fix(navigate): support back/forward history + Windows pipe in drive.mjs (v2.2.1)

README.md

@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@
 
 <p align="center">
   <a href="https://github.com/compnew2006/browser-controller/actions/workflows/ci.yml"><img src="https://img.shields.io/github/actions/workflow/status/compnew2006/browser-controller/ci.yml?branch=main&label=CI&style=flat-square" alt="CI" /></a>
-  <a href="https://github.com/compnew2006/browser-controller/releases"><img src="https://img.shields.io/badge/version-2.2.0-blue?style=flat-square" alt="v2.2.0" /></a>
+  <a href="https://github.com/compnew2006/browser-controller/releases"><img src="https://img.shields.io/badge/version-2.2.1-blue?style=flat-square" alt="v2.2.1" /></a>
   <a href="LICENSE"><img src="https://img.shields.io/badge/license-MIT-yellow?style=flat-square" alt="License: MIT" /></a>
   <img src="https://img.shields.io/badge/node-%E2%89%A520-339933?style=flat-square&logo=nodedotjs&logoColor=white" alt="Node >= 20" />
   <img src="https://img.shields.io/badge/TypeScript-strict-blue?style=flat-square" alt="TypeScript strict" />

extension/handlers/navigation.js

@@ -19,16 +19,24 @@ export async function getActiveTab() {
 }
 
 export async function handleNavigate(params, _sessionId, _agentName, signal) {
-  const { url, waitUntil = 'load', tabId, snapshot: wantSnapshot = true } = params;
+  let { url } = params;
+  const { waitUntil = 'load', tabId, snapshot: wantSnapshot = true } = params;
   // navigate is the one page tool allowed to omit tabId → active tab fallback.
   const tab = tabId != null ? await resolveTab(tabId) : await getActiveTab();
 
   // Fix #2 (hash-aware): a hash-only navigation does NOT reload the document,
   // so `chrome.tabs.onUpdated` never fires `status === 'complete'` and the wait
   // below would hang for the full 55s timeout. Detect this case and skip the
   // wait entirely — the SPA router updates client-side near-instantly.
+  // "back"/"forward" walk the tab's history instead of being treated as a
+  // relative URL (which used to land on chrome-extension://<id>/back).
+  const historyStep = url === 'back' || url === 'forward' ? url : null;
+  const go = () => historyStep === 'back' ? chrome.tabs.goBack(tab.id)
+    : historyStep === 'forward' ? chrome.tabs.goForward(tab.id)
+    : chrome.tabs.update(tab.id, { url });
+
   const currentTab = await chrome.tabs.get(tab.id);
-  const hashOnly = isHashOnlyChange(currentTab.url, url);
+  const hashOnly = !historyStep && isHashOnlyChange(currentTab.url, url);
 
   // A promise that rejects when this call is cancelled (client gone / timeout
   // forwarded from the bridge). Handlers that await long-running operations
@@ -84,7 +92,7 @@ export async function handleNavigate(params, _sessionId, _agentName, signal) {
       };
       chrome.tabs.onUpdated.addListener(listener);
       if (wantDcl) pollTimer = setInterval(probeReady, 150);
-      chrome.tabs.update(tab.id, { url }).catch((err) => {
+      go().catch((err) => {
         chrome.tabs.onUpdated.removeListener(listener);
         if (pollTimer) clearInterval(pollTimer);
         reject(err);
@@ -111,6 +119,9 @@ export async function handleNavigate(params, _sessionId, _agentName, signal) {
   // Return the snapshot inline ONLY if the caller asked for it (default true).
   // Skipping it (snapshot:false) saves a large chunk of tokens when the agent
   // intends to call browser_snapshot itself or doesn't need the tree yet.
+  // For back/forward report where we actually landed, not the keyword.
+  if (historyStep) url = (await chrome.tabs.get(tab.id)).url;
+
   if (!wantSnapshot) {
     return { url, status: 'navigated', tabId: tab.id };
   }

extension/manifest.json

@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 {
   "manifest_version": 3,
   "name": "Browser Controller",
-  "version": "2.2.0",
+  "version": "2.2.1",
   "description": "Let AI agents control your real browser - your tabs, your sessions, your logins",
   "icons": {
     "16": "icons/icon16.png",

mcp-server/src/tools/navigate.ts

@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ export const navigateTool: ToolDefinition = {
   name: 'browser_navigate',
   summary: 'Navigate a tab to a URL (+ optional inline snapshot)',  description: 'Navigate to a URL in a browser tab. If tabId is omitted, navigates the active tab (or use browser_tabs create to open a new one). By default also returns a compact snapshot of the new page so you can act immediately; set snapshot:false to skip it and save tokens.',
   inputSchema: z.object({
-    url: z.string().describe('The URL to navigate to'),
+    url: z.string().describe('The URL to navigate to, or "back" / "forward" to move through the tab history'),
     tabId: optionalTabId(),
     waitUntil: z
       .enum(['load', 'domcontentloaded'])

package.json

@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 {
   "name": "browser-controller",
   "mcpName": "io.github.noiemany/browser-controller",
-  "version": "2.2.0",
+  "version": "2.2.1",
   "description": "MCP server + Chrome extension that gives AI agents control of your real browser with existing sessions and logins",
   "type": "module",
   "bin": {

scripts/drive.mjs

@@ -13,7 +13,10 @@ import path from 'node:path';
 
 const STATE = path.join(os.homedir(), '.browser-controller');
 const token = JSON.parse(fs.readFileSync(path.join(STATE, 'token.json'), 'utf8')).token;
-const sockPath = path.join(STATE, 'daemon.sock');
+// Must match daemon-config.ts: Windows uses a named pipe, not a socket file.
+const sockPath = process.platform === 'win32'
+  ? '\\\\.\\pipe\\browser-controller'
+  : path.join(STATE, 'daemon.sock');
 
 const tool = process.argv[2];
 if (!tool) { console.error('usage: drive.mjs <tool> [json params]'); process.exit(1); }

server.json

@@ -6,12 +6,12 @@
     "url": "https://github.com/compnew2006/browser-controller",
     "source": "github"
   },
-  "version": "2.2.0",
+  "version": "2.2.1",
   "packages": [
     {
       "registryType": "npm",
       "identifier": "browser-controller",
-      "version": "2.2.0",
+      "version": "2.2.1",
       "transport": {
         "type": "stdio"
       }