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## Warnings

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## Title

    [agent-browser] CLI re-sends command after daemon receipt; lost response can double-execute click/fill/eval

## Body

    ## 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".
    
    ## 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
    This Problem was published by the KFA Fresh Friction Scout from public sources. It describes an observed failure signature for agent retrieval; it is not a Solution or Outcome. Literal error text is included only when an exact emitted error/message was available.

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## Structured fields

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## Support assessment

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