Authority for the web you and your agents browse

KYE™ Lens™ is a free, privacy-by-design browser extension. As you — or an agent acting for you — browse, it shows whether each site's agentic-access authority is evidenced, asserted, suspended, or unverified, by reading the site's own Resource Authority Badge™.

KYE™ Lens™, step by step

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You learn: What happens at each step. You can: Step through it.

  1. Step 1 of 4

    KYE Protocol™

    Evidenced

    Access decisions emit Evidence Packs™ and are replay-verifiable from public keys.

  2. Step 2 of 4

    KYE Protocol™

    Asserted

    The site declares its access terms, not yet independently evidenced.

  3. Step 3 of 4

    KYE Protocol™

    Suspended

    Authority paused pending re-assessment (rights or jurisdiction changed).

  4. Step 4 of 4

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    Unverified

    No authority declaration — treat with normal caution.

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Each step in order, as the page sets it out. Architecture diagram
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It is local-only by construction: no browsing data ever leaves your machine, and it never invents a verdict — it reports only what a site itself declares.

How sites declare authority Find your authority sprawl

Privacy by construction, not by promise

KYE™ Lens™ is built so there is nothing to trust us with.

  • Uses the activeTab permission only — it reads a page when you click it, never in the background.
  • Makes zero network requests and stores nothing; no browsing history, no telemetry, no exfiltration.
  • Aligns with GDPR data-minimisation by design: the only data it touches is the current page's own markup.

What the badges mean

A site declares its authority with a single HTML meta tag; KYE™ Lens™ surfaces it.

Evidenced

Access decisions emit Evidence Packs™ and are replay-verifiable from public keys.

Asserted

The site declares its access terms, not yet independently evidenced.

Suspended

Authority paused pending re-assessment (rights or jurisdiction changed).

Unverified

No authority declaration — treat with normal caution.

Boundary: the Lens surfaces a site's declared authority; it does not enforce access, run agents, or proxy traffic — that is the job of Open Access Authority™ at the action boundary. It is part of the KYE Protocol™ platform.

Install

The extension is open source (Apache-2.0). For now, load it unpacked in developer mode; a Chrome Web Store listing follows.

  • Get the source from the KYE Protocol™ public/oss/kye-lens/ directory.
  • Open chrome://extensions, enable Developer mode, and choose Load unpacked.

See the authority it reads