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safari

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Safari desktop heuristics for background-computer-use. Use when the user asks you to navigate, scroll, click links, switch tabs, or otherwise drive Safari without stealing focus.

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    Always call get_app_state app="Safari" before interacting.

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Driving Safari with background computer use

Safari's accessibility coverage is good overall, but its address bar and web content areas have two quirks that bite naive automation.

  1. Always call get_app_state app="Safari" before interacting.
  2. To navigate to a URL, call set_value app="Safari" element_index=<smart-search-field> value="https://…".
    • The smart search field's ID is WEB_BROWSER_ADDRESS_AND_SEARCH_FIELD.
    • set_value submits by default; don't also post a separate Return.
    • Internally this uses a typing fallback, because Safari silently ignores AXValue writes on the URL bar.
  3. To scroll the page, call scroll app="Safari" element_index=<scroll-area> direction="down". The tool tries a native AX page-scroll first, then posts wheel events to the correct WKWebView helper pid, then falls back to PageDown/ PageUp keystrokes if nothing moved.
  4. click(element_index=<link>) works on in-page links via AXPress even when the Safari window is occluded.
  5. Tab switches: click(element_index=<tab>) on an AXTabButton. Close with perform_secondary_action(action="close tab") rather than hit-testing the tiny close glyph.

Detailed notes live in server/app-hints/Safari.md; they are injected as <app_hints> on every get_app_state call for Safari.

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