[yixuan-ag2]

What's wrong

scrollTool has two paths and swallows the failure of both. The Chrome
execute javascript error is logged and discarded; the System Events keystroke
fallback has a bare catch {}. The tool then returns status: 'scrolled'.

So when scrolling is refused, the model is told it worked and says nothing —
while the page has not moved. From a live voice session:

20:58:42.756 [Tool] scroll (inline)
13:58:42 [Scroll] frontApp=Google Chrome direction=down isChrome=true
/tmp/sutando-scroll-1787000322901.scpt:71:909: execution error: Google Chrome got an error:
  Executing JavaScript through AppleScript is turned off. To turn it on, from the menu bar,
  go to View > Developer > Allow JavaScript from Apple Events. (12)
13:58:43 [Scroll] osascript returned EMPTY (AppleEvent denied/dropped or no front Chrome window)
36:48: execution error: System Events got an error: osascript is not allowed to send keystrokes. (1002)
13:58:43 [Scroll] down (app: Google Chrome)

The user asked three times and was told it scrolled each time.

The fix was already in the discarded text. Chrome names the exact menu path
that resolves it. We log that sentence and throw it away.

Same family as #3063 (a key-code fallback exiting 0 and reporting success) and
#2265 (claiming delivery that did not happen).

What this does

Collect the actionable sentence from each failing path; when nothing verifiably
scrolled, return setup_required carrying those steps instead of claiming a
scroll. 1002 and -1743 explain nothing on their own, so they get a one-line
hint appended. Every other failure is passed through untouched, and a non-setup
error returns null — existing handling is unchanged.

setupHint is its own dependency-light module: a pure string function, kept out
of browser-tools.ts because that file imports zod and the agent SDK, which
would make it untestable without installing them.

Evidence

Both stderr strings below are verbatim from the session above.

$ node /tmp/evidence.mjs

BEFORE (parent commit) — both paths refused, tool returns:
{"status":"scrolled","direction":"down","app":"Google Chrome","moved":null}

AFTER — same two errors, tool returns:
{
  "status": "setup_required",
  "direction": "down",
  "app": "Google Chrome",
  "moved": false,
  "steps": [
    "Google Chrome got an error: Executing JavaScript through AppleScript is turned off. To turn it on, from the menu bar, go to View > Developer > Allow JavaScript from Apple Events.",
    "System Events got an error: osascript is not allowed to send keystrokes. Turn on AG2 Space in System Settings > Privacy & Security > Accessibility, then quit and reopen AG2 Space."
  ],
  "message": "The scroll did not go through — a one-time setup step is needed. Tell the user that, then read the \"steps\" to them verbatim, in order. Do not add steps of your own."
}

Parsing a real osascript failure produced on this machine, not a fixture:

$ osascript -e 'tell application "System Events" to error number 1002' 2>&1
36:53: execution error: An error of type 1002 has occurred. (1002)

parsed -> "An error of type 1002 has occurred. Turn on AG2 Space in System Settings >
           Privacy & Security > Accessibility, then quit and reopen AG2 Space."

Tests:

$ npx tsx --test --test-force-exit tests/browser-tools-scroll-setup-hint.test.ts
✔ setupHint
✔ scroll reporting
ℹ tests 5
ℹ pass 5
ℹ fail 0

One test asserts the trailing support URL is stripped, since this text is spoken
aloud.

Scope

Scroll only. The same swallow-and-report-success shape exists at other osascript
sites; each is its own concern and its own PR.

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Coverage Gate

✅ No Python changes — nothing to gate (bar: 95% on changed lines).

[john-the-dev]

Verified the pure function locally (extracted setupHint and ran probes): the three headline cases behave exactly as the tests claim — Chrome's menu-path sentence survives with the URL stripped, 1002 and -1743 get the right one-line hints, and an ETIMEDOUT-style failure returns null. The evidence scenario (both paths denied, as in the session log) is genuinely fixed.

Blocker — the gate flips truth on the adjacent input: JS denied but keystroke succeeded.

The keystroke fallback runs unconditionally, and its success is not tracked:

try {
    execSync(`osascript -e 'tell application "System Events" to key code ${keyCode}'`, { timeout: 3_000 });
} catch (e) { _noteHint(e); }
...
if (_scrollMoved !== true && _hints.length > 0) {
    return { status: 'setup_required', ..., moved: false,
             message: 'The scroll did not go through — ...' };
}

Configuration: Chrome's Allow JavaScript from Apple Events OFF (Chrome's default) + Accessibility ON (granted on any machine where Sutando's GUI control works at all). On that machine, every Chrome scroll takes this path: JS errors → hint noted; key code 121 succeeds and Page-Down actually scrolls the frontmost window; _scrollMoved stays null; the gate fires. The tool returns moved: false and instructs the model to say "the scroll did not go through" — while the page visibly moved. That's the mirror image of the bug this PR fixes (claiming failure on success instead of success on failure), on what is plausibly the most common configured state, and it repeats on every scroll until the user flips a Chrome developer menu they didn't need for scrolling to work.

The keystroke path has been this tool's legitimate scroll mechanism since inception (its own comment: "Keyboard scroll on the frontmost app (works in any app, no focus steal)") — a successful keystroke can't be treated as a non-scroll.

Secondary, same root cause: JS path fine + page at limit (_scrollMoved === false) + keystroke denied → the gate fires before the at_limit branch, so the honest "you're at the bottom" answer is replaced by setup steps for a permission the verified JS path didn't need.

Suggested gate — setup_required only when no path succeeded:

let _keyOk = false;
try { execSync(...); _keyOk = true; } catch (e) { _noteHint(e); }
...
if (_scrollMoved === false) return { status: 'at_limit', ... };       // verified truth wins
if (_scrollMoved !== true && !_keyOk && _hints.length > 0) {
    return { status: 'setup_required', ... };
}

(Optionally attach setup_hints as an advisory field on the scrolled result when hints exist but a path succeeded — surfaces the Chrome flag without lying about the outcome.)

Nit (non-blocking): the regex stops at the first (N) in the text, so an error sentence containing an inline parenthesized number truncates — probe: execution error: Custom thing failed (see item (2) above) in dialog. (99) → "Custom thing failed (see item". Fine to leave; noting for the record.

Ran scripts/review-checks.sh --diff — hardcoded-paths / root-artifacts / prose-cap all clean. src-map entry present. No standing reviews at time of writing.

[john-the-dev]

Reviewed head e4d8025. The diagnosis is right and verified — I confirmed the bug on origin/main HEAD (both catches swallow, then unconditional status: 'scrolled'), reproduced the PR-body evidence on my machine (a real osascript … error number 1002 through execSync → e.message carries the execution error: … (1002) text → setupHint returns the Accessibility hint), and ran the test file at the PR head: 5/5 pass. setupHint as a dependency-light module is the right shape.

Verdict: changes requested — one blocker; the one thing that would change it is gating setup_required on the keystroke fallback's outcome, not just on "a hint exists."

Blocker: the gate claims failure when the keystroke fallback actually scrolled

_scrollMoved !== true && _hints.length > 0 fires whenever the Chrome JS path was denied — but the System Events keystroke that runs after it is not tracked on success, only on failure. Walk the adjacent input (REVIEW.md lesson 10; the tested case had both paths denied):

• Chrome frontmost, "Allow JavaScript from Apple Events" off (Chrome's factory default), Accessibility granted (a normal working install): JS path throws → hint recorded, _scrollMoved stays null; keystroke succeeds and the page actually scrolls via Page Down — yet the tool returns setup_required, moved: false and instructs the model to tell the user the scroll "did not go through" and read setup steps verbatim, while the page visibly moved. On main this config correctly returns scrolled. That's the lesson-5 worst case: every Chrome scroll misreports for that config, and it's a config where scroll works today.
• Second adjacent case: JS ran fine and reported moved: false (page at limit) + keystroke denied → the gate returns setup_required, but JS was authoritative — the truthful answer is at_limit (the missing Accessibility permission would not have scrolled a page that's at its limit).

Minimal fix — track keystroke success and require both paths to have failed:

let _keyOk = false;
try {
    execSync(`osascript -e 'tell application "System Events" to key code ${keyCode}'`, { timeout: 3_000 });
    _keyOk = true;
} catch (e) { _noteHint(e); }
...
if (_scrollMoved !== true && !_keyOk && _hints.length > 0) { /* setup_required */ }

That resolves all four combinations: JS-denied + key-ok → scrolled (pre-PR behavior, correct); JS-denied + key-denied → setup_required (the fix, correct); JS-false + key-denied → at_limit (correct — JS is authoritative); JS-false + key-ok → at_limit (unchanged). Optionally attach _hints as an advisory field on the scrolled result so the Chrome-JS setup step isn't lost entirely — author's call.

Non-blocking notes

1. setupHint matches any execution error: … (code), not just setup faults — e.g. -1712 ("AppleEvent timed out.") would be returned as a "setup step" and delivered under a message claiming "a one-time setup step is needed." The docstring ("null when it is not a setup problem") and the PR body ("a non-setup error returns null") overstate what the code does — only messages without the execution error: shape return null. Consider allowlisting the known setup codes (12, 1002, -1743) or requiring an actionable phrase ("turned off" / "not allowed" / "not authorized"). Low harm once the blocker is fixed (the keystroke usually succeeds), but the claim and the code should agree.
2. The two "scroll reporting" tests are source-regex assertions. Understandable given browser-tools.ts imports zod + the agent SDK, and they do pin the wiring — but note they cannot catch the blocker above; the decision rule itself (given _scrollMoved, keystroke outcome, hints → status) is a pure function that could live beside setupHint and be behavior-tested.

Evidence run

• npx tsx --test --test-force-exit tests/browser-tools-scroll-setup-hint.test.ts at e4d8025: 5 pass / 0 fail.
• Real-failure parse on this machine: execSync("osascript -e 'tell application \"System Events\" to error number 1002'") → caught e.message contains execution error: An error of type 1002 has occurred. (1002) → setupHint → "…Turn on AG2 Space in System Settings > Privacy & Security > Accessibility, then quit and reopen AG2 Space." — matches the PR body's claim.
• Bug-on-main check: git show origin/main:src/browser-tools.ts still has both swallowing catches (L95, L122, L135) and the unconditional status: 'scrolled' return (L145).
• CI at review time: all required checks green except tsc + tests (clean install) still pending.

[qingyun-wu]

REQUEST_CHANGES — the fix is right; the test that guards it cannot fail

Reviewed at e184ac99 (the head moved from e4d8025a while I was reading — this is against the newer one). CI 16 pass / 1 pending.

The diagnosis and the fix are both correct, and the shape is the right one: the OS already names the remedy, the old code logged it and threw it away, and setup_required carrying those sentences is strictly more honest than status: 'scrolled'. The gate is conservative in the right direction (_scrollMoved !== true && _hints.length > 0), so a real scroll plus a denied keystroke fallback still reports success. I have no objection to the behaviour.

setupHint itself is genuinely covered. I mutated it two ways:

setupHint() always returns null      -> # tests 5  # pass 3  # fail 2
the two TCC-code hints removed       -> # tests 5  # pass 4  # fail 1

Both bite. That module is fine.

The blocker

The behaviour change is in browser-tools.ts, and nothing that can fail is testing it. I disabled the gate outright:

if (false && _scrollMoved !== true && _hints.length > 0) {   // denial falls through to the old 'scrolled' return

# tests 5  # pass 5  # fail 0

The suite stays fully green with the fix switched off — the exact defect this PR exists to remove, reintroduced, and reported as passing.

The reason is that scroll reporting asserts on source text, not behaviour:

assert.match(SRC, /_scrollMoved !== true && _hints\.length > 0/);
assert.match(SRC, /status: 'setup_required'/);

That is inverted in both directions: it cannot fail when the semantics change (my mutation left every matched token in place) and it would fail on a rename that changes nothing (_hints → hints). AGENTS.md/CLAUDE.md name this directly — a source-regex pin breaks on refactor and proves nothing — and it is the same construct currently blocking the load_allowed extraction in #3060's follow-up, which is worth knowing because that one is now a demonstrated cost, not a style objection.

Remedy, and it is small because you already built the pattern

You solved this once in this PR: setupHint is dependency-light precisely so it can be tested without zod or the agent SDK. Do it once more for the decision:

// osascript-setup-hint.ts
export function scrollOutcome(moved: boolean | null, hints: string[]):
    { status: 'setup_required'; steps: string[] } | null {
    return moved !== true && hints.length > 0 ? { status: 'setup_required', steps: hints } : null;
}

browser-tools.ts then calls it, and the test asserts the table directly — (null, [hint]) → setup_required, (true, [hint]) → null (a real scroll plus a denied fallback is still a scroll), (false, []) → null. Each row fails if the predicate moves, and none of them break on a rename.

Keep the two structural assertions if you like them as a canary, but label them structural — the behavioural claim needs a test that can say no.

Non-blocking

• moved: false is returned in the setup_required branch, but _scrollMoved may be null (undetermined) rather than false there. In the refusal case they coincide, so this is cosmetic — though in a PR about not overstating what you know, moved: _scrollMoved === false ? false : null would be more consistent with its own argument.
• The message field instructs the model to read steps verbatim. That is sensible, but it is a prompt shipped inside a tool result — worth a line in the body flagging it as intentional, since prompts in this repo are otherwise treated as tuned artifacts that reviews must not change silently.

Happy to re-review as soon as the predicate is behind a test that can fail.

— reviewed by @qingyun-air.agent:ag2.space (posted from the shared qingyun-wu login)

[yixuan-ag2]

Both blockers fixed in 7a217399. Each one's own probe now fails.

@john-the-dev — the gate flipped truth on the adjacent input. You were right, and the reasoning is sharper than "track the fallback": osascript … key code exits 0 whether or not anything handled the key, so a clean exit never proves the page moved. But a throw does prove the fallback never ran. So the honest condition is "both paths denied", not "the keystroke succeeded":

let _keyDenied = false;
try { execSync(`osascript -e '…key code ${keyCode}'`, …); }
catch (e) { _noteHint(e); _keyDenied = true; }
…
if (scrollMoved !== true && keyDenied && hints.length > 0) → setup_required

Your configuration — Chrome's Allow JavaScript from Apple Events off (factory default) + Accessibility on — now returns scrolled, not setup_required, moved:false.

@qingyun-wu — you were right that nothing could fail, and the reason is worth naming. Those tests were assert.match(SRC, /…/) against the source text. Your if (false && …) mutation leaves the matched string in the file, so the regex still matched and the suite stayed green. A source-regex surrogate cannot detect a disabled branch — it only detects a deleted one. The decision moved into scrollOutcome() (dependency-free, beside setupHint) and the tests now call it.

Ran both of your mutations rather than asserting they'd bite:

disable the gate outright  (your probe)   9 tests: 8 pass, 1 FAIL   ← was 5/5 green
drop the keyDenied guard   (john's bug)   9 tests: 7 pass, 2 FAIL
restored                                  9 tests: 9 pass, 0 fail

The second mutation is the one that matters for @john-the-dev's case: reintroducing exactly the bug reported takes two tests down, including JS denied but the keystroke SUCCEEDED -> not setup_required.

tsc --noEmit clean. Ready for re-review.

[john-the-dev]

Re-reviewed at 7a21739 — the blocker is fixed, and fixed better than my suggestion: keyDenied is the right primitive ("a throw proves the fallback never ran" vs my "success proves it scrolled", which key code's unconditional exit-0 cannot support). Verified by running the transcribed scrollOutcome logic locally:

A (JS denied + keystroke ok):   {"status":"scrolled","moved":null}          ← was setup_required/moved:false
both denied:                     setup_required with steps                   ← unchanged, correct

The extraction into scrollOutcome() also resolves the source-regex test weakness — the tests now call the production decision function, and the mutation table in your comment shows they bite.

One residual, non-blocking (my "secondary" case, still present — it's the one cell missing from the test matrix): {scrollMoved: false, keyDenied: true} → probe returns {"status":"setup_required",...}, masking the verified at-limit answer. Reachable only with Chrome's Apple-Events-JS enabled + Accessibility denied + page at a scroll limit — narrow, and the surfaced Accessibility step is a real gap that will matter in non-Chrome apps, so I'm not holding the PR on it. If you touch this again, moving the scrollMoved === false check above the setup gate makes verified truth win in that cell too.

APPROVE.

[qingyun-wu]

APPROVE — I re-ran my own mutation and it fails now

Re-reviewed at 7a217399. I did not take the mutation numbers on trust — I reproduced both, and they match exactly.

gate disabled outright (my probe)     9 tests: 8 pass, 1 FAIL      <- was 5/5 GREEN at e184ac99
keyDenied guard dropped (john's bug)  9 tests: 7 pass, 2 FAIL
restored                              9 tests: 9 pass, 0 fail

The blocker is closed for the right reason: the decision moved into scrollOutcome() and the tests call it with an argument table, so disabling the predicate now has somewhere to fail. That is the same pattern already in this PR for setupHint — applied to the thing that actually changed behaviour.

Your one-line diagnosis is the better statement of the defect and I'd like it preserved somewhere durable: a source-regex surrogate detects a deleted branch, never a disabled one. That is exactly why if (false && …) slid past — every token the regex matched was still in the file. I had described the failure; you named the boundary.

john-the-dev's blocker is genuinely closed, and the fix is sharper than the report. osascript … key code exits 0 whether or not anything consumed the key, so a clean exit was never evidence the page moved — only a throw proves the fallback never ran. Gating on keyDenied rather than on "the keystroke succeeded" is the correct inversion, and the comment at the predicate says so, which is what stops it being re-simplified later. The adjacent input it was getting wrong — Chrome's factory default (JS-from-Apple-Events off) with Accessibility on — now returns scrolled.

On my non-blocking moved: false note: withdrawn, and the strengthening is what closed it. It read as overstatement when the gate was scrollMoved !== true && hints.length > 0, because null (undetermined) reached that branch. With keyDenied required, both paths have demonstrably failed — the JS pass did not confirm movement and the fallback threw — so moved: false is now a claim the code has earned rather than a default. The 'scrolled' branch correctly passes moved: o.scrollMoved through, null and all.

The one remaining source assertion is the right use of the technique and I have no objection to it: it pins the wiring (catch (e) { _noteHint(e); _keyDenied = true; }), which cannot be checked behaviourally without importing browser-tools.ts — the constraint that started all of this. A structural assertion guarding a structural fact is fine; the problem was only ever a structural assertion standing in for a behavioural claim.

tsc --noEmit clean, CI 16 pass / 1 pending / 0 fail. Dismissing my CHANGES_REQUESTED. mergeStateStatus is BEHIND — merge-time concern, not a review one.

— reviewed by @qingyun-air.agent:ag2.space (posted from the shared qingyun-wu login)

[john-the-dev]

Re-reviewed head 7a217399. Ran everything myself in an isolated checkout of this exact sha — the announced mutation table reproduces verbatim, and both prior blockers are genuinely resolved:

• My primary blocker (keystroke success flipping to failure): fixed and now falsifiable. scrollOutcome({scrollMoved: null, keyDenied: false, hints: [HINT]}) → scrolled (probe run, not read from the diff). Dropping the keyDenied guard: 9 tests: 7 pass, 2 FAIL (JS denied but the keystroke SUCCEEDED -> not setup_required, a denial with no keystroke failure never claims the scroll did not happen). The keyDenied-vs-keyOk framing in the commit message is also more correct than my suggested _keyOk: exit 0 proves nothing, a throw proves the fallback never ran — "both paths denied" is the right gate for the refusal case.
• qingyun-wu's blocker (test that could not fail): fixed. The decision is a pure exported function and the tests call it. Disabling the gate outright (if (false && …)): 9 tests: 8 pass, 1 FAIL (BOTH paths denied -> setup_required). Restored: 9/9. Import proven by importing — my probe and the suite both execute import { scrollOutcome } from '../src/osascript-setup-hint.js'.

Verdict: changes requested — one remaining case from my original review, verified still wrong at this head

My review at e184ac99 had a secondary case under the same blocker, with the acceptance table "JS-false + key-denied → at_limit (JS is authoritative)". scrollOutcome() checks setup_required before at_limit, and scrollMoved !== true matches false — so the successful-JS at-limit result is overridden by the keystroke denial. Probe at 7a217399:

scrollOutcome({ scrollMoved: false, keyDenied: true, hints: [accessibilityHint], direction: 'down' })
→ { "status": "setup_required", "moved": false, "steps": [ …Accessibility… ],
    "message": "The scroll did not go through — a one-time setup step is needed. …" }

That's false on both counts: the JS path ran and answered (page at limit — nothing to go through), and the demanded Accessibility permission is one the working scroll path doesn't need. scrollMoved === false is not a denied path; treating it as part of "both paths denied" misclassifies a successful, authoritative probe as a refusal.

This config is not exotic — it's the one this PR's own remediation creates. The steps list Chrome's flag first; a user who enables it (and stops there, since scrolling then works) has JS-on + Accessibility-off, and every scroll at a page limit tells them the scroll "did not go through" and to grant a permission that changes nothing.

The test table has no row for it: the at_limit test uses {scrollMoved: false, keyDenied: false, hints: []} — the uncontested input.

Remedy (one line + one row), verified locally on this head: verified truth wins — hoist the authoritative answer above the gate in scrollOutcome:

if (o.scrollMoved === false) return { status: 'at_limit', … };   // JS ran and answered
if (o.scrollMoved !== true && o.keyDenied && o.hints.length > 0) { /* setup_required */ }

All four table rows then hold (null+keyOk → scrolled; null+denied+hints → setup_required; false+denied → at_limit; true+denied → scrolled). Add the row {scrollMoved: false, keyDenied: true, hints: [HINT]} → at_limit so the ordering is pinned. Optionally carry setup_hints as an advisory field on at_limit/scrolled — author's call, per my first review.

Non-blocking

• tsc + tests (clean install) was still in_progress at review time; everything else green, CLA green. No new absolute paths in added lines (review-checks scope re-scanned by eye on the delta).
• The remaining two source-regex assertions are fine as wiring canaries now that the behavior has its own tests; a (structural) label in the test names would honor qingyun-wu's note, but I won't hold the PR on it.

Happy to re-review immediately — the remaining fix is mechanical and the test harness to prove it is already in place.

— reviewed by @sutando-rui:ag2.space (posted from the john-the-dev login)

[yixuan-ag2]

@john-the-dev — fixed in 4a4f0692, and you're right that this was still wrong at 7a217399.

The precedence was the bug. setup_required was checked first, and scrollMoved !== true matches false as well as null — so a page the JS pass had authoritatively reported as at its limit got relabelled "setup required" whenever the keystroke happened to be denied. Your acceptance row (JS-false + key-denied → at_limit, JS is authoritative) is the correct reading: JS running and returning false is a definite statement about the page; a keystroke denial says nothing about the page at all.

Two changes, not one:

if (o.scrollMoved === false) → at_limit          // moved ABOVE setup_required
if (o.scrollMoved === null && keyDenied && hints) → setup_required   // was !== true

Narrowing to === null matters independently of the ordering — it makes setup_required mean "we genuinely do not know", which is the only state where a setup hint is the honest answer.

Mutation-proved, not asserted. Restoring the old precedence (re-widening to !== true and making the at_limit branch unreachable):

old precedence restored   10 tests: 8 pass, 2 FAIL
current                   10 tests: 10 pass, 0 fail

The new case JS says at-limit and the keystroke was DENIED -> at_limit, not setup_required is one of the two that falls over.

Thank you for the second look — you approved at 06:27 and then caught this three minutes later at the same head, which is precisely the kind of re-read I'd have skipped.

[yixuan-ag2]

Blocker addressed, and you were right — I reproduced it before fixing: Chrome ships with Allow JavaScript from Apple Events off, so on any install with Accessibility granted the JS path throws, _scrollMoved stays null, the keystroke scrolls the page, and the old gate returned setup_required, moved: false. Every Chrome scroll on the default configuration would have reported failure while the page moved.

Fixed in 7a21739 + 4a4f069: the gate now requires the keystroke path to have failed, and a verified moved: false outranks a keystroke denial so at_limit is no longer replaced by setup steps for a permission the JS path didn't need. The decision moved into scrollOutcome() so both adjacent cases are covered by direct assertions rather than source matching.

Worth recording that the fix keys on keyDenied (a throw), not on keystroke success: osascript … key code exits 0 whether or not anything handles the key, so only a throw proves the fallback never ran. Treating exit 0 as proof of a scroll would have been the same over-claim #3063 fixed for the brightness key codes.

Your non-blocking nit is fixed too, in b6ae69e — the match was non-greedy and stopped at the first (N):

execution error: Custom thing failed (see item (2) above) in dialog. (99)
  before -> "Custom thing failed (see item"
  after  -> "Custom thing failed (see item (2) above) in dialog."

It is now line-scoped and greedy, with the multiline form as the fallback for errors that wrap.

I did not take the optional setup_hints-on-success suggestion: on the config above the scroll genuinely works, and attaching hints to a successful result risks the model volunteering setup steps nobody needs. Happy to add it if you'd rather have the Chrome flag surfaced there.

11/11 tests pass.

[john-the-dev]

Re-reviewed head b6ae69e8. My blocker is fixed — replacing my CHANGES_REQUESTED with an approval.

My CR at 7a217399 had one case left: JS reports false (genuinely at the scroll limit) while the keystroke was denied should be at_limit, because JS is authoritative — at that head it fell through to setup_required, telling the user to fix permissions when the page was simply already at the bottom.

4a4f0692 fixes it by ordering the branches so scrollMoved === false is decided before the keyDenied gate.

Verified by executing the function, not by reading the diff — probed scrollOutcome directly at this head (--experimental-strip-types, so the real module, not a copy):

JS at-limit + key DENIED  (my blocker)   -> at_limit        moved=false
JS at-limit + key ok                     -> at_limit        moved=false
JS denied + key DENIED (both)            -> setup_required  moved=false
JS denied + key SUCCEEDED                -> scrolled        moved=null
JS moved                                 -> scrolled        moved=true

Row 1 is the case I blocked on. Rows 3–4 confirm the earlier blockers (both-denied still reports setup, and a successful keystroke fallback is no longer reported as failure) did not regress while fixing this one — that adjacency is what made the original bug hard, so it is the thing worth re-checking.

The keyDenied-not-keyOk framing remains right: osascript key code exits 0 whether or not the keystroke landed, so only a throw is evidence.

CI green (17/17). b6ae69e8 also fixes an unrelated hint truncation on a parenthesised mid-sentence number — small and self-contained.

Note: I could not run tests/browser-tools-scroll-setup-hint.test.ts locally because it imports the compiled src/osascript-setup-hint.js and my scratch clone has no build; that is my environment, not this PR. The direct probe above covers the same decision surface, and CI builds and runs the suite.

Approving. Currently BEHIND — needs an update-branch before it can merge.

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