Browser sessions now reuse a Chromium user profile across runs by default
(`~/.cow/browser_profile`), so users only log in to a site once.
Three launch modes are selectable via `tools.browser` in config.json:
- persistent (default): Playwright Chromium with a persistent user_data_dir
- cdp: attach to an externally launched real Chrome via `cdp_endpoint`
(full fingerprints, ideal for sites with strict bot detection)
- fresh: clean context every run, set `persistent: false`
Also:
- Self-heal when the user closes the browser window mid-session: detect
closed page/context/browser via close listeners and exception scanning,
then transparently relaunch on the next request.
- Graceful CDP shutdown: disconnect only, never kill the user's Chrome.
- Friendly errors when the CDP endpoint is unreachable or the persistent
profile is locked, so the LLM can guide the user instead of looping.
- Fix tool config being silently overwritten by workspace config in
AgentInitializer; per-tool user settings (e.g. browser.cdp_endpoint)
are now merged instead of replaced.
- Update zh / en / ja docs with the new login-persistence section,
including the Chrome 137+ requirement to pair --remote-debugging-port
with a dedicated --user-data-dir.
- Add call_vision method to all bot implementations (DashScope, Claude,
Gemini, ZhipuAI, MiniMax, Doubao, Moonshot, OpenAICompatibleBot)
using each vendor's native multimodal API format
- Remove call_with_tools/call_vision from Bot base class to fix MRO
shadowing issue with OpenAICompatibleBot mixin
- Refactor vision tool provider resolution: MainModel → other configured
models (auto-discovered) → OpenAI → LinkAI, with automatic fallback
- Return actual model name used in call_vision responses
- Sync config.json API keys to .env bidirectionally on startup
- Fix bot instance cache to detect bot_type/use_linkai config changes
- Add SSE reconnection support for web console
- Preserve image path hints in Gemini text for correct vision tool calls
- Update docs/tools/vision.mdx
