Trigger folder access prompts in permission checks; add lead welcome

2026-10-22 08:01:59 -07:00
parent e1eeaad925
commit a3d1852f45
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@@ -120,7 +120,7 @@ byre never signs with a key on the machine it runs on: every git command it runs
 - **Orion.** Orion ignores key events that carry only a Unicode string, so typing posts each ASCII character as its key code. Some apps list `confirm` but ignore it, Orion's address bar among them; send Return instead. `do JavaScript` needs Orion's Develop → "Allow JavaScript from Apple Events".
 - **Chrome.** Chrome refuses remote debugging on its default profile, so byre's Chrome is its own profile (`~/Library/Application Support/byre/chrome`), a separate Chrome beside any the human runs, and it keeps its logins: the human signs in there once. Chrome comes from `brew install --cask google-chrome`; macOS's "downloaded from the Internet" prompt on its first launch must be answered Open (or `osascript -e 'tell application "System Events" to tell process "CoreServicesUIAgent" to click button "Open" of window 1'`), and until it is, Chrome cannot accept debugging commands.
 - **Chrome's trust boundary.** Use Chrome's loopback debugging port with byre's separate persistent profile and Chrome's default browser-origin checks; never add `--remote-allow-origins=*`. Other local OS accounts can reach that debugger and control its logged-in sessions. This is an accepted risk on the personal Macs byre runs on, as is access to the app's local preview forwards; do not add account-isolating brokers for these listeners. Chrome must be launched with `--remote-debugging-port=0` so it records its port and browser WebSocket path in the profile’s `DevToolsActivePort` file. After switching from the pipe or fixed-port transport, quit the old byre-profile Chrome once so the next tool call can start it with that discovery file. The saved profile and logins stay in place.
- **Permissions.** Agents' processes run as byre's descendants, so macOS privacy controls (TCC) hold byre responsible for them: the Screen Recording, Accessibility and Automation grants in System Settings → Privacy & Security are byre's, made by clicking at the Mac's screen, and each app scripted for the first time asks for its own Automation grant. Without Accessibility an untrusted process just sees no windows and no menu bar. Accessibility can list byre switched off; only its switch being on counts. TCC keys grants on the signing identifier and team, and every build is signed with Developer ID, so grants carry over from build to build. On a client Mac the grants belong to byre's app; `NSAppleEventsUsageDescription` in `mac/Info.plist` is what lets macOS ask for the Automation grant. `byre-hands check` prints the grants of the process that runs it; the Server and Settings tabs run it.
+- **Permissions.** Agents' processes run as byre's descendants, so macOS privacy controls (TCC) hold byre responsible for them: the Screen Recording, Accessibility and Automation grants in System Settings → Privacy & Security are byre's, made by clicking at the Mac's screen, and each app scripted for the first time asks for its own Automation grant. Without Accessibility an untrusted process just sees no windows and no menu bar. Accessibility can list byre switched off; only its switch being on counts. TCC keys grants on the signing identifier and team, and every build is signed with Developer ID, so grants carry over from build to build. On a client Mac the grants belong to byre's app; `NSAppleEventsUsageDescription` in `mac/Info.plist` is what lets macOS ask for the Automation grant. The Desktop, Documents, Downloads and iCloud Drive folders each ask for their own Files & Folders grant the first time a process byre is responsible for reads them. `byre-hands check` prints the grants of the process that runs it, listing each of those folders so their prompts come up during the check rather than mid-turn; the Server and Settings tabs run it.

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