NB - Native Browser Bridge

Promoted to public on 2026-09-23.

Promoted to public on 2026-09-22.

Promoted to public on 2026-09-21.

Promoted to public on 2026-09-20.

Promoted to public on 2026-09-09.

Promoted to public on 2026-09-04.

• harness: labeled select + segmented date widget (set_date's real target) (John Lauer)
• verb battery: fixture page + runner + battery-parity gate (John Lauer)
• dev skill: the uninstall cascade + the {hive,key} trap (John Lauer)
• 0.2.5: cascade uses ab's real {hive,key} registry args (a joined path silently no-ops) (John Lauer)

• page identity after publish (John Lauer)
• Publish 0.6.3 (John Lauer)
• 0.2.4: nbrowser_uninstall cascade hook (ab 2.0.35) + adom-bridge CLI name sweep (John Lauer)

• 0.2.3: Claude-for-Chrome detection in the degradation ladder (human fallback awareness, never drivable) (John Lauer)

• README: define nb and nbe + the layer 1/2 split in the first screen (John Lauer)
• README: 'Just say nb' sample-prompts section up top; last branding residues in docs (John Lauer)
• 0.6.2: registry manifest synced with identity-first tags (John Lauer)
• Publish 0.6.2 (John Lauer)
• tags: identity-first (nb, nbe, ab, bridge, adom-bridge, nb-bridge) matching the sibling bridges (John Lauer)
• making-the-hero: final v10 recipe, self-contained build script + assets, all of John's rules + traps (John Lauer)
• page identity after hero apply (John Lauer)
• Set hero: screenshots/hero.png (John Lauer)
• hero v10: family-matched (pup constants), real nb window + badged taskbar band, human-approved (John Lauer)
• hero build: badge icon fully inside the frame (John Lauer)
• hero build: raw window + real taskbar, Pup-height (John Lauer)
• dev skill: the nb hero full-import recipe + John's hero rules (John Lauer)
• hero build page (temporary, full-hero composition) (John Lauer)
• demo/nb.html: the nb wordmark page used in the hero vitrine (John Lauer)
• title: NB - Native Browser Bridge (matches the sibling bridge convention, promotes the nb shorthand) (John Lauer)
• Publish 0.6.1 (John Lauer)
• re-link hero + page identity after publish (John Lauer)
• Publish 0.6.0 (John Lauer)
• nb-bridge: slug rename to match the -bridge convention; HD/AD shorthand purge (ah/ab only) (John Lauer)

• Rename adom-native-browser -> nb-bridge (John Lauer)
• Set hero: screenshots/hero.png (John Lauer)
• hero v9: studio-generated, real Chrome vitrine, title 8.5 (John Lauer)
• hero: tighter one-line value prop so the title can go bigger (John Lauer)
• hero copy: value-prop tagline as brief, two-layer nb/nbe summary (John Lauer)
• 0.2.1: describe parity, the same 12 verbs were also undescribed; CI now gates all three verb lists (John Lauer)

• 0.5.1: discovery metadata in the pkg manifest, hero in files[], hero path canonicalised (John Lauer)
• Publish 0.5.1 (John Lauer)
• Publish 0.5.0 (John Lauer)
• nb 0.2.0: manifest parity (12 verbs ab could not see), nbe/ab naming cutover, adom-bridge 2.x pin (John Lauer)
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• Publish 0.4.17 (John Lauer)
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• Rename to Adom Native Browser: nb parent (layer 1 URL-opening), abe child (layer 2 extension) (John Lauer)
• Rename adom-browser-extension -> adom-native-browser (John Lauer)
• Publish 0.4.16 (John Lauer)
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• v0.1.11: badge temporarily disabled (icons stay native/clean) - AD composite is square+tiny; re-enable once it's a circle-cropped avatar + visible mark (John Lauer)

• v0.1.10: correlation - badge ONLY the window open_window created (new-hwnd diff; PWA-safe); remove profile-email re-correlation that hit the Gmail PWA. Bridge finds the avatar file + hands AD the path (overlay.avatar); AD stays generic (no folder reading) (John Lauer)

• v0.1.9: pass profileDir/userDataDir to desktop_taskbar so AD composites the Adom mark onto the Chrome/Edge profile avatar (no longer evicts the profile face) (John Lauer)

• v0.1.8: sweep orphaned 'Adom is driving' badges on bridge startup (in-memory idle timers are lost on restart, so a pre-restart badge would linger forever) (John Lauer)

• v0.1.7: nbrowser_activity - bounded (600 entries/1h) queryable who-drove-what-when trail + activeSessions summary (John Lauer)

• v0.1.6: badge tracks ACTIVE driving (lazy-correlate on drive verbs + idle-expiry), not ownership - fixes stale badge on an idle owned window (John Lauer)

• v0.1.5: profile-level badge correlation (profile email in OS title is stable while pages navigate) (John Lauer)

• v0.1.4: badge idle-expiry (auto-clears after 3min of no commands, re-applies on next drive verb) (John Lauer)

• v0.1.3/ext0.1.2: TITLE-based hwnd correlation (chrome.windows bounds are logical px, OS rects physical - broke badge on 150% scaled displays); title match is DPI-independent (John Lauer)

• v0.1.2/ext0.1.1: badge the correct-profile window via BOUNDS correlation (fixes badge landing on the wrong Chrome profile taskbar) + self-heal on list_windows/owned (John Lauer)

• Publish 0.4.1 (John Lauer)
• pkg 0.4.1: ship updated screenshot best-practices skill guidance (John Lauer)
• bridge 0.1.1: screenshot best-practice hints (page=nbrowser_screenshot, window+chrome+child-popups=desktop_screenshot_window parent/child hwnds, NEVER fullscreen) + open_window returns hwnd (John Lauer)

• Publish 0.4.0 (John Lauer)
• v0.1.0: #148 ownership guardrails (registration + spawn adoption + owned/cleanup/force_close + targeting guards) + foreground-justification + debugger-banner debounce + native JS dialog detection + hint/CI hardening (John Lauer)

• ext 0.0.23 / bridge 0.0.41: open_tab echoes the opened url (was empty -> looked like 'returned nothing'); enforceBackground no longer minimizes an already-foreground window on open_tab (John Lauer)

• Publish 0.3.25 (John Lauer)
• native-browser-safety: document code-enforced background/focus-steal auto-revert + userRequestedForeground gate (ext 0.0.22) (John Lauer)
• bridge 0.0.40 / ext 0.0.22: enforce background-by-default + focus-steal auto-revert + focus_violation telemetry; userRequestedForeground gate; loud anti-foreground hints (John Lauer)

• session-tracking fix: explicit sessionId resolves STRICTLY off the session->window map (never the active-tab heuristic that hard-blocked); gone windows -> marked closed; add nbrowser_resync_sessions (lightweight rebuild, no dev_reload) (John Lauer)

• v0.0.21: code-enforced ownership guard (no_target/not_owned) + teaching hints + coverage gate + profiles-first preflight in skills (John Lauer)
• bridge 0.0.38: on a VM (user on their laptop via RDP), RAISE the UAC immediately instead of waiting for a toast tap - the UAC shows in their RDP session; fixes 'never saw the UAC' (John Lauer)

• bridge 0.0.37: cross-AD notify - user UAC/notify toasts route to the user's laptop (target:all) instead of the local VM desktop; dev skill documents it + the winvm/RDP testing assumption (John Lauer)

• restore page.json (hero) after pkg publish (John Lauer)
• Publish 0.3.24 (John Lauer)
• Delete skills/driving-gusto/SKILL.md (John Lauer)
• remove driving-gusto from the public bridge (HR tool, off-domain; kept personal/local only); scrub Gusto refs from the driving-sites index (John Lauer)
• restore page.json (hero) (John Lauer)
• Publish 0.3.23 (John Lauer)
• Delete skills/cross-platform-dev/SKILL.md (John Lauer)
• move cross-platform-dev (a DEV/maintainer skill) out of the public pkg into dev-skills/ (was shipping to every user container) (John Lauer)
• Delete dev-skills/publishing-the-bridge.md (John Lauer)
• Delete dev-skills/developing-the-bridge.md (John Lauer)
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• Publish 0.3.22 (John Lauer)
• SDK correction: pkg declares dependencies:{adom/adom-desktop} + pkg is USER-skills-only; dev/publish skills stay in repo (removed user-invocable:false, not in files[]) (John Lauer)
• publish skill: document the Release-asset runtime flow (release create/upload, manifest->/download/, never /files blob) + skillpack deps:{} (John Lauer)
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• Publish 0.3.21 (John Lauer)
• skillpack deps -> {} (empty; validator requires the field, SDK requires no runtime deps) (John Lauer)
• skillpack package.json: remove dependencies block (SDK: skillpack pkg carries NO runtime deps) (John Lauer)
• Delete native-browser-bridge-v0.0.36.bin (John Lauer)
• manifest url -> Release download path (off /files blob, SDK two-artifact hygiene) (John Lauer)

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