- Rename the PyPI distribution from browser-cli to real-browser-cli after PyPI rejected the original name as too similar to an existing project.
- Keep the installed console command as browser-cli so user-facing CLI usage remains unchanged.
- Add README-based package metadata, author information, and project URLs so PyPI renders a proper project description.
- Centralize the PyPI distribution name for importlib.metadata version lookups used by the CLI, doctor command, and remote user agent.
- Document uv tool install, optional fast extra installation, and upgrade commands.
- Bump package and extension metadata to 0.14.3 for the republished release.
- Drop the ServiceLink submodule, link-serve command, and serve --rpc mode.
- Remove the now-unused httpx dependency and regenerate uv.lock.
- Add a privacy policy for Chrome Web Store publication.
- Refresh extension icons and bump package/extension version to 0.14.2.
- Keep the native TCP serve path as the only remote-control endpoint.
- 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.
- 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()).
- Add throttled large-operation handling for tab, group, and session commands.
- Introduce performance profiles, audible-tab aware gentle mode, and job progress tracking.
- Support background session restores with status/cancel commands and lazy placeholders.
- Expose new perf and extension CLI groups plus matching Python SDK methods.
- Preserve pinned tabs during session snapshots and debounce auto-save updates.
- Bump browser-cli and extension versions to 0.10.0 and add pytest-cov to dev deps.
- Add coverage for performance controls, background jobs, lazy restores, and tab metadata.
- Domain-like --remote endpoints default to port 443; :443 is optional
- _normalize_endpoint strips :443 before storage in remotes.json
- _load_remotes normalises keys on load (backward compat migration)
- _remote_display_name omits :443 for domain endpoints
- _resolve_connect_endpoint adds :443 back for TCP connection
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- authorized_keys format extended to '<hex> [optional-name]'
- auth keys repurposed: shows server's trusted keys (Name/Public Key table)
instead of local client keys; --remote queries the remote serve instance
- auth trust gains --name flag for labelling keys; --remote pushes the key
to the remote server's authorized_keys
- serve.py handles browser-cli.auth.keys and browser-cli.auth.trust as
server-side commands (authenticated, never forwarded to native host)
- serve.py reloads authorized_keys from disk on every connection so
auth trust --remote takes effect immediately without restarting serve
- auth show unchanged: still prints your own client public key
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Security:
- serve.py: server now sends nonce challenge before accepting any command;
clients sign nonce + SHA256(canonical_payload) with Ed25519 key
- New --authorized-keys FILE option for serve; token auth still works as fallback
- Connection limit: BoundedSemaphore(64) in serve.py
- Secure file creation with os.open(..., 0o600) for token/key files
- New auth.py module: keygen, file key load/save, SSH agent protocol (pure Python),
sign/verify helpers compatible with both file keys and agent-held keys (YubiKey,
TPM, gpg-agent)
Features:
- YubiKey support via SSH agent protocol — no new runtime deps, just $SSH_AUTH_SOCK
- New `browser-cli auth` command group: keygen, trust, show, keys
- Global --key PATH flag (or BROWSER_CLI_KEY env) selects signing key;
pass "agent" or "agent:<selector>" to use SSH agent key
- BrowserCLI Python API gains key= parameter
Bug fixes (11 issues across two review passes):
- client.py: check response is not None before json.loads
- native_host.py: _read_exact_stream loop handles EINTR short reads; fix Windows
Listener leak on accept error
- __init__.py: open_wait / tabs_watch_url raise RuntimeError instead of silent None
- extension/tabs.ts: dedupe skips tabs without URL; tabsSort uses pendingUrl fallback
- extension/session.ts: removeListener before addListener prevents duplicate handlers
Breaking: TCP serve protocol now sends a challenge frame first (v0.9.0)
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Exposes a local browser over a TCP socket so remote machines can
control it using the same CLI and Python API. Token auth (auto-generated
via secrets.token_urlsafe) is on by default; --no-auth disables it.
Profile routing via _route message field lets clients target specific
browser instances on the remote host. BROWSER_CLI_PROFILE is forwarded
automatically so --browser flag works transparently over remote.
- browser-cli serve [--host] [--port] [--token] [--no-auth]
- browser-cli --remote HOST:PORT --token TOKEN <command>
- BrowserCLI(remote="host:port", token="...").tabs_list()
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