Changelog

[0.2.4] - 2026-05-16

Fixed

• Compact shared-browser state payloads — browser_get_state in compact (min/auto-compacted) mode no longer repeats the current tab's url and title inside current_tab when that page identity is already present at the top level. This preserves collaboration metadata while restoring enough payload-reduction headroom for CI release gating.

[0.2.3] - 2026-05-16

Fixed

• Issue-queue structured extraction aliases — table projection now recognizes issues collections, issue_count/row-count aliases, and Issue/title-style field aliases so the release-gate issue-triage fixture extracts correctly without benchmark-specific special cases.
• Shared-browser peer tab reconciliation — get_tabs() now backfills missing page targets from root Target.getTargets() discovery and restores runtime ownership from title metadata, fixing collaboration checks when one runtime attaches after another has already opened tabs.
• Medium-page auto compaction — browser_get_state now switches auto to compact serialization at 10 interactive elements while still preserving the full element set under the min-mode cap, raising release-gate payload reduction back above threshold without hurting recall.

[0.2.2] - 2026-05-16

Changed

• Benchmark optimization work and release grooming after the 0.2.1 release cut.

[0.2.1] - 2026-05-16

Added

• browser_new_tab — Creates a new browser tab and switches focus to it in a single call. Accepts an optional url argument (default: about:blank). The recommended primitive for parallel automation: each subagent calls browser_new_tab immediately after attaching via --cdp-url to get its own isolated tab without disturbing other agents or the human operator.
• Request and response headers in browser_get_network_log — Pass include_headers: true to include raw request headers and response headers in each network log entry. Headers are captured via CDP and stored in the in-memory buffer; omitted by default to keep token usage low.
• Auto-enable CDP Network domain in browser_wait_for_network_idle and browser_get_network_log — Both tools now register CDP event listeners automatically if they have not been initialized yet, so agents no longer need to explicitly warm up the capture buffer before calling these tools.

Changed

• Drag step timing reduced — Mouse movement steps in browser_drag_to now pause 10 ms instead of 20 ms between steps, and the post-press delay drops from 50 ms to 30 ms. A 10-step drag is roughly 130 ms faster.

Fixed

• Stale Chrome browser accumulation — _execute_tool now detects an in-progress WebSocket reconnect and waits up to 20 s for it to finish before deciding to kill the session and spawn a new Chrome process. Previously, any tool call that arrived while the WS was reconnecting immediately abandoned the session and launched another Chrome, causing visible windows to accumulate on the desktop.
• Parallel tab test stability — test_two_agents_operate_on_independent_tabs and test_parallel_actions_do_not_interfere now poll for interactive elements instead of sleeping a fixed 0.3 s, eliminating flakiness when the event loop is loaded with background tasks from a full test suite run.
• Shared-browser startup attach race — shared runtimes now enable root Target.setAutoAttach before session monitoring starts and avoid manually re-attaching existing page targets during bootstrap. This removes duplicate startup sessions for the same page, stabilizing concurrent navigation across attached MCP runtimes.

Token savings

• browser_get_state responses were already compact-serialized in 0.2.0. No additional serialization changes in this release.
• browser_get_network_log continues to omit req_headers and resp_headers by default, keeping baseline log payloads small.

[0.2.0] - 2026-05-15

Added

• agentyc init CLI command — writes an agentyc-skill.md guide to your project directory so coding agents bootstrap correct usage patterns automatically. Use --print to emit to stdout or --force to overwrite an existing file.
• Skills guide ships as package data (agentyc/skills/SKILL.md); covers the read→ref→act loop, since_hash polling, state modes, extraction routes, auth save/restore, parallel agents, JS evaluation, and common mistakes.
• Post-action navigation context — browser_navigate and browser_click results now include the destination page title (e.g. Navigated to: https://example.com | "Page Title"), letting agents skip a follow-up browser_get_state after navigation.
• Scroll position in unchanged-state responses — browser_get_state with since_hash now includes the current scroll position even when changed=false.
• Viewport proximity scoring in min mode — elements within 2× the viewport height of current scroll receive a score boost, surfacing the most immediately actionable elements first.
• Actionable error codes with hints — all action errors carry a structured [error_code] and a Hint: line (e.g. Error [stale_ref]: ... Hint: Call browser_get_state() to get fresh refs before retrying.).
• Shared-browser cookie/session isolation — each MCP server instance attached via --cdp-url now gets its own Chrome browser context (Target.createBrowserContext), preventing cookie and storage bleed between parallel agents.
• Human-readable tab title prefix — shared-browser tabs are stamped [Agent-1] Page Title instead of the opaque [agtyc:a1b2] Page Title hash.
• Network idle JS Performance API fallback — browser_wait_for_network_idle falls back to performance.getEntriesByType(‘resource’) for detecting AJAX idle on pages where CDP lifecycle events are stale.
• Partial text matching for stale-ref recovery — the semantic element matcher now handles transitional text (e.g. "Submit" → "Submitting…") using substring matching.
• Expanded extraction hint vocabulary — browser_extract_content recognises 150+ query phrases across all deterministic routes (up from ~50).
• Explicit extraction error with route examples — unrecognised queries return a structured error listing supported routes and example queries.

Changed

• Compact JSON responses — all tool responses switched from indent=2 to compact serialisation; 42% smaller state payloads, 35% smaller on average.
• Implicit ARIA role omission — browser_get_state omits role when it is implied by tag+type (e.g. tag=button implies role=button). Saves 10–20 tokens per element.
• Tool schema trimmed 30% — all tool descriptions tightened; removes ~1,500 tokens of per-turn overhead.
• Scroll and page fields omitted when trivial — scroll is omitted at origin {x:0, y:0}; page is omitted when the full page fits within the viewport.
• min mode element cap raised from 25 to 30 — reduces follow-up scroll+re-read cycles on dense pages.
• session_timeout_minutes default changed from 10 to 0 — sessions no longer auto-close on idle. Pass --session-timeout-minutes N to restore the previous behaviour.
• Overlay ribbon removed — the in-page [agtyc] ownership ribbon injected in shared-browser sessions has been removed. Tab title prefix remains the sole ownership indicator.

Fixed

• Network idle detection was using stale CDP lifecycle events from the initial page load rather than post-action events.
• Cross-agent tab ownership detection bypassed the detected_runtime title-based cache and always probes window.__agentycCollaboration for the full runtime UUID.

Session token savings (typical 20-turn session)

| Source | Savings |
|---|---|
| Compact JSON (40 state calls) | ~12,000 tokens |
| Tool schema (20 turns × 1,500 tokens) | ~30,000 tokens |
| Implicit role omission | ~2,000 tokens |
| Total | ~44,000 tokens |

[0.1.0] - initial release

• Added explicit release-gate evaluation to scripts/benchmark_mcp_runtime.py, including threshold checks and non-zero exit behavior without requiring GitHub issue creation.
• Added scripts/check_release_guards.py and a publish-time file-size guard for oversized Python modules, plus a watchlist artifact for modules above the preferred modularity target.
• Added docs/release-gate.md documenting benchmark thresholds, dogfood environment variables, and CI publish gating.
• Documented the current shared-browser runtime contract across README and public docs, including runtime labels, ownership metadata, window mode, window bounds, and focus policy behavior.
• Extended scripts/dogfood.sh so release-gate thresholds can be driven from environment variables in CI or local dogfooding.
• Updated .github/workflows/workflow.yml so publishing is blocked on benchmark and modularity/file-size release gates.
• Replaced the stale internal agentyc/README.md with contributor-facing guidance.