chore(agents): add a machine-wide Playwright browser resource budget

Playwright disables normal background throttling, so a hidden 5chan page keeps
doing P2P and rendering work after a check finishes. Agents verifying in
parallel across worktrees stacked whole browser engines on one machine.

Add scripts/pw-session.sh, a wrapper that permits one active Playwright browser
at a time and records who holds it:

- The lock is machine-wide, not per-repository, because the contended resource
  is RAM and CPU. Every worktree and checkout shares one slot.
- Acquisition is an atomic mkdir. Stale locks clear themselves: `open` reclaims
  any slot whose recorded browser is no longer `status: open` in
  `playwright-cli list --all`, so an interrupted workflow cannot strand the
  budget. When that list cannot be read the lock is left alone, so a broken CLI
  never silently disables the budget.
- `open` exits 75 when the slot is busy; `--wait[=SECONDS]` blocks instead.
- `close` always stops the browser, even when the lock was already lost, and
  never releases a slot held by a different session.
- `status` reports the holder and whether its browser is still alive.

Agent policy now runs browser engines and profiler batches sequentially, uses
Chrome/Blink during iteration and the full engine matrix only for final
verification, and never uses `close-all` or `kill-all` while other agents may
own sessions.

Covered by scripts/pw-session.test.js.
This commit is contained in:
Tommaso Casaburi
2026-08-01 19:21:01 +02:00
parent a67c66de0d
commit 1a33f7dc88
31 changed files with 835 additions and 169 deletions
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# Browser Session Management
Run multiple isolated browser sessions concurrently with state persistence.
Manage isolated browser sessions with state persistence. In 5chan, keep only one session active machine-wide and use the shared wrapper for the open/close lifecycle.
```bash
./scripts/pw-session.sh open verify-chrome https://5chan.localhost --browser=chrome
playwright-cli -s=verify-chrome snapshot
./scripts/pw-session.sh close verify-chrome
```
## Named Browser Sessions
@@ -60,25 +66,18 @@ playwright-cli open example.com # Uses "mysession" automatically
## Common Patterns
### Concurrent Scraping
### Sequential Cross-Browser Verification
```bash
#!/bin/bash
# Scrape multiple sites concurrently
# Keep one browser active at a time, machine-wide.
# Start all browsers
playwright-cli -s=site1 open https://site1.com &
playwright-cli -s=site2 open https://site2.com &
playwright-cli -s=site3 open https://site3.com &
wait
# Take snapshots from each
playwright-cli -s=site1 snapshot
playwright-cli -s=site2 snapshot
playwright-cli -s=site3 snapshot
# Cleanup
playwright-cli close-all
for engine in chrome firefox webkit; do
session="verify-$engine"
./scripts/pw-session.sh open "$session" https://5chan.localhost --browser="$engine"
playwright-cli -s="$session" snapshot
./scripts/pw-session.sh close "$session"
done
```
### A/B Testing Sessions
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playwright-cli -s=auth close
playwright-cli -s=scrape close
# Or stop all at once
# Do not use these global commands while concurrent agents may own sessions.
# Stop all at once
playwright-cli close-all
# If browsers become unresponsive or zombie processes remain