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Miguel Ángel 5e52e27872 fix(engine): auto-fall back to screenshot mode when chrome-headless-shell drops HeadlessExperimental.beginFrame (#296)
Closes #294.

## Summary

Recent `chrome-headless-shell` builds (observed on 147) no longer expose `HeadlessExperimental.beginFrame`. The domain's `enable`/`disable` methods are deprecated upstream and appear to have been dropped alongside `beginFrame` in these builds, so on Linux with chrome-headless-shell the engine aborts with

\`\`\`
Protocol error (HeadlessExperimental.beginFrame):
'HeadlessExperimental.beginFrame' wasn't found
\`\`\`

and — because the browser was launched with `--enable-begin-frame-control` — the compositor waits for beginFrames the engine can no longer deliver, so every subsequent screenshot also comes back blank. Today users have to discover `PRODUCER_FORCE_SCREENSHOT=true` themselves (openclaw did exactly that — see the issue body).

## Fix

One-time probe, right after the browser launches in beginframe mode:

1. Create a disposable CDP session.
2. `await client.send("HeadlessExperimental.enable")`.
3. Send one no-op `HeadlessExperimental.beginFrame` raced against a 2s timeout.
4. If anything throws / times out — missing method, protocol error, stuck call — close the browser, strip beginframe-only chrome flags, relaunch in screenshot mode, and set \`captureMode = "screenshot"\` for the returned session.

Probing `beginFrame` directly rather than `enable` alone is important because some builds keep the domain registered (so `.enable()` succeeds) while dropping the method itself — that's exactly the failure shape in #294.

Cost on happy path: one extra CDP round-trip per browser acquisition (≈ a few ms, since in beginframe-control mode the command returns as soon as the compositor acks). Cost on broken path: one extra launch, which is what the env-var escape hatch already forces manually.

The beginframe-only flag set is enumerated in-module and matched by the stripper, so adding/removing flags stays in one place with `buildChromeArgs`.

## Test plan

- [x] `bun run --filter=@hyperframes/engine test` — all 42 tests pass
- [x] `bun run --filter=@hyperframes/engine build` — typechecks
- [x] `bunx oxlint` + `bunx oxfmt --check` clean
- [x] Manual: standalone test on Linux x86_64 with chrome-headless-shell 146 — probe returns `supported=true`, no fallback (happy path)
- [x] Manual: same test with `--force-fail` simulating openclaw's missing-method condition — fallback triggers, flags stripped, relaunch succeeds, 6.8 KB PNG captured (broken path)
- [ ] Verify on openclaw / real chrome-headless-shell 147 build that the fallback triggers automatically without `PRODUCER_FORCE_SCREENSHOT`

## Notes

- `probeBeginFrameSupport` catches any failure generically; we trust that a working browser answers the no-op beginFrame in well under 2s.
- Warning is logged once per browser acquisition, not per frame.
- Browser pool interaction: pooled browsers cache the resolved `captureMode`, so subsequent acquires in the same process reuse the post-fallback mode without re-probing.
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