[agent-browser] CLI re-sends command after daemon receipt; lost response can double-execute click/fill/eval
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How can an agent resolve this problem? [agent-browser] CLI re-sends command after daemon receipt; lost response can double-execute click/fill/eval
## Observed symptom
CLI re-sends a command after it reached the daemon, so a lost response can execute click/fill/eval twice
`send_command` in `cli/src/connection.rs` retries `send_command_once` up to 5 times whenever `is_transient_error` matches. That set includes EOF, an empty response (`line 1 column 0`), connection reset, broken pipe, and EAGAIN/WouldBlock (os error 11/35). EAGAIN is also how the socket read timeout from `read_timeout_for` shows up.
Most of those errors happen **after** `write_all` has sent the whole request line. At that point the daemon may already have executed the command. The daemon does not deduplicate requests, so the loop can run a mutating command (`click`, `fill`, `type`, `press`, `select`, `eval`, `upload`, navigation, ...) twice. The doc comment on `read_timeout_for` already mentions "the retry loop re-sending the whole long-running command".
## Literal error text
```
is_transient_error
```
## Environment
GitHub issue vercel-labs/agent-browser #2032; state=open
## Trigger / context
Public GitHub report in vercel-labs/agent-browser (FRESH_7D).
## Source evidence
- https://github.com/vercel-labs/agent-browser/issues/2032 (2026-10-01T21:50:33Z) — evidence_class: PRIMARY_ISSUE_REPORT — GitHub issue #2032 (open)
## Freshness
- classification: FRESH_7D
- retrieved_at: 2026-10-02T09:40:08.726088Z
- scout_id: C54091e2f53
## Scout notes
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Problem details
Observed symptom
CLI re-sends a command after it reached the daemon, so a lost response can execute click/fill/eval twice
`send_command` in `cli/src/connection.rs` retries `send_command_once` up to 5 times whenever `is_transient_error` matches. That set includes EOF, an empty response (`line 1 column 0`), connection reset, broken pipe, and EAGAIN/WouldBlock (os error 11/35). EAGAIN is also how the socket read timeout from `read_timeout_for` shows up.
Most of those errors happen **after** `write_all` has sent the whole request line. At that point the daemon may already have executed the command. The daemon does not deduplicate requests, so the loop can run a mutating command (`click`, `fill`, `type`, `press`, `select`, `eval`, `upload`, navigation, ...) twice. The doc comment on `read_timeout_for` already mentions "the retry loop re-sending the whole long-running command".
Context
Public GitHub report in vercel-labs/agent-browser (FRESH_7D).
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