@specific.dev/spectest 0.104.0 → 0.106.0

package/README.md

@@ -66,6 +66,47 @@ The handshake returns a rejection `Response` or callbacks (`open`, `message`,
 in order per connection. WS and trusted WSS support text/binary messages;
 observe traffic through the fake's helpers.
 
+## Chat reactions (0.105.0)
+
+A `chat` annotation's message can carry the tapbacks a messaging app puts on
+a bubble. Each reaction is `{ emoji, from?, new? }`: `from` is `self` (the end
+user) or `other` (the default), and `new` marks one that arrived in this step,
+exactly like a message's `new`. A removed reaction simply stops being listed.
+
+```ts
+return annotate(turns, "chat", {
+  messages: turns.map((t) => ({
+    side: t.fromCustomer ? "self" : "other",
+    text: t.body,
+    reactions: t.acked ? [{ emoji: "✅", new: t.ackedNow }] : [],
+  })),
+});
+```
+
+The dashboard draws the chips on the bubble's lower corner, opposite the
+sender, and slides a new one in after the bubbles that arrived with it.
+
+## Read receipts and typing (0.106.0)
+
+A `chat` message can carry its delivery `status` (`delivered` or `read`)
+and an optional `statusAt` — free text such as `"23:14"` — drawn as the
+caption a messaging app shows under the bubble, on the bubble's own side.
+The annotation itself takes `typing: "self" | "other"`, drawn as the
+three-dot bubble at the end of the thread on that side. Both are the fake's
+to set, like `new`; typing is transient, so a step either shows it or not.
+
+```ts
+return annotate(turns, "chat", {
+  typing: state.agentTyping ? "other" : undefined,
+  messages: turns.map((t) => ({
+    side: t.fromCustomer ? "self" : "other",
+    text: t.body,
+    status: t.readAt ? "read" : "delivered",
+    statusAt: t.readAt,
+  })),
+});
+```
+
 ## HTTP assertions
 
 `ctx.fetch()` returns a wrapped response. Status fields, header lookups, and

package/dist/annotate.d.ts

@@ -95,6 +95,14 @@ export interface ChatAnnotation {
      * reads fine without it.
      */
     title?: string;
+    /**
+     * Who is writing right now — `self` the end user, `other` whoever they
+     * are talking to — drawn as the three-dot bubble at the end of the
+     * thread on that side. It is the thread's present tense: a call either
+     * shows it or not, so there is no `new` to mark. Any other value is
+     * nobody typing.
+     */
+    typing?: "self" | "other";
 }
 /** One turn of a {@link ChatAnnotation}. */
 export interface ChatMessageAnnotation {
@@ -113,6 +121,43 @@ export interface ChatMessageAnnotation {
      * the fake that marks them.
      */
     new?: boolean;
+    /**
+     * Reactions on this message — the tapbacks a messaging app lets either
+     * party put on a bubble (👀, ✅). Drawn as small chips on the bubble's
+     * corner. A reaction that was removed simply stops being listed.
+     */
+    reactions?: readonly ChatReactionAnnotation[];
+    /**
+     * Delivery status, as the provider reported it: drawn as the small
+     * caption under the bubble ("Delivered", "Read"), on the bubble's own
+     * side. Any other value is left off — a caption, unlike a turn, can be
+     * dropped without the transcript lying.
+     */
+    status?: "delivered" | "read";
+    /**
+     * When, as the app would show it ("23:14"): free text drawn after the
+     * status ("Read 23:14"). Rides with `status`; alone it has nothing to
+     * qualify and is dropped.
+     */
+    statusAt?: string;
+}
+/** One reaction on a {@link ChatMessageAnnotation}. */
+export interface ChatReactionAnnotation {
+    /** The reaction itself — one emoji, usually. */
+    emoji: string;
+    /**
+     * Who reacted: `self` is the end user, `other` whoever they are talking
+     * to. Defaults to `other`, which is also what any other value draws as —
+     * a reaction on the wrong side can be seen and fixed, a dropped one
+     * cannot.
+     */
+    from?: "self" | "other";
+    /**
+     * This reaction arrived in *this* call — a message's `new`, and the
+     * fake's to set for the same reason: only it knows what the app had
+     * already seen. It slides in after the messages that arrived with it.
+     */
+    new?: boolean;
 }
 /**
  * Say what a fake helper's return value *is*, so the timeline can draw it

package/dist/annotate.js

@@ -138,6 +138,7 @@ function lowerChat(options, value) {
     const source = deepUnwrap(options ?? value);
     let list;
     let title;
+    let typing;
     if (Array.isArray(source)) {
         list = source;
     }
@@ -145,6 +146,7 @@ function lowerChat(options, value) {
         const bag = fields(source);
         list = bag.messages;
         title = text(bag.title) || undefined;
+        typing = typingOf(bag.typing);
     }
     // An empty conversation is a real state (nothing said yet) and renders as
     // one; a value with no `messages` at all is the author's mistake.
@@ -157,7 +159,9 @@ function lowerChat(options, value) {
     return {
         kind: "chat",
         title,
-        blocks: [{ type: "chat", messages, ...(title ? { label: title } : {}) }],
+        blocks: [
+            { type: "chat", messages, ...(title ? { label: title } : {}), ...(typing ? { typing } : {}) },
+        ],
     };
 }
 function chatMessageOf(src) {
@@ -173,8 +177,50 @@ function chatMessageOf(src) {
         msg.text = truncateUtf8(body).value;
     if (src.new === true)
         msg.new = true;
+    const reactions = reactionsOf(src.reactions);
+    if (reactions.length > 0)
+        msg.reactions = reactions;
+    // A status caption, unlike a turn, can be left off without the
+    // transcript lying, so one that isn't `delivered` or `read` is dropped
+    // rather than guessed at. Its time rides with it: free text, truncated
+    // like a body, and meaningless without a status to qualify.
+    const status = src.status;
+    if (status === "delivered" || status === "read") {
+        msg.status = status;
+        if (typeof src.statusAt === "string" && src.statusAt !== "") {
+            msg.statusAt = truncateUtf8(src.statusAt).value;
+        }
+    }
     return msg;
 }
+/** The block's `typing`: `self` or `other`, else nobody. The thread's
+ *  present tense is a decoration, not a turn, so a value that isn't one of
+ *  the two draws nothing rather than guessing at who. */
+function typingOf(v) {
+    return v === "self" || v === "other" ? v : undefined;
+}
+/** Reactions get the tolerance `side` gets: an entry that isn't quite right
+ *  is drawn rather than dropped — a `from` that is missing or misspelled is
+ *  the other party's — and only one with nothing to draw (no string
+ *  `emoji`, or an empty one) is skipped. */
+function reactionsOf(v) {
+    if (!Array.isArray(v))
+        return [];
+    const out = [];
+    for (const entry of v) {
+        const src = fields(entry);
+        if (typeof src.emoji !== "string" || src.emoji === "")
+            continue;
+        const reaction = {
+            emoji: truncateUtf8(src.emoji).value,
+            from: text(src.from) === "self" ? "self" : "other",
+        };
+        if (src.new === true)
+            reaction.new = true;
+        out.push(reaction);
+    }
+    return out;
+}
 function messageOf(src) {
     const msg = {};
     const from = text(src.from);

package/dist/index.d.ts

@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ export type { Carrier, Wrapped, WrappedObject, WrappedArray, WrappedHeaders, Wra
 import type { Provenanced, SpectestFetch, Wrapped } from "./inspect.js";
 export { field } from "./inspect.js";
 export { annotate } from "./annotate.js";
-export type { Annotated, AnnotationKind, AnnotationOptions, ChatAnnotation, ChatMessageAnnotation, EmailAnnotation, } from "./annotate.js";
+export type { Annotated, AnnotationKind, AnnotationOptions, ChatAnnotation, ChatMessageAnnotation, ChatReactionAnnotation, EmailAnnotation, } from "./annotate.js";
 import type { Annotated } from "./annotate.js";
 export { SQL, type SqlClient, type SqlOptions } from "./sql.js";
 export { RedisClient, type RedisClientLike, type RedisOptions } from "./redis.js";

package/dist/locator-errors.js

@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@
 // only ever replaced when we have something better to say.
 //
 // `classifyLocatorFailure` also says WHICH failure it was, because only one of
-// them — a locator that matched nothing — can be explained further by asking
+// them — a locator that did not resolve — can be explained further by asking
 // the page what it holds (see locator-hints.ts).
 //
 // The call log is read from the error's own `log` array (playwright attaches
@@ -55,8 +55,8 @@ function logFromMessage(message) {
 function cleanLogLine(line) {
     return line.trim().replace(/^-\s*/, "").replace(/^\d+\s*×\s*/, "");
 }
-/** Did the locator ever match anything? Playwright logs "locator resolved to
- *  <html>" the moment it does, and nothing of the sort when it never did. */
+/** Did Playwright report resolution? A missing entry can also mean its
+ *  renderer or transport stalled before it could resolve the locator. */
 function resolved(log) {
     return log.some((l) => l.startsWith("locator resolved to"));
 }
@@ -125,8 +125,11 @@ export function classifyLocatorFailure(label, err) {
     if (!detail)
         return undefined;
     const waited = `(waited ${formatWaited(detail.timeoutMs)})`;
+    // A renderer or transport stall can time out before resolution even when
+    // the element exists (confirmed by a Specific failure replay). Absence of
+    // a resolved log entry is not proof that the DOM contains no match.
     if (!resolved(detail.log)) {
-        return { kind: "no-match", message: `No element matches ${label} ${waited}` };
+        return { kind: "no-match", message: `Timed out resolving ${label} ${waited}` };
     }
     // It matched, so the failure is about the element's state.
     const state = (message) => ({ kind: "state", message });
@@ -198,5 +201,11 @@ export async function rewriteLocatorErrorWithHints(err, label, hints) {
             /* A diagnostic must never replace the failure it explains. */
         }
     }
-    return setErrorMessage(err, message);
+    // Preserve the original diagnostic when a friendly rewrite is misleading.
+    // Error.cause is non-enumerable, so it does not expand recorder payloads.
+    const e = err;
+    if (e.cause === undefined) {
+        Object.defineProperty(e, "cause", { value: new Error(e.message), configurable: true });
+    }
+    return setErrorMessage(e, message);
 }

package/dist/recorder.d.ts

@@ -631,6 +631,7 @@ export type StepBlock = {
     type: "chat";
     messages: ChatBlockMessage[];
     label?: string;
+    typing?: "self" | "other";
 } | {
     type: "details";
     summary: string;
@@ -646,6 +647,31 @@ export interface ChatBlockMessage {
     /** Arrived in *this* step: drawn with an entrance animation. Only the
      *  producer knows this, so only the producer sets it. */
     new?: boolean;
+    /** Reactions on this message — the tapbacks a messaging app lets either
+     *  party put on a bubble (👀, ✅). Drawn as chips on the bubble's lower
+     *  corner, on the side opposite the sender. Absent and empty read the
+     *  same: nothing to draw. */
+    reactions?: ChatBlockReaction[];
+    /** Delivery status — the caption a messaging app shows under a bubble
+     *  ("Delivered", "Read"), on the bubble's own side. Absent draws
+     *  nothing. */
+    status?: "delivered" | "read";
+    /** When the status happened, as the app would show it ("23:14"): free
+     *  text drawn after the status caption ("Read 23:14"). Rides with
+     *  `status`; alone it has nothing to qualify. */
+    statusAt?: string;
+}
+/** One reaction on a {@link ChatBlockMessage}. */
+export interface ChatBlockReaction {
+    /** The reaction itself — an emoji, or any short string. */
+    emoji: string;
+    /** Who reacted. `self` is the end user, `other` the party they are
+     *  talking to; absent reads as `other`. */
+    from?: "self" | "other";
+    /** Arrived in *this* step, like a message's `new`: drawn with the same
+     *  entrance animation, after the bubbles that arrived with it. Only the
+     *  producer knows this, so only the producer sets it. */
+    new?: boolean;
 }
 /**
  * A step that describes itself in presentation terms — a title plus an

package/package.json

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "@specific.dev/spectest",
-  "version": "0.104.0",
+  "version": "0.106.0",
   "description": "Spectest SDK for defining test environments in TypeScript.",
   "type": "module",
   "main": "./dist/index.js",

package/src/annotate.test.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,137 @@
+import { describe, expect, test } from "bun:test";
+
+import { annotate, readAnnotation, type ChatMessageAnnotation } from "./annotate.js";
+
+/** Open a chat annotation: the messages its one block lowered to, and the
+ *  value the test would receive. */
+function chat(boxed: unknown) {
+  const opened = readAnnotation(boxed);
+  if (!opened || opened.annotation.kind !== "chat") throw new Error("not a chat annotation");
+  const block = opened.annotation.blocks[0];
+  if (!block || block.type !== "chat") throw new Error("not a chat block");
+  return { messages: block.messages, typing: block.typing, block, value: opened.value };
+}
+
+describe("annotate chat", () => {
+  test("copies a message's reactions through and leaves the value alone", () => {
+    const turns = [
+      {
+        side: "self",
+        text: "where is my order?",
+        reactions: [{ emoji: "👀" }, { emoji: "✅", from: "self", new: true }],
+      },
+      { side: "other", text: "It ships today.", new: true },
+    ];
+    const { messages, value } = chat(annotate(turns, "chat"));
+    expect(value).toBe(turns);
+    expect(messages[0]!.reactions).toEqual([
+      // No `from` is the other party's, exactly as no `side` is.
+      { emoji: "👀", from: "other" },
+      { emoji: "✅", from: "self", new: true },
+    ]);
+    // A message without reactions carries no empty list.
+    expect(messages[1]!.reactions).toBeUndefined();
+    expect(messages[1]).toEqual({ side: "other", text: "It ships today.", new: true });
+  });
+
+  // The tolerance `side` has: a reaction that isn't quite right is drawn —
+  // on the other party's side — rather than dropped. Only one with nothing
+  // to draw is skipped.
+  test("draws a reaction it does not quite understand and skips one it cannot", () => {
+    const { messages } = chat(
+      annotate(
+        [
+          {
+            side: "self",
+            text: "hi",
+            reactions: [
+              { emoji: "❤️", from: "them", new: "yes" },
+              { emoji: 42 },
+              { emoji: "" },
+              "👍",
+              { emoji: "🎉", from: "self" },
+            ],
+          },
+        ],
+        "chat",
+      ),
+    );
+    expect(messages[0]!.reactions).toEqual([
+      { emoji: "❤️", from: "other" },
+      { emoji: "🎉", from: "self" },
+    ]);
+  });
+
+  test("a reactions field that is not a list is no reactions", () => {
+    const { messages } = chat(annotate([{ side: "self", text: "hi", reactions: "👍" }], "chat"));
+    expect(messages[0]!.reactions).toBeUndefined();
+  });
+
+  test("reactions ride along when the messages are passed as options", () => {
+    const { messages } = chat(
+      annotate({ id: 7 }, "chat", {
+        title: "+46 70 123 45 67",
+        messages: [{ side: "other", text: "Done?", reactions: [{ emoji: "✅", from: "self", new: true }] }],
+      }),
+    );
+    expect(messages[0]!.reactions).toEqual([{ emoji: "✅", from: "self", new: true }]);
+  });
+});
+
+describe("annotate chat status and typing", () => {
+  test("captions a message with its delivery status and leaves the rest alone", () => {
+    const { messages } = chat(
+      annotate(
+        [
+          { side: "self", text: "where is my order?", status: "read", statusAt: "23:14" },
+          { side: "self", text: "hello?", status: "delivered" },
+          { side: "other", text: "It ships today.", new: true },
+        ],
+        "chat",
+      ),
+    );
+    expect(messages[0]).toEqual({ side: "self", text: "where is my order?", status: "read", statusAt: "23:14" });
+    // A status without a time carries no `statusAt`; a message without a
+    // status carries neither key.
+    expect(messages[1]).toEqual({ side: "self", text: "hello?", status: "delivered" });
+    expect(messages[2]).toEqual({ side: "other", text: "It ships today.", new: true });
+  });
+
+  // A caption, unlike a turn, can be left off without the transcript
+  // lying: a status that isn't one of the two is dropped, and so is a time
+  // that isn't text, is empty, or has no status to qualify.
+  test("drops a status it does not know and a time it cannot draw", () => {
+    const { messages } = chat(
+      annotate(
+        [
+          { side: "self", text: "a", status: "seen", statusAt: "23:14" },
+          { side: "self", text: "b", status: "read", statusAt: 2314 },
+          { side: "self", text: "c", statusAt: "23:14" },
+          { side: "self", text: "d", status: "read", statusAt: "" },
+        ],
+        "chat",
+      ),
+    );
+    expect(messages[0]).toEqual({ side: "self", text: "a" });
+    expect(messages[1]).toEqual({ side: "self", text: "b", status: "read" });
+    expect(messages[2]).toEqual({ side: "self", text: "c" });
+    expect(messages[3]).toEqual({ side: "self", text: "d", status: "read" });
+  });
+
+  test("a typing indicator rides on the block, and only for a side it knows", () => {
+    const messages: ChatMessageAnnotation[] = [{ side: "other", text: "Let me check." }];
+    expect(chat(annotate({ id: 7 }, "chat", { messages, typing: "other" })).typing).toBe("other");
+    expect(chat(annotate({ id: 7 }, "chat", { messages, typing: "self" })).typing).toBe("self");
+    // Nobody typing is no key at all: absent, misspelled, or a bare flag.
+    // (Read off the value, which skips the options' typing.)
+    expect(chat(annotate({ id: 7 }, "chat", { messages })).block).toEqual({
+      type: "chat",
+      messages: [{ side: "other", text: "Let me check." }],
+    });
+    for (const typing of ["agent", true, null, ""]) {
+      expect(chat(annotate({ messages, typing }, "chat")).typing).toBeUndefined();
+    }
+    // The messages-alone form has no block options to carry it.
+    expect(chat(annotate(messages, "chat")).typing).toBeUndefined();
+  });
+});

package/src/annotate.ts

@@ -34,6 +34,7 @@ import { deepUnwrap } from "./inspect.js";
 import {
   truncateUtf8,
   type ChatBlockMessage,
+  type ChatBlockReaction,
   type EmailEventMessage,
   type EmailEventSummary,
   type StepBlock,
@@ -152,6 +153,14 @@ export interface ChatAnnotation {
    * reads fine without it.
    */
   title?: string;
+  /**
+   * Who is writing right now — `self` the end user, `other` whoever they
+   * are talking to — drawn as the three-dot bubble at the end of the
+   * thread on that side. It is the thread's present tense: a call either
+   * shows it or not, so there is no `new` to mark. Any other value is
+   * nobody typing.
+   */
+  typing?: "self" | "other";
 }
 
 /** One turn of a {@link ChatAnnotation}. */
@@ -171,6 +180,44 @@ export interface ChatMessageAnnotation {
    * the fake that marks them.
    */
   new?: boolean;
+  /**
+   * Reactions on this message — the tapbacks a messaging app lets either
+   * party put on a bubble (👀, ✅). Drawn as small chips on the bubble's
+   * corner. A reaction that was removed simply stops being listed.
+   */
+  reactions?: readonly ChatReactionAnnotation[];
+  /**
+   * Delivery status, as the provider reported it: drawn as the small
+   * caption under the bubble ("Delivered", "Read"), on the bubble's own
+   * side. Any other value is left off — a caption, unlike a turn, can be
+   * dropped without the transcript lying.
+   */
+  status?: "delivered" | "read";
+  /**
+   * When, as the app would show it ("23:14"): free text drawn after the
+   * status ("Read 23:14"). Rides with `status`; alone it has nothing to
+   * qualify and is dropped.
+   */
+  statusAt?: string;
+}
+
+/** One reaction on a {@link ChatMessageAnnotation}. */
+export interface ChatReactionAnnotation {
+  /** The reaction itself — one emoji, usually. */
+  emoji: string;
+  /**
+   * Who reacted: `self` is the end user, `other` whoever they are talking
+   * to. Defaults to `other`, which is also what any other value draws as —
+   * a reaction on the wrong side can be seen and fixed, a dropped one
+   * cannot.
+   */
+  from?: "self" | "other";
+  /**
+   * This reaction arrived in *this* call — a message's `new`, and the
+   * fake's to set for the same reason: only it knows what the app had
+   * already seen. It slides in after the messages that arrived with it.
+   */
+  new?: boolean;
 }
 
 /** Listing rows carried on the event. The returned value is never capped. */
@@ -300,12 +347,14 @@ function lowerChat(
   const source: unknown = deepUnwrap(options ?? value);
   let list: unknown;
   let title: string | undefined;
+  let typing: "self" | "other" | undefined;
   if (Array.isArray(source)) {
     list = source;
   } else {
     const bag = fields(source);
     list = bag.messages;
     title = text(bag.title) || undefined;
+    typing = typingOf(bag.typing);
   }
   // An empty conversation is a real state (nothing said yet) and renders as
   // one; a value with no `messages` at all is the author's mistake.
@@ -317,7 +366,9 @@ function lowerChat(
   return {
     kind: "chat",
     title,
-    blocks: [{ type: "chat", messages, ...(title ? { label: title } : {}) }],
+    blocks: [
+      { type: "chat", messages, ...(title ? { label: title } : {}), ...(typing ? { typing } : {}) },
+    ],
   };
 }
 
@@ -330,9 +381,49 @@ function chatMessageOf(src: Record<string, unknown>): ChatBlockMessage {
   const body = text(src.text);
   if (body) msg.text = truncateUtf8(body).value;
   if (src.new === true) msg.new = true;
+  const reactions = reactionsOf(src.reactions);
+  if (reactions.length > 0) msg.reactions = reactions;
+  // A status caption, unlike a turn, can be left off without the
+  // transcript lying, so one that isn't `delivered` or `read` is dropped
+  // rather than guessed at. Its time rides with it: free text, truncated
+  // like a body, and meaningless without a status to qualify.
+  const status = src.status;
+  if (status === "delivered" || status === "read") {
+    msg.status = status;
+    if (typeof src.statusAt === "string" && src.statusAt !== "") {
+      msg.statusAt = truncateUtf8(src.statusAt).value;
+    }
+  }
   return msg;
 }
 
+/** The block's `typing`: `self` or `other`, else nobody. The thread's
+ *  present tense is a decoration, not a turn, so a value that isn't one of
+ *  the two draws nothing rather than guessing at who. */
+function typingOf(v: unknown): "self" | "other" | undefined {
+  return v === "self" || v === "other" ? v : undefined;
+}
+
+/** Reactions get the tolerance `side` gets: an entry that isn't quite right
+ *  is drawn rather than dropped — a `from` that is missing or misspelled is
+ *  the other party's — and only one with nothing to draw (no string
+ *  `emoji`, or an empty one) is skipped. */
+function reactionsOf(v: unknown): ChatBlockReaction[] {
+  if (!Array.isArray(v)) return [];
+  const out: ChatBlockReaction[] = [];
+  for (const entry of v) {
+    const src = fields(entry);
+    if (typeof src.emoji !== "string" || src.emoji === "") continue;
+    const reaction: ChatBlockReaction = {
+      emoji: truncateUtf8(src.emoji).value,
+      from: text(src.from) === "self" ? "self" : "other",
+    };
+    if (src.new === true) reaction.new = true;
+    out.push(reaction);
+  }
+  return out;
+}
+
 function messageOf(src: Record<string, unknown>): EmailEventMessage {
   const msg: EmailEventMessage = {};
   const from = text(src.from);

package/src/index.ts

@@ -63,6 +63,7 @@ export type {
   AnnotationOptions,
   ChatAnnotation,
   ChatMessageAnnotation,
+  ChatReactionAnnotation,
   EmailAnnotation,
 } from "./annotate.js";
 import type { Annotated } from "./annotate.js";

package/src/locator-errors.test.ts

@@ -21,12 +21,12 @@ function timeoutError(message: string, log: string[]): Error {
 }
 
 describe("locatorFailureMessage", () => {
-  test("names the element that was never found", () => {
+  test("names the locator that did not resolve", () => {
     const err = timeoutError("click: Timeout 5000ms exceeded.", [
       "  - waiting for getByTestId('add')",
     ]);
     expect(locatorFailureMessage('testid "add"', err)).toBe(
-      'No element matches testid "add" (waited 5s)',
+      'Timed out resolving testid "add" (waited 5s)',
     );
   });
 
@@ -84,7 +84,7 @@ describe("locatorFailureMessage", () => {
     ]);
     delete (err as { log?: unknown }).log;
     expect(locatorFailureMessage('testid "add"', err)).toBe(
-      'No element matches testid "add" (waited 5s)',
+      'Timed out resolving testid "add" (waited 5s)',
     );
   });
 
@@ -145,7 +145,7 @@ describe("rewriteLocatorErrorWithHints", () => {
       "\nClose matches on the page:\n  - testid \"add-todo\"",
     )) as Error;
     expect(err.message).toBe(
-      'No element matches testid "add" (waited 5s)\n' +
+      'Timed out resolving testid "add" (waited 5s)\n' +
         'Close matches on the page:\n  - testid "add-todo"',
     );
     // The stack's copy of the message is rewritten too, or the CLI would
@@ -173,7 +173,7 @@ describe("rewriteLocatorErrorWithHints", () => {
     const err = (await rewriteLocatorErrorWithHints(missing(), 'testid "add"', async () => {
       throw new Error("page closed");
     })) as Error;
-    expect(err.message).toBe('No element matches testid "add" (waited 5s)');
+    expect(err.message).toBe('Timed out resolving testid "add" (waited 5s)');
   });
 });
 
@@ -189,8 +189,8 @@ describe("rewriteLocatorErrorWithHints (stack)", () => {
     )) as Error;
 
     expect(out).toBe(err); // same error: the author's own frames survive
-    expect(out.message).toBe('No element matches testid "add" (waited 5s)');
-    expect(out.stack).toStartWith('No element matches testid "add" (waited 5s)');
+    expect(out.message).toBe('Timed out resolving testid "add" (waited 5s)');
+    expect(out.stack).toStartWith('Timed out resolving testid "add" (waited 5s)');
     expect(out.stack).not.toContain("Timeout 5000ms exceeded");
     expect(out.stack).toContain("todo.ts:12:34");
   });
@@ -211,3 +211,11 @@ describe("formatWaited", () => {
     expect(formatWaited(30_000)).toBe("30s");
   });
 });
+
+test("retains the original Playwright diagnostic for a stalled renderer", async () => {
+  const err = timeoutError("click: Timeout 10000ms exceeded.", ["  - waiting for locator('#confirm')"]);
+  const original = err.message;
+  await rewriteLocatorErrorWithHints(err, 'css "#confirm"', async () => "");
+  expect(err.message).toBe('Timed out resolving css "#confirm" (waited 10s)');
+  expect((err.cause as Error).message).toBe(original);
+});

package/src/locator-errors.ts

@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@
 // only ever replaced when we have something better to say.
 //
 // `classifyLocatorFailure` also says WHICH failure it was, because only one of
-// them — a locator that matched nothing — can be explained further by asking
+// them — a locator that did not resolve — can be explained further by asking
 // the page what it holds (see locator-hints.ts).
 //
 // The call log is read from the error's own `log` array (playwright attaches
@@ -67,8 +67,8 @@ function cleanLogLine(line: string): string {
   return line.trim().replace(/^-\s*/, "").replace(/^\d+\s*×\s*/, "");
 }
 
-/** Did the locator ever match anything? Playwright logs "locator resolved to
- *  <html>" the moment it does, and nothing of the sort when it never did. */
+/** Did Playwright report resolution? A missing entry can also mean its
+ *  renderer or transport stalled before it could resolve the locator. */
 function resolved(log: string[]): boolean {
   return log.some((l) => l.startsWith("locator resolved to"));
 }
@@ -147,8 +147,11 @@ export function classifyLocatorFailure(
   const detail = parseTimeout(err);
   if (!detail) return undefined;
   const waited = `(waited ${formatWaited(detail.timeoutMs)})`;
+  // A renderer or transport stall can time out before resolution even when
+  // the element exists (confirmed by a Specific failure replay). Absence of
+  // a resolved log entry is not proof that the DOM contains no match.
   if (!resolved(detail.log)) {
-    return { kind: "no-match", message: `No element matches ${label} ${waited}` };
+    return { kind: "no-match", message: `Timed out resolving ${label} ${waited}` };
   }
 
   // It matched, so the failure is about the element's state.
@@ -228,5 +231,11 @@ export async function rewriteLocatorErrorWithHints(
       /* A diagnostic must never replace the failure it explains. */
     }
   }
-  return setErrorMessage(err as Error, message);
+  // Preserve the original diagnostic when a friendly rewrite is misleading.
+  // Error.cause is non-enumerable, so it does not expand recorder payloads.
+  const e = err as Error;
+  if (e.cause === undefined) {
+    Object.defineProperty(e, "cause", { value: new Error(e.message), configurable: true });
+  }
+  return setErrorMessage(e, message);
 }

package/src/recorder.ts

@@ -882,7 +882,9 @@ export type StepBlock =
   | { type: "kv"; rows: { label: string; value?: string; error?: boolean }[]; label?: string }
   | { type: "table"; columns: string[]; rows: unknown[][] }
   | { type: "htmlSandbox"; html: string; label?: string }
-  | { type: "chat"; messages: ChatBlockMessage[]; label?: string }
+  // `typing` is the thread's present tense: whoever is writing right now
+  // gets the three-dot bubble at the end of the thread, on their side.
+  | { type: "chat"; messages: ChatBlockMessage[]; label?: string; typing?: "self" | "other" }
   // A disclosure. For what a step has but a reader does not want on every
   // step — a connection's protocol version, session id, redacted token.
   | { type: "details"; summary: string; blocks: StepBlock[] };
@@ -897,6 +899,32 @@ export interface ChatBlockMessage {
   /** Arrived in *this* step: drawn with an entrance animation. Only the
    *  producer knows this, so only the producer sets it. */
   new?: boolean;
+  /** Reactions on this message — the tapbacks a messaging app lets either
+   *  party put on a bubble (👀, ✅). Drawn as chips on the bubble's lower
+   *  corner, on the side opposite the sender. Absent and empty read the
+   *  same: nothing to draw. */
+  reactions?: ChatBlockReaction[];
+  /** Delivery status — the caption a messaging app shows under a bubble
+   *  ("Delivered", "Read"), on the bubble's own side. Absent draws
+   *  nothing. */
+  status?: "delivered" | "read";
+  /** When the status happened, as the app would show it ("23:14"): free
+   *  text drawn after the status caption ("Read 23:14"). Rides with
+   *  `status`; alone it has nothing to qualify. */
+  statusAt?: string;
+}
+
+/** One reaction on a {@link ChatBlockMessage}. */
+export interface ChatBlockReaction {
+  /** The reaction itself — an emoji, or any short string. */
+  emoji: string;
+  /** Who reacted. `self` is the end user, `other` the party they are
+   *  talking to; absent reads as `other`. */
+  from?: "self" | "other";
+  /** Arrived in *this* step, like a message's `new`: drawn with the same
+   *  entrance animation, after the bubbles that arrived with it. Only the
+   *  producer knows this, so only the producer sets it. */
+  new?: boolean;
 }
 
 /**