Summary: this extension collects no personal data, contains no analytics or trackers, and sends nothing to any remote server. It is a local bridge that lets the user's own `chrome-use` command-line tool, running on the same computer, drive the user's logged-in Chrome.

## What the extension does

chrome-use pairs Chrome with the locally-installed `chrome-use` CLI over Chrome native messaging (a local inter-process channel; no network socket, no token). When the user issues an automation command in the CLI, the extension relays Chrome DevTools Protocol operations to the tab the user targets. Everything happens on the user's machine, initiated by the user.

## Data collection & use

Category | Collected? | Detail
--- | --- | ---
Personally identifiable information | No | Never read, stored, or transmitted.
Browsing history | No | Not collected. Page content is acted on transiently only while the user is running an automation command, and is never stored or sent off-device.
Authentication / cookies / credentials | No | Not read or exported by the extension.
Analytics / telemetry | No | The extension contains no analytics, tracking, or crash-reporting code.
Remote transmission | No | The extension's only message peer is the local `chrome-use` CLI via native messaging. It makes no outbound network requests of its own.

## Permissions & why they are needed

Permission | Purpose
--- | ---
debugger | Attach the Chrome DevTools Protocol to the user's own tab so the local CLI can automate it, only while the user is actively running a command.
tabs | Enumerate and target the correct open tab to automate.
nativeMessaging | The local transport to the paired `chrome-use` CLI — the extension's sole communication channel.
storage | Persist small local pairing/state values.
alarms | Keep the MV3 service worker alive during longer automation sessions.
webNavigation | Detect page loads so automation can wait for the right moment.

## Data sharing

None. No data is sold, shared, or transferred to third parties. There are no third parties — the extension talks only to a program the user installed on the same computer.

## Contact

Source code, issues, and contact: `https://github.com/leeguooooo/chrome-use`