The panel had no picker before this. 8 category tabs plus a recents tab, table lifted verbatim from celest-chat's 07-emoji.js so the house row (💜🌙🐝🔫) carries over. Offline by construction: no library, no fetch, the panel's CSP would block a set anyway. Inserts at the caret rather than appending, and the pad stays open so glyphs can be stacked. Recents (last 24) live in localStorage under `ccsidepanel-emoji-recent`; the pad opens on that tab once it has entries. `#emoji-pad[hidden] { display: none }` is spelled out because an ID selector outranks the UA's `[hidden]` rule — without it the pad never closes. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
CC Sidepanel
A Brave/Chrome MV3 side-panel extension that puts a live Claude Code seat in your browser sidebar — type in the sidebar, it lands in the real terminal pane. Two-way.
Built by Monica (bridge + extension skeleton), parser and styling pass by Selene, 2026-09-11.
Pieces
bridge.py— a localhost HTTP shim on:8988. Browser extensions can't reach a unix socket, so this proxies JSON toinjectd.py's socket at/tmp/injectd.sock(ops:seats,screen,inject). CORS is locked to onechrome-extension://origin — no wildcard.extension/— MV3 side panel. Polls/screenevery 1.5s, parses the raw kitty pane into typed blocks (user / assistant / tool / thinking / live-heartbeat / meta), and sends text back via/inject.
Dependencies / pre-reqs
injectd.pyis house infrastructure, not part of this repo. The bridge expects the socket/tmp/injectd.sockto already exist (created by injectd, which runs separately and is shared by every seat).- The extension ID is deliberately not in the code.
bridge.pyreadsCCSIDEPANEL_EXT_IDfrom the environment and refuses to start if it's unset (no silent fallback).
Setup
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Load the extension unpacked from
extension/atbrave://extensions. -
Copy its ID from the
brave://extensionspage. -
Create the env file:
cp cc-sidepanel.env.example /etc/cc-sidepanel.env # fill in CCSIDEPANEL_EXT_ID=<your-id> -
Start/restart the bridge:
systemctl restart cc-sidepanel-bridge # unit: /etc/systemd/system/cc-sidepanel-bridge.serviceThe systemd unit runs as
juxtapoand reads config viaEnvironmentFile=/etc/cc-sidepanel.env— both files live outside the repo (documented here, not committed).
Gotcha: reloading = new ID
Reloading the extension from a different path gives it a new ID, and the panel gets CORS-blocked with no visible error. If the panel stops working after a reload, copy the new ID, update /etc/cc-sidepanel.env, and restart the unit.
License
House project — MIT.