{ "SchemaVersion": "1", "Kind": "DirectoryIssues", "Slug": "glass", "Name": "glass", "CanonicalUrl": "https://askpod.ai/mcp/glass/issues", "ServerUrl": "https://askpod.ai/mcp/glass", "IssueTotal": 103, "Held": 21, "Issues": [ { "Title": "android a11y: distinguish displayed hints from entered editable values", "Excerpt": "## Problem\n\nWith the Android accessibility companion enabled, a hint-only empty `EditText` exposes the hint separately, so Glass correctly maps it to `description`. Android also publishes the displayed hint through the node's text, and Glass currently maps that to `value`.\n\nThe role fixture therefore renders the untouched field as:\n\n```text\n#35 TextField desc=\"Search settings\" value=\"Search settings\"\n```\n\nAfter entry, it correctly renders:\n\n```text\n#35 TextField desc=\"Search settings\" value=\"hea", "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/fixed-width/glass/issues/547", "PublishedAt": "2026-08-27T17:25:42.000Z", "State": "closed", "Comments": 0, "Reporter": "Contributor", "Rank": "recent", "Extractor": "github_issue" }, { "Title": "scroll_to_element: match hint-only editables when Android exposes the hint as value", "Excerpt": "## Problem\n\n`glass_scroll_to_element` now accepts a `description` selector, but hint-only Android editables are not represented consistently across accessibility acquisition paths.\n\nAn off-screen `EditText` may expose its empty hint as `value=\"Search settings\"` rather than `description=\"Search settings\"`. A caller can express the expected semantic label through `description`, but the scroll sweep never matches it and eventually returns `matched:false`. Generic scrolling and repeated snapshots ar", "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/fixed-width/glass/issues/544", "PublishedAt": "2026-08-27T15:42:02.000Z", "State": "closed", "Comments": 2, "Reporter": "Contributor", "Rank": "top", "Extractor": "github_issue" }, { "Title": "docs(mcp): document the Android glass_start run tuple in the tool surface", "Excerpt": "## Problem\n\nThe `glass_start` MCP schema describes `run` as a command array, but does not make the Android interpretation discoverable: the first entry is an APK path and the second entry is an exact package/activity component.\n\nA caller that needs to install an APK and launch a specific activity cannot infer the accepted shape or whether the component should use `package/.Activity`, a fully qualified class, or another form. It must search documentation or implementation before making the first ", "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/fixed-width/glass/issues/543", "PublishedAt": "2026-08-27T15:42:02.000Z", "State": "closed", "Comments": 1, "Reporter": "Contributor", "Rank": "recent", "Extractor": "github_issue" }, { "Title": "android: confirm set_value after IME relayout when the editable loses its hint", "Excerpt": "## Problem\n\n`glass_set_value` can deliver text successfully but still fail confirmation when focusing an Android `EditText` opens the IME and changes both its geometry and exposed semantic fields.\n\nThe post-focus node may retain the editable role and requested value while no longer exposing the hint that identified the original empty field. Reacquisition then rejects the moved node as potentially different, even when it is the only compatible focused editable in the active window.\n\n## Reproducti", "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/fixed-width/glass/issues/545", "PublishedAt": "2026-08-27T15:42:02.000Z", "State": "closed", "Comments": 1, "Reporter": "Contributor", "Rank": "recent", "Extractor": "github_issue" }, { "Title": "scroll_to_element: support description selectors for unnamed controls", "Excerpt": "## Problem\n\n`glass_scroll_to_element` matches by `name` and `role`, but some controls are unnamed and identifiable only through another accessibility property such as `description`.\n\nOn Android, an `EditText` whose only label is a hint can arrive as an unnamed `TextField` with `desc=\"Search settings\"`. If it begins off-screen, the caller cannot ask `glass_scroll_to_element` to find it by that description. It must scroll generically and repeatedly inspect the tree.\n\n## Reproduction\n\nUsing `exampl", "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/fixed-width/glass/issues/537", "PublishedAt": "2026-08-27T03:19:28.000Z", "State": "closed", "Comments": 1, "Reporter": "Contributor", "Rank": "recent", "Extractor": "github_issue" }, { "Title": "mcp: make semantic, visual, and stability verification paths discoverable", "Excerpt": "## Problem\n\nGlass exposes several runtime-observation and verification tools, but their intended division of responsibility is not obvious from the MCP surface:\n\n- accessibility snapshot for current semantic state;\n- screenshot for current visual state;\n- wait-for-element for semantic conditions and values;\n- wait-for-region and diff for pixel conditions;\n- wait-stable for quiescence.\n\nA caller can inspect an editable node without seeing its value, then take more snapshots or screenshots instead", "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/fixed-width/glass/issues/535", "PublishedAt": "2026-08-27T03:19:28.000Z", "State": "closed", "Comments": 1, "Reporter": "Contributor", "Rank": "recent", "Extractor": "github_issue" }, { "Title": "glass_do: add semantic actions, bounded execution, and per-step results", "Excerpt": "## Existing behavior\n\n`glass_do` already provides the core batching primitive: it runs an ordered, non-empty sequence server-side, fails fast with the failed action index, and can perform a terminal `settle`, `diff`, or `screenshot` observation.\n\nSupported actions are currently:\n\n- `click`\n- `move`\n- `drag`\n- `scroll`\n- `type`\n- `key`\n- `settle`\n\nIt reuses the standalone coordinate/input implementations, records sub-actions in the audit log, and correctly does not claim rollback after partial GU", "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/fixed-width/glass/issues/536", "PublishedAt": "2026-08-27T03:19:28.000Z", "State": "closed", "Comments": 1, "Reporter": "Contributor", "Rank": "recent", "Extractor": "github_issue" }, { "Title": "android: reacquire editable targets across IME-driven layout changes", "Excerpt": "## Problem\n\nOn Android, focusing an editable control can open the IME, resize or scroll the activity, and replace the accessibility node between dispatch and read-back. `glass_set_value` then fails confirmation and requires the caller to take another snapshot, find the replacement node, and retry the same write.\n\nThis is a normal consequence of focusing a field, not necessarily application interference. The operation should retain enough semantic identity to reacquire the control and finish conf", "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/fixed-width/glass/issues/533", "PublishedAt": "2026-08-27T03:19:28.000Z", "State": "closed", "Comments": 1, "Reporter": "Contributor", "Rank": "recent", "Extractor": "github_issue" }, { "Title": "a11y snapshot: include bounded editable values in compact output", "Excerpt": "## Problem\n\nCompact accessibility snapshots can omit the current value of editable controls even when Glass has that value and can return it through `glass_wait_for_element`.\n\nA caller sees that a node is an editable `TextField`, but cannot directly determine its current text. Exact runtime verification requires discovering and issuing a separate wait query.\n\n## Reproduction\n\nUsing `examples/android-role-fixture`:\n\n1. Set the hint-only `TextField` to `expected-value`.\n2. Call `glass_a11y_snapsho", "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/fixed-width/glass/issues/534", "PublishedAt": "2026-08-27T03:19:28.000Z", "State": "closed", "Comments": 1, "Reporter": "Contributor", "Rank": "recent", "Extractor": "github_issue" }, { "Title": "core: a write whose read-back was unavailable renders as \"did not take\"", "Excerpt": "## Read from the code\n\n`crates/glass-core/src/error.rs` (the `AxValueNotApplied` Display, ~:170-177): with `observed: None` the message opens \"set_value on element #N did not take\" and goes on to explain a value it never read. All three desktop readers can produce that case — a widget exposing a writable interface but no readable one (on Linux, `EditableText` without `Text`, now that `set_value` confirms by read-back in #517).\n\n`AxWriteUnconfirmed` plus `read_back_failed` (`crates/glass-core/src", "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/fixed-width/glass/issues/522", "PublishedAt": "2026-08-24T21:24:57.000Z", "State": "closed", "Comments": 1, "Reporter": "Contributor", "Rank": "recent", "Extractor": "github_issue" }, { "Title": "linux a11y: an