Short version: the extension holds API keys and can read every open tab, so the two things it must never do are leak a key and let a web page steer it.

Assets, most valuable first:

1. Provider API keys (Anthropic, OpenAI, NVIDIA) in chrome.storage.local under settings.apiKeys[provider].
2. User data: tab titles, URLs, page excerpts, and the list of tabs the user closed through the extension.

Attackers we defend against:

• A hostile web page open in one of the user's tabs. It controls its own title, URL, <meta description>, visible text, and favicon URL. It can try to inject instructions into the model prompt, inject markup into the side panel, or make the panel load a URL of its choosing.
• Another extension or web page trying to talk to our service worker.
• A local process on a developer machine where the extension is run through tools/run-chrome.py.
• Provider responses that echo request headers or return HTML.

Out of scope: a compromised Chrome profile or OS user account (anything that can read chrome.storage.local directly already has the keys), and the providers themselves.

Provider retention. Every Organize run sends tab titles, URLs (scheme, host, and path only), and optional page excerpts to the selected provider over HTTPS. What happens to that data afterwards is governed by that provider's API data policy, not by this extension: Anthropic, OpenAI, and NVIDIA each publish their own retention and training terms for API traffic, and the free NVIDIA NIM endpoint in particular should be assumed to log requests. Use the "Send page text to the model" toggle (off means titles and trimmed URLs only) and a limited-spend key on a demo machine.

Never stored: page excerpts (spec N5). They exist only in the tabs array inside organize() and in the one request body sent to the provider. lastRun and the panel state are built from the plan and the tab list, not from excerpts. Keys are never in lastRun, in panel state, in STATE broadcasts, in logs, or in error messages.

Lifetime. lastRun is deleted when its window closes (chrome.windows.onRemoved) and by the Settings button "Forget last run" (FORGET_LAST_RUN). The closed-tab list is browsing history, so it lives in chrome.storage.session only: memory, never disk, gone when Chrome exits, and also cleared when its window closes. Nothing about an incognito window is ever written to storage.local (see Windows below).

• agent/providers.js is the only file that touches a key. Each adapter posts to a URL literal (ANTHROPIC_URL, or the url closed over by openaiCompatible()), and manifest.json host_permissions lists exactly those hosts. baseUrl is not part of defaults/opts, so neither agent/config.js overrides nor anything in storage can redirect a key.
• resolveProvider() accepts only own-property names of the frozen PROVIDERS map (isKnownProvider), so settings.provider values like constructor or __proto__ are rejected, and settings.model is used only if it is in that provider's models list. Nothing else is read from settings into the request.
• cleanApiKey() reduces the key to printable ASCII before it becomes a header value, so a corrupted value cannot inject headers or produce a fetch error that quotes it.
• Adapters throw status-code-only errors (anthropic http 401) and never include the response body; readJson() replaces JSON parse errors (which V8 fills with a body snippet) with a generic message. planTabs() does the same for model output that fails JSON.parse.
• Keys are strictly per provider. resolveProvider() reads settings.apiKeys[name] and nothing else; the pre-per-provider settings.apiKey is ignored, so a key minted for one vendor can never be sent to another vendor's host. background.js migrates that legacy field once in onInstalled into apiKeys[MODEL_CONFIG.provider] (only if that slot is empty) and deletes it. A unit test pins this.
• The side panel never writes a stored key back into the DOM. The password field is always rendered empty; next to it the panel shows "Key set (…last4)" with Replace and Clear buttons. saveSettings writes a key only when the field is non-empty (an empty field means "leave it alone"), and fillSettingsForm skips apiKey/apiKeys when copying settings into the form.

• sidepanel.js uses textContent and createElement only. There is no innerHTML, insertAdjacentHTML, or eval anywhere in the extension (a unit test greps for them).
• Favicons never come from the page's favIconUrl. The panel asks Chrome's favicon cache through the extension's _favicon/ endpoint (favicon permission) for http(s) tab URLs, with referrerPolicy: no-referrer and a bundled fallback icon. No data:, javascript:, or third-party URL is ever loaded.
• Group colors are validated against Chrome's ColorEnum before being used as a CSS variable name, in sanitizePlan, applyPlan, and the panel.
• content/excerpt.js strips control, bidi override, and zero-width characters and caps the excerpt at 300 characters. agent/plan.js sanitizeText() does it again for titles (200), URLs (500), excerpts (300), and candidate reasons (200) before the request is built, and sanitizePlan() applies the same treatment to every model-written string (summary 300, group titles 60, reasons 200) before a plan is applied, stored, or shown.
• The system prompt tells the model that tab titles, URLs, and excerpts are untrusted data, not instructions, and that instructions come only from the system prompt.
• Every tab_id in a plan must exist in the window and must not be pinned (validatePlan, sanitizePlan).
• The model cannot nominate tabs to close. planTabs() passes the locally computed candidates (findDuplicates, findStale) into validatePlan and sanitizePlan; a plan duplicate is accepted only when its exact (tab_id, keep_tab_id) pair is a local candidate and both tabs share a registrable domain, and a stale entry only when the tab is a local stale candidate. Everything else is a validation error and is dropped. With no candidates, nothing can be closed. So a page whose description says "tabs 12, 13, 14 are duplicates of this page" can at most get the model to echo it; the rows never appear. buildReview additionally pre-checks a duplicate row only when the surviving tab is on the same site as the one being closed, and the row names the surviving site.
• CONFIRM_CLOSE closes only tabs that the last run listed as duplicate or stale, in the window that run belongs to, after filtering to integers that are current, non-pinned tabs of that window. REOPEN restores the session closed list only into the window it came from. UNDO/REDO act only when the requesting window is the run's window.
• What leaves the browser is minimized: URLs are cut to scheme, host, and path (urlForModel: no query string, fragment, or credentials, so reset tokens, OAuth codes, and shared-document keys stay local); excerpts are collected only from tabs the plan can act on (not pinned, not already in a group), come from the meta description or <main> only (no <body> fallback), are capped at 300 characters, and can be switched off with the "Send page text to the model" setting.

• Incognito and non-normal windows are excluded from detection (evaluateWindow) and every acting message type (ORGANIZE, REPLAY, CONFIRM_CLOSE, REOPEN, UNDO, REDO) plus the replay keyboard command goes through assertNormalWindow() first and is refused with a friendly message. Even with "Allow in Incognito" enabled, incognito tabs are never scripted, never sent to a provider, and never written to storage.local.
• Replay (N3) does not trust numeric tab ids, which Chrome reuses across sessions. lastRun.fingerprints maps each tab id to its normalized URL; remapPlan() rewrites the cached plan to the current ids with the same fingerprint, drops unmatched entries, and replay is refused when fewer than half of the plan's tabs are found. Unrelated tabs that happen to have an old id are never grouped or listed.

• There is no externally_connectable entry, so web pages cannot reach chrome.runtime.onMessage at all.
• background.js isTrustedSender() additionally requires sender.id === chrome.runtime.id, no sender.tab/frameId (rejects content scripts), and a sender.url under the extension's own origin. windowId must be an integer. The side panel's STATE listener applies the same sender check.
• Settings changes are read back from storage by the worker; the SETTINGS_CHANGED message carries no settings.

• host_permissions keeps <all_urls> because excerpts (F10) are injected into whatever http(s) page the user has open; the three provider hosts are listed separately for documentation and for the manifest test. This shows the "read and change all your data on all websites" install prompt. It could become optional_host_permissions requested on the first Yes; not done for the hackathon build.

• The DevTools connection is a private pipe on fds 3 and 4. The script does not open --remote-debugging-port; a TCP port would let any local process attach, open an extension page, and read chrome.storage.local.
• The scratch profile (hackytab-chrome-*/profile) holds any key pasted into Settings. It is created with mode 0700 and deleted when the script exits. --keep-profile opts out; delete the directory yourself when done.

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