Single Purpose
Nia Web Assistant helps an authorized Nia user work with one WhatsApp Web chat at a time. It syncs the chat that is currently open to Nia, requests an AI draft from Nia, and inserts the reviewed draft into WhatsApp Web for the human user to send manually.
It can also work through a list of recipients prepared in Nia. The assistant points the user's WhatsApp Web tab at one recipient at a time and inserts that recipient's message for review. It is still one chat at a time and the assistant never sends: the human user presses send for every message, and can stop the list at any point.
Permissions
- storage: stores extension settings, session metadata, and local diagnostics.
- sidePanel: shows the Web Assistant controls beside WhatsApp Web.
- alarms: records lightweight heartbeat and session diagnostics.
- activeTab: interacts with the user-selected WhatsApp Web tab.
- tabs: finds your open WhatsApp Web tab, opens one if there is none, points it at the chat you picked, and waits for it to finish loading before the assistant talks to it. The extension only ever asks Chrome for tabs whose address is web.whatsapp.com; no other tab's address or content is read, stored or sent to Nia.
- https://web.whatsapp.com/*: detects readiness, reads selected visible chat, and inserts reviewed drafts.
- Nia backend hosts: connects the extension to Nia APIs over HTTPS. Two Nia hosts are declared — the live service and the test service — so the same extension can be pointed at either. An administrator may set the backend address in the extension's own options; it must be HTTPS, and only the declared Nia hosts are reachable.
Not Collected
- WhatsApp cookies.
- Browser cookies.
- WhatsApp QR codes.
- Browser history.
- Passwords or payment data.
- Hidden WhatsApp chats.
- Unrelated tabs or unrelated website content. The tabs permission above lets Chrome tell the extension about any tab; every place the extension uses it is filtered to web.whatsapp.com, and nothing about another tab is collected.
Manual Send Boundary
The current Web Assistant flow inserts draft text only. It does not click send in WhatsApp Web. The human user remains responsible for reviewing and sending the message.
