fix: scope the nostr permission presets to what each one describes - #3600
fix: scope the nostr permission presets to what each one describes#3600reneaaron wants to merge 2 commits into
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Each Connect preset now grants a defined set of permissions, and the Connect screen lists them. - "Let's be reasonable" covers posting kinds: notes, reposts, reactions, zap requests, lists, long-form and app data. Events that change the account's profile, contacts or relay list, that speak privately as the user, or that authenticate the user to a relay or a website are confirmed individually. - Reading encrypted messages is not granted by any preset, including "I fully trust it". Each decryption is confirmed individually. - Each preset card lists what it signs automatically and what it always asks about, in place of the previous one-line summary. - A migration brings existing connections in line with what the presets now describe. Blocked entries are left in place, since those are denials rather than grants. It runs after the nip04/nip44 rename migrations, which normalise the method names it matches on. - The preset's permissions are awaited before enable() resolves. They were previously written by an un-awaited forEach, and by a Promise.all over a callback that returned nothing. The grants live in src/common/utils/nostrPresets.ts so the background script, the Connect screen and the migration share one definition. Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01RJHvoAUui3b1cBYr99MPfX
- Keep nostr/encrypt out of the revoked set. "I fully trust it" still grants it, so revoking it would prompt those users for a permission their chosen preset covers, and re-granting it through a bulk "don't ask again" would widen the grant rather than narrow it. - Say on the "I fully trust it" card that the site can send encrypted messages as the user. Encrypting is not signing, so "signs anything" did not cover it. - Drop the claim in the migration comment that the rows it removes came from the preset. A permission row records only its method, so a grant made through "don't ask again" is removed too. Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01RJHvoAUui3b1cBYr99MPfX
📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughNostr permission presets now use shared permission rules. The enable flow persists selected permissions, migrations revoke withdrawn permissions, and the UI displays localized grant and ask details. ChangesNostr permission presets
Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes Merge Risk: 🟠 High · up to The reasonable preset can still silently authorize badge-event signing that is not included in its stated scope, while the Connect screen does not fully describe the permissions it grants or prompts for. This can lead users to approve broader signing behavior than intended, so the runtime permissions and consent text should be aligned before merging. Suggested reviewers: Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant EnableHandler
participant NostrPresets
participant PermissionStore
EnableHandler->>NostrPresets: Read preset permission rules
EnableHandler->>PermissionStore: Persist selected permissions
PermissionStore-->>EnableHandler: Confirm persistence
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In `@src/common/utils/nostrPresets.ts`:
- Around line 19-20: Remove EventKind.ProfileBadge and EventKind.CreateBadge
from the reasonable preset, and update its test to assert the required
permission set independently rather than relying on the shared constant.
In `@src/i18n/locales/en/translation.json`:
- Around line 571-584: The reasonable preset’s grants description is incomplete.
Update the reasonable preset entries to mention auto-approved reposts, long-form
content, and app data, and add an explicit ask entry for encrypted-message
sending; use the existing grant/ask structure and symbols in the surrounding
preset definitions.
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🔒 Security & Privacy | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win
Remove badge event kinds from the reasonable preset.
The stated reasonable preset does not include EventKind.ProfileBadge or EventKind.CreateBadge. The enable flow converts both entries into auto-approved nostr/signMessage/<kind> permissions in src/extension/background-script/actions/nostr/enable.ts Lines 107-109. A connected site can then sign these event kinds without confirmation.
Remove these entries, or add them explicitly to the preset requirements and displayed permission details. Update the test to assert the required permission set independently of this shared constant.
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In `@src/common/utils/nostrPresets.ts` around lines 19 - 20, Remove
EventKind.ProfileBadge and EventKind.CreateBadge from the reasonable preset, and
update its test to assert the required permission set independently rather than
relying on the shared constant.
| "reasonable": { | ||
| "title": "Let's be reasonable", | ||
| "description": "Auto-approve most common requests" | ||
| "description": "Auto-approve posting and zapping", | ||
| "grants": { | ||
| "posts_and_zaps": "Signs notes, reactions, zaps and lists" | ||
| } | ||
| }, | ||
| "paranoid": { | ||
| "title": "I'm a bit paranoid", | ||
| "description": "Do not sign anything without asking me!" | ||
| "description": "Ask me about every single request" | ||
| }, | ||
| "always_asks": { | ||
| "identity": "Always asks about your profile, contacts, relays and logins", | ||
| "read_messages": "Always asks before reading your encrypted messages" |
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🔒 Security & Privacy | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win
Make the reasonable preset details complete.
The runtime preset also auto-approves reposts, long-form content, and app data. It does not auto-approve encrypted-message sending, so that request still needs confirmation. The current text lists only notes, reactions, zaps, and lists, and lists no ask for encrypted-message sending.
Add the missing grant and ask entries, or state clearly that these are examples. The current consent text can give users an incorrect view of the permissions they are accepting.
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In `@src/i18n/locales/en/translation.json` around lines 571 - 584, The reasonable
preset’s grants description is incomplete. Update the reasonable preset entries
to mention auto-approved reposts, long-form content, and app data, and add an
explicit ask entry for encrypted-message sending; use the existing grant/ask
structure and symbols in the surrounding preset definitions.
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Describe the changes you have made in this PR
Each Connect preset now grants a defined set of permissions, and the Connect screen lists them. Previously the three presets were described only as "Auto-sign all requests (except payments)" / "Auto-approve most common requests" / "Do not sign anything without asking me!", and "most common requests" covered rather more than the phrase suggests.
What each preset grants now
The lists live in
src/common/utils/nostrPresets.tsso the background script, the Connect screen and the migration share one definition.Also in here
enable()resolves. They were written by an un-awaitedforEach(async …), and by aPromise.allover a callback that returned nothing — soenable()could resolve before any of them were persisted.Behaviour changes worth noting
Users will be prompted again for things that used to be silent. Anyone who connected a site before this change loses the withdrawn grants on upgrade and is asked the next time that site needs one.
The revoke is unconditional. A permission row records only its method, not which preset or prompt created it. A grant the user made deliberately through "don't ask again" for one of these methods is removed along with the preset's.
nostr/encryptis deliberately not in that set, because "I fully trust it" still grants it.Relay and website login prompts may be noisy. NIP-42 relay auth (kind 22242) and NIP-98 HTTP auth (kind 27235) now confirm individually, and
openPromptopens one window per request with no queueing. A client that authenticates to a dozen relays on load will stack a dozen prompts, and again on every reconnect. I have kept them out of the preset because both authenticate as the user, but if that proves too noisy the alternatives are to put 22242 back in the preset or to give it its own opt-in line on the Connect screen — happy to do either.Not addressed here: the
DONT_ASK_ANYbranch insignEventOrPrompt,signSchnorrOrPrompt,encryptOrPrompt,decryptOrPromptandgetPublicKeyOrPromptstill grants every method in bulk, includingnostr/decrypt, and still does so with the same un-awaitedforEach(async …). That path is being handled separately; left alone here to avoid conflicting with it.Screenshots
Tests
src/extension/background-script/actions/nostr/__tests__/enable.test.ts— what each preset grants and does not grant, and that the grants are persisted beforeenable()resolvessrc/extension/background-script/migrations/__tests__/revokeWithdrawnNostrPresetPermissions.test.ts— what the migration removes and keeps, that it leaves blocked entries alone, and that it runs after the rename migrationsAlso exercised by hand in a Chromium profile against a production build: the reasonable preset still signs notes, reposts, reactions, zap requests and long-form with no prompt, so posting and zapping are unaffected.
yarn lint,yarn tsc:compileandyarn test:unitpass (77 suites, 179 passed, 2 pre-existing skips).Non-English
descriptionstrings for the three presets are reset, since the English copy changed.Summary by CodeRabbit
New Features
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Localization
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