feat(lens): capture the variant preview inside propose_variant - #993
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The Lens skill made the agent call `screenshot` for every variant of every element, hold the returned path, resist a list of documented traps about not cropping or moving the file, and hand-run `shasum -a 256` to notice a capture that came back byte-identical because the variant never reached the screen. Every one of those inputs is already server-side: `propose_variant` takes the round's `udid` and is already describing that device at propose time to auto-capture the crop frame. `variant.previewImage` is now optional. Omitted, the tool screenshots the device at the same moment it captures the frame, dispatching the `screenshot` tool so the capture keeps its per-platform routing and its upright-on-rotated-Android handling. The device is the one passed on this call or, failing that, the round's; with neither and no `previewImage` the call is refused rather than staging a card with no preview. Every server capture is hashed, and a hash matching another variant of the same element is refused by name: that variant is not on screen, so the two cards would carry one thumbnail. The check is scoped to a single element because two elements of one screen legitimately share a capture, each card cropping it to its own frame.
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ChangesLens automatic preview capture
Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to This change automates device-preview capture and duplicate detection for variant proposals. The remaining risk is limited to correcting device-selection guidance and the Markdown fence lint issue before release. Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant Client
participant propose_variant
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Client->>propose_variant: propose variant
propose_variant->>VariantProposalStore: resolve stored device
propose_variant->>screenshot: capture device screen
screenshot-->>propose_variant: preview image
propose_variant->>VariantProposalStore: check preview hash
propose_variant->>VariantProposalStore: store proposal and frame
VariantProposalStore-->>Client: staged variant
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…d-scope prose - propose_variant description + SKILL.md: the capture fails only when no udid was ever set, not "no udid this round" — the device carries across rounds. - Add a test that a screenshot failure propagates and stages nothing (the documented "screenshot cannot be taken" failure mode, previously untested). - Add a test that the duplicate guard runs across case/whitespace-divergent matchers for one element, pinning proposalKey normalization now reused by the guard.
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In `@packages/skills/skills/argent-lens/SKILL.md`:
- Line 23: Update the udid guidance in the propose_variant instructions to
require passing udid when no device is stored or when switching devices; allow
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| `propose_variant` params: `element` (human name), optional `match` (`{ by: "text"|"label"|"identifier"|"role", value }`), optional `udid` (the device the variants run on), and `variant` (`{ name, summary, code?, filePath?, previewImage?, frame? }`). Repeated calls with the same `element` accumulate variants on that element; different `element` values create separate cards. | ||
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| **Always pass `udid`** (the same simulator/emulator id you screenshotted and described with). The preview window then streams _that_ device directly — the human never has to pick a simulator. Set it on the first `propose_variant` of a round; later calls may omit it (the last value wins). | ||
| **Always pass `udid`** (the same simulator/emulator id you described with). It is the device `propose_variant` captures the preview from, and the preview window then streams _that_ device directly — the human never has to pick a simulator. Set it on the first `propose_variant` of a round; later calls may omit it (the last value wins, and it carries across rounds). Only when no `udid` was ever set and no `variant.previewImage` is passed does `propose_variant` fail: it has nothing to capture from. |
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Correct the udid instruction.
Line 23 says to always pass udid, but it also says later calls may omit it. The stored device also persists across rounds. Tell agents to pass udid when no device is stored or when they change devices.
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In `@packages/skills/skills/argent-lens/SKILL.md` at line 23, Update the udid
guidance in the propose_variant instructions to require passing udid when no
device is stored or when switching devices; allow omission when the stored
device remains appropriate, including across rounds.
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Add a language to this code fence.
Use text after the opening fence. This removes the Markdown lint warning.
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In `@packages/skills/skills/argent-lens/SKILL.md` at line 80, Update the code
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propose_variantcaptures the variant preview itself.variant.previewImageis optional; omitted, the tool screenshots the device at the same moment it already describes it for the crop frame.Why
packages/skills/skills/argent-lens/SKILL.md§3 Step 2 mandated, per variant per element: callscreenshot, hold the returned path, do not crop / resize / re-encode / move the file, and hand-runshasum -a 256against the previous path to notice a capture that came back byte-identical because the variant never reached the screen.Both inputs of that work are already server-side.
propose_varianttakes the round'sudid, andcaptureElementFramealready describes that device at propose time to auto-capture the cropframe- so the tool is talking to the device at exactly the moment the screenshot is needed. Same class as #984 (auto-screenshot aftertv-remote,adb reversefolded intolaunch-app).Behaviour
variant.previewImageomitted - the tool captures the screen and uses it as the preview.variant.previewImagepassed - used verbatim, exactly as before. Not read, not hashed, so anhttp(s)URL ordata:URI keeps working, and an explicit path is never subject to the duplicate guard.params.udidif given, else the round's device (VariantProposalStore.getDevice()), which is how the schema already documentsudid("set it on the firstpropose_variantof a round; later calls may omit it"). The frame capture now resolves the device the same way, so a laterudid-less propose gets a frame too instead of silently getting none.previewImage- refused withInvalidToolInputError(HTTP 400) naming both ways out. It does not stage a card with no preview.Why the
screenshottool rather thancaptureScreenshotUprightdirectlyThe tool already routes per platform, and its own comment records why that matters: a tvOS udid classifies as iOS by shape, so declaring
simulatorServerReffor it spawns a backend that cannot drive it and hangs on the ready timeout. Vega and Chromium have no simulator-server path either. CallingcaptureScreenshotUprightfrom here would have re-introduced exactly that.invokeSubToolis the repo's existing nested-dispatch helper (run-sequence, flow-run, flow-add-step), so the child invocation keeps the outer AI-client/platform attribution.Duplicate captures: refusal, not a warning
A server capture is sha-256'd, stored on the variant, and compared against the other variants of the same element in the live round. A match is a refusal that names the colliding variant.
Refusal over a warning: the skill's own rule was already "Fix that before proposing, never propose anyway", and a warning buried in a non-blocking tool's result is exactly the thing an agent skips. The two false-positive shapes the task flagged are both designed out:
frame. So the comparison is scoped to one element. Across elements, identical is fine and nothing is reported.findDuplicatePreviewreturns null on a completed round, because the nextproposeVariantrolls it away and its variants are not the ones the new capture would sit beside. Without that, round 2's first capture of an unchanged screen would be refused against round 1's.Within one element, two byte-identical full-screen captures have no legitimate reading: nothing on the device changed, so one of the two variants is not on screen. The message says so and names the twin, and points at
variant.previewImagefor the documented case where the element cannot be on screen at propose time.Prose updated
packages/skills/skills/argent-lens/SKILL.md- §1 golden rule and overview, §2 params +udidparagraph, §3 Step 2 (the numbered loop drops from 6 steps to 5; the "screenshot straight through" +shasumstep is gone, and the crop/copy warning moves to thepreviewImageoverride paragraph where it still applies), §4 "Distinct screenshot per variant", §5 example.packages/docs/docs/features/lens.mdx- step 2/3 of "How a review round works".propose-variant.ts- thepreviewImageparam description and the tool description (which gains the failure modes it did not previously state).Tests
packages/tool-server/test/lens-auto-preview-capture.test.ts, 8 tests. They drive the real tool throughregistry.invokeToolagainst a stubscreenshottool, soinvokeSubTooldispatch is exercised rather than mocked away. The store is a module singleton whosedevicedeliberately outlivesreset(), so each test takes a fresh module graph.Mutation table
Every mutation was applied to the source, the file re-run, and the source restored. Each kills exactly the test that claims to pin it.
previewImage = shot.image.hostPath->undefinedlet previewImage = params.variant.previewImage->undefined|| getDevice()fallbackfindDuplicatePreviewcompares across all proposals, not one elementif (this.completed) return nullpreviewImageand run the guard on itincludeImageInContext: falsefrom the sub-invoke argspreviewHashon the stored variantAn earlier M8 variant (hash the explicit preview with no
try) killed the explicit-verbatim test instead, because that test's explicit path does not exist on the host - which is itself the point: it pins that an explicitpreviewImageis never opened, so a URL ordata:URI cannot be broken by a future hash.Gates run
npm run buildnpm run lintnpm run knipgetDevice()was added)npm run typecheck:tests -w @argent/tool-servernpm run formatcd packages/docs && npx docusaurus buildinteraction-messages.test.tsis unaffected: no tool added or removed, and all three formatters are untouched. The SpiderShield description gate scores a mean, and this description keeps its action verb, "Use when" trigger andReturns {...}block while gaining an explicit failure paragraph, so it can only move up.Deliberately not changed
variant.framestays an agent-supplied override; the auto-capture that was already there is untouched apart from resolving the device the same way the preview does.previewImageduplicates are still accepted. Pointing two variants at one path is the thing the skill forbids, but refusing it would change the behaviour of a parameter this change is meant to leave alone, and hashing an explicit value would breakhttp(s)/data:previews.screenshottool's default, not full resolution. That is byte-for-byte the artifact an agent handed over before this change, and full-res is the scale some Android emulators reject outright ("wrong data size") - the reasonscreenshot-diffwraps its own full-res capture in a fallback./preview/variant-imageallow-list (os.tmpdir / cwd / /tmp) is untouched. The path now comes from the samescreenshottool the agent used to call, so whatever it hands back is what was being served before.elementlabel instead of the matcher). No feature overlap, but whichever lands second should carry the other's grouping intofindDuplicatePreview, which reuses the extractedproposalKeyhelper.Summary by CodeRabbit
New Features
propose_variantcan now automatically capture the on-screen device preview and crop frame.Documentation