The browser tool navigates to a model-supplied URL via Playwright
page.goto and then auto-snapshots the page back to the model. The
http(s) navigate path performed no filtering, so a model tool call
(including under prompt injection) could point the agent-driven browser
at the cloud-metadata endpoint (169.254.169.254) and read the
credentials back through the snapshot.
Unlike the vision/web_fetch tools, the browser legitimately needs local
pages — a dev server on localhost / 127.0.0.1 / a LAN IP — so a blanket
"block all internal" policy is the wrong default here. The guard is
therefore narrow: it resolves the hostname and rejects only link-local
addresses (169.254.0.0/16, which includes the 169.254.169.254 metadata
endpoint, and IPv6 fe80::/10) plus the AWS IPv6 IMDS address
(fd00:ec2::254), before navigation. Loopback and RFC1918/LAN stay
reachable so local dev works out of the box.
Only http/https targets are validated; the documented non-HTTP scheme
handling (about:/data:/file:) is unchanged. An operator who deliberately
needs the link-local/metadata target can opt out with
tools.browser.allow_private_targets = true.
tests/test_security_ssrf_browser_navigate.py asserts link-local/metadata
targets are blocked while loopback, RFC1918/LAN and public targets
navigate through (browser service and DNS are stubbed; no real
browser/network).
Signed-off-by: christop <825583681@qq.com>
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.
Browser tool enhancements:
- Navigate action now auto-includes snapshot result, saving one LLM round-trip
- Wait for networkidle + 800ms after navigation for SPA/JS-rendered pages
- Prompt guides agent to screenshot key results and ask user for login/CAPTCHA help
- Fixed playwright version pinned to 1.52.0; mirror fallback to official CDN on failure
Web console file/image support:
- SSE real-time push for images and files via on_event (file_to_send)
- Added /api/file endpoint to serve local files for web preview
- Frontend renders images in media-content container (survives delta/done overwrites)
- File attachment cards with download links; RFC 5987 encoding for non-ASCII filenames
Tool workspace fix:
- Inject workspace_dir as cwd into send and browser tools (previously only file tools)
- Screenshots now save to ~/cow/tmp/ instead of project directory