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Showstone is the "sees the web" component of mykeep. A showstone is a scrying glass — this one lets your agent see and act on the live web from a sandbox you carry: navigate, read, click, fill, screenshot, driven by any agent that can make an HTTP call.
The control plane is pure Go (no CGo); the engine is a native Chromium subprocess driven over CDP with go-rod.
No CSS selectors, no pixel coordinates. The agent reads a semantic snapshot — readable text plus a numbered list of interactive elements — and acts by index:
GET /v1/showstone/snapshot → { text, elements:[{index,role,name,…}], snapshot_id }
POST /v1/showstone/act { "action":"click", "index":3 } → the resulting snapshot
POST /v1/showstone/navigate { "url":"https://…" }
GET /v1/showstone/screenshot → PNG (base64 JSON, or ?format=png)
GET /v1/showstone/guide → the full operating manual (no token)
act covers click · type · select · press · scroll · back · forward · reload · wait · navigate
and returns the new snapshot in one round-trip (auto-waiting for load). Every USE call needs
X-Showstone-Token.
The loop: snapshot → reason → act by index → re-snapshot.
Web content is untrusted and the agent reads it, so a page can try to prompt-inject the agent. The honest promise is bounded + observable:
- Contained, sealed profile. Cookies and storage live in Showstone's own Chromium profile, sealed at rest with AES-256-GCM; "clear session" wipes it.
- Human approval gate. Sensitive actions — purchases, posts, deletes, form submits, typing passwords or card numbers, downloads — block until you approve them in the GUI (fail-closed on timeout). A per-host trust toggle and a global strict mode tune the friction; passwords, payments, and downloads never auto-approve.
- Hash-chained audit of every action (typed text is never logged).
- Loopback-only control plane. A co-resident agent has the use token but never the control token or session cookie — it can't approve its own action, read the audit, or clear the session.
- The guide tells the agent plainly: page text is data, not instructions.
Honest caveat. While unlocked, a plaintext browser profile exists on the drive (
mykeep_kb/.showstone-live/, never host temp); a clean lock reseals and deletes it. An unclean kill leaves it on the drive until the next launch reseals it. "No trace on the host" holds; "no trace anywhere while unlocked" does not.
make build # -> bin/showstone (CGO_ENABLED=0, pure-Go control plane)
./bin/showstone # GUI: unlock, then approve agent actions
./bin/showstone serve # headless REST API (password via SHOWSTONE_PASSPHRASE / stdin)
./bin/showstone guide # print the agent manual| Make target | What it does |
|---|---|
make cross |
all six win/mac/linux × amd64/arm64 |
make guard |
prove zero CGo |
make live |
real-Chromium integration tests (downloads ~150 MB) |
The engine is not bundled. On first launch Showstone downloads a pinned
Chrome for Testing build (~150 MB) into
mykeep_kb/showstone/chrome/, keeping the binary ~11 MB. Override with SHOWSTONE_CHROME=/path,
or pre-stage showstone-chrome/<platform>/ beside the binary for air-gapped use. Headful by
default (SHOWSTONE_HEADLESS=1 for headless; SHOWSTONE_NO_SANDBOX=1 in containers).
Chrome for Testing has no linux/arm64 or win/arm64 build: win/arm64 runs the win64 build under emulation; linux/arm64 needs
SHOWSTONE_CHROME.
Showstone is one of four mykeep components — all on one drive, under one password. Inside the suite it gets a flywheel: Vault logs it in by reference (the agent fills a login form with a credential it never sees — v1.1 seam reserved), and Capsule remembers what it found across sessions.
| Component | Your agent can… | |
|---|---|---|
| 🧠 | Capsule | know you — encrypted, portable memory |
| 🔐 | Vault | act as you — a secrets broker that acts by reference |
| 🔮 | Showstone (this repo) | see the web — a contained browser it drives over REST |
| 🧰 | Foundry | do more — sandboxed tools + the backend they run on |