@youdie006/prodex 0.39.1 → 0.39.3

package/dist/chatgpt-browser.js

@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ import { mkdir, readFile, writeFile } from "node:fs/promises";
 import path from "node:path";
 import { captureBrowserDiagnostics, diagnosticsEnabled, diagnosticsNote } from "./browser-diagnostics.js";
 import os from "node:os";
-import { chatSurfaceChoice, menuKeyboardStep, readPowerSliderSelection, sliderRestoreStep } from "./picker-interaction.js";
+import { answeredDialogWarning, chatSurfaceState, effortNeedsWorkSurface, javascriptDialogResponse, menuKeyboardStep, readPowerSliderSelection, sliderRestoreStep, surfaceFromProbe, sliderPressOutcome, sliderDidNotRespond } from "./picker-interaction.js";
 export class ChatGptBrowserBlockerError extends Error {
     blocker;
     constructor(blocker) {
@@ -15,19 +15,20 @@ export class ChatGptBrowserBlockerError extends Error {
         this.blocker = blocker;
     }
 }
-// Five steps, not four. Measured at both ends of the live slider: position 0 of
-// 4 reads "Instant, 1 of 5" and position 4 reads "Pro, 5 of 5", so Pro is a step
-// of this control rather than a model. Leaving it out meant --effort could not
-// reach the top of the slider at all, and the only route there - --model Pro -
-// answered with advice to "say --effort Pro", which then failed.
+/** Where ChatGPT persists the Chat/Work choice, readable on every page. */
+const CHAT_SURFACE_STORAGE_KEY = "oai/apps/tpp/chat-surface-mode";
+/** ~10s: measured, the surface took seconds to re-render after switching. */
+const CHAT_SURFACE_SETTLE_ATTEMPTS = 14;
 /** A full trip round the menu is far more than any real picker needs. */
 const MENU_KEYBOARD_WALK_LIMIT = 16;
 /** Enough presses to cross any slider this code accepts, twice over. */
 const POWER_SLIDER_RESTORE_ATTEMPTS = 26;
-// Two more rungs than before. Measured live: with the model row chosen rather
-// than the recommended set, the slider reads Light / Medium / High / Extra High
-// / Max / Ultra, and Ultra is the top of the machine. Pro is kept because older
-// pickers still name the top step that way.
+// The vocabulary spans both of ChatGPT's surfaces, because prodex has met both.
+// Chat's slider is five steps and its top is Pro - measured at either end,
+// position 0 of 4 reads "Instant, 1 of 5" and position 4 reads "Pro, 5 of 5",
+// so Pro is a STEP of the control and not a model. Work's is six, and its top
+// two, Max and Ultra, have no counterpart on Chat. A send asking for one of
+// those stays on Work; everything else is sent on Chat.
 const REASONING_EFFORTS = ["즉시", "중간", "높음", "매우 높음", "Max", "Ultra", "Pro"];
 const PRO_MODES = ["기본", "확장"];
 // Aliases map friendly CLI input onto the exact Korean menu labels the picker
@@ -708,7 +709,7 @@ export function pickerSelectionPlan(input) {
                 (input.effort === undefined
                     ? "applied to the effort slider instead. Say --effort Pro to be explicit"
                     : `ignored in favour of --effort ${input.effort}`) +
-                ", or clear a saved default with `prodex setup --model \"\"`.";
+                ", or clear a saved default with `prodex setup --clear-model`.";
     }
     return plan;
 }
@@ -1039,6 +1040,21 @@ decidedBusyBlocker, busyVerdictDecided = false) {
         throw new ChatGptBrowserBlockerError(busyBlocker);
     assertChatGptReadyForPrompt(inferChatGptPageLoggedInLikely(status), status.hasComposer, status.openDialogText);
 }
+/**
+ * Whether a page with no composer is worth one reload before giving up.
+ *
+ * A thread can be left rendered with no composer at all, and every retry then
+ * lands on the same dead page with the same blocker. A reload cures that - but
+ * a logged-out tab has no composer either, and a modal covering the composer
+ * has its own message asking the person to close it.
+ */
+export function shouldReloadForMissingComposer(input) {
+    if (input.hasComposer || !input.loggedInLikely || input.hasBlocker)
+        return false;
+    if (input.busy || input.awaitingResponseChoice)
+        return false;
+    return (input.openDialogText ?? "").trim().length === 0;
+}
 export function assertChatGptReadyForPrompt(loggedInLikely, hasComposer, openDialogText) {
     if (loggedInLikely && hasComposer)
         return;
@@ -1412,8 +1428,11 @@ export function powerLabelMatches(requested, rendered) {
 /** Slider position plus the Model/Effort readout next to it. */
 export function powerSliderStateExpression() {
     return `(() => {
-    const slider = document.querySelector('[role="slider"]');
+    // Scoped to the picker, with a document-wide fallback for pickers that
+    // predate the testid. Asking the whole document first meant any other
+    // slider on the page became the one that got read and driven.
     const menu = document.querySelector('[data-testid="composer-intelligence-picker-content"]');
+    const slider = (menu && menu.querySelector('[role="slider"]')) || (menu ? null : document.querySelector('[role="slider"]'));
     const lines = menu ? (menu.innerText || "").split(String.fromCharCode(10)).map((l) => l.trim()).filter(Boolean) : [];
     if (!slider) return { ok: false, reason: "power slider not found", lines };
     const readPowerSliderSelection = ${readPowerSliderSelection.toString()};
@@ -1447,8 +1466,9 @@ export function activeMenuItemExpression() {
     return { role: a.getAttribute("role"), label };
   })()`;
 }
-export function chatWorkSurfaceExpression() {
-    return `(() => {${CLICK_POINT_SNIPPET}
+/** Which surface is live. Reads only - no scrolling, no attributes written. */
+export function chatSurfaceProbeExpression() {
+    return `(() => {
     const buttons = [...document.querySelectorAll('[role="radio"],[role="tab"]')].filter((el) => {
       const t = ((el.innerText || el.textContent || "").trim());
       return t === "Chat" || t === "Work";
@@ -1457,10 +1477,113 @@ export function chatWorkSurfaceExpression() {
       label: ((el.innerText || el.textContent || "").trim()),
       checked: el.getAttribute("aria-checked") === "true" || el.getAttribute("aria-selected") === "true"
     }));
-    const chat = buttons.find((el) => ((el.innerText || el.textContent || "").trim()) === "Chat");
-    return { surfaces, chat: chat ? clickPoint(chat) : { ok: false, reason: "no Chat toggle" } };
+    // The toggle is only on the home screen, but the choice is persisted where
+    // every page can read it.
+    let storedMode = "";
+    try {
+      storedMode = localStorage.getItem(${JSON.stringify(CHAT_SURFACE_STORAGE_KEY)}) || "";
+    } catch (error) {
+      storedMode = "";
+    }
+    if (!storedMode) {
+      // Anchored to the start of a cookie, so a name that merely ENDS with this
+      // one cannot answer for it.
+      const m = document.cookie.match(/(?:^|;)\\s*oai-chat-surface-mode=([^;]*)/);
+      storedMode = m ? decodeURIComponent(m[1]) : "";
+    }
+    return { surfaces, storedMode };
+  })()`;
+}
+/** Where to click to go back to Chat. Only asked once a switch is decided. */
+export function chatSurfaceToggleRectExpression() {
+    return `(() => {${CLICK_POINT_SNIPPET}
+    const chat = [...document.querySelectorAll('[role="radio"],[role="tab"]')].find(
+      (el) => ((el.innerText || el.textContent || "").trim()) === "Chat"
+    );
+    return chat ? clickPoint(chat) : { ok: false, reason: "no Chat toggle" };
+  })()`;
+}
+export function selectChatSurfaceExpression() {
+    return `(() => {
+    try {
+      localStorage.setItem(${JSON.stringify(CHAT_SURFACE_STORAGE_KEY)}, JSON.stringify("chat"));
+    } catch (error) {
+      // a blocked store is not fatal: the cookie below is what the app reads
+    }
+    // Host-only, the way the app writes it. Setting a domain-wide copy instead
+    // left two oai-chat-surface-mode cookies in play - one chat, one work - and
+    // which of them won was anyone's guess.
+    document.cookie = "oai-chat-surface-mode=chat; path=/; max-age=" + (60 * 60 * 24 * 365);
+    document.cookie = "oai-chat-surface-mode=; path=/; domain=.chatgpt.com; max-age=0";
+    return true;
   })()`;
 }
+/**
+ * Name of the stamp put on a document that is about to be reloaded. A stamp
+ * cannot survive a navigation, so its absence is what tells the reloaded
+ * document from the one it replaced. readyState is "complete" and the
+ * composer is present on the OLD document for as long as the reload takes to
+ * commit, so a poll of those alone confirmed the page being left.
+ */
+const RELOAD_MARK = "__prodexReloadMark";
+export function markDocumentForReloadExpression() {
+    return `(() => { window[${JSON.stringify(RELOAD_MARK)}] = true; return true; })()`;
+}
+export function reloadedDocumentReadyExpression(extraCondition = "true") {
+    return `(() => {
+    if (window[${JSON.stringify(RELOAD_MARK)}]) return false;
+    if (document.readyState !== "complete") return false;
+    if (!document.querySelector('#prompt-textarea,[contenteditable="true"],textarea')) return false;
+    return Boolean(${extraCondition});
+  })()`;
+}
+/** Polled reloads return as soon as the new document has its composer; this only bounds a page that never gets there. */
+const RELOAD_SETTLE_TIMEOUT_MS = 12_000;
+/**
+ * Reloads the page and resolves once the NEW document has rendered its
+ * composer (and satisfies extraCondition, if given). Mid-navigation evaluates
+ * fail rather than answer; those are retried until the deadline.
+ */
+async function reloadAndAwaitComposer(cdp, timeoutMs, extraCondition) {
+    await cdp.evaluate(markDocumentForReloadExpression());
+    const reply = await cdp.send("Page.reload", {});
+    // A reload the browser refused would otherwise be polled for until the ceiling.
+    if (reply.error?.message)
+        throw new Error(`Page.reload failed: ${reply.error.message}`);
+    const deadline = Date.now() + timeoutMs;
+    while (Date.now() < deadline) {
+        await sleep(250);
+        try {
+            if (await cdp.evaluate(reloadedDocumentReadyExpression(extraCondition)))
+                return true;
+        }
+        catch (error) {
+            // The execution context is gone between documents; the next poll lands
+            // on the new one. A command timeout is different: it closed the socket.
+            if (cdpCommandTimedOut(error))
+                throw error;
+        }
+    }
+    return false;
+}
+/**
+ * Reloads a page on a connection held open through the navigation, so a
+ * beforeunload the page raises is answered on it. A throwaway connection that
+ * closed right after asking for the reload left such a dialog to a later
+ * client, which the browser will not let dismiss it. Returns the dialogs
+ * answered, for the receipt.
+ */
+async function reloadPageAndAwaitComposer(page) {
+    const cdp = await connectCdp(page.webSocketDebuggerUrl);
+    try {
+        await cdp.send("Runtime.enable");
+        const rendered = await reloadAndAwaitComposer(cdp, RELOAD_SETTLE_TIMEOUT_MS);
+        return { rendered, dialogsAnswered: [...cdp.dialogsAnswered] };
+    }
+    finally {
+        cdp.close();
+    }
+}
 export function powerSliderPresentExpression() {
     return `Boolean(document.querySelector('[data-testid="composer-intelligence-picker-content"] [role="slider"]'))`;
 }
@@ -1485,7 +1608,11 @@ export function focusPickerMenuExpression() {
 }
 export function focusPowerSliderExpression() {
     return `(() => {
-    const slider = document.querySelector('[role="slider"]');
+    // Scoped to the picker, with a document-wide fallback for pickers that
+    // predate the testid. Asking the whole document first meant any other
+    // slider on the page became the one that got read and driven.
+    const menu = document.querySelector('[data-testid="composer-intelligence-picker-content"]');
+    const slider = (menu && menu.querySelector('[role="slider"]')) || (menu ? null : document.querySelector('[role="slider"]'));
     if (!slider) return { ok: false, reason: "power slider not found" };
     slider.focus();
     return { ok: document.activeElement === slider };
@@ -1642,6 +1769,10 @@ async function assertSelectionCommitted(cdp, label) {
 }
 // Roughly three seconds of grace for a menu that is still painting.
 const POWER_SLIDER_APPEAR_ATTEMPTS = 5;
+// Presses the walk will wait out while the focused slider ignores them: on a
+// page built moments ago the key handler attaches after focus is possible.
+// About six seconds all told, which is more than the measured gap.
+const POWER_SLIDER_SWALLOWED_PRESS_RETRIES = 6;
 /**
  * Move the power slider until its Effort readout is the requested step. The
  * menu must already be open. Returns the quota line so the caller can warn
@@ -1663,9 +1794,20 @@ export function modelSelectionUnavailableWarning(requested, reason, available) {
     if (!/menu item not found|not clickable/i.test(reason))
         return undefined;
     const offers = available?.length ? ` It offers: ${available.join(", ")}.` : "";
+    // A listed row that refuses the click is a different thing from a model the
+    // picker never had, and saying "does not offer X" while listing X two clauses
+    // later reads as a bug in prodex. Measured on both surfaces: the model rows
+    // carry pointer-events: none and no coordinate reaches them, so the slider is
+    // the only lever prodex has on the model.
+    if (/not clickable/i.test(reason)) {
+        return (`model_not_applied: this ChatGPT picker lists "${requested}" but its model rows cannot be clicked, ` +
+            `so the send used whatever the composer already had.${offers} ` +
+            "The power slider is the only lever prodex has on the model - pick a step with --effort, " +
+            'or clear a saved default with `prodex setup --clear-model`.');
+    }
     return (`model_not_applied: this ChatGPT picker does not offer "${requested}" as a selectable model, ` +
         `so the send used whatever the composer already had.${offers} ` +
-        'Pick an effort with --effort instead, or clear a saved default with `prodex setup --model ""`.');
+        'Pick an effort with --effort instead, or clear a saved default with `prodex setup --clear-model`.');
 }
 /**
  * A step the slider does not have.
@@ -1806,24 +1948,73 @@ async function selectPickerModel(cdp, requested, warnings = []) {
  * the wrong picker. Returns a warning to carry to the caller when it moved.
  */
 async function ensureChatSurface(cdp) {
-    let probe;
+    const read = async () => {
+        try {
+            return await cdp.evaluate(chatSurfaceProbeExpression());
+        }
+        catch (error) {
+            // A stalled tab is the send failing, not the surface being unknown. This
+            // probe is the first command of most sends, and swallowing its timeout
+            // left the next command to report a closed socket with no cause.
+            if (cdpCommandTimedOut(error))
+                throw error;
+            return undefined;
+        }
+    };
+    const settled = (probe) => probe
+        ? chatSurfaceState({
+            ...(probe.storedMode !== undefined ? { storedMode: probe.storedMode } : {}),
+            surfaces: probe.surfaces ?? []
+        })
+        : "unknown";
+    if (settled(await read()) !== "switch-to-chat")
+        return undefined;
+    const note = "ChatGPT was on its Work surface, whose picker offers different models and no Pro. Switched back to Chat.";
+    // Confirm the surface actually flipped rather than trusting a click. It took
+    // seconds to re-render when measured, and returning early meant the picker
+    // read straight afterwards was still Work's.
+    const confirm = async () => {
+        for (let attempt = 0; attempt < CHAT_SURFACE_SETTLE_ATTEMPTS; attempt += 1) {
+            await sleep(700);
+            const probe = await read();
+            // A probe that cannot be read at all is a connection that is gone; the
+            // remaining attempts would each wait out a full command timeout for the
+            // same answer.
+            if (!probe)
+                return false;
+            if (settled(probe) === "already-chat")
+                return true;
+        }
+        return false;
+    };
     try {
-        probe = await cdp.evaluate(chatWorkSurfaceExpression());
+        const chat = await cdp.evaluate(chatSurfaceToggleRectExpression());
+        if (chat?.ok && chat.x !== undefined && chat.y !== undefined) {
+            await verifiedClickAt(cdp, chat.x, chat.y, "Chat surface toggle");
+            if (await confirm())
+                return note;
+        }
     }
-    catch {
-        return undefined;
+    catch (error) {
+        if (cdpCommandTimedOut(error))
+            throw error;
+        // fall through to the stored preference, which works without the toggle
     }
-    if (!probe)
-        return undefined;
-    if (chatSurfaceChoice(probe.surfaces ?? []) !== "switch-to-chat")
-        return undefined;
-    const chat = probe.chat;
-    if (!chat?.ok || chat.x === undefined || chat.y === undefined) {
-        return "ChatGPT is on its Work surface, whose picker offers different models and no Pro, and the Chat toggle could not be clicked.";
+    // Threads and project pages do not render the toggle at all, so the surface
+    // is set the way the app itself stores it and the page is reloaded onto it.
+    try {
+        await cdp.evaluate(selectChatSurfaceExpression());
+        // Reading the persisted value back right after writing it proves nothing;
+        // the reloaded document rendering its composer is what proves the switch.
+        if ((await reloadAndAwaitComposer(cdp, RELOAD_SETTLE_TIMEOUT_MS)) && (await confirm()))
+            return note;
+    }
+    catch (error) {
+        if (cdpCommandTimedOut(error))
+            throw error;
+        // reported below
     }
-    await verifiedClickAt(cdp, chat.x, chat.y, "Chat surface toggle");
-    await sleep(1_500);
-    return "ChatGPT was on its Work surface, whose picker offers different models and no Pro. Switched back to Chat.";
+    return "ChatGPT is on its Work surface, whose picker offers different models and no Pro, and it could not be switched back to Chat.";
 }
 async function ensurePickerOpen(cdp) {
     // The slider, not the menu, is what the caller needs - and an open menu that
@@ -1863,22 +2054,72 @@ async function selectPowerStep(cdp, requested) {
     if (!state?.ok)
         throw new Error(state?.reason ?? "Could not read ChatGPT's power slider");
     const steps = (state.max ?? 4) - (state.min ?? 0) + 1;
-    for (let attempt = 0; attempt <= steps * 2; attempt += 1) {
+    let presses = 0;
+    let swallowed = 0;
+    let everMoved = false;
+    while (presses <= steps * 2) {
         if (state.effort && powerLabelMatches(requested, state.effort))
             return { effort: state.effort };
         // Walk upward first, then back down: the labels are ordered, but their
         // exact set can change, so this never assumes a fixed index for a name.
         const atTop = (state.position ?? 0) >= (state.max ?? 4);
-        const key = attempt < steps && !atTop ? "ArrowRight" : "ArrowLeft";
+        const key = presses < steps && !atTop ? "ArrowRight" : "ArrowLeft";
+        const before = state.position ?? 0;
         await dispatchArrowKey(cdp, key);
         await sleep(400);
         state = await cdp.evaluate(powerSliderStateExpression());
         if (!state?.ok)
             throw new Error(state?.reason ?? "Could not read ChatGPT's power slider");
+        const outcome = sliderPressOutcome({
+            before,
+            after: state.position ?? before,
+            key,
+            ...(state.min !== undefined ? { min: state.min } : {}),
+            ...(state.max !== undefined ? { max: state.max } : {})
+        });
+        if (outcome === "swallowed") {
+            // Focus succeeded but the press did nothing with room to move: the
+            // handler is not attached yet. Two consults were blocked with "has no
+            // Pro step. It showed: Instant, 1 of 5" after ten such presses, and a
+            // build that treats that as the picker declining would send at Instant
+            // instead. Wait for the handler rather than counting the press.
+            swallowed += 1;
+            if (swallowed <= POWER_SLIDER_SWALLOWED_PRESS_RETRIES) {
+                await sleep(600);
+                continue;
+            }
+            break;
+        }
+        if (outcome === "moved")
+            everMoved = true;
+        presses += 1;
+    }
+    if (!everMoved) {
+        throw new Error(`ChatGPT's power slider did not respond to arrow keys: it stayed at "${state.effort ?? "?"}" ` +
+            `(${(state.position ?? 0) + 1} of ${(state.max ?? 4) + 1}) while the picker was still hydrating, ` +
+            `so the "${requested}" step could not be reached.`);
     }
     const available = (state.lines ?? []).join(" / ");
     throw new Error(`ChatGPT's model picker has no "${requested}" step. It showed: ${available}`);
 }
+/**
+ * The slider walk, with one more try when the first found a slider that
+ * ignored every press: by then the handler has had seconds to attach.
+ */
+async function selectPowerStepWithGrace(cdp, requested) {
+    try {
+        return await selectPowerStep(cdp, requested);
+    }
+    catch (error) {
+        const message = error instanceof Error ? error.message : String(error);
+        if (!sliderDidNotRespond(message))
+            throw error;
+        await sleep(1_500);
+        if (!(await ensurePickerOpen(cdp)))
+            throw error;
+        return await selectPowerStep(cdp, requested);
+    }
+}
 async function dispatchArrowKey(cdp, key) {
     const code = key;
     const virtualKey = key === "ArrowLeft" ? 37 : 39;
@@ -1913,11 +2154,6 @@ export function sliderWalkPlan(state) {
 async function selectModelReasoning(cdp, options, selectionWarnings = []) {
     if (!options.model && !options.proMode && !options.effort)
         return;
-    // Which surface is live decides which picker exists at all, so settle that
-    // before looking for anything in it.
-    const surfaceWarning = await ensureChatSurface(cdp);
-    if (surfaceWarning)
-        selectionWarnings.push(surfaceWarning);
     // --pro-mode selects a Pro sub-mode, so it is meaningless with a non-Pro
     // --model. Fail loudly instead of silently dropping the requested sub-mode.
     if (options.proMode && options.model && !/pro/i.test(options.model)) {
@@ -2001,11 +2237,13 @@ async function selectModelReasoning(cdp, options, selectionWarnings = []) {
                     throw new Error("ChatGPT's model picker would not reopen after the model was chosen.");
                 }
                 try {
-                    await selectPowerStep(cdp, plan.sliderLabel);
+                    await selectPowerStepWithGrace(cdp, plan.sliderLabel);
                 }
                 catch (error) {
                     // Only "this slider has no such step" is the picker declining. A
-                    // slider that will not open, or will not move, is a real failure.
+                    // slider that will not open, or will not move - the hydrating case,
+                    // which reads as "did not respond to arrow keys" - is a real
+                    // failure, and must not turn into a send at whatever step it was on.
                     const message = error instanceof Error ? error.message : String(error);
                     const noSuchStep = /has no "[^"]*" step/.test(message);
                     if (!noSuchStep)
@@ -2260,8 +2498,10 @@ async function selectProject(cdp, options) {
         // prompt posted into the project the tab came from). A hard reload of the
         // project home rebinds the composer to THIS project before we send.
         const projectHome = await cdp.evaluate("location.href");
-        await cdp.evaluate("location.reload()");
-        const rebound = await waitForExpressionTrue(cdp, `location.href === ${JSON.stringify(projectHome)} && Boolean(document.querySelector('#prompt-textarea,[contenteditable="true"],textarea'))`, PROJECT_NAVIGATION_TIMEOUT_MS);
+        // Polled with no delay, the first check could run before the reload had
+        // committed, on the old document, whose composer and URL both still
+        // matched. The stamp keeps that document from passing as the new one.
+        const rebound = await reloadAndAwaitComposer(cdp, RELOAD_SETTLE_TIMEOUT_MS, `location.href === ${JSON.stringify(projectHome)}`);
         if (!rebound) {
             throw new Error(`ChatGPT composer did not rebind after entering project "${options.project}"`);
         }
@@ -2435,6 +2675,8 @@ async function findLandedConversation(page, prompt) {
 export async function sendChatGptPrompt(options) {
     const port = resolveCdpPort(options.port);
     const timeoutMs = options.timeoutMs ?? 90_000;
+    /** Dialogs answered on the reload connection, which comes and goes before the send's own, so the receipt still says so. */
+    const earlyDialogsAnswered = [];
     const sendStartedAt = Date.now();
     const emitProgress = (phase, detail) => {
         if (!options.onProgress)
@@ -2526,6 +2768,45 @@ export async function sendChatGptPrompt(options) {
             busyBlocker = busyBlockerAfterTranscriptCheck(chatGptBusyBlocker(status), await readTranscriptCompletion(page, status.url));
         }
     }
+    // A thread can be left rendered with no composer at all - measured after a
+    // send, zero contenteditables and zero textareas on the page - and every
+    // retry then lands on the same dead page and reports the same "missing a
+    // visible prompt composer". One reload brings it back, so spend it here
+    // rather than handing the caller a blocker it cannot act on. Decided after
+    // the busy check on purpose: a streaming thread hides its composer too, and
+    // so does a dead page whose stop button never went away, so the raw
+    // generating flag tells them apart in neither direction - the transcript
+    // check above does.
+    if (shouldReloadForMissingComposer({
+        hasComposer: status.hasComposer,
+        loggedInLikely: inferChatGptPageLoggedInLikely(status),
+        hasBlocker: Boolean(detectChatGptPageBlocker(status)),
+        busy: Boolean(busyBlocker),
+        ...(status.awaitingResponseChoice !== undefined ? { awaitingResponseChoice: status.awaitingResponseChoice } : {}),
+        ...(status.openDialogText !== undefined ? { openDialogText: status.openDialogText } : {})
+    })) {
+        try {
+            const reloaded = await reloadPageAndAwaitComposer(page);
+            earlyDialogsAnswered.push(...reloaded.dialogsAnswered);
+            // Read into a local and adopt it only once every step has passed, so a
+            // failure part way leaves the pre-reload status and verdict intact
+            // rather than a fresh status with the checks after it skipped.
+            let fresh = await readSettledChatGptPageStatus(page);
+            fresh = await ensureVisibleChatGptPage(port, page, fresh);
+            const blockerAfterReload = detectChatGptPageBlocker(fresh);
+            if (blockerAfterReload)
+                throw new ChatGptBrowserBlockerError(blockerAfterReload);
+            busyBlocker = busyBlockerAfterTranscriptCheck(chatGptBusyBlocker(fresh), await readTranscriptCompletion(page, fresh.url));
+            status = fresh;
+        }
+        catch (error) {
+            // A blocker is the answer; a stalled tab is the send failing, and its
+            // guidance is worth more than "missing composer" after a wait.
+            if (error instanceof ChatGptBrowserBlockerError || cdpCommandTimedOut(error))
+                throw error;
+            // keep the original status; the assertions below still report it
+        }
+    }
     // A thread ChatGPT has parked on "which response do you prefer?" will not
     // unpark on its own. Sends that navigate away - a fresh chat, a project home
     // - never touch it; a send that means to continue THAT thread has to say so
@@ -2565,6 +2846,13 @@ export async function sendChatGptPrompt(options) {
     let submitButtonFound = false;
     let wantsDeepResearch = false;
     const sendWarnings = [];
+    // Anything the page put in front of prodex was answered on the caller's
+    // behalf. The note is read at return time - there are several return paths -
+    // so it is folded into the array rather than pushed from each of them.
+    const withDialogNote = (warnings) => {
+        const note = answeredDialogWarning([...earlyDialogsAnswered, ...cdp.dialogsAnswered]);
+        return [...warnings, ...(note ? [note] : [])].filter((warning) => Boolean(warning));
+    };
     const temporaryNote = temporaryChatWarning(options.temporary);
     if (temporaryNote)
         sendWarnings.push(temporaryNote);
@@ -2594,6 +2882,16 @@ export async function sendChatGptPrompt(options) {
     };
     try {
         await cdp.send("Runtime.enable");
+        // Which surface is live decides which picker exists and which models answer,
+        // so settle it before navigating anywhere: a project page opened under Work
+        // keeps Work's composer, and switching afterwards does not move it.
+        // Max and Ultra are rungs of Work's slider, so asking for one means staying
+        // there; anything else belongs on Chat, whose top step is Pro.
+        if (!effortNeedsWorkSurface(options.effort)) {
+            const surfaceWarning = await ensureChatSurface(cdp);
+            if (surfaceWarning)
+                sendWarnings.push(surfaceWarning);
+        }
         await selectProject(cdp, options);
         try {
             await selectModelReasoning(cdp, options, sendWarnings);
@@ -2810,7 +3108,7 @@ export async function sendChatGptPrompt(options) {
             answer: transcript.answer,
             modelHints: finalState?.modelHints ?? [],
             ...(transcript.modelSlug ? { modelSlug: transcript.modelSlug } : finalState?.modelSlug ? { modelSlug: finalState.modelSlug } : {}),
-            warnings: [...sendWarnings, modelSelectionWarning(options.model, transcript.modelSlug || finalState?.modelSlug)].filter((warning) => Boolean(warning))
+            warnings: withDialogNote([...sendWarnings, modelSelectionWarning(options.model, transcript.modelSlug || finalState?.modelSlug)]).filter((warning) => Boolean(warning))
         };
     };
     // Deep research never reaches the DOM answer wait below: the report is
@@ -2849,7 +3147,7 @@ export async function sendChatGptPrompt(options) {
                     answer: report,
                     modelHints: finalState?.modelHints ?? [],
                     ...(finalState?.modelSlug ? { modelSlug: finalState.modelSlug } : {}),
-                    warnings: sendWarnings
+                    warnings: withDialogNote(sendWarnings)
                 };
             }
             emitProgress("waiting", `deep research ${lastState.status || lastState.reason} (${formatDurationMs(Date.now() - started)})`);
@@ -2958,7 +3256,7 @@ export async function sendChatGptPrompt(options) {
             answer: completed.answer.trim(),
             modelHints: completed.modelHints,
             ...(completed.modelSlug ? { modelSlug: completed.modelSlug } : {}),
-            warnings: [...sendWarnings, modelSelectionWarning(options.model, completed.modelSlug)].filter((warning) => Boolean(warning))
+            warnings: withDialogNote([...sendWarnings, modelSelectionWarning(options.model, completed.modelSlug)]).filter((warning) => Boolean(warning))
         };
     }
     // Timed out while the answer was still streaming: salvage the partial text
@@ -2972,11 +3270,11 @@ export async function sendChatGptPrompt(options) {
             answer: completed.answer.trim(),
             modelHints: completed.modelHints,
             ...(completed.modelSlug ? { modelSlug: completed.modelSlug } : {}),
-            warnings: [
+            warnings: withDialogNote([
                 ...sendWarnings,
                 ...(modelSelectionWarning(options.model, completed.modelSlug) ? [modelSelectionWarning(options.model, completed.modelSlug)] : []),
                 `answer_incomplete: ChatGPT was still generating after ${formatDurationMs(timeoutMs)} (${timeoutMs}ms), so the answer below may be truncated. Raise --timeout-ms and retry for the full response.`
-            ]
+            ])
         };
     }
     // Carry the thread the prompt landed in: ChatGPT usually finishes the answer
@@ -3003,11 +3301,14 @@ export function modelMenuOptionsExpression() {
     return `(() => {
     const m = document.querySelector('[data-testid="composer-intelligence-picker-content"]');
     if (!m) return [];
-    // Only the radios are models. The plain menuitems above them are the power
-    // slider's own rows - its track, and the label pair naming the current model
-    // and effort - and listing those put GPT-6 Astra in twice and Extra High in
-    // as if it were a model.
-    return [...m.querySelectorAll('[role="menuitemradio"]')]
+    // Radios are models, and so are the submenu rows an earlier picker kept them
+    // behind. What is NOT a model is the power slider's own rows - its track,
+    // and the pair naming the live model and effort - which are plain menuitems
+    // with nothing to open, and which put GPT-6 Astra in the list twice and
+    // Extra High in as if it were a model. Dropping every menuitem instead
+    // emptied the listing on the submenu picker entirely.
+    return [...m.querySelectorAll('[role="menuitemradio"],[role="menuitem"]')]
+      .filter((it) => it.getAttribute("role") === "menuitemradio" || it.getAttribute("aria-haspopup") === "menu")
       .map((it) => {
         // A submenu row renders as label over value ("Model" / "GPT-5.6 Sol"),
         // and the value is the part a person actually wants to read.
@@ -3501,6 +3802,13 @@ async function restorePowerSlider(cdp, target) {
 export async function listChatGptModelOptions(input = {}) {
     const port = resolveCdpPort(input.port);
     const timeoutMs = input.timeoutMs ?? 15_000;
+    // The steps before a connection is held - finding the page, settling its
+    // status - are bounded by their own ceilings and cannot be cut short from
+    // outside; the signal is honoured between them, and closes the connection
+    // once there is one.
+    const abandoned = () => new Error("Model listing abandoned: the caller stopped waiting for it");
+    if (input.signal?.aborted)
+        throw abandoned();
     const pageResult = await findChatGptPage(port, computePageDiscoveryTimeout(timeoutMs), undefined);
     if (!pageResult.ok) {
         throwBlockerOrError(pageResult.blocker, "ChatGPT browser page is not available");
@@ -3518,7 +3826,17 @@ export async function listChatGptModelOptions(input = {}) {
         throw new ChatGptBrowserBlockerError(blocker);
     assertChatGptReadyForPrompt(inferChatGptPageLoggedInLikely(status), status.hasComposer, status.openDialogText);
     assertVisibleChatGptTab(status.visibilityState, status.url, undefined);
+    if (input.signal?.aborted)
+        throw abandoned();
     const cdp = await connectCdp(page.webSocketDebuggerUrl);
+    // A caller that has stopped waiting (setup's deadline) closes the connection
+    // here, which rejects whatever is in flight and lets the send lock go; left
+    // alone, the listing ran on unattended holding both until its own timeouts.
+    // The picker may be left open in that case; the next send copes with one.
+    const abandon = () => cdp.close();
+    if (input.signal?.aborted)
+        abandon();
+    input.signal?.addEventListener("abort", abandon, { once: true });
     try {
         await cdp.send("Runtime.enable");
         const button = await cdp.evaluate(modelButtonRectExpression());
@@ -3531,14 +3849,20 @@ export async function listChatGptModelOptions(input = {}) {
             if (!opened)
                 throw new Error("ChatGPT model menu did not open after clicking the selector");
             const options = await cdp.evaluate(modelMenuOptionsExpression());
-            const effortSteps = await readEffortSteps(cdp);
+            // Walking the ladder moves someone's slider and puts it back. That is
+            // worth it when the ladder is what was asked for, and not worth it for a
+            // caller that only needs the model names - `setup` was walking the live
+            // slider as a side effect of saving a config file.
+            const effortSteps = input.walkPowerSlider === false ? undefined : await readEffortSteps(cdp);
             // Chat and Work have different pickers - Work's offers no Pro - and a
             // listing that does not say which one it read is how a browser sitting on
             // Work convinced two machines that Pro had been removed from the account.
             let surface;
             try {
-                const probe = await cdp.evaluate(chatWorkSurfaceExpression());
-                surface = probe?.surfaces?.find((entry) => entry.checked)?.label;
+                const probe = await cdp.evaluate(chatSurfaceProbeExpression());
+                // Threads and project pages draw no toggle; the persisted choice is
+                // what the app itself reads to decide, so it answers there.
+                surface = surfaceFromProbe(probe);
             }
             catch {
                 // the toggle predates some builds; saying nothing is right there
@@ -3557,9 +3881,42 @@ export async function listChatGptModelOptions(input = {}) {
         }
     }
     finally {
+        input.signal?.removeEventListener("abort", abandon);
         cdp.close();
     }
 }
+/**
+ * Whether anything is listening on the local port, decided at the TCP level.
+ * Treat only "accepted" as proof: a closed port may time out rather than refuse.
+ */
+export function portAccepts(port, timeoutMs = 250) {
+    return new Promise((resolve) => {
+        const socket = net.createConnection({ host: "127.0.0.1", port });
+        const done = (verdict) => {
+            socket.destroy();
+            resolve(verdict);
+        };
+        socket.setTimeout(timeoutMs, () => done("timeout"));
+        socket.once("connect", () => done("accepted"));
+        socket.once("error", (error) => done(error.code === "ECONNREFUSED" ? "refused" : "timeout"));
+    });
+}
+/** True when a fetch failed because its AbortSignal.timeout fired, not because nothing was listening. */
+/** Whether an error is a DevTools command that got no answer in time - the one failure that has closed the socket. */
+export function cdpCommandTimedOut(error) {
+    return error instanceof Error && /Chrome DevTools command timed out/.test(error.message);
+}
+export function fetchTimedOut(error) {
+    return typeof error === "object" && error !== null && error.name === "TimeoutError";
+}
+/**
+ * Whether a status probe is evidence that the browser is DEAD, as opposed to
+ * merely slow. Only a refused connection counts; a timeout is a busy browser,
+ * and ending a busy browser takes the consult it is writing with it.
+ */
+export function statusMeansBrowserDead(status) {
+    return !status.reachable && status.blocker?.code !== "browser_slow";
+}
 async function findChatGptPage(port, timeoutMs, targetUrl) {
     try {
         const response = await fetch(`http://127.0.0.1:${port}/json/list`, { signal: AbortSignal.timeout(timeoutMs) });
@@ -3573,6 +3930,28 @@ async function findChatGptPage(port, timeoutMs, targetUrl) {
         return { ok: true, page: selectChatGptPage(pages, targetUrl, visibilityByPage) };
     }
     catch (error) {
+        // A port that answers too slowly is a browser that is BUSY, not one that is
+        // gone, and the two must not share a verdict: the silence check that
+        // decides whether to end a browser counted three slow answers on a loaded
+        // machine as three dead ones - the exact failure the comment above
+        // confirmBrowserSilence was written to prevent.
+        // A timeout on its own is not proof of life: with a small budget the
+        // timer fires before the connection reports anything, and a port nothing
+        // listens on would be called "busy". A raw TCP connect settles it, and
+        // only an ACCEPT counts - measured on WSL2, a closed loopback port does not
+        // refuse at all, it times out (1.5s), while a listening one accepts in 1ms.
+        if (fetchTimedOut(error) && (await portAccepts(port)) === "accepted") {
+            return {
+                ok: false,
+                blocker: {
+                    code: "browser_slow",
+                    message: `The Chrome DevTools endpoint on 127.0.0.1:${port} did not answer within ${timeoutMs}ms. The browser is running but busy.`,
+                    retryable: true,
+                    next_step: "Wait a moment and retry. If the machine is under load (a test suite, a build), let it finish first. A tab wedged by a dialog looks like this too - check the visible window.",
+                    ...(error instanceof Error ? { detail: error.message } : {})
+                }
+            };
+        }
         return {
             ok: false,
             blocker: {
@@ -3642,6 +4021,8 @@ async function connectCdp(webSocketUrl, timeoutMs) {
     const ws = new WebSocket(webSocketUrl);
     let id = 0;
     const pending = new Map();
+    /** Types of JavaScript dialog answered on this connection. */
+    const dialogsAnswered = [];
     ws.addEventListener("message", (event) => {
         let message;
         try {
@@ -3660,6 +4041,19 @@ async function connectCdp(webSocketUrl, timeoutMs) {
                 clearTimeout(waiter.timer);
             waiter.resolve(message);
             pending.delete(message.id);
+            return;
+        }
+        // A JavaScript dialog halts the page's main thread: every evaluate after it
+        // waits forever, and Page.enable stops answering too, so a client that had
+        // not enabled the domain BEFORE the dialog appeared cannot dismiss it - the
+        // browser answers "no dialog is showing". Measured live, that is the whole
+        // of the "Chrome DevTools command timed out" wedge. Answering it here is
+        // the only cure, and it has to be armed in advance.
+        if (message.method === "Page.javascriptDialogOpening") {
+            const type = message.params?.type;
+            const answer = javascriptDialogResponse(type);
+            dialogsAnswered.push(type ?? "unknown");
+            ws.send(JSON.stringify({ id: ++id, method: "Page.handleJavaScriptDialog", params: answer }));
         }
     });
     ws.addEventListener("close", () => {
@@ -3702,18 +4096,42 @@ async function connectCdp(webSocketUrl, timeoutMs) {
             reject(new Error("Chrome DevTools websocket closed during connect"));
         }, { once: true });
     });
+    /** The timeout that closed this socket, so later commands can name it rather than a bare closed socket. */
+    let closedByTimeout;
     const send = (method, params = {}) => {
+        // Once a timeout has closed the socket, every later command would sit out
+        // its own full timeout for an answer that cannot come. Measured cost of not
+        // checking: a 14-probe confirmation loop turning into minutes of silence.
+        // The rejection carries the timeout that did the closing: a caller that
+        // swallowed that first error and moved on would otherwise report "socket
+        // not open", which names neither the stalled tab nor the dialog cure.
+        if (ws.readyState !== WebSocket.OPEN) {
+            return Promise.reject(new Error(closedByTimeout
+                ? `${closedByTimeout} (the connection was closed by that timeout before ${method})`
+                : `Chrome DevTools websocket is not open (${method})`));
+        }
         const messageId = ++id;
         return new Promise((resolve, reject) => {
             const timer = setTimeout(() => {
                 pending.delete(messageId);
+                closedByTimeout = `Chrome DevTools command timed out: ${method}`;
                 ws.close();
-                reject(new Error(`Chrome DevTools command timed out: ${method}`));
+                reject(new Error(closedByTimeout));
             }, Math.max(1, effectiveTimeoutMs));
             pending.set(messageId, { resolve, reject, timer });
             ws.send(JSON.stringify({ id: messageId, method, params }));
         });
     };
+    // Armed before anything else is asked of the page, because after a dialog
+    // opens it is too late.
+    //
+    // Fire and forget rather than awaited: on a page that is ALREADY wedged,
+    // Page.enable never answers either, and the ordinary send path closes the
+    // socket when a command times out. Awaiting it there would have turned the
+    // caller's diagnosis from "command timed out: Runtime.enable" - which at
+    // least names what was being attempted - into a bare "websocket closed".
+    // Nothing waits on the arming, so a build without the domain is no worse off.
+    ws.send(JSON.stringify({ id: ++id, method: "Page.enable", params: {} }));
     const evaluate = async (expression) => {
         const response = await send("Runtime.evaluate", { expression, returnByValue: true, awaitPromise: true });
         if (response.error?.message)
@@ -3722,7 +4140,7 @@ async function connectCdp(webSocketUrl, timeoutMs) {
             throw new Error("Runtime.evaluate failed");
         return response.result?.result?.value;
     };
-    return { send, evaluate, close: () => ws.close() };
+    return { send, evaluate, dialogsAnswered, close: () => ws.close() };
 }
 // In-page reasoning-header placeholder test, shared by statusExpression and
 // answerExpression. MUST stay in sync with isUsableChatGptAnswer: a header