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andwati 3fa70b1df3 Make the Chrome Web Store ID the single canonical extension ID
The extension is now published (ID: mkiffclapimhbjjlgkndlillglopbcic).
Drop the pinned "key" field from manifest.json (the Store rejects it
anyway) and use the Store-assigned ID everywhere instead of juggling
two IDs: native-host/com.kget_capture.host.json's allowed_origins,
keys/extension-id.txt, and docs. This also removes the need for a
separate key-stripped release zip, since there's no key left to strip.
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Extension ID

extension-id.txt holds the extension's one canonical ID, mkiffclapimhbjjlgkndlillglopbcic, assigned by the Chrome Web Store on first publish. It's hardcoded into native-host/com.kget_capture.host.json's allowed_origins, which is what lets the native host trust connections from the extension without asking each user to paste their own ID.

extension/manifest.json intentionally has no "key" field: the Chrome Web Store dashboard rejects any manifest that includes one ("key field is not allowed in manifest"), since it assigns its own permanent ID on first publish instead.

kget-capture-private.pem / kget-capture-public.der / kget-capture-public.b64 are leftover from an earlier approach that pinned a separate ID for unpacked installs via a local key pair. They're no longer referenced anywhere (the .pem was never committed; see .gitignore) and can be ignored or removed.

Implication for local "Load unpacked" development

Since there's no pinned key, Chrome derives an unpacked install's ID from a hash of its local path, which won't match mkiffclapimhbjjlgkndlillglopbcic and differs per machine/checkout. To test an unpacked build against the native host locally, add your own unpacked ID to allowed_origins in ~/.config/<browser>/NativeMessagingHosts/com.kget_capture.host.json after running install.sh (Chrome shows the unpacked ID on chrome://extensions once loaded).