Excessive Permission Requests

[ericandrewschmidt]

Why is NeuroSkill asking for permissions to control Chrome and VS Code?

[eugenehp]

Hey Eric,

Currently it's two fold:

• AppleScript automation prompt — src-tauri/src/settings_cmds/mod.rs:282 probes the permission with osascript. The daemon then polls the frontmost window every ~2 seconds via tell application "System Events" (crates/skill-daemon/src/activity.rs:122).
• Chrome (and other browsers) — to extract the page title from the active tab so it can label sessions like "GitHub PR in Chrome" (activity.rs:1577, extract_browser_title).
• VS Code — to capture the focused file/window title so brain-state samples can be tied to the file you were editing. VS Code shows up because it's a frontmost app whose window title the tracker reads; for a few scriptable apps (Xcode, Finder, Pages, etc., listed at activity.rs:143) it also tries to fetch the document path.

[eugenehp]

So all of it goes to build the activity of time spent per window and show you nice Search where you can match the brain state and windows where you spent most time.

This is default opt in right now, we should probably explain it a bit better in the settings.

[eugenehp]

added to roadmap to change to default opt out and offer opt in on demand.

[eugenehp]

preview from the next build's onboarding.

[eugenehp]

tracking in #57