feat(session): retries on execute for both local and remote sessions - #908
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The retry-on-transient-failure loop around execute() is common enough
that callers (and prompt-taught helpers in downstream products) keep
hand-rolling it. Add client-side call options next to raise_on_failure:
session.execute(type="evaluate_js", code=code, retries=3)
re-runs a failed action up to `retries` extra times, sleeping
`retry_delay_ms` (default 2000) between attempts. The raise_on_failure
contract applies to the last attempt; every local attempt is recorded
in the trajectory; setup errors (no snapshot observed, missing tool)
propagate immediately and are not retried. Purely client-side: nothing
new crosses the wire, remote retries are additional API calls.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Included review availability: Your plan provides up to 4 included reviews per hour; 2 remain after this review. WalkthroughLocal and remote session execution now use shared defaults for Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to When sessions are configured to raise failures immediately, a transient failure on an early attempt can escape instead of being retried, so the advertised retry behavior is incomplete. The PR should defer raising until the final attempt before merge. 🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 4 | ❌ 1❌ Failed checks (1 warning)
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| Filename | Overview |
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| packages/notte-browser/src/notte_browser/session.py | Adds local retry orchestration, but retries ID-based actions without refreshing the snapshot or selector resolution after a failed attempt changes the page. |
| packages/notte-sdk/src/notte_sdk/endpoints/sessions.py | Adds client-side remote retries while applying failure raising only after the final API response. |
| tests/test_execute_retries.py | Covers basic local retry outcomes but stubs execution without exercising DOM changes between attempts. |
| tests/sdk/test_execute_retries.py | Covers remote retry success, exhaustion, quiet failure, and API-call counts. |
| docs/src/sdk-reference/remotesession/execute.mdx | Documents the new retry count, delay, and final-attempt failure semantics. |
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**Retries reuse stale element resolution**
When an ID-based interaction changes the live DOM before reporting failure, the retry runs without refreshing `self._snapshot` and can reuse the selector assigned during the first attempt, causing the next attempt to target the wrong element or fail to locate it.
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| for attempt in range(max(retries, 0) + 1): | ||
| final_attempt = attempt >= retries | ||
| result = await self._aexecute_impl( | ||
| action, raise_on_failure=_raise_on_failure if final_attempt else False, **kwargs | ||
| ) | ||
| if result.success: | ||
| break | ||
| if not final_attempt: | ||
| await asyncio.sleep(retry_delay_ms / 1000) |
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When an ID-based interaction changes the live DOM before reporting failure, the retry runs without refreshing self._snapshot and can reuse the selector assigned during the first attempt, causing the next attempt to target the wrong element or fail to locate it.
Knowledge Base Used: Browser sessions and controller
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Path: packages/notte-browser/src/notte_browser/session.py
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**Retries reuse stale element resolution**
When an ID-based interaction changes the live DOM before reporting failure, the retry runs without refreshing `self._snapshot` and can reuse the selector assigned during the first attempt, causing the next attempt to target the wrong element or fail to locate it.
**Knowledge Base Used:** [Browser sessions and controller](https://app.greptile.com/nottelabs/-/custom-context/knowledge-base/nottelabs/notte/-/docs/browser-sessions-and-controller.md)
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EXECUTE_RETRY_DEFAULT and EXECUTE_RETRY_DELAY_MS live in notte_core.common.config, the common root of both packages, so the local and remote sessions cannot drift and callers can import the values instead of hardcoding them. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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In `@docs/src/sdk-reference/misc/remotesession.mdx`:
- Around line 65-67: Update the execute docstring’s retries parameter
description near the sessions endpoint so the complete text is on a single line,
then regenerate the SDK reference documentation and verify the remotesession
page retains the full description.
In `@packages/notte-browser/src/notte_browser/session.py`:
- Around line 852-856: The retry loop in aexecute must prevent immediate
exception propagation on non-final attempts, including when
config.raise_condition is RaiseCondition.IMMEDIATELY. Update aexecute and
_aexecute_impl so caught exceptions are deferred until final_attempt while
retries remain, then add a regression test covering a failed first attempt
followed by a successful retry.
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| - `raise_on_failure`: If true, will raise if we could not execute the action | ||
| - `retries`: Re-run a failed action up to this many extra times, sleeping | ||
| - `retry_delay_ms`: Milliseconds to sleep between attempts. |
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The retries description is truncated mid-sentence.
Line 66 ends at "sleeping" and drops the rest of the contract. The generator for this page keeps only the first line of a multi-line parameter description. The sibling page docs/src/sdk-reference/remotesession/execute.mdx line 80 shows the full text, which confirms the source docstring is complete.
To fix this without changing the generator, put the retries description on one line in the execute docstring, then regenerate the docs.
📝 Proposed docstring change in packages/notte-sdk/src/notte_sdk/endpoints/sessions.py (lines 1709-1712)
raise_on_failure: If true, will raise if we could not execute the action
- retries: Re-run a failed action up to this many extra times, sleeping
- `retry_delay_ms` between attempts. The `raise_on_failure` contract
- applies to the last attempt.
+ retries: Re-run a failed action up to this many extra times, sleeping `retry_delay_ms` between attempts. The `raise_on_failure` contract applies to the last attempt.
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In `@docs/src/sdk-reference/misc/remotesession.mdx` around lines 65 - 67, Update
the execute docstring’s retries parameter description near the sessions endpoint
so the complete text is on a single line, then regenerate the SDK reference
documentation and verify the remotesession page retains the full description.
| for attempt in range(max(retries, 0) + 1): | ||
| final_attempt = attempt >= retries | ||
| result = await self._aexecute_impl( | ||
| action, raise_on_failure=_raise_on_failure if final_attempt else False, **kwargs | ||
| ) |
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Defer immediate exception raising during retries
When config.raise_condition is RaiseCondition.IMMEDIATELY, _aexecute_impl raises caught exceptions before it checks raise_on_failure. A first-attempt RateLimitError or other caught exception therefore aborts aexecute instead of allowing the configured retries. Defer this raise until final_attempt, or pass an internal flag for earlier attempts. Add a regression test with a failing first attempt and a successful retry.
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In `@packages/notte-browser/src/notte_browser/session.py` around lines 852 - 856,
The retry loop in aexecute must prevent immediate exception propagation on
non-final attempts, including when config.raise_condition is
RaiseCondition.IMMEDIATELY. Update aexecute and _aexecute_impl so caught
exceptions are deferred until final_attempt while retries remain, then add a
regression test covering a failed first attempt followed by a successful retry.
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Why
The retry-on-transient-failure loop around
execute()is common enough that callers keep hand-rolling it — most visibly theevaluate_js-while-the-page-settles pattern taught to generated functions in anything-api (nottelabs/anything-api#509). Discussed in the #905 follow-up: make it a first-class call option.What
New keyword-only call options on
execute/aexecute, next toraise_on_failure(localNotteSessionand remoteRemoteSession):retries(default 0): re-run a failed action up to that many extra times.retry_delay_ms(default 2000): sleep between attempts.raise_on_failurecontract applies to the last attempt — intermediate failures don't raise, the final one raises the typed error (or returns the failed result withraise_on_failure=False).NoSnapshotObservedError, missing tool) propagate immediately and are not retried.retries=0) is byte-identical to today.All 60+
execute/aexecuteoverloads carry the new params; SDK reference docs regenerated.Tests
tests/test_execute_retries.py(local: flaky-then-succeeds, exhausted-raises, exhausted-quiet, single-attempt default) andtests/sdk/test_execute_retries.py(remote: same via mocked page client, call counts asserted).Note on retrying non-idempotent actions
Retrying a
click/fillthat half-applied is the caller's judgment call — the default stays 0 precisely so nothing retries unless asked. The primary intended consumer is read-only actions likeevaluate_js/scrape-adjacent flows.🤖 Generated with Claude Code
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Considered and deferred: a scoped retry context manager
with session.retry_policy(retries=3, retry_delay_ms=200): ...was considered as an alternative/addition. Deferred because it makes retries ambient — everyexecutein the block retries, including non-idempotent clicks/fills, invisibly at the call site — while the per-call kwarg keeps the retry decision on the exact action it belongs to. It would also need ContextVar-backed task-local scoping plus nesting/precedence rules. If a real batch use case appears (e.g. retry every step of a replayed workflow), it layers cleanly on this PR: the kwarg default becomes "None → context →EXECUTE_RETRY_DEFAULT", with the explicit kwarg winning.