Permissions Explained

Takt requests only the permissions it needs. Here's what each one does and why.

Required permissions #

These are granted at install time and are necessary for core functionality:

Permission	Why
`activeTab`	Read the current tab when you trigger a popup action (e.g. hibernate this tab, create a rule from it)
`tabs`	Read tab URLs and titles to match against your rules
`tabGroups`	Create and manage Chrome tab groups
`storage`	Save your rules, settings, and profiles
`contextMenus`	Right-click "Create rule from this tab" menu item
`scripting`	Inject the duplicate-prevention toast notification
`notifications`	Alert you when tab groups exceed memory budgets
`alarms`	Periodic budget checks and scheduled profile switching

These are requested at runtime only when you enable features that need them:

Permission	Why	Triggered by
`<all_urls>`	Measure per-tab memory and monitor network requests in the resource dashboard. Also enables in-page prompts in Manual automation mode.	Opening the resource dashboard or enabling Manual mode
`webRequest`	Count network requests and detect background activity per tab in the resource dashboard.	Opening the resource dashboard
`webNavigation`	Detect navigation for duplicate tab prevention	Enabling duplicate prevention
`system.memory`	Show total system memory in the resource dashboard	Opening the resource dashboard
`identity`	Obtain an OAuth token to read and write Takt's private sync file in your Google Drive App Data folder. No other Drive files are accessed.	Enabling Google Drive Sync
`bookmarks`	Create a "Takt Bookmarks" folder and save a group's tabs as bookmarks. No existing bookmarks are read or modified.	Using "Save group as bookmarks"
`history`	Search your browsing history in Quick Switch (Alt+Shift+Space) and surface frequently-visited domains in rule suggestions. History data is never stored beyond the session or transmitted externally.	Enabling browsing history search

Open the Options page and go to Settings. The permissions panel lets you:

Grant All — grant all optional permissions at once
Individual toggles — grant or revoke each permission separately
Revoke All — revoke all optional permissions
Prompt mode — choose whether Takt asks before requesting a permission ("Ask") or never requests automatically ("Never")

Revoking a permission disables the feature that depends on it. The feature re-enables automatically when the permission is granted again.

Browsing history — unless you explicitly grant the optional history permission
Page content or form data
Personal information (name, email, etc.)
Cookies or authentication tokens
Analytics or telemetry of any kind

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