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perf+ux: lite tree reads, compact text for models, taps that clear floating bars, 5-minute idle release - #141
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…oating bars, 5-minute idle release Learned from callstack/agent-device, measured against it on the same iPhone 13. - Every tree read skips WDA's isVisible (Settings root: 1225 ms -> 165 ms on WDA); visibility is geometric: off-screen rows and rows scrolled out of their nearest list/scroll view read visible:false. PHONE_REMOTE_SOURCE_VISIBLE=1 restores the size-probed full read. Price: a row drawn behind something inside the screen no longer reads visible:false. - MCP returns one line per row to the model instead of the daemon's JSON (structured content unchanged): decoration (text repeating its control, SF Symbols, wrapper cells, layout containers, generated ids) left out, indexes kept. Settings root 8.7 KB -> 694 B; a navigating tap's change 8.5 KB -> 710 B (agent-device: 585 B / 790 B). - A label shared by a button and the text inside it taps the button instead of answering ambiguous (daemon and MCP). - A tap whose centre sits under another control (iOS 26's floating search pill eats touches past its frame) scrolls the target clear, waits for it to rest, then clicks; else taps the part left clear. - Idle release 10 -> 5 minutes (the adaptive stretch still lengthens it for steady work), so the Automation Running overlay goes away sooner.
📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe change adds compact MCP rendering for element trees and observed actions, updates WDA source visibility and tap handling, and sets managed-WDA idle release to 300 seconds with documented interval doubling. ChangesCompact MCP responses
WDA visibility and taps
Managed-WDA idle release
Priority: ➖ Normal Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes Change: Feature Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant MCPClient
participant phone_elements
participant Daemon
participant compact_elements as compact::elements
MCPClient->>phone_elements: request elements
phone_elements->>Daemon: request element response
Daemon-->>phone_elements: enriched JSON response
phone_elements->>compact_elements: parse and format response
compact_elements-->>phone_elements: compact text when available
phone_elements-->>MCPClient: text and structured content when parsed
Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to The tap and visibility changes can send taps to stale or hidden positions. They can also report a tap as applied when the target never activated. Fix these before merging. The compact-output and guide wording issues are minor. 🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 4 | ❓ 1❌ Failed checks (1 inconclusive)
✅ Passed checks (4 passed)
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Review comments at @crates/mcp/src/compact.rs:
- Around line 134-136: Update the ancestor-label check using tappable_ancestors
so it matches the child label exactly or as a comma- or whitespace-separated
component of the outer label, rather than using substring containment; preserve
child text when it only appears as part of a larger token.
- Around line 270-274: Update is_noise so labeled rows with kind "Other" are not
omitted as layout decoration; keep omitting them when their label is empty,
while preserving the existing filtering behavior for other LAYOUT_KINDS and
symbol names.
Review comments at @crates/server/src/http.rs:
- Around line 5299-5300: Update the tap-target flow around tap_target_refusal so
a fully covered target is given a reveal attempt, including scrollTo when
appropriate, before returning element_occluded. Preserve the existing occlusion
checks and reveal_and_click behavior, but defer the final refusal until the
reveal attempt has failed.
- Around line 5303-5305: In the `reveal_and_click` flow, verify the selected
cached row with `pick_snapshot_element` or `verify_reused_row` before using
`clear_tap_point`; only tap its coordinates after the snapshot target is
confirmed, otherwise return the stale-target result.
- Around line 6688-6698: Update the settling loop around element_rect so
click_element is called only after consecutive frames match before the deadline;
if element_rect fails or the deadline expires without stabilization, return an
unresolved result instead. Ensure the caller handles that result without
reporting the tap as applied.
Review comments at @crates/server/src/wda.rs:
- Around line 1904-1909: Update the `inner` clip selection so a valid nested
scroll container intersects its `rect` with the existing `clip` instead of
replacing it; preserve the existing fallback when the rect is invalid. Ensure
descendants retain the intersection of all active ancestor clips so clipped
children are not treated as visible tap targets.
Review comments at @docs/guide.md:
- Line 89: Clarify that the default idle window starts at five minutes and,
after three doublings, reaches a maximum of 40 minutes; one hour is only the
upper bound. Update docs/guide.md at line 89 and docs/guide.zh-CN.md at line 65
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| tappable_ancestors | ||
| .last() | ||
| .is_some_and(|(_, outer)| outer.contains(label.as_str())) |
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win
Use an exact or token-bounded match against the ancestor label.
outer.contains(label) is a substring test. A child StaticText with label "2" under a Button labeled "设置 12" is counted as decoration. The child's real content then disappears from the text. In the Settings test, the badge "2" survives only because the "建议" label does not contain it. Real cells often combine a title and a value, such as "Wi‑Fi, Home2". In those cases, short numeric or short text children are dropped. Match only when the label equals outer, or when it appears as a comma- or whitespace-separated component of outer.
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Review comment at @crates/mcp/src/compact.rs around lines 134 - 136:
Update the ancestor-label check using tappable_ancestors so it matches the child
label exactly or as a comma- or whitespace-separated component of the outer
label, rather than using substring containment; preserve child text when it only
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| let rows = json.get("elements")?.as_array()?; | ||
| let snapshot = text(json, "snapshot")?; | ||
| if json.get("error").is_some() { | ||
| return None; | ||
| } |
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win
Check the error field before you require snapshot.
The error check is reachable only when the body has both an elements array and a non-empty snapshot. If either is missing, ? returns None first. That result is still correct, because the JSON body is kept. The ordering only makes the intent harder to see, so this is a nit.
The more important gap is that rows_block and observed drop rows without a trace. is_noise treats every LAYOUT_KINDS row as decoration, and that includes Other. In many apps, custom tappable views report Other, often with a label. Those rows are left out of the model text, and only the omitted count remains. A model that reads only the text cannot find a #N for that control. It may fall back to a screenshot or a coordinate tap, which works against the goal of this PR. One fix is to omit Other rows only when they have an empty label, or when their label repeats an enclosing tappable row.
Proposed fix
- if symbol_name(&label) || LAYOUT_KINDS.contains(&kind.as_str()) {
+ if symbol_name(&label) || (LAYOUT_KINDS.contains(&kind.as_str()) && (kind != "Other" || label.is_empty())) {
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Review comment at @crates/mcp/src/compact.rs around lines 270 - 274:
Update is_noise so labeled rows with kind "Other" are not omitted as layout
decoration; keep omitting them when their label is empty, while preserving the
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| if !allows_occluded(value) && center_covered(&rows, index) { | ||
| if let Some(clicked) = reveal_and_click(w, row).await { |
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win
Try to reveal a fully covered target before refusing it.
tap_target_refusal runs before this branch. When a control covers the entire target and clear_tap_point returns None, it returns element_occluded. This branch never attempts scrollTo, even if scrolling could expose the target. Attempt the reveal before making the final occlusion refusal.
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Review comment at @crates/server/src/http.rs around lines 5299 - 5300:
Update the tap-target flow around tap_target_refusal so a fully covered target
is given a reveal attempt, including scrollTo when appropriate, before returning
element_occluded. Preserve the existing occlusion checks and reveal_and_click
behavior, but defer the final refusal until the reveal attempt has failed.
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| if let Some((x, y)) = clear_tap_point(&rows, index) { | ||
| return w | ||
| .tap_point(x, y) |
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy lift
Verify the snapshot target before the coordinate fallback.
If reveal_and_click finds multiple live elements with the same locator, this branch taps a point from the cached row without reaching pick_snapshot_element or verify_reused_row. A screen that moved without a WDA POST can therefore send a snapshot-bound tap to the old position instead of returning a stale-target result. Resolve and verify the selected row before using its clear point.
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In the `reveal_and_click` flow, verify the selected cached row with
`pick_snapshot_element` or `verify_reused_row` before using `clear_tap_point`;
only tap its coordinates after the snapshot target is confirmed, otherwise
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| while tokio::time::Instant::now() < deadline { | ||
| let Ok(rect) = w.element_rect(id).await else { | ||
| break; | ||
| }; | ||
| if last.is_some_and(|previous| rects_match(previous, rect)) { | ||
| break; | ||
| } | ||
| last = Some(rect); | ||
| tokio::time::sleep(std::time::Duration::from_millis(100)).await; | ||
| } | ||
| Some(w.click_element(id).await) |
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win
Do not click until the revealed target settles.
If element_rect fails or the frames keep changing for 1.5 seconds, the loop still calls click_element. A tap during the glide can stop the movement without activating the target, while WDA acknowledges the click. Return an unresolved result unless the frames stabilize; let the caller handle that result without claiming an applied tap.
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Review comment at @crates/server/src/http.rs around lines 6688 - 6698:
Update the settling loop around element_rect so click_element is called only
after consecutive frames match before the deadline; if element_rect fails or the
deadline expires without stabilization, return an unresolved result instead.
Ensure the caller handles that result without reporting the tap as applied.
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| let inner = | ||
| if SCROLL_CONTAINER_KINDS.contains(&kind.as_str()) && rect[2] > 0.0 && rect[3] > 0.0 { | ||
| Some(rect) | ||
| } else { | ||
| clip | ||
| }; |
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win
Intersect nested scroll clips.
When a nested scroll container extends outside its parent, Some(rect) replaces the parent clip. A child inside the nested frame but outside the parent frame then keeps visible unset, although the parent clips it. Keep the intersection of all active ancestor clips so label matching cannot treat that child as an on-screen tap target.
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Review comment at @crates/server/src/wda.rs around lines 1904 - 1909:
Update the `inner` clip selection so a valid nested scroll container intersects
its `rect` with the existing `clip` instead of replacing it; preserve the
existing fallback when the rect is invalid. Ensure descendants retain the
intersection of all active ancestor clips so clipped children are not treated as
visible tap targets.
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| put the phone back under remote control. | ||
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| The daemon also does this on its own: after 10 minutes without agent activity or a | ||
| The daemon also does this on its own: after 5 minutes (doubling, up to an hour, when the phone is wanted back soon after a release) without agent activity or a |
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win
Clarify the effective maximum for the default. With the 300-second default and three allowed doublings, the idle window reaches 40 minutes, not one hour. The one-hour value is only an upper bound.
docs/guide.md#L89-L89: Clarify that the default reaches a maximum of 40 minutes.docs/guide.zh-CN.md#L65-L65: Make the same correction in the Chinese guide.
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Review comment at @docs/guide.md at line 89:
Clarify that the default idle window starts at five minutes and, after three
doublings, reaches a maximum of 40 minutes; one hour is only the upper bound.
Update docs/guide.md at line 89 and docs/guide.zh-CN.md at line 65 to state this
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Learned from callstack/agent-device, and measured against it on the same USB iPhone 13 (iOS 27). Everything in this PR also works with WDA; the native runner lands separately.
Lite tree reads
/sourceskips WDA'sisVisible. On the Settings root this takes WDA from 1225 ms to 165 ms.visible:false(agent-device's visibility fold).PHONE_REMOTE_SOURCE_VISIBLE=1restores the size-probed full read from fix(elements): read huge trees without isVisible instead of killing the runner (#44) #140.visible:false.Compact text for models (MCP)
phone_elementsand observed actions now return one line per row, e.g.#47 [Button] "通用". The JSON is unchanged asstructuredContent.Taps
ambiguous. This applies in both the daemon and MCP; Settings' Button 通用 > StaticText 通用 was the case on hardware.Idle release
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