fix(remote-worker): pin endpoint resolution for the exploration browser, IdP included

[KCSAbeywickrama]

What this fixes

A validation run has three HTTP clients, and the .localhost resolution
override reached only two of them.

Client	Override	Configured by
curl	resolve = host:port:addr	.curlrc, written by the runner (ADR-0006)
the browser playwright test launches	--host-resolver-rules	playwright.config.template.ts, in the project's repo
playwright-cli — the browser the agent explores with	none	—

.curlrc is a curl file no browser reads, and the template configures only the
browser the specs run in. That left playwright-cli — used before any spec
exists — reading neither and still dialling loopback, because Chromium
implements RFC 6761 and resolves every *.localhost name to itself ahead of DNS
and /etc/hosts.

So the agent rediscovered it from scratch on every authoring run. Measured on the
2026-08-20 run of p26-bare-minimum-hello: playwright-cli open succeeded
immediately (#571 having fixed which browser it launches) and then took 180s
to become usable — DNS spelunking, a throwaway probe spec, two edits to a
config that was never in the path, and a hunt through the CLI's own source. That
is worse than the 77s the same step cost on 08-18, when the skill still
carried the paragraph naming --host-resolver-rules.

What changed

The runner now writes --host-resolver-rules into a playwright-cli config and
names it in $PLAYWRIGHT_MCP_CONFIG, built from the addresses it already
resolves for .curlrc. One MAP <host> <addr> per host the preflight actually
probed, so a name nobody resolved is never captured.

• src/lib/endpoint_access.ts — hostResolverRules, writePlaywrightCliConfig,
  playwrightCliConfigPath, resolveAuthGatewayAddress
• src/oneshot.ts — writes it in the same preflight block as .curlrc
• src/lib/runner.ts — playwrightCliConfigEnv() spreads the variable into the
  agent's child env

Two details are load-bearing, both pinned by tests:

• launchOptions.args and nothing else. Naming browser.browserName there
  would leave channel undefined and re-enable the Chromium sandbox, which
  cannot start as the pod's non-root user — the failure ADR-0007 exists to keep
  out. The browser itself is chosen by PLAYWRIGHT_MCP_BROWSER in the image;
  this file only says how to resolve a name.
• The variable is set from the file's existence, not unconditionally like
  CURL_HOME. playwright-cli's daemon exits on a config path that does not
  resolve, so a coding run and a cloud validation run must not see it at all. The
  no-entries path deletes a stale file for the same reason.

Also not the CLI's own default .playwright/cli.config.json: that resolves
against the CWD, and an exploring agent moves between the repo root and
tests/e2e, so a CWD-relative config would apply to some of its commands and not
the rest. An absolute path in the env holds everywhere.

Two departures worth reviewing

The IdP mapping breaks the rule every endpoint rule follows, twice, and both are
forced:

1. It is a wildcard — MAP *.openchoreo.localhost — where every other rule
   names a host this run resolved. The validation context carries the app's
   endpoints and never the IdP, so a pattern is the only handle available. Same
   pattern playwright.config.template.ts uses, for the same reason.
2. It cannot point where DNS points. The CoreDNS rewrite maps
   (openchoreo|openchoreoapis).localhost alike onto the data-plane gateway,
   while *.openchoreo.localhost is served by the control-plane one.
   Measured from a pod: thunder.openchoreo.localhost resolves to the data-plane
   gateway and dials to curl exit 7, where host.k3d.internal — the k3d bridge,
   which publishes the control-plane gateway — answers 401. So the rule targets
   the bridge, resolved by name per run for the same reason the endpoint
   addresses are: a baked-in IP passes once and then goes stale.

An unresolvable bridge degrades rather than fails: a cloud plane has none,
and an exploration hop the agent may never take is not worth losing the endpoint
rules over — those are what the preflight actually proved.

Proof of real execution

Both halves verified in a pod against the live cluster, calling the exported
functions from the image's own source — not a reimplementation of the rule
builder.

Endpoints. A bare playwright-cli open <url> reaches the app:

Page Title: Hello World
body: "Hello, World!"

The identical command without the config still answers ERR_CONNECTION_REFUSED.

IdP. playwright-cli open http://thunder.openchoreo.localhost:8080/ now
reaches the IdP and renders its own body:

{"error":"unauthorized","error_description":"Authentication is required…"}

where the same command without the config answers ERR_CONNECTION_REFUSED. The
app endpoint is unchanged by the added rule — still Page Title: Hello World —
because the two suffixes cannot overlap (…openchoreoapis.localhost never
matches *.openchoreo.localhost).

Tests

7 new in src/lib/endpoint_access.test.ts, covering each claim above:

• hostResolverRules maps each resolved host once, without a port
• returns nothing when there is nothing to map
• appends the IdP pattern when an auth address is known
• resolveAuthGatewayAddress resolves the bridge, and swallows a failure
• writePlaywrightCliConfig writes only launch args, 0600
• still maps the endpoints when the bridge will not resolve
• removes a stale config when nothing needs mapping

Full suite green: 389/389, tsc --noEmit clean, all three Go modules build.

Docs

• ADR-0006 — records that the override is written once per client and why,
  and replaces the old "Chromium is unchanged" consequence, which is no longer
  the whole truth. The two IdP departures above are recorded there rather than
  left implicit in code.
• ADR-0007 — the "Related" note now states that ADR-0006 pins resolution for
  playwright-cli too, and that the config may carry launchOptions.args only.

Note for reviewers on the commit list

The commit list looks larger than the diff. #571 was squash-merged, so
validation-14's six commits are not ancestors of main even though their
content is — and validation-16 descends from validation-14, so it still
carries them. They contribute nothing to the diff; the changed files are
this PR's two commits only (2feaae80, 381bc454). Squash-merging this PR
collapses them.

Not in scope

Exploration and the test run remain two different Chromium revisions
(playwright-cli's 1229 / 150.0.7871.0 vs the specs' 1228 / 149.0.7827.0). That is
a PLAYWRIGHT_VERSION/PLAYWRIGHT_CLI_VERSION alignment, recorded in ADR-0007's
Consequences and now tracked in #597.

Related: #570 (diagnosis), #571 (which browser playwright-cli launches at all).

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📝 Walkthrough

Summary

• Configure the remote-worker exploration browser to use Chromium.
• Add Playwright CLI host-resolution configuration for local endpoints and the IdP.
• Pass the generated configuration to Claude queries when the file exists.
• Generate browser configuration during validation preflight.
• Add endpoint-resolution tests for browser mappings and configuration handling.
• Document the browser configuration decisions and expected behavior in ADRs.

Walkthrough

The runner image now selects Chromium for playwright-cli and installs its Chromium revision. Endpoint access utilities generate secure, atomic configuration files with Chromium host resolver rules and optional IdP routing. The one-shot preflight creates this configuration alongside the curl configuration. The runner passes PLAYWRIGHT_MCP_CONFIG only when the file exists. Tests cover mappings, lookup failures, permissions, and stale-file removal.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant OneShotRunner
  participant EndpointAccess
  participant Runner
  participant PlaywrightCLI
  OneShotRunner->>EndpointAccess: Generate endpoint configuration
  EndpointAccess-->>OneShotRunner: Return configuration path
  Runner->>Runner: Check configuration file
  Runner->>PlaywrightCLI: Pass PLAYWRIGHT_MCP_CONFIG when present
  PlaywrightCLI->>PlaywrightCLI: Apply Chromium host resolver rules

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356-377: 🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Remove an inherited PLAYWRIGHT_MCP_CONFIG before building childEnv.

The process.env spread keeps an inherited PLAYWRIGHT_MCP_CONFIG when playwrightCliConfigEnv() returns {}. The child process can then receive a stale or missing config path, although this flow requires the variable to be absent. Remove that key from the inherited environment before the spread, then add the generated value only when the file exists. Add a regression test for an inherited value with no generated config.

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remove any inherited PLAYWRIGHT_MCP_CONFIG before spreading process.env, then
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In
`@runners/remote-worker/design/decisions/ADR-0007-the-runner-image-names-the-cli-browser.md`:
- Around line 1-3: Remove the new ADR updates from this feature PR so they can
be published after shipment: remove
ADR-0007-the-runner-image-names-the-cli-browser.md lines 1-3, and revert the
client-resolution decision and related consequences updates in
ADR-0006-the-runner-proves-endpoint-reachability.md lines 74-92 and 123-143; no
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In `@runners/remote-worker/Dockerfile`:
- Around line 106-116: Update the Dockerfile RUN command containing
playwright-cli install-browser chromium to remove the || true failure
suppression, so the image build fails when the CLI browser installation fails.

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In `@runners/remote-worker/src/lib/runner.ts`:
- Around line 356-377: Update the child environment construction around childEnv
and playwrightCliConfigEnv() to remove any inherited PLAYWRIGHT_MCP_CONFIG
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exists. Add a regression test covering an inherited value with no generated
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• runners/remote-worker/design/decisions/ADR-0007-the-runner-image-names-the-cli-browser.md#L1-L3: Move this new ADR to the post-shipment documentation update.
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Citations:

• 1: https://playwright.dev/docs/browsers
• 2: https://github.com/microsoft/playwright/blob/main/docs/src/browsers.md
• 3: https://qaskills.sh/blog/playwright-browsers-path-environment-variable-reference
• 4: https://qaskills.sh/blog/playwright-browsers-path-environment-variable-guide
• 5: https://github.com/microsoft/playwright/blob/d3d436d3/packages/playwright-core/src/cli/installActions.ts
• 6: why playwright-cli install-browser no useful, but use npx playwright install chrome microsoft/playwright#41631

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The command "install-browser" is a specific function associated with the Microsoft Playwright CLI (playwright-cli), a tool used primarily for browser automation, testing, and development tasks [1][2]. It is not a standard command for installing the general-purpose Chromium web browser on Windows, macOS, or Linux systems [1][3]. If you are using the Playwright CLI and need to install the browser binaries it requires, you should use the following command: npx playwright-cli install This command initializes the workspace and downloads the necessary browser binaries (such as Chromium) into a local cache (typically in your user directory, e.g., ~/.cache/ms-playwright or ~/Library/Caches/ms-playwright) [4][5]. For general installation of the Chromium web browser on your operating system, please use the standard methods for your platform: 1. Linux: Use your distribution's package manager, such as apt (e.g., sudo apt install chromium-browser on Debian/Ubuntu) or dnf [6]. 2. macOS and Windows: Download the installer directly from the official Chromium project website or use a package manager like Homebrew (macOS: brew install --cask chromium). If you are encountering issues with "install-browser" or browser installation in the Playwright CLI, ensure you are using the latest version of the CLI, as command availability and functionality have been updated in recent releases [2][7].

Citations:

• 1: https://github.com/microsoft/playwright-cli
• 2: install-browser command doesn't exist microsoft/playwright-cli#292
• 3: https://github.com/microsoft/playwright-cli/blob/main/skills/playwright-cli/SKILL.md
• 4: playwright-cli install stuck at 100% microsoft/playwright-cli#419
• 5: Custom executable path for browsers microsoft/playwright-cli#404
• 6: Add Fedora (and broader distro) support to playwright-cli browser installation microsoft/playwright-cli#309
• 7: https://github.com/microsoft/playwright-cli/releases

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Do not suppress the CLI browser installation failure.

playwright-cli install-browser chromium installs the CLI's browser revision. If it fails, || true allows an image that requires a runtime download. Remove || true so the image build fails when installation fails.

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In `@runners/remote-worker/Dockerfile` around lines 106 - 116, Update the
Dockerfile RUN command containing playwright-cli install-browser chromium to
remove the || true failure suppression, so the image build fails when the CLI
browser installation fails.

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