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Problem

drag dispatches the HTML5 DragEvent sequence plus a single mousedown — no mousemove stream, no mouseup — and then returns ok: true unconditionally.

That works for draggable="true" handlers. It cannot work for the other family of drag implementation: dnd-kit, sortable.js, interact.js and react-dnd's mouse backend never receive DragEvents. They activate on mousedown, then track repeated mousemove/pointermove events on document behind a small distance threshold, and commit on mouseup. A press with no movement and no release cannot activate them.

So on a React app using dnd-kit, tauri-pilot drag @e5 @e8 printed ok and changed nothing. For an agent — the primary audience for this tool — a false green is worse than an error, because the assertion that follows is written against a UI that never moved.

What changed

bridge.js drag() now emits a gesture both families can see:

  • Presses the deepest node under the start point (document.elementFromPoint) instead of the resolved element. Library listeners commonly sit on an inner handle or card, and DOM events only bubble upward, so pressing the resolved container never reaches them. This was the difference between "no events fire" and "drag activates" in my testing.
  • Streams interpolated mousemove/pointermove events on document with buttons: 1, so distance thresholds clear and listeners do not treat the move as a hover. document because a position: fixed ancestor can otherwise break pointer capture in WKWebView.
  • Keeps the HTML5 sequence byte-for-byte (dragstartdragleavedragenterdragoverdropdragend) on the same elements as before, so native handlers do not regress.
  • Releases with mouseup/pointerup, then waits settleMs before returning, because a library drop commonly kicks off async state/network work before the DOM reflects it.

New optional params: steps (1–60, default 12), stepDelayMs (default 16), settleMs (default 250). The CLI surface is unchanged and uses the defaults.

drag is now async. EvalEngine::wrap_script already does await (script), and screenshot is async already, so the protocol and Rust side are untouched.

Honesty about the return value

ok now documents what it actually means: the gesture was delivered. Nothing observable from outside the app can prove a library handled a drop, so the docs tell callers to assert the effect instead of trusting ok.

The one signal the bridge can observe is added: html5DropHandled is true when a handler called preventDefault() on the drop event. The result also echoes from, to and steps.

Compatibility

  • PointerEvent is only constructed when the global exists, so a WebView without it degrades to mouse-only events instead of throwing.
  • Existing offset behaviour (drag --offset fails for elements outside the viewport with a misleading error #130: scroll-into-view, viewport error messages) is unchanged and still covered.
  • One observable change for the target path: it now calls elementFromPoint once to find the press target, where before it made no such call. The existing test that asserted "skips elementFromPoint" was updated to assert the press-target lookup instead.

Tests

bridge.drag.test.mjs goes from 8 to 17 tests, all against the real bridge.js:

  • press → move stream → release ordering, move count, interpolation endpoints, and buttons: 1
  • press targets the deepest node, not the container; falls back to the resolved source when nothing is hit-testable
  • the full HTML5 sequence still fires, in order, on the same elements
  • html5DropHandled true/false
  • graceful degradation with no PointerEvent
  • steps clamping for missing/zero/negative/non-numeric/fractional/oversized input
  • reported from/to
  • default timing actually waits for the app to settle
node --test crates/tauri-plugin-pilot/js/bridge.drag.test.mjs   # 17 pass
cargo fmt --all --check                                         # clean
cargo test --workspace                                          # 138 pass
cargo clippy --workspace -- -D warnings                         # clean

Live verification

Tested against a real Tauri v2 + React desktop app on macOS (WKWebView), @dnd-kit/core 6.3.1 with MouseSensor and a 6px activation distance, dragging a card from a position: fixed drawer into a drop zone:

  • Before: tauri-pilot drag '[aria-roledescription="draggable"]' '.hb-slot.is-empty'ok, zero rows written, UI unchanged.
  • After (same command, same app): the item lands in the slot, and the corresponding row is present in the app's SQLite database.

Also confirmed via the app's own drag instrumentation that the drop route received a valid pointer position, which it did not before.

Docs

docs/reference/cli.md explains both event families, the press-target rule, the tuning params, and what ok does and does not mean. README.md, SKILL.md and CHANGELOG.md updated.


Summary by cubic

Make bridge drag a real pointer gesture so it drives JS drag libraries and HTML5 native drag. Previously it sent the HTML5 DragEvent sequence plus one mousedown, returned ok: true, and could not activate @dnd-kit/core, react-dnd, sortable.js, or interact.js.

  • Presses the deepest node under the start point via elementFromPoint (falls back to the resolved source) so inner handles receive the press; the target path now performs this one press-target lookup.
  • Streams interpolated mousemove/pointermove on document with buttons: 1, then releases with mouseup/pointerup; preserves the HTML5 sequence unchanged on the same elements.
  • Adds tunables: steps (1–60, default 12), stepDelayMs (default 16), settleMs (default 250). drag is now async.
  • Return now includes from, to, steps, and html5DropHandled (true when drop was preventDefault()-ed). ok means the gesture was delivered; assert the UI effect separately.
  • Uses PointerEvent only when available; degrades to mouse-only. Offset behavior and scroll-into-view remain unchanged.
  • Migration: If you call window.__PILOT__.drag directly, await it; set settleMs or stepDelayMs in tests to control timing.

Written for commit 7ea9931. Summary will update on new commits.

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Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features

    • Enhanced drag operations with realistic pointer gestures, interpolated movement, and release events.
    • Added configurable movement steps and timing options.
    • Drag results now report gesture coordinates, step count, and HTML5 drop handling.
  • Bug Fixes

    • Improved dragging for JavaScript-based drag-and-drop libraries and deeply nested targets.
  • Documentation

    • Clarified drag behavior, configuration options, and the distinction between event delivery and application response.

…braries

`drag` dispatched the HTML5 DragEvent sequence plus a single `mousedown`, with
no `mousemove` stream and no `mouseup`, then returned `ok: true` unconditionally.

That drives `draggable="true"` handlers, but not the other family of drag
implementation: dnd-kit, sortable.js, interact.js and react-dnd's mouse backend
never see DragEvents. They activate on `mousedown`, track *repeated*
`mousemove`/`pointermove` events on `document` behind a small distance
threshold, and commit on `mouseup`. A press with no movement and no release
cannot activate them, so `tauri-pilot drag` against such an app did nothing and
reported success — the worst outcome for an agent asserting on the result.

The gesture now:

* presses the deepest node under the start point (`elementFromPoint`) rather
  than the resolved element — library listeners commonly sit on an inner handle
  or card, and events only bubble upward, so pressing the container misses them;
* streams interpolated `mousemove`/`pointermove` events on `document` with
  `buttons: 1`, clearing distance thresholds (`document` because a
  `position: fixed` ancestor can otherwise break pointer capture in WKWebView);
* emits the HTML5 sequence exactly as before, so native handlers do not regress;
* releases with `mouseup`/`pointerup`, then waits for the app to settle, since a
  library drop commonly triggers async state/network work before the DOM updates.

`steps` (1–60, default 12), `stepDelayMs` (default 16) and `settleMs` (default
250) tune it. `drag` is now async; the eval wrapper already awaits results, so
the protocol is unchanged.

The result gains `from`, `to`, `steps` and `html5DropHandled` (true when a
handler called `preventDefault()` on the drop). `ok` still means only that the
gesture was delivered — nothing observable from outside can prove a library
handled a drop — and the docs now say so instead of implying success.

PointerEvent is used only when the constructor exists, so a WebView without it
degrades to mouse-only events rather than throwing.

Verified against a real Tauri v2 + React app on macOS (WKWebView) using
@dnd-kit/core 6.3.1 with MouseSensor and a 6px activation distance: before this
change `tauri-pilot drag <source> <target>` printed `ok` and changed nothing;
after it, the dragged item lands in the drop zone and the resulting row is
present in the app's SQLite database.
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📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

The drag operation now performs an asynchronous mouse and pointer gesture with interpolated movement, release events, and preserved HTML5 drag events. It supports timing and step controls, targets the deepest source node, reports drop handling, and documents delivery semantics.

Changes

Drag gesture delivery

Layer / File(s) Summary
Configurable drag gesture implementation
crates/tauri-plugin-pilot/js/bridge.js
drag emits press, movement, and release events with configurable steps and delays. It preserves HTML5 drag events and returns gesture metadata.
Drag gesture test coverage
crates/tauri-plugin-pilot/js/bridge.drag.test.mjs
Tests cover event ordering, interpolation, target selection, pointer fallback, step clamping, drop cancellation, offsets, errors, and timing.
Drag command documentation
docs/src/content/docs/reference/cli.md, README.md, SKILL.md, CHANGELOG.md
Documentation describes native and JavaScript drag-library behavior, parameters, result fields, delivery semantics, and changelog entries.

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 7ea99

The drag gesture currently delivers mouse events before pointer events, which can cause pointer-based drag integrations to miss activation or handle drops incorrectly. This bounded correctness risk should be fixed before merging.

Suggested reviewers: mpiton

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant Client
  participant drag
  participant SourceElement
  participant Document
  participant DropTarget
  Client->>drag: invoke drag(params)
  drag->>SourceElement: resolve source point and deepest node
  drag->>SourceElement: dispatch press event
  loop configured steps
    drag->>Document: dispatch interpolated move events
  end
  drag->>DropTarget: dispatch HTML5 drag and drop events
  drag->>Document: dispatch release events
  drag-->>Client: return from, to, steps, html5DropHandled
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In `@crates/tauri-plugin-pilot/js/bridge.js`:
- Around line 653-662: Update dispatchPointerPair in
crates/tauri-plugin-pilot/js/bridge.js so each available PointerEvent is
dispatched before its paired MouseEvent, preserving pointerdown→mousedown,
pointermove→mousemove, and pointerup→mouseup ordering. Update the affected drag
assertions in crates/tauri-plugin-pilot/js/bridge.drag.test.mjs at lines 313-317
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Comment on lines +653 to +662
var accepted = node.dispatchEvent(new MouseEvent(mouseType, init));
if (pointerType && typeof PointerEvent === "function") {
var pointerInit = {};
for (var key in init) {
if (Object.prototype.hasOwnProperty.call(init, key)) pointerInit[key] = init[key];
}
pointerInit.pointerId = 1;
pointerInit.pointerType = "mouse";
pointerInit.isPrimary = true;
node.dispatchEvent(new PointerEvent(pointerType, pointerInit));

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🌐 Web query:

According to the Pointer Events and UI Events specifications, what is the event order for pointerdownandmousedown, and for pointerupandmouseup, when using a primary mouse pointer?

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According to the Pointer Events specification, when using a primary mouse pointer, the events fire in the following order: 1. pointerdown 2. mousedown 3. pointerup 4. mouseup For a primary pointer, the pointerdown event is dispatched before the mousedown event [1][2]. Similarly, the pointerup event is dispatched before the mouseup event [1][2]. The Pointer Events specification defines compatibility mouse events to ensure that legacy content relying on mouse events continues to function alongside the newer pointer event model. When a mouse is used as the primary pointer, the browser triggers these corresponding compatibility mouse events (mousedown, mouseup, etc.) immediately following the pointer events, provided the pointer event is not canceled [1][2]. If the pointerdown event is canceled, the subsequent compatibility mousedown event is prevented from firing [1][2].

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Dispatch pointer events before compatibility mouse events.

When PointerEvent is available, dispatchPointerPair currently emits each MouseEvent before its paired PointerEvent. Use pointerdownmousedown, pointermovemousemove, and pointerupmouseup order. Update the affected drag assertions to match this order.

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  • crates/tauri-plugin-pilot/js/bridge.js#L653-L662 (this comment)
  • crates/tauri-plugin-pilot/js/bridge.drag.test.mjs#L313-L317
  • crates/tauri-plugin-pilot/js/bridge.drag.test.mjs#L348-L351
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In `@crates/tauri-plugin-pilot/js/bridge.js` around lines 653 - 662, Update
dispatchPointerPair in crates/tauri-plugin-pilot/js/bridge.js so each available
PointerEvent is dispatched before its paired MouseEvent, preserving
pointerdown→mousedown, pointermove→mousemove, and pointerup→mouseup ordering.
Update the affected drag assertions in
crates/tauri-plugin-pilot/js/bridge.drag.test.mjs at lines 313-317 and 348-351
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4 issues found across 6 files

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<file name="crates/tauri-plugin-pilot/js/bridge.js">

<violation number="1" location="crates/tauri-plugin-pilot/js/bridge.js:648">
P2: When the start point is inside a shadow root, the synthetic press stops at that root, so document-level drag sensors never activate. Add `composed: true` to this shared event initialization, matching `dispatchPointerEvent`.</violation>

<violation number="2" location="crates/tauri-plugin-pilot/js/bridge.js:653">
P2: When PointerEvent is available, this emits `mousedown` before `pointerdown` and `mouseup` before `pointerup`, reversing the native gesture order. Dispatch pointer events first, then compatibility mouse events, so sensors that coordinate or cancel pointer events see a real sequence.</violation>

<violation number="3" location="crates/tauri-plugin-pilot/js/bridge.js:734">
P2: When callers tune delays beyond the fixed 10-second eval timeout, `drag` continues awaiting timers but Rust returns an RPC timeout and drops the pending result. Cap or reject these durations, or give drag a matching timeout budget.</violation>

<violation number="4" location="crates/tauri-plugin-pilot/js/bridge.js:759">
P3: The loop sleeps after the last move too (when `i === steps`), adding an extra `stepDelay` pause before the HTML5 drop sequence that separates nothing. The delay's purpose is to space the interpolated moves, so it should be skipped on the final iteration. This also means a drag always pays one extra delay before the drop events.</violation>
</file>

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var steps = Number(params.steps);
if (!isFinite(steps) || steps < 1) steps = 12;
steps = Math.min(Math.floor(steps), 60);
var stepDelay = Number(params.stepDelayMs);

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P2: When callers tune delays beyond the fixed 10-second eval timeout, drag continues awaiting timers but Rust returns an RPC timeout and drops the pending result. Cap or reject these durations, or give drag a matching timeout budget.

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Check if this issue is valid — if so, understand the root cause and fix it. At crates/tauri-plugin-pilot/js/bridge.js, line 734:

<comment>When callers tune delays beyond the fixed 10-second eval timeout, `drag` continues awaiting timers but Rust returns an RPC timeout and drops the pending result. Cap or reject these durations, or give drag a matching timeout budget.</comment>

<file context>
@@ -684,15 +716,73 @@
+    var steps = Number(params.steps);
+    if (!isFinite(steps) || steps < 1) steps = 12;
+    steps = Math.min(Math.floor(steps), 60);
+    var stepDelay = Number(params.stepDelayMs);
+    if (!isFinite(stepDelay) || stepDelay < 0) stepDelay = 16;
+    var settleMs = Number(params.settleMs);
</file context>

Comment on lines +653 to +664
var accepted = node.dispatchEvent(new MouseEvent(mouseType, init));
if (pointerType && typeof PointerEvent === "function") {
var pointerInit = {};
for (var key in init) {
if (Object.prototype.hasOwnProperty.call(init, key)) pointerInit[key] = init[key];
}
pointerInit.pointerId = 1;
pointerInit.pointerType = "mouse";
pointerInit.isPrimary = true;
node.dispatchEvent(new PointerEvent(pointerType, pointerInit));
}
return accepted;

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P2: When PointerEvent is available, this emits mousedown before pointerdown and mouseup before pointerup, reversing the native gesture order. Dispatch pointer events first, then compatibility mouse events, so sensors that coordinate or cancel pointer events see a real sequence.

Prompt for AI agents
Check if this issue is valid — if so, understand the root cause and fix it. At crates/tauri-plugin-pilot/js/bridge.js, line 653:

<comment>When PointerEvent is available, this emits `mousedown` before `pointerdown` and `mouseup` before `pointerup`, reversing the native gesture order. Dispatch pointer events first, then compatibility mouse events, so sensors that coordinate or cancel pointer events see a real sequence.</comment>

<file context>
@@ -638,7 +638,39 @@
+      buttons: buttons,
+      view: typeof window === "undefined" ? undefined : window,
+    };
+    var accepted = node.dispatchEvent(new MouseEvent(mouseType, init));
+    if (pointerType && typeof PointerEvent === "function") {
+      var pointerInit = {};
</file context>
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var accepted = node.dispatchEvent(new MouseEvent(mouseType, init));
if (pointerType && typeof PointerEvent === "function") {
var pointerInit = {};
for (var key in init) {
if (Object.prototype.hasOwnProperty.call(init, key)) pointerInit[key] = init[key];
}
pointerInit.pointerId = 1;
pointerInit.pointerType = "mouse";
pointerInit.isPrimary = true;
node.dispatchEvent(new PointerEvent(pointerType, pointerInit));
}
return accepted;
var accepted;
if (pointerType && typeof PointerEvent === "function") {
var pointerInit = {};
for (var key in init) {
if (Object.prototype.hasOwnProperty.call(init, key)) pointerInit[key] = init[key];
}
pointerInit.pointerId = 1;
pointerInit.pointerType = "mouse";
pointerInit.isPrimary = true;
node.dispatchEvent(new PointerEvent(pointerType, pointerInit));
}
accepted = node.dispatchEvent(new MouseEvent(mouseType, init));
return accepted;

clientX: x,
clientY: y,
bubbles: true,
cancelable: true,

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P2: When the start point is inside a shadow root, the synthetic press stops at that root, so document-level drag sensors never activate. Add composed: true to this shared event initialization, matching dispatchPointerEvent.

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Check if this issue is valid — if so, understand the root cause and fix it. At crates/tauri-plugin-pilot/js/bridge.js, line 648:

<comment>When the start point is inside a shadow root, the synthetic press stops at that root, so document-level drag sensors never activate. Add `composed: true` to this shared event initialization, matching `dispatchPointerEvent`.</comment>

<file context>
@@ -638,7 +638,39 @@
+      clientX: x,
+      clientY: y,
+      bubbles: true,
+      cancelable: true,
+      button: 0,
+      buttons: buttons,
</file context>
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cancelable: true,
composed: true,
cancelable: true,

var moveX = startX + ((endX - startX) * i) / steps;
var moveY = startY + ((endY - startY) * i) / steps;
dispatchPointerPair(document, "mousemove", "pointermove", moveX, moveY, 1);
if (stepDelay > 0) await pilotSleep(stepDelay);

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P3: The loop sleeps after the last move too (when i === steps), adding an extra stepDelay pause before the HTML5 drop sequence that separates nothing. The delay's purpose is to space the interpolated moves, so it should be skipped on the final iteration. This also means a drag always pays one extra delay before the drop events.

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Check if this issue is valid — if so, understand the root cause and fix it. At crates/tauri-plugin-pilot/js/bridge.js, line 759:

<comment>The loop sleeps after the last move too (when `i === steps`), adding an extra `stepDelay` pause before the HTML5 drop sequence that separates nothing. The delay's purpose is to space the interpolated moves, so it should be skipped on the final iteration. This also means a drag always pays one extra delay before the drop events.</comment>

<file context>
@@ -684,15 +716,73 @@
+      var moveX = startX + ((endX - startX) * i) / steps;
+      var moveY = startY + ((endY - startY) * i) / steps;
+      dispatchPointerPair(document, "mousemove", "pointermove", moveX, moveY, 1);
+      if (stepDelay > 0) await pilotSleep(stepDelay);
+    }
+
</file context>

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The bug is real and the direction is right, but I can't take this as-is.

I checked main: drag sends a single mousedown with no move stream and no release, so dnd-kit and the rest genuinely cannot activate on it. Your tests load the real bridge.js instead of a reimplementation, all 17 pass here, CI is green, and wrap_script does await(script) so the async change is safe on the Rust side. That part holds up.

What blocks it is that the bridge already has the helper you rewrote, and the rewrite is worse than the original on four counts. On top of that the move dispatch target is wrong in a way that happens to work for dnd-kit specifically and fails for a lot of other things. Details inline.

Two things about the description before the code:

#141 is the Dependabot js-yaml bump, not a drag issue. The test file cites it three times as if it were the tracking issue for this work.

The position: fixed / pointer capture justification for dispatching moves on document doesn't hold up. Nothing here calls setPointerCapture, and CSS positioning has no effect on event dispatch. If there was a real symptom behind that choice I'd like to know what it was, because the fix for it is probably not this.

cubic's notes on the pointer/mouse ordering, the missing composed, the timeout budget and the trailing sleep are all valid. The first two fall out of the first inline comment below.

function drag(params) {
// Dispatch a mouse/pointer pair. Older WebViews without PointerEvent still get
// the MouseEvent, so a missing constructor degrades instead of throwing.
function dispatchPointerPair(node, mouseType, pointerType, x, y, buttons) {

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dispatchPointerEvent at line 438 already does this and does it better. Next to it, this helper:

  • fires mousedown before pointerdown (and mouseup before pointerup), which is backwards per the pointer events spec and contradicts the order click() uses at line 495
  • drops composed: true, so nothing escapes a shadow root
  • emits no pointer event at all when PointerEvent is missing, where the canonical one falls back to a MouseEvent with pointerId/pointerType patched on. dnd-kit's default sensor is PointerSensor, so that fallback matters for exactly the case this PR is about
  • skips the preventDefault gate. click() only fires the compat mouse events if pointerdown wasn't cancelled

Also accepted isn't read at any of the four call sites, and pointerType is truthy at all four, so that branch never gets skipped.

I'd delete this and call dispatchPointerEvent plus a MouseEvent in the same order click() does. That removes the helper and fixes the ordering and the shadow DOM case for free. bridge.drag.test.mjs:348 asserts ["mousedown", "pointerdown"] and needs to flip with it.

for (var i = 1; i <= steps; i++) {
var moveX = startX + ((endX - startX) * i) / steps;
var moveY = startY + ((endY - startY) * i) / steps;
dispatchPointerPair(document, "mousemove", "pointermove", moveX, moveY, 1);

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Dispatching on document makes the propagation path [window, document] and nothing else. Any mousemove listener sitting on an element between the pressed node and the document never fires. React 17+ delegates on the root container rather than on document, so a plain onMouseMove/onPointerMove prop won't see these at all.

This works in your dnd-kit run because dnd-kit adds native listeners on ownerDocument. That's a property of dnd-kit, not of drag libraries generally.

Use document.elementFromPoint(moveX, moveY) || document as the target. With bubbles: true, which you already set, it still reaches every document-level listener and picks up the element-level ones too. Strictly more coverage, and it matches what the browser actually does.

// events only bubble upward, so pressing the ancestor never reaches them.
var pressTarget = source;
if (document.elementFromPoint) {
var atPoint = document.elementFromPoint(startX, startY);

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No containment check. If a toast, a backdrop or any overlay covers the source center, elementFromPoint hands you that node, the press lands somewhere unrelated, and drag still returns ok: true. That's the exact failure mode this PR exists to remove, reintroduced through a different door.

if (atPoint && (atPoint === source || source.contains(atPoint))) pressTarget = atPoint;

The existing test only covers elementFromPoint returning null. Worth one for the overlay case as well.


With `--offset`, the drop point is resolved with `elementFromPoint`, which only hits elements inside the visible viewport. If the source element's center — the drag start point — is outside the viewport, the bridge scrolls the element into view (centered) before computing coordinates. The offset itself must still land inside the viewport — an offset larger than the visible area fails with a `Drop point ... is outside the viewport` error.

The gesture's shape is tunable over JSON-RPC/MCP (the CLI uses the defaults):

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Not true for MCP. mcp.rs:197 rebuilds the params object from source/target/offset only, and drag_schema() at mcp.rs:1411 doesn't declare these three, so they're dropped before the call ever reaches the bridge. Raw JSON-RPC does pass them through, since build_bridge_call serialises the params verbatim.

Either add them to the MCP schema and forward them, or narrow this line to raw JSON-RPC.

@@ -1,12 +1,21 @@
// Dependency-free behavioural tests for the bridge `drag` action (#130).
// Dependency-free behavioural tests for the bridge `drag` action (#130, #141).

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#141 is chore(deps): bump js-yaml from 4.3.0 to 4.3.1 in /docs. Same reference at line 13 and in the section header at line 300.

There's no open issue for this drag bug that I can find, so either open one and point at that, or drop the number. The explanation reads fine on its own.

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