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Brandon LiandClaude Opus 5.5 a0e7c5b7c2 Vest: relay the login's token, never one account's
The Vest app renews each trading account's own token through the same
POST /v3/auth/refresh as the login's (with that account's refresh token
in the body). The extension relayed those too, and the dashboard kept
whichever token lived longest — so while someone traded in an account on
Vest, Me synced with a token that sees that account alone and dropped
the other 24 from the list.

Extension 0.17.2 skips account renewals. The dashboard also refuses a
token that sees one account and no primary (or names that account in
its claims), keeps the last account list, and falls back to the login's
token it replaced. An account gone from Vest's list no longer leaves a
stale position holding the lane.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-10-26 19:32:40 -05:00

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# AutoFirmer Capture (Chromium extension)
Scrapes the firm tab you are looking at and posts its HTML back to the
dashboard. There is no on/off switch for that — see **Scope** below for what
limits it instead.
## Install (unpacked)
1. Start the dashboard (`npm run dev`) so `http://localhost:3000` is up.
2. Open `chrome://extensions`, enable **Developer mode** (top right).
3. **Load unpacked** → select this `extension/` folder.
4. Click the extension icon to open the popup and set:
- **Dashboard URL** — default `http://localhost:3000`. Use the VPS IP if the
dashboard runs elsewhere.
- **Poll interval** — seconds between status checks (default 3).
- **Element selector** — optional CSS selector; matching elements get their
on-screen position measured alongside the HTML.
The badge shows `!` (red) if the dashboard is unreachable, and nothing otherwise
— blank is the working state. Open the popup for what the last tick actually did.
## Flow
```
extension --GET /api/autobuyer/status--> { pendingLocate }
extension --POST /api/autobuyer/capture-> html + viewport + element rects
AutoBuyer page --GET /api/autobuyer/capture-> renders the HTML
```
Nothing in that loop is switchable. Every tick serves any queued clicks and then
captures the tab you are on.
## Scope
Capture has no switch, so scope is what keeps it honest. Three limits, all
enforced by Chrome rather than by this code:
1. **`host_permissions` is deliberately narrow** — the firm sites plus localhost
for the dashboard. The extension is *technically incapable* of reading any
other site, so an accidental capture of your bank or mail tab cannot happen
however the logic here is changed.
2. **Only the tab you are on.** `pickTab()` asks for the active tab of the
last-focused window *and* a host_permissions match. A firm tab sitting in the
background is not captured, and neither is anything else. Switch away and
capture simply stops until you switch back.
3. **One content script, same hosts.** `captcha-hook.js` runs at document_start
on the firm sites only. It wraps `turnstile.render` / `grecaptcha.render` /
`hcaptcha.render` and remembers what the page passed them — the sitekey, and
above all the callback a solved token has to be handed to, which a
programmatically rendered widget puts nowhere else. It reads nothing else and
sends nothing anywhere; the remembered arguments stay in the page's own world
until a `solveCaptcha` step comes to collect them.
To automate a different broker, add its pattern to `host_permissions` in
`manifest.json` and reload the extension — that alone scopes capture to it. Avoid
going back to `<all_urls>`: it would put every tab you visit in reach, and limit
1 is the only thing standing between this and scraping your whole browser. A new
firm needs its host in *both* lists — `host_permissions` and the `content_scripts`
matches — or captchas on that site will have no callback to fire.
## 2FA codes
On a firm site, the extension shows the machine's person's authenticator code
for that site in a small chip in the bottom-right corner, with a Copy button
(minimise it to a "2FA" pill; that sticks for the tab's session).
```
extension --GET /api/autobuyer/otp?host=<tab host>--> dashboard
dashboard --GET <master>/api/otp?person=<instance_id>&host=<tab host>--> master
```
The master holds the secrets and matches the host against each firm's **Site**
link (Firms page), then returns the codes assigned to this person and that firm
(Codes page). The chip only needs a code to be assigned — it doesn't wait for a
code field. It stays hidden for a minute after the runner last located
something, so automated clicks never land on it.
A new 2FA site needs its host in `host_permissions` (not the captcha
`content_scripts` list), a Site link on its firm on the master, and its codes
assigned on the master's Codes page.
## Vest session relay
Vest signs people in with Google (through Privy) in the browser and renews the
session with a device key the browser will not export, so the dashboard cannot
log in to Vest by itself. The extension relays the browser's session instead:
```
vest-relay.js (Vest tab, MAIN world) keeps the access token the Vest app last renewed
background.js relayVestSession lifts it every 10s, posts it when it changes (and every minute)
dashboard POST /api/vest/session holds it in memory for the firm's Vest client,
and binds an unset Vest firm to the login's wallet
```
- The hook only reads the Vest app's own `/v3/auth/refresh` and `/register`
answers. It renews nothing and sends nothing; the session stays the app's,
so the bot never logs the tab out.
- It takes the login's token only. The app renews each trading account's own
token through the same `/v3/auth/refresh` (with that account's refresh token
in the body), and one of those sees a single account. Before 0.17.2 the hook
relayed those too, and the dashboard dropped every other account; the
dashboard now refuses such a token and falls back to the login's.
- The token lives ~15 minutes and the app renews it by itself while the tab is
open. The tab is marked not auto-discardable, since a discarded tab stops
renewing.
- When the dashboard has a Vest firm (its credential is the login's wallet)
and no Vest tab is open, the extension opens one in the background. The app
signs back in from its 30-day session. After that the person signs in again
in that tab.
- This is the one place the extension reads a tab you are not looking at. It
only reads `next.vestmarkets.com` tabs, and only that one value.
## Notes
- The extension never captures the dashboard's own pages — otherwise it would
just mirror its own output back.
- `chrome://`, `about:` and Web Store pages cannot be scripted by any extension;
they're skipped.
- MV3 service workers are torn down when idle. Each poll makes an extension API
call, which keeps the worker alive; a 30-second alarm revives it if Chrome
kills it anyway. So worst-case cadence is 30s, normal cadence is the poll
interval.