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2026-10-13-openhands-digitalocean-web-bridge-defaults-on-only-in-the-closing-main-ancestry

DigitalOcean web bridge defaults on only in the closing main ancestry. The browser bridge mounts by default rather than requiring MARS_WEB=1; MARS_WEB=0 is an explicit opt-out, and a non-loopback mount without a key is still refused. The static server supplies its configured session key rather than the HTML-injection policy’s stripped value. The bridge holds DigitalOcean tokens in memory and can operate session lifecycle, so this is a changed credential-bearing server surface. Electron and subordinate static servers may explicitly disable the duplicate bridge. Stable v1.27.1 retains the opt-in.

Channel: main-unreleased. Half: both. Date: 2026-10-13T16:35:29Z.

Operator consequence: If testing closing main, review bridge exposure and opt out explicitly where it is unnecessary. For stable installs, retain MARS_WEB=1 when the browser integration is intended. Watch the next tag’s pinned bridge and static-server policy before treating this default as released.

Receipt

Finding metadata

Confidence
high

Run: 2026-10-13-profile-refresh-2026-09-21_2026-10-13-frontier-v0

Finding ID: 2026-10-13-openhands-digitalocean-web-bridge-defaults-on-only-in-the-closing-main-ancestry

Profile citations

  • OpenHands / claim / unreleased-web-bridge-default

Source links

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  1. OpenHands
    commit2026-10-13-openhands-digitalocean-web-bridge-defaults-on-only-in-the-closing-main-ancestrygithub.com/OpenHands/OpenHands/commit/0cb2fa70d76d9bca284359ec7f9116d1c7ad16f4tagged commit file2026-10-13-openhands-digitalocean-web-bridge-defaults-on-only-in-the-closing-main-ancestryOpenHands/OpenHands / scripts/mars-web-bridge.mjstagged commit file2026-10-13-openhands-digitalocean-web-bridge-defaults-on-only-in-the-closing-main-ancestryOpenHands/OpenHands / scripts/static-server.mjsgit compare2026-10-13-openhands-digitalocean-web-bridge-defaults-on-only-in-the-closing-main-ancestrygithub.com/OpenHands/OpenHands/compare/v1.27.1...0e9ce191390f535347ff17055038c45eeef3fedf

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