Building a human-in-the-loop browser workflow for PhotoCraft AI

说明与用途

PhotoCraft AI 的工作流现在通过检查 CLI 退出码和输出，避免在超时但操作成功时重试，并使用唯一数据库约束防止重复，同时单独处理浏览器状态持久化。

问题

Timeouts in browser automation can falsely indicate a failed action, leading to unnecessary retries and potential duplicate side effects.

结果

The workflow now distinguishes between client-side timeouts and actual failures, preventing unnecessary retries and duplicate actions while allowing human review before publication.

工作流

• Commit the "submitting" state before clicking the final button to mark an external attempt.
• Check both the CLI exit code and the captured output for error markers before retrying.
• Persist browser state separately and reimport it to restore markers after a restart.
• Use a database uniqueness constraint to avoid duplicate local records.
• Reconcile ambiguous outcomes by inspecting the page before deciding on a retry.
• Ensure human review occurs before publishing final fields.
• Maintain tests to verify that reimporting, restarts, timeouts, and restricted opportunities behave correctly.

证据

During a local browser-automation test on macOS, a CLI click returned a timeout. The shell process still returned exit code 0. Inspection of the resulting browser state showed that the click's intended effect had occurred.

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Commit submitting before clicking the final button. If the process crashes, the next run sees an unfinished external attempt rather than a fresh task.

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For the CLI version used in this test, an execution wrapper checks both: if proc.returncode or "### Error" in result: raise WorkflowError...

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Another local test closed and reopened Chrome with the same persistent Profile. localStorage survived, but the test cookie did not. The cause has not been isolated.

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