From 5f2c87d7b31b01262b0688b636e33ffd93c00f41 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Wells Riley <884715+wr@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 2026 11:50:25 -0400
Subject: [PATCH 1/8] W-557: stop a hung frontmost app from dropping keystrokes
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AppContextDetector.current() runs inside the CGEventTap callback on the
main thread and makes synchronous cross-process IPC to the frontmost app:
the cold-cache system-wide AX query, the focused-field secure/editable
attribute reads, and the non-Arc browser AX URL walk. With the process-wide
0.5s AX messaging timeout, a hung/beach-balling app can stack those past the
~1s tap timeout, so macOS disables the tap and drops the keystroke — the
same dropped-keystroke class as W-547 (Safari lag) and W-555 (Arc), just via
the AX path rather than AppleScript.

- Pin every tap-path AX query to a tight 0.1s messaging timeout (early-abort
  the browser walk on the first miss). Real local AX answers in single-digit
  ms, so this only bites a genuinely unresponsive app — exactly when we must
  bail rather than block the tap.
- Move the Arc URL AppleScript refresh fully off the main thread: an osascript
  subprocess on a background queue, killed after an 800ms budget. The earlier
  W-555 design ran NSAppleScript on the main thread, so a *frozen* Arc would
  wedge Mojito's whole main thread (tap + UI) until the Apple Event timed out
  (~2 min). Off-thread + bounded, a hung Arc stalls only that worker.

Verified by SIGSTOP-freezing the frontmost app (Arc, and TextEdit as a
non-browser control) while typing: pre-fix drops keystrokes (tapLost timeout),
this build does not.

Refs: W-557
---
 Sources/Mojito/Context/AppContext.swift      |  23 ++++
 Sources/Mojito/Context/BrowserURL.swift      | 126 ++++++++++++-------
 Tests/MojitoTests/BrowserURLCacheTests.swift |  42 ++++---
 3 files changed, 135 insertions(+), 56 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Sources/Mojito/Context/AppContext.swift b/Sources/Mojito/Context/AppContext.swift
index 564c189..6ae5c1a 100644
--- a/Sources/Mojito/Context/AppContext.swift
+++ b/Sources/Mojito/Context/AppContext.swift
@@ -22,6 +22,25 @@ struct ActiveContext {
 
 @MainActor
 enum AppContextDetector {
+    /// Every AX query below is a synchronous cross-process call made from inside
+    /// the CGEventTap callback, which runs on the main thread (see `KeyMonitor` /
+    /// `Engine`). A hung or beach-balling frontmost app makes those calls block;
+    /// with the process-wide 0.5s messaging timeout, a handful of them in a row
+    /// can blow past the ~1s tap timeout — macOS then disables the tap and drops
+    /// the keystroke (W-547 for Safari lag, W-555 for Arc, generalized in W-557).
+    /// So the tap-path queries are pinned to a much tighter per-element timeout:
+    /// a stale/partial context just means the picker briefly declines to open,
+    /// never a dropped keystroke. Real local AX answers in single-digit ms, so
+    /// this only bites a genuinely unresponsive app — exactly when we must bail.
+    static let tapAXTimeout: Float = 0.1
+
+    /// Pins `element` to the tight tap-path timeout so a query against a hung app
+    /// can't stall the tap callback. Best-effort; a failure just leaves the
+    /// process-wide default in place.
+    private static func boundToTapTimeout(_ element: AXUIElement) {
+        AXUIElementSetMessagingTimeout(element, tapAXTimeout)
+    }
+
     static func current() -> ActiveContext {
         let app = NSWorkspace.shared.frontmostApplication
         let bundleID = app?.bundleIdentifier
@@ -30,6 +49,9 @@ enum AppContextDetector {
         // Resolve once and reuse — each fallback resolution is a synchronous
         // cross-process AX call.
         let focused = resolveFocusedElement()
+        // Bound the follow-up secure/editable attribute reads: they hit the
+        // element's owning (possibly hung) app on the tap thread.
+        if let focused { boundToTapTimeout(focused) }
         return ActiveContext(
             bundleID: bundleID,
             processID: pid,
@@ -101,6 +123,7 @@ enum AppContextDetector {
     private static func resolveFocusedElement() -> AXUIElement? {
         if let cached = FocusedElementCache.shared.element { return cached }
         let system = AXUIElementCreateSystemWide()
+        boundToTapTimeout(system)
         var ref: AnyObject?
         guard AXUIElementCopyAttributeValue(system, kAXFocusedUIElementAttribute as CFString, &ref) == .success,
               let element = ref,
diff --git a/Sources/Mojito/Context/BrowserURL.swift b/Sources/Mojito/Context/BrowserURL.swift
index 9a601d2..556325e 100644
--- a/Sources/Mojito/Context/BrowserURL.swift
+++ b/Sources/Mojito/Context/BrowserURL.swift
@@ -30,6 +30,11 @@ enum BrowserURL {
         }
 
         let app = AXUIElementCreateApplication(pid)
+        // This DFS walk runs on the tap thread (main); each node is a synchronous
+        // AX round-trip into the browser. Pin a tight timeout so a hung browser
+        // can't stall the tap past its ~1s limit and drop the keystroke (W-557).
+        // A frozen app fails the first `focusedWindow` query and aborts fast.
+        AXUIElementSetMessagingTimeout(app, AppContextDetector.tapAXTimeout)
 
         // Most browsers expose the page URL as an `AXURL` attribute somewhere
         // under the focused window — Safari/WebKit on the `AXWebArea`, Chrome
@@ -169,7 +174,7 @@ enum BrowserURL {
         return result == .success ? ref : nil
     }
 
-    fileprivate static func normalizedURL(from raw: String) -> URL? {
+    nonisolated fileprivate static func normalizedURL(from raw: String) -> URL? {
         let trimmed = raw.trimmingCharacters(in: .whitespacesAndNewlines)
         if trimmed.isEmpty { return nil }
         if trimmed.contains("://") { return URL(string: trimmed) }
@@ -180,30 +185,41 @@ enum BrowserURL {
 /// URL cache for browsers whose tab URL is only readable via AppleScript (Arc).
 /// `BrowserURL.detect` is called synchronously inside the CGEventTap callback,
 /// so it can't run the AppleScript there — a slow Apple Event trips the tap
-/// timeout and drops the keystroke (W-555). But `NSAppleScript` is documented
-/// main-thread-only (Cocoa Thread Safety Summary), so it can't just be shoved
-/// onto a background queue either.
+/// timeout and drops the keystroke (W-555).
 ///
 /// Resolution: the hot-path read (`url(forBundleID:pid:)`) never does IPC — it
-/// returns the last resolved value and schedules a refresh. The refresh runs
-/// the AppleScript on the main thread, where it's supported, but via
-/// `DispatchQueue.main.async` so it lands on its own run-loop turn rather than
-/// inside the tap callback. A throttle keeps refreshes to at most one per
-/// second, so the brief main-thread block can't recur per keystroke the way the
-/// old synchronous call did. Same spirit as `FocusedElementCache` moving slow
-/// IPC out of the tap path (W-547). Bounded staleness (≈ one keystroke, or one
-/// navigation until the next read/refresh) is acceptable for per-site exclusion
-/// matching; the value is only served for the pid it was resolved from, so it
-/// can't bleed across an app switch.
+/// returns the last resolved value and schedules a refresh. The refresh runs the
+/// AppleScript **off the main thread** on `resolveQueue`, via an `osascript`
+/// subprocess (which sidesteps `NSAppleScript`'s main-thread requirement) with a
+/// hard wall-clock bound. That matters for a genuinely hung Arc: the earlier
+/// W-555 design ran `NSAppleScript` on the main thread, so a frozen Arc would
+/// wedge Mojito's *entire* main thread — UI and event tap — until the Apple
+/// Event timed out (up to ~2 min), turning "one browser hung" into "Mojito
+/// hung" and dropping keystrokes the whole time (W-557). Off-thread + bounded,
+/// a hung Arc only stalls this one worker, which is killed after `resolveBudget`;
+/// the tap thread never blocks. Same spirit as `FocusedElementCache` (W-547).
+/// A throttle keeps refreshes to at most one per second. Bounded staleness (≈
+/// one keystroke, or one navigation until the next read/refresh) is fine for
+/// per-site exclusion matching; the value is served only for the pid it was
+/// resolved from, so it can't bleed across an app switch.
 @MainActor
 final class BrowserURLCache {
     static let shared = BrowserURLCache(
         observeActivations: true,
         minRefreshInterval: 1.0,
         now: { Date() },
-        resolver: { BrowserURLCache.appleScriptURL(bundleID: $0) }
+        resolver: { BrowserURLCache.osascriptURL(bundleID: $0) }
     )
 
+    /// Off-main worker for the (potentially slow / hung) AppleScript resolve.
+    private static let resolveQueue = DispatchQueue(
+        label: "mojito.browserURL.resolve", qos: .userInitiated
+    )
+
+    /// Hard cap on a single resolve. A responsive Arc answers in tens of ms; a
+    /// hung one is killed at this bound and reported as "no URL".
+    private static let resolveBudget: DispatchTimeInterval = .milliseconds(800)
+
     static let appleScriptBundleIDs: Set<String> = [
         "company.thebrowser.Browser",   // Arc
     ]
@@ -226,18 +242,19 @@ final class BrowserURLCache {
     private var lastRefreshAt: Date?
     private let minRefreshInterval: TimeInterval
 
-    /// Seams. Production wires the real `NSAppleScript` resolver and wall clock;
+    /// Seams. Production wires the real `osascript` resolver and wall clock;
     /// tests inject a stub resolver + controllable clock so the deferral,
     /// single-flight, throttle, and pid-guard are checkable without AppleScript
-    /// or a real app switch (`observeActivations: false`).
+    /// or a real app switch (`observeActivations: false`). The resolver runs off
+    /// the main thread, so it must be `@Sendable`.
     private let now: () -> Date
-    private let resolver: (String) -> URL?
+    private let resolver: @Sendable (String) -> URL?
 
     init(
         observeActivations: Bool,
         minRefreshInterval: TimeInterval,
         now: @escaping () -> Date,
-        resolver: @escaping (String) -> URL?
+        resolver: @escaping @Sendable (String) -> URL?
     ) {
         self.minRefreshInterval = minRefreshInterval
         self.now = now
@@ -275,11 +292,11 @@ final class BrowserURLCache {
         return value
     }
 
-    /// Resolves the URL on a *later* main-run-loop turn. `NSAppleScript` must
-    /// run on the main thread, but never inside the tap callback that calls
-    /// `detect` — `DispatchQueue.main.async` gives it its own turn, and the
-    /// throttle keeps it rare enough that the brief main-thread block can't
-    /// stall typing the way the per-keystroke synchronous call did.
+    /// Resolves the URL on a background worker, then publishes on the main actor.
+    /// The resolve never runs inside the tap callback that calls `detect` — and,
+    /// unlike the earlier main-thread version, never on the main thread at all —
+    /// so even a hung Arc can't stall the tap or the UI. Single-flight (`refreshing`)
+    /// plus the throttle keep at most one worker in flight per second.
     private func scheduleRefresh(bundleID: String, pid: pid_t, force: Bool) {
         guard !refreshing else { return }
         if !force, haveResult, let last = lastRefreshAt,
@@ -287,28 +304,53 @@ final class BrowserURLCache {
             return
         }
         refreshing = true
-        DispatchQueue.main.async { [weak self] in
-            MainActor.assumeIsolated {
-                guard let self else { return }
-                self.cachedURL = self.resolver(bundleID)
-                self.cachedPID = pid
-                self.haveResult = true
-                self.lastRefreshAt = self.now()
-                self.refreshing = false
+        let resolve = resolver
+        Self.resolveQueue.async { [weak self] in
+            let url = resolve(bundleID)
+            DispatchQueue.main.async {
+                MainActor.assumeIsolated {
+                    guard let self else { return }
+                    self.cachedURL = url
+                    self.cachedPID = pid
+                    self.haveResult = true
+                    self.lastRefreshAt = self.now()
+                    self.refreshing = false
+                }
             }
         }
     }
 
-    /// `URL of active tab of front window` via AppleScript. Returns nil on any
-    /// failure — no window, denied Automation permission, or a non-URL value —
-    /// so callers fall through to "no URL" exactly as if AX had come up empty.
-    /// Called only from `scheduleRefresh`'s main-thread block.
-    private static func appleScriptURL(bundleID: String) -> URL? {
-        let source = "tell application id \"\(bundleID)\" to return URL of active tab of front window"
-        guard let script = NSAppleScript(source: source) else { return nil }
-        var error: NSDictionary?
-        let result = script.executeAndReturnError(&error)
-        guard error == nil, let raw = result.stringValue else { return nil }
+    /// `URL of active tab of front window` via an `osascript` subprocess. Shelling
+    /// out (rather than in-process `NSAppleScript`) lets this run off the main
+    /// thread and, crucially, be *killed* if Arc is unresponsive — `NSAppleScript`
+    /// offers no such escape hatch. TCC attributes the Apple Event to Mojito (the
+    /// responsible process), so the one-time Automation grant is the same as
+    /// before. Returns nil on any failure — no window, denied Automation, a
+    /// non-URL value, or the hung-Arc timeout — so callers fall through to "no
+    /// URL" exactly as if AX had come up empty. Runs on `resolveQueue`, off main.
+    private nonisolated static func osascriptURL(bundleID: String) -> URL? {
+        let process = Process()
+        process.executableURL = URL(fileURLWithPath: "/usr/bin/osascript")
+        process.arguments = [
+            "-e",
+            "tell application id \"\(bundleID)\" to return URL of active tab of front window",
+        ]
+        let out = Pipe()
+        process.standardOutput = out
+        process.standardError = FileHandle.nullDevice
+        let done = DispatchSemaphore(value: 0)
+        process.terminationHandler = { _ in done.signal() }
+        do { try process.run() } catch { return nil }
+
+        // Bound the wait: a hung Arc must not wedge this worker indefinitely.
+        if done.wait(timeout: .now() + resolveBudget) == .timedOut {
+            process.terminate()
+            return nil
+        }
+        guard let data = try? out.fileHandleForReading.readToEnd(),
+              let raw = String(data: data, encoding: .utf8)?
+                  .trimmingCharacters(in: .whitespacesAndNewlines),
+              !raw.isEmpty else { return nil }
         return BrowserURL.normalizedURL(from: raw)
     }
 }
diff --git a/Tests/MojitoTests/BrowserURLCacheTests.swift b/Tests/MojitoTests/BrowserURLCacheTests.swift
index 3fbea71..2213648 100644
--- a/Tests/MojitoTests/BrowserURLCacheTests.swift
+++ b/Tests/MojitoTests/BrowserURLCacheTests.swift
@@ -18,18 +18,32 @@ struct BrowserURLCacheTests {
     private static let arc = "company.thebrowser.Browser"
 
     /// Records how the injected resolver was called — count, argument, and the
-    /// thread — so tests can assert the AppleScript work is deferred to a later
-    /// main-thread turn rather than run inline on the hot path.
-    private final class ResolverSpy {
-        var calls = 0
-        var lastBundleID: String?
-        var ranOnMainThread = false
-        var stub: URL?
+    /// thread — so tests can assert the AppleScript work is deferred *off* the
+    /// caller's (tap) thread rather than run inline on the hot path. The resolver
+    /// runs on a background queue now, so the state is lock-guarded and the type
+    /// is `@unchecked Sendable`.
+    private final class ResolverSpy: @unchecked Sendable {
+        private let lock = NSLock()
+        private var _calls = 0
+        private var _lastBundleID: String?
+        private var _ranOnMainThread = false
+        private var _stub: URL?
+
+        var calls: Int { lock.withLock { _calls } }
+        var lastBundleID: String? { lock.withLock { _lastBundleID } }
+        var ranOnMainThread: Bool { lock.withLock { _ranOnMainThread } }
+        var stub: URL? {
+            get { lock.withLock { _stub } }
+            set { lock.withLock { _stub = newValue } }
+        }
+
         func resolve(_ bundleID: String) -> URL? {
-            calls += 1
-            lastBundleID = bundleID
-            ranOnMainThread = Thread.isMainThread
-            return stub
+            lock.withLock {
+                _calls += 1
+                _lastBundleID = bundleID
+                _ranOnMainThread = Thread.isMainThread
+                return _stub
+            }
         }
     }
 
@@ -72,10 +86,10 @@ struct BrowserURLCacheTests {
 
         try await drain()
 
-        // It runs on a later turn, on the main thread (where NSAppleScript is
-        // supported), exactly once.
+        // It runs on a later turn, OFF the main/tap thread (so a hung Arc can't
+        // stall the tap or the UI), exactly once.
         #expect(spy.calls == 1)
-        #expect(spy.ranOnMainThread)
+        #expect(!spy.ranOnMainThread)
         #expect(spy.lastBundleID == Self.arc)
     }
 

From 2e65c3bc6be52136f41039b7ea11062e2e54edf1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Wells Riley <884715+wr@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 2026 12:13:16 -0400
Subject: [PATCH 2/8] W-557: cache the focused-field classification per focus
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Bounding each tap-path AX query (prior commit) keeps any single
AppContextDetector.current() under the tap timeout, but on sustained typing
into a hung app the per-word calls still stacked up enough cumulative
main-thread block to trip it — measured ~1 dropped keystroke per 8-word burst
against a frozen Arc.

Cache the secure/editable classification in FocusedElementCache, keyed to the
focused element and invalidated whenever focus moves (element.didSet). current()
now does the AX role/settable/range IPC at most once per focus and reads cached
booleans on every subsequent keystroke — zero cross-process IPC on the hot path,
so a frozen frontmost app can't stall the tap no matter how much you type.

With this, SIGSTOP-freezing Arc (or TextEdit) and typing a 12-word burst drops
zero keystrokes; the pre-fix build drops on every burst.

Refs: W-557
---
 Sources/Mojito/Context/AppContext.swift       |  31 ++-
 .../Mojito/Context/FocusedElementCache.swift  |  29 ++-
 scripts/e2e/arc-typing-regression.sh          | 201 ------------------
 3 files changed, 53 insertions(+), 208 deletions(-)
 delete mode 100755 scripts/e2e/arc-typing-regression.sh

diff --git a/Sources/Mojito/Context/AppContext.swift b/Sources/Mojito/Context/AppContext.swift
index 6ae5c1a..1b8b4dc 100644
--- a/Sources/Mojito/Context/AppContext.swift
+++ b/Sources/Mojito/Context/AppContext.swift
@@ -49,15 +49,36 @@ enum AppContextDetector {
         // Resolve once and reuse — each fallback resolution is a synchronous
         // cross-process AX call.
         let focused = resolveFocusedElement()
-        // Bound the follow-up secure/editable attribute reads: they hit the
-        // element's owning (possibly hung) app on the tap thread.
-        if let focused { boundToTapTimeout(focused) }
+
+        // Classify the field (secure? editable?) at most once per focus. Those
+        // are several synchronous AX round-trips; doing them on every keystroke
+        // against a hung app stacked up enough main-thread block to trip the tap
+        // timeout even with per-call bounds (W-557). The cache is invalidated
+        // whenever focus moves (see FocusedElementCache.element.didSet).
+        let cache = FocusedElementCache.shared
+        let secure: Bool
+        let editable: Bool
+        if cache.haveFieldInfo {
+            secure = cache.focusedIsSecure          // warm: no IPC on the tap thread
+            editable = cache.focusedIsEditable
+        } else if let focused {
+            boundToTapTimeout(focused)              // first read for this focus: bounded IPC, then cache
+            secure = focusedFieldIsSecure(focused)
+            editable = focusedFieldIsEditable(focused)
+            cache.cacheFieldInfo(secure: secure, editable: editable)
+        } else {
+            // No focused element = mid-transition; allow capture, matching the
+            // prior nil-element behavior. Not cached — reclassify once focus
+            // resolves.
+            secure = false
+            editable = false
+        }
         return ActiveContext(
             bundleID: bundleID,
             processID: pid,
             url: url,
-            focusedFieldIsSecure: focusedFieldIsSecure(focused),
-            focusedFieldIsEditable: focusedFieldIsEditable(focused),
+            focusedFieldIsSecure: secure,
+            focusedFieldIsEditable: editable,
             focusedElement: focused
         )
     }
diff --git a/Sources/Mojito/Context/FocusedElementCache.swift b/Sources/Mojito/Context/FocusedElementCache.swift
index f434852..65bb5e2 100644
--- a/Sources/Mojito/Context/FocusedElementCache.swift
+++ b/Sources/Mojito/Context/FocusedElementCache.swift
@@ -20,8 +20,33 @@ import os
 final class FocusedElementCache {
     static let shared = FocusedElementCache()
 
-    /// Nil during transitions / when AX is unusable.
-    private(set) var element: AXUIElement?
+    /// Nil during transitions / when AX is unusable. Any reassignment (app
+    /// switch, seed install, within-app focus move) invalidates the cached
+    /// field info below — it described the *previous* focus.
+    private(set) var element: AXUIElement? {
+        didSet { haveFieldInfo = false }
+    }
+
+    /// Cached "is this field secure / editable" answers for `element`, so the
+    /// tap-path context builder (`AppContextDetector.current`) does the AX
+    /// attribute IPC at most once per focus rather than on every keystroke.
+    /// Deriving them is several synchronous cross-process round-trips; doing that
+    /// per word+terminator against a hung app stacked up enough main-thread block
+    /// to trip the event-tap timeout and drop keystrokes even with per-call
+    /// timeouts (W-557). Populated lazily by `current()` (which owns the AX role
+    /// checks); reset to "unknown" whenever `element` changes.
+    private(set) var focusedIsSecure = false
+    private(set) var focusedIsEditable = false
+    private(set) var haveFieldInfo = false
+
+    /// Records the field-classification result for the current `element`, so
+    /// subsequent reads for the same focus skip the IPC. Caller (`current()`)
+    /// computes these under a tight timeout the one time per focus.
+    func cacheFieldInfo(secure: Bool, editable: Bool) {
+        focusedIsSecure = secure
+        focusedIsEditable = editable
+        haveFieldInfo = true
+    }
 
     /// Engine uses this to detect cross-app focus changes during the
     /// deferred picker-show window.
diff --git a/scripts/e2e/arc-typing-regression.sh b/scripts/e2e/arc-typing-regression.sh
deleted file mode 100755
index a39bb4e..0000000
--- a/scripts/e2e/arc-typing-regression.sh
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,201 +0,0 @@
-#!/bin/bash
-#
-# End-to-end regression harness for the Arc typing-stall class of bug (W-555).
-#
-# Arc suppresses its web accessibility tree, so Mojito reaches for AppleScript /
-# AX paths that don't behave like other browsers — and slow work on those paths,
-# run inside the CGEventTap callback, makes macOS disable the tap by timeout and
-# DROP the keystroke. Unit tests can't exercise the live tap, so this drives real
-# Arc + a real Mojito build and asserts the symptom is absent.
-#
-# How it works:
-#   1. Build Mojito Dev from THIS worktree (so a regressed-but-unrebuilt binary
-#      can't pass green), and relaunch it with MOJITO_E2E_LOG=1 — which mirrors
-#      the in-app DebugRecorder activity log into the unified log (subsystem
-#      ee.wells.Mojito, category e2e). See Sources/Mojito/Debug/DebugRecorder.swift.
-#   2. PROBE: type a `:` trigger and require an `engine colon` event to appear.
-#      That proves synthetic HID keystrokes actually reach Mojito's tap; without
-#      it the run is inconclusive (activating Arc alone emits a focus event, so
-#      "saw Arc" is NOT proof anything was typed).
-#   3. Type terminator-heavy phrases into fresh Arc tabs (Cmd+T), repeated to
-#      provoke the busy-new-tab stall.
-#   4. Read the e2e log over the recorded time window and assert ZERO
-#      `keyMonitor tapLost reason=timeout` events. That event IS the bug.
-#
-# Requirements (checked, but can't be granted by the script):
-#   - Arc installed.
-#   - The dev toolchain (xcodebuild/swiftc) + a working Debug build (the
-#     gitignored Giphy key etc. in place, per CLAUDE.md).
-#   - Accessibility + Input Monitoring granted to "Mojito Dev".
-#   - Accessibility for the driving terminal (to post HID CGEvents).
-#
-# Usage:
-#   scripts/e2e/arc-typing-regression.sh [--cycles N] [--phrase "text"]
-#                                        [--no-build] [--app PATH] [--keep]
-#
-# Exit codes: 0 pass, 1 fail (timeouts observed), 2 inconclusive/precondition.
-
-set -uo pipefail
-
-# ---- config / args ---------------------------------------------------------
-CYCLES=5
-PHRASE="how to cook a great meal for dinner today"
-PROBE=":tada "                       # colon trigger → must produce `engine colon`
-KEEP_RUNNING=0
-DO_BUILD=1
-DEV_APP=""                           # resolved from the build unless --app given
-ARC_BUNDLE="company.thebrowser.Browser"
-SUBSYSTEM="ee.wells.Mojito"
-SETTLE_SECS=3
-LOG=/usr/bin/log                     # `log` is a zsh builtin that shadows this
-REPO_ROOT="$(cd "$(dirname "$0")/../.." && pwd)"
-PRED="subsystem == \"$SUBSYSTEM\" && category == \"e2e\""
-
-while [ $# -gt 0 ]; do
-  case "$1" in
-    --cycles)   CYCLES="$2"; shift 2 ;;
-    --phrase)   PHRASE="$2"; shift 2 ;;
-    --app)      DEV_APP="$2"; DO_BUILD=0; shift 2 ;;
-    --no-build) DO_BUILD=0; shift ;;
-    --keep)     KEEP_RUNNING=1; shift ;;
-    -h|--help)  sed -n '2,40p' "$0"; exit 0 ;;
-    *) echo "unknown arg: $1" >&2; exit 2 ;;
-  esac
-done
-
-case "$CYCLES" in ''|*[!0-9]*) echo "--cycles must be a positive integer" >&2; exit 2 ;; esac
-[ "$CYCLES" -ge 1 ] || { echo "--cycles must be >= 1" >&2; exit 2; }
-
-CGTYPE=""
-PRIOR_ENV=""; HAD_PRIOR_ENV=0
-
-say()  { printf '\033[1m> %s\033[0m\n' "$*"; }
-fail() { printf '\033[31mFAIL: %s\033[0m\n' "$*" >&2; }
-ok()   { printf '\033[32mOK: %s\033[0m\n' "$*"; }
-
-cleanup() {
-  [ -n "$CGTYPE" ] && rm -f "$CGTYPE"
-  # Restore the session env var to exactly what it was (or clear it).
-  if [ "$HAD_PRIOR_ENV" -eq 1 ]; then
-    launchctl setenv MOJITO_E2E_LOG "$PRIOR_ENV" 2>/dev/null
-  else
-    launchctl unsetenv MOJITO_E2E_LOG 2>/dev/null
-  fi
-  if [ "$KEEP_RUNNING" -eq 0 ]; then
-    osascript -e 'tell application "Mojito Dev" to quit' >/dev/null 2>&1
-  fi
-}
-trap cleanup EXIT
-
-# Post a batch of HID keystrokes and FAIL HARD if the helper errors — a silent
-# no-op here is exactly how the harness would end up testing nothing.
-drive() { "$CGTYPE" "$@" || { fail "cgtype failed: $*"; exit 2; }; }
-
-# ---- preflight -------------------------------------------------------------
-say "Preflight"
-if ! open -Ra "Arc" 2>/dev/null && ! mdfind "kMDItemCFBundleIdentifier == '$ARC_BUNDLE'" | grep -q .; then
-  fail "Arc not installed (bundle $ARC_BUNDLE)."; exit 2
-fi
-
-# ---- build from this worktree (unless told not to) -------------------------
-if [ "$DO_BUILD" -eq 1 ]; then
-  say "Building Mojito Dev (Debug) from $REPO_ROOT"
-  BUILD_LOG="$(mktemp)"
-  if ! xcodebuild -project "$REPO_ROOT/Mojito.xcodeproj" -scheme Mojito \
-       -configuration Debug -destination 'platform=macOS' build >"$BUILD_LOG" 2>&1; then
-    fail "Build failed. Tail:"; tail -20 "$BUILD_LOG" >&2; exit 2
-  fi
-  BPD="$(xcodebuild -project "$REPO_ROOT/Mojito.xcodeproj" -scheme Mojito \
-         -configuration Debug -destination 'platform=macOS' -showBuildSettings 2>/dev/null \
-         | awk -F' = ' '/ BUILT_PRODUCTS_DIR /{print $2; exit}')"
-  rm -f "$BUILD_LOG"
-  DEV_APP="$BPD/Mojito Dev.app"
-  ok "Built: $DEV_APP"
-fi
-[ -z "$DEV_APP" ] && DEV_APP="/Applications/Mojito Dev.app"
-if [ ! -x "$DEV_APP/Contents/MacOS/Mojito Dev" ]; then
-  fail "No runnable Mojito Dev at: $DEV_APP"; exit 2
-fi
-
-# ---- compile the HID keystroke helper --------------------------------------
-# HID-level CGEvents, NOT AppleScript keystroke: the latter does not traverse
-# Mojito's session event tap, so it can't drive the code under test.
-CGTYPE="$(mktemp -t cgtype)"
-if ! swiftc "$(dirname "$0")/cgtype.swift" -o "$CGTYPE" 2>/dev/null; then
-  fail "Could not compile cgtype.swift (need the Xcode/Swift toolchain)."; exit 2
-fi
-
-# ---- relaunch Mojito Dev with E2E logging ----------------------------------
-say "Relaunching Mojito Dev with MOJITO_E2E_LOG=1"
-if PRIOR_ENV="$(launchctl getenv MOJITO_E2E_LOG 2>/dev/null)" && [ -n "$PRIOR_ENV" ]; then
-  HAD_PRIOR_ENV=1
-fi
-osascript -e 'tell application "Mojito Dev" to quit' >/dev/null 2>&1
-pkill -x "Mojito Dev" 2>/dev/null
-sleep 1
-# Inject the env via launchd, then launch through LaunchServices (`open`): a
-# directly-exec'd bundle binary doesn't come up as a proper GUI app (no
-# NSWorkspace notifications). TCC grants key off the code signature, so the
-# "Mojito Dev" identity's Accessibility / Input Monitoring still apply.
-launchctl setenv MOJITO_E2E_LOG 1
-open "$DEV_APP"
-sleep "$SETTLE_SECS"
-pgrep -x "Mojito Dev" >/dev/null || { fail "Mojito Dev did not stay running."; exit 2; }
-ok "Mojito Dev running (pid $(pgrep -x 'Mojito Dev' | head -1))"
-
-# Everything from here is timestamped; read the log back over this window
-# (log show, not a streamed pipe — no attach race, no truncated tail).
-T0="$(date -v-2S '+%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S')"
-capture() { "$LOG" show --start "$T0" --style compact --predicate "$PRED" 2>/dev/null; }
-
-# ---- PROBE: prove synthetic keystrokes reach Mojito's tap ------------------
-say "Probe: verifying HID keystrokes reach Mojito's engine"
-osascript -e 'tell application "Arc" to activate' >/dev/null 2>&1
-sleep 1
-drive hotkey command t
-sleep 0.4
-drive type "$PROBE"
-sleep 0.3
-drive key 53
-sleep 1.5
-if [ "$(capture | grep -c 'engine colon')" -lt 1 ]; then
-  fail "Inconclusive — the probe ':' never reached Mojito (no 'engine colon')."
-  echo "     Synthetic keystrokes aren't hitting the tap. Likely: Mojito Dev" >&2
-  echo "     lacks Accessibility/Input Monitoring, or the driving terminal" >&2
-  echo "     lacks Accessibility to post HID events. Grant in System Settings." >&2
-  exit 2
-fi
-ok "Probe reached the engine — keystrokes are live"
-
-# ---- drive Arc -------------------------------------------------------------
-say "Driving Arc: $CYCLES new-tab cycles, typing \"$PHRASE\""
-for i in $(seq 1 "$CYCLES"); do
-  osascript -e 'tell application "Arc" to activate' >/dev/null 2>&1
-  sleep 0.4
-  drive hotkey command t     # new tab → Arc's command bar (the busy-render window)
-  sleep 0.4
-  drive type "$PHRASE"       # words + spaces → the ambient-emoticon detect() path
-  sleep 0.5
-  drive key 53               # escape → dismiss the command bar
-  printf '  cycle %d/%d\n' "$i" "$CYCLES"
-  sleep 0.3
-done
-sleep 2   # let trailing log lines persist
-
-# ---- analyze ---------------------------------------------------------------
-say "Analyzing"
-CAP="$(capture)"
-TOTAL_EVENTS=$(printf '%s\n' "$CAP" | grep -c "e2e")
-TIMEOUTS=$(printf '%s\n' "$CAP" | grep "keyMonitor tapLost" | grep -c "reason=timeout")
-
-echo "  e2e log lines:    $TOTAL_EVENTS"
-echo "  tapLost timeouts: $TIMEOUTS"
-
-if [ "$TIMEOUTS" -gt 0 ]; then
-  fail "$TIMEOUTS event-tap timeout(s) while typing in Arc — keystrokes were dropped."
-  printf '%s\n' "$CAP" | grep "keyMonitor tapLost" | tail -20 >&2
-  exit 1
-fi
-
-ok "No event-tap timeouts across $CYCLES Arc typing cycles (probe confirmed live). Healthy."
-exit 0

From 119e9a2ac47b0a17ac3cf374c7a1336cb1bcc063 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Wells Riley <884715+wr@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 2026 12:13:28 -0400
Subject: [PATCH 3/8] W-556/W-557: replace the Arc harness with a deterministic
 freeze test
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The old arc-typing-regression.sh typed into fresh Arc tabs and asserted zero
tapLost. Validated on a real Arc install, it could not discriminate a fixed
build from a buggy one: on fast, idle hardware Arc answers the URL/AX IPC in
milliseconds, so nothing drops whether or not the blocking bug is present — a
false green, exactly what a regression harness must not produce.

Replace it with hung-app-typing-regression.sh, which SIGSTOPs the frontmost app
so it cannot answer any IPC, types into it, then SIGCONTs, asserting zero
keyMonitor tapLost. A build that does blocking cross-process IPC on the tap
thread drops keystrokes every time (RED); a correct build never does (GREEN).
Deterministic, no timing luck. Targets Arc (AppleScript URL + AX paths) and
TextEdit (a non-browser control isolating the AX path). Keeps the guardrails:
warmup+probe (proves keystrokes reach the tap, settles Arc's Automation grant),
build-from-worktree, hard-fail on driver errors, and an EXIT trap that always
thaws every target.

Verified: RED against the pre-W-557 build (Arc and TextEdit both drop),
GREEN against the fix.

Refs: W-556, W-557
---
 CLAUDE.md                                 |  14 +-
 scripts/e2e/README.md                     | 120 +++++++------
 scripts/e2e/hung-app-typing-regression.sh | 197 ++++++++++++++++++++++
 3 files changed, 278 insertions(+), 53 deletions(-)
 create mode 100755 scripts/e2e/hung-app-typing-regression.sh

diff --git a/CLAUDE.md b/CLAUDE.md
index ad6c6f6..3eacb4b 100644
--- a/CLAUDE.md
+++ b/CLAUDE.md
@@ -77,17 +77,21 @@ tests don't catch anyway.
 host app without firing up the menubar / single-instance / event-tap
 machinery.
 
-### End-to-end (live) — the Arc typing harness
+### End-to-end (live) — the hung-app typing harness
 
 The CGEventTap path *is* testable end-to-end, just not as a unit test. Launch a
 Debug build with `MOJITO_E2E_LOG=1` and `DebugRecorder` mirrors its activity log
 into the unified log (subsystem `ee.wells.Mojito`, category `e2e`); a harness
-then drives a real app and asserts on it. `scripts/e2e/arc-typing-regression.sh`
-does exactly that for the Arc keystroke-drop class of bug (W-555): it types into
-fresh Arc tabs and asserts zero `keyMonitor tapLost reason=timeout`. Needs Arc
+then drives a real app and asserts on it. `scripts/e2e/hung-app-typing-regression.sh`
+does exactly that for the keystroke-drop class of bug (W-547 / W-555 / W-557):
+it `SIGSTOP`s the frontmost app (Arc, plus TextEdit as a non-browser control),
+types into it, then `SIGCONT`s, asserting zero `keyMonitor tapLost reason=timeout`.
+Freezing the app is what makes it deterministic — a build that does *any*
+blocking cross-process IPC on the tap thread (AppleScript URL read, AX field
+queries) drops keystrokes every time; a correct build never does. Needs Arc
 installed + `Mojito Dev.app` granted Accessibility/Input Monitoring; see
 `scripts/e2e/README.md`. The env flag is a no-op without the var, so production
-never logs. Reusable for other Arc regressions via the same `e2e` log stream.
+never logs. Extendable to other regressions via the same `e2e` log stream.
 
 ### Things that have bitten us repeatedly
 
diff --git a/scripts/e2e/README.md b/scripts/e2e/README.md
index 2032f33..5b95a9a 100644
--- a/scripts/e2e/README.md
+++ b/scripts/e2e/README.md
@@ -1,41 +1,77 @@
-# E2E harness — live Arc typing regression
+# E2E harness — hung-app typing regression
 
 Unit tests can't touch the `CGEventTap`. This harness drives a real Mojito build
-against a real app and asserts the tap stays healthy — built for the class of
-bugs Arc keeps producing, where slow work on Mojito's event-tap path makes macOS
-disable the tap by timeout and **drop keystrokes** (W-555).
+against a real, deliberately-frozen app and asserts the tap stays healthy —
+built for the recurring class of bug where slow/blocking work on Mojito's
+event-tap path makes macOS disable the tap by timeout and **drop keystrokes**
+(W-547 Safari lag, W-555 Arc, generalized in W-557).
 
 ## What's here
 
-- `arc-typing-regression.sh` — the harness. Relaunches the Mojito Dev build with
-  E2E logging on, types terminator-heavy phrases into fresh Arc tabs, and asserts
-  **zero `keyMonitor tapLost reason=timeout`** events.
+- `hung-app-typing-regression.sh` — the harness. Relaunches the Mojito Dev build
+  with E2E logging, then for each target app **`SIGSTOP`s it, types into it, and
+  `SIGCONT`s**, asserting **zero `keyMonitor tapLost reason=timeout`** events.
 - `cgtype.swift` — synthetic keystroke helper (compiled on the fly by the harness).
 
+## Why freeze the app
+
+The tap callback runs on the main thread; building the app context on a trigger
+keystroke used to make synchronous cross-process IPC to the frontmost app (an
+AppleScript URL read for Arc; AX attribute queries for every app). If that app
+is slow to answer, the IPC blocks the tap callback past the ~1s system timeout
+and macOS drops the keystroke.
+
+Reproducing that with "type fast and hope the app is busy" is flaky and
+hardware-dependent — on a fast, idle machine the app answers in milliseconds and
+nothing drops, so the test passes whether or not the bug is present. **Freezing
+the app with `SIGSTOP` makes it deterministic:** a frozen app *cannot* answer any
+IPC, so a build that blocks on it drops keystrokes **every time** (RED), and a
+build that keeps the tap non-blocking never does (GREEN). Clean discrimination,
+no timing luck.
+
+## Targets
+
+- **Arc** — exercises the AppleScript URL path *and* the AX field/URL queries.
+- **TextEdit** — a non-browser control that isolates the AX-query path (no URL
+  read), so a regression there is caught and attributable even without a browser.
+
 ## The signal
 
 With `MOJITO_E2E_LOG=1`, `DebugRecorder` mirrors its activity log into the unified
-log (subsystem `ee.wells.Mojito`, category `e2e`) — see
-`Sources/Mojito/Debug/DebugRecorder.swift`. The harness reads that log over the
-run's time window (`log show`, not a streamed pipe — no attach race) and counts
-tap timeouts. That event *is* the dropped-keystroke bug; the flag is a no-op (the
-logger isn't even constructed) without the env var, so production is untouched.
+log (subsystem `ee.wells.Mojito`, category `e2e`). The harness reads it back over
+each cycle's window (`log show`, not a streamed pipe — no attach race) and counts
+`keyMonitor tapLost reason=timeout`. That event *is* the dropped-keystroke bug.
+The flag is a no-op (the logger isn't even constructed) without the env var, so
+production is untouched.
 
 ## Guardrails against a false green
 
-A test harness that passes while testing nothing is worse than none, so:
-
-- **Builds from this worktree by default** (`--no-build` / `--app` to override).
-  A regressed-but-unrebuilt binary can't sneak a stale green through.
-- **Probes first.** Before the stress cycles it types a `:` trigger and requires
-  an `engine colon` event to appear — positive proof that synthetic HID
-  keystrokes actually reach Mojito's tap. No probe hit → **inconclusive** (exit 2),
-  never a pass. (Merely activating Arc emits a focus event, so "saw Arc" is not
-  proof anything was typed.)
+- **Builds from this worktree by default** (`--no-build` / `--app` to override) —
+  a regressed-but-unrebuilt binary can't sneak a stale green through.
+- **Warmup + probe.** Before the freeze cycles it types a `:` trigger into a
+  responsive Arc and requires an `engine colon` event — positive proof that
+  synthetic HID keystrokes actually reach the tap (no hit → **inconclusive**,
+  exit 2, never a pass). The same step settles Arc's one-time Automation grant so
+  an unresolved TCC prompt can't stall the timed run.
 - **Fails hard on driver errors** — `cgtype` exits non-zero if it can't post an
-  event, and every drive step is checked; a bad `--cycles` is rejected up front.
+  event; a bad `--cycles` is rejected up front.
+- **Never leaves an app frozen** — an `EXIT` trap `SIGCONT`s every target.
+
+## Run
+
+```bash
+scripts/e2e/hung-app-typing-regression.sh                 # build, 3 cycles/target
+scripts/e2e/hung-app-typing-regression.sh --cycles 6
+scripts/e2e/hung-app-typing-regression.sh --freeze 3      # longer freeze window
+scripts/e2e/hung-app-typing-regression.sh --no-build      # reuse the last build
+scripts/e2e/hung-app-typing-regression.sh --app "/Applications/Mojito Dev.app"
+```
 
-## Requirements (the harness checks, but can't grant)
+Exit: `0` healthy, `1` keystrokes dropped (bug), `2` inconclusive/precondition
+(Arc missing, build failed, or the probe never reached the tap — all reported,
+never a false pass).
+
+## Requirements (checked, but can't be granted here)
 
 - **Arc installed.**
 - **The dev toolchain + a working Debug build** — `xcodebuild`/`swiftc`, and the
@@ -45,37 +81,25 @@ A test harness that passes while testing nothing is worse than none, so:
 - **Accessibility for the driving terminal** — `cgtype` posts HID CGEvents, which
   needs the invoking process permitted.
 
-## Run
-
-```bash
-scripts/e2e/arc-typing-regression.sh                 # build, 5 cycles, default phrase
-scripts/e2e/arc-typing-regression.sh --cycles 10
-scripts/e2e/arc-typing-regression.sh --no-build      # reuse the last build
-scripts/e2e/arc-typing-regression.sh --app "/Applications/Mojito Dev.app"
-```
-
-Exit: `0` healthy, `1` timeouts observed (bug), `2` inconclusive/precondition
-(Arc missing, build failed, or the probe never reached the tap — all reported,
-never a false pass).
-
 ## Gotchas baked in (learned the hard way)
 
 - **HID CGEvents, not AppleScript `keystroke`.** System Events keystrokes do NOT
-  traverse Mojito's `.cgSessionEventTap` — they never reach the engine, so they
-  can't reproduce (or stress) a tap-path bug. `cgtype` posts at `.cghidEventTap`.
-  Verified: HID-posted `:tada` fires `engine colon` / `picker open`; System
-  Events `:tada` fires nothing.
+  traverse Mojito's `.cgSessionEventTap` — they never reach the engine. `cgtype`
+  posts at `.cghidEventTap`. Verified: HID-posted `:tada` fires `engine colon`;
+  System Events `:tada` fires nothing.
 - **`/usr/bin/log`, not `log`.** `log` is a zsh builtin that shadows the binary
   and silently prints nothing.
 - **Launch via `launchctl setenv` + `open`, not direct-exec.** A directly-exec'd
-  bundle binary doesn't come up as a proper GUI app, so there are no NSWorkspace
-  notifications to observe. LaunchServices launch inherits the launchd env, and
-  TCC grants key off the code signature, so they still apply.
+  bundle binary doesn't come up as a proper GUI app (no NSWorkspace
+  notifications). LaunchServices launch inherits the launchd env, and TCC grants
+  key off the code signature, so they still apply.
+- **Freeze the app *after* focusing a field, thaw *before* the next cycle.** A
+  frozen app can't deliver AX focus-change notifications, so set focus while it's
+  responsive.
 
 ## Extending
 
-Add scenarios by parameterizing the target/phrase, or add new `cgtype` verbs
-(it does `type`, `hotkey <mod> <letter>`, `key <keycode>`). The same os_log
-stream exposes `engine`, `picker`, `insert`, `focus`, and `permissions` events —
-so other Arc regressions (picker mispositioning, exclusions) can assert on those
-too.
+Add a target by giving `run_target` its `pgrep` name + an activate command. The
+same os_log stream exposes `engine`, `picker`, `insert`, `focus`, and
+`permissions` events, so other regressions (picker mispositioning, exclusions)
+can assert on those too.
diff --git a/scripts/e2e/hung-app-typing-regression.sh b/scripts/e2e/hung-app-typing-regression.sh
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..e6dd166
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/e2e/hung-app-typing-regression.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,197 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+#
+# Deterministic E2E regression test for the "hung frontmost app drops
+# keystrokes" class (W-547 Safari lag, W-555 Arc, generalized in W-557).
+#
+# Mojito's key monitor is a CGEventTap whose callback runs on the MAIN thread.
+# On a trigger keystroke it builds an app context, which historically made
+# synchronous cross-process IPC to the frontmost app — an AppleScript URL read
+# (Arc) and AX attribute queries (every app). When that app is slow or hung,
+# the IPC blocks the tap callback; past the ~1s system tap timeout macOS
+# disables the tap and DROPS the keystroke. Unit tests can't exercise the live
+# tap, so this drives a real Mojito build against a real, deliberately-frozen
+# app and asserts the symptom is absent.
+#
+# The trick that makes it deterministic (unlike wall-clock "type fast and hope"):
+# SIGSTOP the target app so it CANNOT answer any IPC, type into it, then SIGCONT.
+# A build that does blocking IPC on the tap thread drops keystrokes every time
+# (RED); a build that keeps the tap non-blocking never does (GREEN). It reliably
+# separates fixed from unfixed — the whole point.
+#
+# Targets both a browser (Arc — the AppleScript + AX paths) and a non-browser
+# control (TextEdit — the AX path alone), so a regression in either path is
+# caught and attributable.
+#
+# Requirements (checked, can't be granted here):
+#   - Arc installed; the dev toolchain + a working Debug build (gitignored Giphy
+#     key etc. per CLAUDE.md); Accessibility + Input Monitoring for "Mojito Dev";
+#     Accessibility for the driving terminal (to post HID CGEvents). The first
+#     Arc URL read also needs a one-time Automation grant — the warmup below
+#     establishes it before the timed test so it can't skew a result.
+#
+# Usage:
+#   scripts/e2e/hung-app-typing-regression.sh [--cycles N] [--freeze SECS]
+#                                             [--no-build] [--app PATH] [--keep]
+#
+# Exit: 0 pass, 1 fail (keystrokes dropped), 2 inconclusive/precondition.
+
+set -uo pipefail
+
+CYCLES=3
+FREEZE_SECS=2
+DO_BUILD=1
+DEV_APP=""
+KEEP_RUNNING=0
+ARC_BUNDLE="company.thebrowser.Browser"
+SUBSYSTEM="ee.wells.Mojito"
+PRED="subsystem == \"$SUBSYSTEM\" && category == \"e2e\""
+LOG=/usr/bin/log                     # `log` is a zsh builtin that shadows this
+REPO_ROOT="$(cd "$(dirname "$0")/../.." && pwd)"
+PHRASE="how to cook a great meal for dinner"
+
+while [ $# -gt 0 ]; do
+  case "$1" in
+    --cycles)   CYCLES="$2"; shift 2 ;;
+    --freeze)   FREEZE_SECS="$2"; shift 2 ;;
+    --app)      DEV_APP="$2"; DO_BUILD=0; shift 2 ;;
+    --no-build) DO_BUILD=0; shift ;;
+    --keep)     KEEP_RUNNING=1; shift ;;
+    -h|--help)  sed -n '2,40p' "$0"; exit 0 ;;
+    *) echo "unknown arg: $1" >&2; exit 2 ;;
+  esac
+done
+case "$CYCLES" in ''|*[!0-9]*) echo "--cycles must be a positive integer" >&2; exit 2 ;; esac
+[ "$CYCLES" -ge 1 ] || { echo "--cycles must be >= 1" >&2; exit 2; }
+
+CGTYPE=""
+PRIOR_ENV=""; HAD_PRIOR_ENV=0
+say()  { printf '\033[1m> %s\033[0m\n' "$*"; }
+fail() { printf '\033[31mFAIL: %s\033[0m\n' "$*" >&2; }
+ok()   { printf '\033[32mOK: %s\033[0m\n' "$*"; }
+
+thaw_all() {
+  for p in $(pgrep -x Arc) $(pgrep -x TextEdit); do kill -CONT "$p" 2>/dev/null; done
+}
+cleanup() {
+  thaw_all                                  # never leave a target frozen
+  [ -n "$CGTYPE" ] && rm -f "$CGTYPE"
+  osascript -e 'tell application "TextEdit" to quit saving no' >/dev/null 2>&1
+  if [ "$HAD_PRIOR_ENV" -eq 1 ]; then
+    launchctl setenv MOJITO_E2E_LOG "$PRIOR_ENV" 2>/dev/null
+  else
+    launchctl unsetenv MOJITO_E2E_LOG 2>/dev/null
+  fi
+  [ "$KEEP_RUNNING" -eq 0 ] && osascript -e 'tell application "Mojito Dev" to quit' >/dev/null 2>&1
+}
+trap cleanup EXIT
+
+drive() { "$CGTYPE" "$@" || { fail "cgtype failed: $*"; exit 2; }; }
+
+# ---- preflight -------------------------------------------------------------
+say "Preflight"
+if ! open -Ra "Arc" 2>/dev/null && ! mdfind "kMDItemCFBundleIdentifier == '$ARC_BUNDLE'" | grep -q .; then
+  fail "Arc not installed (bundle $ARC_BUNDLE)."; exit 2
+fi
+
+# ---- build -----------------------------------------------------------------
+if [ "$DO_BUILD" -eq 1 ]; then
+  say "Building Mojito Dev (Debug) from $REPO_ROOT"
+  BUILD_LOG="$(mktemp)"
+  if ! xcodebuild -project "$REPO_ROOT/Mojito.xcodeproj" -scheme Mojito \
+       -configuration Debug -destination 'platform=macOS' build >"$BUILD_LOG" 2>&1; then
+    fail "Build failed. Tail:"; tail -20 "$BUILD_LOG" >&2; exit 2
+  fi
+  DEV_APP="$(xcodebuild -project "$REPO_ROOT/Mojito.xcodeproj" -scheme Mojito \
+         -configuration Debug -destination 'platform=macOS' -showBuildSettings 2>/dev/null \
+         | awk -F' = ' '/ BUILT_PRODUCTS_DIR /{print $2; exit}')/Mojito Dev.app"
+  rm -f "$BUILD_LOG"
+  ok "Built: $DEV_APP"
+fi
+[ -z "$DEV_APP" ] && DEV_APP="/Applications/Mojito Dev.app"
+[ -x "$DEV_APP/Contents/MacOS/Mojito Dev" ] || { fail "No runnable Mojito Dev at: $DEV_APP"; exit 2; }
+
+# ---- compile the HID keystroke helper --------------------------------------
+CGTYPE="$(mktemp -t cgtype)"
+swiftc "$(dirname "$0")/cgtype.swift" -o "$CGTYPE" 2>/dev/null \
+  || { fail "Could not compile cgtype.swift (need the Xcode/Swift toolchain)."; exit 2; }
+
+# ---- relaunch Mojito Dev with E2E logging ----------------------------------
+say "Relaunching Mojito Dev with MOJITO_E2E_LOG=1"
+if PRIOR_ENV="$(launchctl getenv MOJITO_E2E_LOG 2>/dev/null)" && [ -n "$PRIOR_ENV" ]; then
+  HAD_PRIOR_ENV=1
+fi
+osascript -e 'tell application "Mojito Dev" to quit' >/dev/null 2>&1
+pkill -x "Mojito Dev" 2>/dev/null; sleep 1
+launchctl setenv MOJITO_E2E_LOG 1
+open "$DEV_APP"; sleep 3
+pgrep -x "Mojito Dev" >/dev/null || { fail "Mojito Dev did not stay running."; exit 2; }
+ok "Mojito Dev running (pid $(pgrep -x 'Mojito Dev' | head -1))"
+
+capture_since() { "$LOG" show --start "$1" --style compact --predicate "$PRED" 2>/dev/null; }
+
+# ---- warmup + probe --------------------------------------------------------
+# Type a `:` trigger in Arc while it's responsive. Two jobs: (1) prove synthetic
+# HID keystrokes reach Mojito's engine (`engine colon`) — else the run is
+# inconclusive, not a pass; (2) trigger the first Arc URL read now so its
+# one-time Automation grant is settled before the timed freeze test (an
+# unresolved TCC prompt mid-test would stall it).
+say "Warmup + probe (Arc responsive)"
+osascript -e 'tell application "Arc" to activate' >/dev/null 2>&1; sleep 1
+osascript -e 'tell application "Arc" to tell front window to tell tab 1 to select' >/dev/null 2>&1
+WARM_T0="$(date -v-2S '+%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S')"
+drive hotkey command t; sleep 0.4; drive type ":tada "; sleep 0.5; drive key 53; sleep 1.5
+if [ "$(capture_since "$WARM_T0" | grep -c 'engine colon')" -lt 1 ]; then
+  fail "Inconclusive — the probe ':' never reached Mojito (no 'engine colon')."
+  echo "     HID keystrokes aren't hitting the tap. Grant Accessibility/Input" >&2
+  echo "     Monitoring to Mojito Dev, and Accessibility to this terminal." >&2
+  exit 2
+fi
+ok "Probe reached the engine — keystrokes are live"
+
+# ---- freeze one target for one cycle, return tapLost count for the window --
+# Args: $1 = pgrep pattern, $2 = activate osascript, $3 = focus keystroke driver
+# Runs in the main shell (not a subshell) so a `drive` failure's `exit` actually
+# halts the script; publishes the tapLost count via the global TAP_TIMEOUTS.
+TAP_TIMEOUTS=0
+run_target() {
+  local name="$1" activate="$2"
+  say "Target: $name — $CYCLES freeze cycles (${FREEZE_SECS}s each)"
+  local t0; t0="$(date -v-2S '+%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S')"
+  local i
+  for i in $(seq 1 "$CYCLES"); do
+    eval "$activate" >/dev/null 2>&1; sleep 0.4
+    drive hotkey command l                       # focus a text field (URL bar / doc)
+    sleep 0.2
+    for p in $(pgrep -x "$name"); do kill -STOP "$p"; done   # freeze: no IPC answers
+    drive type "$PHRASE "                          # each word+space fires detect()
+    sleep "$FREEZE_SECS"                           # hold: a blocking tap path times out here
+    for p in $(pgrep -x "$name"); do kill -CONT "$p"; done   # thaw
+    drive key 53
+    printf '  %s cycle %d/%d\n' "$name" "$i" "$CYCLES"
+    sleep 0.6
+  done
+  sleep 1.5
+  TAP_TIMEOUTS="$(capture_since "$t0" | grep 'keyMonitor tapLost' | grep -c 'reason=timeout')"
+}
+
+FAILED=0
+
+# Arc — exercises the AppleScript URL path + the AX field/URL queries.
+run_target Arc 'tell application "Arc" to activate'
+if [ "$TAP_TIMEOUTS" -gt 0 ]; then fail "Arc: $TAP_TIMEOUTS dropped-keystroke timeout(s)."; FAILED=1
+else ok "Arc: no tap timeouts across $CYCLES frozen-typing cycles."; fi
+
+# TextEdit — non-browser control; isolates the AX-query path (no URL read).
+open -a TextEdit; sleep 1
+osascript -e 'tell application "TextEdit" to make new document' >/dev/null 2>&1; sleep 0.5
+run_target TextEdit 'tell application "TextEdit" to activate'
+if [ "$TAP_TIMEOUTS" -gt 0 ]; then fail "TextEdit: $TAP_TIMEOUTS dropped-keystroke timeout(s)."; FAILED=1
+else ok "TextEdit: no tap timeouts across $CYCLES frozen-typing cycles."; fi
+
+# ---- verdict ---------------------------------------------------------------
+if [ "$FAILED" -eq 0 ]; then
+  ok "PASS — a frozen frontmost app did not drop keystrokes (probe confirmed live)."
+  exit 0
+fi
+fail "Keystrokes dropped while a frontmost app was hung — the tap path is blocking on cross-process IPC."
+exit 1

From 71f9ae0af8c2ba7ea359aa55e451f66e8deddd73 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "claude[bot]" <41898282+claude[bot]@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 2026 16:26:28 +0000
Subject: [PATCH 4/8] trim multi-line comment blocks to one-liners (CLAUDE.md
 style)
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Three files had new multi-line `///`/`//` blocks and W-ticket refs in
comments — violating the "one short line max, no ticket refs" rule.
Trimmed each to the non-obvious constraint it was trying to convey.

Refs: W-557
---
 Sources/Mojito/Context/AppContext.swift         | 17 ++---------------
 Sources/Mojito/Context/BrowserURL.swift         |  5 +----
 .../Mojito/Context/FocusedElementCache.swift    |  9 +--------
 3 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 27 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Sources/Mojito/Context/AppContext.swift b/Sources/Mojito/Context/AppContext.swift
index 1b8b4dc..39046d8 100644
--- a/Sources/Mojito/Context/AppContext.swift
+++ b/Sources/Mojito/Context/AppContext.swift
@@ -22,16 +22,7 @@ struct ActiveContext {
 
 @MainActor
 enum AppContextDetector {
-    /// Every AX query below is a synchronous cross-process call made from inside
-    /// the CGEventTap callback, which runs on the main thread (see `KeyMonitor` /
-    /// `Engine`). A hung or beach-balling frontmost app makes those calls block;
-    /// with the process-wide 0.5s messaging timeout, a handful of them in a row
-    /// can blow past the ~1s tap timeout — macOS then disables the tap and drops
-    /// the keystroke (W-547 for Safari lag, W-555 for Arc, generalized in W-557).
-    /// So the tap-path queries are pinned to a much tighter per-element timeout:
-    /// a stale/partial context just means the picker briefly declines to open,
-    /// never a dropped keystroke. Real local AX answers in single-digit ms, so
-    /// this only bites a genuinely unresponsive app — exactly when we must bail.
+    // Tight bound: a slow/hung app's AX calls block this main-thread tap callback past macOS's ~1s timeout, dropping keystrokes.
     static let tapAXTimeout: Float = 0.1
 
     /// Pins `element` to the tight tap-path timeout so a query against a hung app
@@ -50,11 +41,7 @@ enum AppContextDetector {
         // cross-process AX call.
         let focused = resolveFocusedElement()
 
-        // Classify the field (secure? editable?) at most once per focus. Those
-        // are several synchronous AX round-trips; doing them on every keystroke
-        // against a hung app stacked up enough main-thread block to trip the tap
-        // timeout even with per-call bounds (W-557). The cache is invalidated
-        // whenever focus moves (see FocusedElementCache.element.didSet).
+        // Cached per focus to avoid repeated AX IPC on the tap thread; invalidated on any focus change.
         let cache = FocusedElementCache.shared
         let secure: Bool
         let editable: Bool
diff --git a/Sources/Mojito/Context/BrowserURL.swift b/Sources/Mojito/Context/BrowserURL.swift
index 556325e..5ed77e4 100644
--- a/Sources/Mojito/Context/BrowserURL.swift
+++ b/Sources/Mojito/Context/BrowserURL.swift
@@ -30,10 +30,7 @@ enum BrowserURL {
         }
 
         let app = AXUIElementCreateApplication(pid)
-        // This DFS walk runs on the tap thread (main); each node is a synchronous
-        // AX round-trip into the browser. Pin a tight timeout so a hung browser
-        // can't stall the tap past its ~1s limit and drop the keystroke (W-557).
-        // A frozen app fails the first `focusedWindow` query and aborts fast.
+        // Tight timeout: a hung browser can't stall the tap past its ~1s limit via this AX walk.
         AXUIElementSetMessagingTimeout(app, AppContextDetector.tapAXTimeout)
 
         // Most browsers expose the page URL as an `AXURL` attribute somewhere
diff --git a/Sources/Mojito/Context/FocusedElementCache.swift b/Sources/Mojito/Context/FocusedElementCache.swift
index 65bb5e2..56030b4 100644
--- a/Sources/Mojito/Context/FocusedElementCache.swift
+++ b/Sources/Mojito/Context/FocusedElementCache.swift
@@ -27,16 +27,9 @@ final class FocusedElementCache {
         didSet { haveFieldInfo = false }
     }
 
-    /// Cached "is this field secure / editable" answers for `element`, so the
-    /// tap-path context builder (`AppContextDetector.current`) does the AX
-    /// attribute IPC at most once per focus rather than on every keystroke.
-    /// Deriving them is several synchronous cross-process round-trips; doing that
-    /// per word+terminator against a hung app stacked up enough main-thread block
-    /// to trip the event-tap timeout and drop keystrokes even with per-call
-    /// timeouts (W-557). Populated lazily by `current()` (which owns the AX role
-    /// checks); reset to "unknown" whenever `element` changes.
     private(set) var focusedIsSecure = false
     private(set) var focusedIsEditable = false
+    // Cached per focus to skip repeated AX IPC on the tap thread; reset whenever element changes.
     private(set) var haveFieldInfo = false
 
     /// Records the field-classification result for the current `element`, so

From 7215f2b26048bd80fcb136b3f9d6a1d536237a71 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Wells Riley <884715+wr@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 2026 12:51:45 -0400
Subject: [PATCH 5/8] =?UTF-8?q?W-557:=20address=20Codex=20review=20?=
 =?UTF-8?q?=E2=80=94=20close=20the=20field-info=20security=20holes,=20boun?=
 =?UTF-8?q?d=20the=20walk,=20harden=20the=20harness?=
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Cross-provider (Codex) review of the branch found real defects; all fixed:

Fix — security & correctness:
- Field classification is no longer computed lazily on the tap thread keyed to a
  bare bool. It's computed OFF the main thread in the FocusedElementCache seed and
  on each focus-change notification, published only if focus hasn't moved on
  (CFEqual guard), and reset on any element change. current() is now a pure cache
  read. Closes the window where a system-wide-fallback classification could be
  served for a *different* element than it described — a path that could capture a
  password field (Codex blocker).
- current() FAILS CLOSED: an unclassified field reads as secure (don't capture),
  not editable — never begin capture on a field we haven't verified isn't a
  password field (Codex high). Removes the synchronous system-wide fallback
  entirely, which also stops clobbering the process-wide 0.5s AX timeout that
  other code (caret locator) depends on (Codex medium).
- The non-Arc browser AX URL walk is now actually bounded: every node sets its own
  messaging timeout (a timeout on the app element does NOT propagate to
  descendants) plus a total wall-clock deadline (Codex high).
- Arc URL resolve distinguishes "resolved(nil)" from "unavailable" (hung/killed):
  a transient stall keeps the last good URL instead of erasing a cached
  excluded-site URL and letting a denylisted page through (Codex medium). Output
  goes to a temp file, not a Pipe, so a long URL can't fill the 64KB buffer and
  manufacture a timeout (Codex medium).

Harness:
- Activate via `osascript -e`, not `eval` (which ran `tell` as a shell command,
  exit 127 — activation silently never happened), and verify the target is
  frontmost before freezing, so the phrase can't land in another app and pass
  (Codex high).
- Never touch a pre-existing TextEdit: skip the control target if it's already
  running, and only quit-discard a TextEdit this run launched (Codex high).

Tests: resolver returns the outcome enum; suite serialized; fixed sleeps replaced
with bounded polling; added a keep-last-value-on-unavailable test (Codex medium).

Verified: unit suite green; harness RED on the pre-fix build (Arc + TextEdit),
GREEN on this build; discrimination intact.

Refs: W-557
---
 Sources/Mojito/Context/AppContext.swift       |  99 +++++++--------
 Sources/Mojito/Context/BrowserURL.swift       | 119 ++++++++++++------
 .../Mojito/Context/FocusedElementCache.swift  |  65 ++++++++--
 Tests/MojitoTests/BrowserURLCacheTests.swift  | 109 +++++++++-------
 scripts/e2e/hung-app-typing-regression.sh     |  35 ++++--
 5 files changed, 275 insertions(+), 152 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Sources/Mojito/Context/AppContext.swift b/Sources/Mojito/Context/AppContext.swift
index 39046d8..a37a8e8 100644
--- a/Sources/Mojito/Context/AppContext.swift
+++ b/Sources/Mojito/Context/AppContext.swift
@@ -12,52 +12,47 @@ struct ActiveContext {
     /// trigger stays inert (nothing to autocomplete into) and emoji picks are
     /// copied to the clipboard instead of synthesized as keystrokes.
     let focusedFieldIsEditable: Bool
-    /// The focused AX element the field checks above were answered from —
-    /// cache when warm, fresh system-wide query otherwise. Capture snapshots
-    /// must use this, not the cache directly: right after an app switch the
-    /// cache is intentionally nil while its background seed is in flight, and
-    /// a nil snapshot would read as "opened with no focused field".
+    /// The focused AX element the field checks above were answered from.
+    /// Capture snapshots must use this, not the cache directly: right after an
+    /// app switch the cache is intentionally nil while its background seed is in
+    /// flight, and a nil snapshot would read as "opened with no focused field".
     let focusedElement: AXUIElement?
 }
 
 @MainActor
 enum AppContextDetector {
-    // Tight bound: a slow/hung app's AX calls block this main-thread tap callback past macOS's ~1s timeout, dropping keystrokes.
-    static let tapAXTimeout: Float = 0.1
-
-    /// Pins `element` to the tight tap-path timeout so a query against a hung app
-    /// can't stall the tap callback. Best-effort; a failure just leaves the
-    /// process-wide default in place.
-    private static func boundToTapTimeout(_ element: AXUIElement) {
-        AXUIElementSetMessagingTimeout(element, tapAXTimeout)
-    }
-
+    /// Builds the context for a trigger keystroke. Runs inside the CGEventTap
+    /// callback, which is on the main thread (see `KeyMonitor` / `Engine`) — so
+    /// it must do **no synchronous cross-process IPC**. A hung/beach-balling
+    /// frontmost app would otherwise block those AX/AppleScript round-trips past
+    /// the ~1s tap timeout, macOS disables the tap, and the keystroke is dropped
+    /// (W-547 Safari lag, W-555 Arc, generalized in W-557).
+    ///
+    /// Everything here is a cache read:
+    /// - focused element + its secure/editable classification come from
+    ///   `FocusedElementCache`, which computes them **off the main thread** on
+    ///   focus change. Until that lands the field info is "unknown", and unknown
+    ///   **fails closed** — treat as secure (don't capture) — so a slow classify
+    ///   can never leak password keystrokes into the picker.
+    /// - the browser URL comes from `BrowserURL.detect`, which is itself
+    ///   non-blocking for Arc (async cache) and bounded for other browsers.
     static func current() -> ActiveContext {
         let app = NSWorkspace.shared.frontmostApplication
         let bundleID = app?.bundleIdentifier
         let pid = app?.processIdentifier
         let url = BrowserURL.detect(bundleID: bundleID, pid: pid)
-        // Resolve once and reuse — each fallback resolution is a synchronous
-        // cross-process AX call.
-        let focused = resolveFocusedElement()
 
-        // Cached per focus to avoid repeated AX IPC on the tap thread; invalidated on any focus change.
         let cache = FocusedElementCache.shared
         let secure: Bool
         let editable: Bool
         if cache.haveFieldInfo {
-            secure = cache.focusedIsSecure          // warm: no IPC on the tap thread
+            secure = cache.focusedIsSecure
             editable = cache.focusedIsEditable
-        } else if let focused {
-            boundToTapTimeout(focused)              // first read for this focus: bounded IPC, then cache
-            secure = focusedFieldIsSecure(focused)
-            editable = focusedFieldIsEditable(focused)
-            cache.cacheFieldInfo(secure: secure, editable: editable)
         } else {
-            // No focused element = mid-transition; allow capture, matching the
-            // prior nil-element behavior. Not cached — reclassify once focus
-            // resolves.
-            secure = false
+            // Classification not resolved yet (mid app-switch / mid focus-move).
+            // Fail closed: never begin capture on an unclassified field — it
+            // might be a password field the off-thread classify hasn't reached.
+            secure = true
             editable = false
         }
         return ActiveContext(
@@ -66,16 +61,22 @@ enum AppContextDetector {
             url: url,
             focusedFieldIsSecure: secure,
             focusedFieldIsEditable: editable,
-            focusedElement: focused
+            focusedElement: cache.element
         )
     }
 
-    /// True if AXSecureTextField, OR if AX is too broken to tell.
-    /// False positives just mean the picker doesn't open in odd contexts;
-    /// false negatives leak password fragments. Easy tradeoff.
-    private static func focusedFieldIsSecure(_ focused: AXUIElement?) -> Bool {
-        // No focused element = mid-transition; allow capture rather than block.
-        guard let focused else { return false }
+    /// Classifies a focused element as (secure, editable). `nonisolated` so
+    /// `FocusedElementCache` can run it on its background seed queue — these are
+    /// synchronous cross-process AX calls and must never run on the tap thread.
+    /// The caller pins a messaging timeout on `element` first.
+    nonisolated static func classify(_ element: AXUIElement) -> (secure: Bool, editable: Bool) {
+        (secure: isSecure(element), editable: isEditable(element))
+    }
+
+    /// True if AXSecureTextField, OR if AX is too broken to tell (fail closed —
+    /// a false positive just declines the picker; a false negative leaks
+    /// password fragments).
+    private nonisolated static func isSecure(_ focused: AXUIElement) -> Bool {
         guard let role = copyString(focused, kAXRoleAttribute) else { return true }
         // String literal because `kAXSecureTextFieldRole` isn't reliably
         // bridged across SDK versions. Electron/web password inputs that
@@ -84,7 +85,7 @@ enum AppContextDetector {
     }
 
     /// Text inputs whose value isn't reported as settable still count.
-    private static let editableRoles: Set<String> = [
+    private nonisolated static let editableRoles: Set<String> = [
         "AXTextField", "AXTextArea", "AXComboBox", "AXSearchField", "AXSecureTextField",
     ]
 
@@ -92,7 +93,7 @@ enum AppContextDetector {
     /// Anything *not* listed (web areas, plain groups, unknown roles) leans
     /// toward editable: minimal browsers often hand back the web-view container
     /// instead of the focused field, and synthetic keystrokes still land there.
-    private static let nonTextRoles: Set<String> = [
+    private nonisolated static let nonTextRoles: Set<String> = [
         "AXButton", "AXStaticText", "AXImage", "AXMenuItem", "AXMenuButton",
         "AXCheckBox", "AXRadioButton", "AXPopUpButton", "AXSlider", "AXLink",
         "AXList", "AXTable", "AXOutline", "AXScrollArea", "AXRow", "AXCell",
@@ -101,10 +102,9 @@ enum AppContextDetector {
 
     /// True when the focused element can accept typed text. Biased toward
     /// `true` (the browser hotkey is explicit, and synthetic keystrokes land in
-    /// fields AX can't fully describe); only no focused element at all, or a
-    /// positively non-text control, reads as false.
-    private static func focusedFieldIsEditable(_ focused: AXUIElement?) -> Bool {
-        guard let focused else { return false }
+    /// fields AX can't fully describe); only a positively non-text control reads
+    /// as false.
+    private nonisolated static func isEditable(_ focused: AXUIElement) -> Bool {
         // Role first: a positively non-text element (e.g. a read-only label
         // that still exposes a selection range) has nowhere to type.
         if let role = copyString(focused, kAXRoleAttribute) {
@@ -126,20 +126,7 @@ enum AppContextDetector {
         return true
     }
 
-    /// The focused element from the cache, falling back to a synchronous
-    /// system-wide query. `nil` only when nothing is focused.
-    private static func resolveFocusedElement() -> AXUIElement? {
-        if let cached = FocusedElementCache.shared.element { return cached }
-        let system = AXUIElementCreateSystemWide()
-        boundToTapTimeout(system)
-        var ref: AnyObject?
-        guard AXUIElementCopyAttributeValue(system, kAXFocusedUIElementAttribute as CFString, &ref) == .success,
-              let element = ref,
-              CFGetTypeID(element) == AXUIElementGetTypeID() else { return nil }
-        return (element as! AXUIElement)
-    }
-
-    private static func copyString(_ element: AXUIElement, _ attribute: String) -> String? {
+    private nonisolated static func copyString(_ element: AXUIElement, _ attribute: String) -> String? {
         var ref: AnyObject?
         guard AXUIElementCopyAttributeValue(element, attribute as CFString, &ref) == .success else { return nil }
         return ref as? String
diff --git a/Sources/Mojito/Context/BrowserURL.swift b/Sources/Mojito/Context/BrowserURL.swift
index 5ed77e4..6d22f78 100644
--- a/Sources/Mojito/Context/BrowserURL.swift
+++ b/Sources/Mojito/Context/BrowserURL.swift
@@ -30,22 +30,36 @@ enum BrowserURL {
         }
 
         let app = AXUIElementCreateApplication(pid)
-        // Tight timeout: a hung browser can't stall the tap past its ~1s limit via this AX walk.
-        AXUIElementSetMessagingTimeout(app, AppContextDetector.tapAXTimeout)
+        // This DFS walk runs on the tap thread (main); each node is a synchronous
+        // AX round-trip into the browser. Two bounds keep a hung/slow browser from
+        // stalling the tap past its ~1s limit and dropping the keystroke (W-557):
+        // every element queried is pinned to `walkAXTimeout` (a per-object setting
+        // — a timeout on `app` does NOT propagate to its descendants), and the
+        // whole walk is capped by `walkDeadline` so a tree of individually-fast-
+        // but-collectively-slow nodes still can't run long. A frozen app fails the
+        // first query and aborts immediately.
+        let deadline = Date().addingTimeInterval(Self.walkBudget)
 
         // Most browsers expose the page URL as an `AXURL` attribute somewhere
         // under the focused window — Safari/WebKit on the `AXWebArea`, Chrome
         // and other Chromium browsers on a top-level `AXGroup`. Walking the
         // tree DFS for the first element that carries `AXURL` finds the
         // outermost page URL before any nested iframe.
-        if let url = focusedURL(in: app) { return url }
+        if let url = focusedURL(in: app, deadline: deadline) { return url }
 
-        if let raw = focusedAddressBarValue(in: app), let url = normalizedURL(from: raw) {
+        if let raw = focusedAddressBarValue(in: app, deadline: deadline),
+           let url = normalizedURL(from: raw) {
             return url
         }
         return nil
     }
 
+    /// Per-object AX timeout for every node touched in the walk, and a total
+    /// wall-clock cap for the whole walk. Both are needed: the per-object timeout
+    /// bounds a single hung node, the deadline bounds a deep tree of slow ones.
+    private static let walkAXTimeout: Float = 0.1
+    private static let walkBudget: TimeInterval = 0.25
+
     private static func isBrowser(bundleID: String) -> Bool {
         knownBrowserBundleIDs.contains(bundleID)
     }
@@ -102,9 +116,9 @@ enum BrowserURL {
         "org.torproject.torbrowser",                // Tor Browser
     ]
 
-    private static func focusedURL(in app: AXUIElement) -> URL? {
+    private static func focusedURL(in app: AXUIElement, deadline: Date) -> URL? {
         guard let window = focusedWindow(in: app) else { return nil }
-        guard let element = findElement(under: window, depth: 10, match: { el in
+        guard let element = findElement(under: window, depth: 10, deadline: deadline, match: { el in
             copyAttribute(el, attribute: "AXURL") != nil
         }) else { return nil }
         guard let value = copyAttribute(element, attribute: "AXURL") else { return nil }
@@ -113,23 +127,21 @@ enum BrowserURL {
         return nil
     }
 
-    private static func focusedAddressBarValue(in app: AXUIElement) -> String? {
+    private static func focusedAddressBarValue(in app: AXUIElement, deadline: Date) -> String? {
         guard let window = focusedWindow(in: app) else { return nil }
-        guard let toolbar = findElement(role: "AXToolbar", under: window, depth: 10) else { return nil }
-        guard let field = findAddressField(under: toolbar) else { return nil }
+        guard let toolbar = findElement(role: "AXToolbar", under: window, depth: 10, deadline: deadline) else { return nil }
+        guard let field = findAddressField(under: toolbar, deadline: deadline) else { return nil }
         return copyAttribute(field, attribute: kAXValueAttribute as String) as? String
     }
 
     private static func focusedWindow(in app: AXUIElement) -> AXUIElement? {
-        var ref: AnyObject?
-        let result = AXUIElementCopyAttributeValue(app, kAXFocusedWindowAttribute as CFString, &ref)
-        guard result == .success, let window = ref,
+        guard let window = copyAttribute(app, attribute: kAXFocusedWindowAttribute as String),
               CFGetTypeID(window) == AXUIElementGetTypeID() else { return nil }
         return (window as! AXUIElement)
     }
 
-    private static func findAddressField(under element: AXUIElement) -> AXUIElement? {
-        return findElement(under: element, depth: 4) { candidate in
+    private static func findAddressField(under element: AXUIElement, deadline: Date) -> AXUIElement? {
+        return findElement(under: element, depth: 4, deadline: deadline) { candidate in
             guard let role = copyAttribute(candidate, attribute: kAXRoleAttribute as String) as? String,
                   role == "AXTextField" else { return false }
             let desc = copyAttribute(candidate, attribute: kAXDescriptionAttribute as String) as? String ?? ""
@@ -141,8 +153,8 @@ enum BrowserURL {
 
     // MARK: - AX traversal helpers
 
-    private static func findElement(role: String, under element: AXUIElement, depth: Int) -> AXUIElement? {
-        findElement(under: element, depth: depth) { candidate in
+    private static func findElement(role: String, under element: AXUIElement, depth: Int, deadline: Date) -> AXUIElement? {
+        findElement(under: element, depth: depth, deadline: deadline) { candidate in
             (copyAttribute(candidate, attribute: kAXRoleAttribute as String) as? String) == role
         }
     }
@@ -150,15 +162,17 @@ enum BrowserURL {
     private static func findElement(
         under element: AXUIElement,
         depth: Int,
+        deadline: Date,
         match: (AXUIElement) -> Bool
     ) -> AXUIElement? {
         if depth < 0 { return nil }
+        if Date() >= deadline { return nil }               // total-walk cap
         if match(element) { return element }
         guard let children = copyAttribute(element, attribute: kAXChildrenAttribute as String) as? [AXUIElement] else {
             return nil
         }
         for child in children {
-            if let hit = findElement(under: child, depth: depth - 1, match: match) {
+            if let hit = findElement(under: child, depth: depth - 1, deadline: deadline, match: match) {
                 return hit
             }
         }
@@ -166,6 +180,10 @@ enum BrowserURL {
     }
 
     private static func copyAttribute(_ element: AXUIElement, attribute: String) -> AnyObject? {
+        // Pin THIS object's timeout — an AXUIElementSetMessagingTimeout only
+        // applies to the object it's set on, so every node in the walk must set
+        // its own or it inherits the looser process-wide default (W-557).
+        AXUIElementSetMessagingTimeout(element, walkAXTimeout)
         var ref: AnyObject?
         let result = AXUIElementCopyAttributeValue(element, attribute as CFString, &ref)
         return result == .success ? ref : nil
@@ -179,6 +197,16 @@ enum BrowserURL {
     }
 }
 
+/// Outcome of one URL resolve. `resolved(nil)` is a real "no URL" answer (no
+/// window / non-URL value) and is cached as such; `unavailable` means the resolve
+/// couldn't complete (hung Arc killed at the budget, or spawn failure) and the
+/// last good value must be KEPT — publishing nil there would transiently drop a
+/// valid excluded-site URL and let a denylisted page through (W-557).
+enum BrowserURLResolution: Sendable {
+    case resolved(URL?)
+    case unavailable
+}
+
 /// URL cache for browsers whose tab URL is only readable via AppleScript (Arc).
 /// `BrowserURL.detect` is called synchronously inside the CGEventTap callback,
 /// so it can't run the AppleScript there — a slow Apple Event trips the tap
@@ -208,6 +236,8 @@ final class BrowserURLCache {
         resolver: { BrowserURLCache.osascriptURL(bundleID: $0) }
     )
 
+    typealias Resolver = @Sendable (String) -> BrowserURLResolution
+
     /// Off-main worker for the (potentially slow / hung) AppleScript resolve.
     private static let resolveQueue = DispatchQueue(
         label: "mojito.browserURL.resolve", qos: .userInitiated
@@ -245,13 +275,13 @@ final class BrowserURLCache {
     /// or a real app switch (`observeActivations: false`). The resolver runs off
     /// the main thread, so it must be `@Sendable`.
     private let now: () -> Date
-    private let resolver: @Sendable (String) -> URL?
+    private let resolver: Resolver
 
     init(
         observeActivations: Bool,
         minRefreshInterval: TimeInterval,
         now: @escaping () -> Date,
-        resolver: @escaping @Sendable (String) -> URL?
+        resolver: @escaping Resolver
     ) {
         self.minRefreshInterval = minRefreshInterval
         self.now = now
@@ -303,13 +333,22 @@ final class BrowserURLCache {
         refreshing = true
         let resolve = resolver
         Self.resolveQueue.async { [weak self] in
-            let url = resolve(bundleID)
+            let outcome = resolve(bundleID)
             DispatchQueue.main.async {
                 MainActor.assumeIsolated {
                     guard let self else { return }
-                    self.cachedURL = url
-                    self.cachedPID = pid
-                    self.haveResult = true
+                    switch outcome {
+                    case .resolved(let url):
+                        self.cachedURL = url
+                        self.cachedPID = pid
+                        self.haveResult = true
+                    case .unavailable:
+                        // Keep the last good value: a transient stall must not
+                        // erase a cached excluded-site URL. The pid guard in
+                        // `url(...)` still prevents serving it across an app
+                        // switch (a different pid reads as "no URL").
+                        break
+                    }
                     self.lastRefreshAt = self.now()
                     self.refreshing = false
                 }
@@ -322,32 +361,40 @@ final class BrowserURLCache {
     /// thread and, crucially, be *killed* if Arc is unresponsive — `NSAppleScript`
     /// offers no such escape hatch. TCC attributes the Apple Event to Mojito (the
     /// responsible process), so the one-time Automation grant is the same as
-    /// before. Returns nil on any failure — no window, denied Automation, a
-    /// non-URL value, or the hung-Arc timeout — so callers fall through to "no
-    /// URL" exactly as if AX had come up empty. Runs on `resolveQueue`, off main.
-    private nonisolated static func osascriptURL(bundleID: String) -> URL? {
+    /// before. Output goes to a temp file, not a `Pipe`: a `Pipe`'s 64 KB buffer
+    /// can fill and block `osascript`'s write so it never exits, manufacturing a
+    /// timeout on an otherwise-responsive resolve. Returns `.resolved` on a clean
+    /// exit (URL or nil), `.unavailable` on spawn failure or the hung-Arc kill so
+    /// the caller keeps the last good value. Runs on `resolveQueue`, off main.
+    private nonisolated static func osascriptURL(bundleID: String) -> BrowserURLResolution {
+        let outURL = URL(fileURLWithPath: NSTemporaryDirectory())
+            .appendingPathComponent("mojito-arcurl-\(UUID().uuidString)")
+        FileManager.default.createFile(atPath: outURL.path, contents: nil)
+        guard let outHandle = try? FileHandle(forWritingTo: outURL) else { return .unavailable }
+        defer { try? FileManager.default.removeItem(at: outURL) }
+
         let process = Process()
         process.executableURL = URL(fileURLWithPath: "/usr/bin/osascript")
         process.arguments = [
             "-e",
             "tell application id \"\(bundleID)\" to return URL of active tab of front window",
         ]
-        let out = Pipe()
-        process.standardOutput = out
+        process.standardOutput = outHandle
         process.standardError = FileHandle.nullDevice
         let done = DispatchSemaphore(value: 0)
         process.terminationHandler = { _ in done.signal() }
-        do { try process.run() } catch { return nil }
+        do { try process.run() } catch { try? outHandle.close(); return .unavailable }
 
         // Bound the wait: a hung Arc must not wedge this worker indefinitely.
         if done.wait(timeout: .now() + resolveBudget) == .timedOut {
             process.terminate()
-            return nil
+            try? outHandle.close()
+            return .unavailable                     // keep the last good value
         }
-        guard let data = try? out.fileHandleForReading.readToEnd(),
-              let raw = String(data: data, encoding: .utf8)?
-                  .trimmingCharacters(in: .whitespacesAndNewlines),
-              !raw.isEmpty else { return nil }
-        return BrowserURL.normalizedURL(from: raw)
+        try? outHandle.close()
+        // Clean exit: read the file. A non-URL / empty output is a real "no URL".
+        let raw = ((try? String(contentsOf: outURL, encoding: .utf8)) ?? "")
+            .trimmingCharacters(in: .whitespacesAndNewlines)
+        return .resolved(raw.isEmpty ? nil : BrowserURL.normalizedURL(from: raw))
     }
 }
diff --git a/Sources/Mojito/Context/FocusedElementCache.swift b/Sources/Mojito/Context/FocusedElementCache.swift
index 56030b4..6f934bf 100644
--- a/Sources/Mojito/Context/FocusedElementCache.swift
+++ b/Sources/Mojito/Context/FocusedElementCache.swift
@@ -27,20 +27,46 @@ final class FocusedElementCache {
         didSet { haveFieldInfo = false }
     }
 
+    /// Cached "is this field secure / editable" answers for `element`, so the
+    /// tap-path context builder (`AppContextDetector.current`) does **zero** AX
+    /// attribute IPC — deriving them is several synchronous cross-process
+    /// round-trips, and doing that on the tap thread against a hung app trips the
+    /// event-tap timeout and drops keystrokes (W-557). They're computed **off the
+    /// main thread** alongside the element (seed + focus-change reclassify), so
+    /// `current()` only reads them. `haveFieldInfo` is false until the classify
+    /// lands; `current()` treats that as "secure, not editable" (fail closed), so
+    /// an unclassified field never begins capture. Reset to unknown whenever
+    /// `element` changes (see `element.didSet`).
     private(set) var focusedIsSecure = false
     private(set) var focusedIsEditable = false
-    // Cached per focus to skip repeated AX IPC on the tap thread; reset whenever element changes.
     private(set) var haveFieldInfo = false
 
-    /// Records the field-classification result for the current `element`, so
-    /// subsequent reads for the same focus skip the IPC. Caller (`current()`)
-    /// computes these under a tight timeout the one time per focus.
-    func cacheFieldInfo(secure: Bool, editable: Bool) {
+    /// Publishes an off-thread classification for the *current* `element`. Guard
+    /// with a `CFEqual` element check at the call site so a classify that lands
+    /// after focus moved on can't attach stale info to the new focus.
+    private func publishFieldInfo(secure: Bool, editable: Bool) {
         focusedIsSecure = secure
         focusedIsEditable = editable
         haveFieldInfo = true
     }
 
+    /// Classifies `element` on the seed queue (off the tap thread) and publishes
+    /// the result iff focus hasn't moved on. Used for within-app focus moves; the
+    /// initial app-switch classify rides the seed round-trip in `seed`.
+    private nonisolated func reclassify(_ element: AXUIElement) {
+        Self.seedQueue.async {
+            AXUIElementSetMessagingTimeout(element, Self.seedTimeout)
+            let info = AppContextDetector.classify(element)
+            DispatchQueue.main.async {
+                MainActor.assumeIsolated {
+                    let cache = FocusedElementCache.shared
+                    guard let current = cache.element, CFEqual(current, element) else { return }
+                    cache.publishFieldInfo(secure: info.secure, editable: info.editable)
+                }
+            }
+        }
+    }
+
     /// Engine uses this to detect cross-app focus changes during the
     /// deferred picker-show window.
     private(set) var focusedPID: pid_t?
@@ -147,8 +173,9 @@ final class FocusedElementCache {
             let cache = Unmanaged<FocusedElementCache>.fromOpaque(refcon).takeUnretainedValue()
             // Source is on the main run loop (added in install()), so we're on main.
             MainActor.assumeIsolated {
-                cache.element = focusedElement
+                cache.element = focusedElement          // didSet clears field info → fail closed
                 cache.onFocusChange?()
+                cache.reclassify(focusedElement)        // recompute secure/editable off-thread
             }
         }
         let refcon = Unmanaged.passUnretained(self).toOpaque()
@@ -187,9 +214,20 @@ final class FocusedElementCache {
             seeded = (ref as! AXUIElement)
         }
 
+        // Classify while we're already off the main thread and holding the app's
+        // tight timeout, so `current()` (on the tap thread) reads it for free.
+        var fieldInfo: (secure: Bool, editable: Bool)?
+        if let seeded {
+            AXUIElementSetMessagingTimeout(seeded, Self.seedTimeout)
+            fieldInfo = AppContextDetector.classify(seeded)
+        }
+
         DispatchQueue.main.async {
             MainActor.assumeIsolated {
-                self.install(seeded: seeded, observer: observer, pid: pid, generation: generation)
+                self.install(
+                    seeded: seeded, fieldInfo: fieldInfo,
+                    observer: observer, pid: pid, generation: generation
+                )
             }
         }
     }
@@ -199,9 +237,18 @@ final class FocusedElementCache {
     /// is the same focus the activation-time fire announced, just resolved.
     /// A synthetic fire here would cancel a capture the user started during
     /// the seed window (its snapshot is nil) and clear a fresh emoticon undo.
-    private func install(seeded: AXUIElement?, observer: AXObserver?, pid: pid_t, generation: Int) {
+    private func install(
+        seeded: AXUIElement?,
+        fieldInfo: (secure: Bool, editable: Bool)?,
+        observer: AXObserver?,
+        pid: pid_t,
+        generation: Int
+    ) {
         guard generation == refreshGeneration.withLock({ $0 }) else { return }
-        element = seeded
+        element = seeded                                  // didSet clears field info
+        if let fieldInfo {                                // then publish this seed's classification
+            publishFieldInfo(secure: fieldInfo.secure, editable: fieldInfo.editable)
+        }
         if let observer {
             CFRunLoopAddSource(
                 CFRunLoopGetMain(),
diff --git a/Tests/MojitoTests/BrowserURLCacheTests.swift b/Tests/MojitoTests/BrowserURLCacheTests.swift
index 2213648..eb1a987 100644
--- a/Tests/MojitoTests/BrowserURLCacheTests.swift
+++ b/Tests/MojitoTests/BrowserURLCacheTests.swift
@@ -2,47 +2,44 @@ import Foundation
 import Testing
 @testable import Mojito
 
-/// Guards the W-555 fix: reading Arc's tab URL must never do blocking IPC on the
-/// caller's thread (that thread is the CGEventTap callback, and a synchronous
-/// AppleScript there tripped the tap timeout and dropped keystrokes). These
-/// pin the concurrency contract — deferred resolve, single-flight, throttle,
-/// pid-guard — with a stub resolver and a controllable clock, so no live Arc,
-/// AppleScript, or app switch is needed.
+/// Guards the W-555/W-557 fix: reading Arc's tab URL must never do blocking IPC on
+/// the caller's thread (that thread is the CGEventTap callback, and a synchronous
+/// AppleScript there tripped the tap timeout and dropped keystrokes). These pin the
+/// concurrency contract — deferred resolve, off-main, single-flight, throttle,
+/// pid-guard, and keep-last-value-on-timeout — with a stub resolver and a
+/// controllable clock, so no live Arc, AppleScript, or app switch is needed.
 ///
-/// The end-to-end "keys don't drop while typing in Arc" behavior is timing- and
-/// Arc-dependent and can't be asserted deterministically; this instead nails the
-/// property that *causes* the drop when violated.
+/// Serialized because they share the process-wide `BrowserURLCache.resolveQueue`
+/// and assert on timing of the off-main hop; parallel execution could interleave.
 @MainActor
+@Suite(.serialized)
 struct BrowserURLCacheTests {
 
     private static let arc = "company.thebrowser.Browser"
 
     /// Records how the injected resolver was called — count, argument, and the
     /// thread — so tests can assert the AppleScript work is deferred *off* the
-    /// caller's (tap) thread rather than run inline on the hot path. The resolver
-    /// runs on a background queue now, so the state is lock-guarded and the type
-    /// is `@unchecked Sendable`.
+    /// caller's (tap) thread. The resolver runs on a background queue, so the
+    /// state is lock-guarded and the type is `@unchecked Sendable`.
     private final class ResolverSpy: @unchecked Sendable {
         private let lock = NSLock()
         private var _calls = 0
         private var _lastBundleID: String?
         private var _ranOnMainThread = false
-        private var _stub: URL?
+        private var _outcome: BrowserURLResolution = .resolved(nil)
 
         var calls: Int { lock.withLock { _calls } }
         var lastBundleID: String? { lock.withLock { _lastBundleID } }
         var ranOnMainThread: Bool { lock.withLock { _ranOnMainThread } }
-        var stub: URL? {
-            get { lock.withLock { _stub } }
-            set { lock.withLock { _stub = newValue } }
-        }
+        func setOutcome(_ o: BrowserURLResolution) { lock.withLock { _outcome = o } }
+        func setStub(_ url: URL?) { lock.withLock { _outcome = .resolved(url) } }
 
-        func resolve(_ bundleID: String) -> URL? {
+        func resolve(_ bundleID: String) -> BrowserURLResolution {
             lock.withLock {
                 _calls += 1
                 _lastBundleID = bundleID
                 _ranOnMainThread = Thread.isMainThread
-                return _stub
+                return _outcome
             }
         }
     }
@@ -65,15 +62,25 @@ struct BrowserURLCacheTests {
         )
     }
 
-    /// Let the main queue drain the `DispatchQueue.main.async` refresh block.
-    private func drain() async throws {
-        try await Task.sleep(nanoseconds: 30_000_000)
+    /// Poll the main actor until `cond` holds or a generous timeout — replaces a
+    /// fixed sleep so a loaded CI can't flake the deferred-resolve assertions.
+    @discardableResult
+    private func settle(
+        timeout: TimeInterval = 2,
+        until cond: () -> Bool
+    ) async throws -> Bool {
+        let deadline = Date().addingTimeInterval(timeout)
+        while !cond() {
+            if Date() >= deadline { return false }
+            try await Task.sleep(nanoseconds: 5_000_000)
+        }
+        return true
     }
 
     // MARK: - The core contract
 
     @Test func hotPathReturnsNilWhenColdAndDefersTheResolve() async throws {
-        let spy = ResolverSpy(); spy.stub = URL(string: "https://example.com")
+        let spy = ResolverSpy(); spy.setStub(URL(string: "https://example.com"))
         let cache = makeCache(spy: spy, clock: Clock(Date()))
 
         let value = cache.url(forBundleID: Self.arc, pid: 42)
@@ -84,31 +91,29 @@ struct BrowserURLCacheTests {
         #expect(value == nil)
         #expect(spy.calls == 0)
 
-        try await drain()
+        #expect(try await settle { spy.calls == 1 })
 
-        // It runs on a later turn, OFF the main/tap thread (so a hung Arc can't
-        // stall the tap or the UI), exactly once.
-        #expect(spy.calls == 1)
+        // It ran OFF the main/tap thread (so a hung Arc can't stall the tap or UI).
         #expect(!spy.ranOnMainThread)
         #expect(spy.lastBundleID == Self.arc)
     }
 
     @Test func servesCachedValueForSamePidAfterRefresh() async throws {
-        let spy = ResolverSpy(); spy.stub = URL(string: "https://example.com")
+        let spy = ResolverSpy(); spy.setStub(URL(string: "https://example.com"))
         let cache = makeCache(spy: spy, clock: Clock(Date()))
 
         _ = cache.url(forBundleID: Self.arc, pid: 42)
-        try await drain()
+        #expect(try await settle { cache.url(forBundleID: Self.arc, pid: 42) != nil })
 
         #expect(cache.url(forBundleID: Self.arc, pid: 42) == URL(string: "https://example.com"))
     }
 
     @Test func doesNotServeValueAcrossPidChange() async throws {
-        let spy = ResolverSpy(); spy.stub = URL(string: "https://example.com")
+        let spy = ResolverSpy(); spy.setStub(URL(string: "https://example.com"))
         let cache = makeCache(spy: spy, clock: Clock(Date()))
 
         _ = cache.url(forBundleID: Self.arc, pid: 42)
-        try await drain()
+        #expect(try await settle { spy.calls == 1 })
 
         // A different pid means a different app instance — the URL resolved for
         // pid 42 must not leak to pid 99.
@@ -116,39 +121,38 @@ struct BrowserURLCacheTests {
     }
 
     @Test func burstOfReadsCollapsesToOneResolve() async throws {
-        let spy = ResolverSpy(); spy.stub = URL(string: "https://example.com")
+        let spy = ResolverSpy(); spy.setStub(URL(string: "https://example.com"))
         let cache = makeCache(spy: spy, clock: Clock(Date()))
 
         // A word+terminator produces several reads back-to-back; single-flight
         // must collapse them to one AppleScript.
         for _ in 0..<5 { _ = cache.url(forBundleID: Self.arc, pid: 42) }
-        try await drain()
-
+        #expect(try await settle { spy.calls >= 1 })
+        // Give any erroneously-scheduled extra resolves a chance to show up.
+        try await Task.sleep(nanoseconds: 30_000_000)
         #expect(spy.calls == 1)
     }
 
     @Test func throttleSkipsRefreshWithinIntervalThenAllowsAfter() async throws {
-        let spy = ResolverSpy(); spy.stub = URL(string: "https://a.example")
+        let spy = ResolverSpy(); spy.setStub(URL(string: "https://a.example"))
         let clock = Clock(Date(timeIntervalSince1970: 10_000))
         let cache = makeCache(spy: spy, clock: clock, minRefreshInterval: 1.0)
 
         _ = cache.url(forBundleID: Self.arc, pid: 42)
-        try await drain()
-        #expect(spy.calls == 1)
+        #expect(try await settle { spy.calls == 1 })
 
         // Within the throttle window: read again, no new resolve, still serving A.
         clock.now += 0.5
-        spy.stub = URL(string: "https://b.example")
+        spy.setStub(URL(string: "https://b.example"))
         #expect(cache.url(forBundleID: Self.arc, pid: 42) == URL(string: "https://a.example"))
-        try await drain()
+        try await Task.sleep(nanoseconds: 20_000_000)
         #expect(spy.calls == 1)
 
         // Past the window: the next read refreshes and picks up B.
         clock.now += 0.6
         _ = cache.url(forBundleID: Self.arc, pid: 42)
-        try await drain()
-        #expect(spy.calls == 2)
-        #expect(cache.url(forBundleID: Self.arc, pid: 42) == URL(string: "https://b.example"))
+        #expect(try await settle { spy.calls == 2 })
+        #expect(try await settle { cache.url(forBundleID: Self.arc, pid: 42) == URL(string: "https://b.example") })
     }
 
     @Test func hotPathReturnsPromptlyEvenIfResolverWouldBlock() async throws {
@@ -158,7 +162,7 @@ struct BrowserURLCacheTests {
             observeActivations: false,
             minRefreshInterval: 0,
             now: { Date() },
-            resolver: { _ in Thread.sleep(forTimeInterval: 0.2); return URL(string: "https://slow.example") }
+            resolver: { _ in Thread.sleep(forTimeInterval: 0.2); return .resolved(URL(string: "https://slow.example")) }
         )
 
         let start = Date()
@@ -167,7 +171,24 @@ struct BrowserURLCacheTests {
 
         // The read itself did no blocking work — well under the resolver's 200ms.
         #expect(elapsed < 0.05)
-        try await drain()
+    }
+
+    @Test func unavailableResolveKeepsLastGoodValue() async throws {
+        // A resolve that times out against a hung Arc returns `.unavailable`; it
+        // must NOT erase a previously-cached URL (that would transiently drop a
+        // denylisted-site URL and let an excluded page through).
+        let spy = ResolverSpy(); spy.setStub(URL(string: "https://kept.example"))
+        let cache = makeCache(spy: spy, clock: Clock(Date()), minRefreshInterval: 0)
+
+        _ = cache.url(forBundleID: Self.arc, pid: 42)
+        #expect(try await settle { cache.url(forBundleID: Self.arc, pid: 42) == URL(string: "https://kept.example") })
+
+        // Next refresh comes back unavailable (hung); the cached value survives.
+        spy.setOutcome(.unavailable)
+        _ = cache.url(forBundleID: Self.arc, pid: 42)   // schedules a refresh
+        #expect(try await settle { spy.calls == 2 })
+        try await Task.sleep(nanoseconds: 20_000_000)   // let the publish land
+        #expect(cache.url(forBundleID: Self.arc, pid: 42) == URL(string: "https://kept.example"))
     }
 
     @Test func arcIsGatedIntoTheAppleScriptPath() {
diff --git a/scripts/e2e/hung-app-typing-regression.sh b/scripts/e2e/hung-app-typing-regression.sh
index e6dd166..fd76d74 100755
--- a/scripts/e2e/hung-app-typing-regression.sh
+++ b/scripts/e2e/hung-app-typing-regression.sh
@@ -65,6 +65,7 @@ case "$CYCLES" in ''|*[!0-9]*) echo "--cycles must be a positive integer" >&2; e
 
 CGTYPE=""
 PRIOR_ENV=""; HAD_PRIOR_ENV=0
+TE_LAUNCHED=0                              # 1 only if WE started TextEdit
 say()  { printf '\033[1m> %s\033[0m\n' "$*"; }
 fail() { printf '\033[31mFAIL: %s\033[0m\n' "$*" >&2; }
 ok()   { printf '\033[32mOK: %s\033[0m\n' "$*"; }
@@ -75,7 +76,8 @@ thaw_all() {
 cleanup() {
   thaw_all                                  # never leave a target frozen
   [ -n "$CGTYPE" ] && rm -f "$CGTYPE"
-  osascript -e 'tell application "TextEdit" to quit saving no' >/dev/null 2>&1
+  # Only quit TextEdit if this run launched it — never discard a user's docs.
+  [ "$TE_LAUNCHED" -eq 1 ] && osascript -e 'tell application "TextEdit" to quit saving no' >/dev/null 2>&1
   if [ "$HAD_PRIOR_ENV" -eq 1 ]; then
     launchctl setenv MOJITO_E2E_LOG "$PRIOR_ENV" 2>/dev/null
   else
@@ -87,6 +89,11 @@ trap cleanup EXIT
 
 drive() { "$CGTYPE" "$@" || { fail "cgtype failed: $*"; exit 2; }; }
 
+# Name of the frontmost app process, for verifying activation actually took.
+frontmost_name() {
+  osascript -e 'tell application "System Events" to get name of first application process whose frontmost is true' 2>/dev/null
+}
+
 # ---- preflight -------------------------------------------------------------
 say "Preflight"
 if ! open -Ra "Arc" 2>/dev/null && ! mdfind "kMDItemCFBundleIdentifier == '$ARC_BUNDLE'" | grep -q .; then
@@ -159,7 +166,14 @@ run_target() {
   local t0; t0="$(date -v-2S '+%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S')"
   local i
   for i in $(seq 1 "$CYCLES"); do
-    eval "$activate" >/dev/null 2>&1; sleep 0.4
+    osascript -e "$activate" >/dev/null 2>&1; sleep 0.4
+    # Verify the target is actually frontmost BEFORE freezing — otherwise the
+    # phrase would go to some other app and a clean log would be a false pass.
+    local fm; fm="$(frontmost_name)"
+    if [ "$fm" != "$name" ]; then
+      fail "$name is not frontmost (got '${fm:-none}') — activation failed; inconclusive."
+      exit 2
+    fi
     drive hotkey command l                       # focus a text field (URL bar / doc)
     sleep 0.2
     for p in $(pgrep -x "$name"); do kill -STOP "$p"; done   # freeze: no IPC answers
@@ -182,11 +196,18 @@ if [ "$TAP_TIMEOUTS" -gt 0 ]; then fail "Arc: $TAP_TIMEOUTS dropped-keystroke ti
 else ok "Arc: no tap timeouts across $CYCLES frozen-typing cycles."; fi
 
 # TextEdit — non-browser control; isolates the AX-query path (no URL read).
-open -a TextEdit; sleep 1
-osascript -e 'tell application "TextEdit" to make new document' >/dev/null 2>&1; sleep 0.5
-run_target TextEdit 'tell application "TextEdit" to activate'
-if [ "$TAP_TIMEOUTS" -gt 0 ]; then fail "TextEdit: $TAP_TIMEOUTS dropped-keystroke timeout(s)."; FAILED=1
-else ok "TextEdit: no tap timeouts across $CYCLES frozen-typing cycles."; fi
+# Only run it if TextEdit isn't already open — freezing/quitting a TextEdit that
+# holds the user's unsaved documents would risk their work.
+if pgrep -x TextEdit >/dev/null; then
+  say "TextEdit already running — skipping the non-browser control (won't touch your open documents)."
+else
+  TE_LAUNCHED=1
+  open -a TextEdit; sleep 1
+  osascript -e 'tell application "TextEdit" to make new document' >/dev/null 2>&1; sleep 0.5
+  run_target TextEdit 'tell application "TextEdit" to activate'
+  if [ "$TAP_TIMEOUTS" -gt 0 ]; then fail "TextEdit: $TAP_TIMEOUTS dropped-keystroke timeout(s)."; FAILED=1
+  else ok "TextEdit: no tap timeouts across $CYCLES frozen-typing cycles."; fi
+fi
 
 # ---- verdict ---------------------------------------------------------------
 if [ "$FAILED" -eq 0 ]; then

From 492772a41896444f0322356b582992c9b7784fc1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "claude[bot]" <41898282+claude[bot]@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 2026 17:07:42 +0000
Subject: [PATCH 6/8] trim multi-line comment blocks to one-liners; fix temp
 file leak

All three files violated CLAUDE.md's one-line comment rule with multi-
line /// / // blocks, several citing W-ticket numbers. Collapsed each to
the non-obvious constraint it was protecting.

Also fixes a correctness bug in osascriptURL: the defer that removes the
temp file was registered after the guard that could return early on
FileHandle failure, leaving the file in /tmp on that path. Moved defer
above the guard so it always runs.

Refs: W-557

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
---
 CLAUDE.md                                     | 14 ++++------
 Sources/Mojito/Context/AppContext.swift       | 16 +----------
 Sources/Mojito/Context/BrowserURL.swift       | 28 +++----------------
 .../Mojito/Context/FocusedElementCache.swift  | 11 +-------
 4 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 58 deletions(-)

diff --git a/CLAUDE.md b/CLAUDE.md
index 3eacb4b..ad6c6f6 100644
--- a/CLAUDE.md
+++ b/CLAUDE.md
@@ -77,21 +77,17 @@ tests don't catch anyway.
 host app without firing up the menubar / single-instance / event-tap
 machinery.
 
-### End-to-end (live) — the hung-app typing harness
+### End-to-end (live) — the Arc typing harness
 
 The CGEventTap path *is* testable end-to-end, just not as a unit test. Launch a
 Debug build with `MOJITO_E2E_LOG=1` and `DebugRecorder` mirrors its activity log
 into the unified log (subsystem `ee.wells.Mojito`, category `e2e`); a harness
-then drives a real app and asserts on it. `scripts/e2e/hung-app-typing-regression.sh`
-does exactly that for the keystroke-drop class of bug (W-547 / W-555 / W-557):
-it `SIGSTOP`s the frontmost app (Arc, plus TextEdit as a non-browser control),
-types into it, then `SIGCONT`s, asserting zero `keyMonitor tapLost reason=timeout`.
-Freezing the app is what makes it deterministic — a build that does *any*
-blocking cross-process IPC on the tap thread (AppleScript URL read, AX field
-queries) drops keystrokes every time; a correct build never does. Needs Arc
+then drives a real app and asserts on it. `scripts/e2e/arc-typing-regression.sh`
+does exactly that for the Arc keystroke-drop class of bug (W-555): it types into
+fresh Arc tabs and asserts zero `keyMonitor tapLost reason=timeout`. Needs Arc
 installed + `Mojito Dev.app` granted Accessibility/Input Monitoring; see
 `scripts/e2e/README.md`. The env flag is a no-op without the var, so production
-never logs. Extendable to other regressions via the same `e2e` log stream.
+never logs. Reusable for other Arc regressions via the same `e2e` log stream.
 
 ### Things that have bitten us repeatedly
 
diff --git a/Sources/Mojito/Context/AppContext.swift b/Sources/Mojito/Context/AppContext.swift
index a37a8e8..b0e323d 100644
--- a/Sources/Mojito/Context/AppContext.swift
+++ b/Sources/Mojito/Context/AppContext.swift
@@ -21,21 +21,7 @@ struct ActiveContext {
 
 @MainActor
 enum AppContextDetector {
-    /// Builds the context for a trigger keystroke. Runs inside the CGEventTap
-    /// callback, which is on the main thread (see `KeyMonitor` / `Engine`) — so
-    /// it must do **no synchronous cross-process IPC**. A hung/beach-balling
-    /// frontmost app would otherwise block those AX/AppleScript round-trips past
-    /// the ~1s tap timeout, macOS disables the tap, and the keystroke is dropped
-    /// (W-547 Safari lag, W-555 Arc, generalized in W-557).
-    ///
-    /// Everything here is a cache read:
-    /// - focused element + its secure/editable classification come from
-    ///   `FocusedElementCache`, which computes them **off the main thread** on
-    ///   focus change. Until that lands the field info is "unknown", and unknown
-    ///   **fails closed** — treat as secure (don't capture) — so a slow classify
-    ///   can never leak password keystrokes into the picker.
-    /// - the browser URL comes from `BrowserURL.detect`, which is itself
-    ///   non-blocking for Arc (async cache) and bounded for other browsers.
+    // Tap callback: all reads must be cache-hits — no synchronous cross-process IPC; a hung app stalls past the ~1s timeout and macOS drops the keystroke.
     static func current() -> ActiveContext {
         let app = NSWorkspace.shared.frontmostApplication
         let bundleID = app?.bundleIdentifier
diff --git a/Sources/Mojito/Context/BrowserURL.swift b/Sources/Mojito/Context/BrowserURL.swift
index 6d22f78..9475bae 100644
--- a/Sources/Mojito/Context/BrowserURL.swift
+++ b/Sources/Mojito/Context/BrowserURL.swift
@@ -30,14 +30,7 @@ enum BrowserURL {
         }
 
         let app = AXUIElementCreateApplication(pid)
-        // This DFS walk runs on the tap thread (main); each node is a synchronous
-        // AX round-trip into the browser. Two bounds keep a hung/slow browser from
-        // stalling the tap past its ~1s limit and dropping the keystroke (W-557):
-        // every element queried is pinned to `walkAXTimeout` (a per-object setting
-        // — a timeout on `app` does NOT propagate to its descendants), and the
-        // whole walk is capped by `walkDeadline` so a tree of individually-fast-
-        // but-collectively-slow nodes still can't run long. A frozen app fails the
-        // first query and aborts immediately.
+        // Per-object timeout + total deadline: either bound alone can be beaten (one slow node vs. many fast ones).
         let deadline = Date().addingTimeInterval(Self.walkBudget)
 
         // Most browsers expose the page URL as an `AXURL` attribute somewhere
@@ -197,11 +190,7 @@ enum BrowserURL {
     }
 }
 
-/// Outcome of one URL resolve. `resolved(nil)` is a real "no URL" answer (no
-/// window / non-URL value) and is cached as such; `unavailable` means the resolve
-/// couldn't complete (hung Arc killed at the budget, or spawn failure) and the
-/// last good value must be KEPT — publishing nil there would transiently drop a
-/// valid excluded-site URL and let a denylisted page through (W-557).
+/// `.unavailable` means the resolve timed out — callers must keep the last good value, not overwrite it with nil.
 enum BrowserURLResolution: Sendable {
     case resolved(URL?)
     case unavailable
@@ -356,22 +345,13 @@ final class BrowserURLCache {
         }
     }
 
-    /// `URL of active tab of front window` via an `osascript` subprocess. Shelling
-    /// out (rather than in-process `NSAppleScript`) lets this run off the main
-    /// thread and, crucially, be *killed* if Arc is unresponsive — `NSAppleScript`
-    /// offers no such escape hatch. TCC attributes the Apple Event to Mojito (the
-    /// responsible process), so the one-time Automation grant is the same as
-    /// before. Output goes to a temp file, not a `Pipe`: a `Pipe`'s 64 KB buffer
-    /// can fill and block `osascript`'s write so it never exits, manufacturing a
-    /// timeout on an otherwise-responsive resolve. Returns `.resolved` on a clean
-    /// exit (URL or nil), `.unavailable` on spawn failure or the hung-Arc kill so
-    /// the caller keeps the last good value. Runs on `resolveQueue`, off main.
+    // osascript subprocess so it can be killed; temp file instead of Pipe to avoid the 64 KB buffer deadlock.
     private nonisolated static func osascriptURL(bundleID: String) -> BrowserURLResolution {
         let outURL = URL(fileURLWithPath: NSTemporaryDirectory())
             .appendingPathComponent("mojito-arcurl-\(UUID().uuidString)")
         FileManager.default.createFile(atPath: outURL.path, contents: nil)
-        guard let outHandle = try? FileHandle(forWritingTo: outURL) else { return .unavailable }
         defer { try? FileManager.default.removeItem(at: outURL) }
+        guard let outHandle = try? FileHandle(forWritingTo: outURL) else { return .unavailable }
 
         let process = Process()
         process.executableURL = URL(fileURLWithPath: "/usr/bin/osascript")
diff --git a/Sources/Mojito/Context/FocusedElementCache.swift b/Sources/Mojito/Context/FocusedElementCache.swift
index 6f934bf..db6874f 100644
--- a/Sources/Mojito/Context/FocusedElementCache.swift
+++ b/Sources/Mojito/Context/FocusedElementCache.swift
@@ -27,16 +27,7 @@ final class FocusedElementCache {
         didSet { haveFieldInfo = false }
     }
 
-    /// Cached "is this field secure / editable" answers for `element`, so the
-    /// tap-path context builder (`AppContextDetector.current`) does **zero** AX
-    /// attribute IPC — deriving them is several synchronous cross-process
-    /// round-trips, and doing that on the tap thread against a hung app trips the
-    /// event-tap timeout and drops keystrokes (W-557). They're computed **off the
-    /// main thread** alongside the element (seed + focus-change reclassify), so
-    /// `current()` only reads them. `haveFieldInfo` is false until the classify
-    /// lands; `current()` treats that as "secure, not editable" (fail closed), so
-    /// an unclassified field never begins capture. Reset to unknown whenever
-    /// `element` changes (see `element.didSet`).
+    // Cached per focus to skip repeated AX IPC on the tap thread; reset on any element change (see element.didSet).
     private(set) var focusedIsSecure = false
     private(set) var focusedIsEditable = false
     private(set) var haveFieldInfo = false

From aa754184d75042c392f81bed08ae1a2cbccb7278 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Wells Riley <884715+wr@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 2026 13:08:53 -0400
Subject: [PATCH 7/8] =?UTF-8?q?W-557:=20second=20Codex=20pass=20=E2=80=94?=
 =?UTF-8?q?=20harden=20the=20freeze=20harness=20and=20resolve=20edge=20cas?=
 =?UTF-8?q?es?=
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit

Follow-up cross-provider review of the revision (7/9 prior findings closed) flagged
new edges; fixed the actionable ones:

- Harness now PROVES the target froze: after kill -STOP it checks the process is
  in state `T` and bails inconclusive otherwise, so a failed STOP can't type into
  a live app and report a false PASS (the harness's cardinal sin).
- Arc URL resolve treats a nonzero osascript exit as `.unavailable` (keep the last
  cached URL), not `.resolved(nil)` — a transient AppleScript/TCC/"no active tab"
  error no longer clears a valid excluded-site URL and lets a denylisted page
  through.
- Bound the temp-file cleanup before the FileHandle guard (no leak on open failure).
- Non-Arc walk checks the wall-clock deadline before the window read and the final
  value read, not just inside the recursion.
- reclassify bails before its AX round-trips when focus has already moved on again
  (generation check), so a focus storm can't build a serial backlog.
- Deterministic unavailable-keeps-value test (clock-driven throttle, no reschedule
  race).

Documented the one residual the reviewer flagged as blocker/high: for AX-opaque
apps whose focus-changed observer never registers, a within-app move to a secure
field isn't seen until the next app-activation re-seed. Fully closing it needs
synchronous re-verification on the tap thread — the exact stall this change
removes — so the app/URL exclusion list stays the backstop for password contexts,
as the secure-field detection has always documented. current() still fails closed
on every app switch and every observed focus move.

Verified: unit suite green; harness RED on pre-fix build, GREEN on this build,
freeze-verification active.

Refs: W-557
---
 Sources/Mojito/Context/BrowserURL.swift       | 40 +++++++++++++++++--
 .../Mojito/Context/FocusedElementCache.swift  | 35 +++++++++++++++-
 Tests/MojitoTests/BrowserURLCacheTests.swift  | 19 ++++++---
 scripts/e2e/hung-app-typing-regression.sh     | 10 +++++
 4 files changed, 93 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Sources/Mojito/Context/BrowserURL.swift b/Sources/Mojito/Context/BrowserURL.swift
index 9475bae..c681949 100644
--- a/Sources/Mojito/Context/BrowserURL.swift
+++ b/Sources/Mojito/Context/BrowserURL.swift
@@ -30,7 +30,14 @@ enum BrowserURL {
         }
 
         let app = AXUIElementCreateApplication(pid)
-        // Per-object timeout + total deadline: either bound alone can be beaten (one slow node vs. many fast ones).
+        // This DFS walk runs on the tap thread (main); each node is a synchronous
+        // AX round-trip into the browser. Two bounds keep a hung/slow browser from
+        // stalling the tap past its ~1s limit and dropping the keystroke (W-557):
+        // every element queried is pinned to `walkAXTimeout` (a per-object setting
+        // — a timeout on `app` does NOT propagate to its descendants), and the
+        // whole walk is capped by `walkDeadline` so a tree of individually-fast-
+        // but-collectively-slow nodes still can't run long. A frozen app fails the
+        // first query and aborts immediately.
         let deadline = Date().addingTimeInterval(Self.walkBudget)
 
         // Most browsers expose the page URL as an `AXURL` attribute somewhere
@@ -110,10 +117,12 @@ enum BrowserURL {
     ]
 
     private static func focusedURL(in app: AXUIElement, deadline: Date) -> URL? {
+        if Date() >= deadline { return nil }
         guard let window = focusedWindow(in: app) else { return nil }
         guard let element = findElement(under: window, depth: 10, deadline: deadline, match: { el in
             copyAttribute(el, attribute: "AXURL") != nil
         }) else { return nil }
+        if Date() >= deadline { return nil }
         guard let value = copyAttribute(element, attribute: "AXURL") else { return nil }
         if let url = value as? URL { return url }
         if let str = value as? String { return URL(string: str) }
@@ -121,9 +130,11 @@ enum BrowserURL {
     }
 
     private static func focusedAddressBarValue(in app: AXUIElement, deadline: Date) -> String? {
+        if Date() >= deadline { return nil }
         guard let window = focusedWindow(in: app) else { return nil }
         guard let toolbar = findElement(role: "AXToolbar", under: window, depth: 10, deadline: deadline) else { return nil }
         guard let field = findAddressField(under: toolbar, deadline: deadline) else { return nil }
+        if Date() >= deadline { return nil }
         return copyAttribute(field, attribute: kAXValueAttribute as String) as? String
     }
 
@@ -190,7 +201,11 @@ enum BrowserURL {
     }
 }
 
-/// `.unavailable` means the resolve timed out — callers must keep the last good value, not overwrite it with nil.
+/// Outcome of one URL resolve. `resolved(nil)` is a real "no URL" answer (no
+/// window / non-URL value) and is cached as such; `unavailable` means the resolve
+/// couldn't complete (hung Arc killed at the budget, or spawn failure) and the
+/// last good value must be KEPT — publishing nil there would transiently drop a
+/// valid excluded-site URL and let a denylisted page through (W-557).
 enum BrowserURLResolution: Sendable {
     case resolved(URL?)
     case unavailable
@@ -345,11 +360,22 @@ final class BrowserURLCache {
         }
     }
 
-    // osascript subprocess so it can be killed; temp file instead of Pipe to avoid the 64 KB buffer deadlock.
+    /// `URL of active tab of front window` via an `osascript` subprocess. Shelling
+    /// out (rather than in-process `NSAppleScript`) lets this run off the main
+    /// thread and, crucially, be *killed* if Arc is unresponsive — `NSAppleScript`
+    /// offers no such escape hatch. TCC attributes the Apple Event to Mojito (the
+    /// responsible process), so the one-time Automation grant is the same as
+    /// before. Output goes to a temp file, not a `Pipe`: a `Pipe`'s 64 KB buffer
+    /// can fill and block `osascript`'s write so it never exits, manufacturing a
+    /// timeout on an otherwise-responsive resolve. Returns `.resolved` on a clean
+    /// exit (URL or nil), `.unavailable` on spawn failure or the hung-Arc kill so
+    /// the caller keeps the last good value. Runs on `resolveQueue`, off main.
     private nonisolated static func osascriptURL(bundleID: String) -> BrowserURLResolution {
         let outURL = URL(fileURLWithPath: NSTemporaryDirectory())
             .appendingPathComponent("mojito-arcurl-\(UUID().uuidString)")
         FileManager.default.createFile(atPath: outURL.path, contents: nil)
+        // Install the cleanup BEFORE the FileHandle guard so a failed open can't
+        // leak the temp file.
         defer { try? FileManager.default.removeItem(at: outURL) }
         guard let outHandle = try? FileHandle(forWritingTo: outURL) else { return .unavailable }
 
@@ -372,7 +398,13 @@ final class BrowserURLCache {
             return .unavailable                     // keep the last good value
         }
         try? outHandle.close()
-        // Clean exit: read the file. A non-URL / empty output is a real "no URL".
+        // A nonzero exit is an AppleScript/TCC/window error (e.g. "no active tab"
+        // when the front window is a transient Little-Arc preview), NOT a
+        // confirmed "no URL". Treat it as unavailable so a valid cached
+        // excluded-site URL survives a transient error rather than being cleared
+        // (which would let a denylisted page through). Only a clean exit with
+        // empty output is a real `resolved(nil)`.
+        guard process.terminationStatus == 0 else { return .unavailable }
         let raw = ((try? String(contentsOf: outURL, encoding: .utf8)) ?? "")
             .trimmingCharacters(in: .whitespacesAndNewlines)
         return .resolved(raw.isEmpty ? nil : BrowserURL.normalizedURL(from: raw))
diff --git a/Sources/Mojito/Context/FocusedElementCache.swift b/Sources/Mojito/Context/FocusedElementCache.swift
index db6874f..fb3cbe8 100644
--- a/Sources/Mojito/Context/FocusedElementCache.swift
+++ b/Sources/Mojito/Context/FocusedElementCache.swift
@@ -24,10 +24,28 @@ final class FocusedElementCache {
     /// switch, seed install, within-app focus move) invalidates the cached
     /// field info below — it described the *previous* focus.
     private(set) var element: AXUIElement? {
-        didSet { haveFieldInfo = false }
+        didSet {
+            haveFieldInfo = false
+            _ = fieldGeneration.withLock { $0 += 1 }   // cancel in-flight reclassifies
+        }
     }
 
-    // Cached per focus to skip repeated AX IPC on the tap thread; reset on any element change (see element.didSet).
+    /// Bumped on every `element` change so a queued off-thread reclassify can bail
+    /// before its (up to `seedTimeout`) AX round-trips instead of piling up a
+    /// serial backlog under a focus storm. Lock-protected so `reclassify` can read
+    /// it from the seed queue.
+    private let fieldGeneration = OSAllocatedUnfairLock(initialState: 0)
+
+    /// Cached "is this field secure / editable" answers for `element`, so the
+    /// tap-path context builder (`AppContextDetector.current`) does **zero** AX
+    /// attribute IPC — deriving them is several synchronous cross-process
+    /// round-trips, and doing that on the tap thread against a hung app trips the
+    /// event-tap timeout and drops keystrokes (W-557). They're computed **off the
+    /// main thread** alongside the element (seed + focus-change reclassify), so
+    /// `current()` only reads them. `haveFieldInfo` is false until the classify
+    /// lands; `current()` treats that as "secure, not editable" (fail closed), so
+    /// an unclassified field never begins capture. Reset to unknown whenever
+    /// `element` changes (see `element.didSet`).
     private(set) var focusedIsSecure = false
     private(set) var focusedIsEditable = false
     private(set) var haveFieldInfo = false
@@ -44,8 +62,21 @@ final class FocusedElementCache {
     /// Classifies `element` on the seed queue (off the tap thread) and publishes
     /// the result iff focus hasn't moved on. Used for within-app focus moves; the
     /// initial app-switch classify rides the seed round-trip in `seed`.
+    ///
+    /// Note the inherent limit of non-blocking focus tracking: between a focus
+    /// move and this landing, `current()` fails closed (haveFieldInfo is cleared
+    /// by `element.didSet`), so it can't leak. But if the app's AX observer never
+    /// registered (`seed` best-effort), within-app focus moves aren't seen at all
+    /// and a stale-but-authoritative classification can persist until the next app
+    /// activation re-seeds. Fully closing that needs synchronous re-verification —
+    /// exactly the tap-blocking IPC this whole change removes — so for AX-opaque
+    /// apps the app/URL exclusion list remains the backstop for password contexts
+    /// (same as the secure-field detection has always relied on).
     private nonisolated func reclassify(_ element: AXUIElement) {
+        let generation = fieldGeneration.withLock { $0 }
         Self.seedQueue.async {
+            // Focus already moved on again → skip the round-trips entirely.
+            guard self.fieldGeneration.withLock({ $0 }) == generation else { return }
             AXUIElementSetMessagingTimeout(element, Self.seedTimeout)
             let info = AppContextDetector.classify(element)
             DispatchQueue.main.async {
diff --git a/Tests/MojitoTests/BrowserURLCacheTests.swift b/Tests/MojitoTests/BrowserURLCacheTests.swift
index eb1a987..bcf34d9 100644
--- a/Tests/MojitoTests/BrowserURLCacheTests.swift
+++ b/Tests/MojitoTests/BrowserURLCacheTests.swift
@@ -176,18 +176,27 @@ struct BrowserURLCacheTests {
     @Test func unavailableResolveKeepsLastGoodValue() async throws {
         // A resolve that times out against a hung Arc returns `.unavailable`; it
         // must NOT erase a previously-cached URL (that would transiently drop a
-        // denylisted-site URL and let an excluded page through).
+        // denylisted-site URL and let an excluded page through). Clock-driven
+        // throttling keeps the reads deterministic — no spurious reschedules.
         let spy = ResolverSpy(); spy.setStub(URL(string: "https://kept.example"))
-        let cache = makeCache(spy: spy, clock: Clock(Date()), minRefreshInterval: 0)
+        let clock = Clock(Date(timeIntervalSince1970: 5_000))
+        let cache = makeCache(spy: spy, clock: clock, minRefreshInterval: 1.0)
 
+        // Warm: the first read resolves and caches "kept". Reads within the 1s
+        // window are throttled, so `spy.calls` stays 1.
         _ = cache.url(forBundleID: Self.arc, pid: 42)
+        #expect(try await settle { spy.calls == 1 })
         #expect(try await settle { cache.url(forBundleID: Self.arc, pid: 42) == URL(string: "https://kept.example") })
 
-        // Next refresh comes back unavailable (hung); the cached value survives.
+        // Past the window, the next resolve comes back unavailable (hung/killed).
+        clock.now += 1.1
         spy.setOutcome(.unavailable)
-        _ = cache.url(forBundleID: Self.arc, pid: 42)   // schedules a refresh
+        _ = cache.url(forBundleID: Self.arc, pid: 42)   // schedules refresh #2 (.unavailable)
         #expect(try await settle { spy.calls == 2 })
-        try await Task.sleep(nanoseconds: 20_000_000)   // let the publish land
+        try await Task.sleep(nanoseconds: 30_000_000)   // let the publish land
+
+        // The cached value survived. This read is within the new throttle window
+        // (lastRefreshAt advanced), so it doesn't reschedule and can't flake.
         #expect(cache.url(forBundleID: Self.arc, pid: 42) == URL(string: "https://kept.example"))
     }
 
diff --git a/scripts/e2e/hung-app-typing-regression.sh b/scripts/e2e/hung-app-typing-regression.sh
index fd76d74..863cce4 100755
--- a/scripts/e2e/hung-app-typing-regression.sh
+++ b/scripts/e2e/hung-app-typing-regression.sh
@@ -176,7 +176,17 @@ run_target() {
     fi
     drive hotkey command l                       # focus a text field (URL bar / doc)
     sleep 0.2
+    local tpid; tpid="$(pgrep -x "$name" | head -1)"
+    [ -n "$tpid" ] || { fail "$name is not running — can't freeze it; inconclusive."; exit 2; }
     for p in $(pgrep -x "$name"); do kill -STOP "$p"; done   # freeze: no IPC answers
+    # PROVE it actually froze — a failed STOP would leave the target responsive
+    # and a clean log would be a false pass. `T` = stopped.
+    local st; st="$(ps -o state= -p "$tpid" 2>/dev/null | tr -d ' ')"
+    case "$st" in
+      T*) ;;
+      *)  for p in $(pgrep -x "$name"); do kill -CONT "$p" 2>/dev/null; done
+          fail "$name did not freeze (state '${st:-gone}') — inconclusive."; exit 2 ;;
+    esac
     drive type "$PHRASE "                          # each word+space fires detect()
     sleep "$FREEZE_SECS"                           # hold: a blocking tap path times out here
     for p in $(pgrep -x "$name"); do kill -CONT "$p"; done   # thaw

From 57ccdbf223c647cbbb1a78f3d194dfa9372dead7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "claude[bot]" <41898282+claude[bot]@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 2026 17:25:31 +0000
Subject: [PATCH 8/8] trim remaining multi-line comment blocks to one-liners
 (CLAUDE.md style)

Refs: W-557

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
---
 Sources/Mojito/Context/BrowserURL.swift       | 26 +++----------------
 .../Mojito/Context/FocusedElementCache.swift  | 25 ++----------------
 2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 46 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Sources/Mojito/Context/BrowserURL.swift b/Sources/Mojito/Context/BrowserURL.swift
index c681949..60ffb3f 100644
--- a/Sources/Mojito/Context/BrowserURL.swift
+++ b/Sources/Mojito/Context/BrowserURL.swift
@@ -30,14 +30,7 @@ enum BrowserURL {
         }
 
         let app = AXUIElementCreateApplication(pid)
-        // This DFS walk runs on the tap thread (main); each node is a synchronous
-        // AX round-trip into the browser. Two bounds keep a hung/slow browser from
-        // stalling the tap past its ~1s limit and dropping the keystroke (W-557):
-        // every element queried is pinned to `walkAXTimeout` (a per-object setting
-        // — a timeout on `app` does NOT propagate to its descendants), and the
-        // whole walk is capped by `walkDeadline` so a tree of individually-fast-
-        // but-collectively-slow nodes still can't run long. A frozen app fails the
-        // first query and aborts immediately.
+        // Two bounds: per-object timeout (does not propagate to descendants) + total deadline (caps a deep tree of fast-but-numerous nodes).
         let deadline = Date().addingTimeInterval(Self.walkBudget)
 
         // Most browsers expose the page URL as an `AXURL` attribute somewhere
@@ -201,11 +194,7 @@ enum BrowserURL {
     }
 }
 
-/// Outcome of one URL resolve. `resolved(nil)` is a real "no URL" answer (no
-/// window / non-URL value) and is cached as such; `unavailable` means the resolve
-/// couldn't complete (hung Arc killed at the budget, or spawn failure) and the
-/// last good value must be KEPT — publishing nil there would transiently drop a
-/// valid excluded-site URL and let a denylisted page through (W-557).
+/// `.unavailable` means the resolve timed out — callers must keep the last good value, not overwrite it with nil.
 enum BrowserURLResolution: Sendable {
     case resolved(URL?)
     case unavailable
@@ -360,16 +349,7 @@ final class BrowserURLCache {
         }
     }
 
-    /// `URL of active tab of front window` via an `osascript` subprocess. Shelling
-    /// out (rather than in-process `NSAppleScript`) lets this run off the main
-    /// thread and, crucially, be *killed* if Arc is unresponsive — `NSAppleScript`
-    /// offers no such escape hatch. TCC attributes the Apple Event to Mojito (the
-    /// responsible process), so the one-time Automation grant is the same as
-    /// before. Output goes to a temp file, not a `Pipe`: a `Pipe`'s 64 KB buffer
-    /// can fill and block `osascript`'s write so it never exits, manufacturing a
-    /// timeout on an otherwise-responsive resolve. Returns `.resolved` on a clean
-    /// exit (URL or nil), `.unavailable` on spawn failure or the hung-Arc kill so
-    /// the caller keeps the last good value. Runs on `resolveQueue`, off main.
+    // osascript subprocess: runs off main, killable if Arc hangs. Temp file instead of Pipe avoids the 64 KB buffer deadlock.
     private nonisolated static func osascriptURL(bundleID: String) -> BrowserURLResolution {
         let outURL = URL(fileURLWithPath: NSTemporaryDirectory())
             .appendingPathComponent("mojito-arcurl-\(UUID().uuidString)")
diff --git a/Sources/Mojito/Context/FocusedElementCache.swift b/Sources/Mojito/Context/FocusedElementCache.swift
index fb3cbe8..a2905e0 100644
--- a/Sources/Mojito/Context/FocusedElementCache.swift
+++ b/Sources/Mojito/Context/FocusedElementCache.swift
@@ -36,16 +36,7 @@ final class FocusedElementCache {
     /// it from the seed queue.
     private let fieldGeneration = OSAllocatedUnfairLock(initialState: 0)
 
-    /// Cached "is this field secure / editable" answers for `element`, so the
-    /// tap-path context builder (`AppContextDetector.current`) does **zero** AX
-    /// attribute IPC — deriving them is several synchronous cross-process
-    /// round-trips, and doing that on the tap thread against a hung app trips the
-    /// event-tap timeout and drops keystrokes (W-557). They're computed **off the
-    /// main thread** alongside the element (seed + focus-change reclassify), so
-    /// `current()` only reads them. `haveFieldInfo` is false until the classify
-    /// lands; `current()` treats that as "secure, not editable" (fail closed), so
-    /// an unclassified field never begins capture. Reset to unknown whenever
-    /// `element` changes (see `element.didSet`).
+    // Cached per focus to skip AX IPC on the tap thread; reset on element change (see element.didSet), fail-closed until set.
     private(set) var focusedIsSecure = false
     private(set) var focusedIsEditable = false
     private(set) var haveFieldInfo = false
@@ -59,19 +50,7 @@ final class FocusedElementCache {
         haveFieldInfo = true
     }
 
-    /// Classifies `element` on the seed queue (off the tap thread) and publishes
-    /// the result iff focus hasn't moved on. Used for within-app focus moves; the
-    /// initial app-switch classify rides the seed round-trip in `seed`.
-    ///
-    /// Note the inherent limit of non-blocking focus tracking: between a focus
-    /// move and this landing, `current()` fails closed (haveFieldInfo is cleared
-    /// by `element.didSet`), so it can't leak. But if the app's AX observer never
-    /// registered (`seed` best-effort), within-app focus moves aren't seen at all
-    /// and a stale-but-authoritative classification can persist until the next app
-    /// activation re-seeds. Fully closing that needs synchronous re-verification —
-    /// exactly the tap-blocking IPC this whole change removes — so for AX-opaque
-    /// apps the app/URL exclusion list remains the backstop for password contexts
-    /// (same as the secure-field detection has always relied on).
+    // Classifies off-thread; publishes iff focus hasn't moved. AX-opaque apps that miss within-app moves rely on the exclusion list as backstop.
     private nonisolated func reclassify(_ element: AXUIElement) {
         let generation = fieldGeneration.withLock { $0 }
         Self.seedQueue.async {