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The streaming robustness pass, end to end: the four steps of the plan, each
as its own commit, plus the two places where a measurement against a real
Chromium said the plan could not work as written.

What changes, in order

1. Sharp at rest. The streaming baseline moves from q50 to q75, and a
housekeeping timer notices 800 ms without a paint or an input and publishes
one still of the page at q85. Motion hides compression artefacts; a page at
rest does not, and the picture a person actually reads is the one still on
screen a second after they stopped scrolling.

2. Every frame describes itself. devicePixelRatio is a new optional
field on session start — the viewer's own ratio, which nothing on the server
can know — applied once as the browser context's deviceScaleFactor. Frames
now carry scale (device pixels per CSS pixel) and take their dimensions
from the JPEG's own SOF marker rather than from CDP metadata, which reports
DIP whatever the scale factor is. The client divides by it, so pointer
coordinates are in the page's CSS pixels.

3. A stream that answers a slow link. Both transports already drop a
frame they cannot hand over and then throw away the knowledge that it
happened. Now they report it — and so does the provider itself when a frame
exceeds the byte cap, which reaches no viewer at all and so has no other way
to be heard. Three drops inside two seconds steps the JPEG quality down a
rung, ten seconds without one climbs it back, with a three-second hold
between moves. The current quality rides on the session as streamQuality.

4. Say which transport the pane is on. Every fallback here is silent by
design, which means a session quietly running on the slowest path it has
looks exactly like one that is working. The store reports the rung, the
attempt count and whether the ladder has latched; the header shows a badge
only once it has; one button copies the lot as JSON for a bug report.

Two findings that changed the design

Both measured against a real Chromium, both written into the code and
docs/webmcp-inspector.md so nobody has to rediscover them.

A screencast cannot be asked for more pixels than the surface has.
Page.startScreencast's maxWidth/maxHeight only ever scale a capture
DOWN, so a session rendering at deviceScaleFactor 2 still receives 1280×800
frames — supersampled from a 2560×1600 raster rather than delivered at it.
The e2e confirms it on CI's own browser: [frame-stream] dpr 2: 1280x800 at scale 1. So the plan's 2× rungs do not exist, and the governor's ladder is
quality-only. Page.captureScreenshot behaves the same way; the one form
that does return 2560×1600 is a clip with scale, and that clobbers the
context's own deviceScaleFactor emulation (the page's devicePixelRatio
drops to 1 and stays there) and pushes an off-content frame into the stream.
Hence: no clip, ever, and nothing in the tests asserts a pixel count. What
they assert is that a frame's reported geometry matches the picture inside it
— the property every click is scaled by, and the difference between "not
sharper" and "clicks land in the wrong place".

Every surface capture induces a screencast frame, byte-identical to the one
before it.
Measured: one induced frame per capture on an idle page, none
while merely idle. Published, it replaces the sharp still with the same
picture at streaming quality a tenth of a second later — the feature defeats
itself. Counted as a paint, it restarts the settle clock, so each still
induces the next one: a capture loop on a page doing nothing. So a frame
whose bytes repeat the previous frame's is acked and dropped. JPEG encoding
is deterministic, so identical bytes mean identical pixels, and a page that
really painted something is unaffected.

Compatibility

Every wire change is additive and the version byte stays 1. scale occupies
the two bytes V1 reserved, so an old client decodes a new server's frames
unchanged and a new client reads an old server's 0 as the 1 it means (there
is a test that asserts no other header byte moved). devicePixelRatio,
streamQuality and the screenshot's capturedAt are optional; an old server
strips the first and never sends the others. noteFramePressure and
onStreamQualityChanged are optional members, so the browserd and electron
providers are untouched. The frame cap stays at 256 KiB — the plan raised it
for 2× frames, which do not exist.

Testing

CI is green on the head, including the sharded inspector suites, Build
and Test, both CodeQL analyses, and the Playwright smoke job — which is where
three e2e tests run against the real server and a WebMCP-capable Chromium:
the still surviving the round trip (bigger than the streamed frame of the
same scrolled page, with no capture loop after it); a dpr-2 session whose
every frame's reported geometry matches its own bytes (the run that produced
the log line quoted above); and the governor stepping down for a consumer
that stops reading, then recovering when it resumes.

Every new unit test was revert-proven: the change it pins was reverted and
the named test was watched to fail. That covers the settle timer and its
latch, the redundancy drop, the pressure funnel on all three sources, the
governor's step hold, the rung surviving a tab switch, the pane scaling
clicks by CSS size, the capture bound and its three-way result, and the
poll's own capture-to-paint measurement.

Two things this could not check. The Chromium-gated integration suite gains
the same geometry gate but does not run in this sandbox (its Chromium is 141
and has no WebMCP domain) — it runs in CI. And nothing here checks how any of
it LOOKS: the visual claims (mosquito noise gone at rest, text sharper on a
Retina display) still need the live pass from the plan's verification
section on a real machine.

Open by choice

Two review threads are left unresolved on purpose, both declined with
reasoning rather than silently:

  • a full-viewport JPEG that exceeds the 64 KiB screenshot budget even at
    quality 20 still yields no timeline thumbnail. That predates this branch,
    which widened the headroom (three quality rungs, not two) and removed the
    crop that made the old fallback wrong-geometry. A real fix needs a
    proportional resize, which CDP offers only through the clip this branch
    measured to be unsafe.
  • a hosted remote-interactive-url session shows no transport badge while
    polling. For a hosted session the poll is the designed transport rather
    than a fallback, so a "degraded" badge would be misleading.

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The frame stream is encoded for motion — 10fps of q50 JPEG — which is the
wrong trade the moment a page stops moving. What a person reads is the
picture still on screen a second after they stopped scrolling, and at q50
that picture has mosquito noise around every glyph.

Two changes, one goal.

SHARP AT REST. The streaming baseline moves to q75, and a housekeeping
timer notices when a page has gone 800ms without painting or being driven
and publishes one still of it at q85. The still is a raw
`Page.captureScreenshot` from the compositor surface: Playwright's
`page.screenshot()` writes an inline `caret-color` onto every text field
and restores it, and those two mutations paint — which makes the still
discard itself as overtaken. There is no `clip`, ever: measured against
Chromium 141, a clip capture clobbers the context's own deviceScaleFactor
emulation (the page's devicePixelRatio drops to 1 and stays there) and
pushes an off-content frame into the stream.

The measurement that shaped the rest: EVERY `Page.captureScreenshot`
makes Chromium produce a compositor frame to satisfy the copy request, and
the screencast then sends that frame — byte-for-byte identical to the one
before it on an idle page. Published, it replaces the sharp still with the
same picture at streaming quality a tenth of a second later; counted as a
paint, it restarts the settle clock and the next still induces another
frame, forever. So a frame whose bytes repeat the previous frame's is
acked and dropped. JPEG encoding is deterministic, so identical bytes mean
identical pixels: a page that really painted something is unaffected.

The oversize substitute and the settle still now share one single-flight
primitive and one slot, because two of them racing means a q50 substitute
overwriting a q85 still of the same frozen page. A burst of oversize
paints converges on the last of them with one trailing re-capture.

EVERY FRAME DESCRIBES ITSELF. `devicePixelRatio` is a new optional field
on session start: the viewer's own ratio, which nothing on the server can
know (the browser is headless), applied once as the context's
`deviceScaleFactor` rather than emulated later — a second device-metrics
override fights the one Playwright re-applies on every navigation.

Frames now carry `scale` (device pixels per CSS pixel) and take their
dimensions from the JPEG's own SOF marker rather than from CDP metadata,
which reports DIP whatever the scale factor is. The client divides by it,
so pointer coordinates are in the page's CSS pixels — which is what makes
a still captured at one scale and a streamed frame captured at another
safe to mix in one session. The wire change is the two bytes V1 reserved,
so an old client decodes a new server's frames unchanged and a new client
reads an old server's 0 as the 1 it means.

Measured, so nobody has to re-derive it: `Page.startScreencast`'s
maxWidth/maxHeight can only scale a capture DOWN, so a 2x session still
streams 1280x800 — supersampled from a 2560x1600 raster rather than
delivered at it. Nothing asserts a pixel count because of that; what the
integration gate pins is that a frame's reported geometry matches the
picture inside it, which is the property every click is scaled by.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01NJAtmy6ttBDDXhqbkQm1qN
A frame that a viewer's transport could not take is the one fact the
provider cannot observe for itself — it publishes into a fan-out and never
learns what became of a frame. Both transports already handle the loss
correctly (one pending slot, newest wins, so a slow pane converges on the
current paint instead of watching an ever-older page), and both then throw
away the knowledge that it happened.

This funnels that signal back. The WS pacer reports a frame REPLACED while
a send is outstanding; the SSE route reports a held frame replaced before
the consumer drained. Neither reports the first hold — one frame of
buffering is the mechanism working, and treating it as failure would step
the quality down on every link the moment two paints landed inside one
round trip. Both are on the hot path, so both are wrapped: a diagnostic
must never be the thing that kills a stream.

The provider answers with the only lever a screencast has. Three drops
inside two seconds and it steps down the quality ladder; ten seconds
without one and it climbs back, a rung at a time. The asymmetry is the
point — stepping down answers something a person is watching happen, while
stepping up is an experiment whose failure costs them another stall — and
so is the three-second hold, without which the frames still in flight from
the old rung read as fresh pressure and the stream falls to the bottom of
the ladder in one burst.

The rung SURVIVES a disable and re-enable, because the client withdraws
the stream every time its tab is hidden: resetting there would make a
session on a slow link re-discover the same pressure at full quality every
time somebody switched tabs. The drop counter does not survive — those
drops belonged to an audience that has gone.

A quality change is published on the session, so "the link is struggling"
and "the page is broken" stop looking identical to whoever is watching.
And while the stream is below its baseline the settle still is skipped
entirely: a link dropping frames does not want a sharp 200 KiB still on
top of the stream it already cannot carry.

`noteFramePressure` and `onStreamQualityChanged` are both optional. The
hosted browser paints in a datacenter and the embedded surface is already
on the viewer's screen; neither has an encoder to steer, and neither
should have to carry an empty method to say so.

The e2e drives it end to end against a real browser: a fixture painting an
incompressible mosaic (large frames, still under the cap, so the pressure
comes from the socket rather than from oversize drops), a consumer that
stops reading, and the quality falling and then recovering.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01NJAtmy6ttBDDXhqbkQm1qN
Every fallback in this pipeline is silent by design. A frame socket that
will not open drops back to SSE frames; a server too old to screencast
drops back to a screenshot poll; a link that cannot carry the stream gets
a lower quality. Each of those keeps the pane painting, which is the whole
point — and together they mean a session quietly running on the slowest
path it has looks exactly like one that is working, right up until
somebody says "it feels laggy" and there is nothing to answer with.

The store now reports which transport is carrying the pixels, how many
socket attempts this session has spent, and whether the ladder has given
up. DERIVED from the ladder's own variables rather than written at each
site: the socket ladder and the screenshot poll are independent, an older
server triggers both, and two writers racing over one field is how a badge
ends up contradicting the pane beside it.

The header shows it only when it is worth showing — the ladder has latched
on SSE frames, or the poll is running. A socket mid-retry is about to be
fine, and a badge that flickered on every reconnect would train people to
ignore it. The attempt count rides in the tooltip, where it matters to
whoever is diagnosing rather than to whoever is reading the header.

Capture→paint percentiles are now tagged with the transport that carried
each frame, so `byTransport` answers the question the numbers exist for —
"did that change help?" — instead of averaging a socket and a screenshot
poll into a figure that describes neither. The top-level report is
unchanged for everything already reading it.

And one button copies the lot: session, viewport transport, stream
quality, frame transport, the frame's own geometry, the viewer's pixel
ratio and user agent, and whatever percentiles exist. Page content is
deliberately absent — this gets pasted into issues. The copy branches on
whether the clipboard actually took it, because a success toast for a copy
that never happened is a real way to lose somebody's bug report.

Client-only: no server change, no wire change.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01NJAtmy6ttBDDXhqbkQm1qN
…t do

The pipeline picture in the docs was four steps and four properties; it is
now six of each, and two of the new ones are things nobody would guess
from the code: that a byte-identical repeat is dropped because every
surface capture induces exactly such a frame, and that a screencast cannot
be asked for more pixels than the surface has in CSS terms — `maxWidth`
only ever scales a capture down.

Writing the second one down is the point. "Render at the viewer's device
pixel ratio" reads like it should produce 2x frames, and the next person
to touch this would spend an afternoon finding out it does not.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01NJAtmy6ttBDDXhqbkQm1qN
Both settle tests took the LAST frame after the page went quiet and called
it the still. That holds on a build whose capture-induced repaint is
byte-identical (and therefore dropped), and turns into a flake on one
whose repaint differs by a pixel: the still is then second-to-last and the
comparison runs backwards.

Take the largest frame that arrived after the page settled instead. The
claim is unchanged — a sharp still got through, and it is bigger than the
streamed picture of the same page — and it no longer depends on a
behaviour that varies by Chromium build. The capture-loop check moves from
"exactly none" to "fewer than two", which still catches a loop (one still
per second) while tolerating one stray repaint.

Also spells out the multi-viewer trade in the pressure funnel: every
viewer reports into one counter, so the worst transport governs quality
for all of them.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01NJAtmy6ttBDDXhqbkQm1qN
…ading

The e2e compared the sharp still with the first frame of the session,
which is a frame of a page that had not finished painting: it would pass
on the still being sharper and equally on the page having finished
loading. Scroll the fixture first, let the motion carry at streaming
quality, and compare what settles afterwards against the last frame of
that motion — the same pixels, twice, which is the only comparison the
claim is about.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01NJAtmy6ttBDDXhqbkQm1qN
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P2: When a hosted `remote-interactive-url` session uses screenshot polling, the header shows no transport badge because this condition only permits badges for `frame-stream`. Allow the `poll` rung regardless of session transport kind so hosted fallback polling is visible too.</violation>
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P2: When a hosted remote-interactive-url session uses screenshot polling, the header shows no transport badge because this condition only permits badges for frame-stream. Allow the poll rung regardless of session transport kind so hosted fallback polling is visible too.

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+            once retrying has stopped: a socket that is mid-ladder is about to
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+            people to ignore it. */}
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Not taking this one, and leaving the thread open so a human can overrule me.

For a hosted session the screenshot poll is not a fallback — it is the designed transport. viewportBehaviour gives remote-interactive-url pollsScreenshots: true by construction, because the hosted browser's real viewport lives in the Browser panel with its own take-control lease and this pane only ever shows a periodic capture. Widening the condition would put "Frames: polling" on every hosted session, permanently, describing normal operation as degradation.

The badge exists to say the pane is on a WORSE path than it should be, which is why it also stays hidden while the socket ladder is still retrying. For a hosted session there is no better path to be on.

The diagnostics payload does report the poll for hosted sessions — that is the right place for "which transport is this", because it is read by someone already investigating rather than by everyone looking at the header.


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Five findings, all real.

A RESTART THAT FAILS USED TO FREEZE THE PANE. When a rung change stopped
the encoder and the start behind it was refused, `screencasting` went
false — and unlike the client's own `set_screencast`, a governor restart is
fire-and-forget: no caller to hand the `false` to, no screenshot fallback
to trigger, and a client still watching a pane that would never update
again. Now the failure falls back to the rung the browser had already
accepted, stays `screencasting` so nobody is lied to, and the governor
retries on its hold until it takes. The rung it falls back to is tracked
separately from the one the governor wants, because those differ for
exactly as long as a restart is in flight — which is the only window in
which a start can be refused.

THE DIAGNOSTICS COPIED THE PAGE URL VERBATIM. That payload is built to be
pasted into an issue, and a query string is where session tokens and
magic-link codes live. Origin and path now, with a note that something was
dropped so the reader is not left wondering why it does not match their
address bar; `URL` drops any `user:password@` on the way through.

And three edges: a SOF segment whose declared length cannot hold its own
dimensions is refused rather than read past (the bytes after it belong to
the next segment, and the caller trusts what comes back over its own
fallback); `resetFrameStats` no longer clears the transport rung, since it
is also `window.webmcpFrameStatsReset` and a person running it mid-session
would file every later frame under `none`; and the device pixel ratio goes
on the wire with three decimals rather than two, matching the precision a
frame's own `scale` carries.

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reverted.

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<file name="mcpjam-inspector/client/src/lib/webmcp-inspector/frame-stats.ts">

<violation number="1" location="mcpjam-inspector/client/src/lib/webmcp-inspector/frame-stats.ts:166">
P3: `resetFrameStatsFlagForTests()` calls `resetFrameStats()`, which now keeps `currentRung`, so the test seam no longer fully resets state. A test that sets a rung (e.g. "splits the percentiles" leaves `sse-frames`) carries it into the next test, and any test that checks `byTransport` without first calling `noteFrameTransportRung` will read a stale rung from an earlier test. Reset `currentRung` in the test-only seam instead of in `resetFrameStats`.</violation>
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P2: When a page puts a reset/share token or account identifier in its path, `redactUrl` still copies it into the issue payload despite promising no person-identifying data. Keep only the origin or explicitly scrub path segments before exporting diagnostics.</violation>

<violation number="2" location="mcpjam-inspector/client/src/lib/webmcp-inspector/diagnostics.ts:42">
P3: The redaction note is keyed to `parsed.search || parsed.hash`, but the function also drops the fragment and userinfo. A URL with only a fragment (`https://shop.test/checkout#frag`) is reported as `[query redacted]` even though no query existed, and a URL with only `user:password@` is dropped with no note at all, contradicting the comment's intent to say when something was dropped. Key the note to what was actually dropped.</violation>
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P2: After a refused governor restart, disabling and re-enabling the stream leaves `restartPending` set, forcing an unnecessary stop/start after the hold. Clear `restartPending` when the manual start succeeds.</violation>

<violation number="2" location="mcpjam-inspector/server/services/webmcp-inspector/playwright-provider.ts:1163">
P2: When screencast startup fails on a DPR>1 session, the fallback presents a top-left 640×400 capture across the full interactive viewport, so CSS-coordinate clicks can land at the wrong page location. Capture fallback screenshots at CSS scale and full-viewport geometry instead of using the thumbnail crop.</violation>
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The one that matters: the redundancy check compares BYTES, and bytes do
not know they belong to a different document. Reload a static page and its
first frame is identical to the last frame of the page before it — dropped
as a duplicate, while the runtime has just cleared its retained frame for
that navigation. A pane connecting right after would have nothing at all
to show until the page repainted, which for a settled page is never. The
remembered bytes are now forgotten on main-frame navigation.

Three more, each real:

An embedded session starts its screencast inside the provider's `start()`,
which runs before the runtime has a browser and before the registry has
adopted it — so the quality callback published a session event into the
replay ring advertising `native-window` and an expiry at the epoch. It is
the same hazard `attach` documents for its own status. The quality is now
remembered there and published with the first session event that has
something true to say.

A frame decodes for tens of milliseconds, and the transport ladder can
move inside that window: a socket frame that painted after a fallback was
being filed under the transport that replaced it. The rung now travels
WITH the frame from the moment it arrives.

And `disconnectStream` cleared the screenshot-poll flag, which belongs to
the surface that owns the interval — that interval outlives a session
change, so a pane visibly painting screenshots reported a transport of
`none` after the next `startSession`.

Also tightened the SOF minimum length from 7 to 8 (a real frame header
declares the component count too), and the integration test's settle wait
now derives from the constants that decide it instead of a round number
that would keep passing while meaning something else.

The dpr e2e now proves what its name claims. Every geometry assertion in
it is self-consistent at any ratio — Chromium clamps the screencast to the
CSS surface size, so a server that silently dropped the field would produce
identical frames — so the fixture grew a `viewport_report` tool and the
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585-586: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Invalidate in-flight still captures when the page or stream generation changes.

publishStill tracks only framesReceived. Navigation and stream stop/restart do not change this value. An old capture can therefore pass both guards and reach frameThrottle.push after the document or stream has changed. Track a capture generation and compare it after each await. Add gated tests for navigation and stop/re-enable ordering.

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…s a secret

The screenshot the timeline takes is ALSO the picture the pane polls when a
screencast cannot be started — and its retry, for a capture over the 64 KiB
budget, was a crop of the top-left 640x400. Fine as a thumbnail viewed at
its own size; wrong as a surface, because the pane renders whatever comes
back as the whole 1280x800 viewport and maps clicks across it. A crop
presented that way puts every click at up to twice its true coordinate.

That path was rare before this branch and is not any more: a session
rendering at two device pixels per CSS pixel produces four times the
pixels, so an ordinary page blows the budget and takes the retry. It now
walks the same quality ladder through the same surface capture the stills
use — full viewport, CSS resolution, no clip, no DOM mutation — and
returns nothing at all rather than something the wrong shape.

The diagnostics URL is now the ORIGIN alone. Stripping query, fragment and
userinfo missed the obvious other place a secret sits: `/reset/9f3c…`,
`/u/48213`, a share link. What a viewport bug report needs is which site,
which scheme, which port. And the note names what was actually dropped
rather than saying "query" for a URL that only had a fragment.

Two lifecycle fixes: a pending restart retry no longer survives the stream
it belonged to (a disable and re-enable would have stopped and started a
healthy encoder as soon as the hold expired), and the frame-stats test
seam resets the transport rung again — `resetFrameStats` deliberately
keeps it now, which made the seam leak one test's transport into the next.

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The bound added in the previous commit did not bind. It was set when a
capture TIMED OUT, so it did not engage for five seconds — and a
screenshot poll asking every second already has five commands in flight
by then. Worse, one boolean was shared by every timed-out capture and
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The cost is that two callers wanting a capture at the same instant get
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Holding outstanding captures at one gave the poll a new answer: 200 with
no image, meaning "another capture is already outstanding". The client
could not tell that from "there is no picture", so it wrote the empty
value AND claimed the ordering slot with it — blanking the pane, then
rejecting the real capture still on its way as stale. A browser taking
longer than the poll's one-second cadence would discard every successful
result and stay blank for as long as it stayed slow.

An answer that carries no image is not a blank page. It is a capture the
browser could not produce right now — nothing fit the byte budget, or
another was outstanding — so it now neither writes nor claims the slot.
That is the same rule the failed-response case already followed, one step
further in: a successful response is not the same thing as a picture.

Applied to the manual capture too, which the single-flight made equally
able to answer empty, and where blanking a picture someone is looking at
because a settle still happened to be in flight is no better.

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Comment thread mcpjam-inspector/server/services/webmcp-inspector/playwright-provider.ts Outdated
Holding outstanding captures at one gave `captureStill` a second way to
return no picture, and it was indistinguishable from the first. A capture
the browser REFUSED is final; one this provider declined to send, because
another was already outstanding, is a picture still owed.

Collapsed together, the oversize substitute is the case that cannot
survive it. A timeline screenshot holding the slot makes `publishStill`
read "declined" as "failed" and give up without setting `oversizePending`
— and the frame that asked for it was itself refused for its size, so on
a page whose last paint was oversize and which then stops painting, no
later frame and no timer ever comes back. The pane keeps an older picture
indefinitely. The settle still cannot rescue it either: its ladder starts
above the streaming quality that already did not fit.

`captureStill` now answers picture / busy / failed. An oversize substitute
refused for the slot stays owed for the next housekeeping tick; a settle
still un-latches so the next quiet tick takes it. `captureScreenshot`
reads both non-pictures the same way — "no new picture", which the client
now holds its current one through — because its poll returns in a second,
sooner than any retry this could arrange.

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A page whose paint exceeds the cap at quality 25 got no substitute at
all: the ladder ran out, nothing was published, and — the frame having
been refused for its size, and the page having stopped painting — nothing
came back for it. The settle still cannot cover it either, since its
ladder starts above the streaming quality that already did not fit.

Quality 10 is ugly and it is the right answer here. This rung is only
reached by near-maximum-entropy content filling the viewport, and for
that page the choice is not between a good picture and a poor one; it is
between a poor picture of the page in front of the person and a sharp one
of a page they have left. Frames are transient, so the next paint
replaces it.

It narrows the gap rather than closing it, and the doc comment says so: a
paint that will not fit at 10 still publishes nothing. Closing it needs a
proportional resize, which CDP offers only through `clip` — measured to
clobber the context's deviceScaleFactor and push an off-content frame
into the stream.

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Comment thread mcpjam-inspector/client/src/lib/webmcp-inspector/frame-stats.ts
The `poll` rung could never receive a sample. Polled screenshots land in
`lastScreenshot` rather than a live frame, and the pane's `onLoad`
returned early without one — so `byTransport` offered a bucket for the
SLOWEST transport that was silent exactly where somebody investigating it
would look, and gestures made while polling expired unsettled.

Measured with the same definition rather than a convenient one. The
capture command now returns `capturedAt`, stamped where a streamed frame
is stamped — the moment the server had the picture — so the poll's
capture-to-paint figure is the same quantity as the socket's rather than
a different one sharing a table with it. Timing from the response instead
would have been free and would have excluded the capture and the round
trip, which is the kind of quietly-wrong number that module exists to
avoid. It is dated only when there is a picture: a timestamp on an empty
answer dates a paint that never happened.

The input echo is deliberately NOT recorded for the poll, and the docs
say so. A screenshot has no sequence to be newer than, and at a fixed
once-a-second cadence "gesture to next paint" measures the poll interval
rather than the input path — it would sit in the same percentile as
socket echoes while describing something else. Expiry still runs on a
polled paint, since silence is common on that transport and it is the
only thing that clears a stranded gesture.

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All reported issues were addressed across 7 files (changes from recent commits).

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`lastScreenshotAt` was written by both paths, so a manual capture shown in
the pane recorded a `byTransport.poll` sample. A session streaming
perfectly would grow a poll bucket the moment somebody pressed the
button, and a headless session — where the button is the only way to see
the page and nothing polls at all — would report every capture as
polling.

What the measurement records is a TRANSPORT, and a person pressing a
button is not the pane polling. The manual path now clears the timestamp
rather than setting its own: carrying the previous poll's would be worse
still, dating this picture by a paint from seconds ago.

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