
Build a software neural browser with permission boundaries
Plan a focused browser companion around selected content, visible data access, and a draft that cannot act on its own.
Neural Browser Lab / category / 2 field notes
Build understandable boundaries around browser access and retrieval. Follow practical architecture questions from a selected passage to an inspectable result.
These notes are written for a developer turning an interface idea into a bounded prototype. One follows selected content through a browser companion; the other follows source passages into a retrieval system. Both begin by describing what data is allowed into the workflow and what the resulting interface should make visible to a reviewer.
Read the permission-first article before specifying broad browser access. Then use the vector-search guide to think about passage size, metadata, authorization, and evaluation. A useful prototype can be deliberately small: a fixed collection, a repeatable task, and a documented failure case are enough to start a meaningful review.

Plan a focused browser companion around selected content, visible data access, and a draft that cannot act on its own.

Design passage-level retrieval with meaningful metadata, honest relevance signals, and a baseline you can evaluate.