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fix(server): hub screenshot failures point agents at the agent-device screenshot - #31391
When the device hub's screenshot route rejects a request, device_screenshot fails with "The device hub could not complete the request. Call device_list to check the device state, and device_open if it needs to be reopened." The injected device instructions tell agents to follow a failed tool's advice once and then stop. So after one device_list and a second failed device_screenshot, agents gave up, even though the agent-device command that device_open returned can still take the screenshot (screenshot <path> after open <app>). The hub and the CLI capture independently. Reproduced on main in the mcp-tool-use eval: with a hub rejection and a working launcher, every sample retried the hub, then stopped without a screenshot (0/3).
Change
The hub_rejected advice on device_screenshot keeps its sentence and adds one: "You can also take the screenshot with the agent-device command device_open returned (screenshot , after open ) and read the file." The existing "follow its advice once" rule now reaches the supported CLI capture, and "if it still fails, stop" still applies when both routes fail. The advice is a tool result, so every provider gets the same text. Other screenshot errors (request_failed, no open device, access off) and the injected instructions are unchanged.
apps/server/src/mcp/McpHttpServer.test.ts, "preserves actionable screenshot failure text": the hub_rejected row now pins the full advice. It fails against main's McpHttpServer.ts and passes with the fix:
- "text": "Device screenshot failed: The device hub could not complete the request. Call device_list to check the device state, and device_open if it needs to be reopened. You can also take the screenshot with the agent-device command device_open returned (screenshot <path>, after open <app>) and read the file.",
+ "text": "Device screenshot failed: The device hub could not complete the request. Call device_list to check the device state, and device_open if it needs to be reopened.",
McpHttpServer.test.ts and McpDeviceToolkit.test.ts with the fix: 43 passed. vp run check:changed: format, lint, knip, typecheck and tests (503) pass.
New eval cases in evals/mcp-tool-use/cases/device-manager.ndjson, 3 samples each on one Codex model from the eval's model table, with the shell model the eval README recommends, main's text → this branch:
Case
What it checks
main
fix
HUBCAP-01
Hub rejects, launcher works: the agent opens the app, captures through the launcher, and names the PNG
0/3
3/3
HUBCAP-02
Hub and launcher both fail: the agent reports both and stops within two failed device actions
0/3
3/3
On main, every HUBCAP-01 sample retried device_screenshot after device_list and stopped. With the fix, every sample ran the launcher's screenshot after the first rejection. The full device-manager suite on this branch with the same models passes every case (50 of 51 samples; NAT-01 is Claude-only; one ORC-01 sample failed on delegated-brief routing, which this change does not touch).
The advised sequence on a real device: agent-device 0.21.31 on a pooled Android emulator (Pixel 9), open com.android.settings then screenshot <path>, wrote a readable 1080×2424 PNG.
Not checked: a real hub rejection on a macOS host with an iOS simulator (the reporter's setup). cannot-verify macos. Claude models were not run in the eval.
AI-assisted; verified with the tests and tools listed above.
…t-device screenshot (#31359)
HUBCAP-01 mocks device_screenshot to hub_rejected while the returned launcher works; it passes only when the agent opens com.acme.app with the launcher, takes an attributable screenshot and names the PNG. HUBCAP-02 guards the same world with the launcher's screenshot failing too: report both failures and stop within two failed attempts.
Macroscope's review found this PR approvable — Hub screenshot failures now suggest the existing session-bound agent-device screenshot workflow. This is a limited recovery-message change, with no automatic device actions or access-control changes.
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Hub-rejected device screenshot errors now include instructions for using the returned agent-device command to capture and read a screenshot. Device-manager evaluation cases and documentation cover successful and failed fallback capture.
Two cases cover successful fallback capture and failure of both screenshot paths. The README table documents nine device-manager cases, including the two new cases, and scopes its cost note to the first 16 cases. The test expects 18 unique device-case IDs.
pingdotgg/t3code#24033: The updated hub-rejected error guidance adds an actionable screenshot fallback.
Possibly related PRs
pingdotgg/t3code#24040: This PR extends the hub_rejected screenshot error guidance introduced there.
pingdotgg/t3code#25661: This PR relies on the session-bound agent-device command returned by device_open.
Suggested reviewers:maria-rcks, gabrielelpidio
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Fallback guidance and its evaluation have narrow gaps that warrant follow-up before relying on the recovery path.
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Issue #31359 is partly addressed: McpHttpServer.ts adds agent-device capture advice only for hub_rejected, and the new test and HUBCAP eval cases cover successful fallback and both capture routes …
Update T3's injected instruction source for Codex and other providers with the narrow exception required by #31359. Limit it to a hub screenshot failure after the prescribed retry when device_open succeeded and the owned device remains av…
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Issue #31359 is partly addressed: McpHttpServer.ts adds agent-device capture advice only for hub_rejected, and the new test and HUBCAP eval cases cover successful fallback and both capture routes failing. The issue requires a narrow exception in T3's injected instructions before the stop rule. The PR changes only tool-result advice; the description says injected instructions are unchanged. The advice also offers fallback immediately and does not state the issue's conditions that device_open succeeded and the owned device remains available, or require image inspection and reporting the hub failure after success. The added tests do not cover failed or foreign device attachment; existing coverage for that case is not established by the reviewed changes.
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Update T3's injected instruction source for Codex and other providers with the narrow exception required by #31359. Limit it to a hub screenshot failure after the prescribed retry when device_open succeeded and the owned device remains available. Require the exact bound agent-device command and supported open/screenshot sequence; require image inspection and reporting the hub failure after successful capture; require stopping and reporting both errors after failed fallback. Preserve ownership and attachment safeguards. Add or identify automated coverage for failed and foreign attachment.
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Review comments at @evals/mcp-tool-use/cases/device-manager.ndjson:
- Line 17: Update the HUBCAP-01 final-answer expectations in finalTextMust to
require reporting the original device_screenshot hub_rejected failure, even when
the launcher captures successfully; preserve the existing .png path requirement.
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- Line 20: Update the cost note in the README to state that HUBCAP-01 and
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Add the narrow hub-capture exception to the injected device instruction source,
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device_screenshot fails, device_open succeeded, and the owned device remains
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ownership bypass, and failed attachment. Add automated coverage for failed or
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Minor · Functional Correctness · Quick win
Require successful fallback to report the hub failure.
The issue contract requires the final response to report the original hub_rejected failure even when the returned launcher captures successfully. HUBCAP-01 only requires a .png path, so an agent can pass while hiding the failed MCP capture. Add a final-answer assertion for the hub or device_screenshot failure.
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Review comment at @evals/mcp-tool-use/cases/device-manager.ndjson at line 17:
Update the HUBCAP-01 final-answer expectations in finalTextMust to require
reporting the original device_screenshot hub_rejected failure, even when the
launcher captures successfully; preserve the existing .png path requirement.
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- Flags: `--case <ids>`, `--cases <file.ndjson>`, `--samples <n>` (default 2, and a 3rd when the first 2 disagree), `--concurrency <n>` (samples in flight, default 8), `--max-steps <n>`, `--effort <level>`, `--dry-run` (prints request bodies, no model calls), and `--context` (prints the size of T3's text and schemas, no key needed).
- `--baseline <results.jsonl> --stop-on-regression` stops as soon as a case that passed every baseline sample fails. Use it to test one copy change against a baseline run.
- Cost: the existing non-device suite costs about $9 on Sonnet and $17 on Opus. The 16 device cases at 3 samples each cost about $5.70–5.90 on Opus and $2.90–3.40 on Sonnet (main's text–#25661), including the Haiku shell simulator; dry runs cost $0. Results record token costs for the agent and shell simulator. Codex proxy charges are outside that total; only its shell simulator is priced here, about $0.60–0.70 for the device cases.
- Cost: the existing non-device suite costs about $9 on Sonnet and $17 on Opus. The first 16 device cases at 3 samples each cost about $5.70–5.90 on Opus and $2.90–3.40 on Sonnet (main's text–#25661), including the Haiku shell simulator; dry runs cost $0. Results record token costs for the agent and shell simulator. Codex proxy charges are outside that total; only its shell simulator is priced here, about $0.60–0.70 for the device cases.
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Minor · Maintainability & Code Quality · Quick win
Supported by static analysis
Script executed:
sed -n '1,75p' evals/mcp-tool-use/README.md
sed -n '725,750p' evals/mcp-tool-use/run.test.ts
rg -n 'HUBCAP|device cases|first 16|18' evals/mcp-tool-use/README.md evals/mcp-tool-use/run.test.ts evals/mcp-tool-use/cases/device-manager.ndjson
Repository: pingdotgg/t3code
Length of output: 26325
Name the two cases that the cost note and results table exclude.
The cost note covers only the first 16 device cases. The results table covers only the main → #25661 comparison. Neither section names HUBCAP-01 or HUBCAP-02, so a reader cannot tell whether they were priced or run. Add that scope to the cost note.
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- `--shell-model` picks the model that plays the shell: `claude-haiku-5-5` by default, or `gpt-6.1-terra` / `gpt-6-luna` through the same proxy, so Codex runs need no Anthropic key. Prefer Terra: Luna often contradicts the case's world (it calls named checkouts missing or files empty). Compare runs only when they used the same shell model.
- Flags: `--case <ids>`, `--cases <file.ndjson>`, `--samples <n>` (default 2, and a 3rd when the first 2 disagree), `--concurrency <n>` (samples in flight, default 8), `--max-steps <n>`, `--effort <level>`, `--dry-run` (prints request bodies, no model calls), and `--context` (prints the size of T3's text and schemas, no key needed).
- `--baseline <results.jsonl> --stop-on-regression` stops as soon as a case that passed every baseline sample fails. Use it to test one copy change against a baseline run.
-- Cost: the existing non-device suite costs about $9 on Sonnet and $17 on Opus. The first 16 device cases at 3 samples each cost about $5.70–5.90 on Opus and $2.90–3.40 on Sonnet (main's text–#25661), including the Haiku shell simulator; dry runs cost $0. Results record token costs for the agent and shell simulator. Codex proxy charges are outside that total; only its shell simulator is priced here, about $0.60–0.70 for the device cases.+- Cost: the existing non-device suite costs about $9 on Sonnet and $17 on Opus. The first 16 device cases at 3 samples each cost about $5.70–5.90 on Opus and $2.90–3.40 on Sonnet (main's text–#25661), including the Haiku shell simulator; dry runs cost $0. `HUBCAP-01` and `HUBCAP-02` are not included in this estimate or the results table below. Results record token costs for the agent and shell simulator. Codex proxy charges are outside that total; only its shell simulator is priced here, about $0.60–0.70 for the device cases.
- A rate limit or overload (429, 529 or another 5xx) is retried with backoff for up to about 4 minutes. A sample that still fails gets an `error` in `results.jsonl`, is left out of every pass rate, and is listed in the summary; the tokens it spent still count toward the cost.
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- Cost: the existing non-device suite costs about $9 on Sonnet and $17 on Opus. The first 16 device cases at 3 samples each cost about $5.70–5.90 on Opus and $2.90–3.40 on Sonnet (main's text–#25661), including the Haiku shell simulator; dry runs cost $0. Results record token costs for the agent and shell simulator. Codex proxy charges are outside that total; only its shell simulator is priced here, about $0.60–0.70 for the device cases.
- Cost: the existing non-device suite costs about $9 on Sonnet and $17 on Opus. The first 16 device cases at 3 samples each cost about $5.70–5.90 on Opus and $2.90–3.40 on Sonnet (main's text–#25661), including the Haiku shell simulator; dry runs cost $0. `HUBCAP-01` and `HUBCAP-02` are not included in this estimate or the results table below. Results record token costs for the agent and shell simulator. Codex proxy charges are outside that total; only its shell simulator is priced here, about $0.60–0.70 for the device cases.
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Review comment at @evals/mcp-tool-use/README.md at line 20:
Update the cost note in the README to state that HUBCAP-01 and HUBCAP-02 are
excluded from both the estimate and the results table below. Keep the existing
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Minor · Require a command for the screenshot device before CLI fallback. · McpHttpServer.ts:798
apps/server/src/mcp/McpHttpServer.ts:798 Minor · Functional Correctness · Quick win
Require a command for the screenshot device before CLI fallback.
A thread session can exist without a successful MCP device_open. If its screenshot receives hub_rejected, this advice can lead the agent to use another device’s command or leave it without a usable command. Offer the fallback only after device_open succeeded for the screenshot device. Otherwise, stop and report the failure.
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Review comment at @apps/server/src/mcp/McpHttpServer.ts at line 798:
Update the screenshot error-handling advice in McpHttpServer so it offers the agent-device CLI fallback only when device_open succeeded for the same device being screenshotted. If that device has no successful device_open, stop the fallback guidance and report the screenshot failure instead.
Minor · Allow the prescribed hub retry before the CLI failure · device-manager.ndjson:18
evals/mcp-tool-use/cases/device-manager.ndjson:18 Minor · Functional Correctness · Quick win
Allow the prescribed hub retry before the CLI failure
HUBCAP-02 rejects a run with two failed device_screenshot calls followed by one failed bound CLI capture. The linked issue requests that sequence before reporting both failures and stopping. Adjust the budget to accept it while still rejecting retry loops.
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Update HUBCAP-02’s maxFailedAttemptsPerTurn budget to allow the prescribed sequence of two failed device_screenshot attempts followed by one failed agent-device CLI capture. Keep the limit bounded at three failed actions so retry loops remain rejected, and preserve the existing no-raw-UI and stop-after-both-failures expectations.
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Review comments at @apps/server/src/mcp/McpHttpServer.ts:
- Line 798: Update the screenshot error-handling advice in McpHttpServer so it
offers the agent-device CLI fallback only when device_open succeeded for the
same device being screenshotted. If that device has no successful device_open,
stop the fallback guidance and report the screenshot failure instead.
Review comments at @evals/mcp-tool-use/cases/device-manager.ndjson:
- Line 18: Update HUBCAP-02’s maxFailedAttemptsPerTurn budget to allow the
prescribed sequence of two failed device_screenshot attempts followed by one
failed agent-device CLI capture. Keep the limit bounded at three failed actions
so retry loops remain rejected, and preserve the existing no-raw-UI and
stop-after-both-failures expectations.
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Update T3's injected instruction source for Codex and other providers with the
narrow exception required by #31359. Limit it to a hub screenshot failure after
the prescribed retry when `device_open` succeeded and the owned device remains
available. Require the exact bound agent-device command and supported
open/screenshot sequence; require image inspection and reporting the hub failure
after successful capture; require stopping and reporting both errors after
failed fallback. Preserve ownership and attachment safeguards. Add or identify
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the capture step could not show the problem on the base commit, so there is nothing to prove fixed.
On both commits: enable device support and agent access; use the same prompt to list/open Pixel 9, open com.android.settings with the returned command, navigate to Settings home, request device_screenshot, follow failure advice once, report and stop. Repeat on fresh databases with CLI screenshots redirected to an unwritable destination. Only per-run output directories differed.
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Problem
When the device hub's screenshot route rejects a request,
device_screenshotfails with "The device hub could not complete the request. Call device_list to check the device state, and device_open if it needs to be reopened." The injected device instructions tell agents to follow a failed tool's advice once and then stop. So after onedevice_listand a second faileddevice_screenshot, agents gave up, even though the agent-device command thatdevice_openreturned can still take the screenshot (screenshot <path>afteropen <app>). The hub and the CLI capture independently. Reproduced on main in themcp-tool-useeval: with a hub rejection and a working launcher, every sample retried the hub, then stopped without a screenshot (0/3).Change
The
hub_rejectedadvice ondevice_screenshotkeeps its sentence and adds one: "You can also take the screenshot with the agent-device command device_open returned (screenshot , after open ) and read the file." The existing "follow its advice once" rule now reaches the supported CLI capture, and "if it still fails, stop" still applies when both routes fail. The advice is a tool result, so every provider gets the same text. Other screenshot errors (request_failed, no open device, access off) and the injected instructions are unchanged.Scope and approval
Fixes #31359
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apps/server/src/mcp/McpHttpServer.test.ts, "preserves actionable screenshot failure text": thehub_rejectedrow now pins the full advice. It fails against main'sMcpHttpServer.tsand passes with the fix:McpHttpServer.test.tsandMcpDeviceToolkit.test.tswith the fix: 43 passed.vp run check:changed: format, lint, knip, typecheck and tests (503) pass.New eval cases in
evals/mcp-tool-use/cases/device-manager.ndjson, 3 samples each on one Codex model from the eval's model table, with the shell model the eval README recommends, main's text → this branch:On main, every HUBCAP-01 sample retried
device_screenshotafterdevice_listand stopped. With the fix, every sample ran the launcher'sscreenshotafter the first rejection. The full device-manager suite on this branch with the same models passes every case (50 of 51 samples; NAT-01 is Claude-only; one ORC-01 sample failed on delegated-brief routing, which this change does not touch).The advised sequence on a real device: agent-device 0.21.31 on a pooled Android emulator (Pixel 9),
open com.android.settingsthenscreenshot <path>, wrote a readable 1080×2424 PNG.Not checked: a real hub rejection on a macOS host with an iOS simulator (the reporter's setup).
cannot-verify macos. Claude models were not run in the eval.AI-assisted; verified with the tests and tools listed above.