Issues

• Locator first() and nth() replace an earlier nth instead of narrowing further (differs from Playwright)

  browserbase/stagehand#3444 · Filter by author abhiramshaji-cyber opened on Nov 12, 2026

• browse doctor: add a Fix: hint when the last browser start failed

  enhancementgood first issue
  browserbase/stagehand#3431 · Filter by author shrey150 opened on Nov 10, 2026
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• deepLocator deep-XPath only treats positionally-indexed iframe steps as frame hops — iframe[@name='…'] paths resolve in the wrong frame

  browserbase/stagehand#3416 · Filter by author brennanbutler01 opened on Nov 9, 2026

• locator().nth(-1) throws RangeError instead of selecting the last match (diverges from Playwright contract)

  browserbase/stagehand#3415 · Filter by author brennanbutler01 opened on Nov 9, 2026

• Idea: deterministic physics/bounds validation on act/extract arguments

  browserbase/stagehand#3414 · Filter by author PHM-Audit opened on Nov 8, 2026

• Feature request: let extract() return the element each value came from

  browserbase/stagehand#3406 · Filter by author garrettgruss-realpage opened on Nov 5, 2026

• Click misses a link that wraps onto two lines

  browserbase/stagehand#3394 · Filter by author AniketR10 opened on Nov 4, 2026

• Context activePage() docs select the oldest tab instead of the active tab

  browserbase/stagehand#3371 · Filter by author vishalanton16 opened on Nov 3, 2026

• waitForLoadState("networkidle") times out on an already-idle page

  browserbase/stagehand#3370 · Filter by author vishalanton16 opened on Nov 3, 2026
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• CLI daemon aborts commands after 35s despite longer requested waits

  browserbase/stagehand#3369 · Filter by author vishalanton16 opened on Nov 3, 2026

• Python observe() without an instruction sends null and fails worker validation

  browserbase/stagehand#3368 · Filter by author vishalanton16 opened on Nov 3, 2026
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• [cli] Local mode: every page command fails with connect ECONNREFUSED 127.0.0.1:<port>, but browse doctor reports all [ok]

  browserbase/stagehand#3359 · Filter by author aleks-clanker-2027 opened on Oct 31, 2026
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• Hosted extract fails on claude-sonnet-5-5: forced tool_choice (v3 server pins @ai-sdk/anthropic 2.0.81)

  browserbase/stagehand#3353 · Filter by author leorong opened on Oct 30, 2026

• act() with a string instruction turns off iframe auto-attach for the page; cross-site iframes loaded afterwards are missing from snapshot() and extract()

  browserbase/stagehand#3321 · Filter by author 0xAndoroid opened on Oct 25, 2026

• Custom Caching backend for v4

  browserbase/stagehand#3320 · Filter by author pavanbuzz opened on Oct 25, 2026

• ▚▚ Python SDK: clear_cookies with a compiled regex fails or is silently ignored (flags sent as null, unsupported flags dropped, (?P<name>) groups)

  browserbase/stagehand#3270 · Filter by author breken-ai opened on Oct 20, 2026
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• Reduce offscreen heartbeat frequency to avoid unnecessary service-worker wakeups

  browserbase/stagehand#3241 · Filter by author vishalanton16 opened on Oct 19, 2026
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• Closing pages with nested frames leaves stale frame ownership references

  browserbase/stagehand#3240 · Filter by author vishalanton16 opened on Oct 19, 2026
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• Suppressed CDP logs and repeated locator setup add avoidable browser overhead

  browserbase/stagehand#3239 · Filter by author vishalanton16 opened on Oct 19, 2026
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• Text locator count and nth lookups take seconds on large repeated lists

  browserbase/stagehand#3238 · Filter by author vishalanton16 opened on Oct 19, 2026

• Screenshots with scale css return device-pixel dimensions on high-DPI pages

  browserbase/stagehand#3237 · Filter by author vishalanton16 opened on Oct 19, 2026

• Printable keyPress events have empty key and code on keydown

  browserbase/stagehand#3236 · Filter by author vishalanton16 opened on Oct 19, 2026

• fill() and type() lose digits in auto-advancing verification code inputs

  browserbase/stagehand#3235 · Filter by author vishalanton16 opened on Oct 19, 2026
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• extract() can return element IDs instead of URLs in plain string fields

  browserbase/stagehand#3234 · Filter by author vishalanton16 opened on Oct 19, 2026
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• Local browser close on Windows waits 3 s for a taskkill headless Chrome ignores, then sometimes rejects with "taskkill exited with code 255"

  browserbase/stagehand#3166 · Filter by author mir3626 opened on Oct 13, 2026