[juliusmarminge]

Problem

The desktop Browser panel stops at ERR_CERT_AUTHORITY_INVALID when opening a reachable local HTTPS service with an untrusted certificate. The error page offers Reload but no way to inspect and approve the certificate.

Change

Add an explicit native certificate warning for desktop browser profiles. Trust and Remember applies only to the selected profile and exact TLS endpoint, certificate fingerprint, and certificate error. Regular profiles persist approvals; incognito keeps them in memory. Clearing cookies revokes approvals, including cookie clearing through native server tabs; clearing cache preserves them. Other Electron sessions and non-overridable failures retain Electron’s handling.

Scope and approval

Fixes #17965

GitCafe: https://git.cafe/pingdotgg/t3code/issues/17965

Triaged bug via the automated issue flow. Reproduced on current main in the real Linux desktop app with a local self-signed HTTPS fixture. This change fixes that browser failure without adding a setting or a new capability outside the Browser panel.

Verification

• Red first: two focused tests failed on main because preview sessions had no certificate-error listener; seven existing tests passed.
• Desktop preview and IPC tests: 217 passed again after merging current main (head 2fa90891419e0f2c7ef6ced271e19f6dea76f8d3), including persistence/incognito, cancellation, save failure, revocation, and native relay cookie clearing.
• Desktop typecheck and targeted lint passed. Both independent second-round code reviews found no blockers. The final proof audit accepted the replacement save-error capture; the core five recordings and exact-head rebuild passed the preceding audit.
• Linux Electron/Xvfb runtime: Cancel/Trust, reload/cache/restart, direct cookie clearing, identified native relay clearing, and incognito restart captured below. Windows and macOS native dialogs were not verified on this Linux VM.

Evidence

Real Linux Electron before/after on the supplied base and exact head; whole-desktop capture includes native dialogs.

• G1: Cancel/Trust
• G2: reload/cache/restart
• G3: direct cookie revoke/restart
• G4: identified server-tab relay revoke
• G5: Incognito restart

Before:

After:

Coverage and unverified rows · Steps/timestamps · 21 focused tests passed · Real relay transcript

Windows/macOS native runtime, concurrency, and additional source-only guards remain unverified. Settings direct-clear proof also invokes server cleanup. Native light/dark warnings and real save-error still are linked from the evidence index.

Complete evidence index

T2 replacement: clean native save-error still · recorded Trust / save-error / retry / Cancel · capture verification and drivers. Old T2 still/movie rejected for repaint ghost. Replacement whole-desktop samples at500ms gaps are pixel-identical, sidebar clean. G1–G5 unchanged; source-only guards, concurrency and Windows/macOS remain unverified.

Captures compare 6e79211743 and 0b3335b0e4; the final merge of main changes no desktop files (git diff 0b3335b0e4 HEAD -- apps/desktop is empty).

Models: Claude Opus 5.5 through the Claude Agent harness (implementation); GPT-6.1 Sol through the Codex harness (issue lead, review, and proof).

[macroscopeapp]

Approvability

Verdict: Approved at 98819d9

Macroscope's review found this PR approvable — Adds explicit, profile-scoped approval of untrusted HTTPS certificates in the desktop browser panel. Trust remains opt-in, is bound to the exact origin and certificate, and is revoked when cookies are cleared.

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Walkthrough

Preview sessions can prompt users to trust eligible HTTPS and WSS certificate errors. Approvals are scoped to the origin, certificate fingerprint, and error. Persistent profiles store approvals; incognito sessions do not retain them across restarts. Cookie clearing revokes approvals, including when initiated through the browser host.

Changes: Preview certificate trust

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Certificate approval and persistence apps/desktop/src/preview/BrowserSession.ts, apps/desktop/src/preview/BrowserSession.test.ts	BrowserSession loads and saves approvals for eligible certificate errors. Matching saved approvals are accepted; unapproved eligible main-frame errors prompt the user. Tests cover approval scope, WebSocket requests, persistence, incognito sessions, pending prompts, and failed saves.
Cookie-clear approval revocation apps/desktop/src/preview/BrowserSession.ts, apps/desktop/src/preview/DesktopBrowserHost.ts, apps/desktop/src/preview/DesktopBrowserHost.test.ts, apps/desktop/src/preview/Manager.ts, apps/desktop/src/preview/Manager.test.ts, apps/desktop/src/preview/BrowserImport/BrowserImport.test.ts	Cookie clearing revokes approvals, even if storage clearing fails. DesktopBrowserHost awaits the callback after forwarding a cookie-clear command, and Manager connects that callback to BrowserSession. Tests cover callback ordering and revocation behavior.

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes

Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: Medium

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant ElectronApp
  participant BrowserSession
  participant User
  participant FileSystem
  ElectronApp->>BrowserSession: certificate-error event
  BrowserSession->>ElectronApp: show trust prompt
  ElectronApp->>User: present Trust option
  User->>ElectronApp: select Trust
  BrowserSession->>FileSystem: save certificate approval

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Possibly related issues

• pingdotgg/t3code#18555 — This issue also concerns an untrusted certificate blocking a desktop browser page load; its agent-facing error details are not addressed by this change.

Suggested reviewers: maria-rcks, shivamhwp, only21mil

Merge Risk: Minimal · up to 98819

The change adds a certificate approval flow for the desktop Browser panel, scoped per profile, origin, and certificate. Approvals are revoked when cookies are cleared. No actionable merge-blocking risk remains. Windows and macOS native dialogs were not runtime-verified, but that is ordinary validation uncertainty.

Pre-merge checks: 4

Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check		The title clearly and concisely describes the primary change: enabling approval of local HTTPS certificates in the desktop browser panel.
Description check		The description includes the required Problem, Change, Scope and approval, and Verification sections. It explains the behavior, links the related issue, documents focused tests and runtime verificatio…
Linked Issues check		Directly linked issue #17965 requires a native certificate prompt with Cancel and Trust and Remember, scoped to the selected profile, exact origin and port, certificate fingerprint, and error. The rev…
Out of Scope Changes check		All changed desktop source and test files in apps/desktop/src/preview support the certificate approval lifecycle in #17965. BrowserSession.ts adds approval storage, prompt handling, save and revocatio…

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Explanation

The description includes the required Problem, Change, Scope and approval, and Verification sections. It explains the behavior, links the related issue, documents focused tests and runtime verification, and identifies unverified platforms and scenarios.

Full details: Linked Issues check

Explanation

Directly linked issue #17965 requires a native certificate prompt with Cancel and Trust and Remember, scoped to the selected profile, exact origin and port, certificate fingerprint, and error. The reviewed head implements these requirements in apps/desktop/src/preview/BrowserSession.ts. The certificate-error listener applies only to sessions in certificateTrust, which only BrowserSession creates. It handles the three overridable errors (ERR_CERT_AUTHORITY_INVALID, ERR_CERT_COMMON_NAME_INVALID, ERR_CERT_DATE_INVALID) and keys approvals by https/wss host, fingerprint, and error. Other errors and non-preview sessions keep Electron's default denial. Subresource requests are denied unless the request is a main-frame request. Regular profiles load and save approvals to a profile-side JSON file. Incognito approvals stay in memory. Trust is saved before it becomes active, and save failures keep the page blocked. Clearing cookies revokes approvals. In revokeCertificates, the save runs before closeAllConnections, so a connection-close failure does not block removal of saved approvals. Cache clearing does not revoke approvals. The native server-tab cookie-clear path calls cookiesCleared through DesktopBrowserHost and Manager, which the issue describes as a required path. Prompt cancellation on destroy or main-frame navigation is implemented through AbortController, and the revocation counter stops stale answers from restoring trust. Test coverage for these behaviors is described in BrowserSession.test.ts and DesktopBrowserHost.test.ts. Limits: the incremental diff from previous head 2fa9089 could not be read because the changed blobs were missing. The clearCookies body was truncated in the read, so its behavior rests on the change summary and the visible revokeCertificates code. Non-coding evidence (manual Linux and Windows runs) is not used for this verdict. Objective-only comment requests about another tab sharing a prompt after navigation are not issue #17965 requirements, and the current code cancels that shared prompt when the originating tab navigates.

Full details: Out of Scope Changes check

Explanation

All changed desktop source and test files in apps/desktop/src/preview support the certificate approval lifecycle in #17965. BrowserSession.ts adds approval storage, prompt handling, save and revocation logic, and the cookiesCleared operation. DesktopBrowserHost.ts and Manager.ts add the native server-tab cookie-clear relay that the issue requires. BrowserImport.test.ts and Manager.test.ts add fixture methods for the new cookiesCleared operation. DesktopBrowserHost.test.ts covers the relay. New imports (FileSystem, Path, Semaphore, DateTime, Result, HostProcess, ElectronApp) serve persistence, locking, dates in the prompt, the Windows owner-window rule, and the event listener. No unrelated capability or setting is introduced, and the changes stay within the Browser panel. The incremental diff since 2fa9089 was unavailable, so this verdict uses the whole-PR diff against merge base 3a8c250 and the change summary.

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apps/desktop/src/preview/BrowserSession.ts: 1

352-394: Trivial · Maintainability & Code Quality · Quick win

Use named Effect.fn for the reusable approval-persistence helpers.

loadCertificateTrust, writeApprovalsFile, rememberCertificate, and saveCertificateApprovals are reusable service operations that do file I/O. Each one is an arrow function that returns an Effect program, and writeApprovalsFile wraps Effect.gen directly. Because of this, these file reads and writes have no spans. A failed approval save then shows up only as a warning log, not as a traced operation. Convert each helper to Effect.fn("BrowserSession.<operation>"). Pass withPermits(1) as a combinator after the generator body.

♻️ Proposed refactor (excerpt)

-  const writeApprovalsFile = (file: string, approvals: ReadonlyMap<string, CertificateApproval>) =>
-    approvals.size === 0
-      ? fileSystem.remove(file, { force: true })
-      : Effect.gen(function* () {
-          yield* fileSystem.makeDirectory(path.dirname(file), { recursive: true });
-          yield* fileSystem.writeFileString(
-            file,
-            yield* encodeCertificateApprovals([...approvals.values()]),
-          );
-        });
+  const writeApprovalsFile = Effect.fn("BrowserSession.writeApprovalsFile")(function* (
+    file: string,
+    approvals: ReadonlyMap<string, CertificateApproval>,
+  ) {
+    if (approvals.size === 0) return yield* fileSystem.remove(file, { force: true });
+    yield* fileSystem.makeDirectory(path.dirname(file), { recursive: true });
+    yield* fileSystem.writeFileString(
+      file,
+      yield* encodeCertificateApprovals([...approvals.values()]),
+    );
+  });

As per coding guidelines: "Reusable functions use Effect.fn("Service.operation"), not an arrow or declaration returning Effect.gen."

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Convert the reusable file-I/O operations loadCertificateTrust,
writeApprovalsFile, rememberCertificate, and saveCertificateApprovals to named
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- Around line 352-394: Convert the reusable file-I/O operations
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[mathd]

I compared head 2fa9089 with my implementation linked in #17965. Two behavior gaps appear in apps/desktop/src/preview/BrowserSession.ts:

1. Revocation stops before all cleanup operations run.

clearCookies calls revokeCertificates only after storage clearing succeeds. Inside revokeCertificates, a failed closeAllConnections() prevents saveCertificateApprovals() from running. Saved approvals can therefore remain on disk and return after restart.

Please attempt storage clearing, saved-approval removal, and connection closure independently, then report failures.

Regression tests should inject a storage-clear failure and a connection-close failure separately. In both cases, verify that saved approvals are removed and are absent after service recreation.

2. A stale prompt can still save an approval.

confirmCertificate does not remove waiting callbacks when a tab is destroyed or starts another main-frame navigation.

Regression tests should close or navigate the tab before answering the prompt, then return Trust. Verify that its callback receives false exactly once and no approval is saved. If another tab still shares the prompt, that tab should remain eligible for approval.

My branch has implementations and focused tests for these cases.

[juliusmarminge]

Evidence

Evidence: real Linux Electron desktop, light theme, 1440×900, separate fresh state, same synthetic self-signed HTTPS service. Open Browser in Default, visit the endpoint, cancel the warning where offered, reload, then Trust and Remember where offered.

Before	After
3a8c250cb0	98819d96a9
Before recording	After recording

Observed on head: Cancel blocks; regular approval survives full restart and clearing cache; clearing cookies revokes it; Incognito prompts independently and forgets approval after full restart. Another port with the same certificate and a replacement fingerprint at the original endpoint both require new approval. Base remains blocked.

Exact interaction driver, desktop launcher, synthetic HTTPS service, complete evidence index, download all evidence.

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Not shown:

• Certificate-error-specific isolation and other error categories were not exercised: the synthetic fixture produced ERR_CERT_AUTHORITY_INVALID, and the error was not changed while retaining the exact endpoint and fingerprint.
• Isolation between two named regular profiles was not exercised; Default versus Incognito isolation was observed.
• Concurrent or abandoned prompts and subresource/WSS behavior were not exercised by this manual reproduction.
• macOS, Windows, and real UniFi hardware were not exercised; evidence uses the real Linux desktop app and a reachable synthetic HTTPS controller.