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| author | Igor Soarez <igor@soarez.org> | 2026-07-29 10:41:47 +0100 |
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| committer | Igor Soarez <igor@soarez.org> | 2026-10-14 12:19:26 +0100 |
| commit | cdcfb137a83d178d0d22df0eb97aae768e8abf9c (patch) | |
| tree | 13092f7c9ef01b64f5ef074d60a9348c26cdc3a1 /FORK.md | |
| parent | 08e558753e8ef9b2aa96114981a5a1dd37357bad (diff) | |
docs: /browser-target, and why switching restarts the daemon
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@@ -50,12 +50,33 @@ Nothing else to configure: castle is the built-in default ## Choosing a browser +From inside a pi session: + +``` +/browser-target show the current target +/browser-target local this machine's own browser +/browser-target default back to castle +/browser-target host:port somewhere else +``` + +The choice persists in `~/.pi/agent/browser-target.json` and applies to every +session on the machine, because the browser daemon is machine-wide. Switching +replaces that daemon process — it resolves its target once at startup and holds +the WebSocket to the old browser, so nothing short of a restart actually moves +you. + +Or set it per-process: + | `BU_CDP_HTTP` | behaviour | |---|---| -| unset | castle, falling back to this machine's browser if unreachable | +| unset | the stored choice, else castle, falling back to this machine's browser if unreachable | | `host:port` | that endpoint; **unreachable is a hard error** | | `local` (also `localhost`, `off`, `none`, `0`, `no`) | upstream behaviour — this machine's own browser | +Precedence is `BU_CDP_HTTP` > `/browser-target` > built-in default, so a one-off +`BU_CDP_HTTP=… pi` is never silently overridden by a choice made days ago. When +the variable is set, `/browser-target` says so instead of pretending to obey. + The asymmetry is deliberate. An explicit endpoint is an instruction, so failing to reach it must not quietly automate a different browser — that would drive your own signed-in Chrome instead of the shared one. The default is only a |
