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What and why

  • change-detection answers a page that names no connected tab with the shared unknown-page text, for reads and for record. Before, it used its own wording and said a recording had started on a closed tab. A connected tab that has not recorded yet still works and gets a hint to start a recording.
  • list-http-calls, list-ssr-requests and the change-detection limit treat a value that is not a finite number as the default instead of listing nothing.
  • inspect-signals clamps the room it keeps for JSON at zero, and cuts the selector it echoes at 200 characters, so the cut note always stays inside the 20,000 cap.
  • The list-components description and the tools docs page now match what the tool returns.
  • Not changed: navigate results arrive as strict JSON through a jsonSerializable RPC, so JSON.stringify on the server cannot throw.

How it was verified

  • New tests for each fix, each failing without the change
  • pnpm test:devtools
  • pnpm test:panel
  • pnpm typecheck
  • pnpm format:check
  • pnpm docs:build
  • pnpm commit:check

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Notes for reviewers

  • Edits in devframe.ts are small: an import, the unknown-page check at the top of the change-detection handler, and a clip on the selector in the inspect-signals "No signal graph for" heading, to keep conflicts with the other open agent tool PRs low.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • Bug Fixes

    • Change-detection requests now distinguish unknown or disconnected pages from connected pages without recordings, and provide clearer guidance.
    • Component listings select the most recent page with a component tree and identify other tabs that report trees.
    • List limits handle invalid values consistently, accept numeric strings, and respect supported ranges.
    • Signal graph responses preserve status and guidance when output is limited, and truncate lengthy selectors.
  • Documentation

    • Clarified page selection, component outline depth, hidden descendants, and recording behavior.

change-detection now answers a `page` that names no connected tab with
the shared unknown-page text, for reads and for `record`, instead of
reporting a recording as started on a closed tab. A connected tab that
has not recorded yet keeps working and gets a hint to start one.

list-http-calls treats a `limit` that is not a finite number (a string,
NaN, null) as the default instead of slicing with NaN and listing
nothing.

inspect-signals clamps the room it keeps for JSON at zero, so a budget
smaller than the note no longer slices from the end of the graph, and
clips the selector it echoes so the note stays inside the cap.

The list-components description now says which page it picks without
`page`, that it names the other tabs, and what it answers when no page
is connected. The tools page says the same for list-components and
change-detection.
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The change updates change-detection page tracking and responses, component-outline guidance, limit handling for three listing tools, and signal response bounds. Tests cover the updated behavior.

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Change-detection page handling

Layer / File(s) Summary
Track page sessions and report page status
packages/devtools/src/devframe.ts, packages/devtools/src/rpc/cd-tools.ts, packages/devtools/src/__tests__/agent-tools.test.ts, apps/docs/src/content/agents/tools.md
Page reports and successful pings bind or rebind page sessions. Disconnects mark pages gone and remove cached change-detection reports. Requests for unknown pages return an unknown-page message. Requests for a known page without a recording give instructions to start one. Tests and documentation cover these responses.

Component-outline guidance

Layer / File(s) Summary
Page selection and outline guidance
packages/devtools/src/rpc/component-outline.ts, packages/devtools/src/rpc/__tests__/component-outline.test.ts, apps/docs/src/content/agents/tools.md
The description documents default page selection, depth limits, hidden-descendant counts, and responses when component trees are unavailable. Tests check the description and page-selection behavior.

Tool limit handling

Layer / File(s) Summary
Normalize listing limits
packages/devtools/src/rpc/cd-tools.ts, packages/devtools/src/__tests__/cd-recorder.test.ts, packages/devtools/src/rpc/http-tools.ts, packages/devtools/src/__tests__/http-tools.test.ts, packages/devtools/src/rpc/ssr-tools.ts, packages/devtools/src/__tests__/ssr-requests.test.ts
The change-detection, HTTP-call, and SSR request listings convert limit values to numbers, use defaults for non-finite values, then floor and clamp the limits. Tests cover invalid values, numeric strings, and negative values.

Signal response bounds

Layer / File(s) Summary
Bound graph and selector text
packages/devtools/src/rpc/signal-tools.ts, packages/devtools/src/devframe.ts, packages/devtools/src/__tests__/signal-tools.test.ts
Graph text handles budgets below 600 characters without a negative JSON allowance. The cut note distinguishes an empty graph from truncated JSON. Unmatched selectors are clipped to 200 characters. Tests cover response contents and size.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Change: Bug fix

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sequenceDiagram
  participant PageSession
  participant Devframe
  participant CdState
  PageSession->>Devframe: Report or ping page
  Devframe->>CdState: Bind page and update report
  PageSession->>Devframe: Disconnect
  Devframe->>CdState: Mark gone and remove cached report
  Devframe->>CdState: Check requested page before tool response
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Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 871f5

Disconnected tabs are handled correctly in the tested sequence. An uncommon reconnect ordering remains uncertain, so the change is mergeable with owner awareness of that edge case.

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Security architecture risk: 🔵 Low · up to 871f5

The changes tighten page selection and response bounds without an observed expansion of permissions. Reconnect ordering and shutdown behavior remain incompletely established, so the assessment is low risk rather than minimal.

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Security Blast Radius

  • inferred — The inspected changes affect diagnostic availability and responses for pages represented in one RPC host. Untargeted recording still reaches all connected pages through the existing broadcast path. Deployment authentication, tenant isolation, and wider service exposure were not established by the available evidence.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

  • observed — Page IDs remain supplied by RPC payloads, while session IDs come from the current transport context. Binding overwrites the recorded session for a page without an ownership or generation check. The new unknown-page check is therefore an availability control, not evidence of authenticated page identity.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

  • inferred — A newer binding protects a page from an older session's disconnect while that binding remains current. A late old-session report could reverse the binding and allow subsequent cleanup to remove current diagnostics, but transport reachability of that sequence is unverified. The helper also has no unhook operation; whether callbacks can outlive their owner depends on an unverified host lifecycle. Neither uncertainty establishes a new security vulnerability.

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list-ssr-requests and change-detection floored `limit` directly, so a
string, NaN or null gave NaN. list-ssr-requests then listed no request
and change-detection listed no component. Both now fall back to their
default (20 and 10) for anything that is not a finite number, and keep
their ranges (1-100 and 1-50), like list-http-calls.

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Review comments at @packages/devtools/src/rpc/cd-tools.ts:
- Line 127: Update the change-detection report lookup that builds `all` from
`connected` and `state.pages` so disconnected session IDs are excluded before
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connected: Iterable<ReportingPage>,
): string | undefined {
const pages = new Map<string, ReportingPage>();
const all: ReportingPage[] = [...connected, ...Object.values(state.pages)];

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

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Handle RPC disconnects for change-detection reports.

pagehide calls cd.leave(), but change detection is not registered with trackPageSessions. If the RPC session drops while the page remains loaded, its report stays in CdState.pages until TTL expiry. cdUnknownPageText then treats that disconnected page as known, and record: "start" can report success even though no page receives the request. Remove the report in the change-detection session-disconnect callback, or exclude disconnected IDs before this check.

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Review comment at @packages/devtools/src/rpc/cd-tools.ts at line 127:
Update the change-detection report lookup that builds `all` from `connected` and
`state.pages` so disconnected session IDs are excluded before the known-page
check, or remove their reports from `CdState.pages` in the session-disconnect
callback. Ensure a disconnected page is treated as unknown for `record:
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# Conflicts:
#	packages/devtools/src/devframe.ts
A tab whose RPC connection dropped kept its change detection,
component and injector reports until they expired, so the
change-detection tool took it as connected and said a recording
started although no record request could reach it.

The tool now tracks the connection of each tab that reports
components, injectors or change detection, the same way the pipes
inspector does. When a connection closes, the tab's change detection
report goes at once, and the tab counts as unknown until it reports
again on a new connection.
Since every agent tool answer starts with the untrusted-data notice,
the long selector test for inspect-signals no longer anchors its
heading check at the start of the answer.
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