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Motivation for the change, related issues

A page running inside Personal Playground can already ask it to install a blueprint (install-blueprint). It cannot ask for the thing people need far more often: a backup.

Today the only route is the Site Tools panel, so any guide that starts with "take this site somewhere else" has to open by describing where to click — which is exactly where readers fall off. The My Apps Make this a hosted WordPress guide begins that way (akirk/my-apps#147, WordPress/blueprints#236); with this message its first step becomes a button.

Implementation details

Adds a backup-site relay message beside install-blueprint, handled in the same SeamlessViewport listener and behind the same validation (relay shape, iframe tree, same origin).

It runs the existing useBackup()performBackup() path — the one the Site Tools button uses — so dependent tabs keep forwarding to the active tab through the tab coordinator, and only one backup runs at a time.

The reply is backup-site-result:

{
	type: 'relay';
	relayType: 'backup-site-result';
	requestId?: string;
	status: 'started' | 'success' | 'error';
	error?: string;
}

started is sent as soon as the request is accepted, before the zip is built. Without it a caller cannot tell a slow backup apart from a Personal Playground that ignores the message, and so has no moment at which to fall back to pointing at Site Tools.

No confirmation dialog, unlike blueprint installs. The file only reaches the user's own disk, the requesting page never gets to read it, and a browser download is visible anyway; a dialog would just reintroduce the click this message exists to remove. Noted in the README so it reads as a decision rather than an oversight.

Testing Instructions (or ideally a Blueprint)

New Playwright test, packages/playground/personal-wp/playwright/e2e/relay-backup.spec.ts:

npx playwright test --config=packages/playground/personal-wp/playwright/playwright.config.ts relay-backup

It posts the message from inside the WordPress iframe and asserts the statuses arrive as ['started', 'success'] and that a real download named <site>-backup-<date>-<time>.zip starts. Passing locally, along with lint, typecheck and the 131 unit tests.

By hand: open Personal Playground and run this in the WordPress frame's console —

window.parent.postMessage({ type: 'relay', relayType: 'backup-site', requestId: '1' }, '*');

A backup zip should download, and the two result messages arrive on window.

https://claude.ai/code/session_015Wt1kT6weBQHE9oGvD4M8C

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features

    • Added support for WordPress integrations to request site backups through relay messages.
    • Backup requests provide progress updates and report successful completion or errors.
    • Successful backups generate downloadable ZIP archives with the expected filename.
    • Requests wait for backup readiness and prevent duplicate concurrent operations.
  • Documentation

    • Added documentation covering request formats, response statuses, progress reporting, forwarding behavior, and error handling.
  • Tests

    • Added end-to-end coverage for backup requests, status updates, ZIP downloads, and duplicate-request handling.

A page inside Personal Playground can already ask it to install a
blueprint. It cannot ask for the thing people need far more often: a
backup. Today the only way there is the Site Tools panel, so any guide
that starts with "take your site elsewhere" has to open by describing
where to click.

Add a backup-site relay message beside install-blueprint. It runs the
same useBackup() path as the Site Tools button, so dependent tabs still
forward to the active tab and only one backup runs at a time.

The reply carries 'started' as soon as the request is accepted, before
the zip is built. Without it a caller cannot tell a slow backup apart
from a Personal Playground that ignores the message, and has no moment
at which to fall back to pointing at Site Tools.

No confirmation dialog: the file only reaches the user's own disk, the
requesting page never gets to read it, and a browser download is visible
anyway. A dialog here would only reintroduce the click the message
exists to remove.

Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_015Wt1kT6weBQHE9oGvD4M8C
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The personal WordPress playground now accepts backup-site relay requests. It validates requests, waits for backup readiness, prevents concurrent backups, reports started, success, or error results, and documents and tests the flow.

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Backup relay flow

Layer / File(s) Summary
Synchronous backup execution guards
packages/playground/personal-wp/src/lib/hooks/use-backup.ts
Uses refs to block overlapping local and remote backup operations. The refs reset after each operation completes.
Relay contract and validation
packages/playground/personal-wp/src/components/playground-viewport/index.tsx
Defines backup request and result payloads, validates incoming messages, waits up to 15 seconds for readiness, and forwards results to the requesting source.
Backup execution and relay wiring
packages/playground/personal-wp/src/components/playground-viewport/index.tsx, packages/playground/personal-wp/playwright/e2e/relay-backup.spec.ts, packages/playground/personal-wp/README.md
Tracks the current backup callback, handles relay requests, emits backup status results, verifies single-flight behavior and downloads, and documents the relay behavior.

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Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant WordPressPage
  participant PlaygroundViewport
  participant useBackup
  WordPressPage->>PlaygroundViewport: Send backup-site request
  PlaygroundViewport-->>WordPressPage: Send started result
  PlaygroundViewport->>useBackup: Execute current backup callback
  useBackup-->>PlaygroundViewport: Return backup result
  PlaygroundViewport-->>WordPressPage: Send success or error result
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CI caught the e2e test getting "Playground is not ready" back: WordPress
renders behind the loading screen, so a page can post the message while
the shell still has no client in state.

Refusing there is wrong. The page doing the asking was served by this
very site, so an unready-looking site is one whose state has not caught
up, not one that cannot run a backup. Wait up to 15 seconds for it, and
read performBackup off a ref so the wait uses the current one rather than
the one captured when the listener was registered.

The test now waits for the loading screen to go away first, so it starts
from a booted site instead of racing the boot.

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Inline comments:
In `@packages/playground/personal-wp/playwright/e2e/relay-backup.spec.ts`:
- Around line 11-17: Co-locate the relay-backup test with the implementation
containing backupSiteFromRelay, moving relay-backup.spec.ts out of the
Playwright e2e directory. Update Playwright test discovery and all fixture
imports so the relocated test continues to run unchanged.

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`@packages/playground/personal-wp/src/components/playground-viewport/index.tsx`:
- Line 1616: Update useBackup() to add a ref-backed operation lock that is
checked and acquired synchronously before the first await, preventing concurrent
backup executions even when relay requests arrive in the same turn. Release the
lock in a finally block so it is cleared on both success and failure, and add
coverage for two same-turn relay requests verifying that only one backup starts.

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Comment thread packages/playground/personal-wp/playwright/e2e/relay-backup.spec.ts
isBackingUp and isRequestingRemote render the buttons, but they were also
the guard against a second backup. Two calls in the same turn both read
false and both start: two zips of the same site, two downloads, and a
race over the backup history entry — which a page can now trigger by
posting two backup-site messages.

Guard the work with refs, set before the first await and cleared in
finally, and leave the state to the UI. The new e2e test fails without
this: both requests report success and two files download.

Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_015Wt1kT6weBQHE9oGvD4M8C
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