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# Claude connector — design and plan
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An opt-in MCP server built into Theseus, so a Claude client on the same
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computer (Claude Code, Claude Desktop) can work inside the user's real,
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signed-in profile: open a tab, read it, click, type, paste rich text into an
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editor, upload a file.
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## Why
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On 2026-10-22 a Claude Code session had to paste a prepared story into a
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Medium draft as the user's author account. The Claude desktop app's built-in
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browser could not do it: its synthetic paste arrived empty and its typed text
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never reached Medium's editor. The two other routes are worse:
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- `--remote-debugging-port` on the main profile opens a browser-wide DevTools
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port. Any local process can attach and read every tab, cookie and session.
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- Theseus is a desktop app, and these sessions have no computer-use access to
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drive it from outside.
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So the browser itself has to offer a narrow, user-controlled door.
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## Shape
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A built-in add-on, `bundled-addons/claude-connector/`, following the Pithos
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pattern: `activate(api)` starts a small HTTP server on `127.0.0.1` from the
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main process and registers a sidebar panel. What it needs from the browser
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that no add-on API offered yet comes through one new host capability,
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`tab-control`, which only built-in add-ons can hold.
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```
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Claude Code ──HTTP (Bearer token)──► 127.0.0.1:<port>/mcp ─┐
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Claude Desktop ─stdio─► stdio-shim.cjs ──HTTP──────────────┤
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▼
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claude-connector add-on (main process)
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policy: allowlist · password guard · upload folders · log
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│ api.tabControl (tab-control capability)
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▼
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main.js: tabs, open/close/navigate, indicator
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│ webContents.debugger (CDP, per tab)
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▼
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one tab's page
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```
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### Off by default
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- The add-on ships with `"defaultEnabled": false`. main.js puts any built-in
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add-on with that flag into `settings.disabledAddons` the first time it sees
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it (remembered in `settings.addonsDefaultOffSeen`, so the user's later
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choice is never overridden). The user turns it on in **Settings ›
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Extensions › Claude connector**.
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- While it is off, nothing listens. When it is on, the panel has a second
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switch, **Accept connections**, on by default once the extension is
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turned on, so the stop button can close the port without uninstalling
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anything.
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### Transport and authentication
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- MCP **Streamable HTTP** at `http://127.0.0.1:<port>/mcp`. POST carries
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JSON-RPC; GET opens an SSE stream (kept alive with comments, used as the
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"connected" signal); DELETE ends a session.
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- Binds `127.0.0.1` only. The port is picked once per install (first free in
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47800–47899, else any) and kept, so the config the user pasted stays valid.
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- A random 256-bit token per install, base64url. Every request needs
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`Authorization: Bearer <token>`, compared in constant time.
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- DNS-rebinding and browser guard: the `Host` header must be
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`127.0.0.1:<port>` or `localhost:<port>`, and any request carrying an
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`Origin` header is refused. A web page cannot reach the server even if it
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guessed the token.
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- **Revoke** in the panel issues a new token, which drops every client at
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once. **Stop** (toolbar chip or panel) closes the port.
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- Claude Desktop speaks stdio, so the add-on ships `stdio-shim.cjs`, run by
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the Theseus executable itself in Node mode (`ELECTRON_RUN_AS_NODE=1`, the
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same mode the extension sandbox already uses). It reads the port from
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`extensions-data/claude-connector/endpoint.json` and the token from
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`THESEUS_MCP_TOKEN`, and relays line-delimited JSON-RPC to the HTTP endpoint.
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### Per-tab control, no browser-wide port
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- Each controlled tab gets `webContents.debugger` (CDP 1.3) attached on its
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own webContents. No `--remote-debugging-port`, no DevTools target list.
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- main.js already attaches that debugger to freeze background tabs
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(`setTabFrozen`). The connector shares the attachment: it attaches only if
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nothing is attached, and detaches only what it attached itself.
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- Only ordinary web tabs (`http:`, `https:`) are controllable. Settings,
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add-on pages, the home page, `file:` and internal schemes are refused:
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a Settings tab would let a client switch the connector's own safety
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settings.
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- A dormant restored tab is loaded and a frozen one thawed before it is used.
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While a tab is controlled it gets focus emulation (`Emulation.
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setFocusEmulationEnabled`), so editors that check `document.hasFocus()`
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accept input while the Theseus window is in the background.
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### Host capability `tab-control` (addons-host.js + main.js)
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`api.tabControl`, built-in add-ons only, manifest must declare `tab-control`:
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| call | does |
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| --- | --- |
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| `list()` | every tab: id, title, url, kind (`web`/`settings`/`addon`/`home`), active, pending |
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| `webContents(id)` | the tab's webContents, after loading a dormant tab and thawing a frozen one; throws for non-web tabs |
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| `open(url, {background})` | new tab through main's own `createTab` (so BCNR names resolve as typed) |
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| `navigate(id, url)` | main's `navigateTab` |
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| `close(id)`, `activate(id)` | as the tab strip does |
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| `setStatus({connected, clients, busy, tabIds})` | drives the toolbar indicator and the per-tab marker |
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| `onStop(cb)` | the indicator's stop button |
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### Indicator
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- A chip in the toolbar, next to Downloads: **Claude** with a dot that pulses
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while a tool call runs. Visible whenever a client is connected (an SSE
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stream is open or a request arrived in the last 2 minutes). Clicking it
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opens the connector panel; its ✕ stops the connector at once (closes the
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port, ends sessions, detaches every debugger).
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- Each tab the client is controlling gets an outline marker in the tab strip.
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### Tools
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| tool | how |
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| --- | --- |
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| `list_tabs` | `tabControl.list()`; tabs on sites not yet approved show only their host |
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| `open_tab(url, background?)` | approval for the target origin first |
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| `navigate(tab_id, url \| action)` | url, or `back`/`forward`/`reload` |
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| `close_tab(tab_id)`, `activate_tab(tab_id)` | |
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| `screenshot(tab_id, full_page?)` | `Page.captureScreenshot`, scaled to CSS pixels so coordinates match `click(x, y)`; a hidden tab is brought to the front first (hidden views render no frames) |
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| `read_page_text(tab_id, max_chars?)` | `innerText` read in an isolated world |
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| `snapshot(tab_id, interactive_only?)` | `Accessibility.getFullAXTree`, compacted to `role "name" [ref=eN]` lines; refs map to `backendDOMNodeId` |
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| `click(tab_id, ref \| x,y)` | `DOM.scrollIntoViewIfNeeded` + `DOM.getContentQuads`, then `Input.dispatchMouseEvent` press/release |
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| `type(tab_id, text, ref?)` | `DOM.focus`, then `Input.insertText` per line and a real Enter (`Input.dispatchKeyEvent`) between lines; `mode: "keys"` sends every character as keyDown/keyUp |
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| `press_key(tab_id, key, modifiers?)` | Enter, Tab, Backspace, arrows, ctrl+a … |
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| `paste_html(tab_id, html, ref?)`, `paste_text(tab_id, text, ref?)` | write the real clipboard (`clipboard.write({html, text})`), `webContents.paste()`, then put the user's clipboard back |
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| `upload_file(tab_id, ref, path)` | `DOM.setFileInputFiles` on an `<input type=file>` |
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| `wait_for(tab_id, selector \| text, timeout_ms?)` | polls in an isolated world |
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| `evaluate(tab_id, expression)` | `Runtime.evaluate` in the page; listed only while **Allow evaluate** is on (off by default) |
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Page reads run in an isolated world (`Page.createIsolatedWorld`), so page
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scripts can neither see them nor tamper with the helpers.
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### Safety
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- **Per-site allowlist.** The first time a client acts on an origin (opens it,
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navigates to it, reads or drives a tab on it), Theseus asks: *Allow Claude
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to control medium.com?* — **Allow** (remembered), **This session only**, or
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**Don't allow**. A refusal is remembered for 10 minutes, so a client cannot
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spam the prompt. The panel lists approved sites with a remove button.
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- **Never types into password fields.** Before `type`, `press_key`,
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`paste_*` and `evaluate`-free input, the focused element (followed into
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shadow roots and same-origin frames) is checked in an isolated world:
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`input[type=password]`, `autocomplete=current-password|new-password|
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one-time-code`, or a cross-origin frame that cannot be inspected → refused.
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`click` on a ref that is a password field is refused too, so a client
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cannot focus one by ref and then type.
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- **Upload folders.** `upload_file` resolves the real path (symlinks and
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junctions followed) and refuses anything outside the folders the user added
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in the panel (none by default), anything that is not a regular file, and
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files over 100 MB. The ref must be an `<input type=file>`.
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- **evaluate** is a separate switch, off by default, with a warning in the
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panel: it runs arbitrary script as the page.
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- **Action log.** Every call is logged with an ISO timestamp, the tool, the
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tab's origin, a short summary of the arguments (typed and pasted text is
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logged by length and first 60 characters) and the outcome. The panel shows
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the newest entries live; the log is kept in
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`extensions-data/claude-connector/actions.log` (JSON lines, rotated at 1 MB).
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### What it does not defend against
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- A program already running as the user. The token sits in the add-on store
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(`extensions-data/claude-connector.json`) next to the profile's cookies,
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which such a program can read anyway. The connector keeps the door shut to
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web pages and to other machines, and keeps the user in charge of which sites
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a connected client may touch.
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- A site that changes a field's type after the focus check. The check runs
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right before each input; what the page does in between is up to the page.
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## Files
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- `bundled-addons/claude-connector/` — `addon.json`, `index.js` (activate,
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settings, panel messages), `lib/mcp-server.cjs` (HTTP + JSON-RPC +
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sessions), `lib/tab-driver.cjs` (CDP per tab), `lib/tools.cjs` (tool
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definitions and handlers), `lib/policy.cjs` (allowlist, upload paths,
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password guard script), `lib/action-log.cjs`, `panel.html`,
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`stdio-shim.cjs`, `README.md`.
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- `addons-host.js` — `tab-control` capability and `api.tabControl`.
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- `main.js` — the `tabControl` hook, indicator state, `defaultEnabled:false`
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handling, `claude-connector` kept as a reserved first-party id.
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- `preload.js`, `chrome.html` — the indicator chip and the tab marker.
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- `tests/claude-connector.test.mjs` — launches Theseus on a scratch profile
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(`THESEUS_USER_DATA`, `THESEUS_NO_UPDATE_CHECK`), with the connector
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pre-enabled in that profile, and drives a local test page over MCP: type
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into a rich editor, paste HTML with headings and links, upload a PNG,
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refuse a password field and an upload outside the folder.
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- `tests/claude-connector-unit.test.mjs` — protocol, auth and policy checks
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that run under plain Node.
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- README section with the `claude mcp add` command.
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## Steps
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1. Host: `tab-control` capability in addons-host.js; hook, indicator state,
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default-off handling in main.js; chip in chrome.html/preload.js.
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2. Add-on: server, driver, tools, policy, log, panel, shim.
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3. Tests: unit (plain Node), then the Electron end-to-end test.
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4. Docs: README section, add-on README.
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## Not in this round
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- Cross-origin iframes (OOPIFs) are not driven; typing into one is refused
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because its focused element cannot be checked.
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- No per-tool approval prompts beyond the per-site one.
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- No remote (non-loopback) clients, by design.
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(<code>evaluate</code>) is a separate switch, off by default. Every action is logged with its time.
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The toolbar chip's ✕ stops the connector at once; <i>Revoke token</i> cuts off every client you set
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up.</div>
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<p>The connector ships with the next Theseus release after 0.3.106. Design notes:
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<a href="https://code.silentmode.st/silentmode/theseus/src/branch/master/DESIGN-claude-connector.md">DESIGN-claude-connector.md ↗</a>.</p>
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<p>Design notes:
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<a href="claude-connector/DESIGN-claude-connector.md">DESIGN-claude-connector.md</a>
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(hosted here ·
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<a href="https://code.silentmode.st/silentmode/theseus/src/branch/master/DESIGN-claude-connector.md">forge mirror ↗</a>).
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The connector shipped with Theseus 0.3.107.</p>
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</section>
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