TronBrowser is an open-source, privacy-first, AI-native browser built on a Chromium fork.
- No telemetry by default
- No ads
- No sponsored tabs
- No affiliate injection
- User-owned data
- Chrome compatibility
- Self-hostable services
- Desktop Chromium browser
- React Native mobile (Phase 2)
- Cloud agents
- Plugin ecosystem
- Multi-agent platform
- pnpm workspaces
- Node.js 24+
- TypeScript
- Chromium / Ungoogled Chromium
- React Native
- Hono/Fastify
- Turso
- Redis/BullMQ
- Cloudflare R2
- Docker
- Railway
apps/
- desktop
- mobile
- web
- docs
packages/
- ai-core
- browser-core
- workflow-engine
- agent-runtime
- model-providers
- auth
- sync
- storage
- sdk
- plugins
- payments
- ui
- shared
services/
- api
- worker
- scheduler
- sync-server
Must preserve:
- Chrome extensions
- Profiles
- Bookmarks
- Downloads
- History
- PWAs
- DevTools
Replace:
- Branding
- Telemetry
- Sponsored integrations
Providers (BYOK set mirrors crawlproof.com — 8 cloud + local):
- Anthropic (ANTHROPIC_API_KEY)
- OpenAI (OPENAI_API_KEY)
- Google / Gemini (GEMINI_API_KEY)
- DeepSeek (DEEPSEEK_API_KEY)
- Perplexity (PERPLEXITY_API_KEY)
- Hugging Face (HUGGINGFACE_API_KEY)
- Kimi / Moonshot (MOONSHOT_API_KEY / KIMI_API_KEY)
- Qwen / Alibaba (DASHSCOPE_API_KEY / QWEN_API_KEY)
- Local (keyless): Ollama, LM Studio, vLLM
Keys:
- BYOK (free / self-hosted): user's own keys from web app .env / their store
- Cloud (paid): OUR keys in the DB (ai_provider_keys, scoped per app_id — multi-app)
- resolveProviderKey prefers BYOK, falls back to cloud on paid plans
Execution:
- Local
- Cloud
- Hybrid
Components:
- Planner
- Executor
- Validator
- Memory
- Tool Registry
- Workflow Runner
Node types:
- Prompt
- Browser
- AI
- HTTP
- Conditional
- Delay
- Export
Lifecycle:
- install
- enable
- disable
- update
- uninstall
CoinPay OAuth + x402.
Auth:
- CoinPay OAuth (Authorization Code + PKCE)
- Scopes: wallet:read, payments:x402
- Self-hosted CoinPay overridable
x402 (HTTP 402 Payment Required):
- Parse payment requirements from 402 responses
- Pay from the user's CoinPay global wallet addresses (match network + asset)
- Custodial keys (never leave CoinPay)
- Per-request maxAmount guard; budgets/ledger via agent runtime
Package: packages/payments (x402 + CoinPay wallet + PaymentProcessor)
SQLite/libSQL, self-hostable.
- Default: managed cloud DB (Turso) — managed backups + replication
- Bring your own: local SQLite file, local libSQL replica, or your own libSQL server (self-hosted, user-owned, user-managed backups)
- Object storage: Cloudflare R2
- Config via TRONBROWSER_DB_URL / TRONBROWSER_DB_AUTH_TOKEN / TRONBROWSER_DB_PATH
Objects:
- bookmarks
- prompts
- workflows
- settings
- profiles
React Native:
- Android
- iOS
Features:
- AI chat
- Sync
- Voice
- Push notifications
- Agent dashboard
GitHub Actions:
- lint
- typecheck
- test
- build
- package
- release
- Stub all packages first.
- Define interfaces before implementations.
- Keep shared logic in packages.
- Desktop-specific code stays isolated.
- Add README and tests to every package.
- Use strict TypeScript.
- Prefer composition.
- Document architecture decisions.
M0 Monorepo M1 Chromium fork M2 AI sidebar M3 Browser agents M4 Cloud services M5 Mobile M6 Plugins M7 Agent swarms