@yceachan/pi-wsl-browser

A Pi extension for session-scoped browser leases from WSL to Microsoft Edge (with Chrome fallback). It owns the browser targets it creates while leaving the user's existing tabs and main browser process alone.

Install

pi install npm:@yceachan/pi-wsl-browser
pi install npm:@yceachan/pi-shelld

Load both extensions and reload Pi. pi-shelld supplies the session-scoped service used for the private controller/daemon and its TUI log monitor.

Workflow

1. Call the wsl_browser tool with {"action":"acquire"} (the default is headless).

2. Run browser-harness Python through the package wrapper:

   pi-wsl-browser run <<'PY'
   goto_url("https://example.com")
   print(page_info())
   PY
   

3. Call {"action":"retain"} before waiting for a user, login, MFA, or CAPTCHA. Otherwise Pi's agent_settled event releases the lease automatically.

4. Call {"action":"release"} when finished. Session shutdown always releases remaining targets and removes temporary profiles.

Modes are headless, headed-tmp-profile, and main-profile. Temporary modes use a unique profile under discovered Windows %TEMP%/LocalAppData\Temp storage and a dynamic DevTools port; they never use WSL /tmp or /home UNC paths. A configured tempProfileRoot must be a Windows-backed drive path. main-profile infers profile.last_used from Edge's Local State and never kills the user's browser process.

The wrapper resolves the descriptor for the current PI_SESSION_ID/PI_SESSION_FILE; it does not accept a daemon, lease, browser name, or CDP endpoint from the agent. Each session gets private BH_RUNTIME_DIR and BH_TMP_DIR directories under its package state; those paths are shared by the controller and wrapper and removed at shutdown.

Configuration

Defaults are bundled in config.json. The optional user override is:

$PI_CODING_AGENT_DIR/pi-wsl-browser/config.json

Example:

{
  "browser": "auto",
  "executable": "C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Microsoft\\Edge\\Application\\msedge.exe",
  "userDataDir": "C:\\Users\\<user>\\AppData\\Local\\Microsoft\\Edge\\User Data",
  "profileDirectory": "Default",
  "tempProfileRoot": "C:\\Users\\<user>\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\pi-wsl-browser"
}

auto selects Edge first and falls back to Chrome only when the Edge executable is absent. An Edge startup, CDP, or authorization failure is returned as an Edge error; it is never silently retried with Chrome. Paths are discovered through Windows/WSL and the package does not embed a username. Runtime selection is fixed to the bundled uv project and frozen lockfile.

Migration and development

pi-wsl-browser doctor reports legacy Skill, launcher, and global uv installations. It never removes user files or credentials; review and migrate those paths manually.

The Python runtime is a pinned, package-private fork under runtime/browser-harness/ with its own uv.lock. The controller and wrapper run it with the bundled uv run --project ... --frozen command; the first run may create uv's cache environment, but it never changes the lock or downloads a newer upstream release. Caller-selected Python, runtime roots/projects, and PYTHONPATH are ignored. uv is required in production (a runner probe is injectable only in TypeScript tests). See UPSTREAM.md for the baseline and merge checklist.

bun run typecheck
bun run test
npm pack --dry-run

GUI, user-profile, and authorization E2E checks are intentionally manual and are not part of the default test suite.