys.profiles to the invalidation list in the reconnect
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Outside-diff finding (events.ts reconnect refresh): fixed in 1e526c2, reconnects now also refetch the browser profiles list. |
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- Around line 421-433: Update update_profile to reject an already-existing
destination profile folder before moving anything, then make the folder rename
and _save_profiles persistence transactional: write configuration atomically so
partial failures preserve the prior durable configuration, and restore the old
folder if persistence fails after the move.
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- Around line 571-573: Update rename_browser_profile to select the IDs of tasks
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- Around line 437-442: Update the rollback handling in the profile-change
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Several browser profiles, each with its own sign-ins, under ~/.sentient/browser/profiles/<name> (the old profile folder moves to "default"). A task can set a default profile, a skill can name one in its frontmatter, and browser_open/browser_tabs take an optional profile. One profile is open at a time; switching closes the current one. An "attach" profile connects over CDP to a Brave, Chrome or Edge the user started with --remote-debugging-port, on loopback only. Sentient works in its own tab and only disconnects, never closing the browser. All browser safety rules apply unchanged. Settings > Browser manages profiles (add, edit, delete, open to sign in), task details pick one, and the browser panel shows which is open. Closes #209
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639-639: 🚀 Performance & Scalability | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick winSkip a rename when the profile name does not change.
If
old == new, this method updates every matching task row and publishestask.updatedfor each task. Return before the query and write when the names match.Based on learnings, rename operations should check for an unchanged value to avoid unnecessary writes and events.
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- Line 729: Render BrowserProfileRow in the compact layout when multiple browser
profiles exist, so task side panels and narrow full-page views can select a
profile; keep the existing non-compact PropertiesCard rendering unchanged.
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What
Several named browser profiles, each with its own sign-ins, and attaching to a browser you already run (Brave, Chrome or Edge started with
--remote-debugging-port), limited to this computer.Engine
browser.profiles(name -> {kind: launch|attach, engine, endpoint, notes}).defaultalways exists and stays alaunchprofile. Alaunchprofile lives in~/.sentient/browser/profiles/<name>; the old~/.sentient/browser/profilemoves toprofiles/defaulton first use (if it can't be moved, it keeps being used)._life_lock/_locksemantics), except a window the user opened to sign in: then the call returns an error asking them to close it first.ctx.extra["browser_profile"](set from the task'sbrowser_profilewhen a run starts, replaced by a skill'sbrowser_profilewhenskill_viewreads it, and by aprofileargument onbrowser_open/browser_tabs; latest wins for the rest of that turn or run), elsedefault, switching if another profile is open. Profiles are signed in as different people, so a later chat never silently keeps using a task's profile.attachprofiles:connect_over_cdpto a loopback DevTools endpoint only (localhost,127.0.0.0/8,::1). Anything else is refused with a plain message, and so is a DevTools port whosewebSocketDebuggerUrlpoints somewhere else. Sentient works in a tab of its own, follows only popups from that tab, and never closes the user's browser: close, idle, switching and deleting only disconnect.browser_switch_tabrefuses a tab on a blocked site without touching it.GET/POST /api/browser/profiles,PATCH/DELETE /api/browser/profiles/{name}(rename moves the folder and the tasks that use it; delete removes a launch profile's folder),POST /api/browser/open {url?, profile?}, status gainsprofileandattached.browser_profilecolumn, on create and PATCH (400 for an unknown name), copied on rerun. Skills: optionalbrowser_profile:frontmatter, kept on edit and on assistant patches, returned byskill_viewand the Skill API.Desktop
--remote-debugging-portand a separate--user-data-dir, and warns that any local program can then control that browser.Docs: docs/API.md (sections 4, 8, 12), docs/PRIVACY.md, CHANGELOG.
How to test
New tests:
tests/browser/test_profiles.py(no browser): endpoint normalization and loopback refusal, a DevTools port pointing elsewhere is refused, attach to another computer refused before connecting, unknown profile error, profile names and folders, old folder migration, config keepsdefault, profile routes (create, duplicate, attach refused for non-loopback, rename moves the folder, default protected, delete removes the folder), tools stay visible with only an attach profile, task default profile reaches the tools in a real run, rename follows tasks, skill frontmatter profile (kept on edit and patch), no switch under a sign-in window.tests/browser/test_profiles_live.py(real headless Edge/Chrome on local pages, skipped when none can start): two profiles keep separate cookies and localStorage, switching back and forth, a task default profile is used and an explicit argument wins, a chat after a task on another profile uses default, attach to a locally launched browser with--remote-debugging-port=0on a throwaway folder (safety still applies), and detaching (and switching away) leaves it running with Sentient's tab still open.Manual: Settings > Browser > Add profile > "A browser I started", start a browser on a throwaway folder with
--remote-debugging-port=9333 --user-data-dir=<folder>, then Connect.Notes
service.py; the launch code moved into_launch_persistent, so a small merge there is expected.Closes #209