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Problem

Production logs show thousands of identical lines for a single request:

browserless:screenshot captureWithNavigationRetry error="Protocol error (Page.captureScreenshot): Session closed. Most likely the page has been closed."

captureWithNavigationRetry treats every isContextDestroyed error as transient and retries in a while (true) loop with no delay. Session closed. Most likely the page has been closed. matches that predicate, but it is terminal — the page is gone. goto.waitUntilAuto resolves immediately against a closed page (run() swallows the rejection through pReflect), so the loop spins at full speed until the capture budget expires.

Measured against the old code with a 750ms budget: 409,547 iterations. In production, with a ~28s budget, that is a pegged JS thread and a log flood per affected request — the shape behind the CPU-saturation readiness cascades.

Fix

  • Bail out when page.isClosed() — a closed page never comes back.
  • Pace each retry (250ms floor) so the loop cannot spin even if the page reports itself alive.
  • Pass the remaining budget to waitUntilAuto instead of the full timeout.

A destroyed context on a live page still retries exactly as before.

Tests

packages/screenshot/test/capture-navigation-retry.js — closed page is terminal, an immediate waitUntilAuto does not spin, a live page still retries, non-transient errors rethrow. The spin test fails on master (409k attempts) and passes here.

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Medium Risk
Changes retry and timeout handling for screenshot capture; a misclassification could fail live navigations early or still spin on dead pages, but this is not auth or data-handling code.

Overview
Stops captureWithNavigationRetry from spinning when the page or CDP session is already gone. Production was treating Session closed as a transient navigation and looping waitUntilAuto until the full capture budget expired.

Retries now go through isTransientContextLoss: context-destroyed errors still retry on a live page, but page.isClosed() and Puppeteer’s TargetCloseError fail immediately. Each retry also uses the remaining timeout instead of resetting to the original budget.

The same predicate is used in waitForReady so a closed page surfaces on the first evaluate instead of polling out the quiet window. Tests cover closed pages, detached sessions, budget exhaustion, and successful recovery after a real navigation.

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Summary by CodeRabbit

  • Bug Fixes

    • Improved screenshot capture reliability when navigation sessions close unexpectedly.
    • Retries now respect the remaining timeout, stop when pages are closed, and avoid unnecessary delays.
    • Non-transient errors continue to fail immediately.
  • Tests

    • Added coverage for retry timing, timeout exhaustion, closed pages, successful recovery, and error handling.

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📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

captureWithNavigationRetry and waitForReady now use page-aware transient context-loss detection. Retries stop for closed pages and remain bounded by the remaining timeout. Tests cover terminal, timeout, successful retry, and non-transient error paths.

Changes

Screenshot navigation retry

Layer / File(s) Summary
Transient context-loss contract
packages/screenshot/src/is-transient-context-loss.js, packages/screenshot/src/wait-for-ready.js
isTransientContextLoss excludes detached TargetCloseError sessions and waitForReady uses the local predicate. DEFAULT_POLL_MS is no longer exported.
Bounded retry implementation
packages/screenshot/src/index.js
Computes the remaining timeout through a reusable function, passes it to waitUntilAuto, and checks the budget before and after recovery. Fixed polling sleeps were removed.
Retry behavior validation
packages/screenshot/test/capture-navigation-retry.js, packages/screenshot/test/wait-for-ready.js, packages/screenshot/test/white-retry.js, packages/browserless/test/pdf.js
Adds coverage for closed pages, detached sessions, timeout exhaustion, successful transient retries, and unchanged non-transient errors. Page mocks now implement isClosed().

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

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 8592f

The PR bounds screenshot retry behavior to prevent CPU and log amplification while preserving retries for live pages. It is generally mergeable, but owner follow-up is still needed for the release job's unspecified token permissions and a fixed timing threshold that may cause CI-only test failures.

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sequenceDiagram
  participant captureWithNavigationRetry
  participant page
  participant waitUntilAuto
  captureWithNavigationRetry->>page: Check transient context loss
  captureWithNavigationRetry->>waitUntilAuto: Wait with remaining timeout
  waitUntilAuto-->>captureWithNavigationRetry: Complete recovery or raise an error
  captureWithNavigationRetry->>captureWithNavigationRetry: Recheck remaining timeout
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- Line 187: Add a job-level permissions configuration to the release job
granting GITHUB_TOKEN only contents: read for checkout and git pull; keep
release publishing authentication through the existing GH_TOKEN secret and do
not grant additional write permissions.

In `@packages/screenshot/src/index.js`:
- Around line 41-42: Update the retry loop around goto.waitUntilAuto and capture
to recheck the remaining timeout budget after waitUntilAuto and after the
polling delay; when the budget is exhausted, rethrow the caught error instead of
attempting another capture, ensuring successful capture cannot return after
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Comment thread packages/screenshot/src/index.js Outdated
Kikobeats and others added 4 commits August 23, 2026 19:06
lerna reads the committed ${NPM_TOKEN} line. lockfile=false
keeps the tree clean so publish does not hit EUNCOMMIT.

Co-authored-by: Cursor <cursoragent@cursor.com>
pnpm 11 ignores non-auth .npmrc keys. Keep ${NPM_TOKEN}
there for lerna; put lockfile: false in the workspace
manifest and ignore the generated lockfile.

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A closed page or session is terminal, not transient: `waitUntilAuto`
resolves at once against it, so the retry loop spun with no delay for the
whole capture budget (~409k iterations in 750ms in test, pegging a thread
and flooding logs until the timeout expired).

Bail out when the page is closed and pace each retry, so a destroyed
context on a live page still retries as before.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01FQGzhKLzWo14WbZ62LRdu9
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A wait that consumed the remaining budget still let one more capture
through, so a slow success could return past the timeout. Recheck the
deadline after the wait and rethrow instead.

Teach the pdf page doubles to answer `isClosed`, as a real page does.

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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01FQGzhKLzWo14WbZ62LRdu9
…dence

The retry floor was an invented constant. Reuse `DEFAULT_POLL_MS`, the
cadence this package already re-checks a page it is waiting on with, so
there is one number for it instead of two.

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Coverage is 79.564%fix/screenshot-retry-spin into master. No base build found for master.

The readiness gate classified a closed page as a navigation reset and
kept polling it every 150ms until its deadline. Same misread as the
capture retry: our own teardown, treated as a transient frame swap.

Name the distinction once — `isTransientContextLoss` — and let both loops
ask it instead of re-deriving it from error strings.

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In `@packages/screenshot/test/wait-for-ready.js`:
- Around line 68-74: Remove the fixed Date.now wall-clock assertion from the
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one page evaluation occurs after the session closes. Keep the Session closed
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Measured against a real browser, with the context destroyed mid-capture:
the published build logs ~800k retry lines over 27s; classifying the
error alone ends it in 0 lines, at the moment of teardown. Removing the
sleep changes neither number.

The floor was never what bounded the loop. `waitUntilAuto` is a
network-idle wait: on a live page it costs at least its idle window
(~500ms measured) and at most the remaining budget, so a 150ms sleep is
dominated in every case a retry is warranted. It only looked load-bearing
because the runaway case was a page that was gone, where the wait returns
instantly — and that is now terminal.

Ask puppeteer's own `TargetCloseError` as well as the page: the CDP
session flips `detached` before the page's close event lands, leaving a
window where every call throws while `isClosed()` still answers false.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01FQGzhKLzWo14WbZ62LRdu9
The wait slept exactly the remaining budget, so the test hinged on a tie:
a timer may settle a fraction before the elapsed clock reads its own
deadline, which let a second capture through on CI. Overshoot instead —
the assertion is about spending the budget, not about winning the tie.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01FQGzhKLzWo14WbZ62LRdu9
A wall-clock bound only holds when the CI scheduler cooperates. The
evaluation count says the same thing deterministically, and says it more
sharply: against a budget 200 polls wide, one evaluation is the claim.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01FQGzhKLzWo14WbZ62LRdu9
The retry loop spelled the same condition two ways: `remaining <= 0`
before the wait, `elapsed() >= timeout` after it. A `remaining()` closure
makes both sites read identically, and the wait gets the value at the
moment it is handed over.

The closed-page gate test built its fake by wrapping `scriptedPage`'s
`evaluate` and threading an `isClosed` option no other test used. It
needs one throwing evaluate; inline it and the factory goes back to
taking frames alone.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_017XeivF7VKq76tuKq36Wn6M
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