- Gate TCP serve commands with safe-by-default policies, per-key allow tokens, per-key rate limiting, and audit labels.
- Reuse authenticated encrypted remote sessions and parallelize/caches multi-browser fanout to reduce repeated handshake roundtrips.
- Increase paged native-host batch size with extension-side byte budgeting to speed large tab listings safely.
- Point install output at public Chrome Web Store / Firefox AMO listings by default, with --dev preserving unpacked workflows.
- Share search-engine metadata between CLI and SDK and bump the package/extension version to 0.16.0.
- Cover the new security, pooling, paging, install, and fanout behavior with expanded Python and extension tests.
- Change nav open and open-wait to avoid activating newly created tabs unless
--focus is explicitly requested.
- Send background=true for default opens so older or remote extensions also
avoid stealing focus even if they ignore the new focus flag.
- Remove the redundant --bg flag from navigation and search CLI commands now
that no-focus/background behavior is the default.
- Thread focus support through the sync SDK, async SDK, tab helpers, and
workflow decorators.
- Update README and demo usage to document the new default and --focus opt-in.
- Bump package and extension metadata to 0.12.3.
- Add regression coverage for CLI help, wire payloads, and extension behavior.
Restructure the Python API and internals around composable namespaces and
a standalone transport/endpoint layer. Bump to 0.12.0.
Python API:
- Replace flat methods (b.tabs_list(), b.group_list()) with namespaces:
b.nav, b.tabs, b.groups, b.windows, b.dom, b.extract, b.page, b.storage,
b.cookies, b.session, b.perf, b.extension.
- Shrink browser_cli/__init__.py to a thin composition root; move all
behaviour into browser_cli/sdk/ (one module per namespace + factories,
base, routing).
Internals:
- Add browser_cli/transport.py and remote_transport.py to isolate IPC from
command logic; client.py now delegates instead of owning transport.
- Add browser_cli/endpoints.py for endpoint resolution and
browser_cli/errors.py for shared error types.
- Extract markdown rendering into browser_cli/markdown.py (out of extract).
- Add USER_AGENT to version_manager.
Tooling & tests:
- Add justfile with common dev tasks.
- Update CLI commands and demo to the namespaced API.
- Rework tests for the new layout; add test_transport.py and
test_refactor_boundaries.py to lock in module boundaries.
BREAKING CHANGE: flat API methods are removed in favour of namespaces
(e.g. b.tabs_list() -> b.tabs.list(), b.group_list() -> b.groups.list()).
- compat.py → compat/ package: auth.py (auth-field normalizers),
commands.py (command-format shims), __init__.py (re-exports)
- Add _auth_0_9_3 transformer: normalizes pubkey to lowercase before auth
so clients < 0.9.3 sending uppercase hex are accepted
- adapt_auth() now called before auth check in serve.py; command extracted
after adapt_auth so future transformers can rename commands safely
- serve.py: deduplicate _recv_exact (import from client), unify
resp/resp_payload across Windows/Unix branches, require lowercase hex
pubkey (re.fullmatch), reorganize imports, drop unused os import
- client.py: move payload/framed construction inside branches (remote path
no longer serializes JSON it never uses); fix _is_valid_key_spec
operator precedence; import MAX_MSG_BYTES from version_manager
- auth.py: narrow except clause (ValueError instead of bare Exception)
- Bump version 0.9.2 → 0.9.3
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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