Skip to content

fix: reject stale generation-tagged refs #55

New issue

Have a question about this project? Sign up for a free GitHub account to open an issue and contact its maintainers and the community.

Sign up for GitHub

By clicking “Sign up for GitHub”, you agree to our terms of service and privacy statement. We’ll occasionally send you account related emails.

Already on GitHub? Sign in to your account

Merged
kunchenguid merged 3 commits into from
May 7, 2026
Merged

fix: reject stale generation-tagged refs #55

Show file tree
Hide file tree
Changes from all commits
Commits
Show all changes
3 commits
Select commit Hold shift + click to select a range
4ec3a24
fix: kunchenguid/chrome-devtools-axi#45
kunchenguid May 7, 2026
d5f7e75
no-mistakes(review): Fix stale and stamped ref handling
kunchenguid May 7, 2026
4b6a663
no-mistakes(document): Document generation-tagged refs
kunchenguid May 7, 2026
File filter

Filter by extension

Filter by extension
Conversations
Failed to load comments.
Loading
Jump to
Jump to file
Failed to load files.
Loading
Diff view
Diff view
15 changes: 9 additions & 6 deletions README.md
View file
Open in desktop
Original file line number Diff line number Diff line change
Expand Up @@ -26,16 +26,18 @@ snapshot:
RootWebArea "Example Domain"
heading "Example Domain"
paragraph "This domain is for use in illustrative examples..."
uid=1 link "More information..."
uid=g1:1 link "More information..."
help[1]:
Run `chrome-devtools-axi click @1` to click the "More information..." link
Run `chrome-devtools-axi click @g1:1` to click the "More information..." link

$ chrome-devtools-axi click @1
$ chrome-devtools-axi click @g1:1
page: {title: "IANA — IANA-Managed Reserved Domains", refs: 12}
snapshot:
...
```

Refs in snapshot output carry a `g<N>:` generation prefix that bumps every time a new accessibility tree is captured. Pass refs back exactly as printed - if the page re-rendered between snapshot and action, the action fails loudly with `STALE_REF` instead of silently no-op'ing, so the agent re-snapshots and retries.

## Install

**Tell your agent:**
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -206,9 +208,10 @@ export CHROME_DEVTOOLS_AXI_WS_HEADERS='{"Authorization":"Bearer token"}'

State is stored in `~/.chrome-devtools-axi/`:

| File | Purpose |
| ------------ | ---------------------------------- |
| `bridge.pid` | PID and port of the running bridge |
| File | Purpose |
| --------------------- | ------------------------------------ |
| `bridge.pid` | PID and port of the running bridge |
| `snapshot-generation` | Counter used to detect stale uid refs |

### Session Hooks

Expand Down
Loading
Loading