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title: "KYE™ Lens™ — authority for the web you and your agents browse · KYE Protocol™"
description: "KYE™ Lens™ is a free, privacy-by-design browser extension that overlays a site's self-declared Resource Authority Badge™ onto the web. See at a glance whether a site's agentic-access authority is evidenced, asserted, suspended, or unverified — with no browsing data ever leaving your machine."
url: https://kyeprotocol.com/kye-lens/
lang: en
source: "KYE Protocol"
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> KYE™ Lens™ is a free, privacy-by-design browser extension that overlays a site's self-declared Resource Authority Badge™ onto the web. See at a glance whether a site's agentic-access authority is evidenced, asserted, suspended, or unverified — with no browsing data ever leaving your machine.

# 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™](https://kyeprotocol.com/open-access-authority/).

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](https://kyeprotocol.com/open-access-authority/) [Find your authority sprawl](https://kyeprotocol.com/authority-discovery/)

## 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.](https://kyeprotocol.com/evidence-pack/)

### 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™](https://kyeprotocol.com/open-access-authority/) at the action boundary. It is part of the [KYE Protocol™](https://kyeprotocol.com/) 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](https://kyeprotocol.com/open-access-authority/)