History not including extract

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Environment Information

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Stagehand:

• Language/SDK: TypeScript
• Stagehand version: 3.0.5

AI Provider:

• Provider: Anthropic
• Model: claude-sonnet-4-5-20250929

Issue Description

stagehand.history does not include extract actions in the result

Steps to Reproduce

1. Start stagehand and navigate to a site, in this case one with editable fields
2. Call extract with a prompt, in this case the prompt is asking for all fields that are editable
3. Access and store the stagehand history, const history = await stagehand.history;
4. Filter the history looking for the entries where the method is extract
5. Log out the result

Minimal Reproduction Code

  const stagehand = new Stagehand({
    env: "LOCAL",
    model: {
        modelName: "anthropic/claude-sonnet-4-5-20250929",
        apiKey: process.env.ANTHROPIC_API_KEY,
    }
  });

  await stagehand.init();
  console.log(`Stagehand Session Started`);
  const page = stagehand.context.pages()[0];
  await page.goto("https://github.com/");
  const extractResult = await stagehand.extract("Extract all editable fields on the page.");
  const history = await stagehand.history;
  console.log(`Extract result:\n`, extractResult);
  const extractions = history.filter(e => e.method === 'extract');
  console.log(`Extractions: ${extractions.length}`);
  await fs.writeFile(
    `workflow-report.json`,
    JSON.stringify({
      history,
      totalOps: history.length,
      totalTokens: metrics.totalPromptTokens + metrics.totalCompletionTokens
    }, null, 2)
  );

  await stagehand.close();

Error Messages / Log trace

[dotenv@17.2.3] injecting env (0) from .env -- tip: 🔄 add secrets lifecycle management: https://dotenvx.com/ops
[dotenv@17.2.3] injecting env (0) from .env -- tip: ⚙️  specify custom .env file path with { path: '/custom/path/.env' }
[2025-12-04 11:02:11.046 -0500] INFO: Launching local browser
    category: "init"
Stagehand Session Started
[2025-12-04 11:02:14.242 -0500] INFO: Starting extraction using a11y snapshot
    category: "extraction"
    instruction: "Extract all editable fields on the page."
[2025-12-04 11:02:17.517 -0500] INFO: response
    category: "aisdk"
    response: {
      "object": {
        "extraction": "[0-5] textbox: Enter your email\n[0-10] textbox: Enter your email"
      },
      "usage": {
        "inputTokens": 6753,
        "outputTokens": 46,
        "totalTokens": 6799,
        "cachedInputTokens": 0
      },
      "finishReason": "stop"
    }
Extract result:
 {
  extraction: '[0-5] textbox: Enter your email\n[0-10] textbox: Enter your email'
}
Extractions: 0
ReferenceError: metrics is not defined
    at main (/Users/hunterbetz/workspace/sandbox/scripts/test.ts:39:20)
    at process.processTicksAndRejections (node:internal/process/task_queues:105:5)
[2025-12-04 11:02:20.502 -0500] INFO: response
    category: "aisdk"
    response: {
      "object": {
        "progress": "Found 2 textbox fields: one labeled \"[0-5] textbox: Enter your email\" and another labeled \"[0-10] textbox: Enter your email\"",
        "completed": true
      },
      "usage": {
        "inputTokens": 917,
        "outputTokens": 77,
        "totalTokens": 994,
        "cachedInputTokens": 0
      },
      "finishReason": "stop"
    }
[2025-12-04 11:02:20.503 -0500] INFO: Extraction completed successfully
    category: "extraction"
    prompt_tokens: "7670"
    completion_tokens: "123"
    inference_time_ms: "6260"

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Related Issues

[sahiljagtap08]

thanks for reporting this. logs confirm the extraction is executed, but the extract operation isn’t being captured in stagehand.history, so it’s likely not wired into the history recorder. i can look into this and submit a fix, quiet interesting!