The canonical browser-QA protocol for web changes — target resolution, env attach, the driver gate (Playwright primary, agent-browser, Claude-in-Chrome), validator dispatch, chrome evidence packet.
Collected from public GitHub. Every version is saved exactly as it was and never changes. Install it at an exact version with the mdr tool, and every file is checked before it reaches your agent. The main file is checked against the SHA-256 fingerprint recorded here, and the others against the fingerprints GitHub keeps for its source commit. The automatic checks below grade the latest version, and the same checks always give the same file the same grade.
What the file says
# Browser QA
The single source of truth for driving browser QA — `$orc-qa` and `$orc-flow` both execute this protocol instead of restating it. Inputs from the caller: the feature description, the state dir, `--driver`/`--web`/`--no-env` flags when given, and (workspace mode) the web-surface repo + siblings.
## Step 0 — Resolve the target
Invoke `orc-qa-targets`: `--target` / `--web` / settled decision / the Target gate. Result: a target **name** (plus a `--base-url` override when one applies) and `guard`. The resolved JSON is never produced here — the engine resolves it inline in the command that consumes it (`orc-qa-targets` iron rule). Remote target ⇒ probe; unreachable ⇒ `🛑 Escalation — target unreachable`, stop.
## Step 1 — Provision or attach the environment (local target only)
Skip for remote targets and under `--no-env`. Check `orc-docker-env is-ready $(orc-docker-env state-path "$ORC_STATE_DIR" <sanitized-branch>)`:
- `ready` → attach; echo the reuse line (project, appUrl, "reused").
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The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261106.693b476, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.
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Source
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higoralves/orc · 7 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-06 · branch main
API
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