# Session Log — 2026-05-25 — BEAST: Discord bot real-Chrome web fetch + identity audit

## User
- **User:** Mike Swanson (mike)
- **Machine:** GURU-BEAST-ROG
- **Role:** admin
- **Session span:** 2026-05-22 (after the 12:48 PT save) → 2026-05-25, one continuous interactive
  coordinator session on BEAST. Namespaced because GURU-5070 already authored
  `session-logs/2026-05-25-session.md` today.

## Session Summary
Continued the BEAST Discord-bot work. After confirming the Claude-in-Chrome extension is installed
and bridged on BEAST, built the bot a real-Chrome web-fetch capability for bot-blocked sites, then
(today) answered a cross-machine identity-verification audit and reported back via the coord API.

The "is Claude in Chrome working on this unit?" question was answered by inspecting files/registry
only (no browser launch, per the unattended-host posture): the extension `Claude in Chrome (Beta)
v1.0.70` (`fcoeoabgfenejglbffodgkkbkcdhcgfn`) is installed and enabled, and the Anthropic native
messaging host (`com.anthropic.claude_browser_extension`, installed by the Claude desktop app under
`%APPDATA%\Claude\ChromeNativeHost\`) is registered with the extension whitelisted — so the agentic
bridge is fully wired.

Mike then directed: when the bot needs to search (e.g. estimates) and a site is bot-blocked, use
Chrome. The key constraint surfaced during build: the bot is a Claude Agent SDK session and cannot
drive the *agentic* Claude-in-Chrome extension (that's desktop-app/interactive). Its only
browser-capable path is its Bash tool. The simple `chrome --headless --dump-dom` is broken on Chrome
148 (returns empty), and no automation tooling was installed. Per Mike's choice, installed Playwright
into the bot venv and used `channel="chrome"` to drive the installed Chrome 148 headlessly (no
Chromium download). Wrote `projects/discord-bot/scripts/web-fetch-chrome.py` (JS rendering,
anti-automation flags, UA de-"Headless"-ed, isolated profile, bounded output), tested it on static +
JS-rendered + UA-check targets, wired it into `DISCORD_CLAUDE.md` as a WebFetch→real-Chrome fallback,
reconciled the headless rule (forbid *visible/interactive* browser windows; permit headless fetch),
and recorded the dependency in `requirements.txt`. The helper was later enhanced (another session)
with a `--zip` option that pre-sets the Amazon/Best Buy delivery ZIP (default 85715, Tucson).

A 2026-05-23 sync flagged repo cruft (garbled path-as-filename files and leaked `.claude/` temp
artifacts) that other machines' `git add -A` had committed; by 2026-05-25 those were resolved
upstream — `sync.sh` now carries a `purge_garbled_paths()` guard and the junk was cleaned.

Today (2026-05-25), a coord check-in from GURU-5070 asked every machine to verify its identity.
GURU-BEAST-ROG passed all four checks (identity.json correct, hostname match, git config matches
users.json, present in mike.known_machines). Replied to GURU-5070 via coord, and flagged that the
73 pulled commits carried two author names — "Mike Swanson" (61) and "Mike-Swanson" (12) — implying
another machine has a hyphenated `git config user.name`.

## Key Decisions
- **Bot uses headless Chrome via Playwright, not the agentic extension.** The Claude-in-Chrome
  extension is driven by the desktop app interactively; the SDK-agent bot can't invoke it. Headless
  Chrome via Bash achieves the same goal (get past bot blocks) and runs unattended.
- **Playwright with `channel="chrome"`, no `playwright install`.** Reuses the already-installed
  Chrome 148 — no ~hundreds-of-MB Chromium download, and tracks the system Chrome version.
- **Anti-detection touches in the helper:** strip `--enable-automation`/`AutomationControlled`,
  and rewrite the UA to drop "HeadlessChrome" (derived from the live UA so it survives Chrome
  upgrades) — because the use case is specifically bot-blocked sites.
- **Reconciled the headless rule rather than contradicting it:** forbid visible/interactive browser
  windows and OAuth sign-in (no one at the console); explicitly permit the headless fetch.
- **Namespaced today's session log** instead of appending to GURU-5070's 87 KB
  `2026-05-25-session.md` — avoids rebase conflicts on a concurrently-edited file.
- **Inspected Chrome status via files/registry only, never launched it** — BEAST is the unattended
  bot host (Chrome was already running under a human's session).

## Problems Encountered
- **`chrome --headless --dump-dom` broke on Chrome 148** — exit 0 but empty output (old headless mode
  gone). Resolved by using Playwright/CDP instead.
- **No browser-automation tooling installed** (no Playwright/Puppeteer/Selenium) — installed
  `playwright>=1.60.0` into the bot venv.
- **`HeadlessChrome` UA tell** — Playwright's default UA flagged the request as a bot. Resolved by
  rewriting the context UA to `Chrome/148...` (verified via httpbin).
- **Helper landed in a different commit than expected** — a background auto-sync swept the untracked
  `web-fetch-chrome.py` into `51d5556` (my own untracked-detection fix working), so my manual commit
  `ee86542` carried only the modified files. Net: all tracked + pushed.
- **Repo cruft from other machines (2026-05-23)** — garbled filenames + `.claude/` temp artifacts via
  `git add -A`. Not mine to delete; flagged. Resolved upstream by 2026-05-25 (`purge_garbled_paths()`).

## Configuration Changes
- `projects/discord-bot/scripts/web-fetch-chrome.py` — NEW. Headless real-Chrome fetcher via
  Playwright `channel="chrome"`; `--selector`/`--html`/`--max-chars`/`--wait-until`/`--settle-ms`/
  `--timeout-ms`/`--zip` options. (`--zip` added by a later session.)
- `projects/discord-bot/DISCORD_CLAUDE.md` — added "Web Research / Bot-Blocked Sites" section;
  refined the headless rule to permit headless fetching while forbidding visible/interactive browsers.
- `projects/discord-bot/requirements.txt` — added `playwright>=1.60.0` (note: no `playwright install`
  needed; uses system Chrome).
- `projects/discord-bot/.venv/` — `playwright` 1.60.0 installed (gitignored; recorded in requirements).
- No edits to `.claude/identity.json`, `users.json`, or `sync.sh` this session (the `users.json`
  fixes and `sync.sh` `purge_garbled_paths()` came from other machines).

## Credentials & Secrets
- None created or rotated. Discord bot token remains at vault `projects/discord-bot/bot-token.sops.yaml`
  field `credentials.bot_token` (value not reproduced). No vault paths decrypted this session.

## Infrastructure & Servers
- **Machine:** GURU-BEAST-ROG (BEAST), Windows 11. hostname == COMPUTERNAME == GURU-BEAST-ROG.
- **Chrome:** 148.0.7778.168 at `C:\Program Files\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe`.
- **Claude-in-Chrome extension:** `fcoeoabgfenejglbffodgkkbkcdhcgfn`, "Claude in Chrome (Beta)" v1.0.70,
  Default profile, web-store, enabled.
- **Native host:** `com.anthropic.claude_browser_extension` (HKCU) → manifest + `chrome-native-host.exe`
  under `C:\Users\guru\AppData\Roaming\Claude\ChromeNativeHost\` (installed by Claude desktop app).
- **Bot service:** `ClaudeToolsDiscordBot` (NSSM); model `claude-sonnet-4-6`; cwd `C:/Users/guru/ClaudeTools`;
  bot venv python `projects/discord-bot/.venv/Scripts/python.exe`.
- **Coord API:** `http://172.16.3.30:8001/api/coord`. Session id `GURU-BEAST-ROG/claude-main`.
- **mike.known_machines (as synced):** GURU-5070, Mikes-MacBook-Air, GURU-BEAST-ROG, GURU-KALI
  (DESKTOP-0O8A1RL retired/removed).

## Commands & Outputs
- Install: `projects/discord-bot/.venv/Scripts/python.exe -m pip install playwright` → 1.60.0.
- Fetch helper (as the bot runs it):
  `projects/discord-bot/.venv/Scripts/python.exe projects/discord-bot/scripts/web-fetch-chrome.py "<url>" [--selector <css>] [--html] [--max-chars N] [--zip 85715]`
  - Verified: static page, JS-rendered page (`quotes.toscrape.com/js`), UA = `Chrome/148.0.0.0`.
- `nssm restart ClaudeToolsDiscordBot` — used after each `DISCORD_CLAUDE.md` change; confirmed
  "[OK] Bot is ready and listening for mentions".
- Coord reply: `POST http://172.16.3.30:8001/api/coord/messages` → 201, id
  `ac1e3767-f085-4c83-8d74-fbd9cc821d63`; unread after = 0.

## Pending / Incomplete Tasks
- **Hyphenated git author** — some machine has `git config user.name = "Mike-Swanson"` (12 of 73
  pulled commits). Handed to GURU-5070's identity sweep via coord reply; not this machine.
- **`/sync` doc vs `sync.sh`** — doc still says "stage by name, never `git add -A`" while the script
  uses `git add -A` (now mitigated by `purge_garbled_paths()` but not eliminated). Left for decision.
- Bot's real-Chrome fetch is live but only lightly tested against true bot-blocked sites; Mike was
  testing it in Discord.

## Reference Information
- Commits: `ee86542` (real-Chrome fallback: rules + requirements), `51d5556` (helper, auto-synced).
- Helper: `projects/discord-bot/scripts/web-fetch-chrome.py`. Rules: `projects/discord-bot/DISCORD_CLAUDE.md`
  ("Web Research / Bot-Blocked Sites").
- Coord reply id: `ac1e3767-f085-4c83-8d74-fbd9cc821d63` (to GURU-5070/claude-main).
- Extension id `fcoeoabgfenejglbffodgkkbkcdhcgfn`; native host `com.anthropic.claude_browser_extension`.

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## Update: 13:17 PT — harden sync.sh purge_garbled_paths (locale fix)

During the prior save's sync, `purge_garbled_paths()` printed `grep: -P supports only unibyte and
UTF-8 locales` — its `grep -P` (PCRE) guard refuses to run on BEAST's Git Bash locale, so the
garbled-path protection was a silent no-op here.

**Fix:** switched the detector from PCRE (`grep -qaP`) to POSIX ERE (`grep -qaE`), which has no
such locale restriction, keeping `LC_ALL=C` for byte-wise matching and the **exact same byte set**
(control chars / `\` / `:` plus the MSYS2 PUA substitutes `0xEE 0x80-0xBF` and `0xEF 0x80-0xA3`).
Pattern built via `$'...'`. No behavior change other than that it now actually runs.

Verified on BEAST: `bash -n` clean; PUA-garbled name (U+F03A) detected; literal `:` detected;
normal repo paths not flagged; no `-P` locale error. Applies to all machines on next sync (sync.sh
is shared).

- File: `.claude/scripts/sync.sh` — `purge_garbled_paths()` grep line + comment.
