feat(browser): persist the capture window and report queue by default

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The rolling capture window and report queue were in memory unless persist: true was passed, so a reload lost the last minute of context. They now go to IndexedDB by default wherever it is available; persist: false opts out and a runtime without IndexedDB falls back to memory.

Existing tests that assumed in-memory now pass persist: false; new tests cover default-on (global and injected IndexedDB), opt-out and no-IndexedDB.

Not changed: Web Workers (dedicated workers still default to memory; Service Workers already persist the bundle queue).

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Deep review: persist-by-default

Intent is right: the rolling capture window and the report queue should survive a reload, matching mobile, and persist: false is a clean opt-out. The default flip itself is a product decision, not a bug.

The implementation of that default reintroduces a fail-closed hole this repo already closed on the worker tier, and the “IndexedDB available → persist” probe is presence-only, which is not the fallback the README describes.

Findings

1. P1 packages/browser/src/launch.ts:586-588 — options.persist ?? availability treats 'false', 'true', 1, null as persist ON. @bugsee/webworker already hit this (launch.test.ts literally documents that ?? made 'false' write capture to IndexedDB) and reads === undefined plus FAIL_CLOSED_BOOLEAN_OPTION. Core already exports resolveFailClosedBoolean for a default-ON collector. option-directions.test.ts still classifies browser:persist as read === true and has no check pattern, so this landed unguarded.
2. P2 same probe / packages/browser/README.md:26 — availability is indexedDB != null. A present-but-failing IndexedDB (quota, some sandboxes) does not fall back to memory: launch builds the durable chunk store, writes fail into onError, and after the circuit opens capture is dropped. Accessing globalThis.indexedDB is also unguarded and can throw, failing launch().

New tests cover default-on, injected factory, opt-out, and missing IndexedDB. They do not cover invalid persist values or a present-but-broken factory.

Overall risk: Medium

Merge recommendation: Request changes

Do not merge until persist is fail-closed on invalid values the way the worker already is. The presence-only IndexedDB probe should at least stop throwing out of launch(), and the README should not claim a memory fallback that the code does not implement.

Most important to fix

1. Resolve persist like the worker: absent → IndexedDB probe; boolean true/false win; anything else is OFF and reported.
2. Guard the IndexedDB probe; do not claim operational fallback until launch actually degrades to the memory store when open/write fails.

Positive

Small, focused diff. Default-on / injected-factory / opt-out / no-IndexedDB tests are the right shape. durableCapture still respects an explicit captureStore, and dedicated workers are correctly left memory-only. Dead-sibling recovery with skipReportIds is already in place, so turning persist on by default does not re-open the old double-upload window.

  

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Re-review at cc4853e

Prior findings are addressed. cc4853e copies the worker persist read: absent → IndexedDB presence probe; boolean true/false win; anything else is OFF and reported via FAIL_CLOSED_BOOLEAN_OPTION. The probe is try/caught. Tests cover invalid values, a throwing getter, and memory mode via getService(BundleStoreToken) rather than a 20 ms timeout. The README now states the real rule (presence check, write failures go to onError, no memory swap).

option-directions.test.ts RAW_STRICT entries for browser:/electron:/bugsee:/nuxt:persist are gone; persist is a normalised fail-closed definition, which is the stronger pin.

No remaining P0–P3.

Overall risk: Low

Merge recommendation: Approve

Residual (accepted, documented): a present IndexedDB that later cannot commit still drops captures on the durable backend rather than falling back to memory. That matches the persist:true path this default now takes, and the README no longer claims otherwise.

  

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Re-review at 3d64c55

Delta since cc4853e is test-only: RelaunchedAfterCrash waits up to 1.5s for the event instead of a fixed 50 ms (silence cases run out the clock). Does not change persist defaults, the fail-closed read, or the IndexedDB probe.

Prior P1/P2s remain fully addressed. No remaining P0–P3.

Overall risk: Low

Merge recommendation: Approve

  

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Re-review at 3d64c55

Prior findings stay addressed. cc4853e still fail-closes invalid persist values, try/catches the IndexedDB getter, and the README describes presence-only (write failures go to onError). 3d64c55 replaces the fixed 50 ms recovery wait with a bounded wait for RelaunchedAfterCrash.

The new default still has one substrate hole the previous rounds did not cover.

Findings

1. P2 packages/browser/src/launch.ts:601-604 — persist-by-default probes IndexedDB presence only. Dead-sibling recovery and reclamation run only inside recoverIfDead, which is a no-op when navigator.locks is missing. On those origins the new default writes up to maxDataSize (10 MB) per launch, never restores the rolling window after a reload, and never deletes the previous prefix. README line 24 still claims reload/restart survival.

Overall risk: Medium

Merge recommendation: Request changes

Do not merge until the default-on probe also requires Web Locks (or another reclamation path exists for the no-locks degrade). Otherwise persist-by-default is a quota leak with no product benefit on every origin where locks are absent.

Most important to fix

1. Default persist on only when IndexedDB is present and navigator.locks (or options.locks) is available. Keep persist: true as an explicit opt-in to the documented no-locks degrade. Cover the no-locks default with a test that does not inject fakeWebLocks().

Positive

Fail-closed invalid values, the throwing-getter guard, and the worker-shaped read are in good shape. Default-on / injected-factory / opt-out / missing-IDB tests are the right matrix. 3d64c55 is the right way to wait for recovery. CI lint/typecheck/coverage and e2e are green. Related (not blocking): @bugsee/electron launchRenderer still does not pin persist: false after the caller options, so every renderer window now opens an unused bundle IndexedDB; main already owns durability.

Prior threads: P1 ??, P2 unguarded probe/README, and the test-gap thread remain fully_addressed.

  

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P2 Medium — persist-by-default probes IndexedDB presence, but reload survival and prefix GC both require Web Locks.

Problem: When options.persist is absent this becomes indexedDB != null (or an injected factory). That turns on createCoexistence({ persist, captureRecovery: durableCapture }), which writes the rolling window (up to maxDataSize, default 10 MB) under a fresh instanceId every launch. The only code that ever reads or deletes a previous launch's prefix is recoverDeadSiblings → liveness.recoverIfDead. With no navigator.locks (and no options.locks), createWebLockLiveness(undefined) sets recoverIfDead to () => Promise.resolve() (packages/browser-utils/src/web-lock-liveness.ts:49). The scan still discovers sibling ids; it never runs the callback, so nothing is recovered and nothing is swept. cleanOtherGenerations cannot help: self's prefix is empty by construction (launch.ts comment at 650–651).

This was an accepted degrade for explicit persist: true (design BD6). Making it the unattended default is new. The README (packages/browser/README.md:24) still says the recent past survives a reload or a browser restart; without locks it does not — the next launch starts an empty namespace and leaves the old 10 MB in origin quota forever.

Impact: IndexedDB quota is origin-scoped and shared with the host app. Ten reloads is ~100 MB of dead SDK data, after which the page's own IDB writes start failing. The host gets the storage cost of persist and none of the crash-delivery benefit. Default onError is a no-op, so the one-time WEB_LOCKS_UNAVAILABLE_WARNING is swallowed.

Scenario: launch(token) on a non-secure http:// origin (navigator.locks is [SecureContext]), Safari < 15.4, or an embedded WebView without locks. IndexedDB is still an object, so persist turns on. Reload. Previous capture/markers/bundles stay under the dead instanceId. Repeat. The new default-on tests always pass locks: fakeWebLocks(), so this path is not covered.

Fix: Treat locks the same way as IndexedDB in the absent-option probe:

const persist =
  options.persist === undefined
    ? (options.indexedDB !== undefined || indexedDbPresent()) &&
      (options.locks !== undefined || navigatorLocksPresent())
    : resolved.options.get<boolean>(PERSIST_OPTION_KEY, false);

persist: true can still opt into the documented no-locks degrade. Add a default-on test with IndexedDB present and navigator.locks absent that asserts memory mode (getService(BundleStoreToken) throws) rather than injecting fakeWebLocks().

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• New Features
  • Capture history and queued reports are persisted by default when IndexedDB and Web Locks are available. Set persist: true to enable persistence or persist: false to keep data in memory.
  • Persistence failures are reported through the error callback and do not automatically switch storage to memory. Invalid persist values disable persistence and are reported.
• Bug Fixes
  • A browser that throws when its lock manager is accessed no longer causes coexistence setup to fail.
• Documentation
  • Added guidance on persistence defaults, recovery, and storage behavior.

Browser persistence defaults on when IndexedDB and Web Locks are available. Explicit persist values override that default, while invalid values resolve to off and are reported. Durable capture and recovery remain subject to their existing configuration conditions. Accessing navigator.locks now returns an unavailable result instead of propagating an error if its getter throws.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant BrowserClient
  participant Launch
  participant CapabilityChecks
  participant CreateCoexistence
  BrowserClient->>Launch: launch with options
  Launch->>CapabilityChecks: check IndexedDB and navigator.locks
  CapabilityChecks-->>Launch: return capability availability
  Launch->>Launch: resolve persist and durable capture settings
  Launch->>CreateCoexistence: pass computed persistence setting

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Priority: ➖ Normal

Change: Feature

Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to 59597

Supported browsers can persist capture history and queued reports, while unavailable capabilities retain the memory fallback. No concrete merge-blocking risk is identified in the supplied change evidence.

Security architecture risk: 🔵 Low · up to 59597

Captured data will now survive page sessions in supported browsers. Explicit opt-out, coordinated recovery, and incident-time identity snapshots limit the risk. A conditional project-isolation weakness in the existing storage namespace becomes more broadly exercised, but no practical cross-origin attack or confirmed wrong-project disclosure was established.

Retained concerns

• Low · security · inferred: The new default automatically activates an existing collision-prone project namespace. Distinct app tokens with the same 32-bit hash share durable databases and lock names. A later same-origin launch can consequently treat the other project's dead instance as its own sibling and recover its data through the current launch's API. This requires colliding tokens and same-origin storage; successful wrong-project acceptance also depends on credentials and collector behavior not established here. The hash mechanism predates this PR, but callers that previously omitted persist now enter this path automatically.

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Security Blast Radius

• inferred — The new exposure is local durable capture and report state for browser callers that omit persist and have both capabilities. IndexedDB remains origin-scoped; the identified namespace concern is between projects sharing that origin, not evidence of access across browser origins.

Security Findings and Attack Paths

• inferred — A conditional wrong-project recovery path exists if distinct tokens collide in the storage namespace. Recovery uses the current launch's API token and assembly context. Staged bundles preserve their original full token, providing possible downstream counterevidence, but token issuance and collector rejection behavior are unavailable; practical exploitation is not established.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

• observed — Normal instance isolation uses prefixed views and a shared liveness lock; recovery skips live siblings. Incident identity comes from the stored marker rather than the next launch's live user. Upload requests continue to use the core API's full app token and authenticated session.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

• observed — Marker-aware replay gives the staged bundle priority and suppresses rebuilding the same incident during that recovery pass. Retryable failures retain durable evidence, while settled outcomes allow marker retirement and subsequent generation cleanup.

Hardening Proposals

• proposed — Strengthen project namespace binding with a collision-resistant identifier and validation of stored ownership before recovery, including a safe migration policy. Separately define whether disabling persistence should leave recoverable data or offer an explicit coordinated purge; these are proposed controls, not existing guarantees.

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- Line 392: Update the persistence documentation near the default persistence
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