Browser

# Browser skill

This is your own browser, not the person's. Use it to check a page you built or a
service the task started, and to work on a site on the internet yourself: open it, read it,
click, fill in forms. The person allows each internet address when the call asks, so a site
is not off limits. When the person wants to see a site or a video themselves, use the
`desktop` skill: it opens the exact address in their own browser.

A Chromium browser that runs on the skill's own virtual screen (a separate X
display with i3), controlled through Playwright. It never touches the person's
own screen, browser, profile, mouse or keyboard. The person can watch the same
screen in the preview of the Kvist window or through the local link Kvist shows.

## What it can reach

- Servers this task started and exposed: start the server with `run_shell`
  `{"background": true, "expose_port": <port>}`, then open
  `http://localhost:<port>/`. The browser cannot reach anything else on this
  machine.
- Workspace pages without a server: `browser__open_workspace_page` with the
  path of an `.html` file (or a folder with `index.html`). Its folder is copied
  into the browser's sandbox; call it again after you edit the files.
- Internet addresses only after the person allows each address (the call asks).

## How to work

1. Open the page, then read the `elements` list: every interactive element has
   a `ref` (`e7`). Address elements by `ref`; refs are renewed by every
   `snapshot` and by every action that changes the page.
   Cells of a grid and other tiles that a script made clickable have no button tag;
   they are listed with `role: clickable` and a `box` (`[x, y, width, height]` in pixels
   from the page's top-left corner). If something you see on a screenshot is not in the
   list, `click` also takes `x` and `y`, the same pixels.
2. An action is not its outcome. `click`, `type`, `select` and `press` report
   what changed (URL, new text, console errors, failed requests). When you know
   what should happen, pass `expect_text` and read `expectation_met`; otherwise
   check with `wait_for` or `snapshot` before you say it works.
3. Use `screenshot` for layout and visual checks. You do not see the picture
   yourself: pass `question` and the Vision model describes it. Ask about
   specific things ("Is any text cut off or overlapping? What stands out most?")
   rather than "describe the page". A description can miss or invent details,
   so use it for impressions and measure the rest with `check_page`. A
   screenshot is saved as an artifact for the person and as an image attachment.
4. To check a page as other people see it, `emulate` the viewport (390×844 for
   a phone, 1440×900 for a laptop), the dark colour scheme and reduced motion,
   then `check_page`: it measures sideways scrolling and its cause, clipped
   text, contrast below WCAG AA, small targets, unnamed fields and buttons,
   images without alt, heading jumps and the character set. The settings stay
   on the tab until changed.
5. `console` and `network` show JavaScript errors and failed requests,
   including requests the network policy refused (a missing exposed port, an
   address the person has not allowed).
6. The browser, its screen and the servers of the task are closed by Kvist when
   the task ends; `close_browser` closes it earlier.

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