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Fix the sheet hidden by a permission prompt before the next release

You’re the software engineer. Your team is in the room. Printed Oct 13, 2026.

The native permission prompt is hiding the moment users must approve an agent action.

Browser security behavior protects the permission boundary while the task flow needs the approval state to remain visible.

Who you’d be doing this for

“I clicked allow, then the approval disappeared and I had to start the upload again.”

Vida Salehi · Research Operations Manager

Uses Comet to collect and upload source material during recurring vendor research.

What is at stake

File-upload tasks now complete at 74%, down from 91% after a Chromium update. You have to restore completion without weakening the browser permission boundary.

Why it isn’t already fixed

Every obvious fix costs something else. That’s the part you’d have to decide.

  • native permission integrity vs visible approval
  • fast recovery vs release confidence
  • visual layering vs durable task state

Why Perplexity

Comet’s supervised browser actions depend on users seeing and approving each consequential step.

Written with these in mind

product-minded full-stack engineerdesktop application engineerreliability-focused generalist

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