stealth-extract fails on Windows 10: SessionDriverKernelStartFailedError (v1.0.0)

[iloveyou1955]

Environment

• OS: Windows 10 (64-bit)
• Installation: uv tool install browser-act-cli --python 3.12
• Version: browser-act-cli v1.0.0
• Python: Python 3.14.3

Bug Description

Running any browser-act stealth-extract command on Windows 10 fails immediately with:

Error 230404: Browser launch failed: Failed to obtain machine code for windows
(raw: SessionDriverKernelStartFailedError)

Steps to Reproduce

browser-act stealth-extract https://httpbin.org/headers

Observed Behavior

The command exits with error code 230404. The error message indicates the stealth browser's anti-detection kernel driver cannot start on this Windows system. This completely blocks stealth-extract — the core feature for lightweight anti-bot content extraction without creating a browser session.

Expected Behavior

stealth-extract should work on Windows 10, or at minimum:

1. Fall back to a non-kernel-driver approach when the driver is unavailable
2. Provide clear documentation about Windows driver prerequisites (driver signing, required Windows features, etc.)
3. Give a more actionable error message suggesting how to resolve the issue

Impact

Without stealth-extract working on Windows, the only remaining content extraction paths require creating a browser session (chrome/chrome-direct/stealth) with Confirmation Gate, which is much heavier than a simple fetch. This significantly reduces the tool's value for Windows users.

Additional Context

• Clean Windows 10 install, no special security software
• Fresh uv tool install browser-act-cli --python 3.12
• Other commands (get-skills, --help, --version) work fine
• Chrome browser itself runs normally on this system

[browseract-ai]

Thanks for the detailed report.

We’ve already fixed this issue in the latest version. Please upgrade and retry:

uv tool install --force browser-act-cli@latest --python 3.12
browser-act stealth-extract https://httpbin.org/headers

If the problem still occurs after upgrading, please ask the agent to upload the logs so we can investigate further.

[juvconan]

I upgraded to browser-act-cli v1.0.5 following the method above, but the issue still persists. My operating system is Windows 11.