fix(agent): wait for a delayed same-tab navigation before observing

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Summary

• After a click, the next observation could land while a same-tab link was still on the old document, because the navigation itself was deferred.
• Settle now waits up to about 1.5 seconds for an http(s) same-tab link to change the URL. Buttons, downloads, other-tab targets, and links that already point at the current URL keep the fast path.

Test plan

• pnpm exec ava test/chrome.js -m '*delayed same-tab*'
• pnpm exec ava test/chrome.js -m '*does not wait for navigation*'

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• Bug Fixes
  • Browser observations now wait briefly for same-tab web navigation to complete, helping capture the destination page instead of the page being left behind.
  • Same-page fragment links and actions that do not navigate avoid the extra wait. Links that open in another context or trigger downloads also do not delay the observation. Waiting is limited, so observations can continue even if navigation does not finish promptly.

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Walkthrough

The browser settling flow now waits for qualifying same-tab HTTP(S) navigation after its existing waits. It skips links that do not qualify or do not change the document key. Tests cover delayed navigation, fragment links, links with a new-context base target, and non-navigating buttons.

Changes

Same-Tab Navigation Settling

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Detect and wait for same-tab navigation packages/agent/src/browser.js	waitForNavigation skips ineligible links and polls eligible links until the origin, path, or query changes, or the time limit expires. settle calls it after the existing waits, and the function is exported.
Validate navigation settling packages/agent/test/fixtures/page.js, packages/agent/test/chrome.js	The page fixture recognizes waitForNavigation. Chrome tests cover delayed same-tab navigation, fragment links, links with a <base target="_blank">, and non-navigating buttons.

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Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes

Change: Bug fix

Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to 4657e

The navigation wait and subsequent observation cover the delayed-body case. No actionable issue remains before normal merge checks.

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Inline comments:
Review comments at @packages/agent/src/browser.js:
- Around line 159-161: Update the same-tab decision in the target-resolution
logic to account for the document’s applicable base target when an anchor has no
explicit target. Treat an inherited target of _blank as opening another tab, so
the flow does not poll for a same-tab URL change; preserve explicit anchor
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