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WebNotary was developed on this branch and has now been split out to its own repository: https://github.com/far-reach/webnotary (full history preserved via git subtree split).

Why

WebNotary is a legal-evidence capture product that shares no code, tooling, or release cycle with the VEIL packages. Keeping it here caused three concrete problems:

  1. Its Chrome Web Store listing needs public documentation URLs (privacy policy, support), which would have required this repo to be public.
  2. Store reviewers and prospective customers following those links would land in an unrelated confidential-payments codebase — poor trust optics for an evidence-integrity tool.
  3. Its history and issues were interleaved with unrelated daily briefing-bot commits.

What this PR now contains

  • Removes packages/webnotary/ and its workspace entry / npm script from the monorepo.
  • Notes the split in README.md, linking to the new repository.
  • Adds CLAUDE.md recording the one product per repo convention, so future work doesn't recreate the problem.

The net effect on the monorepo is a small subtraction; the extension itself lives on unchanged in its new home, where CI runs its test suite on every push.

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https://claude.ai/code/session_01ADq3sRhdQmdf7uoUkD8qi1

claude added 3 commits August 10, 2026 21:02
New standalone product under packages/webnotary — an MV3 extension that
captures pages as self-verifying evidence bundles for legal/compliance use:

- Capture pipeline (service worker): page metadata via injected collector,
  atomic full-page screenshot (DevTools protocol, viewport fallback), MHTML
  archive, SHA-256 evidence manifest, parallel RFC 3161 timestamp requests,
  chain-of-custody PDF, store-only ZIP bundle saved via offscreen document.
- From-scratch libraries (vanilla ES modules, zero deps, shared with Node):
  DER codec, RFC 3161 client + CMS token verifier (RSA v1.5/PSS, ECDSA,
  ESS certID, nonce/imprint checks), X.509 parser, ZIP writer/reader,
  minimal PDF 1.4 writer, report/VERIFY.txt builders.
- UI: popup with live step progress + capture history, options page
  (operator identity, TSA selection incl. custom endpoint via optional
  host permission), drag-and-drop offline bundle verifier page.
- Icons generated programmatically (scripts/make-icons.mjs, pure Node).
- Tests: 24 passing, including a full round trip against a local OpenSSL
  TSA (RSA + ECDSA), tamper/nonce/imprint negatives, openssl ts -verify
  interop, unzip/zipfile ZIP validation, and PDF xref structure checks.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01ADq3sRhdQmdf7uoUkD8qi1
- scripts/build-zip.mjs: reproducible Chrome Web Store upload package
  (release/webnotary-0.1.0.zip, manifest at ZIP root, prints SHA-256)
- test/smoke-chromium.mjs: end-to-end test in headless Chromium — loads a
  test build, captures a local page, timestamps against a local OpenSSL
  TSA, downloads the bundle, verifies digests + RFC 3161 token with the
  extension's own verifier and openssl ts -verify (run: ALL OK)
- store-assets/: 3 listing screenshots (1280x800, real UI incl. verified
  bundle), promo tile 440x280, marquee 1400x560
- docs/sample-bundle.zip: real bundle produced by the smoke run
- README: publishing instructions

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01ADq3sRhdQmdf7uoUkD8qi1
WebNotary is a standalone product (legal-evidence capture) with no code or
release cycle shared with the VEIL packages, and its Chrome Web Store listing
needs public docs URLs. It now lives at https://github.com/far-reach/webnotary
with its full history preserved via subtree split.

Removes packages/webnotary and its workspace entry here, and adds CLAUDE.md
recording the one-product-per-repo convention.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01ADq3sRhdQmdf7uoUkD8qi1
@far-reach far-reach changed the title Add WebNotary: evidence-grade web capture Chrome extension Move WebNotary to its own repository + record one-product-per-repo convention Aug 13, 2026
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