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Two questions from the Web A11y evals fail on 2.2.5 before any answer is possible, both inside fetchAccessibilityIssues:

• "Show me the issues on <page> from this report: <share link>" on a large multi-page Website Scanner report.
• "Compare these two scans. What's new and what got fixed? Old: <share link> New: <share link>"

Reproduced in isolated Claude Code sessions (--strict-mcp-config, only @browserstack/mcp-server@2.2.5):

Step	What 2.2.5 does
Share link scanner.browserstack.com/…/a11y-report?reportUrl=<encoded dashboard link>	"This link does not name a report the API can look up"
The dashboard link inside it, on a report with 996 issues / 18,480 CSV rows	"Report link was not available after 3 attempts" on every try: the export takes ~17 s, the MCP waits ~6 s (3 × 2 s), and each retry starts a new export
Per-page count, even once loaded	Repeats are folded into their main issue, which is often on another page, so a page the dashboard shows with 151 occurrences reads as 44 issues
Comparing runs	No support: the agent pages both runs and diffs them itself

Changes

Report links. A scanner share link carries the dashboard link as its reportUrl parameter; sourceFromReportUrl now unwraps it.

Large exports (getReportLink):

• Waits on the same export task for up to 45 s (polls at 1, 2, 3, then every 5 s), with progress notifications. That stays under the 60 s request timeout MCP clients default to.
• An export still running after that comes back as a normal answer (not an error) naming its exportTaskId. The next call continues that task, by exportTaskId or the task an earlier call left running, instead of starting another.
• A finished export link is reused per account and report until shortly before it expires (~12 h), so later pages don't export again.
• An export the API reports as failed stops the wait with that message.
• startAccessibilityScan reads its report through the same call, so a large scan now hands its export over the same way.

Measured export times: ~2.5 s at 486 issues, 11–12 s at 2,200–2,500, ~17 s at 18k rows, 51 s at 3,252, 134 s at 30,535 issues.

One page (pageUrl). Counts every occurrence on that page, repeats of issues first found on other pages included, as the dashboard's page view does. It lists each issue once with occurrences_on_page, and first_found_on when that's another page. When nothing matches, it says so and names report pages with a similar address. Matching ignores host case, a trailing slash and the hash.

Comparing runs (compareWith: "previous" or an older scanRunId of the same scan):

• Matches the two runs' main issues by rule, element (CSS selector) and page, and lists new and resolved issues (up to 50 each) with the still-open count.
• Against the previous run it also gives the dashboard's own counts from the run summary's changesSinceLastRun.
• The "earlier run" error for an older run's link now points at compareWith: "previous".

Paging. An issue larger than a whole page (e.g. a several-KB HTML snippet) still makes a page of its own. Before, the page came back empty with the same cursor and paging stopped there.

Verification

Same prompts and links, isolated sessions, against this branch's build:

Question	2.2.5	This branch
Issues on one page of the large report	No answer (share link rejected, export never ready)	151 occurrences (143 serious, 8 critical), matching the dashboard's page view; 85 distinct issues, 44 first found on the page
What's new / fixed between two runs	No answer (share links rejected, no compare)	0 new, 0 resolved, 147 still open; the dashboard's counts and the issue match agree

The older run's own link still can't be opened, because the public API doesn't map an older run's thBuildId to its run id. The agent compares against the previous run and says so. Returning each run's thBuildId from GET …/scans/{id}/scan_runs would close that.

Export hand-off, live on a 30,535-issue report: call 1 handed back the export after 48 s, call 2 continued the same task, call 3 got the link after 36 more seconds, and the next call reused it instantly.

New tests cover share links; waiting on, handing back, continuing and reusing exports (fake timers); a failed export; previous-run lookup and changesSinceLastRun; the page view (occurrence counting, URL matching, no match); paging past an oversized issue; run comparison; and the tool's answers for each. npm run build (lint, format, 1375 tests, tsc) passes.

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Summary by CodeRabbit

• New Features
  • Filter accessibility issues by page, with page-level issue and severity counts, occurrence details, and suggestions for similar pages when no issues are found.
  • Compare Website Scanner runs to see new, resolved, and retained issues, including summary counts.
  • Resume pending report exports using an export task ID, with progress updates while reports are generating.
  • View issue results with pagination, including when individual issue details are unusually long.

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Accessibility report fetching now supports page-specific results, Website Scanner run comparisons, and resumable CSV exports. The tool reports page summaries and export progress, while the parser and report fetcher provide the supporting page, comparison, and scan-history data.

Changes: Accessibility report workflows

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Report parsing, export fetching, and scan history src/tools/accessiblity-utils/report-parser.ts, src/tools/accessiblity-utils/report-fetcher.ts, tests/tools/accessibilityReportPages.test.ts, tests/tools/accessibilityReportFetcher.test.ts	The parser adds page-specific issue summaries, shared pagination, and issue matching across runs. The fetcher polls and caches report exports, resumes pending exports, and retrieves prior-run and change-count data. Tests cover parsing, comparisons, export polling, cache expiry, and scan history.
Accessibility tool workflows src/tools/accessibility.ts, tests/tools/accessibilityFetchPagesAndCompare.test.ts, tests/tools/accessibilityScanOutput.test.ts	The tool adds page filtering, run comparisons, and export-task continuation arguments. It returns page details and comparison results, and reports continuation instructions when export generation is pending. Tests cover these tool responses and inputs.

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

Change: Bug fix

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant fetchAccessibilityIssues
  participant AccessibilityReportFetcher
  participant parseAccessibilityReportFromCSV
  fetchAccessibilityIssues->>AccessibilityReportFetcher: getReportLink with export task ID
  AccessibilityReportFetcher-->>fetchAccessibilityIssues: report link or pending export task ID
  fetchAccessibilityIssues->>parseAccessibilityReportFromCSV: parse report with page URL and cursor
  parseAccessibilityReportFromCSV-->>fetchAccessibilityIssues: issues, pagination, and page summary

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Possibly related PRs

• browserstack/mcp-server#500: Changes accessibility report parsing for hidden issues and duplicate grouping, which the page-specific parser changes build on.

Suggested reviewers: gaurav-singh-9227

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 4cabf

Page queries and comparisons have edge cases that can fail or require another export, and similar-page text needs the report-content wrapper. The change remains mergeable with owner awareness and follow-up.

Security architecture risk: 🔵 Low · up to 4cabf

The changes introduce a narrow weakness in how page information is separated from instructions in tool responses. Export requests still use configured credentials, and there is no demonstrated cross-account disclosure or privilege escalation. Task ownership and credential-revocation behavior remain dependent on external service guarantees.

Retained concerns

• Low · security · observed: The new page-note response places caller-provided page URLs and report-derived similar-page values outside the existing untrusted-content boundary. Report-controlled text can therefore enter the assistant context as ordinary tool-authored prose. This weakens an existing prompt-injection mitigation; it does not demonstrate command execution or credential access.

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Security Blast Radius

• inferred — The supported injection exposure is the consuming assistant session that requests a page view. An attacker influencing report page values must have that report read and satisfy the similar-page selection conditions. Any downstream authority depends on the consuming client's tools and behavior; repository evidence does not establish cross-tenant access or server-side execution.

Security Findings and Attack Paths

• observed — The two retained findings converge on one new flow: pageUrl becomes page.url, report Affected page values become similar_pages, and pageNote interpolates both outside wrapUntrusted. Similar-page suggestions are limited to five matching values, but that selection does not apply the untrusted-content control. The base response did not contain this page-note path.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

• observed — The new continuation path accepts an opaque caller-supplied task ID and stores results under the requested report key without locally checking task-to-report correspondence. Polls remain authenticated, but scanner polling omits the run ID and build/workflow polling omits the report identifier. Backend enforcement is therefore decisive and unavailable; cross-report or cross-account disclosure is not established.
• observed — Cache isolation uses username and report source, not credentials or session identity. Completed-link reuse bypasses authentication inside getReportLink, while the public fetch path's earlier status lookup tolerates authorization and transport failures. Previously issued report links were already exposed to callers; whether caching expands access after revocation depends on deployment and link-validity semantics not supplied here.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

• inferred — Username-and-source namespacing limits ordinary cross-username cache reuse. Concurrent writes and restart loss affect continuation ownership and recovery, but available evidence does not show these transitions crossing that namespace or conferring additional privileges.

Hardening Proposals

• proposed — Apply the existing untrusted-data boundary to complete page notes, including caller and report-derived values. Establish an explicit export API contract for task ownership, task-to-report correspondence, and link behavior after credential revocation before relying on those guarantees for isolation.

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The title names the fix area (accessibility) and four changes: reading shared report links, waiting out large exports, reading one page, and comparing runs. The raw summary and objectives confirm each of these is in the changeset: unwrapping scanner share links, a 45-second export wait with task-ID resumption, page-specific occurrence counts via pageUrl, and compareWith run comparison. The title is long at 100 characters and lists four items, but it covers the main changes and is specific.

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Review comments at @src/tools/accessibility.ts:
- Around line 495-500: Wrap the complete page note in the zero-occurrence branch
with wrapUntrusted using the accessibility scan results context, so both
page.url and similar_pages are treated as untrusted before returning the note.

Review comments at @src/tools/accessiblity-utils/report-fetcher.ts:
- Around line 329-345: Update previousScanRun to follow scan_runs pagination
using pagination.nextPage, as findScanRun does, and combine all pages’ runs
before sorting and locating scanRunId. Preserve returning undefined only when
the requested run is absent or has no predecessor in the complete history.

Review comments at @src/tools/accessiblity-utils/report-parser.ts:
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when building the pages list used by similar_pages, before passing values to
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