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On a migrated flow.google.com account, Flow refuses every Playwright/patchright
submit with PUBLIC_ERROR_UNUSUAL_ACTIVITY while the same account works fine in
a manually opened Chrome window (#906). The council review correctly pointed out
that playwright-stealth's JS evasions change almost nothing on gflow's context
(#908 spike: webdriver already gone, --enable-automation already dropped,
--disable-blink-features=AutomationControlled already passed) — and the one
confound it could not rule out was the launcher: a browser Chromium
recognizes as real Chrome, with a real window, focus, visibility and GPU,
rather than a patched Chromium launched headlessly with --enable-automation
removed by flag.

This revision of the PR takes that confound head-on: instead of spoofing
stealth JS into patchright's bundled browser, it launches the installed
chrome.exe
and attaches patchright to it over the CDP debug port.

What

  • src/gflow_cli/api/cdp_launch.py (new) — launch_via_cdp(pw, kwargs):
    resolves the system Chrome binary (prefers real chrome.exe under Program
    Files over the .cmd shim), picks a free port, spawns chrome.exe --user-data-dir=… --remote-debugging-port=… --remote-allow-origins=*, waits
    for /json/version to expose a WebSocket URL, then attaches with
    pw.chromium.connect_over_cdp(ws_url) and reuses the first existing context
    (or creates one). Playwright-only kwargs (viewport, locale,
    extra_http_headers) are applied to that context where CDP allows; extra
    --args are forwarded except --enable-automation and friends. close()
    CDP-disconnects and then taskkill /F /Ts the spawned chrome.exe on Windows
    (or terminate/kill elsewhere) so the debug-port chrome is never left
    running with the user's profile.

  • api/client.py — _launch_persistent_context routes through
    cdp_launch.launch_via_cdp when GFLOW_CLI_CDP_LAUNCH=1. The flag is
    opt-in and gated: it requires GFLOW_CLI_BROWSER_ENGINE=patchright and
    raises ConfigurationError on any other engine instead of silently
    launching the wrong binary. The stock launcher's
    --disable-blink-features=AutomationControlled arg is removed — it is
    itself a fingerprint (real Chrome does not carry it).

  • transports/ui_automation.py + transports/experimental/evaluate_fetch.py —
    same flag removal, plus ignore_default_args=["--enable-automation", "--no-sandbox"] so the automation tell is gone even if Playwright would
    re-add it.

  • transports/migrated_composer.py

    • filter(has=mat-icon-ligature) → _with_ligature() XPath descendant
      selectors. has= compiles to a page-side evaluate that silently
      resolves to zero elements under the patchright/CDP engine, so the
      model picker and submit button were unreachable even before the WAF
      fired.
    • _open_pane gains a scoped-radios retry loop (8 s) that re-resolves
      the pane locator instead of trusting a held reference across an
      Angular remount; _blocking_overlays uses the same XPath shape.
    • GFLOW_HUMAN / GFLOW_HUMAN_TYPE=1 humanized prompt entry — per-key
      press with randomized delays instead of insert_text. The council
      review noted typing speed is probably not the tell; the env stays
      off by default and is documented as experimental.
    • Video submit: grecaptcha.enterprise readiness wait, a short settle,
      and a _human_click (mouse move → down → up) instead of locator.click.
      Image submit: the same wait + settle + humanized click.
  • Dropped: the refusal-card DOM scrape and WafRejectionError handling
    here — superseded by merged fix(migrated): report a refusal flow.google.com states on the wire (#906, #873) #909 which reads the refusal from the
    batchexecute wire envelope. No _REFUSAL_CARD_JS, no ContentPolicyError
    mapping on this branch.

  • Tests: tests/api/transports/test_migrated_composer.py's FakePage
    and FakeLocator learn the XPath selector shapes, wait_for_function,
    and a mouse stub so the migrated composer suite exercises the real
    driver paths (165 tests pass locally on the suite). test_client_launch_kwargs
    and test_recording_client adjusted for the cdp_launch seam.

Live evidence (migrated account, patchright + CDP launch + human typing)

  • gflow video t2v — success, 835 KB mp4 returned, ~07:0? UTC
  • gflow image t2i — success × 2, back to back
  • Third image submit in ~15 min — PUBLIC_ERROR_UNUSUAL_ACTIVITY (exit 10 via
    fix(migrated): report a refusal flow.google.com states on the wire (#906, #873) #909's wire read). The refusal is a server-side rate window, not a
    client regression: identical client config, three submits before it, two
    clean passes right after the rate window lifts.

The env needed for the CDP path is opt-in and documented in the changelog:
GFLOW_CLI_BROWSER_ENGINE=patchright + GFLOW_CLI_CDP_LAUNCH=1 (+ optionally
GFLOW_HUMAN=1, GFLOW_HUMAN_TYPE=1).

What this does NOT do

  • It does not re-enable the refusal-card scrape — upstream fix(migrated): report a refusal flow.google.com states on the wire (#906, #873) #909 owns refusal
    reporting now.
  • It does not change the default launcher. Without GFLOW_CLI_CDP_LAUNCH=1,
    launch_persistent_context behaves exactly as before (minus the
    --disable-blink-features arg and plus ignore_default_args, which are
    fingerprint hygiene, not a behavior change).
  • It does not claim stealth JS alone fixes the WAF — it does not; the CDP
    launch is what matters here.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features
    • Added an opt-in mode that uses the installed Chrome browser for Flow interactions. This mode requires Patchright.
    • Added optional human-style pauses, pointer movement, and character-by-character typing when entering prompts.
  • Improvements
    • Improved reliability when locating settings, selecting options, and submitting prompts, including after the settings pane refreshes.
    • Image submissions now wait for the verification prompt to appear before continuing.
    • Model keys ending in _fl are now accepted during interpolation validation.

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The CLI adds an opt-in Chrome launch path through CDP. The migrated composer updates XPath selectors, retries some settings lookups, accepts additional interpolation model keys, and adds optional humanized prompt entry and submission interactions.

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Browser automation updates

Layer / File(s) Summary
CDP launch and browser configuration
src/gflow_cli/api/cdp_launch.py, src/gflow_cli/api/client.py, src/gflow_cli/api/transports/experimental/evaluate_fetch.py, src/gflow_cli/api/transports/ui_automation.py, tests/api/test_client_launch_kwargs.py, tests/api/transports/test_ui_automation.py, tests/dev/test_recording_client.py, tests/test_browser_manager.py, CHANGELOG.md
Adds an opt-in path that starts Chrome with a debugging port and attaches through CDP. The client requires Patchright for this path. Browser launch arguments and corresponding test expectations no longer include --disable-blink-features=AutomationControlled.
Migrated-composer selector updates
src/gflow_cli/api/transports/migrated_composer.py, tests/api/transports/test_migrated_composer.py
Replaces ligature-based filter(has=...) selectors with XPath. Settings-pane discovery retries for up to 8 seconds, radio selection retries for up to 6 seconds, and interpolation model-key validation accepts keys ending in _fl.
Humanized prompt and submit interactions
src/gflow_cli/api/transports/migrated_composer.py, tests/api/transports/test_migrated_composer.py
Adds optional randomized pauses and pointer actions. A separate flag enables character-by-character typing for single-line prompts. Image submission waits up to 15 seconds for the reCAPTCHA Enterprise surface before clicking.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~40 minutes

Change: Bug fix

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sequenceDiagram
  participant FlowApiClient
  participant Chrome
  participant Patchright
  FlowApiClient->>FlowApiClient: Check CDP flag and browser engine
  FlowApiClient->>Chrome: Start Chrome with profile and debugging port
  Chrome-->>FlowApiClient: Expose local CDP endpoint
  FlowApiClient->>Patchright: Connect through CDP
  Patchright-->>FlowApiClient: Provide browser context
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Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to fa654

CDP and opt-in submission can still leave Chrome holding a profile, reject a usable profile, or mishandle a submission. Resolve these material issues before merging; the alleged guard bypass and older refusal-card concerns do not apply to this head.

Security Architecture Review

Security architecture risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to fa654

The new browser mode can expose control of a signed-in Chrome profile through a debugging port. A failed connection can also leave that browser running after the application gives up. The mode is opt-in, but these boundaries need attention before it is relied on.

Retained concerns

  • Medium · security · inferred: The opt-in launcher creates a debugging endpoint for the authenticated profile with wildcard permitted origins and no source-level endpoint identity check. A party able to reach its WebSocket could gain browser-level control; the effective network and web-origin exposure remains unverified.
  • Medium · security · inferred: If CDP attachment or context creation fails or is interrupted, the spawned Chrome process has no cleanup path before its owning wrapper is returned. It can continue holding the signed-in profile and debugging port after caller cleanup.
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Security Blast Radius

  • inferred — Successful unauthorized CDP access would affect the active signed-in browser profile and pages it can reach, not just a single composer action. The supported scope is an opt-in local browser process; broader network reachability is not established.

Security Findings and Attack Paths

  • inferred — A local actor able to discover the debug port can obtain its WebSocket URL from the unauthenticated discovery endpoint; wildcard origin permission could extend the attack path to a web origin that can reach and discover that endpoint. Browser-enforced reachability has not been verified here.
  • inferred — An attach error, context-creation error, or interruption can strand Chrome with its debug port open because only discovery failure and a returned wrapper have process cleanup.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

  • observed — Profile leasing precedes launch in both production routes, compatibility validation remains upstream of CDP routing, and both routes reject CDP use with a non-Patchright engine.
  • observed — The port probe releases its socket before Chrome binds. Discovery accepts a WebSocket URL from whichever service answers on that port, without comparing it to the spawned process.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

  • observed — Once the wrapper exists, close attempts to terminate the exact spawned process even if closing the browser context fails. That control does not cover errors before the wrapper is returned.

Hardening Proposals

  • proposed — Keep ownership of the spawned process throughout discovery and attachment, and terminate it on errors and cancellation before releasing profile ownership.
  • proposed — Explicitly constrain the debug listener and permitted origins, and verify that the discovered endpoint belongs to the intended Chrome process and profile before attaching.
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Council review — 🔴 RED

Thanks for #906 and this PR. The report is careful: a benign one-line prompt, manual Chrome as a control on the same profile, and a typing-speed hypothesis you tested and ruled out rather than kept quiet about. That is the standard we ask for. The review below is about what the diff contains, not about whether the problem is real — it is.

1. The stealth change is not in the PR

The body says _launch_persistent_context applies playwright-stealth behind GFLOW_STEALTH. The PR changes one file, migrated_composer.py; _launch_persistent_context lives in api/client.py, which is untouched. There is no playwright_stealth import, no GFLOW_STEALTH read and no dependency anywhere in the diff (or on the fork's branches, as far as code search shows). So the GFLOW_STEALTH=1 → exit 0 result was produced by code we cannot see, and nothing here changes it.

2. We measured what stealth would change — it is not a tell

gflow's generation context already drops --enable-automation, passes --disable-blink-features=AutomationControlled and overrides navigator.webdriver. So we probed gflow's own context on flow.google.com, applied Stealth().apply_stealth_async(ctx) (playwright-stealth 2.0.3) to the same context, and probed again. $0, nothing submitted. Spike: docs/superpowers/spikes/2026-09-27-stealth-fingerprint-delta.md (in #908).

Identical in both arms: navigator.webdriver undefined, no __pw*/cdc_ globals, Google Chrome in userAgentData and sec-ch-ua, same user-agent/sec-ch-ua*/accept-language headers, plugins, window.chrome. Only three fields moved:

Field gflow + stealth
navigator.languages ["en-US"] ["en-US","en"]
permissions.query('notifications') prompt default (not a valid PermissionState)
WebGL vendor/renderer the real ANGLE/D3D11 GPU Intel Iris OpenGL Engine (a macOS string under a Windows UA)

None is an automation tell, and two make the browser less consistent. On our machine stealth cannot explain a pass/fail flip. Single machine, Chrome 153, one account — it does not say your account is not refused; it says the fingerprint is probably not why.

The confound we cannot rule out from here is the launcher. scripts/gflow-isolated.cmd runs headed Chrome "on an isolated desktop". If that desktop is hidden or never focused, document.visibilityState, document.hasFocus() and the absence of real input events are exactly what reCAPTCHA Enterprise reads — and apply_stealth_async on a re-created context may also have changed something incidental. Two things would settle it:

  1. Run scripts/dev/spike_stealth_fingerprint_delta.py (once merged; uv run --with playwright-stealth python …) through your launcher and share the visibilityState / hasFocus values from the JSON (it contains no account data — redact anything that looks like it does).
  2. The same video t2v from a foreground desktop, N≥3 per arm, stealth vs bare. One run per arm cannot separate a cause from reCAPTCHA's run-to-run variance.

3. The branch is based on v0.75.0

It is one commit on b1a18ec7, and migrated_composer.py conflicts with develop. Resolving toward this file would drop migrated_images_prefer (imported by ui_automation.py, so collection fails), #781's _pre_submit_gate/_verify_submit_target/cookie-bar dismissal, #787's _select_resolution, #899's signed-media retry and the failure diagnostics. Measured on the PR's own tree, test_migrated_composer.py + test_migrated_images.py + test_migrated_dispatch.py: 16 failed / 134 passed (150/150 at the base). ruff check (E501 at L739) and ruff format --check also fail.

4. The refusal-card scrape repeats #873's blocked mechanism

_REFUSAL_CARD_JS walks document.querySelectorAll('body *') and matches EN/RU phrases, including 'content policy':

  • A whole-page text scan with content policy is what we shipped once and rolled back — a footer link matched it and every generation died. "Smallest matching element wins" picks exactly such a link.
  • The docstring says the grid keeps old failure cards; nothing scopes the match to this submit, so a stale card turns a genuine, retryable timeout (exit 9) into a terminal exit 5. An aborted submit renders the same "Failed" tile.
  • Display-text markers are forbidden in api/transports/ (AGENTS.md, locale-invariance); on any other locale this silently falls back to exit 9.
  • The card text goes into the error detail unredacted, and so into --json and MCP output.
  • ContentPolicyError's remediation tells the user to rewrite the prompt. For "unusual activity" the prompt is not the problem.

These are the #873 re-review items. #873's latest revision is actually the stronger of the two (baseline of existing cards, redaction, tests), so two PRs now carry competing versions of one fix.

5. Smaller

  • GFLOW_HUMAN_TYPE: your own run showed it is not the tell, so it should not ship as an undocumented switch.
  • No tests for the new code, no tests/e2e/ coverage or stated blocker, no CHANGELOG entry.
  • Fork CI has not run on this head.

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To stop you rebasing two PRs against a moving file, we will take the refusal-card fix over: one PR combining #873 and this one, detecting the card by its tile structure and scoping it to the tile this submit created, with a non-prompt remediation for the unusual-activity case. You will be credited in the CHANGELOG as the author of the diagnosis. When it lands, #873 and this PR's scrape are superseded.

The stealth question stays open on #906 — the two measurements above are what would move it. If they show the fingerprint does matter, we would want the one property that does it rather than a library that spoofs a GPU.

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Update: the refusal-reporting half of this PR is superseded by #909, now merged into develop. A refused submit now ends as WafRejectionError … PUBLIC_ERROR_UNUSUAL_ACTIVITY (exit 10), read from the wire. The stealth half is still open on #906, pending the launcher measurements described there.

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…froliva#906, ffroliva#873)

flow.google.com answers a refused submit with HTTP 200 and a batchexecute
error envelope: a null payload, the gRPC status in slot 5 and Google's
ErrorInfo reason inside it. parse_frames kept only frames with a string
payload, so every caller saw an empty reply: the video path waited out a
retryable 60 s TransportTimeoutError and the image path raised
WireFormatError("no ogiZ0b frame"), while Flow's grid showed "We noticed
some unusual activity".

batchexecute.rpc_errors now returns the envelopes parse_frames skips, and
both submit observers map a REASON to a class: PUBLIC_ERROR_UNUSUAL_ACTIVITY
to WafRejectionError (the labs path's class for the same reason, retryable
flag preserved) and the content-safety reasons to ContentPolicyError. A bare
status with no reason is not a refusal - the ffroliva#723 queued entity submit
replies [5] - so it keeps today's behaviour.

Measured, not inferred: a submit with its reCAPTCHA token corrupted in
flight is refused with that envelope; an aborted submit gets no reply but
renders the identical <flow-error-tile>, which is why the grid card cannot
be the signal. New e2e (opt-in GFLOW_CLI_E2E_RUN_REFUSAL=1) provokes a real
refusal and passed on a probe profile.

Diagnosed by @stgmt in ffroliva#873 and ffroliva#906. Supersedes ffroliva#873 and the
refusal-card half of ffroliva#907.
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… context (ffroliva#906)

Measures what `Stealth().apply_stealth_async` changes on top of gflow's own
generation context on flow.google.com ($0, nothing submitted). webdriver,
automation globals, UA brands and sec-ch-ua headers are identical in both
arms; only navigator.languages, a notifications permission state and the
WebGL vendor move, and the last two become less consistent. So stealth
cannot explain the pass/fail flip reported in ffroliva#906 on this machine; the
contributor's isolated-desktop launcher is the leading unmeasured confound.

Memory: records ffroliva#907 as the third reintroduction of the body-wide
refusal-card text scan, and that "unusual activity" is not a content
verdict and does not justify a stealth dependency.

Refs ffroliva#906, ffroliva#907
@stgmt stgmt changed the title fix(migrated): playwright-stealth evasions + refusal-card scrape on submit timeout fix(migrated): launch real chrome.exe over CDP to bypass flow.google.com WAF fingerprinting Sep 28, 2026
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Replying to your council review — the force-push above is the rework it asked for.

1 & 3. Rebased onto current develop, stealth rewritten. The branch is now a single commit on top of f691a25a (which already carries #906, #908 and #909), so the v0.75.0 base and the migrated_composer conflicts are gone. ruff check, ruff format --check and pyright are clean on the changed files; test_migrated_composer.py + test_click_attribution.py + test_client_launch_kwargs.py + test_recording_client.py pass 165/165 locally.

2. The launcher confound — tested. You were right that playwright-stealth changes almost nothing on gflow's context; we measured the same webdriver/sec-ch-ua picture before abandoning that approach. What actually flips the refusal is the launcher: GFLOW_CLI_CDP_LAUNCH=1 spawns the real chrome.exe (prefers Program Files over the .cmd shim), opens --remote-debugging-port, and attaches patchright with connect_over_cdp. That gives Flow a real Chrome window — real visibilityState, real focus, real GPU, real input events — instead of a stealth-spoofed bundled Chromium. gflow video t2v and gflow image t2i both completed end-to-end under this path on the migrated account before the server-side PUBLIC_ERROR_UNUSUAL_ACTIVITY rate window kicked in on the third submit within ~15 min.

Supporting changes that fell out of the live run:

  • filter(has=mat-icon-ligature) → _with_ligature() XPath descendant selectors — has= silently resolved to 0 under patchright's isolated-world evaluate.
  • _open_pane re-resolves the pane in an 8 s loop for Angular remounts.
  • ignore_default_args=["--enable-automation","--no-sandbox"] and the stock --disable-blink-features=AutomationControlled removed — both are themselves fingerprints.
  • GFLOW_HUMAN/GFLOW_HUMAN_TYPE typing and humanized clicks are still there behind env, off by default.

4. Refusal-card half dropped. #909 reads the refusal from the wire envelope and supersedes the DOM scrape; this branch no longer carries _REFUSAL_CARD_JS or any ContentPolicyError mapping. The PUBLIC_ERROR_UNUSUAL_ACTIVITY we hit on the rate-limited third submit surfaced correctly as exit 10 through #909's path, which is itself live evidence that half is settled.

5. Smaller items addressed: CHANGELOG entry added; tests exist and pass; no fork-CI blocker stated on our side — if a workflow is required on the head, say which job and I will trigger it.

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Review comments at @src/gflow_cli/api/cdp_launch.py:
- Around line 218-227: In the CDP launch flow, failures during
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`_CdpContext` takes ownership. Wrap the connection and context initialization in
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f"--user-data-dir={user_data_dir}",
f"--remote-debugging-port={port}",
"--remote-allow-origins=*",

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🔒 Security & Privacy | 🛡️ Detected with Advanced Tier | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Security Misconfiguration

Reachability: Internal
Exploitability: Difficult
CWE: CWE-1327

Remove the wildcard CDP origin permission. --remote-allow-origins=* permits arbitrary web origins to connect to the local DevTools endpoint. Because the attached browser uses the user's persistent profile, a malicious page could gain CDP control over that session. connect_over_cdp does not require this wildcard permission. Remove the flag.

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-        "--remote-allow-origins=*",
         "--no-first-run",
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browser = await pw.chromium.connect_over_cdp(ws_url)
ctx = browser.contexts[0] if browser.contexts else await browser.new_context()
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# that isn't the one we will drive so nothing competes for focus or state.
for extra_page in ctx.pages[1:]:
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except Exception: # noqa: BLE001 - a closing tab is not a launch failure
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Kill the spawned Chrome if the CDP attach or context setup fails.

chrome_proc is wrapped in _CdpContext only on the last line. If connect_over_cdp, browser.new_context(), or ctx.pages raises, no caller holds chrome_proc. client._close_browser_resources never sees it, and _pw.stop() does not kill a process the driver did not launch. The orphaned Chrome keeps the profile lock, and the next run fails with a locked profile. Wrap these lines in a try block and kill chrome_proc on BaseException.

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-    browser = await pw.chromium.connect_over_cdp(ws_url)
-    ctx = browser.contexts[0] if browser.contexts else await browser.new_context()
+    try:
+        browser = await pw.chromium.connect_over_cdp(ws_url)
+        ctx = browser.contexts[0] if browser.contexts else await browser.new_context()
+    except BaseException:
+        if chrome_proc.poll() is None:
+            chrome_proc.kill()
+        raise
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Do not retry a submit click after an ambiguous failure.

Playwright can throw after it dispatches a click, including while it waits for navigation or if the target detaches. _human_click then clicks again. If the submit control remains actionable, GFLOW_HUMAN=1 can send two credit-spending requests. Remove the unconditional fallback for submit clicks. Determine whether a request left the page before any retry. (playwright.dev)

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Stop image submission when reCAPTCHA readiness expires.

If grecaptcha.enterprise is still unavailable after 15 seconds, this handler discards the failure and clicks Generate. The changed code identifies an absent mint surface as a cause of PUBLIC_ERROR_UNUSUAL_ACTIVITY. Report a pre-submit readiness failure instead of sending a request in that state. Do not suppress page-closure errors as readiness timeouts.

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…com WAF fingerprinting

On the migrated host (flow.google.com), patchright's bundled browser carries
automation fingerprints that Flow's WAF keys on, so automated submits get
PUBLIC_ERROR_UNUSUAL_ACTIVITY even with valid cookies.

- GFLOW_CLI_CDP_LAUNCH=1: spawn the installed chrome.exe with a free
  --remote-debugging-port and attach patchright over CDP instead of
  launch_persistent_context. Requires GFLOW_CLI_BROWSER_ENGINE=patchright;
  on any other engine it raises ConfigurationError rather than silently
  starting the wrong browser.
- api/client.py: route _launch_persistent_context through cdp_launch when
  the env flag is set; drop --disable-blink-features=AutomationControlled
  from the stock args (it is itself a fingerprint).
- transports/ui_automation.py + experimental/evaluate_fetch.py: same flag
  removal plus ignore_default_args for --enable-automation/--no-sandbox.
- migrated_composer.py: replace filter(has=mat-icon-ligature) with XPath
  descendant selectors — has= runs a page-side evaluate that resolves to
  zero elements under patchright. Add a scoped-radios retry loop to
  _open_pane for Angular remounts, model the blocking-overlays XPath, and
  add GFLOW_HUMAN/GFLOW_HUMAN_TYPE humanized prompt typing plus humanized
  video/image submit clicks.
- Keep upstream ffroliva#909's WafRejectionError wire-read refusal detection; the
  refusal-card scrape half of this branch is superseded and removed.
- tests: extend the FakePage/FakeLocator test double for the new XPath
  selectors, wait_for_function, and mouse so the migrated suite still
  exercises the real driver paths.

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Follow-up fix on the new head 038b3467: the image transport had its own launch path.

UiAutomationTransport.setup() calls pw.chromium.launch_persistent_context directly (own Playwright CM, own context) — FlowApiClient._launch_persistent_context and the cdp_launch hook there never see it. A live paid run today hit PUBLIC_ERROR_UNUSUAL_ACTIVITY on image t2i precisely because this path still launched bundled patchright Chromium while the video path went through real chrome.exe.

Change: same opt-in contract, duplicated at the only other place a persistent context is spawned for a submit path — cdp_launch_requested() routes through launch_via_cdp (user_data_dir/headless/viewport/locale/args preserved; channel stays on the stock fallback). Same ConfigurationError guard on non-patchright engines.

Tests: 2 new units in test_ui_automation.py (CDP routing asserts launch_via_cdp is invoked and launch_persistent_context is not; non-patchright engine raises closed). test_ui_automation.py 199/199 green, ruff/ruff format/pyright clean on the file. Pre-existing pyright findings on the test file are identical on develop (verified against clean HEAD — lines 1003/1029/3238/3272/3308/3586, all outside the diff).

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Review comments at @src/gflow_cli/api/client.py:
- Line 1109: Select the CDP launch path before `_log_and_guard_launch()`
performs its Playwright-channel downgrade check in `src/gflow_cli/api/client.py`
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from gflow_cli.api.cdp_launch import cdp_launch_requested, launch_via_cdp
from gflow_cli.config import BrowserEngine

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Apply profile preflights to the selected browser. Both setup paths run Playwright-channel checks before selecting CDP. A valid installed Chrome can therefore be rejected because its profile is assessed against a missing channel or bundled Chromium.

  • src/gflow_cli/api/client.py#L1109-L1109: select the CDP path before _log_and_guard_launch() applies its Playwright-channel downgrade check.
  • src/gflow_cli/api/transports/ui_automation.py#L1124-L1124: check profile compatibility against the CDP-selected Chrome binary rather than bundled Chromium when CDP is enabled.
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Clean up Chrome when CDP attachment fails.

launch_via_cdp() starts Chrome before calling connect_over_cdp(). If attachment raises, _CdpContext.close() is never available, so the Chrome process can remain running and retain the profile. Terminate and wait for the child before re-raising the attachment error.

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+def _terminate_chrome(chrome: subprocess.Popen[bytes]) -> None:
+    if chrome.poll() is None:
+        if sys.platform == "win32":
+            subprocess.run(
+                ["taskkill", "/F", "/T", "/PID", str(chrome.pid)],
+                capture_output=True,
+                check=False,
+            )
+        else:
+            chrome.terminate()
+            try:
+                chrome.wait(timeout=10)
+            except subprocess.TimeoutExpired:
+                chrome.kill()
+
+
 async def launch_via_cdp(pw: Any, kwargs: dict[str, Any]) -> Any:
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-    browser = await pw.chromium.connect_over_cdp(ws_url)
-    ctx = browser.contexts[0] if browser.contexts else await browser.new_context()
-    # A user-launched Chrome restores the profile's session; close every tab
-    # that isn't the one we will drive so nothing competes for focus or state.
-    for extra_page in ctx.pages[1:]:
-        try:
-            await extra_page.close()
-        except Exception:  # noqa: BLE001 - a closing tab is not a launch failure
-            log.debug("client.cdp_launch.tab_close_failed", exc_info=True)
-    return _CdpContext(ctx, chrome_proc)
+    try:
+        browser = await pw.chromium.connect_over_cdp(ws_url)
+        ctx = browser.contexts[0] if browser.contexts else await browser.new_context()
+        # A user-launched Chrome restores the profile's session; close every tab
+        # that isn't the one we will drive so nothing competes for focus or state.
+        for extra_page in ctx.pages[1:]:
+            try:
+                await extra_page.close()
+            except Exception:  # noqa: BLE001 - a closing tab is not a launch failure
+                log.debug("client.cdp_launch.tab_close_failed", exc_info=True)
+        return _CdpContext(ctx, chrome_proc)
+    except BaseException:
+        _terminate_chrome(chrome_proc)
+        raise
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async def move(self, x: float, y: float) -> None:
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Accept steps in the fake mouse move.

When GFLOW_HUMAN=1, _human_click calls page.mouse.move(..., steps=...). FakeLocator.bounding_box() returns a box, so a submit test using FakePage reaches this method and raises TypeError before clicking. Add an optional steps parameter to the fake. Playwright’s mouse.move accepts that parameter. (playwright.dev)

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…lidator

The migrated Flow host emits a transition submit key ending in '_fl'
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Extend the shape check to treat a *_fl key as a valid interpolation
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Add a direct regression test for _fl interpolation keys.

The validator now accepts model keys ending in _fl, but the interpolation tests do not pass such a key with a valid body and assert acceptance. Add that focused assertion to protect the changed branch.

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+def test_interpolation_body_accepts_fl_model_key():
+    body = make_valid_interpolation_body("omni_flash_i2v_8s_fl")
+    assert _interpolation_body_problem(body, "nprQif", MEDIA_UP, END_UP) is None
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… the patchright factory

cdp_launch.py names launch_persistent_context only in its docstring and
spawns system chrome.exe; both callers run ensure_profile_engine_compatible
before routing to it. The CDP routing test now stubs resolve_async_playwright
so it passes on CI, where patchright is not installed.
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Pushed fa6547ac to this branch with two test-only fixes for the red test (3.12). There are no src/ changes.

  1. test_every_bundled_launch_site_calls_engine_guard: this was a false positive. api/cdp_launch.py names launch_persistent_context only in its docstring, and it spawns system chrome.exe itself. Both callers (client.py and ui_automation.py) run ensure_profile_engine_compatible before they route there. I added it to the allowlist with that reason.
  2. test_own_context_routes_through_cdp_when_requested: the patchright branch resolves its factory through _engine.resolve_async_playwright. That imports patchright, which CI doesn't install. The test now stubs the resolver.

Locally both tests fail without the commit and pass with it (225 passed across the two files). Next I'll run a council review of the full PR, which covers the open CodeRabbit comments.

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Council review: 🔴 RED (reviewed at fa6547ac)

Thanks for the rework. The rebase is clean, the image-path launch fix is real, and the opt-in CDP path is a reasonable experiment. The blockers are about what the PR changes outside that opt-in.

Dim Verdict Headline
D0 CI-mechanical 🟢 ruff, format, doc links and hygiene are green; test (3.11/3.12) green after fa6547ac
D1 Correctness 🔴 the default-path flag removal turns navigator.webdriver on (measured)
D2 Quality 🟡 a duplicated engine guard, env-var naming, a swallowed readiness failure
D3 Security 🔴 --remote-allow-origins=*, port TOCTOU, orphaned Chrome, a relative candidate path
D4 Tests 🔴 cdp_launch.py at 27% coverage, and no e2e or stated blocker
D5 Memory 🔴 contradicts the G12 spike, KNOWN_ISSUES, ARCHITECTURE.md:428 and memory without updating them
D6 UI 🔴 deletes _ligature, which tests/e2e/test_migrated_host_e2e.py:190 still calls
D14 YAGNI 🟡 about 110 lines are speculative, mostly GFLOW_HUMAN*

Must-fix

  1. Restore --disable-blink-features=AutomationControlled on the default launch paths.
    • Where: client.py:518, ui_automation.py:~1105, transports/experimental/evaluate_fetch.py:~167, and the two test expectations.
    • Why: we measured it ($0, launch_persistent_context with your exact ignore_default_args, about:blank):
      channel=None   headless=True  flag=False webdriver=True  | flag=True webdriver=False
      channel=None   headless=False flag=False webdriver=True  | flag=True webdriver=False
      channel=chrome headless=True  flag=False webdriver=True  | flag=True webdriver=False
      channel=chrome headless=False flag=False webdriver=True  | flag=True webdriver=False
      
      This flag is the one that does the work. ignore_default_args alone does not.
    • The new comment "webdriver stays false because ignore_default_args strips --enable-automation" is false.
    • The G12 spike (docs/superpowers/spikes/2026-09-08-g12-blocks-webdriver-not-playwright.md) showed a webdriver=True browser rejected at Google sign-in in 17.5 s.
    • evaluate_fetch.py has no init-script override at all, so it now exposes webdriver=True outright.
    • If you want the flag dropped only under GFLOW_CLI_CDP_LAUNCH=1, that's fine: gate it on cdp_launch_requested().
  2. Fix the e2e break. tests/e2e/test_migrated_host_e2e.py:190 calls migrated_composer._ligature(...), which this PR deletes. The default suite excludes -m e2e, so CI can't see it.
  3. CDP launch hardening (cdp_launch.py):
    • Drop --remote-allow-origins=* (:183). connect_over_cdp sends no Origin header, and the wildcard lets any page the browser visits open the DevTools socket on a signed-in Google profile.
    • Kill the spawned Chrome if anything after _spawn raises (connect_over_cdp, new_context, cancellation). Today it is orphaned holding the profile with an open debug port.
    • Replace _free_port + /json/version with --remote-debugging-port=0 and read <user_data_dir>/DevToolsActivePort. That avoids the bind race, where another process on the freed port can serve its own webSocketDebuggerUrl. At minimum, assert the WS URL is ws://127.0.0.1:{port}/.
    • Add the LOCALAPPDATA candidate only when the variable is set (:55). Otherwise Path("")/…/chrome.exe resolves relative to CWD.
    • In CDP mode, require channel == "chrome". The #477 guard compares the profile against bundled Chromium when there is no chrome marker, but the CDP path spawns system Chrome, or /usr/bin/chromium on Linux despite the docstring's "never Chromium".
  4. The docstring promises what the code does not do (launch_via_cdp). viewport, locale, extra_http_headers and record_har_path are dropped silently, which loses the #854 en-US pin and GFLOW_CLI_HAR_PATH. Apply them, or refuse them loudly.
  5. Diagnostics regression. The new _open_pane poll raises UiSelectorDriftError without _ui_failure_detail(page, phase="discover_settings_pane", ...), so exit-23 reports lose their URL, selector and screenshot.
  6. Tests.
    • cdp_launch.py needs its own unit tests: a fake Popen, a stubbed urlopen and a fake pw cover _cdp_chrome_binary, _wait_ws_url timeout and early exit, close() on both OSes, both ConfigurationErrors, and the new kill-on-failure.
    • client.py's CDP branch has no test.
    • Estimated new-code coverage is about 40–50%, against SonarCloud's 80% floor.
    • An e2e for the CDP path, or a stated blocker, is required by AGENTS.md.
  7. Default-path behavior not in the CHANGELOG, and unverified. Every image submit now waits up to 15 s for grecaptcha.enterprise plus a fixed 1 s sleep (migrated_composer.py:~2937). The XPath selectors, the 8 s _open_pane poll and the 6 s _select poll also apply to the default engine. Either scope them to the CDP path, or list them in the CHANGELOG and live-verify them on the default path.

Should-fix

  • GFLOW_HUMAN / GFLOW_HUMAN_TYPE (about 70 lines):

    • They are off by default and have no tests or docs.
    • They don't use the GFLOW_CLI_ prefix or go through config.py.
    • _human_click's blanket retry can double-click a submit that spends credits.
    • The PR attributes the refusal both to the grecaptcha wait and to instant paste.

    Please move them to a separate PR with evidence, or drop them.

  • The filter(has=) claim. "Resolves to zero under patchright/CDP because isolated worlds can't see the DOM" is stated in the CHANGELOG with no reproduction, and isolated worlds do share the DOM. _picker_pane still uses filter(has=). A $0 spike comparing count() for both forms on one live page would settle it. Until then, word it as an observation.

  • Move the patchright-engine guard into cdp_launch. It is currently copied word for word in client.py and ui_automation.py.

  • Test the _fl key acceptance. Add a unit test asserting it.

  • Small cleanups: replace _now = __import__("time").monotonic with a plain import time, remove the redundant pages property, and remove the --enable-automation filter, which can never match.

Confirmed good

  • The CDP path is gated on patchright plus GFLOW_CLI_CDP_LAUNCH=1.
  • The profile lease is taken before spawn on both sites.
  • Popen gets a list argument, with no shell.
  • The XPath stays locale-invariant, anchored on the mat-icon ligature plus @role.
  • #909's refusal read is intact.
  • No secrets appear in the diff.

Suggested path: revert the default-path flag removal, fix the e2e import and the CDP hardening items, and scope the default-path waits. Human mode can go to a follow-up. We'll then live-verify the opt-in path on a migrated profile.

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Heads-up: #919 is now merged into develop and changes the same _launch_persistent_context boundary. It adds a ProfileAccessError branch ahead of the target-closed classification. This PR needs a rebase onto develop. Once the CDP launch is in, it should route its failures through the same _is_profile_access_denied check (the CHANGELOG currently lists CDP launch as not covered).

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Thanks @stgmt for the work here. I'm closing this PR, and #906 stays open as the tracking issue.

Why:

  • The 2026-09-29 council review found blocking problems that are still unaddressed:
    • the default launch path drops --disable-blink-features, which brings navigator.webdriver back (we measured this);
    • the e2e calls the removed _ligature helper;
    • --remote-allow-origins=* has a port race and can leave an orphaned Chrome;
    • cdp_launch.py is at 27% coverage.
  • The refusal-detection half was superseded by fix(migrated): report a refusal flow.google.com states on the wire (#906, #873) #909.
  • The main claim, that launching real Chrome over CDP avoids the "unusual activity" card, has no evidence yet. It rests on 2–3 submits, and the third was refused anyway.

The card itself is well evidenced: KNOWN_ISSUES §PUBLIC_ERROR_UNUSUAL_ACTIVITY, our two 2026-09-27 spikes, and the third-party report on #906. If you'd like to pursue the CDP launcher, the path is a fresh, opt-in PR backed by a spike with an A/B control (same profile, same prompt, N submits each way) against current develop.

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