---
id: ADHOC-2026-10-13
type: workplan
title: "Register existing headless browser tooling for a worker trial"
domain: infotech
repo: reuse-surface
status: finished
owner: codex
created: "2026-10-13"
updated: "2026-10-13"
state_hub_workstream_id: "052a02f6-25ae-54cd-a61e-49f9e5dc1120"
---

## Register browser automation and verify discovery

```task
id: ADHOC-2026-10-13-T01
status: done
priority: medium
state_hub_task_id: "e35c0122-9afe-5007-b1f8-278d628b94ba"
```

User requested the evidence and recommendation from the browser-tooling assessment
be included in reuse-surface for a subsequent worker trial. Add a capability entry
and index metadata, distinguish implemented examples from optional dependencies
and plans, give scoped Playwright/Chromium guidance, and validate discovery.
The consuming worker performs the browser trial separately.

Completed 2026-10-13:

- Added `capability.infotech.headless-browser` at D3/A2/C2/R2, with four
  revision-pinned implementation examples, scoped guidance and trial steps.
- Added local index metadata and regenerated the catalog, graph and federation
  (66 capabilities). Local federation now reads this checkout's own index;
  hosted registration remains unchanged and needs publication of the new content.
- `query --keyword browser` and `query --keyword playwright` each return the
  browser entry. All cited local evidence paths and Markdown links resolve.
- `validate --relations --fail-on-warnings` and graph checks pass. Existing
  registry, federation, plan-check and hosted-plan-check suites: **76 passed**.
- Documented the existing matcher limitation: short-intent `plan-check` includes
  this candidate but still returns `new`; use the explicit keyword query for the
  worker trial. No matcher behavior or browser execution was changed or claimed.

## Publish and synchronize browser discovery

```task
id: ADHOC-2026-10-13-T02
status: done
priority: medium
state_hub_task_id: "2a8633d9-5664-5df8-9fd5-16b1d4bef91f"
```

User explicitly authorized publication, sync and commit on 2026-10-13. Commit and
push the registry content, refresh the hosted federation, verify that the hosted
entry and published source document are accessible, and synchronize work records.

Publication verified 2026-10-13:

- Content commit `64e1674` pushed to `origin/main`.
- Published source document fetched from
  `https://forgejo.coulomb.social/coulomb/reuse-surface/raw/branch/main/registry/capabilities/capability.infotech.headless-browser.md`
  matches the committed local file byte for byte.
- Refreshed `https://reuse.coulomb.social/v1/federated?refresh=true`;
  `composed_at: 2026-10-13T11:56:56+00:00`, `stale: false`, 66 capabilities,
  exactly one `capability.infotech.headless-browser`, no federation warnings.
- Hosted `plan-check --intent "headless browser" --no-llm` includes the entry.
  Its documented scoring limitation remains; publication does not change ranking.
- Registry validation and graph checks passed again before publication; the
  previously recorded 76-test result covers the unchanged implementation.
- State Hub indexed both completed tasks. Its consistency tool required reopening
  the finished workstream before indexing T02; the record is closed again after
  that sync. Generated writeback files are committed with this publication record.