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fix: preserve user's browser tabs on connect and newChat #6

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56 changes: 18 additions & 38 deletions src/index.ts
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Expand Up @@ -80,36 +80,22 @@ server.setRequestHandler(CallToolRequestSchema, async (request) => {
// Auto-start Comet with debug port (will restart if running without it)
const startResult = await cometClient.startComet(9222);

// Get all tabs and clean up - close all except one
const targets = await cometClient.listTargets();
const pageTabs = targets.filter(t => t.type === 'page');

// Close extra tabs, keep only one
if (pageTabs.length > 1) {
for (let i = 1; i < pageTabs.length; i++) {
try {
await cometClient.closeTab(pageTabs[i].id);
} catch { /* ignore */ }
}
}

// Get fresh tab list
const freshTargets = await cometClient.listTargets();
const anyPage = freshTargets.find(t => t.type === 'page');
// Preserve all existing tabs — do NOT close anything on startup
const tabs = await cometClient.listTabsCategorized();

if (anyPage) {
await cometClient.connect(anyPage.id);
// Always navigate to Perplexity home for clean state
await cometClient.navigate("https://www.perplexity.ai/", true);
if (tabs.main) {
// Reuse the existing Perplexity tab without disturbing other tabs
await cometClient.connect(tabs.main.id);
await new Promise(resolve => setTimeout(resolve, 1500));
return { content: [{ type: "text", text: `${startResult}\nConnected to Perplexity (cleaned ${pageTabs.length - 1} old tabs)` }] };
const openTabs = (await cometClient.listTargets()).filter(t => t.type === 'page').length;
return { content: [{ type: "text", text: `${startResult}\nConnected to existing Perplexity tab (${openTabs} tabs preserved)` }] };
}

// No tabs at all - create a new one
// No Perplexity tab open — create a fresh one, leaving other tabs untouched
const newTab = await cometClient.newTab("https://www.perplexity.ai/");
await new Promise(resolve => setTimeout(resolve, 2000)); // Wait for page load
await cometClient.connect(newTab.id);
return { content: [{ type: "text", text: `${startResult}\nCreated new tab and navigated to Perplexity` }] };
return { content: [{ type: "text", text: `${startResult}\nOpened new Perplexity tab (tabs preserved)` }] };
}

case "comet_ask": {
Expand All @@ -129,22 +115,16 @@ server.setRequestHandler(CallToolRequestSchema, async (request) => {
.replace(/\s+/g, ' ') // Collapse multiple spaces
.trim();

// For newChat: full reset (same as comet_connect) to handle post-agentic state
// For newChat: start a fresh Perplexity chat WITHOUT closing other tabs
if (newChat) {
// Clean up extra tabs (fixes CDP state after agentic browsing)
const targets = await cometClient.listTargets();
const pageTabs = targets.filter(t => t.type === 'page');
if (pageTabs.length > 1) {
for (let i = 1; i < pageTabs.length; i++) {
try { await cometClient.closeTab(pageTabs[i].id); } catch { /* ignore */ }
}
}

// Fresh connect to remaining tab
const freshTargets = await cometClient.listTargets();
const mainTab = freshTargets.find(t => t.type === 'page');
if (mainTab) {
await cometClient.connect(mainTab.id);
// Reuse existing Perplexity tab, or open a new one — never close user's tabs
const tabs = await cometClient.listTabsCategorized();
if (tabs.main) {
await cometClient.connect(tabs.main.id);
} else {
const freshTab = await cometClient.newTab("https://www.perplexity.ai/");
await new Promise(resolve => setTimeout(resolve, 2000));
await cometClient.connect(freshTab.id);
}

// Navigate to Perplexity home
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