chrome-ext-permissions

chrome-ext-permissions is a skill for Claude Code from RadOrigin-LLC/RAD-Claude-Skills. It costs 98 tokens per session (952 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A guide for choosing permissions in Chrome extensions. Chrome extension permissions control what an extension can access, such as the current browser tab or particular websites.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when editing a manifest, deciding between permissions such as activeTab and tabs, limiting website access, or checking an extension for over-permissioning.
Why use it?
It helps avoid requesting more access than the extension needs, which can cause frightening install warnings, Chrome Web Store rejection, or longer reviews.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the rad-chrome-extension plugin — 9 skills, 1 agent shipped together

Good fit Use it when editing a manifest, deciding between permissions such as activeTab and tabs, limiting website access, or checking an extension for over-permissioning.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/radorigin-llc/rad-claude-skills/chrome-ext-permissions
Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Any agent
npx skills add RadOrigin-LLC/RAD-Claude-Skills --skill chrome-ext-permissions
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/RadOrigin-LLC/RAD-Claude-Skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install rad-chrome-extension, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 9 skills, 1 agent.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

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README.md
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Your own site
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Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

agentmods 80×15 button for chrome-ext-permissions

Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 98 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 952 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00098 $0.00952
Opus 5 $0.00049 $0.00476
Sonnet 5 $0.00020 $0.00190
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00095

Measured 11d ago against content hash 58d5047eec6c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

chrome-ext-permissions scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 11d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

archive/plugins/rad-chrome-extension/skills/chrome-ext-permissions/SKILL.md · 109 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 109 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Chrome Extension Permissions

The principle of least privilege governs all permission decisions. Request only what the extension actively uses today — never future-proof permissions. Approximately 70% of submitted extensions over-request permissions. Over-permissioning triggers CWS rejections, alarming install warnings, and longer review cycles.

Permission Decision Rules

activeTab vs. tabs vs. host_permissions

Need Use Why
Temporary access after user click activeTab No install warning, minimal scope
Read URL/title of tabs without host access tabs Required for tab.url, tab.title, tab.favIconUrl
Persistent access to specific sites host_permissions: ["https://example.com/*"] Narrow host pattern
Access to all sites host_permissions: ["<all_urls>"] Last resort — triggers 3x rejection rate

activeTab grants temporary access to the currently focused tab only after the user explicitly invokes the extension. It requires no install warning. Always prefer it over broad alternatives.

Common Permission Misconceptions

Misconception Reality
"Need tabs to use chrome.tabs API" Most chrome.tabs methods work without the permission
"Need storage for localStorage" storage is only for chrome.storage API, not web storage
"Need cookies for document.cookie" cookies permission is only for chrome.cookies API
"Need <all_urls> to work on any site" activeTab + user action covers most use cases

Optional Permissions

Move non-core features to optional permissions. Request at runtime when the feature is activated:

// Request permission when user enables a feature
async function enableAdvancedFeature() {
  const granted = await chrome.permissions.request({
    permissions: ['bookmarks'],
    origins: ['https://api.example.com/*'],
  });

  if (granted) {
    // Permission granted — enable feature
  } else {
    // Permission denied — show explanation
  }
}

Read the full file on GitHub · 109 lines

Files

What ships with it

2 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 11d ago First seen · 109 lines · 98 tokens per session scan A 58d5047eec6c

Subscribe to this mod's changes

chrome-ext-permissions is a skill published in the GitHub repository RadOrigin-LLC/RAD-Claude-Skills (5 stars, last pushed 25d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 98 tokens to every session and 952 once invoked, about $0.0005 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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