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Why

extendPage can only carry values decided before the snippet starts, so anything it might read had to be produced up front, on every run, whether or not it reached that method.

hostPage attaches methods the host resolves at the moment they are called:

createFunction(({ page }) => page.content(), {
  hostPage: { content: () => fetchThePage(url) }
})

fetchThePage runs because the snippet awaited content.

What it buys

Measured against a host that counts its calls, with getBrowserless throwing so a started browser would fail the test:

snippet browser host calls
() => 420 none []
async ({ page }) => (await page.content()).length none ["content"]
async ({ page }) => (await page.metadata()).title none ["metadata"]
async ({ page }) => (false ? await page.content() : "skipped") none []

The last row is the point. Whether that call happens is only knowable at runtime, so static inspection of the source has to assume it does and resolve up front. The channel resolves nothing.

How it fits the existing page

Nothing is serialized into the isolate. extendPage JSON values still travel as pageValues and become async () => value; a hostPage method becomes a call over the isolated-function channel instead:

page["content"] = (...args) => globalThis.__isolated_host("content", args)

A hostPage key satisfies its method exactly as an extendPage key does, so needsBrowser sees both and a snippet reading only these still skips Chromium. Both kinds can sit on the same page; host methods are applied first, so an eager value with the same name wins — matching the existing precedence where extendPage shadows a real page method.

Additive throughout: without hostPage, every generated program is byte-identical to before and no channel is opened.

Dependency

isolated-function ~0.2.8 to ~0.2.10, which is where the channel lands (#83). Worth knowing the symptom if anyone runs an older one locally: the lazy calls fail with an empty error object rather than anything descriptive, because the option is simply ignored.

Tests

8 new, 96 passing in the package, standard clean. Beyond the table above: a hostPage key satisfies needsBrowser while an unprovided method still requires a browser, a host method never reaches pageValues, and eager and host-backed methods coexist on one page.

Scope

Only packages/function. No overlap with #914 (packages/capture) or #885 (packages/goto).

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Medium Risk
Exposes a new host RPC surface to sandboxed snippets (untrusted args, call limits); behavior is additive when hostPage is omitted.

Overview
Adds hostPage, a createFunction option for lazy page methods the host runs only when untrusted snippet code actually calls them, via the isolated-function host channel (globalThis.__isolated_host) instead of pre-serializing like extendPage.

needsBrowser treats hostPage keys like extendPage stubs so snippets that only use those methods can still skip Chromium. extendPage wins on name clashes—shadowed host methods are not exposed on the channel. Validation rejects non-function values and __proto__ keys.

Wires hostPage through template generation, the VM host option, and browser/no-browser run paths; bumps isolated-function to ~0.2.10. README and host-page.js tests cover lazy resolution, branching, caching per method/args, and coexistence with extendPage.

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Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features
    • Added support for host-provided page methods that resolve only when called by a function.
    • Host-provided methods can be combined with existing page extensions; existing extensions take precedence when method names overlap.
    • Functions using only host-provided methods can run without starting a browser.
    • Identical method calls with the same arguments are resolved once per run. A default limit of 32 distinct calls applies.
    • Arguments and results must use supported values; calls involving unsupported values such as BigInt are rejected.
  • Documentation
    • Added configuration guidance and examples for host-provided page methods.

`extendPage` can only carry values decided before the snippet starts, so
anything it might read had to be produced up front, on every run, whether
or not it reached that method.

`hostPage` attaches methods the host resolves at the moment they are
called:

  createFunction(({ page }) => page.content(), {
    hostPage: { content: () => fetchThePage(url) }
  })

Nothing is serialized into the isolate. The call travels over the
`isolated-function` channel when the snippet makes it, so a snippet that
returns without touching `page` resolves nothing, and neither does a
branch it does not take:

  async ({ page }) => (false ? await page.content() : 'skipped')

That last case is the one static inspection cannot answer, because
whether the call happens is only known at runtime.

A `hostPage` key satisfies its method exactly as an `extendPage` key
does, so `needsBrowser` sees both and a snippet reading only these still
skips Chromium. Both kinds can sit on the same page; host methods are
applied first so an eager value with the same name wins, matching the
existing precedence where extendPage shadows a real page method.

Requires isolated-function 0.2.10 for the channel.

8 tests, including the untaken branch, the coexistence of both kinds, and
that a host method never reaches `pageValues`.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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The function APIs accept hostPage methods and pass them through template construction and isolated execution. Generated page wrappers call host methods when invoked. Browser-need detection considers both hostPage and extendPage. Tests and documentation cover lazy calls, argument handling, validation, and coexistence with extendPage.

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Host page methods

Layer / File(s) Summary
Generate and verify host-backed page methods
packages/function/src/template.js, packages/function/test/host-page.js, packages/function/README.md
Template generation adds wrappers that call host methods through globalThis.__isolated_host. Tests cover lazy resolution, argument forwarding, resolution reuse, validation, browser selection, and coexistence with extendPage. The README documents the options and channel constraints.
Pass hostPage through function execution
packages/function/src/function.js, packages/function/src/index.js, packages/function/package.json
function and createFunction accept and forward hostPage to template construction and isolated execution. Browser-need detection includes both page-extension options. The isolated-function dependency range changes from ~0.2.8 to ~0.2.10.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Change: Feature

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sequenceDiagram
  participant UserFunction
  participant GeneratedPageMethod
  participant IsolatedHost
  participant HostPage
  UserFunction->>GeneratedPageMethod: call method with arguments
  GeneratedPageMethod->>IsolatedHost: invoke __isolated_host with method and arguments
  IsolatedHost->>HostPage: resolve requested method
  HostPage-->>IsolatedHost: return method result
  IsolatedHost-->>UserFunction: return method result
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Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to 9453e

The change adds an opt-in hostPage option that runs host-provided page methods only when a snippet calls them. No actionable merge-blocking risk is evident from the supplied review context.

Security Architecture Review

Security architecture risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 8d193

Callers can now give isolated code access to host-side methods. That access is limited to methods the caller supplies, but side-effecting methods need particular care when a call times out or is retried.

Retained concerns

  • Medium · security · inferred: A host-side method reached by a snippet may continue after a supplied-page call times out or run again after a retryable failure. Per-run duplicate resolution does not establish once-only execution for privileged side effects across attempts.
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Security Blast Radius

  • inferred — The new authority is bounded by the host methods a caller supplies, but each such callback can exercise whatever host-side authority that caller gives it. The available evidence does not identify production callbacks, tenants, credentials, or stores reached by them.

Security Findings and Attack Paths

  • inferred — An untrusted snippet can choose when to invoke a granted host method and supply its arguments. If that method has non-idempotent privileged effects, timeout or retry can leave the caller without a reliable once-only outcome; no such production effect is verified here.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

  • observed — The caller selects exposed methods; the implementation requires function values and removes names shadowed by extendPage. A test confirms that direct channel access to a shadowed method is rejected without invoking that callback.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

  • observed — The supplied-page timeout prevents later retry attempts after rejection but does not cancel an execution already under way. Owned browser contexts have a separate cleanup path; neither establishes cancellation of an in-flight host callback.

Hardening Proposals

  • proposed — For host methods with privileged or non-idempotent effects, validate arguments and caller authority inside the callback, and define idempotency or reconciliation across retries and timeouts. Establish the channel's concurrency and cancellation contract before relying on per-run duplicate resolution.
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Both examples built a function and never called it, so neither produced
the result its comment claimed. They now await the call, and the output
was checked by running them: the first resolves the html with one host
call, the second returns "skipped" with none.

"Nothing is serialized into the isolate" was wrong about the part that
matters. The method stays on the host, but its arguments and its result
do cross the channel and have to be values the channel can carry, which
is why a BigInt rejects the call rather than resolving it.

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A non-function hostPage value counted as a stub and then failed inside the snippet. Reject it at setup, and leave a name that extendPage also defines off the channel so only the eager value is reachable.

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