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This PR fixes the first half of #673.

/health reported browsers: "ready" whenever the pool object existed. The pool is created at startup, even when no browser engine is installed. So a fresh install with no engine looked healthy.

The probe now checks the engine on disk through browserInstalledOnDisk(). src/daemon/health-check.ts gains an optional browserInstalled input. It reports browsers: "not_installed" when the value is false. src/daemon/http-server.ts passes the real probe.

Field mapping:

  • Pool missing: browsers: "not_initialized".
  • Pool present, engine missing: browsers: "not_installed".
  • Pool present, engine installed: browsers: "ready".

Overall status is unchanged. A missing engine is a supported state, because the engine installs lazily on first use. A default core daemon still reports healthy, so wigolo health still exits 0 (the D1 contract).

The input is optional. A caller that cannot probe keeps the old pool-presence behaviour. No existing call site changes meaning.

Tests: 6 new cases in tests/unit/daemon/health-check.test.ts (26 total, all pass). npx tsc --noEmit is clean.

Part 2 (doctor --json) shipped in #676.

Fixes #673.

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  • Bug Fixes
    • GET /health now reports browsers as not_installed when a required browser engine is missing, distinguishing this from browsers that have not been initialized.
    • An operational daemon can remain healthy when a required browser engine is not installed; the engine can still be installed on first use.
    • A daemon with an active SearXNG backend continues to report a healthy overall status when a required browser engine is missing.

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The health endpoint now checks whether required browser engines are installed on disk. Its report distinguishes an absent engine from an uninitialized browser pool, while the daemon can remain healthy when an engine is not installed.

Changes: Health reporting

Layer / File(s) Summary
Configured browser installation probe
src/fetch/browser-acquire.ts, tests/unit/fetch/browser-acquire-disk.test.ts
The probe checks executable paths for configured browser types. It defaults to Chromium, uses Chromium for an empty list, and returns false if a path check throws. Tests cover these cases.
Browser availability health reporting
src/daemon/health-check.ts, src/daemon/http-server.ts, tests/unit/daemon/health-check.test.ts, tests/unit/daemon/http-server.test.ts, CHANGELOG.md
The health probe reports not_installed when a browser pool exists but a required engine is absent. The HTTP handler passes the installation result to the probe. Daemon health rules and tests cover the absent-engine state, including an active SearXNG backend. The changelog records the response.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: Medium

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant DaemonHttpServer
  participant browserReadyForWork
  participant probeHealth
  DaemonHttpServer->>browserReadyForWork: Check configured browser engines
  browserReadyForWork-->>DaemonHttpServer: Return installation result
  DaemonHttpServer->>probeHealth: Pass pool and installation result
  probeHealth-->>DaemonHttpServer: Return browser and daemon status
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Possibly related PRs

  • KnockOutEZ/wigolo#676: Changes doctor --json reporting for missing-browser checks; this PR reports browser availability through /health.
  • KnockOutEZ/wigolo#692: Changes which browser engines warmup installs; this PR checks Chromium and configured engines before reporting readiness.
  • KnockOutEZ/wigolo#675: Reports browser acquisition state in fetch results; this PR reports on-disk browser state through /health.

Suggested reviewers: knockoutez

Merge Risk: Low · up to bb862

/health now reports browsers as not_installed when a required engine is missing, which fixes the main readiness problem. One narrow gap remains: an install made without the headless shell can still show as ready, though the doctor command detects it. This is bounded and documented, so the change is mergeable with that awareness.

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Linked Issues check Warning [#673] The /health objective is implemented. The changed health probe and HTTP server distinguish not_initialized, not_installed, and ready, while the tests cover the browser states and preser… Implement the [#673] doctor --json change in this PR, or provide verified in-tree evidence that the follow-up implementation is included. Add automated tests for failed lazy checks, a non-contradictory top-level status, and the supported …
Docstring Coverage Warning Docstring coverage is 50.00% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff with cyclomatic complexity of at least 2. Documenta… Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.
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Title check Passed The title clearly and concisely describes the main change: reporting browsers as "not_installed" when no required engine is installed.
Out of Scope Changes check Passed The browser acquisition probes, health-server integration, health tests, acquisition tests, and changelog entry support the /health objective in [#673]. Checking Chromium together with configured br…
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The browser acquisition probes, health-server integration, health tests, acquisition tests, and changelog entry support the /health objective in [#673]. Checking Chromium together with configured browser types directly supports accurate readiness for browser work. No unrelated change is demonstrated.

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[#673] The /health objective is implemented. The changed health probe and HTTP server distinguish not_initialized, not_installed, and ready, while the tests cover the browser states and preserve the lazy-install healthy status. The direct issue also requires non-contradictory doctor --json output when checks are failed. The src/cli/doctor.ts diff is empty, and the current PR description defers this requirement to #676.

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Implement the [#673] doctor --json change in this PR, or provide verified in-tree evidence that the follow-up implementation is included. Add automated tests for failed lazy checks, a non-contradictory top-level status, and the supported exit code 0.

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The pool object is created at startup whether or not an engine exists, so pool presence reported browsers=ready on a broken install (KnockOutEZ#673). Probe the executable on disk and report not_installed instead. Overall status is unchanged, because the engine installs lazily on first use. Callers that cannot probe keep the pool-presence semantics.
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Synchronous disk probe runs on every /health request.

browserInstalledOnDisk() calls chromium.executablePath() and existsSync(). Both are synchronous. /health is a request-handling path that supervisors and doctor poll often. Each call blocks the event loop for one filesystem stat. The cost is small, but the blocking pattern is repeated on every poll.

Cache the result for a short time (for example, a few seconds). Alternatively, use an async fs.promises.access check. Cache only a true result for longer. Then a later install is still detected quickly.

Based on learnings: avoid synchronous fs functions (e.g., existsSync) in server-side/request-handling code paths. Prefer async alternatives.

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`/health` called `browserInstalledOnDisk()` on every request, including the
case where `browserPool` is null and the result is unused. Guard the probe on
pool presence, and state in a comment why the value is not cached: one
`existsSync` is cheap, and a cached value would keep `/health` stale right
after a lazy install, which is the state KnockOutEZ#673 exists to report.

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- Line 268: Update the `/health` browser status flow to check installation for
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Follow-up commit: a5cce4ad.

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CodeRabbit, src/daemon/http-server.ts:264-265 — synchronous disk probe on every /health request. Accepted in part.

CodeRabbit pre-merge check, docstring coverage. No change. The new browserInstalled input has a doc comment, and browserInstalledOnDisk() was already documented. The check reports a percentage over the whole diff. I did not add docstrings to untouched functions to move that number.

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The lint + build + unit (windows-latest) job timed out in tests/unit/cli/warmup-setup-json-contract.test.ts:99. This PR does not touch that test.

  • The same test passes locally in 1.7 s against the 20 s budget. 90 tests pass across warmup-setup-json-contract, warmup and health-check.
  • The same Windows job also failed on main at 5698c881, on a different test (FieldRenderer.saved-check.test.tsx). Both failures are runner load, not code.
  • I could not re-run the failed job myself, because I have no admin rights on this repository. The new commit started a fresh run instead.

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  • New run 42928625590: all 14 jobs pass, including lint + build + unit on Windows, macOS and Ubuntu.
  • npx tsc --noEmit: no errors.
  • health-check, http-server and cli/health tests: 72 pass.

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The health probe called browserInstalledOnDisk with no arguments, so it always resolved Playwright's chromium executable. With WIGOLO_BROWSER_TYPES=firefox, /health reported browsers ready while the configured engine was missing.

browserInstalledOnDisk now takes the configured browser types and checks every engine in that list. The daemon passes browserPool.getConfiguredTypes(). An empty list falls back to chromium, which is the engine the lazy installer fetches.

Adds tests for the default engine, a firefox-only configuration, a mixed list, the empty-list fallback, and a throwing executablePath.
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Follow-up commit: afe7b41.

CodeRabbit, src/daemon/http-server.ts:268 - the probe checked chromium only. Accepted.

The probe now checks every configured engine.

  • browserInstalledOnDisk(types) reads the executable path for each configured type. It returns true only when every path exists.
  • The daemon passes browserPool.getConfiguredTypes(). With WIGOLO_BROWSER_TYPES=firefox, /health now checks firefox.
  • An empty list falls back to chromium. That is the engine the lazy installer fetches.
  • probeHealth is unchanged. A missing configured engine reports browsers=not_installed. The overall status keeps its current rule.

Probe results on afe7b41:

  • npx tsc --noEmit: no errors.
  • New file tests/unit/fetch/browser-acquire-disk.test.ts: 5 tests pass. They cover the default engine, chromium installed with firefox configured and missing, a mixed list, the empty-list fallback, and an executablePath that throws.
  • tests/unit/daemon/health-check.test.ts plus tests/unit/daemon/http-server.test.ts: 64 tests pass.
  • Total: 69 tests pass.

The new head starts a fresh CI run. The windows-latest notes from my earlier comment still apply.

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The browser tier calls the acquisition gate before the pool launches. That gate
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With WIGOLO_BROWSER_TYPES=firefox and chromium absent, health reported ready
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Health now probes every engine a browser fetch needs.

The browser tier calls the acquisition gate before the pool launches. That gate probes Chromium. The configured pool types alone were not enough, because a Firefox-only install reported ready while fetches blocked.

requiredBrowserTypes and browserReadyForWork in src/fetch/browser-acquire.ts build and probe that set. http-server.ts calls them. The browsers field now documents the presence contract.

Tests: 73 passed across the health, acquire, and http-server suites. tsc --noEmit is clean.

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