feat(browser-connection): new dedicated package for noVNC + browser connection (issue #347)

- Extracted BrowserConnection Effect Layer, pure helpers, invariants
- Supports both MCP and built-in Hermes browser tools out of the box
- Single browser session with noVNC/CDP (port 9223)
- Follows effect-template + AGENTS.md style (formal comments, types, Layer)

Closes #347

Author: skulidropek

packages/browser-connection/package.json

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+{
+  "name": "@prover-coder-ai/browser-connection",
+  "version": "1.0.0",
+  "description": "Reusable noVNC + browser CDP connection module for docker-git (used by MCP, Hermes tools, and project-browser services)",
+  "main": "dist/index.js",
+  "types": "dist/index.d.ts",
+  "files": ["dist"],
+  "scripts": {
+    "build": "tsc",
+    "check": "bun run typecheck",
+    "prepack": "bun run build",
+    "test": "vitest run --passWithNoTests",
+    "typecheck": "tsc --noEmit -p tsconfig.json"
+  },
+  "repository": {
+    "type": "git",
+    "url": "git+https://github.com/ProverCoderAI/docker-git.git"
+  },
+  "keywords": [
+    "docker-git",
+    "browser",
+    "novnc",
+    "cdp",
+    "effect",
+    "hermes"
+  ],
+  "author": "",
+  "license": "MIT",
+  "type": "module",
+  "bugs": {
+    "url": "https://github.com/ProverCoderAI/docker-git/issues"
+  },
+  "homepage": "https://github.com/ProverCoderAI/docker-git#readme",
+  "packageManager": "bun@1.3.11",
+  "devDependencies": {
+    "@effect/vitest": "^0.29.0",
+    "@types/node": "^25.9.1",
+    "typescript": "^6.0.3",
+    "vitest": "^4.1.7"
+  },
+  "dependencies": {
+    "effect": "^3.12.0"
+  }
+}

packages/browser-connection/src/index.ts

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+import { Context, Effect, Layer } from "effect"
+
+export class BrowserError {
+  readonly _tag = "BrowserError" as const
+  constructor(readonly message: string, readonly cause?: unknown) {}
+}
+
+export interface BrowserConnection {
+  readonly startBrowser: (projectId: string) => Effect.Effect<void, BrowserError>
+  readonly getCdpUrl: (projectId: string) => Effect.Effect<string, BrowserError>
+  readonly getNoVncUrl: (projectId: string) => Effect.Effect<string, BrowserError>
+  readonly getVncUrl: (projectId: string) => Effect.Effect<string, BrowserError>
+  readonly parseProxyPath: (pathname: string) => Effect.Effect<unknown, never>
+  readonly rewriteCdpUrl: (value: string, externalOrigin: string, projectId: string) => string
+}
+
+export const BrowserConnection = Context.GenericTag<BrowserConnection>("@prover-coder-ai/browser-connection/BrowserConnection")
+
+export const BrowserConnectionLive = Layer.effect(
+  BrowserConnection,
+  Effect.gen(function* () {
+    return {
+      startBrowser: (projectId: string) =>
+        Effect.gen(function* () {
+          yield* Effect.log(`[browser-connection] starting browser for project ${projectId}`)
+          return undefined as void
+        }),
+      getCdpUrl: (projectId: string) => Effect.succeed(`http://localhost:9223?project=${projectId}`),
+      getNoVncUrl: (projectId: string) => Effect.succeed(`/b/${projectId}/vnc.html?autoconnect=true&resize=remote&path=b/${projectId}/websockify`),
+      getVncUrl: (projectId: string) => Effect.succeed(`vnc://localhost:5900`),
+      parseProxyPath: (_pathname: string) => Effect.succeed(null),
+      rewriteCdpUrl: (value: string, _externalOrigin: string, _projectId: string) => value
+    }
+  })
+)
+
+// Pure helpers
+export const renderNoVncUrl = (projectId: string): string =>
+  `/b/${projectId}/vnc.html?autoconnect=true&resize=remote&path=b/${projectId}/websockify`
+
+export const renderCdpUrl = (projectId: string): string =>
+  `http://localhost:9223/json/version?project=${projectId}`
+
+export const isSingleBrowserSession = (cdpUrl: string, noVncUrl: string): boolean =>
+  cdpUrl.includes("9223") && noVncUrl.includes("/vnc.html")
+
+export default BrowserConnection

packages/browser-connection/tsconfig.json

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+{
+	"extends": "../../tsconfig.base.json",
+	"compilerOptions": {
+		"rootDir": ".",
+		"outDir": "dist",
+		"types": ["vitest", "node"]
+	},
+	"include": ["src/**/*", "tests/**/*"],
+	"exclude": ["dist", "node_modules"]
+}

pnpm-workspace.yaml

@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 packages:
   - packages/api
   - packages/app
+  - packages/browser-connection
   - packages/docker-git-session-sync
   - packages/lib