Pup - the AI's own browser

Hard rule: a window is never moved on-screen until z-bottom is confirmed; under parallel-open load a lagged hwnd lookup used to place an un-bottomed window on top of the user's work; now it retries up to 8x then stays off-screen as an honest park-failed, and park-failed windows self-heal on any status query.

Badge calls now check AD's real result and log failures instead of silently swallowing them, and the tab-path badge debounce only arms on success so a failed badge retries on the next call.

Self-heal windows stranded off-screen by older builds at reattach and on the open_tab/switch_tab hot path, re-badge debounced so long-lived shared windows like adom-shotlog stay clickable and badged; teach anonymous creators the owner param; enrich open_tab and switch_tab describe entries.

Fix the flash 'pending vs cleared' focus latch: install the window-focus hook into the CURRENT document too, not only future navigations, so windows the user already clicked report flash cleared and the still-unseen window is identifiable programmatically.

Park places the window via the OS maximize (CDP windowState) instead of a screen-size probe that could fail mid-navigation and produce 1600x900 windows; move to primary monitor then maximize, no activation.

Fix the user-click detection: use GetForegroundWindow (the OS truth) instead of document.hasFocus which lies for CDP-created windows and false-fired user-foreground on every open; the z-bottom PS call now checks foreground first at zero extra cost.

Direct-API park: CDP setWindowBounds addresses the exact window (parking the wrong window impossible), AD find_window replaces EnumWindows PS, park runs at newPage so no wait loop, verification checks position not focus, badge fires the instant the park lands.

Close the launch gap: a taskbar click during the first seconds now brings the window up on-screen at top full-size instead of activating it invisibly off-screen; unambiguous because no-startup-window means only the user can make the window foreground.

Eliminate the focus steal at the source: background launches use --no-startup-window so the window is created by a background process the OS denies foreground to; the stability watch, timers, and re-parks are deleted, so a user taskbar click at any moment sticks.

Replace the blind-timer background park with one event-driven watchdog: wait for the window to exist, park once deactivate-first, re-park Chrome self-raises within 50ms, exit after 500ms of calm; afterwards nothing ever re-parks so a user taskbar click sticks; open response awaits the self-verified verdict.

Remove the GetLastInputInfo user-click heuristic, which false-fired whenever the user was typing anywhere and left fresh windows small and foreground; launch passes always park full-size, late re-parks use a simple pup-is-foreground check, centered-80 placement removed.

Revert minimize (it broke screenshots, visibilityState hidden hangs captureScreenshot); background is on-screen z-bottom with EnumWindows real-window handle, deactivate-then-park to avoid pop, and a short 1.2s re-park window so user clicks are not fought.

Background state is now MINIMIZE instead of on-screen z-bottom: minimizing hands focus back automatically and removes the re-park retry loop that fought user clicks, so a taskbar click restores the window and it stays; restore rect set on-screen; screenshots still work via disabled occlusion.

Resolve the real browser window via EnumWindows (largest visible Chrome_WidgetWin_1) instead of the flaky MainWindowHandle, which returned a hidden helper window on some boxes and left pup windows stuck off-screen so clicking their taskbar button showed nothing.

User-AI window balance: a deliberate user click now brings the pup window on-screen and shows it instead of activating it off-screen invisibly; browser_alert_window stop truly clears the Win11 flash tint via off-screen activation; programmatic per-window flash state added.

Respect a deliberate user raise: clicking a background pup window to watch a page load no longer forces it back to the background (open-time re-park now detects a real user click via GetLastInputInfo and latches off).

• v1.8.42: pup taskbar badge = the actual Adom favicon (was a hand-composited tile) (John Lauer)

• v1.8.41: pup taskbar badge is now the favicon-style tile — white Adom leaves on a teal rounded-rect (was bare white leaves) (John Lauer)

• v1.8.40: auto-badge pup windows with the white Adom leaves via AD-core desktop_taskbar (custom PNG overlay, AD >=1.9.106) — resolves the window by its (session: id) title, cross-process, on every open (John Lauer)

• v1.8.39: remove in-bridge ITaskbarList3 overlay (in-process-only, doesn't badge the browser's window) — taskbar badge is an AD-core desktop_taskbar capability; filing a pup-distinct-badge request to AD instead (John Lauer)