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GeezerVison is showing github.com — v0.0.14-beta.1 (3/5): Browser extension on in full behind tool discovery by Obed0101 · Pull Request #139 · MendCode/MendCode Conversation
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MendCode: @Obed0101's MendCode worked on this pull request on one of its devices; released 2026-11-10 21:13 UTC. |
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1 finding · 🟡 1 minor
head 962f6445857d
Merge risk: 🟡 Medium · The change alters default availability of a tool operating in the user's authenticated browser and changes bridge initialization timing. Existing action permissions and site guards remain intact, but disagreement between feature policy, discovery, and runtime gates can cause availability regressions.
Change: Feature · Review effort: 2/5, about 15 minutes
This change separates the browser extension from the headless-browser feature, enables it by default in the full tier behind tool discovery, and lazily initializes its bridge. Review found one mismatch between tool visibility and runtime enablement for users without a configured tier; the seven reader-summarized code files were independently inspected in relevant spans, and the remaining documentation and metadata changes were reviewed from their supplied diffs. Tests were not run because this review permits read-only tools.
Readers: 7 files went to readers instead of the review pass whole: 7 code files by gpt-6-luna (the review pass gets their summaries and the hunks of their risk spots; 1 call, up to 3 at once, 13,826 tokens counted). Their summaries are hints, not findings. 6 code files no reader could read went to the review pass whole (the reader gave no usable answer for this file).
Stacked on #138: only this pull request's own commits since #138's head e8eb029.
| Finding | Where | |
|---|---|---|
| 🟡 | Discovery exposes a disabled browser-extension tool when no tier is configured 5/10 | packages/protocol/src/tier-data.ts:295 |
Walkthrough
The pull request introduces a dedicated browser_extension feature instead of sharing the headless browser's switch. Full-tier sessions can discover user_browser without explicitly enabling it, while other tiers and discovery-disabled sessions require an override. The daemon registers the tool on supported platforms and loads its bridge on first use or at startup when an enabled installation already exists; browser operations and installation formats remain unchanged.
Changes
| Layer / files | Summary |
|---|---|
Feature policy packages/protocol/src/tier-data.ts, packages/protocol/test/tier.test.ts |
Add the browser_extension feature, separate its tool policy from headless browsing, and test discovery-dependent availability. |
Daemon bridge integration packages/daemon/src/main.ts, packages/daemon/src/browser-bridge.ts, packages/tools/src/index.ts |
Replace environment-based bridge activation with a live feature check and cached lazy initialization, updating activation guidance. |
Daemon regression tests packages/daemon/test/browser-bridge.test.ts, packages/daemon/test/tier.test.ts |
Update the disabled-bridge message assertion and include user_browser in the tier-budget tool inventory. |
Documentation and card metadata CHANGELOG.md, README.md, docs/browser.md, docs/tiers.md, packages/daemon/cards/cards.generated.json, packages/daemon/cards/coverage.json |
Document full-tier availability and manual activation, and update card coverage metadata and revision. |
Sequence diagram
sequenceDiagram
participant Model
participant Discovery as Tool discovery
participant Port as Daemon browser port
participant Bridge as Browser bridge
Model->>Discovery: Find user_browser
Discovery-->>Model: Tool schema if policy allows
Model->>Port: Browser action
Port->>Port: Check browser_extension feature
alt Feature enabled
Port->>Bridge: Lazy import and start once
Port->>Bridge: Run action
Bridge-->>Model: Outcome
else Feature disabled
Port-->>Model: Activation guidance
end
Pre-merge checks: ✅ 3 passed
| Check | Status | Explanation |
|---|---|---|
| Title | ✅ Passed | The title accurately identifies full-tier browser-extension availability behind tool discovery. |
| Description | ✅ Passed | The description explains the feature behavior, lazy-loading and tool-budget rationale, and distinguishes typechecking at this head from suite results at the top of the stack. Those reported executions were not independently verified. |
| Out of scope | ✅ Passed | The runtime, policy, test, documentation, and metadata changes support the stated browser-extension activation change. |
Review details
- Files reviewed: 13 · 52 changed lines · estimated review effort 2/5, about 15 minutes
- Profile: normal · at most 8 inline comments
- Verification: every finding was checked again by a separate pass (1 candidate judged)
- Cost: 482,243 tokens in (403,840 from the provider's cache) · 3,734 out
- Readers: 7 files went to readers instead of the review pass whole: 7 code files by gpt-6-luna (the review pass gets their summaries and the hunks of their risk spots; 1 call, up to 3 at once, 13,826 tokens counted). Their summaries are hints, not findings. 6 code files no reader could read went to the review pass whole (the reader gave no usable answer for this file).
- Stacked on #138: only this pull request's own commits since #138's head e8eb029.
Performance (perf-attrib, base e8eb029 against head 962f644)
perf-attrib: nota: no total rose; inside, tui.after.heap.protected +1; binary.bytes +16416B; tui.ready.heap.objects +702
base e8eb0299c883d339fa4f46f9d917d4fd14381554 (e8eb0299) vs cand 962f6445857d9d0435c8d38a5ce78926144ac7ae (962f6445), median of 2 faux-engine session(s) per side; flagged = beyond the noise measured on 18 base-vs-base runs (x1.5).
| metric | base | cand | diff |
|---|---|---|---|
| tui.after.fp_mb | 63.9 | 63 | -0.9 |
| tui.after.peak_mb | 73.4 | 73.4 | 0 |
| tui.ready.fp_mb | 54.8 | 55.1 | +0.3 |
| tui.ready.peak_mb | 73.4 | 73.4 | 0 |
| tui.rest.fp_mb | 61.5 | 60.6 | -0.9 |
| tui.rest.peak_mb | 73.4 | 73.4 | 0 |
| tui.after.rss_mb | 109 | 114.2 | +5.2 UP |
| tui.ready.rss_mb | 105 | 101.2 | -3.8 down |
| tui.rest.rss_mb | 98.2 | 96.1 | -2.1 |
| tui.after.heap.extra_b | 6748476 | 6693426 | -55050 |
| tui.after.heap.objects | 240677 | 239805 | -872 |
| tui.after.heap.protected | 19 | 20 | +1 UP |
| tui.after.heap.size_b | 24367516 | 24264161 | -103355 |
| tui.ready.heap.extra_b | 2856527 | 2856789 | +262 |
| tui.ready.heap.objects | 216414 | 217116 | +702 UP |
| tui.ready.heap.protected | 18 | 18 | 0 |
| tui.ready.heap.size_b | 19224223 | 19278325 | +54102 |
| tui.rest.heap.extra_b | 4630287 | 3765341 | -864946 |
| tui.rest.heap.objects | 237722 | 236035 | -1687 |
| tui.rest.heap.protected | 18 | 18 | 0 |
| tui.rest.heap.size_b | 22025119 | 20972205 | -1052914 |
| tui.rest.js_code_b | 5839808 | 4919802 | -920006 |
| tui.rest.js_live_b | 19245121 | 19257315 | +12194 |
| tui.cpu_ms.after | 6219 | 6339 | +120 |
| tui.cpu_ms.ready | 408 | 391 | -17 |
| tui.cpu_ms.rest | 528 | 549 | +21 |
| binary.bytes | 72290528 | 72306944 | +16416 UP |
| disk.bytes | 4110 | 4115 | +5 |
| disk.bytes_per_session | 2055 | 2058 | +3 |
JS object types that rose (count):
- tui.after.heap.type.Function: 44358 -> 44533 (+175)
- tui.rest.heap.type.Function: 44355 -> 44529 (+174)
- tui.ready.heap.type.Function: 43295 -> 43468 (+173)
- tui.ready.heap.type.Object: 28577 -> 28732 (+155)
JS heap bytes by constructor that rose:
- tui.rest.ctor.hidden:Cell_Butterfly.bytes: 4252320 -> 4275088 (+22768)
- tui.rest.ctor.code:JSLexicalEnvironment.bytes: 1274336 -> 1280016 (+5680)
- tui.rest.ctor.object:Object.bytes: 1407764 -> 1412768 (+5004)
- tui.rest.ctor.closure:Function.bytes: 842111 -> 846144 (+4033)
Modules loaded at start: 230 -> 230, 4633773 -> 4634331 bytes of chunks; chunk sizes only in cand: [1008591, 110312], only in base: [1008342, 110003] (chunk names are hashes: the list says which changed in size, not by what name)
Reference (skill, 2026-11-03, real model): footprint 64 ready / 66 after / peak 80 MB, 2.6 KB per session. This run (faux engine, whole process tree): 55.1 / 63 / peak 73.4 MB, 2058 B per session.
Files (13)
CHANGELOG.mdREADME.mddocs/browser.mddocs/tiers.mdpackages/daemon/cards/cards.generated.jsonpackages/daemon/cards/coverage.jsonpackages/daemon/src/browser-bridge.tspackages/daemon/src/main.tspackages/daemon/test/browser-bridge.test.tspackages/daemon/test/tier.test.tspackages/protocol/src/tier-data.tspackages/protocol/test/tier.test.tspackages/tools/src/index.ts
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| // The full tier offers the browser extension's tool behind tool discovery, where it costs a name until the model looks for it. | ||
| // With discovery off its whole schema would ride every request: it then waits for the user's own `/tier browser_extension on`. | ||
| const extension = featureState(input, "browser_extension", options) | ||
| if ((extension.on || extension.why === "legacy") && extension.why !== "override" && experimental.tool_discovery !== true) { denied.user_browser = false; changed = true } |
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🟡 Minor · Correctness · confirmed by a second pass · score 5/10
Discovery exposes a disabled browser-extension tool when no tier is configured
For settings with no tier and experimental.tool_discovery: true, browser_extension is off because its legacy default is false. The main feature loop skips legacy states, and this additional guard also skips denial because discovery is enabled. Since the daemon now registers user_browser unconditionally on supported platforms, the engine offers it through tool discovery, but every invocation fails at browserExtensionOn(). This exposes an unusable tool to existing no-tier users rather than keeping it hidden until /tier browser_extension on, as documented. The new test at packages/protocol/test/tier.test.ts:122 actually expects the missing denial for this combination.
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packages/protocol/src/tier-data.ts:157packages/protocol/src/tier-data.ts:249packages/protocol/src/tier-data.ts:272packages/protocol/src/tier-data.ts:295packages/daemon/src/main.ts:251packages/daemon/src/main.ts:598packages/engine-native/src/engine.ts:729packages/protocol/test/tier.test.ts:122packages/protocol/src/tier-data.ts:157 sets browser_extension.legacy to false; :249 therefore makes the feature off when no tier or feature override is configured.packages/protocol/src/tier-data.ts:272 skips tool denial for legacy states, and :295 adds no user_browser denial when experimental.tool_discovery is true.packages/daemon/src/main.ts:598 registers user_browser on non-Windows platforms without checking the feature; :803 supplies effectiveSettings to the engine's permission policy.packages/engine-native/src/engine.ts:729-734 has no independent browser_extension guard and permits tools when no tier is set; :784 includes the policy-filtered tools in discovery.
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keep the change minimal and run the project's tests. If it no longer holds, say why and change nothing.
packages/protocol/src/tier-data.ts:295 (minor, correctness): Discovery exposes a disabled browser-extension tool when no tier is configured
For settings with no tier and experimental.tool_discovery: true, browser_extension is off because its legacy default is false. The main feature loop skips legacy states, and this additional guard also skips denial because discovery is enabled. Since the daemon now registers user_browser unconditionally on supported platforms, the engine offers it through tool discovery, but every invocation fails at browserExtensionOn(). This exposes an unusable tool to existing no-tier users rather than keeping it hidden until /tier browser_extension on, as documented. The new test at packages/protocol/test/tier.test.ts:122 actually expects the missing denial for this combination.
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