- 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.
- Add safe-by-default policy gates for raw command surfaces: command, script, and serve-http /command.
- Require explicit opt-ins for page reads, browser control, and high-risk commands such as dom.eval, storage.*, and screenshots.
- Remove all cookies support from CLI, SDK, extension commands, permissions, constants, docs, and tests.
- Add diagnostic, events, watch, workspace, remote, raw command, script, HTTP gateway, tree-view, session import/export, and extension info/capability commands.
- Add Chrome Web Store packaging that strips manifest.key while keeping local packages with a stable native-messaging extension ID.
- Bump browser-cli and extension version to 0.14.1 and cover the new behavior with pytest and extension packaging tests.
BREAKING CHANGE: cookies commands and the b.cookies SDK namespace have been removed; generic raw command execution now blocks non-safe commands unless explicitly allowed.
- 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.
- Split client, native, remote, serve, markdown, and SDK internals into focused packages with direct imports.
- Move local and remote transport framing/protocol helpers behind clearer module boundaries.
- Break up the extension injected DOM logic into a separate content dispatch bundle and dedicated content modules.
- Add explicit client handling for passive remote discovery without noisy PQ warnings.
- Keep behavior covered with updated unit, integration, and extension tests.
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()).
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