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      "Title": "Stability + UX bugs surfaced during E2E driving of a Vue/Astro app",
      "Excerpt": "Feedback after using scout MCP (`scout 1.6.1`) to drive a full E2E walkthrough of a Vue + Astro + Go app (brotwerk). Most-impactful fix at top.\n\n## Stability bugs\n\n1. **Stale CDP node IDs after framework re-render.** `click`, `type`, `fill_form_semantic` cache CDP node refs from prior `annotated_screenshot` / `observe`. When Vue/React reconciles, refs invalidate but tools still use them → cryptic `cdp: error -32000: Could not find node with given id`. Fix: re-resolve selector to live nodeId at a",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/klarlabs-studio/scout/issues/14",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-05-20T11:12:55.000Z",
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      "Title": "Expose video recording (Playwright recordVideo) via MCP",
      "Excerpt": "## Problem\n\nScout exposes \\`start_recording\\` / \\`stop_recording\\` / \\`save_playbook\\` / \\`replay_playbook\\` — but those record an *action playbook* (JSON of clicks/types for replay), not a screen video.\n\nFor demo / docs / landing-page work, the value is the **video** (MP4 / WebM) that you can embed. Playwright already supports this natively via \\`browser.newContext({ recordVideo: { dir, size } })\\` — scout just doesn't expose it.\n\n## Workaround\n\nCall Playwright directly:\n\n\\`\\`\\`js\nconst ctx = a",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/klarlabs-studio/scout/issues/4",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-05-02T15:02:18.000Z",
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      "Title": "CDP connection stability + React compatibility issues",
      "Excerpt": "## Summary\n\nWhile using Scout extensively to automate and demo a React SPA dashboard ([go-teamhealthcheck](https://github.com/felixgeelhaar/go-teamhealthcheck)), I encountered several issues that made the experience unreliable. Filing them together since they came up in the same session.\n\n## Environment\n\n- Scout MCP server (via Claude Code)\n- Target: React 19 SPA with react-router-dom v7, served from Go backend on localhost\n- Both headless and visible modes tested\n\n## Issues\n\n### 1. Frequent CDP",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/klarlabs-studio/scout/issues/1",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-03-26T19:12:37.000Z",
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      "Title": "screenshot: add save_to_disk / output_path so captures return a file path instead of base64",
      "Excerpt": "## Problem\n\n`screenshot` and `annotated_screenshot` return a base64 data URL inline. For an agent driving scout on behalf of a user, that image lands in the **agent's** context — it renders for the model but never reaches the human. There is no way to hand the capture over.\n\nEncountered while running a scripted end-to-end walkthrough with screenshot milestones: every capture came back as base64, and the user simply saw nothing.\n\n## Current workarounds, both bad\n\n1. **Force an overflow.** Request",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/klarlabs-studio/scout/issues/79",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-08-01T19:51:31.000Z",
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      "Title": "No viewport / device emulation: width params don't set the CSS viewport (responsive testing impossible)",
      "Excerpt": "## Summary\n\nThere is no way to set the browser **viewport size / emulate a device** through the MCP tools. Width parameters that *look* like they should control it (`screenshot.max_width`, `start_screen_recording.width/height`) only affect the **output image / capture frame**, not the page's CSS viewport. As a result, width-based `@media` breakpoints can't be exercised, so mobile/responsive layouts can't be verified.\n\n## Repro\n\n1. `configure { headless: true, fresh: true }` (also reproduces with",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/klarlabs-studio/scout/issues/47",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-06-28T17:09:44.000Z",
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      "Title": "MCP: network capture returns zero requests after navigate() on a localhost SPA",
      "Excerpt": "## Summary\n\nWhen debugging a same-origin SPA served on `127.0.0.1`, the network-capture tools report **zero** captured requests — not even the document or static JS assets — despite the page clearly loading and issuing periodic `fetch()` polls. This makes it impossible to answer the most common debugging question (\"did this request fire, and what status did it return?\").\n\n## Environment\n\n- Scout MCP server (69-tool), driving headless Chromium\n- `configure` with `headless=true`, `allow_private_ip",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/klarlabs-studio/scout/issues/42",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-06-09T09:13:18.000Z",
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      "Title": "Add network_summary({since: \"last_action\"}) — collapse capture/check round-trip",
      "Excerpt": "## Problem\nToday: `enable_network_capture(patterns)` → action → `failed_requests` → maybe `console_errors`. Three calls for one question (\"did the click trigger a failed request?\").\n\n## Proposal\nSingle tool: `network_summary({since: \"last_action\" | \"last_navigation\" | \"session_start\"})`:\n```\n{\n  total: 12,\n  by_status: {\"2xx\": 10, \"4xx\": 1, \"5xx\": 1},\n  failures: [\n    {method: \"POST\", url: \"/api/auth/signup\", status: 500, body_snippet: \"...\"}\n  ],\n  pending: 0,\n  duration_ms: 230\n}\n```\n\n## Why\n",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/klarlabs-studio/scout/issues/23",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-05-22T12:14:37.000Z",
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      "Title": "Tool calls hang silently — add per-call watchdog + auto-reset",
      "Excerpt": "## Problem\nTool calls (`navigate`, `observe`, `type`, `click`) can hang indefinitely with no timeout, no error returned to the MCP caller. The session wedges and only a manual `reset` or full MCP restart recovers.\n\n## Repro\n- Long-running session, ~10–20 actions in.\n- After a `type` + `click(wait:true)` + `observe` chain on a Vue island (`client:visible`), subsequent calls hang. No console errors, no failed requests.\n\n## Expected\n- Per-call watchdog (e.g. 30s default, configurable).\n- On timeout",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/klarlabs-studio/scout/issues/15",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-05-22T12:11:59.000Z",
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      "Title": "Form submission silently fails: click_label on type=submit and dispatch_event(submit) don't fire @submit handlers",
      "Excerpt": "## Summary\n\nScout cannot drive form submission on a Vue 3 island that uses `@submit.prevent`. The handler never fires; no network request is dispatched; no console error surfaces. Two approaches both silently no-op:\n\n1. `click_label` on the `<button type=\\\"submit\\\">` inside the form\n2. `dispatch_event` with `event_type: \\\"submit\\\"` on the `<form>` element\n\nThe result is that Scout can fill a form (Vue v-model reactivity confirmed via `framework_reactive: true`), but cannot complete the canonical",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/klarlabs-studio/scout/issues/13",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-05-17T20:51:53.000Z",
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      "Title": "wait_for / click failures lack diagnostic context",
      "Excerpt": "**Scout version**: 1.5.0 (30010ef)\n\n## Problem\n`wait_for` and `click` on a missing or stale selector return MCP error -32603 with the selector echoed back, but no information about what *was* present. Forces a manual fallback to `observe` to figure out why the selector didn't resolve.\n\n## Repro\n\\`\\`\\`\nclick({ selector: \"#tabgroup-access\" })\n\\`\\`\\`\nwhen the actual tabs render under `#tabgroup-sharing` (parent group):\n\\`\\`\\`\nMCP error -32603: browse: timeout waiting for wait for selector on \"#tabg",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/klarlabs-studio/scout/issues/8",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-05-10T07:58:35.000Z",
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      "Title": "screenshot exceeds tool-result token cap on default + max_width=1024",
      "Excerpt": "**Scout version**: 1.5.0 (30010ef)\n\n## Problem\nFirst call to `screenshot({ max_width: 1024 })` returned a base64 data URL serialized to ~50,728 characters of JSON, which the harness rejected as \"exceeds maximum allowed tokens\" and saved to a fallback file.\n\nTool description claims \"Auto-compressed for LLM contexts (200KB)\" — but max_width 1024 with default JPEG quality clearly exceeded the harness budget.\n\n## Repro\n\\`\\`\\`\nscreenshot({ max_width: 1024 })\n\\`\\`\\`\non a typical authenticated dashboar",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/klarlabs-studio/scout/issues/6",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-05-10T07:58:01.000Z",
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      "Title": "Allow loopback / private-IP navigation for local-dev workflows",
      "Excerpt": "## Problem\n\nScout currently blocks navigation to loopback addresses with:\n\n\\`\\`\\`\nbrowse: blocked navigation to private/loopback IP 127.0.0.1\n\\`\\`\\`\n\nThis is sensible default for the public-web automation case, but it makes scout unusable for the *very common* dev workflow of \"drive the local app I just built\": vite/webpack/next dev server on localhost, locally-running daemon on a custom port, etc.\n\n## Repro\n\n\\`\\`\\`\nmcp.scout.navigate({url: \\\"http://127.0.0.1:4173/\\\"})\n// → MCP error: failed to ",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/klarlabs-studio/scout/issues/3",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-05-02T15:01:33.000Z",
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