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From: golem <golem@zavage.net>
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 2026 20:35:25 -0600
Subject: [PATCH] doc: add extension options panel design spec

Design for an options panel reachable from about:addons, configuring a
context-menu entry on selected text and an Alt+Shift+G shortcut. Adds
storage and menus permissions only, both in Firefox's no-prompt class, so
the install dialog gains no lines and data_collection_permissions stays
"none". The gpt <query> search provider is deliberately untouched.

Technical claims were verified rather than assumed: MV2 background
type:"module" works from Firefox 112 (tested in 153.0.1), so no background
HTML shim is needed; package.json needs "type":"module" or node --test
fails on Node 22.0-22.6; the ChatGPT model/hints/temporary-chat params are
undocumented and unreliable, so every label is written at hint strength.
q= no longer auto-submits, only prefills.

Also excludes docs/ and test/ from the packaged ZIP. Verified: without
this the spec doc itself shipped inside the extension, and a bare glob
alone leaves empty directory entries behind.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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+# Extension Options Panel — Design
+
+- **Date:** 2026-07-29
+- **Status:** Approved for planning
+- **Branch:** `feat/extension-options-panel` (cut from `develop` @ `5edb288`)
+
+## Summary
+
+Add an options panel to the extension, reachable from `about:addons` → the
+extension's detail card → the **Options** tab (Windows) / **Preferences** tab
+(macOS, Linux). The panel configures two new entry points that this change also
+introduces: a context-menu item on selected text, and a keyboard shortcut that
+opens a fresh ChatGPT chat.
+
+The existing `gpt <query>` address-bar search provider is **not** modified and
+does not read the settings. See [Why the search provider is untouched](#why-the-search-provider-is-untouched).
+
+New permissions: `storage` and `menus`. Both are in Firefox's no-prompt class,
+so the install dialog gains no new lines and `data_collection_permissions:
+["none"]` remains truthful.
+
+## Goals
+
+1. Ship a working options panel embedded in `about:addons`.
+2. Ship two new entry points whose behaviour the panel controls.
+3. Add no permission-warning lines to the install prompt.
+4. Keep `data_collection_permissions: ["none"]` accurate.
+5. Introduce unit testing for the pure logic, without new runtime dependencies.
+6. Never promise behaviour that ChatGPT does not reliably deliver.
+
+## Non-goals
+
+- Making the `gpt <query>` search provider configurable. Out of scope by
+  decision; it requires either host permissions on `chatgpt.com` or a
+  navigation-interception mechanism, both of which conflict with goals 3 and 4.
+- A toolbar button.
+- Named/multiple prompt templates with add-remove-reorder UI. One template only.
+- Reading the page selection from the keyboard shortcut. That requires
+  `activeTab` + `tabs.executeScript`; deliberately excluded (see
+  [Rejected alternatives](#rejected-alternatives)).
+- Migrating to Manifest V3.
+- Chrome or other-browser packaging (`AGENTS.md` browser scope).
+- User-facing error notifications. The `notifications` permission *does*
+  generate an install warning, so every failure path degrades silently instead.
+
+## Background and constraints
+
+The extension is currently manifest-only: no JavaScript exists, and the
+manifest declares no `background`, `content_scripts`, or
+`web_accessible_resources` key. Its single feature is
+`chrome_settings_overrides.search_provider` with
+`search_url: "https://chatgpt.com?q={searchTerms}"`.
+
+### Why the search provider is untouched
+
+`chrome_settings_overrides.search_provider` is declarative and fixed at install
+time. No WebExtension API can rewrite an installed engine's URL. Making
+`gpt <query>` honour the settings would require intercepting the navigation it
+starts, which needs host access to `chatgpt.com` plus `webRequest` or `tabs` —
+all of which add install-prompt lines. Rejected in favour of goals 3 and 4.
+
+`is_default` stays `false`. Setting it to `true` triggers a second, separate
+consent doorhanger (`webext-default-search-description`) outside any permission
+list, plus an allowlist requirement.
+
+### ChatGPT URL parameters are undocumented
+
+None of `q`, `model`, `hints`, or `temporary-chat` is documented by OpenAI.
+There is no contract and no support channel. The design is therefore resilient
+by construction: the URL is built from a template with no runtime dependency on
+any parameter being honoured, each parameter is independently removable so a
+user can bisect when ChatGPT ignores one, and all user-facing copy is written at
+hint strength. See [Appendix A](#appendix-a-verification-findings) for the
+evidence behind each parameter's confidence rating.
+
+The one parameter with quasi-official standing is `q`, because OpenAI's own
+"ChatGPT search" browser extension uses `https://chatgpt.com/?q=`. Build on it;
+treat everything else as best-effort.
+
+**`q` prefills but does not submit.** Auto-submit was real historically but has
+been prefill-only since approximately November 2025, after OpenAI gated it on
+the `Sec-Fetch-Site` header as a prompt-injection mitigation. No copy in the
+options panel, README, or AMO listing may say the query is *searched*, *sent*,
+or *asked* — only that ChatGPT opens **with the query filled in**.
+
+## Architecture
+
+Manifest stays **V2**. Mozilla has not announced any MV2 deprecation and
+commits to at least 12 months' notice. The repo is MV2 today and has no Chrome
+target, so migration is an orthogonal change. The code is nonetheless kept
+MV3-portable: ES-module background, `persistent: false`, no `browser_style: true`.
+
+ES modules work in an MV2 background script via
+`"background": {"scripts": [...], "type": "module"}`, supported since Firefox
+112 and verified empirically in Firefox 153.0.1. No background HTML shim is
+needed. The options page is a normal extension page and can use
+`<script type="module">` in both the embedded and standalone surfaces.
+
+`strict_min_version` becomes `"112.0"` — the binding floor, above
+`storage.sync` quota enforcement (79), `menus` (55), `options_ui` (55), and
+`commands` (48).
+
+### File layout
+
+```
+manifest.json
+background/
+  background.js        # registers menu + command, handles clicks. Imports lib/.
+lib/
+  defaults.js          # DEFAULT_SETTINGS — single source of truth
+  build-url.js         # PURE: (settings, rawQuery) -> url string
+  settings.js          # mergeSettings() pure; load()/save() wrap browser.storage
+                       #   load()  -> storage.sync.get() piped through mergeSettings()
+                       #   save()  -> storage.sync.set(), debounced by the caller
+options/
+  options.html
+  options.css
+  options.js
+test/
+  build-url.test.js
+  settings.test.js
+docs/superpowers/specs/
+  2026-07-29-extension-options-design.md
+```
+
+`lib/build-url.js` and `lib/defaults.js` have zero browser dependencies, so
+`node:test` imports them directly with no stubbing. `lib/settings.js` separates
+the pure `mergeSettings()` from the `browser.storage` I/O for the same reason;
+only `mergeSettings()` is unit-tested.
+
+`lib/` ships inside the ZIP because the background script imports it at runtime.
+`test/` and `docs/` must not ship — see [Packaging](#packaging).
+
+### Manifest additions
+
+```json
+"permissions": ["storage", "menus"],
+"background": {
+  "scripts": ["background/background.js"],
+  "type": "module",
+  "persistent": false
+},
+"options_ui": {
+  "page": "options/options.html",
+  "open_in_tab": false,
+  "browser_style": false
+},
+"commands": {
+  "new-chat": {
+    "suggested_key": { "default": "Alt+Shift+G" },
+    "description": "Open a new ChatGPT chat"
+  }
+}
+```
+
+`browser_specific_settings.gecko` gains `"strict_min_version": "112.0"`. The
+existing `id` and `data_collection_permissions` are unchanged.
+
+`browser_style: false` is set **explicitly**. Omitting it is not equivalent — it
+defaults to `true` in MV2. Setting it false means the panel renders identically
+if the extension ever moves to MV3, where `browser_style: true` is unsupported.
+
+`menus` is the canonical Firefox permission name; `contextMenus` is a
+cross-browser alias. Use `menus` and access the API as `browser.menus`.
+
+`Alt+Shift+G` is deliberate. `Ctrl+Shift+G` is Firefox's Find Previous — it
+would validate, display in `about:addons`, and never fire.
+
+## Settings
+
+Stored as individual keys in `browser.storage.sync`.
+
+| Key | Type | Default | Maps to |
+|---|---|---|---|
+| `model` | string | `""` | `model=<value>`, omitted when empty |
+| `temporaryChat` | boolean | `false` | `temporary-chat=true` when set |
+| `webSearch` | boolean | `false` | `hints=search` when set |
+| `openIn` | `"new-tab"` \| `"background-tab"` \| `"new-window"` | `"new-tab"` | tab/window creation |
+| `promptTemplate` | string | `"{query}"` | wraps the selection |
+
+Defaults reproduce today's behaviour exactly: an empty `model` and both
+toggles off mean the only parameter sent is `q`.
+
+### Model
+
+A **free-text field**, not a dropdown. No authoritative slug list exists and
+every published one has rotted (`gpt-4` → `o1-preview` → `gpt-4o` →
+`gpt-5-thinking` → `auto`/`instant`/`thinking`). A curated dropdown would be
+wrong within a quarter, and each stale entry fails *silently* to the account
+default.
+
+- Label: **Model (experimental)**
+- Placeholder: `auto`
+- Help text: "ChatGPT may ignore this and use your account default. Leave blank
+  to always use your account default."
+- Default is empty, not `auto`, so the default configuration sends no `model`
+  parameter and matches current behaviour.
+
+### Temporary chat
+
+- Label: **Request a temporary chat**
+- Help text: "ChatGPT may not honour this. Check ChatGPT's own indicator before
+  sending anything sensitive."
+- Default **off**.
+- The words *private*, *incognito*, and *secure* must not appear near this
+  setting. Reports indicate chats can revert to permanent after the first
+  message, and OpenAI is actively reworking the feature's semantics.
+
+### Web search
+
+- Label: **Ask ChatGPT to use web search (hint only)**
+- Help text: "A hint to ChatGPT's interface, not a guarantee."
+- Default **off**. The value is hard-coded to `search`; no mode dropdown.
+
+### Open in
+
+- Label: **Open in**
+- Options: `A new tab` / `A new background tab` / `A new window`
+- Default `A new tab`.
+
+### Prompt template
+
+- Label: **Prompt template**
+- Default `{query}`
+- Help text: "`{query}` is replaced with your selected text."
+
+### Panel behaviour
+
+Auto-save on change with a transient "Saved" indicator; no Save button. Writes
+are debounced at 400 ms so typing in a text field cannot approach any
+write-rate quota.
+
+A **Restore defaults** button resets every key to `DEFAULT_SETTINGS`.
+
+The panel subscribes to `browser.storage.sync.onChanged` and updates its
+controls live, so a remote sync landing while the panel is open does not get
+clobbered by stale field values.
+
+The embedded surface inside `about:addons` is narrow and inherits that page's
+layout. The panel must therefore be responsive down to roughly 400 px, must not
+depend on window sizing, and must remain usable as a standalone page — the
+`extensions.htmlaboutaddons.inline-options.enabled` pref can degrade it to a
+tab. Because `browser_style` is off, the panel is hand-styled and **must
+support dark theme via `prefers-color-scheme`**; `about:addons` follows the
+system theme.
+
+## URL construction
+
+`buildChatGptUrl(settings, rawQuery) -> string` in `lib/build-url.js`. Pure.
+
+```
+BASE           = "https://chatgpt.com/"
+MAX_URL_CHARS  = 8000
+```
+
+The root path is mandatory. `chatgpt.com/search?q=` began returning 404 in
+mid-2025; the root form is what OpenAI's own extension uses.
+
+### Algorithm
+
+1. **Build the prompt.** Let `q = String(rawQuery ?? "").trim()`.
+   - If `q === ""` → `prompt = ""` (the template is ignored entirely).
+   - Else if the template contains `{query}` → replace **every** occurrence
+     (`replaceAll`).
+   - Else if the trimmed template is empty → `prompt = q`.
+   - Else → `prompt = trimmedTemplate + " " + q` (template treated as a prefix;
+     the selection is never silently discarded).
+
+2. **Measure the non-`q` budget.** Build a `URL` from `BASE`, append `model`,
+   `temporary-chat`, and `hints` per the rules below, and record
+   `baseLength = url.href.length`.
+
+3. **Fit the prompt.** If `prompt !== ""`, find the largest number of *code
+   points* of `prompt` (via binary search over `Array.from(prompt)`, so
+   surrogate pairs are never split) whose resulting full URL length is
+   `<= MAX_URL_CHARS`. Truncation operates on the decoded string and encoding
+   happens afterwards, so a percent-escape can never be severed. If the kept
+   text contains whitespace within its final 10%, cut at the last such
+   whitespace instead, for a cleaner break.
+
+4. **Assemble in final order.** Build a fresh `URL` and set parameters in this
+   order, matching the most-cited working examples: `q` (if non-empty), then
+   `model`, `temporary-chat`, `hints`.
+
+   Measuring in step 2 without `q` and assembling with `q` first is safe: total
+   serialized length is independent of parameter order, since reordering only
+   swaps which separator is `?` and which are `&`, never how many there are.
+
+5. Return `url.href`.
+
+### Parameter rules
+
+- `q` — set only when the fitted prompt is non-empty. Never emit `q=` with an
+  empty value.
+- `model` — set to `settings.model.trim()` only when that is non-empty.
+- `temporary-chat` — set to the string `"true"` only when `temporaryChat` is true.
+- `hints` — set to the string `"search"` only when `webSearch` is true.
+
+`q` is the parameter to send. ChatGPT canonicalises it to `prompt=` internally;
+`prompt=` is the first fallback to try should `q` ever stop working. Never send
+both.
+
+## Data flow
+
+1. **Trigger.** `browser.menus.onClicked` supplies `info.selectionText`, or
+   `browser.commands.onCommand` supplies no query.
+2. `settings = await load()` — `load()` already pipes the raw
+   `storage.sync.get()` result through `mergeSettings()`, so callers always
+   receive a complete, validated settings object and never need to merge again.
+3. `url = buildChatGptUrl(settings, query)`.
+4. Open per `settings.openIn`:
+   - `new-tab` → `browser.tabs.create({ url, active: true })`
+   - `background-tab` → `browser.tabs.create({ url, active: false })`
+   - `new-window` → `browser.windows.create({ url })`
+
+`tabs.create` and `windows.create` require no permissions. The created `Tab`
+object's `url`/`title` must not be read — that *would* require the `tabs`
+permission, which carries an install warning.
+
+The menu item is registered with `contexts: ["selection"]`, so Firefox shows it
+only when text is selected.
+
+## Error handling
+
+Every path resolves to something useful. No path shows an error to the user.
+
+| Case | Behaviour |
+|---|---|
+| Selection empty or whitespace | Omit `q` entirely; open a blank chat with the other settings applied. |
+| Prompt exceeds the URL budget | Truncate per step 3 above. Never sever a percent-escape or split a surrogate pair. |
+| `storage.sync` rejects (quota, or a sanitized backend error) | `try`/`catch` → fall back to `DEFAULT_SETTINGS`. Never block opening ChatGPT. Do not branch on error type: Firefox sanitizes all non-quota backend errors to `"An unexpected error occurred"`. |
+| Fresh or signed-out profile returns `{}` | `mergeSettings` layers stored values over `DEFAULT_SETTINGS`, so `{}` yields defaults. |
+| Template lacks `{query}` | Treat as a prefix and append. |
+| Template has several `{query}` | Replace all occurrences. |
+| `model` blank or whitespace | Omit the parameter. |
+| Stored settings corrupt or partial | `mergeSettings` drops unknown keys and falls back to default on wrong type or out-of-range enum. |
+| Background event page wakes and re-registers | `menus.removeAll()` before `menus.create()`, so re-registration is idempotent. |
+| `windows.create` fails | Fall back to `tabs.create`. |
+| `browser.commands` undefined | Guard before subscribing. The API does not exist on Firefox for Android. |
+
+`storage.sync` needs no capability probe: it works with no Mozilla account,
+silently behaving as local storage, and syncs later if the user signs in and has
+Add-ons sync enabled. The `gecko.id` (already present) is required and **must
+never change** — synced data is keyed by extension ID.
+
+## Testing
+
+### Unit — `node --test`
+
+`test/build-url.test.js`:
+- Defaults + a simple query → exactly `https://chatgpt.com/?q=hello`
+- Each parameter appears only when its setting is enabled
+- All four URL-affecting settings together (`model`, `temporaryChat`,
+  `webSearch`, `promptTemplate`), with parameters in the specified order.
+  `openIn` never influences the URL and must not appear in these assertions.
+- Encoding of `&`, `#`, `?`, `=`, `+`, spaces, newlines, emoji, CJK
+- `{query}` substitution: present, absent (prefix fallback), multiple occurrences,
+  empty template
+- Empty / whitespace-only query → no `q` parameter at all
+- Truncation: result `<= MAX_URL_CHARS`; no severed percent-escape; no split
+  surrogate pair (assert with an emoji at the boundary); whitespace-boundary
+  preference
+- `model` empty and whitespace-only → no `model` key
+
+`test/settings.test.js` — `mergeSettings` with: `{}`, `null`, `undefined`,
+missing keys, unknown keys, wrong types, out-of-range `openIn` value.
+
+### Manual
+
+Retain the three existing regression checks from `AGENTS.md`: `gpt <query>`
+opens ChatGPT, the provider stays non-default, and it remains configurable in
+Firefox search settings.
+
+Add:
+- The Options/Preferences tab appears on the extension's detail card in
+  `about:addons`, and all five settings controls plus **Restore defaults**
+  render correctly — **in both light and dark theme**, and at a narrow width
+- The page is also usable standalone via `browser.runtime.openOptionsPage()`
+- Settings persist across a browser restart
+- The context-menu item appears only when text is selected, and is absent otherwise
+- `Alt+Shift+G` opens a new chat, appears under `about:addons` → gear → Manage
+  Extension Shortcuts, and can be rebound
+- Each of the three `openIn` values behaves correctly
+- **A packaged build's install prompt gains no new lines.** This cannot be
+  checked with `npm run dev` — install prompts are suppressed for temporary
+  installs. Use a packaged build.
+- `unzip -l web-ext-artifacts/*.zip` shows no `test/` or `docs/` entries, not
+  even empty directory entries
+
+### Parameter reality check
+
+One pass in a real, logged-in Firefox profile to record which parameters are
+actually honoured on this extension's navigation path: does `q` prefill only or
+also submit; is `model` respected alongside `q`; does `temporary-chat` produce a
+temporary chat and does it survive the first message; does `hints=search` engage
+web search.
+
+No further desk research substitutes for this. **The outcome adjusts the help
+text, not the architecture** — every label is already written at hint strength,
+so a negative result requires no redesign.
+
+## Packaging
+
+`web-ext-config.mjs` — add to `ignoreFiles`:
+
+```js
+"docs", "docs/**", "test", "test/**",
+```
+
+Both forms per directory are required. A glob alone removes the files but leaves
+an **empty directory entry** in the ZIP; web-ext's own code pairs the bare name
+with the glob for exactly this reason.
+
+`.gitea/` and `.agents/` need **no** entries — web-ext ignores all dotfiles and
+dot-directories by default. `web-ext-artifacts/**` is likewise already redundant;
+it stays as-is to keep this diff focused.
+
+`web-ext lint` scans `lib/` and `test/` with the **same** file filter as
+`build`. With `lint.warningsAsErrors: true`, one addons-linter warning in a test
+file is a hard CI failure. Adding `test/` to `ignoreFiles` fixes linting and
+packaging together — it is one lever, not two.
+
+`web-ext-config.mjs` must keep its `.mjs` extension. web-ext rejects a `.js`
+config file outright.
+
+## Tooling
+
+`package.json`:
+
+```jsonc
+"type": "module",                 // NEW — required, see below
+"scripts": {
+  "test:unit": "node --test",     // NEW
+  "test": "npm run lint && npm run test:unit && npm run build"
+}
+```
+
+`"type": "module"` is **required**, not stylistic. Without it, `node --test`
+importing an ES-module `lib/*.js` relies on Node's module-syntax detection,
+which:
+
+- emits a permanent `MODULE_TYPELESS_PACKAGE_JSON` warning on every run, and
+- **fails outright on Node 22.0–22.6**, since detection only became default in
+  22.7. `engines.node` says `>=22` and CI pins the bare major `"22"`, leaving
+  the patch to runner resolution — so without this field the project declares
+  support for a range in which its own suite does not run.
+
+Using `.mjs` for test files only does **not** fix this; the typeless
+`lib/*.js` is the ambiguous file. Adding `"type": "module"` was verified not to
+break `web-ext lint` or `web-ext build` on web-ext 10.5.0, which never consults
+the consumer package's `type` field.
+
+Ordering is lint → unit → build, so unit failures prevent a ZIP from being
+produced. The existing `.gitea` workflow calls `npm test` and needs no edit.
+
+`node --test` **exits 0 when it discovers zero test files.** CI would go green
+on a misconfigured path, so acceptance must assert a non-zero test count, not
+merely a zero exit code.
+
+Note for implementers: local Node here is v26.5.0 while CI pins 22. Local green
+does not imply CI green.
+
+## Documentation changes
+
+- **README** — an Options section listing the five settings and how to reach the
+  panel (referring to "Options (Windows) / Preferences (macOS, Linux)", since
+  Firefox's label is platform-dependent). Privacy section amended: settings are
+  stored in the user's own browser profile and, only if that user has Firefox
+  Sync with Add-ons enabled, synced end-to-end encrypted through their own
+  Mozilla account. Do **not** write "never leaves your device" unconditionally.
+  Nothing reaches Zavage Software, so the zero-data-collection claim stands.
+- **AGENTS.md** — update Project Structure for the new directories, Build/Test
+  commands for `test:unit`, and the Testing Guidelines manual checklist.
+- **CHANGELOG.md** — entry for the release.
+- **Version** — `manifest.json` `1.0` → `1.1`; `package.json` `1.0.0` → `1.1.0`.
+
+## Rejected alternatives
+
+| Alternative | Why rejected |
+|---|---|
+| Rewrite the `gpt` keyword's navigation to honour settings | Needs host access to `chatgpt.com` plus `webRequest`/`tabs`; adds install-prompt lines. |
+| Point `search_url` at a bundled extension page that redirects | Firefox requires an http(s) search URL; also a visible redirect flash. Not pursued. |
+| Keyboard shortcut reads the page selection | Requires `activeTab` + `tabs.executeScript`. No lighter route exists — a declared `<all_urls>` content script is strictly worse. Excluded by decision; revisitable as its own change. |
+| `background.page` HTML shim for ES modules | Works, but unnecessary once `background.type: "module"` was confirmed for MV2. |
+| `background.scripts` without `type` | Classic scripts; an `import` statement fails with a compile-time `SyntaxError` and silently kills the script. |
+| Curated model dropdown | Slug lists rot within a quarter and every stale entry fails silently to the account default. |
+| Migrate to MV3 now | Orthogonal, larger diff. Mozilla has announced no MV2 sunset and promises ≥12 months' notice. |
+| Toast/notification on failure | The `notifications` permission adds an install warning. All failure paths degrade silently instead. |
+
+## Risks
+
+1. **Any ChatGPT parameter may stop working without notice.** Mitigated by
+   hint-strength copy everywhere, independently removable parameters, and no
+   architectural dependence on any of them. The `/search` path's silent move to
+   404 in mid-2025 is the precedent.
+2. **`model` may never work alongside `q`.** An unresolved report says `q`
+   forces the account default; no 2026 source positively confirms otherwise. The
+   setting is labelled experimental and defaults to empty, so the default
+   configuration is unaffected either way.
+3. **`Alt+Shift+G` may collide with an OS or window-manager hotkey.** Verified
+   clear of Firefox's own keyset and DevTools only; no registry of other add-ons'
+   shortcuts exists. Mitigated by the context menu remaining a full-featured
+   path and by documenting Manage Extension Shortcuts.
+4. **MV2's long-term future is not guaranteed.** The strongest Mozilla
+   commitment is dated March 2024 and nothing newer restates it. Mitigated by
+   keeping the code MV3-portable.
+
+## Appendix A: Verification findings
+
+Established 2026-07-29 by parallel research with adversarial verification;
+64 findings, one overturned by its skeptic. Browser claims were verified by
+loading real test extensions into **Firefox 153.0.1**. Repo claims were verified
+by running commands against copies under `/tmp`; the repo itself was unmodified.
+
+### Confirmed empirically in Firefox 153.0.1
+
+- MV2 `background: {scripts, type: "module"}` loads real ES modules. Supported
+  since Firefox 112 (`bug 1811443`); Firefox's manifest schema puts no
+  `min_manifest_version` on `type`.
+- MV2 `background: {scripts}` **without** `type` fails on `import` with
+  `"SyntaxError: import declarations may only appear at top level of a module"`.
+- `options_ui.open_in_tab: false` renders inside `about:addons`
+  (`inline-options-browser`), gated on
+  `extensions.htmlaboutaddons.inline-options.enabled`, which ships `true`.
+- The tab label is platform-dependent:
+  `preferences-addon-button = { PLATFORM() -> [windows] Options *[other] Preferences }`.
+- Options pages support `<script type="module">` in both surfaces.
+
+### Confirmed from Firefox source
+
+- `PERMISSIONS_WITH_MESSAGE` (26 entries) is the authoritative list of API
+  permissions that add a warning line. `storage`, `menus`, and `activeTab` are
+  all absent; `tabs` is present. **Caveat established by the overturned finding:**
+  it is one of five independent install-prompt inputs (API permissions, host
+  permissions, `DATA_COLLECTION_PERMISSIONS`, site permissions, unsigned
+  warning), so it is not a complete account of install-time warnings.
+- A fresh install **always** shows a prompt; the no-prompt early-return is gated
+  on `type == "update"`. This extension's prompt today is "Add …" + the
+  data-collection line + the private-windows checkbox — unchanged by this work.
+- Install prompts are suppressed for temporary/unpacked installs.
+- `storage.sync` throws only for a *temporary* add-on ID
+  (`enforceNoTemporaryAddon`); the explicit `gecko.id` satisfies it. No account
+  check exists anywhere in the path — the backing store is a plain profile-local
+  `storage-sync-v2.sqlite`. Quotas: 102400 total / 8192 per item / 512 items.
+  Non-quota backend errors are sanitized to `"An unexpected error occurred"`.
+- Sync transport is per-extension encrypted BSOs over the user's own Firefox
+  Account; extension IDs are hidden behind random GUIDs.
+- `Ctrl+G` is `key_findAgain` and `Ctrl+Shift+G` is `key_findPrevious`.
+  `Alt+Shift+G` is unused by `browser-sets.inc` and DevTools.
+- `tabs.create` / `windows.create` declare no permissions; only
+  `Tab.url`/`title`/`favIconUrl` require `tabs`.
+- `commands` is `version_added: false` on Firefox for Android.
+- `options_ui.browser_style` is deprecated in **MV3 only** (default flipped in
+  Firefox 115, unsupported in 118). Legal in MV2, where it defaults to `true`.
+
+### Confirmed empirically against the repo
+
+- `npx web-ext lint` → 0 errors / 0 warnings / 0 notices, exit 0. Green baseline.
+- lint and build share one `FileFilter`; `eval()` planted in `lib/` produced
+  `DANGEROUS_EVAL` and exit 1.
+- web-ext's default ignore list includes `'**/.*'` and `'**/.*/**/*'`, so
+  dotfiles never ship. Confirmed: `.gitea/` and a planted `.agents/note.md` were
+  both absent from a build with no dotfile entries in `ignoreFiles`.
+- `test/` and `docs/` **do** ship by default. With only `"test/**"`, empty
+  `test/` and `docs/` directory entries remained in the ZIP; adding the bare
+  names removed them.
+- The current shipped ZIP contains only `manifest.json`, `LICENSE.txt`, and
+  `icons/` — packaging hygiene is a property to preserve, not a bug to fix.
+- `node --test` with no `"type"` field: passes on Node 26.5.0 but warns
+  `MODULE_TYPELESS_PACKAGE_JSON`; with `--no-experimental-detect-module` (pre-22.7
+  behaviour) it **fails** with `"Cannot use import statement outside a module"`.
+- `.mjs` for tests only moves the warning to the typeless `lib/*.js`.
+- Adding `"type": "module"`: `node --test` clean, `web-ext lint` 0/0/0,
+  `web-ext build` succeeded.
+- `node --test` with zero discovered tests: `tests 0`, exit **0**.
+- Local Node v26.5.0, npm 12.0.1, web-ext 10.5.0. CI pins node-version `"22"`.
+
+### ChatGPT parameters — confidence ratings
+
+| Parameter | Rating | Basis |
+|---|---|---|
+| `q` prefills | **Solid** | Dated 2026 sources; maintained tooling; OpenAI's own extension uses it; a live probe returned HTTP 200 with all parameters preserved. |
+| `q` auto-submits | **Refuted** | Prefill-only in every dated report since 2025-11-11. Tenable TRA-2025-22 documents OpenAI gating auto-submit on `Sec-Fetch-Site`. |
+| `model` honoured alongside `q` | **Uncertain** | An unresolved 2024-12-28 report says `q` forces GPT-4o regardless; counter-evidence exists from 2024–2025; no 2026 source positively confirms. Maintained tooling grades it experimental. |
+| Valid `model` slugs | **Uncertain** | No authoritative list; sightings rot (`gpt-4`, `o1-preview`, `gpt-4o`, `gpt-5-thinking`, `auto`, `instant`, `thinking`). |
+| `temporary-chat=true` | **Uncertain** | Community-confirmed originally; multiple reports of it not applying or reverting after the first message; OpenAI reworking the feature. |
+| `hints=search` is a hint only | **Confirmed** | Multiple independent sources; "a frontend user interface hint, not a backend trigger". |
+| `hints=search` still functions | **Uncertain** | Freshest positive source is provably recycling stale material; freshest negative is 2025-11-11. Costs nothing to append and degrades to a normal chat. |
+| Stable set of `hints` values | **Refuted** | Published value sets contradict each other; only `search` has cross-source corroboration. |
+| Officially documented by OpenAI | **Refuted** | No documentation for any parameter; primary community threads have zero staff replies. |
+| `/search` path | **Refuted** | Began returning 404 mid-2025. |
+| `q` canonicalises to `prompt=` | **Confirmed** | Dated 2026 reports; `prompt=` is the fallback if `q` dies. |
+| Combining all four | **Structurally safe** | Nothing errors or gets stripped. But "the URL loads" is not "the parameter was honoured". |
+
+### Unresolved
+
+- Whether Firefox search-provider navigations land in the favoured
+  `Sec-Fetch-Site: none` bucket for auto-submit. Inference from the Fetch
+  Metadata spec, contradicted by a dated report of a default-search string
+  losing auto-submit. Settled only by the manual parameter reality check.
+- Whether Firefox enforces Chrome-style `storage.sync` write-rate quotas. The
+  constants exist in the schema but no rate-limiting logic appears in the Rust
+  backend. Made moot by debouncing writes.
+- Whether `Alt+Shift+G` collides with OS-level or other-add-on shortcuts.
diff --git a/web-ext-config.mjs b/web-ext-config.mjs
index 1b5e6cb..a185604 100644
--- a/web-ext-config.mjs
+++ b/web-ext-config.mjs
@@ -8,6 +8,12 @@ export default {
     "package.json",
     "package-lock.json",
     "web-ext-config.mjs",
+    // Directories need both the bare name and the glob: the glob alone removes
+    // the files but leaves an empty directory entry in the ZIP.
+    "docs",
+    "docs/**",
+    "test",
+    "test/**",
     "web-ext-artifacts/**",
   ],
   build: {