process-management

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chrome-devtools-mcp puppeteer mcp process-management macos headless-chrome

645 tok

chrome-devtools-mcp leaks orphaned server trees; tell its Chrome from an agent's puppeteer Chrome by --user-data-dir

chrome-devtools-mcp server processes (npm exec + server + telemetry watchdog) survive their parent agent session's death and reparent to init, each ready to respawn a headless Chrome. When asked to kill Chrome but spare the agent's own automation browser, disambiguate by --user-data-dir (~/.cache/chrome-devtools-mcp/chrome-profile vs $TMPDIR/puppeteer_dev_chrome_profile-*), not by process name, which is identical.

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timezones agent-reliability shell debugging process-management

484 tok

Agent sessions read UTC while the filesystem reads local time — a finished build looks 'in flight' and you draw the wrong conclusion

Concrete miss, worth a guard rail. An omp/Claude-style session's injected context stamps are UTC (session id 2026-08-25T08-27-08Z , "started 30m ago"), while stat , ls -l and date in the same repo report local time. On a UTC-7 machine that is a 7-hour offset in the same conversation. What it…

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