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Known issues

21 problems reported by people outside the maintainer team. Issues filed by the project's own owners, members and collaborators are excluded — those are release checklists and internal refactors, not things that will go wrong for you. Showing 12.

Most discussed

check_color_contrast default sweep checks only 1 element on a dense page

Tool name

check_color_contrast

Tool arguments

{"session_id": "<session on app.companyapp.si dashboard>"}

(no selector — default sweep)

Actual response

{"checked": 1}

Only 1 element checked on a dense dashboard page. With an explicit selector: "td, th, h1, h2, button" the same page yielded checked: 25 and real AA failures (2026-07-03 retest: checked: 45, 12 failures at 4.34:1).

Expected behavior

The default "all text elements" heuristic

Read the thread · 2026-07-02 · closed · 4 comments

Minor batch: stale URL on SPA nav, duplicate failed steps, script text in assert preview, selector-dialect asymmetry, drag false success

Tool name

multiple (batch of minor issues: click_element, interact_and_test, assert_condition, get_page_elements/get_page_html, wait_for_network)

Tool arguments

{"note": "batch report — each item below names the tool and repro"}

Actual response

  1. click_element — on SPA route changes, returns the pre-navigation URL (url and screenshot captured before the router settles). Workaround: assert_condition url_contains afterwards.
  2. interact_and_test — a fa

Read the thread · 2026-07-02 · closed · 3 comments

Cookie bleed across the shared default browser context (project-less tools contaminate each other)

Tool name

open_session / check_links (shared "default" browser context)

Tool arguments

{"url": "https://github.com"}

(no project → default context; earlier in the same server lifetime: check_links(url="https://companyapp.si", check_external=true), also project-less)

Actual response

get_cookies on the fresh GitHub session returned 13 cookies, 7 of them LinkedIn cookies (JSESSIONID, bcookie, bscookie, li_gc, lidc, __cf_bm, lang on `.linkedin.co

Read the thread · 2026-07-02 · closed · 3 comments

copy_auth reports session_copied: true but the copied session doesn't authenticate

Tool name

copy_auth

Tool arguments

{"from_project": "companyapp", "to_project": "companyapp2"}

Actual response

{"success": true, "message": "Auth copied from 'companyapp' to 'companyapp2'", "method": "form", "session_copied": true}

But the copied session does not work:

  • open_session(https://app.companyapp.si/dashboard, project=companyapp2) → redirected to /login?callbackUrl=%2Fdashboard
  • Control check at the same moment: `open_session(..., project

Read the thread · 2026-07-02 · closed · 3 comments

set_cookies claims 'Set 1 cookies' but is inert until login_project; silently overwrites other auth config

Tool name

set_cookies

Tool arguments

{"project": "authtest", "cookies": [{"name": "periscope_test", "value": "cookie_works_123", "domain": "httpbin.org"}]}

Actual response

{"success": true, "message": "Set 1 cookies"}

But a session opened immediately afterwards had zero cookies:

  • open_session(https://httpbin.org/cookies, project=authtest) → page body {"cookies": {}}
  • get_cookies(session) → {"total": 0, "cookies": []}

Only after calling `l

Read the thread · 2026-07-02 · closed · 3 comments

Most recent

Full-page screenshots misrender sticky/reveal elements (stitching) — misleading for UI review

What couldn't be done

Trust a full-page screenshot as evidence of what a page looks like, on pages with position: sticky/fixed headers or scroll-triggered reveal animations (IntersectionObserver .reveal patterns, scroll-driven animations).

Two failure modes observed repeatedly (periscope 0.10.2 and earlier, sites: agrarservice demo, segentic.dev — both Astro sites with sticky nav + reveal-on-scroll sections):

  1. Sticky elements stitched mid-page: the sticky nav is painted a seco

Read the thread · 2026-07-07 · closed · 1 comment

Deterministic / sitemap-seeded crawl order — consecutive test_project runs pick different pages, findings silently vanish

What couldn't be done

Compare two consecutive test_project runs of the same site. With max_pages: 20 on a site with 24+ internal URLs, the crawler selected a different 20-page subset on each run, so per-page findings appeared and disappeared between reports without any change to the site.

Concrete case (periscope 0.10.2, commit a78b933, project segentic-dev, base_url https://segentic.dev):

  • Run 1 (2026-07-07 01:11): crawled /kontakt, /prenova-spletne-strani, /reference,

Read the thread · 2026-07-07 · closed · 2 comments

Uniform, opt-in observe param on action tools (learn from glovebox)

Where this came from

Cross-server comparison with glovebox-mcp (the computer-use sibling). Glovebox otherwise treats periscope as the standard to match — but on one dimension the arrow points back at us. From glovebox's own project guide:

The observe/settle_ms pattern. Every action tool optionally returns the resulting screen state in the SAME call, saving a round-trip. This is periscope's batching instinct at the primitive level

Read the thread · 2026-07-06 · closed · 2 comments

Headed sessions ignore project storage_state/cookies (headless works, headed gets 0 cookies)

Summary

open_session(..., headed=true, project=<p>) does not apply the project's persisted storage_state / injected cookies. A headless session opened with the same project and same auth is correctly authenticated, but the headed session opens with zero cookies and bounces to the app login page. This makes it impossible to watch an authenticated flow in a visible window.

Environment

  • Periscope version_running / version_on_disk: 0.10.0
  • commit: 7f241b8
  • install_

Read the thread · 2026-07-05 · closed · 1 comment

wait_for_network fails with cryptic 'url_pattern' error when the param is omitted

Summary

Using wait_for_network as a step in interact_and_test without a url_pattern fails with a bare Step N (wait_for_network) failed: 'url_pattern' — a raw KeyError-style message that doesn't say what's wrong or how to fix it.

Repro

interact_and_test steps:

[{"action":"click","selector":"button:has-text('Save')"},
 {"action":"wait_for_network","timeout":5000}]

→ Step 1 (wait_for_network) failed: 'url_pattern'

Expected / suggestion

  • If url_pattern is requir

Read the thread · 2026-07-04 · closed · 1 comment

get_response_body url_pattern matching is inconsistent / undocumented (anchors & regex)

Summary

get_response_body(url_pattern=…) matching behaves inconsistently — some intuitive patterns return "No response bodies found" while a looser substring matches. It's unclear whether the pattern is a substring, glob, or full regex, whether it's anchored, and whether the query string is included.

Repro (all against the same captured traffic)

  • url_pattern="api/v1/appointments$" → No response bodies found (the $ anchor didn't match, presumably due to a query string / trailing

Read the thread · 2026-07-04 · closed · 1 comment

measure_interaction under-measures async interactions — misleading as an INP proxy

Summary

measure_interaction clicks and waits for networkidle (or a selector), returning elapsed ms. For an interaction whose effect is an async mutation fired after the click handler returns (e.g. a form submit that triggers a fetch a tick later), it settles on the first network-idle window before the request registers, returning a misleadingly tiny number.

Repro

An admin "Save" button that fires PATCH /users/:id (which round-trips to Keycloak + DB):

  • measure_interaction retu

Read the thread · 2026-07-04 · closed · 1 comment

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