captchakraken 3.2.1 → 4.0.0

package/dist/solver.js

@@ -33,7 +33,8 @@ var __importStar = (this && this.__importStar) || (function () {
     };
 })();
 Object.defineProperty(exports, "__esModule", { value: true });
-exports.CaptchaKrakenSolver = exports.SOLVE_DEFAULTS = exports.INPUT_SETTLE_MS = void 0;
+exports.CaptchaKrakenSolver = exports.SOLVE_DEFAULTS = exports.HOLD_MAX_MS = exports.HOLD_SETTLE_MS = exports.GRID_LOAD_CAP_FACTOR = exports.IDLE_DRIFT_PX = exports.IDLE_DRIFT_EVERY_MS = exports.INPUT_SETTLE_MS = void 0;
+exports.withAnswerBox = withAnswerBox;
 exports.answerNeedsElementBox = answerNeedsElementBox;
 exports.isStaleHandleError = isStaleHandleError;
 exports.isClosedTargetError = isClosedTargetError;
@@ -55,7 +56,6 @@ const errors_1 = require("./errors");
 const limits_1 = require("./limits");
 const python_command_1 = require("./python-command");
 const cli_invocation_1 = require("./cli-invocation");
-const slide_geometry_1 = require("./slide-geometry");
 const model_name_1 = require("./model-name");
 const selectors_1 = require("./selectors");
 const execFileAsync = (0, util_1.promisify)(child_process_1.execFile);
@@ -128,6 +128,40 @@ function readPngDimensions(filePath) {
 const VENDORS_WITH_BESPOKE_HANDLING = new Set([kinds_1.Vendor.HCAPTCHA, kinds_1.Vendor.RECAPTCHA]);
 // Long enough to resolve a locator `all()` just returned, short enough that a widget gone in between reads as stale, not hung.
 const HANDLE_TIMEOUT_MS = 1000;
+/**
+ * A typed captcha's text box widens the shot only when it sits by the image: the union may be at most this many
+ * times the image's area. A vendor-named box found in the enclosing form can be a whole login form away.
+ */
+const ANSWER_BOX_MAX_GROWTH = 4;
+/**
+ * A typed captcha's image and its text box, photographed and pointed into as one element.
+ *
+ * BotDetect's widget element is a 280x50 strip holding only the image; its text box is a sibling. Every training
+ * board and every real capture of a typed captcha shows the box under the image, and on the bare strip the pointer
+ * read the image as a click puzzle or doubled a glyph. The answer's points are taken in this union's frame, so
+ * `boundingBox` is the union everywhere the round reads it; everything else is the element's own.
+ */
+function withAnswerBox(el, box) {
+    const union = async () => {
+        const a = await el.boundingBox();
+        const b = a ? await box.boundingBox() : null;
+        if (!a || !b)
+            return a;
+        const x0 = Math.min(a.x, b.x), y0 = Math.min(a.y, b.y);
+        const x1 = Math.max(a.x + a.width, b.x + b.width), y1 = Math.max(a.y + a.height, b.y + b.height);
+        if ((x1 - x0) * (y1 - y0) > ANSWER_BOX_MAX_GROWTH * Math.max(a.width * a.height, 1))
+            return a;
+        return { x: x0, y: y0, width: x1 - x0, height: y1 - y0 };
+    };
+    return new Proxy(el, {
+        get(target, key) {
+            if (key === 'boundingBox')
+                return union;
+            const v = Reflect.get(target, key, target);
+            return typeof v === 'function' ? v.bind(target) : v;
+        },
+    });
+}
 /** Every visible match of `selectors`, in selector order, queried at once. A selector this adapter can't parse is skipped, not fatal. */
 const visible = async (scope, selectors) => (await Promise.all(selectors.map((s) => scope.locator(s).filter({ visible: true }).all().catch(() => [])))).flat();
 const handleOf = (at) => at.elementHandle({ timeout: HANDLE_TIMEOUT_MS }).catch(() => null);
@@ -137,11 +171,14 @@ const frameOf = async (at) => (await (await handleOf(at))?.contentFrame().catch(
  * Where the host-page selectors are read: the page, then the inside of every VISIBLE vendor enclave. A hidden enclave is
  * skipped because Playwright judges an element visible within its own document, whatever its frame's visibility.
  */
-const hostScopes = async (page) => [page, ...(await Promise.all((await visible(page, selectors_1.ENCLAVE_SELECTORS)).map(frameOf))).filter((f) => f !== null)];
+const hostScopes = async (page, enclaves) => [page, ...(await Promise.all((await visible(page, enclaves)).map(frameOf))).filter((f) => f !== null)];
 const visibleIn = async (scopes, selectors) => (await Promise.all(scopes.map((scope) => visible(scope, selectors)))).flat();
 const hasText = async (el) => !!((await el.textContent().catch(() => null)) ?? '').trim();
 const SLIDE_TOLERANCE_PX = 2;
 const SLIDE_MAX_CORRECTIONS = 3;
+// The nudge that shows the tracker what the handle moves: enough to separate the part from still ground, little
+// enough that a piece resting against the board's edge stays on it. Mirrors page_solver.py SLIDE_PROBE_PX.
+const SLIDE_PROBE_PX = 8;
 /** An allow-list of what needs nothing: the other direction raises instead of clicking at the origin. */
 function answerNeedsElementBox(actions) {
     return actions.some((a) => a?.action !== kinds_1.ActionKind.DONE);
@@ -166,6 +203,16 @@ const NOT_THIS_BOARD_POLLS = 3;
 // How long a control we hovered, pressed or typed into takes to stop repainting in reaction. A board read inside
 // this window is wearing our own feedback, which is not a screen it ever showed by itself.
 exports.INPUT_SETTLE_MS = 400;
+// While a reCAPTCHA tile reloads the hand rests on it, drifting a few pixels every second or two. Reaching for a
+// different reloading tile on every 250 ms poll read as a cursor darting about the board.
+exports.IDLE_DRIFT_EVERY_MS = [1200, 2800];
+exports.IDLE_DRIFT_PX = 3;
+// How much longer than gridLoadTimeoutMs a reCAPTCHA tile that is still painting is waited on.
+exports.GRID_LOAD_CAP_FACTOR = 3;
+// A press-and-hold is released once the widget's picture has stopped changing for this long after its fill
+// moved, and at HOLD_MAX_MS whatever it shows. Press & Hold widgets ask for seconds, not tens of seconds.
+exports.HOLD_SETTLE_MS = 900;
+exports.HOLD_MAX_MS = 12000;
 /** `viewportSize()` is null on a context launched without one (camoufox), where only the window knows. */
 async function viewportOf(page) {
     const view = page.viewportSize() ?? await page.evaluate?.(() => ({ width: window.innerWidth, height: window.innerHeight }));
@@ -232,6 +279,7 @@ class CaptchaKrakenSolver {
     constructor(config = {}) {
         this.videoBudgetMs = 0;
         this.videoBudgetGranted = false;
+        this.sel = selectors_1.DEFAULT_TABLE;
         this.stepIndex = 0;
         this.solveStartMs = 0;
         this.cvWorker = null;
@@ -241,6 +289,15 @@ class CaptchaKrakenSolver {
         this.cvWorkerBuf = '';
         /** Answers keyed by screenshot hash; a hit means the answer already ran and changed nothing. */
         this.solutionCache = new Map();
+        /** The other complete plans the pointer returned for this board, best first; a refresh is last. */
+        this.fallbackPlans = [];
+        /** The screenshot those plans answered. A different board makes them the wrong answer, not an alternative. */
+        this.fallbackBoardHash = null;
+        /** True only once THIS board refused the plan at the front. Nothing is pressed speculatively. */
+        this.fallbackArmed = false;
+        this.exchangesAtAnswer = 0;
+        /** Earlier screens of the same paged puzzle (FunCaptcha), oldest first; the CLI sends them as `--history`. */
+        this.pointerHistory = [];
         this.repeatedAnswerSeen = false;
         this.knownAnimated = false;
         this.animatedProbeDone = false;
@@ -250,8 +307,9 @@ class CaptchaKrakenSolver {
         this.keyframeSteadyScreens = 0;
         this.solveDeadlineAt = 0;
         this.lastAnswerSig = null;
+        this.triedAnswers = new Set();
+        this.refreshedBoards = new Set();
         this.noProgressRounds = 0;
-        this.resampleLevel = 0;
         /** The recording `classifyByRecording` started and left running for the branch below to finish or drop. */
         this.pendingBurst = null;
         /**
@@ -264,6 +322,7 @@ class CaptchaKrakenSolver {
         this.animatedFilm = null;
         this.lastBurstFps = null;
         this.actedOnBoard = false;
+        this.submittedOnBoard = false;
         this.lastSubmitFrameHash = null;
         this.solveSessionId = null;
         /** Which vendor and site this solve is for, sent to the hosted API; the site is a hostname only. */
@@ -283,6 +342,9 @@ class CaptchaKrakenSolver {
         /** When our last gesture ended; the board's reaction to it is never read as the board's own motion. */
         this.lastInputAt = -Infinity;
         this.config = config;
+        if (config.customSelectors || config.selectors !== undefined) {
+            this.sel = new selectors_1.SelectorTable(config.customSelectors, config.selectors ?? selectors_1.DEFAULT_CONFIG_PATH);
+        }
         this.human = (0, humanize_js_1.resolveHumanizer)({ ...config, startingMousePosition: config.startingMousePosition ?? { x: 100, y: 100 } });
     }
     get lastMousePosition() {
@@ -371,6 +433,7 @@ class CaptchaKrakenSolver {
                 console.error(this.budget.report());
             // The camera outlives a round by design, so it has to be ended by the thing that outlives the solve.
             await this.stopAnimatedFilm();
+            this.dropPointerHistory();
             this.teardownCvWorker();
             this.cvWorkerReady = null;
             // Set by solveImpl, which the narrowing from the reset above cannot see.
@@ -390,7 +453,7 @@ class CaptchaKrakenSolver {
         return new Promise((resolve) => {
             try {
                 const { cliRoot, py } = this.resolveCli();
-                const child = (0, child_process_1.spawn)(py, ['-m', 'captchakraken.cli', 'report-outcome', sessionId, solved ? kinds_1.Outcome.SOLVED : kinds_1.Outcome.FAILED], { cwd: cliRoot, env: cliEnv(cliRoot, this.routingEnv()), stdio: ['ignore', 'pipe', 'pipe'] });
+                const child = (0, child_process_1.spawn)(py, ['-m', 'captchakraken.cli', 'report-outcome', sessionId, solved ? kinds_1.Outcome.SOLVED : kinds_1.Outcome.FAILED], { cwd: cliRoot, env: (0, cli_invocation_1.solveEnv)(cliEnv(cliRoot, this.routingEnv()), this.apiKey), stdio: ['ignore', 'pipe', 'pipe'] });
                 let stdout = '';
                 child.stdout.on('data', (chunk) => { stdout += chunk.toString(); });
                 // The engine words its own warnings; a hosted refusal must be as visible here as it is from Python.
@@ -562,14 +625,18 @@ class CaptchaKrakenSolver {
                     break;
                 }
                 if (await this.isChallengeFreshlyRendered(page)) {
-                    this.resampleLevel = 0;
                     this.actedOnBoard = false;
+                    this.submittedOnBoard = false;
                     // ONE FILM, ONE BOARD — enforced where the board actually changes. The recorded answer
                     // describes the board it was cut from, so replaying it here presses that board's
                     // coordinates onto this one: live, a keyframe answer from an earlier board landed on
                     // hCaptcha's reference photo and then pressed Skip, six rounds running.
                     await this.stopAnimatedFilm();
                     this.knownAnimated = false;
+                    this.fallbackPlans = [];
+                    this.fallbackBoardHash = null;
+                    this.fallbackArmed = false;
+                    this.dropPointerHistory();
                     // Its own second look, but only once IT fails: what armed it was evidence about the previous board,
                     // and left set it filmed every still board after a solve's first miss.
                     this.repeatedAnswerSeen = false;
@@ -587,9 +654,15 @@ class CaptchaKrakenSolver {
                 throw blocked('its server answered 429');
             if (await this.isBlocked(page))
                 throw blocked('it is showing its try-again-later screen');
-            if (roundSaid === kinds_1.Verdict.REJECTED)
+            if (roundSaid === kinds_1.Verdict.REJECTED) {
                 console.log(`[verdict] the vendor rejected the answer after ${Date.now() - verdictT0}ms`);
-            if (this.bannerIsFatalAfterRetry(await this.bannerKind(page))) {
+                // Only a refusal earns the server's next plan. Without it a board that merely repainted would have
+                // the previous board's plan pressed onto it.
+                this.fallbackArmed = true;
+            }
+            // Only "select all matching images" means tiles were missed; "please try again" is a wrong answer and
+            // deals a new board, which is asked fresh.
+            if ((await this.bannerKind(page)) === kinds_1.RecaptchaBanner.SELECT_MORE) {
                 console.log('reCAPTCHA under-selection error; the next round asks for the missed tiles.');
                 pendingRetryMode = kinds_1.RetryMode.MISSED_TILES;
             }
@@ -597,10 +670,10 @@ class CaptchaKrakenSolver {
                 return done();
             if (this.noProgressRounds) {
                 const stuck = `No progress: the model returned the same answer ${this.noProgressRounds + 1} times running`;
-                // A board answered the same way after every resample is one the model cannot read: measured, no solve ever
-                // followed a third identical answer, and each further round cost the board 3-7s.
-                if (this.noProgressRounds >= (cfg.maxNoProgressRounds ?? 2))
+                // A repeat pressed nothing, so a further round is only worth its 3-7s if it can do something else.
+                if (this.noProgressRounds >= (cfg.maxNoProgressRounds ?? 2) || !this.anotherMoveLeft(pendingRetryMode)) {
                     throw new Error(`${stuck}.`);
+                }
                 await again(stuck);
             }
             else if (!didInteract) {
@@ -610,6 +683,9 @@ class CaptchaKrakenSolver {
                     this.repeatedAnswerSeen = true; // what arms the second look
                 await again('The solver performed no interactions this round');
             }
+            else {
+                lastFailure = null;
+            }
         }
         const last = lastFailure;
         const usage = ` Total usage: ${JSON.stringify((0, token_usage_1.aggregateTokenUsage)(cumulativeTokenUsage))}`;
@@ -638,12 +714,12 @@ class CaptchaKrakenSolver {
     /** The vendor showing its refusal screen: rate-limited or flagged, with no board to answer. */
     async isBlocked(page) {
         try {
-            const probes = selectors_1.WIDGET_PROBES.filter((p) => p.role === kinds_1.FrameRole.CHALLENGE && selectors_1.SELECTORS[p.vendor].blocked);
-            const scopes = await hostScopes(page);
+            const probes = this.sel.widgetProbes.filter((p) => p.role === kinds_1.FrameRole.CHALLENGE && this.sel.selectors[p.vendor].blocked);
+            const scopes = await hostScopes(page, this.sel.enclave);
             const shown = await Promise.all(probes.map(async (p) => {
                 const [at] = await visibleIn(scopes, [p.selector]);
                 const frame = at && await frameOf(at);
-                return !!frame && (await Promise.all((selectors_1.SELECTORS[p.vendor].blocked ?? []).map((sel) => this.visibleWithText(frame, sel)))).some(Boolean);
+                return !!frame && (await Promise.all((this.sel.selectors[p.vendor].blocked ?? []).map((sel) => this.visibleWithText(frame, sel)))).some(Boolean);
             }));
             return shown.some(Boolean);
         }
@@ -652,14 +728,24 @@ class CaptchaKrakenSolver {
         }
     }
     /** The env the engine reads its routing headers from: session, and the vendor and site once they are known. */
+    /** This solver's endpoint and key: two solvers in one process may talk to different servers. */
+    get baseUrl() {
+        return this.config.baseUrl ?? process.env.VLLM_BASE_URL;
+    }
+    get apiKey() {
+        return this.config.apiKey ?? process.env.CAPTCHA_KRAKEN_API_KEY ?? process.env.VLLM_API_KEY;
+    }
     routingEnv() {
         return {
+            ...(this.config.baseUrl ? { VLLM_BASE_URL: this.config.baseUrl } : {}),
             ...(this.solveSessionId ? { CAPTCHA_KRAKEN_SESSION: this.solveSessionId } : {}),
             ...(this.solveVendor ? { CAPTCHA_KRAKEN_VENDOR: this.solveVendor } : {}),
             ...(this.solveSite ? { CAPTCHA_KRAKEN_SITE: this.solveSite } : {}),
             ...(this.solveWidgetHost ? { CAPTCHA_KRAKEN_WIDGET_HOST: this.solveWidgetHost } : {}),
             // This driver warns about a legacy model name itself, once; the engine it starts per round stays quiet.
             CAPTCHA_KRAKEN_MODEL_WARNING: '0',
+            // The config's detector choice; the caller's own environment variable still wins, as it does in Python.
+            ...(process.env.CAPTCHA_KRAKEN_DETECTOR_MODEL ? {} : { CAPTCHA_KRAKEN_DETECTOR_MODEL: this.sel.config.detector }),
         };
     }
     /** Fire the optional onStep observer with a fresh screenshot; best-effort, never fails the solve. */
@@ -685,7 +771,8 @@ class CaptchaKrakenSolver {
     }
     async solveSingle(page, widget, attempt, retryMode = null) {
         const cfg = this.config;
-        const { el: captchaElement, vendor: puzzleSource, role: frameRole } = widget;
+        const { vendor: puzzleSource, role: frameRole } = widget;
+        let captchaElement = widget.el;
         this.solveVendor = puzzleSource;
         const frame = await captchaElement.contentFrame();
         this.solveWidgetHost = frame ? hostname(frame) : null;
@@ -694,12 +781,12 @@ class CaptchaKrakenSolver {
             await this.clickCheckbox(page, widget, frame);
             return { didInteract: true, tokenUsage: [] };
         }
-        if (frame && frameRole === kinds_1.FrameRole.CHALLENGE && selectors_1.SELECTORS[puzzleSource].images) {
+        if (frame && frameRole === kinds_1.FrameRole.CHALLENGE && this.sel.selectors[puzzleSource].images) {
             if (this.lastSubmitFrameHash) {
                 await this.ph(kinds_1.Phase.AWAIT_NEXT_ROUND, () => this.waitForChangeSince(captchaElement, this.lastSubmitFrameHash));
                 this.lastSubmitFrameHash = null;
             }
-            await this.ph(kinds_1.Phase.HCAPTCHA_IMAGES, () => this.waitForBoardImages(frame, selectors_1.SELECTORS[puzzleSource]));
+            await this.ph(kinds_1.Phase.BOARD_IMAGES, () => this.waitForBoardImages(frame, this.sel.selectors[puzzleSource]));
         }
         // THE TWO QUESTIONS BELOW ARE PUT TO A PAINTED BOARD. Which expert answers the round is read out of the
         // DOM and whether the board cycles is read off its motion, and a widget that has not drawn yet has no
@@ -711,9 +798,12 @@ class CaptchaKrakenSolver {
         const painted = puzzleSource === kinds_1.Vendor.RECAPTCHA ? null
             : await this.ph(kinds_1.Phase.BOARD_PAINT, () => this.waitForBoardPainted(captchaElement));
         // Only the DOM can tell a typed captcha from a click puzzle; hCaptcha and reCAPTCHA never type.
-        const textMode = !VENDORS_WITH_BESPOKE_HANDLING.has(puzzleSource) && (await this.answerBox(scope, widget.at)) !== null;
-        if (textMode)
+        const answerBox = VENDORS_WITH_BESPOKE_HANDLING.has(puzzleSource) ? null : await this.answerBox(scope, widget.at);
+        const textMode = answerBox !== null;
+        if (textMode) {
             console.log('Widget has a text box; solving as a distorted-text captcha.');
+            captchaElement = withAnswerBox(captchaElement, answerBox);
+        }
         // A reCAPTCHA board is read by its grid below, not filmed.
         const filmable = puzzleSource !== kinds_1.Vendor.RECAPTCHA && !textMode;
         if (filmable && !this.knownAnimated)
@@ -768,12 +858,17 @@ class CaptchaKrakenSolver {
         const screenshotPath = tmp('captcha');
         const settledFrame = (isAnimated || painted?.verdict !== kinds_1.PaintVerdict.PAINTED)
             ? null : (this.pendingBurst?.stableFrame() ?? null);
-        if (settledFrame && fs.existsSync(settledFrame)) {
+        const filmed = !!settledFrame && fs.existsSync(settledFrame);
+        if (filmed) {
             fs.copyFileSync(settledFrame, screenshotPath);
         }
         else {
             await this.ph(kinds_1.Phase.SCREENSHOT, () => this.shot(captchaElement, screenshotPath, cfg.elementScreenshotTimeoutMs ?? 8000));
         }
+        const boardHash = await this.boardHash(captchaElement, screenshotPath, filmed);
+        // A refresh that brought the same picture back has replaced nothing, and every plan has been spent on it.
+        if (this.refreshedBoards.has(boardHash))
+            throw new Error('No progress: the board came back unchanged after a refresh.');
         if (this.stepIndex === 0) {
             await this.emitStep(captchaElement, kinds_1.SolveStage.INITIAL, 'initial (pre-action)', puzzleSource, frameRole, attempt, establishedGridSize ? { gridSize: establishedGridSize } : undefined);
         }
@@ -784,9 +879,22 @@ class CaptchaKrakenSolver {
         let burstDir = null;
         try {
             let response = null;
+            let fromFallback = false;
+            if (this.fallbackPlans.length) {
+                if (this.fallbackArmed && this.fallbackBoardHash === boardHash) {
+                    response = { actions: this.fallbackPlans.shift(), token_usage: [] };
+                    fromFallback = true;
+                }
+                else {
+                    // The board that refused the first plan is not this one, or the last round did not refuse it.
+                    this.fallbackPlans = [];
+                    this.fallbackBoardHash = null;
+                    this.fallbackArmed = false;
+                }
+            }
             const ask = (imagePath) => this.getSolution(imagePath, puzzleSource, retryMode, textMode);
             const askAnimated = () => this.ph(kinds_1.Phase.INFERENCE, () => this.withIdleWander(page, captchaElement, () => this.getAnimatedSolution(burstDir)));
-            if (isAnimated) {
+            if (isAnimated && !response) {
                 // The camera was paused while the last answer was performed; from here the board is its own again.
                 this.animatedFilm?.resume();
                 if (this.animatedPlan?.response) {
@@ -891,6 +999,11 @@ class CaptchaKrakenSolver {
             else if (!response) {
                 response = await this.ph(kinds_1.Phase.INFERENCE, () => this.solveFrameFreshnessGuarded(captchaElement, screenshotPath, (imagePath) => this.withIdleWander(page, captchaElement, () => ask(imagePath))));
             }
+            if (!fromFallback) {
+                this.fallbackPlans = response.fallbacks ?? [];
+                this.fallbackBoardHash = this.fallbackPlans.length ? boardHash : null;
+                this.fallbackArmed = false;
+            }
             const actionList = Array.isArray(response.actions) ? response.actions : [response.actions];
             allTokenUsage = response.token_usage;
             // A `done` answer carries no coordinates, and several vendors close the widget the moment they accept.
@@ -905,10 +1018,27 @@ class CaptchaKrakenSolver {
             // Tier 3 grades this line with Tier 2's grader to split driver bugs from model misses (see TRIBAL_KNOWLEDGE.md).
             console.log('[answer] ' + JSON.stringify({ actions: actionList }));
             // A repeated answer is not re-performed: the widget already refused it, and every extra press is
-            // behaviour a vendor scores. Re-asking with a fresh sample or a recording is the round's only move.
+            // behaviour a vendor scores. Re-asking, or asking a recording, is the round's only move.
             // `noteAnswer` drops the refused animated answer on its way through, so the next round re-asks.
-            if (this.noteAnswer(actionList, retryMode))
+            // An animated board's screens are SUPPOSED to change; keying a repeat on them would never fire. The
+            // board hash is for the still path only, where a paged puzzle's same next-arrow is a new page.
+            if (this.noteAnswer(actionList, retryMode, isAnimated ? null : boardHash))
                 return { didInteract: false, tokenUsage: allTokenUsage };
+            // FunCaptcha pages one option at a time and the model reads the earlier screens as history. Without
+            // them it has nothing to compare against and keeps answering "next arrow", including on the match.
+            if (!isAnimated && puzzleSource === kinds_1.Vendor.FUNCAPTCHA
+                && actionList.length && actionList.every((a) => a?.action === kinds_1.ActionKind.CLICK)) {
+                try {
+                    if (fs.existsSync(screenshotPath)) {
+                        const saved = tmp('pghist');
+                        fs.copyFileSync(screenshotPath, saved);
+                        this.pointerHistory.push(saved);
+                        while (this.pointerHistory.length > 8)
+                            unlink(this.pointerHistory.shift());
+                    }
+                }
+                catch { /* a screen we could not keep simply is not history */ }
+            }
             console.log(`Executing ${actionList.length} actions.`);
             // Stop filming before we touch it. Everything from here to the vendor's verdict is our own answer
             // landing, and a frame of the board wearing our clicks is not a screen the board ever showed.
@@ -937,7 +1067,7 @@ class CaptchaKrakenSolver {
                     performedAction = answered = true;
                     await this.emitStep(captchaElement, kinds_1.SolveStage.CLICK, `clicked ${bboxes.length || 1} target(s)`, puzzleSource, frameRole, attempt, { bboxes });
                 }
-                else if (action.action === kinds_1.ActionKind.DRAG && !action.source_bounding_box) {
+                else if (action.action === kinds_1.ActionKind.SLIDE || (action.action === kinds_1.ActionKind.DRAG && !action.source_bounding_box)) {
                     if (await this.executeSlide(page, captchaElement, scope, action, requireBox())) {
                         performedAction = slid = true;
                         await this.emitStep(captchaElement, kinds_1.SolveStage.DRAG, 'slid the piece into the slot', puzzleSource, frameRole, attempt, { action });
@@ -951,12 +1081,25 @@ class CaptchaKrakenSolver {
                     performedAction = answered = true;
                     await this.emitStep(captchaElement, kinds_1.SolveStage.DRAG, 'drag', puzzleSource, frameRole, attempt, { action });
                 }
+                else if (action.action === kinds_1.ActionKind.HOLD) {
+                    // The widget submits itself when the hold completes, like a slide on release.
+                    const completed = await this.executeHold(page, captchaElement, action, requireBox(), this.sel.selectors[widget.vendor].holdCompletes ?? false);
+                    performedAction = slid = true;
+                    await this.emitStep(captchaElement, kinds_1.SolveStage.HOLD, completed ? 'held until the widget completed' : 'released the hold at the cap', puzzleSource, frameRole, attempt, { action });
+                }
                 else if (action.action === kinds_1.ActionKind.TYPE) {
                     if (await this.executeType(page, scope, action, widget.at)) {
                         performedAction = answered = true;
                         await this.emitStep(captchaElement, kinds_1.SolveStage.TYPE, 'typed the code', puzzleSource, frameRole, attempt, { action });
                     }
                 }
+                else if (action.action === kinds_1.ActionKind.REFRESH) {
+                    // Nothing after a refresh, Verify included, belongs to the board it replaces.
+                    const refreshed = await this.executeRefresh(page, captchaElement, scope, action, elementBox);
+                    if (refreshed)
+                        await this.emitStep(captchaElement, kinds_1.SolveStage.REFRESH, 'asked for a new puzzle', puzzleSource, frameRole, attempt, { action });
+                    return { didInteract: refreshed, tokenUsage: allTokenUsage };
+                }
                 else if (action.action === kinds_1.ActionKind.WAIT && action.duration_ms > 0) {
                     await delay(action.duration_ms);
                     performedAction = true;
@@ -964,15 +1107,22 @@ class CaptchaKrakenSolver {
                 }
             }
             // A slide submits itself on release, and any Verify found afterwards belongs to the host page and would
-            // submit the guarded form mid-verdict. An empty or `done` plan still presses Verify/Skip.
-            const verifyButton = frame || !slid ? await this.getVerifyButton(scope) : null;
-            if (!slid && (answered || !performedAction) && verifyButton) {
+            // submit the guarded form mid-verdict, unless this board has already taken a Verify from us: then that button
+            // is the widget's, and a slide on it submits nothing by itself. An empty or `done` plan still presses
+            // Verify/Skip. FunCaptcha is the exception: its answer is the click itself — an arrow pages, Submit (which the
+            // model clicks on the match) submits — so the generic fallback submits page one right after an arrow turned it.
+            const submits = slid ? this.submittedOnBoard : answered || !performedAction;
+            const verifyButton = submits && puzzleSource !== kinds_1.Vendor.FUNCAPTCHA ? await this.getVerifyButton(scope) : null;
+            if (verifyButton) {
                 console.log(`Clicking Verify to submit (${puzzleSource}).`);
                 await this.moveAndClick(page, verifyButton);
-                performedAction = true;
+                performedAction = this.submittedOnBoard = true;
                 await this.emitStep(captchaElement, kinds_1.SolveStage.SUBMIT, 'submitted (Verify/Next)', puzzleSource, frameRole, attempt);
                 this.lastSubmitFrameHash = await this.elementFrameHash(captchaElement);
             }
+            else if (answered && puzzleSource !== kinds_1.Vendor.FUNCAPTCHA) {
+                this.keepPlansOfThisManyClicks(actionList);
+            }
         }
         finally {
             await this.releasePendingBurst();
@@ -989,11 +1139,15 @@ class CaptchaKrakenSolver {
      * checkbox picture with a drag.
      */
     async clickCheckbox(page, widget, frame) {
-        const box = await this.checkboxBox(frame, widget.vendor);
+        const box = frame ? await this.checkboxBox(frame, widget.vendor) : (this.sel.selectors[widget.vendor].box?.length ? widget.el : null);
         if (box)
             await this.move(page, box);
-        else
-            await this.performSmoothMove(page, ...await this.findCheckboxOnScreen(widget.el));
+        else {
+            const at = await this.findCheckboxOnScreen(page, widget.el);
+            if (!at)
+                return;
+            await this.performSmoothMove(page, ...at);
+        }
         await this.human.pause(kinds_1.PauseKind.BETWEEN);
         await this.gesture(() => this.human.click(page, this.human.at));
         await this.awaitWhatTheCheckboxOpened(page);
@@ -1003,7 +1157,7 @@ class CaptchaKrakenSolver {
      * a closed shadow root, and a frame can refuse access; both are found on screen instead.
      */
     async checkboxBox(frame, vendor) {
-        const box = selectors_1.SELECTORS[vendor].box;
+        const box = this.sel.selectors[vendor].box;
         if (!frame || !box?.length)
             return null;
         try {
@@ -1014,8 +1168,28 @@ class CaptchaKrakenSolver {
             return null;
         }
     }
-    /** One capture and OpenCV: a point inside the tick box, in page coordinates. No model is asked. */
-    async findCheckboxOnScreen(el) {
+    /**
+     * A point inside the tick box, in page coordinates, or null when the widget passed without drawing one. Turnstile
+     * shows "Verifying…" before its box, so an empty capture is looked at again until `detectionTimeoutMs`.
+     */
+    async findCheckboxOnScreen(page, el) {
+        const deadline = Date.now() + (this.config.detectionTimeoutMs ?? exports.SOLVE_DEFAULTS.detectionTimeoutMs);
+        for (;;) {
+            const at = await this.checkboxOnScreen(el);
+            if (at)
+                return at;
+            if (await this.isCaptchaSolved(page))
+                return null;
+            if (Date.now() >= deadline) {
+                const e = new Error('UNSUPPORTED_CAPTCHA: the checkbox widget shows no tick box to click');
+                e.unsupported = true;
+                throw e;
+            }
+            await delay(DETECTION_POLL_MS);
+        }
+    }
+    /** One capture and the element detector, no model: a point inside the tick box, or null when none is drawn. */
+    async checkboxOnScreen(el) {
         const box = await el.boundingBox();
         if (!box)
             throw new Error('Could not get bounding box of captcha element');
@@ -1030,11 +1204,8 @@ class CaptchaKrakenSolver {
         finally {
             unlink(shot);
         }
-        if (!found) {
-            const e = new Error('UNSUPPORTED_CAPTCHA: the checkbox widget shows no tick box to click');
-            e.unsupported = true;
-            throw e;
-        }
+        if (!found)
+            return null;
         const [x, y, w, h] = found.map((v) => v / scale);
         return [box.x + x + w * (0.3 + Math.random() * 0.4), box.y + y + h * (0.3 + Math.random() * 0.4)];
     }
@@ -1054,7 +1225,7 @@ class CaptchaKrakenSolver {
         });
     }
     getVerifyButton(scope) {
-        return this.findControl(scope, selectors_1.SUBMIT_SELECTORS);
+        return this.findControl(scope, this.sel.submit);
     }
     /** Any element at `selector` carrying a non-blank value; response fields are hidden, so no visibility filter. */
     async hasValue(scopes, selector) {
@@ -1069,19 +1240,16 @@ class CaptchaKrakenSolver {
         const frame = await frameOf(checkbox);
         return !!frame && (await visible(frame, [checked])).length > 0;
     }
-    bannerIsFatalAfterRetry(kind) {
-        return kind === kinds_1.RecaptchaBanner.SELECT_MORE || kind === kinds_1.RecaptchaBanner.REJECTED;
-    }
     /** Which verdict banner the open challenge shows; `dynamic-more` is the dynamic board's normal flow, not an error. */
     async bannerKind(page) {
-        const probes = selectors_1.WIDGET_PROBES.filter((p) => p.role === kinds_1.FrameRole.CHALLENGE && selectors_1.SELECTORS[p.vendor].banners);
-        const scopes = await hostScopes(page);
+        const probes = this.sel.widgetProbes.filter((p) => p.role === kinds_1.FrameRole.CHALLENGE && this.sel.selectors[p.vendor].banners);
+        const scopes = await hostScopes(page, this.sel.enclave);
         const kinds = await Promise.all(probes.map(async (p) => {
             const [at] = await visibleIn(scopes, [p.selector]);
             const frame = at && await frameOf(at);
             if (!frame)
                 return null;
-            const shown = await Promise.all((selectors_1.SELECTORS[p.vendor].banners ?? []).map(async ([sel, kind]) => (await this.visibleWithText(frame, sel)) ? kind : null));
+            const shown = await Promise.all((this.sel.selectors[p.vendor].banners ?? []).map(async ([sel, kind]) => (await this.visibleWithText(frame, sel)) ? kind : null));
             return shown.find((k) => k !== null) ?? null;
         }));
         return kinds.find((k) => k !== null) ?? null;
@@ -1089,14 +1257,14 @@ class CaptchaKrakenSolver {
     /** The vendor's own done signal: a response token, a painted success state, or a checked box. */
     async isCaptchaSolved(page) {
         try {
-            const checkboxes = selectors_1.WIDGET_PROBES.filter((p) => p.role === kinds_1.FrameRole.CHECKBOX && selectors_1.SELECTORS[p.vendor].checked);
-            const scopes = await hostScopes(page);
+            const checkboxes = this.sel.widgetProbes.filter((p) => p.role === kinds_1.FrameRole.CHECKBOX && this.sel.selectors[p.vendor].checked);
+            const scopes = await hostScopes(page, this.sel.enclave);
             const signals = await Promise.all([
-                ...selectors_1.RESPONSE_SELECTORS.map((s) => this.hasValue(scopes, s)),
-                visibleIn(scopes, selectors_1.ACCEPTED_SELECTORS).then((found) => found.length > 0),
+                ...this.sel.response.map((s) => this.hasValue(scopes, s)),
+                visibleIn(scopes, this.sel.accepted).then((found) => found.length > 0),
                 ...checkboxes.map(async (p) => {
                     const [at] = await visibleIn(scopes, [p.selector]);
-                    return !!at && this.checkedIn(at, selectors_1.SELECTORS[p.vendor].checked);
+                    return !!at && this.checkedIn(at, this.sel.selectors[p.vendor].checked);
                 }),
             ]);
             return signals.some(Boolean);
@@ -1108,15 +1276,15 @@ class CaptchaKrakenSolver {
     /** A next round has painted, as opposed to the answered frame animating closed. */
     async isChallengeFreshlyRendered(page) {
         try {
-            const probes = selectors_1.WIDGET_PROBES.filter((p) => p.role === kinds_1.FrameRole.CHALLENGE && selectors_1.SELECTORS[p.vendor].fresh);
-            const scopes = await hostScopes(page);
+            const probes = this.sel.widgetProbes.filter((p) => p.role === kinds_1.FrameRole.CHALLENGE && this.sel.selectors[p.vendor].fresh);
+            const scopes = await hostScopes(page, this.sel.enclave);
             const fresh = await Promise.all(probes.map(async (p) => {
                 const [at] = await visibleIn(scopes, [p.selector]);
                 const el = at && await handleOf(at);
                 if (!el || (this.lastSubmitFrameHash && (await this.elementFrameHash(el)) === this.lastSubmitFrameHash))
                     return false;
                 const frame = await el.contentFrame();
-                return !!frame && this.visibleWithText(frame, selectors_1.SELECTORS[p.vendor].fresh);
+                return !!frame && this.visibleWithText(frame, this.sel.selectors[p.vendor].fresh);
             }));
             return fresh.some(Boolean);
         }
@@ -1141,7 +1309,7 @@ class CaptchaKrakenSolver {
                     const bg = getComputedStyle(el).backgroundImage;
                     return !!bg && bg !== 'none' && !/url\(["']?["']?\)/.test(bg);
                 });
-            }, { prompt: s.fresh ?? '', images: (s.images ?? []).join(',') }, { timeout: this.config.hcaptchaImagesTimeoutMs ?? 3000 });
+            }, { prompt: s.fresh ?? '', images: (s.images ?? []).join(',') }, { timeout: this.config.boardImagesTimeoutMs ?? this.config.hcaptchaImagesTimeoutMs ?? 3000 });
         }
         catch { /* timed out or detached mid-load; screenshot anyway */ }
     }
@@ -1167,12 +1335,12 @@ class CaptchaKrakenSolver {
             return [];
         }
         const blob = names.join(' ');
-        return selectors_1.VENDORS.filter(([, s]) => s.hosts.some((h) => blob.includes(h))).map(([vendor]) => vendor);
+        return this.sel.vendors.filter(([, s]) => s.hosts.some((h) => blob.includes(h))).map(([vendor]) => vendor);
     }
     /** Vendors showing a frame no selector names. Only asked once detection has found nothing, and a passive frame (an invisible badge, an enclave) is not a widget, so what is left is markup the table no longer matches. */
     async unmatchedVendorFrames(page) {
-        const scopes = await hostScopes(page);
-        const counts = await Promise.all(selectors_1.VENDORS.map(async ([vendor, s]) => {
+        const scopes = await hostScopes(page, this.sel.enclave);
+        const counts = await Promise.all(this.sel.vendors.map(async ([vendor, s]) => {
             if (!s.hosts.length)
                 return null;
             const [frames, passive] = await Promise.all([visibleIn(scopes, s.hosts.map((h) => `iframe[src*="${h}"]`)), visibleIn(scopes, s.passive ?? [])]);
@@ -1197,12 +1365,12 @@ class CaptchaKrakenSolver {
      * count: without them this port failed fast in under a second on every GeeTest/Yidun page and disagreed with Python in Tier 3.
      */
     async hasInteractiveWidgetInDom(page) {
-        return (await Promise.all(selectors_1.WIDGET_PROBES.map((p) => page.locator(p.selector).count().catch(() => 0)))).some((n) => n > 0);
+        return (await Promise.all(this.sel.widgetProbes.map((p) => page.locator(p.selector).count().catch(() => 0)))).some((n) => n > 0);
     }
     /** Open challenges first, then unsolved checkboxes, then the inline vendors; every probe is queried at once. */
     async detectCaptcha(page) {
-        const scopes = await hostScopes(page);
-        const found = await Promise.all(selectors_1.WIDGET_PROBES.map(async (p) => {
+        const scopes = await hostScopes(page, this.sel.enclave);
+        const found = await Promise.all(this.sel.widgetProbes.map(async (p) => {
             const [at] = await visibleIn(scopes, [p.selector]);
             return at && !(await this.alreadyAccepted(scopes, at, p)) ? { ...p, at } : null;
         }));
@@ -1212,7 +1380,7 @@ class CaptchaKrakenSolver {
     }
     /** A checkbox the vendor has already accepted is not a captcha to solve. */
     async alreadyAccepted(scopes, at, { role, vendor }) {
-        const { response, checked } = selectors_1.SELECTORS[vendor];
+        const { response, checked } = this.sel.selectors[vendor];
         if (role !== kinds_1.FrameRole.CHECKBOX)
             return false;
         const [token, box] = await Promise.all([!!response && this.hasValue(scopes, response), !!checked && this.checkedIn(at, checked)]);
@@ -1220,14 +1388,14 @@ class CaptchaKrakenSolver {
     }
     loraName(cliRoot) {
         if (this.loraNameCache === null)
-            this.loraNameCache = (0, model_name_1.resolveLoraName)({ cliRoot, baseUrl: process.env.VLLM_BASE_URL });
+            this.loraNameCache = (0, model_name_1.resolveLoraName)({ cliRoot, baseUrl: this.baseUrl });
         return this.loraNameCache;
     }
-    /** The `--model` argv, or nothing: without VLLM_BASE_URL the CLI can see a credentials file this process cannot. */
+    /** The `--model` argv, or nothing: without a base URL the CLI can see a credentials file this process cannot. */
     modelName(cliRoot) {
         const explicit = this.config.model ?? process.env.CAPTCHA_LORA_NAME;
-        const name = explicit || (process.env.VLLM_BASE_URL ? this.loraName(cliRoot) : undefined);
-        if (name && !this.legacyModelWarned && (0, model_name_1.isHostedEndpoint)(process.env.VLLM_BASE_URL)
+        const name = explicit || (this.baseUrl ? this.loraName(cliRoot) : undefined);
+        if (name && !this.legacyModelWarned && (0, model_name_1.isHostedEndpoint)(this.baseUrl)
             && (0, model_name_1.isLegacyHostedName)(name, cliRoot)) {
             this.legacyModelWarned = true;
             console.error(`[captchakraken] ${model_name_1.LEGACY_MODEL_WARNING.replace('{model}', name)}`);
@@ -1441,17 +1609,31 @@ class CaptchaKrakenSolver {
                 unlink(f);
         }
     }
+    /**
+     * Hold the next ask until every tile has painted: a model asked about a half-loaded board answers it.
+     *
+     * Past the timeout a blank tile that has stopped changing is taken as painted (a pale photo, or a tile whose
+     * image never came), and a board with no grid to read is let through. A tile still painting is waited on until
+     * GRID_LOAD_CAP_FACTOR times that, or the solve's deadline.
+     */
     async waitForGridCellsLoaded(captchaElement, opts) {
         const interval = opts?.intervalMs ?? this.config.gridLoadPollIntervalMs ?? 250;
         const timeout = opts?.timeoutMs ?? this.config.gridLoadTimeoutMs ?? 8000;
-        return (await this.pollFrames(captchaElement, timeout, interval, async (frames) => {
+        const start = Date.now();
+        const verdict = await this.pollFrames(captchaElement, timeout * exports.GRID_LOAD_CAP_FACTOR, interval, async (frames) => {
             if (frames.length < 2)
                 return undefined;
+            const late = Date.now() - start >= timeout;
             const res = await this.runCvTool('grid-cell-states', { a: frames[0], b: frames[1] }, ['grid-cell-states', frames[0], frames[1]]);
-            const ok = res && res.grid !== null && Array.isArray(res.loaded) && res.loaded.length > 0
-                && Array.isArray(res.empty) && res.empty.length === 0 && Array.isArray(res.changing) && res.changing.length === 0;
-            return ok ? true : undefined;
-        })) === true;
+            if (!res || res.grid === null)
+                return late ? false : undefined;
+            if (!Array.isArray(res.loaded) || !res.loaded.length || !Array.isArray(res.changing) || res.changing.length)
+                return undefined;
+            return !Array.isArray(res.empty) || !res.empty.length || late ? true : undefined;
+        });
+        if (verdict !== true)
+            console.log('[captchakraken] [recaptcha-grid] the board never finished loading; asking about it as it stands');
+        return verdict === true;
     }
     async getGridBoxes(captchaElement) {
         const f = tmp('findgrid');
@@ -1480,12 +1662,25 @@ class CaptchaKrakenSolver {
         const [x1, y1, x2, y2] = session.gridBoxes[cell - 1];
         return { x: session.elementBox.x + (x1 + x2) / 2 * session.scaleX, y: session.elementBox.y + (y1 + y2) / 2 * session.scaleY };
     }
+    /** Rest the hand on a tile: reach it once, then drift a few pixels inside it. */
     async hoverCell(page, session, cell) {
         if (!this.human.hovers)
             return;
-        const [x1, y1, x2, y2] = session.gridBoxes[0];
-        const center = this.cellCenterPage(cell, session);
-        await this.performSmoothMove(page, center.x + (Math.random() - 0.5) * (x2 - x1) * session.scaleX * 0.4, center.y + (Math.random() - 0.5) * (y2 - y1) * session.scaleY * 0.4);
+        const [x1, y1, x2, y2] = session.gridBoxes[cell - 1];
+        const left = session.elementBox.x + x1 * session.scaleX, top = session.elementBox.y + y1 * session.scaleY;
+        const right = session.elementBox.x + x2 * session.scaleX, bottom = session.elementBox.y + y2 * session.scaleY;
+        let [x, y] = this.human.at;
+        if (x >= left && x <= right && y >= top && y <= bottom) {
+            x += (0, humanize_js_1.gauss)(exports.IDLE_DRIFT_PX);
+            y += (0, humanize_js_1.gauss)(exports.IDLE_DRIFT_PX);
+        }
+        else {
+            const center = this.cellCenterPage(cell, session);
+            x = center.x + (Math.random() - 0.5) * (right - left) * 0.4;
+            y = center.y + (Math.random() - 0.5) * (bottom - top) * 0.4;
+        }
+        const inset = Math.min(4, (right - left) / 4, (bottom - top) / 4);
+        await this.performSmoothMove(page, Math.min(Math.max(x, left + inset), right - inset), Math.min(Math.max(y, top + inset), bottom - inset));
     }
     /** Per-cell state with the session's cached boxes: a blank mid-refresh frame has no lattice to detect. */
     async gridCellStates(session, frameA, frameB) {
@@ -1502,8 +1697,13 @@ class CaptchaKrakenSolver {
     hoverLoop(page, session, cells) {
         if (!cells.length)
             return undefined;
-        let i = 0;
-        return async () => { await this.hoverCell(page, session, cells[i++ % cells.length]).catch(() => { }); };
+        let due = 0;
+        return async () => {
+            if (Date.now() < due)
+                return;
+            due = Date.now() + exports.IDLE_DRIFT_EVERY_MS[0] + Math.random() * (exports.IDLE_DRIFT_EVERY_MS[1] - exports.IDLE_DRIFT_EVERY_MS[0]);
+            await this.hoverCell(page, session, cells[0]).catch(() => { });
+        };
     }
     /**
      * `chipped`: the photos were kept, press Verify. `loading`: those tiles are being swapped, read the board again.
@@ -1579,6 +1779,12 @@ class CaptchaKrakenSolver {
                 });
                 continue;
             }
+            if (action.action === kinds_1.ActionKind.REFRESH) {
+                // A new board replaces this one: nothing clicked on it is submitted, and the next loop reads the new one.
+                const frame = await captchaElement.contentFrame();
+                const refreshed = !!frame && await this.executeRefresh(page, captchaElement, frame, action, elementBox);
+                return { didInteract: refreshed || performedAction, tokenUsage: allTokenUsage };
+            }
             if (action.action !== kinds_1.ActionKind.CLICK) {
                 console.warn(`[recaptcha-grid] round ${round}: unexpected action '${action.action}'; re-solving.`);
                 continue;
@@ -1592,6 +1798,11 @@ class CaptchaKrakenSolver {
             const clickedThisRound = [];
             for (const bbox of bboxes) {
                 const cell = this.bboxToCell(bbox, session.gridBoxes, session.screenshotW, session.screenshotH);
+                if (cell != null && clickedThisRound.includes(cell)) {
+                    // Two points in one tile: a second press deselects what the first selected.
+                    console.log(`[recaptcha-grid] round ${round}: cell ${cell} is already clicked; not pressing it again.`);
+                    continue;
+                }
                 await this.executeClick(page, captchaElement, { action: kinds_1.ActionKind.CLICK, target_bounding_box: bbox }, elementBox);
                 if (cell != null) {
                     clickedOrder.push(cell);
@@ -1969,7 +2180,7 @@ class CaptchaKrakenSolver {
     /** Slice a burst into keyframes and solve them in one model request. The frame number is the guard. */
     async getAnimatedSolution(framesDir) {
         const { cliRoot, py } = this.resolveCli();
-        const { apiKey = process.env.CAPTCHA_KRAKEN_API_KEY ?? process.env.VLLM_API_KEY } = this.config;
+        const { apiKey } = this;
         const m = this.modelName(cliRoot);
         const args = ['-m', 'captchakraken.cli', 'solve-animated', '--frames-dir', framesDir,
             '--fps', String(this.lastBurstFps ?? this.config.videoBurstFps ?? 10), ...(m ? ['--model', m] : [])];
@@ -1991,7 +2202,7 @@ class CaptchaKrakenSolver {
     }
     /** The routing values and the credential travel in the environment, never in argv. */
     solveEnvironment(cliRoot, apiKey) {
-        return (0, cli_invocation_1.solveEnv)(cliEnv(cliRoot, this.routingEnv()), apiKey, this.resampleLevel);
+        return (0, cli_invocation_1.solveEnv)(cliEnv(cliRoot, this.routingEnv()), apiKey);
     }
     /** Exit 2 is an unsupported puzzle, exit 3 the hosted API's own refusal; both are relayed, not reworded. */
     cliError(error, unsupportedMessage, failMessage) {
@@ -2077,27 +2288,53 @@ class CaptchaKrakenSolver {
         console.log(`[animated] widget never matched the chosen keyframe within ${timeout}ms (closest diff=${best.toFixed(4)}); clicking on the model's coordinates anyway, and recording afresh next round`);
         return false;
     }
+    dropPointerHistory() {
+        for (const screen of this.pointerHistory)
+            unlink(screen);
+        this.pointerHistory = [];
+    }
+    /** A click board with no Verify submits itself at a count, so a plan of any other count leaves its tiles ticked
+     *  and never submits, and the next plan's clicks untick them. */
+    keepPlansOfThisManyClicks(plan) {
+        const clicks = (actions) => actions.length && actions.every((a) => a?.action === kinds_1.ActionKind.CLICK)
+            ? actions.reduce((n, a) => n + (a.target_bounding_boxes?.length ?? 1), 0)
+            : null;
+        const count = clicks(plan);
+        if (count === null)
+            return;
+        this.fallbackPlans = this.fallbackPlans.filter((other) => [null, count].includes(clicks(other)));
+    }
     resetSolveState() {
         this.solutionCache.clear();
+        this.fallbackPlans = [];
+        this.fallbackBoardHash = null;
+        this.fallbackArmed = false;
+        this.dropPointerHistory();
         this.repeatedAnswerSeen = false;
         this.knownAnimated = false;
         this.animatedProbeDone = false;
         this.discardAnimatedPlan();
         this.lastSubmitFrameHash = null;
+        this.submittedOnBoard = false;
         this.keyframeMode = null;
         this.keyframeSteadyScreens = 0;
         this.solveDeadlineAt = 0;
         this.lastAnswerSig = null;
+        this.triedAnswers.clear();
+        this.refreshedBoards.clear();
         this.noProgressRounds = 0;
-        this.resampleLevel = 0;
         this.videoBudgetMs = 0;
         this.videoBudgetGranted = false;
     }
-    /** Keyed on the retry mode too: the missed-tiles answer legitimately overlaps the previous one. */
-    static answerSignature(actions, retryMode) {
+    /**
+     * Keyed on the BOARD and the retry mode, not the answer alone. A paged puzzle's next arrow sits at the
+     * same point on every page, so a signature over the actions alone would call a correct page turn a
+     * repeated answer and stop pressing it.
+     */
+    static answerSignature(actions, retryMode, boardHash) {
         const round3 = (v) => typeof v === 'number' ? Math.round(v * 1000) / 1000 : Array.isArray(v) ? v.map(round3) : v ?? null;
         try {
-            return JSON.stringify([retryMode ?? null, actions.map((a) => [a?.action ?? null, round3(a?.target_bounding_boxes),
+            return JSON.stringify([boardHash, retryMode ?? null, actions.map((a) => [a?.action ?? null, round3(a?.target_bounding_boxes),
                     round3(a?.target_bounding_box), round3(a?.target_coordinates), round3(a?.source_bounding_box), a?.text ?? null])]);
         }
         catch {
@@ -2110,29 +2347,70 @@ class CaptchaKrakenSolver {
         if (plan?.response)
             this.animatedPlan = { burstDir: plan.burstDir, response: null };
     }
-    /** True when this answer already ran and changed nothing: resample, and let the recording path have a go. */
-    noteAnswer(actions, retryMode) {
-        const sig = CaptchaKrakenSolver.answerSignature(actions, retryMode);
-        if (sig !== null && sig === this.lastAnswerSig) {
+    /** True when this answer already ran and changed nothing: re-ask, and let the recording path have a go. */
+    noteAnswer(actions, retryMode, boardHash = null) {
+        const sig = CaptchaKrakenSolver.answerSignature(actions, retryMode, boardHash);
+        // A refresh asks for a different board, so the same refresh twice is two boards, not a refused answer. An
+        // answer that could not be signed could not be read either, and is not looked into.
+        if (sig !== null && actions.some((a) => a?.action === kinds_1.ActionKind.REFRESH)) {
+            this.noProgressRounds = 0;
+            this.lastAnswerSig = null;
+            if (boardHash !== null)
+                this.refreshedBoards.add(boardHash);
+            return false;
+        }
+        // A vendor can deal the same picture again, which clears the plans but not what was pressed on it. A paged
+        // puzzle is exempt: coming back to a page after the others is a new question, because the history differs.
+        const tried = sig !== null && boardHash !== null && !this.pointerHistory.length && this.triedAnswers.has(sig);
+        if (sig !== null && (sig === this.lastAnswerSig || tried)) {
             this.noProgressRounds++;
             console.log(`[no-progress] the model returned the same answer again (${this.noProgressRounds} in a row) — the previous one already ran and changed nothing`);
-            this.resampleLevel++;
-            // A raised sample never reaches the wire while the cached animated answer stands in front of it.
+            // A re-ask never reaches the wire while the cached animated answer stands in front of it.
             this.invalidateAnimatedAnswer();
             this.repeatedAnswerSeen = true;
+            // The plan at the front of the queue ran and changed nothing. A board that said nothing to its server has
+            // refused nothing, though, and another plan is one more press.
+            this.fallbackArmed = !this.boardStayedSilent();
             return true;
         }
         this.noProgressRounds = 0;
         this.lastAnswerSig = sig;
+        if (sig !== null)
+            this.triedAnswers.add(sig);
+        this.exchangesAtAnswer = this.verdicts?.exchanges ?? 0;
         return false;
     }
+    /** Whether the round after a repeat can differ. At temperature 0 the same question gets the same answer, so it
+     *  takes a different question (a retry mode, a film) or one of the model's other plans. */
+    anotherMoveLeft(retryMode) {
+        return !!retryMode || this.knownAnimated
+            || (this.config.videoSolveEnabled !== false && this.repeatedAnswerSeen && !this.animatedProbeDone)
+            || (this.fallbackArmed && this.fallbackPlans.length > 0);
+    }
+    boardStayedSilent() {
+        const log = this.verdicts;
+        return !!log?.listening && log.exchanges === this.exchangesAtAnswer;
+    }
+    /** The board's identity, always from a plain photograph: a filmed frame of an unchanged board differs in bytes. */
+    async boardHash(element, shot, filmed) {
+        if (!filmed)
+            return sha1(shot);
+        const plain = tmp('board');
+        try {
+            await this.shot(element, plain, this.config.elementScreenshotTimeoutMs ?? 8000);
+            return sha1(plain);
+        }
+        finally {
+            fs.rmSync(plain, { force: true });
+        }
+    }
     /** A cache hit costs no inference, and means the answer already ran: the board cycles. */
     async answerFor(cacheKey, ask) {
         const cached = this.solutionCache.get(cacheKey);
         if (cached) {
             console.log('[dedup] this exact picture was already answered and the answer already ran — the challenge is cycling, not still; re-solving it as animated.');
             this.repeatedAnswerSeen = true;
-            return { actions: cached.actions, token_usage: [] };
+            return { ...cached, token_usage: [] };
         }
         const fresh = await ask();
         this.solutionCache.set(cacheKey, fresh);
@@ -2206,14 +2484,20 @@ class CaptchaKrakenSolver {
         catch {
             cacheKey = null;
         }
-        const ask = () => this.askModel(imagePath, puzzleSource, retryMode, textMode);
+        const ask = () => this.askModel(imagePath, puzzleSource, retryMode, textMode).catch((e) => {
+            // No answer is an empty plan, which presses Skip for a new board. An empty text box is a wrong answer.
+            if (!e?.unsupported || textMode)
+                throw e;
+            return { actions: [], token_usage: [] };
+        });
         return cacheKey ? this.answerFor(cacheKey, ask) : ask();
     }
     /** One inference through the CLI. */
     async askModel(imagePath, puzzleSource = kinds_1.Vendor.UNKNOWN, retryMode = null, textMode = false) {
         const { cliRoot, py } = this.resolveCli();
-        const { apiKey = process.env.CAPTCHA_KRAKEN_API_KEY ?? process.env.VLLM_API_KEY } = this.config;
-        const args = (0, cli_invocation_1.buildSolveArgs)({ imagePath, model: this.modelName(cliRoot), puzzleSource, retryMode, textMode, expert: this.config.expert });
+        const { apiKey } = this;
+        const args = (0, cli_invocation_1.buildSolveArgs)({ imagePath, model: this.modelName(cliRoot), puzzleSource, retryMode, textMode,
+            expert: this.config.expert, history: this.pointerHistory });
         console.log(`Executing CaptchaKraken CLI: ${(0, cli_invocation_1.redactCommand)([py, ...args].join(' '), apiKey)}`);
         try {
             const { stdout, stderr } = await execFileAsync(py, args, { cwd: cliRoot, env: this.solveEnvironment(cliRoot, apiKey), maxBuffer: 10 * 1024 * 1024, timeout: this.askTimeoutMs(), killSignal: 'SIGKILL' });
@@ -2222,24 +2506,7 @@ class CaptchaKrakenSolver {
                 console.error('CaptchaKraken CLI stderr:', stderr);
             if (!stdout.trim())
                 throw new Error(`CLI returned empty output. Stderr: ${stderr}`);
-            let actions = [];
-            let tokenUsage = [];
-            for (const line of stdout.trim().split('\n')) {
-                try {
-                    const parsed = JSON.parse(line);
-                    if (parsed.actions !== undefined && parsed.token_usage !== undefined) {
-                        actions = parsed.actions;
-                        tokenUsage = parsed.token_usage;
-                        break;
-                    }
-                    if (Array.isArray(parsed))
-                        actions = parsed;
-                    else if (parsed.action && (parsed.target_bounding_box || parsed.target_coordinates || parsed.action === kinds_1.ActionKind.WAIT))
-                        actions = [parsed];
-                }
-                catch { /* not json or not relevant */ }
-            }
-            return { actions, token_usage: tokenUsage };
+            return (0, cli_invocation_1.parseSolveOutput)(stdout);
         }
         catch (error) {
             throw this.cliError(error, 'Cannot solve this kind of captcha', 'Failed to execute captcha solver CLI');
@@ -2277,7 +2544,7 @@ class CaptchaKrakenSolver {
             }
             // While a speculative burst is filming, the film is the better answer to "the screen changed".
             if (opts.recordingInFlight)
-                return { actions: response.actions, token_usage: mergedUsage };
+                return { ...response, token_usage: mergedUsage };
             let changedDuringInference = 0;
             for (let i = 0; i < maxReSolves; i++) {
                 if (!(await this.captchaFrameChangedSince(captchaElement, currentPath, threshold)))
@@ -2285,7 +2552,7 @@ class CaptchaKrakenSolver {
                 if (++changedDuringInference >= 2 && !this.actedOnBoard && untouched()) {
                     this.repeatedAnswerSeen = true;
                     console.log('[freshness] the frame changed twice during inference with nothing clicked — this board cycles; recording it rather than re-solving a screen that has gone.');
-                    return { actions: response.actions, token_usage: mergedUsage };
+                    return { ...response, token_usage: mergedUsage };
                 }
                 await this.waitForBoardPainted(captchaElement);
                 const fresh = tmp(`freshsolve_${Date.now()}`);
@@ -2301,7 +2568,7 @@ class CaptchaKrakenSolver {
                 response = await runQuery(currentPath);
                 mergedUsage.push(...response.token_usage);
             }
-            return { actions: response.actions, token_usage: mergedUsage };
+            return { ...response, token_usage: mergedUsage };
         }
         finally {
             unlink(liveAnchor);
@@ -2476,6 +2743,17 @@ class CaptchaKrakenSolver {
             return [action.target_coordinates[0] * elementBox.width, action.target_coordinates[1] * elementBox.height];
         return null;
     }
+    /**
+     * The press point of a hold: the model's own point, the middle of its box. A hold can be on a bar narrower than that
+     * box, and a random spot in it lands off the bar, or close enough to its edge that the hand's drift lets go: the
+     * widget then never fills, and the same answer fails the same way.
+     */
+    holdPointFor(action, elementBox) {
+        if (!action.target_bounding_box)
+            return null;
+        const [minX, minY, maxX, maxY] = action.target_bounding_box;
+        return [(minX + maxX) / 2 * elementBox.width, (minY + maxY) / 2 * elementBox.height];
+    }
     /** Park on the target first, so only a mouse-down separates the right screen from the click. */
     async clickWhenFrameMatches(page, element, action, elementBox, awaitKeyframe) {
         const rel = this.clickPointFor(action, elementBox);
@@ -2498,18 +2776,115 @@ class CaptchaKrakenSolver {
         }
         await this.gesture(() => this.human.click(page, [elementBox.x + rel[0], elementBox.y + rel[1]]));
     }
-    async executeDrag(page, _element, action, elementBox) {
+    /**
+     * Press-and-hold until the widget completes: true when it did, false when the cap ran out. Complete is the vendor's
+     * done signal, the widget closing, or its picture having changed (the fill) and then sat still for HOLD_SETTLE_MS.
+     * When the answer names the fill's line, the fill reaching its end is complete too: see `fillReached`. Except on a
+     * widget that `completesItself` (HUMAN's button): it verifies only once it has shown its done state, and letting go
+     * AT full resets it, so only its own signals end the hold.
+     */
+    async executeHold(page, element, action, elementBox, completesItself = false) {
         this.actedOnBoard = true;
-        const center = (bbox) => [elementBox.x + ((bbox[0] + bbox[2]) / 2) * elementBox.width, elementBox.y + ((bbox[1] + bbox[3]) / 2) * elementBox.height];
-        await this.gesture(() => this.human.drag(page, center(action.source_bounding_box), center(action.target_bounding_box)));
+        const rel = this.holdPointFor(action, elementBox);
+        if (!rel)
+            return false;
+        const first = await this.elementFrameHash(element);
+        const seen = { hash: first, since: Date.now(), changed: false };
+        const shots = action.fill_from_bounding_box && action.fill_to_bounding_box && !completesItself ? [tmp('hold_0'), tmp('hold_1')] : null;
+        const looks = [];
+        const done = async () => {
+            if (await this.isCaptchaSolved(page))
+                return true;
+            if (!(await element.boundingBox().catch(() => null)))
+                return true;
+            const n = looks.length;
+            if (shots && (await this.fillReached(element, action, elementBox, shots, looks)))
+                return true;
+            // A look that just shot the widget is its frame too: a second screenshot per look slowed the looks enough for
+            // a fast fill to pass the mark unseen between two.
+            const fresh = shots && looks.length > n ? shots[n === 0 ? 0 : 1] : null;
+            const h = fresh ? sha1(fresh) : await this.elementFrameHash(element);
+            if (h !== seen.hash) {
+                Object.assign(seen, { hash: h, since: Date.now(), changed: seen.changed || h !== first });
+                return false;
+            }
+            return seen.changed && Date.now() - seen.since >= exports.HOLD_SETTLE_MS;
+        };
+        try {
+            return await this.gesture(() => (0, humanize_js_1.hold)(this.human, page, [elementBox.x + rel[0], elementBox.y + rel[1]], done, exports.HOLD_MAX_MS));
+        }
+        finally {
+            for (const f of shots ?? [])
+                unlink(f);
+        }
     }
     /**
-     * The slider piece's box: the first visible match small enough to be a piece. Runs during detection, so it must
-     * not set `actedOnBoard`: marking there disabled `shouldSpeculate` on every slide solve.
+     * One look at a held widget's fill (`fill_tracker.py` behind the CV worker): true once it reaches the answer's `to`,
+     * after waiting out the tracker's `release_in` when the fill arrives between looks.
+     * The first look only shoots the reference, after the press, so the button's own pressed look is not read as fill;
+     * `looks` carries what each later look saw. A look that cannot be shot or read is not a release: the widget's own
+     * signals still end the hold.
      */
-    async measurePieceBox(scope, widgetWidth) {
-        const boxes = await Promise.all((await handles(await visible(scope, selectors_1.PIECE_SELECTORS))).map((h) => h.boundingBox().catch(() => null)));
-        return boxes.find((b) => !!b && b.width >= slide_geometry_1.MIN_PIECE_PX && b.width <= widgetWidth * slide_geometry_1.MAX_PIECE_FRACTION) ?? null;
+    async fillReached(element, action, elementBox, shots, looks) {
+        const [first, current] = shots;
+        const { width: w, height: h } = elementBox;
+        const timeout = this.config.elementScreenshotTimeoutMs ?? 8000;
+        try {
+            if (!looks.length) {
+                const before = performance.now() / 1000;
+                await this.shot(element, first, timeout);
+                looks.push({ t: (before + performance.now() / 1000) / 2, edge: null, k: this.shotScale(first, w) });
+                return false;
+            }
+            // The shot was taken somewhere inside the call; its middle is the best guess, and the release is timed from it.
+            const before = performance.now() / 1000;
+            await this.shot(element, current, timeout);
+            const shotAt = (before + performance.now() / 1000) / 2;
+            const k = looks[0].k;
+            const history = looks.slice(1).map(({ t, edge }) => ({ t, edge }));
+            const at = (b) => [((b[0] + b[2]) / 2) * w * k, ((b[1] + b[3]) / 2) * h * k];
+            const gaps = history.slice(1).map((o, i) => o.t - history[i].t);
+            const request = {
+                first, current, start: at(action.fill_from_bounding_box), end: at(action.fill_to_bounding_box), t: shotAt,
+                history, first_t: looks[0].t, poll_s: gaps.length ? gaps.reduce((x, y) => x + y, 0) / gaps.length : 0.25, tol: SLIDE_TOLERANCE_PX * k,
+            };
+            const res = await this.runCvTool('fill-step', request, ['fill-step', JSON.stringify(request)]);
+            if (!res?.observation)
+                return false;
+            looks.push(res.observation);
+            if (res.release) {
+                console.log(`[hold] the fill reaches its mark ${(res.release_in ?? 0).toFixed(2)}s after a look ${((res.length - res.edge) / k).toFixed(1)}px short of it`);
+                const wait = (shotAt + (res.release_in ?? 0)) * 1000 - performance.now();
+                if (wait > 0)
+                    await new Promise((r) => setTimeout(r, wait));
+            }
+            return Boolean(res.release);
+        }
+        catch {
+            return false;
+        }
+    }
+    /** Deal a new puzzle: the vendor's own control, else the model's point on one. False when there is neither. */
+    async executeRefresh(page, element, scope, action, elementBox) {
+        const control = await this.findControl(scope, this.sel.refresh);
+        if (control) {
+            this.actedOnBoard = true;
+            await this.moveAndClick(page, control);
+        }
+        else if (action.target_bounding_box && elementBox) {
+            await this.executeClick(page, element, { action: kinds_1.ActionKind.CLICK, target_bounding_box: action.target_bounding_box }, elementBox);
+        }
+        else {
+            console.log('The model asked for a new puzzle, and there is no control to deal one; ending the round.');
+            return false;
+        }
+        console.log('Asked for a new puzzle instead of solving this one.');
+        return true;
+    }
+    async executeDrag(page, _element, action, elementBox) {
+        this.actedOnBoard = true;
+        const center = (bbox) => [elementBox.x + ((bbox[0] + bbox[2]) / 2) * elementBox.width, elementBox.y + ((bbox[1] + bbox[3]) / 2) * elementBox.height];
+        await this.gesture(() => this.human.drag(page, center(action.source_bounding_box), center(action.target_bounding_box)));
     }
     async findControl(scope, selectors) {
         const [first] = await visible(scope, selectors);
@@ -2521,10 +2896,10 @@ class CaptchaKrakenSolver {
      * BotDetect, whose 280x50 `.BDC_CaptchaDiv` holds only the image while `#captchaCode` sits in a sibling div.
      */
     async answerBox(scope, at) {
-        const inside = await this.findControl(scope, selectors_1.TEXT_INPUT_SELECTORS);
+        const inside = await this.findControl(scope, this.sel.textInput);
         if (inside !== null || !at)
             return inside;
-        const around = await Promise.all(['ancestor::fieldset[1]', 'ancestor::form[1]'].map((axis) => this.findControl(at.locator(`xpath=${axis}`), selectors_1.TEXT_INPUT_VENDOR_SELECTORS)));
+        const around = await Promise.all(['ancestor::fieldset[1]', 'ancestor::form[1]'].map((axis) => this.findControl(at.locator(`xpath=${axis}`), this.sel.textInputVendor)));
         return around.find((h) => h !== null) ?? null;
     }
     async executeType(page, scope, action, at) {
@@ -2543,101 +2918,86 @@ class CaptchaKrakenSolver {
         console.log(`Typed ${text.length} character(s) into the captcha field.`);
         return true;
     }
-    async trackPiece(element, beforePath, afterPath, exclude, travel = 0) {
-        try {
-            await this.shot(element, afterPath, this.config.elementScreenshotTimeoutMs ?? 8000);
-            const res = await this.runCvTool('track-piece', { before: beforePath, after: afterPath, exclude, travel }, ['track-piece', beforePath, afterPath, JSON.stringify(exclude), String(travel)]);
-            return res && res.bbox ? { bbox: res.bbox, piece: res.piece ?? null } : null;
-        }
-        catch (e) {
-            console.warn('track-piece failed:', e);
+    /** One look of the slide loop (`slide_tracker.py` behind the CV worker); null when the part cannot be followed. */
+    async slideStep(request) {
+        const res = await this.runCvTool('slide-step', request, ['slide-step', JSON.stringify(request)]);
+        // A reply's `error` is the distance still to go; a failure is `{error: why}` with no position.
+        if (!res?.pos) {
+            console.warn(`[slide] ${res?.error ?? 'the tracker gave no answer'}; released where the handle is`);
             return null;
         }
+        return res;
     }
     shotScale(shot, cssWidth) {
         const dims = readPngDimensions(shot);
         return dims && cssWidth > 0 ? dims.width / cssWidth : 1;
     }
-    /** Aim the handle at the slot once, then look and correct until the piece is home. Release is the submit. */
+    /**
+     * Press the handle, nudge it to see what it moves, then steer that part's point onto its target. Release is the submit.
+     * A generation-3 answer names all three points, so nothing is read from the page but pixels. A generation-2 answer
+     * names only the target: its handle comes from the selector table and the part it moves is whatever moved most.
+     * That path goes when the last generation-2 model does.
+     */
     async executeSlide(page, element, scope, action, elementBox) {
         this.actedOnBoard = true;
-        const tb = action.target_bounding_box;
-        const targetX = ((tb[0] + tb[2]) / 2) * elementBox.width;
-        const handle = await this.findControl(scope, selectors_1.SLIDER_HANDLE_SELECTORS);
-        if (!handle) {
-            const piece = await this.findControl(scope, selectors_1.PIECE_SELECTORS);
-            const box = piece ? await piece.boundingBox() : null;
+        const { width: w, height: h } = elementBox;
+        const at = (b) => [((b[0] + b[2]) / 2) * w, ((b[1] + b[3]) / 2) * h];
+        const goal = at(action.target_bounding_box);
+        let handle;
+        let seed;
+        if (action.action === kinds_1.ActionKind.SLIDE) {
+            handle = at(action.handle_bounding_box);
+            seed = at(action.source_bounding_box);
+        }
+        else {
+            const slider = await this.findControl(scope, this.sel.sliderHandle);
+            const piece = slider ? null : await this.findControl(scope, this.sel.piece);
+            const box = await (slider ?? piece)?.boundingBox().catch(() => null);
             if (!box) {
                 console.warn('Slide action, but the widget has neither a slider nor a draggable piece.');
                 return false;
             }
-            const targetY = ((tb[1] + tb[3]) / 2) * elementBox.height;
-            console.log('No slider track; dragging the piece to the slot directly.');
-            await this.gesture(() => this.human.drag(page, [box.x + box.width / 2, box.y + box.height / 2], [elementBox.x + targetX, elementBox.y + targetY]));
-            return true;
-        }
-        const hbox = await handle.boundingBox();
-        if (!hbox)
-            return false;
-        const startX = hbox.x + hbox.width / 2;
-        const holdY = hbox.y + hbox.height / 2;
-        // Mask from the handle's band to the widget's bottom, not the handle's bottom: the filled track moves too, and
-        // masked to the band alone the loop once derived a 135.4px piece on Tencent's track against 42.0px masked to the bottom.
-        const pad = Math.max(4, hbox.height * 0.35);
-        const band = [0, hbox.y - elementBox.y - pad, elementBox.width, elementBox.height];
-        const shots = [tmp('slide_0'), tmp('slide_1')];
+            handle = [box.x + box.width / 2 - elementBox.x, box.y + box.height / 2 - elementBox.y];
+            // A piece with no track is the handle itself, and what it moves is it.
+            seed = piece ? handle : null;
+        }
+        const press = [elementBox.x + handle[0], elementBox.y + handle[1]];
+        const probe = goal[0] >= (seed ?? handle)[0] ? SLIDE_PROBE_PX : -SLIDE_PROBE_PX;
+        const timeout = this.config.elementScreenshotTimeoutMs ?? 8000;
+        const [first, probed, current] = [tmp('slide_0'), tmp('slide_1'), tmp('slide_2')];
         try {
-            await this.move(page, handle, { paddingPercentage: 30 });
+            await this.performSmoothMove(page, ...press);
             await this.human.press(page);
             await this.human.pause(kinds_1.PauseKind.GRAB);
-            await this.shot(element, shots[0], this.config.elementScreenshotTimeoutMs ?? 8000);
-            const scale = this.shotScale(shots[0], elementBox.width);
-            const exclude = band.map((v) => v * scale);
-            const liveCentre = async () => {
-                const b = await this.measurePieceBox(scope, elementBox.width);
-                return b ? b.x + b.width / 2 - elementBox.x : null;
+            await this.shot(element, first, timeout);
+            const k = this.shotScale(first, w);
+            await this.performSmoothMove(page, press[0] + probe, press[1]);
+            await this.human.pause(kinds_1.PauseKind.PROBE);
+            await this.shot(element, probed, timeout);
+            const ask = {
+                first, probe: probed, probe_s: probe * k, goal: [goal[0] * k, goal[1] * k], seed: seed && [seed[0] * k, seed[1] * k],
+                handle: [handle[0] * k, handle[1] * k], bounds: [-handle[0] * k, (w - handle[0]) * k], tol: SLIDE_TOLERANCE_PX * k,
             };
-            const restCentre = (await liveCentre()) ?? (startX - elementBox.x);
-            let offset = targetX - restCentre;
-            await this.performSmoothMove(page, startX + offset, holdY);
-            const widths = [];
-            let lastBox = null;
-            let lastPiece = null;
-            let lastCentre = null;
-            let ratio = 1;
-            let i = 0;
-            for (; i < SLIDE_MAX_CORRECTIONS; i++) {
-                await this.human.pause(kinds_1.PauseKind.PROBE);
-                const seen = await this.trackPiece(element, shots[0], shots[1], exclude, offset * ratio * scale);
-                if (seen) {
-                    widths.push([offset, (seen.bbox[2] - seen.bbox[0]) / scale]);
-                    lastBox = seen.bbox;
-                    lastPiece = seen.piece;
-                }
-                const solved = (0, slide_geometry_1.solveSlideGeometry)(widths, elementBox.width);
-                ratio = solved.ratio;
-                const live = await liveCentre();
-                const pieceCentre = live !== null ? live
-                    : lastPiece !== null ? lastPiece.centre / scale
-                        : (lastBox && solved.pieceWidth !== null ? lastBox[2] / scale - solved.pieceWidth / 2 : null);
-                if (pieceCentre === null)
-                    continue;
-                lastCentre = pieceCentre;
-                const error = targetX - pieceCentre;
-                console.log(`[slide] ${live !== null ? 'the piece element' : lastPiece !== null ? 'the pixel diff' : "the diff's union"} puts it at ${Math.round(pieceCentre)}px, want ${Math.round(targetX)}px, ratio ${ratio.toFixed(2)}`);
-                if (Math.abs(error) <= SLIDE_TOLERANCE_PX)
+            let look = probed;
+            let s = probe * k;
+            const history = [];
+            for (let moves = 0;; moves++) {
+                const reply = await this.slideStep({ ...ask, current: look, s, history });
+                if (!reply)
                     break;
-                offset += error / ratio;
-                await this.performSmoothMove(page, startX + offset, holdY);
-            }
-            if (lastCentre === null) {
-                console.warn('Slider: the piece never resolved on screen; released where the opening sweep put it.');
-            }
-            else if (i >= SLIDE_MAX_CORRECTIONS) {
-                const settled = await liveCentre();
-                const left = targetX - (settled !== null ? settled : lastCentre);
-                if (Math.abs(left) > SLIDE_TOLERANCE_PX)
-                    console.warn(`[slide] out of corrections with ${left >= 0 ? '+' : ''}${left.toFixed(1)}px still to go — releasing off-target`);
+                if (look !== probed)
+                    history.push(reply.observation);
+                if (reply.done || moves >= SLIDE_MAX_CORRECTIONS) {
+                    if (reply.error > ask.tol)
+                        console.warn(`[slide] releasing ${(reply.error / k).toFixed(1)}px off target`);
+                    break;
+                }
+                s = reply.next;
+                const [dx, dy] = Array.isArray(s) ? s : [s, 0];
+                await this.performSmoothMove(page, press[0] + dx / k, press[1] + dy / k);
+                await this.human.pause(kinds_1.PauseKind.PROBE);
+                await this.shot(element, current, timeout);
+                look = current;
             }
             await this.human.pause(kinds_1.PauseKind.SETTLE);
         }
@@ -2646,9 +3006,8 @@ class CaptchaKrakenSolver {
                 await this.human.release(page);
             }
             catch { /* the page may have navigated */ }
-            this.lastInputAt = Date.now();
-            for (const s of shots)
-                unlink(s);
+            for (const f of [first, probed, current])
+                unlink(f);
         }
         return true;
     }