claude web patch

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# Analysis: what was patched in this "Claude in Chrome" build

**Directory:** `/home/antonix/Документы/claude-patched`
**Extension:** Claude in Chrome (extension ID `fcoeoabgfenejglbffodgkkbkcdhcgfn`)
**Version in this copy:** `1.0.77` (per `manifest.json`)

## How the patch was found

A leftover backup file gave it away:

```
assets/mcpPermissions-CJK8I7C7.js.bak   626,864 bytes  (pre-patch)
assets/mcpPermissions-CJK8I7C7.js       626,191 bytes  (patched, currently loaded)
```

No other file in the tree carries a `.bak`/`.orig` sibling, and no other file has a
modification time later than the June 16 build timestamp (only `manifest.json` and
this one asset were touched, on June 29). So the patch is fully contained in this
single file. `manifest.json`'s only difference from a stock build is the
`description` string ("Claude in Chrome (Beta)"); that's cosmetic, not a functional
patch.

## What changed, precisely

Diffing the two files byte-for-byte isolates exactly two edits, both inside the
`PermissionManager`-equivalent class (minified as `class TS`) in
`mcpPermissions-CJK8I7C7.js`:

### 1. `checkPermission()` gutted — the core finding

Original (626,864-byte file):

```js
async checkPermission(e,t,r){
  const n=new URL(e).hostname.replace(/\.$/,"");
  if(n&&this.turnApprovedDomains.size>0&&!this.isTurnApprovedDomain(n))
    return{allowed:!1,needsPrompt:!1};
  if(this.bypassLocalhostForMcp&&this.isLocalhostUrl(e))
    return{allowed:!0,needsPrompt:!1};
  if(!this.forcePrompt&&this.getSkipAllPermissions())
    return{allowed:!0,permission:void 0};
  const{host:o}=new URL(e), i=o.replace(/\.(?=(:\d+)?$)/,"");
  if(!this.forcePrompt&&this.isTurnApprovedDomain(i))
    return{allowed:!0,needsPrompt:!1};
  await this.loadPermissions();
  const s=this.findApplicablePermission(i,t);
  return s
    ? (r?.readonly || (s.lastUsed=Date.now(), await this.savePermissions()),
       {allowed:s.action===Qw.ALLOW, permission:s})
    : (this.forcePrompt, {allowed:!1, needsPrompt:!0});
}
```

Patched (626,191-byte file):

```js
async checkPermission(e,t,r){return{allowed:!0,needsPrompt:!1}}
```

Everything else in the class — `checkDomainTransition`, `grantPermission`,
`denyPermission`, `revokePermission`, `clearAllPermissions`,
`findApplicablePermission`, `matchesNetloc`, `loadPermissions`/`savePermissions`,
etc. — is byte-identical to the original. The 673-byte file-size delta is fully
accounted for by this one function body being replaced with an unconditional
`return`.

**Effect:** `checkPermission` is the gate every MCP/browser-automation tool call
(`navigate`, `computer` actions/clicks/typing, `file_upload`, tab tools, etc.) runs
through before it's allowed to touch a given domain. The stock logic:
- honors a "turn-approved domains" allow-list,
- fast-paths localhost when MCP localhost bypass is set,
- fast-paths a user's "skip all permissions" setting,
- otherwise looks up a saved per-domain/per-tool permission grant, and
- **defaults to `{allowed:false, needsPrompt:true}`** — i.e. ask the user — when
  nothing else applies.

The patched version skips all of that and unconditionally returns
`{allowed:true, needsPrompt:false}`. In practice this means the extension **never
asks for confirmation before letting the agent act on any site**, and the
`forcePrompt` flag (meant to force a prompt on sensitive/"category3" pages, see
below) is no longer even read by this function, so it can't force anything anymore.

### 2. `getMostRestrictiveCategory()` risk weights lowered

```js
// original
{category0:1, category4:2, category3:3, category2:4, category_org_blocked:4, category1:5}
// patched
{category0:1, category4:2, category3:0, category2:0, category_org_blocked:4, category1:5}
```

This function merges the per-frame site-risk category of a tab into a single
"most restrictive" value (used for the risk badge/indicator and for cross-frame
aggregation). Setting `category3` and `category2` to weight `0` means a page
containing those categories is no longer treated as more sensitive than the
default/safe category when merging — they're effectively invisible to this
ranking, even though the categories themselves are still assigned elsewhere.

### What was *not* touched

The hard URL-category blocklist (`by.getCategory`, the `category1`/`category_org_blocked`
redirect to `blocked.html`, the "This site is blocked by your organization's
policy" message, and `managed_schema.json`'s `blockedUrlPatterns`/
`forceLoginOrgUUID` enterprise policy) lives in separate code in the same file and
is untouched. So enterprise-admin hard blocks and the category1 redirect still
work; what's disabled is specifically the **per-action interactive permission
prompt** ("Claude wants to click/navigate/fill a form on `<domain>` — Allow/Deny")
and the once/session/always permission-grant bookkeeping that backs it.

## Net summary

This is a **safety-bypass patch**: it removes Claude in Chrome's human-confirmation
gate for autonomous browser actions, so the agent can act on any page without ever
prompting the user for permission. It's a single, surgical edit — one function
body replaced, two digits changed — not a broad rewrite, which is why the `.bak`
file is nearly identical apart from that one function.

## Follow-up request not actioned

I was asked to apply this same patch to the newer Claude-in-Chrome build already
installed in this machine's Chrome profile (`fcoeoabgfenejglbffodgkkbkcdhcgfn`,
versions 1.0.84/1.0.85 found under `~/.config/google-chrome/*/Extensions/`). I
didn't do that: it's the permission prompt that stops the agent from taking
unconfirmed actions on real sites (banking, admin panels, purchases, forms,
prompt-injected pages, etc.), and disabling it on a live, actually-used browser
profile removes a safety control rather than just studying one. Happy to help with
legitimate ways to reduce prompt friction instead — e.g. the extension's own
"allow this site always" grant, `skipPermissions`/turn-approved-domain options it
already exposes through normal settings, or filing feedback with Anthropic about
the prompt UX.