Minimize dependency footprint and gate Chrome companion

[senamakel]

What changed

• gate the Chrome browser protocol, Axum companion server, Reqwest CLI client, and companion binary behind a new chrome-extension feature
• make Axum and Reqwest optional normal dependencies and move tokio/net behind Chrome support
• enable Rustls only for host-caps, where the allowlisted HTTP client supports HTTPS, without adding TLS to the loopback-only Chrome CLI
• disable unused default features in futures-util, tracing, Axum, and jaq-std
• keep jaq's core/value-generic expression functions while omitting optional native time, regex, formatting, specialist-math, logging, and environment bundles
• remove the redundant async-trait dev-dependency
• update transitive extension packages to clear the npm audit findings
• document feature-enabled Chrome CLI installation and usage
• release the feature-gated public API as 0.7.0 and document the breaking change

Why

The engine-only crate paid for the full Chrome HTTP/WebSocket stack even when no browser companion was used. The expression runtime also linked optional native jaq functionality that workflows do not require, including process-facing environment access that must remain unavailable.

Before and after

Metric	Before (main)	After (Chrome)	After (default engine)
Normal dependency packages	167	156	55
Cargo.lock packages	195	242	242
Release binary size	13.9 MiB	12.5 MiB	no companion binary
Release .text	5.2 MiB	4.6 MiB	244 KiB example
Extension audit findings	4 (3 high, 1 moderate)	0	0

The lockfile package count increases because host-caps now correctly includes a Rustls HTTPS implementation and its cross-platform transitive packages. That TLS stack is not active in either the default engine or Chrome-only normal graph.

The default normal graph no longer includes Axum, Reqwest, Hyper, Tower HTTP, or Tokio Tungstenite. Chrome users now build or install with --features chrome-extension. Hosts selecting host-caps receive the allowlisted Reqwest HTTP capability with HTTPS support.

Optional jaq native helpers such as regex, dates, HTML/URI/base64 formatting, specialist math, logging, and env are no longer part of the workflow expression surface. Core paths, arithmetic, arrays/objects, map, select, add, and related value operations remain available.

Validation

• cargo check --no-default-features --features host-caps --lib
• cargo check --features chrome-extension --bin tinyflows
• cargo test --all-features (935 library tests, integrations, and 28 doctests)
• cargo clippy --all-targets --all-features -- -D warnings
• cargo fmt --all -- --check
• cargo audit --quiet
• cargo machete
• npm ci
• npm run verify (25 extension tests)
• npm run test:e2e (3 Playwright tests)
• npm audit --package-lock-only (0 vulnerabilities)
• cargo bloat --release --features chrome-extension --bin tinyflows --crates

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📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

The PR adds the chrome-extension feature and tinyflows binary, gates Chrome modules and tests, updates related documentation, minimizes dependency features, and filters jq builtin registration to supported functions.

Changes

Chrome feature and packaging

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Feature wiring and conditional support Cargo.toml, src/lib.rs, tests/*	The chrome-extension feature enables optional networking dependencies and the tinyflows binary. Chrome modules and end-to-end tests compile only when the required features are enabled.
Chrome workflow documentation README.md, docs/chrome-extension.md	Documentation adds the feature requirement and updates installation, extension, pairing, and companion startup commands.

jq builtin filtering

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Supported builtin registration and tests src/expr.rs	jq compilation uses filtered standard definitions and jaq_std::base_funs(). Tests retain pure length and reject optional native builtins.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Mergeability Score: 🟡 Moderate · up to 0fe9f

This change gates the Chrome companion and alters default public API exposure, which can break existing downstream users, while the current HTTP configuration prevents documented HTTPS host requests; the installation guide also mixes crates.io installation with source-checkout commands. Merge should wait for a compatibility decision, explicit TLS support and coverage, and corrected installation commands.

Suggested reviewers: graycyrus

Poem

A rabbit hops through features bright,
Chrome support now sleeps by night.
jq keeps length in its nest,
While native calls are put to rest.
Cargo paths now guide the way—
Tiny flows leap cleanly today.

🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 5

✅ Passed checks (5 passed)

Check name	Status	Explanation
Docstring Coverage	✅ Passed	No functions found in the changed files to evaluate docstring coverage. Skipping docstring coverage check.
Linked Issues check	✅ Passed	Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Out of Scope Changes check	✅ Passed	Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Description Check	✅ Passed	Check skipped - CodeRabbit’s high-level summary is enabled.
Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly summarizes the main changes: reducing dependencies and gating the Chrome companion behind a feature.

✨ Finishing Touches 💡 1

⚔️ Resolve merge conflicts 💡

• Resolve merge conflict in branch deps-audit

📝 Generate docstrings

• Create stacked PR
• Commit on current branch

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Actionable comments posted: 3

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Inline comments:
In `@Cargo.toml`:
- Line 41: Update both reqwest dependency declarations to include the rustls
feature alongside json while retaining optionality and disabled default
features. Verify AllowlistHttpClient can successfully perform an allowlisted
https:// request using TLS.

In `@docs/chrome-extension.md`:
- Around line 22-29: Update the documented installation flow commands to invoke
the installed tinyflows binary directly: use tinyflows extension path, tinyflows
pair, and tinyflows companion start instead of cargo run commands. Keep the
existing source-checkout workflow separate if those commands must remain
available for development.

In `@src/lib.rs`:
- Around line 26-32: Restore the default public API for the browser and
companion modules by removing the chrome-extension feature gating from the
browser and companion module declarations in lib.rs, or otherwise ensure they
remain available to existing default-feature consumers. Do not ship this API
removal in a compatible release.

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📒 Files selected for processing (7)

• Cargo.toml
• README.md
• docs/chrome-extension.md
• src/expr.rs
• src/lib.rs
• tests/browser_routing_e2e.rs
• tests/cli_e2e.rs