Open Web Bridge

Let AI agents drive your real browser — page snapshots, network capture, hooks and human handoff, driven from your terminal.

# Chrome Web Store submission copy Everything below is ready to paste into the developer dashboard. Field names match the form. Keep this file in sync when the listing changes. --- ## Single purpose Chrome requires one clear sentence. This is the field reviewers weigh most, because `debugger` + `<all_urls>` only survives review if the purpose plainly requires them. > Open Web Bridge connects the user's browser to a local program they run > themselves, so that AI coding agents can read and operate pages inside the > user's own logged-in session through the Chrome DevTools Protocol. ## Short description (132 char limit — already in manifest.json) > Let AI agents drive your real browser — page snapshots, network capture, hooks and human handoff, driven from your terminal. ## Detailed description > Open Web Bridge lets an AI coding agent drive the browser you already use — > with your logins, your session, your open tabs. > > That distinction is the whole point. An agent that launches its own clean > browser can only reach what is public. An agent driving your browser can read > the article behind your subscription, check the dashboard you are already > signed into, and finish a flow that needs your identity. > > HOW IT WORKS > > This extension is a bridge, not a service. It connects to a small daemon you > install and run on your own machine (npm i -g open-web-bridge). Your agent talks > to that daemon through a command-line tool; the daemon talks to this extension; > the extension drives the page through the Chrome DevTools Protocol. > > There is no account, no cloud service, and no server operated by us. By default > the extension only ever connects to 127.0.0.1. > > WHAT IT GIVES AN AGENT > > • Semantic page snapshots — interactive elements get stable numbered references, > so the agent clicks "@e5" instead of guessing CSS selectors > • Incremental snapshots — after an action, only what changed is returned > • Real input — clicks are dispatched as genuine mouse events, with a visible > on-page cursor so you can watch what is happening > • Human handoff — when the agent hits a captcha or a QR login it hands the tab > back to you, waits, and resumes when you are done > • Network capture and HAR recording — inspect requests, export a recording, turn > it into a replay script > • Device emulation — viewport, network throttling, geolocation, timezone, locale > • Tab hygiene — tabs the agent opens go into labelled, colour-coded groups, and > it refuses to close tabs you opened yourself > > ABOUT THE PERMISSIONS > > This extension asks for broad access, and you should understand why before > installing. Driving a browser through the DevTools Protocol requires the > "debugger" permission, and the set of sites is whatever you ask the agent about, > which cannot be known in advance. Installing it amounts to granting the local > daemon control of your browser. Chrome shows a banner while it is attached. > > Nothing is collected and nothing is sent to the developer. Full detail, including > a per-permission justification, is in the privacy policy. > > Open source (MIT): https://github.com/woniu9524/open-web-bridge ## Category Developer Tools ## Permission justifications One field per permission on the form. **debugger** > This is the core mechanism of the extension. Reading page structure, capturing > network traffic, dispatching real input events and setting breakpoints are all > done through the Chrome DevTools Protocol, which this permission provides. The > extension cannot perform its function without it. **tabs** > Used to open, navigate, enumerate and close tabs, to resolve which tab a command > targets, and to read tab URLs so a command is routed to the correct page. **tabGroups** > A safety feature. Tabs the extension creates are placed in labelled groups > ("task: …", "OWB scratch", "OWB waiting for you"). This is what allows the > extension to refuse to close a tab the user opened themselves, and lets the user > clean up all agent-created tabs in one action. **storage** > Stores the user's own connection settings (the daemon address, and the optional > relay URL and token) and the registry of active debug hooks so state survives the > service worker being recycled. No page content is stored. **alarms** > A heartbeat that reconnects the MV3 service worker after Chrome recycles it. > Without it the connection to the local daemon silently dies when the worker goes > idle. **downloads** > Implements the download command, which triggers and tracks a browser download the > user asked for. **Host permission `<all_urls>`** > The user decides which sites the agent works on, and that set cannot be known in > advance — it is whatever page the user asks about. A fixed host list would mean > the extension simply fails on any site not enumerated at build time, which would > defeat its purpose. **Remote code** > No remote code is used. All logic ships in the package. The extension executes > JavaScript expressions that the user's own local daemon sends it — this is the > user driving their own browser, not code fetched from a remote server. ## Data usage disclosures Tick these on the form and they must match PRIVACY.md. | Question | Answer | | --- | --- | | Does it collect personally identifiable information? | No | | Health information? | No | | Financial and payment information? | No | | Authentication information? | **Yes** — the extension can read cookies and storage for pages the user operates on, and can save a session locally at the user's request. It is never transmitted to the developer. | | Personal communications? | No | | Location? | No | | Web history? | No | | User activity? | No | | Website content? | **Yes** — page content is read on the user's instruction and sent to the local daemon the user runs. | Certifications (all three must be checked): - I do not sell or transfer user data to third parties, outside of the approved use cases - I do not use or transfer user data for purposes that are unrelated to my item's single purpose - I do not use or transfer user data to determine creditworthiness or for lending purposes ## Privacy policy URL > https://github.com/woniu9524/open-web-bridge/blob/master/PRIVACY.md ## Support / homepage URL > https://github.com/woniu9524/open-web-bridge ## Screenshots 1280×800, in `C:\Users\Administrator\Downloads\`: - `owb-store-1280x800.png` — the whole window: task tab group, popup, a real page - `owb-store-2-popup.png` — popup close-up: connection state, Local/Relay, daemon address ## Review notes (the "notes for reviewer" field) > This extension is the browser half of an open-source developer tool. It does > nothing on its own: it connects to a daemon the user installs from npm > (open-web-bridge) and runs on their own machine, and only acts on commands that > daemon sends. > > The debugger permission is unavoidable — the entire function is driving the page > through the DevTools Protocol. Chrome's own "started debugging this browser" > banner is left visible while attached, so the user always knows. > > There is no backend, no analytics and no data collection. The default connection > target is 127.0.0.1. An optional relay mode exists for driving a browser from > another machine; the relay is deployed by the user on their own Cloudflare > account, and the documentation states plainly that it is a trusted broker with no > end-to-end encryption. > > Full source: https://github.com/woniu9524/open-web-bridge