improvement(links): share the go/ and sim/ host list and show link names without a prefix

Author: waleedlatif1

apps/docs/content/docs/search/sim-links.mdx

@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ title: Links
 description: Short go/ and sim/ links that take everyone in your organization to the right page
 ---
 
-Links are short names for pages your team opens often, like `sim/handbook` or `sim/okta`. With Sim for Chrome, `go/handbook` opens the same link, so the go/ habit from other companies works too. Every member of your organization can use them, with or without a Search seat.
+Links are short names for pages your team opens often, like `handbook` or `okta`. They open as `sim/handbook` or `go/handbook`. Every member of your organization can use them, with or without a Search seat.
 
 Open **Links** in the organization sidebar to see your organization's links. Search by name, destination, or description, or use **Sort → Opens** to see the 50 most opened links.
 
@@ -41,11 +41,11 @@ Organization admins can also open **Browser shortcuts → Team bookmarks**, choo
 
 ## Create a link
 
-1. Open **Sim Links** and select **New link**.
+1. Open **Links** and select **New link**.
 2. Enter the **Destination URL** and a **Name**. Names use letters, numbers, and `. : @ & ~ - _`; spaces become hyphens as you type.
 3. Optionally add a **Description**, then select **Create**.
 
-With Sim for Chrome 0.1.3 or later, right-click an HTTP or HTTPS link on a page and choose **Create Sim Link**. Check the destination and organization, enter a name, then choose **Create**. Sim strips query parameters and fragments from the initial destination. You can edit the address before saving. Closing the draft creates nothing.
+With Sim for Chrome 0.1.3 or later, right-click an HTTP or HTTPS link on a page and choose **Create link in Sim**. Check the destination and organization, enter a name, then choose **Create**. Sim strips query parameters and fragments from the initial destination. You can edit the address before saving. Closing the draft creates nothing.
 
 To share a link, right-click it and select **Copy link**.
 
@@ -67,7 +67,7 @@ Values fill each `{*}` in order, and the last `{*}` takes the rest. A link with
 
 By default, any member can edit or delete a link. The link's creator and organization admins can change two options under **Access**:
 
-- **Hide from the Sim Links page**: only the creator and admins see the link in the list, marked **Unlisted**. Anyone with the name can still open it.
+- **Hide from the Links page**: only the creator and admins see the link in the list, marked **Unlisted**. Anyone with the name can still open it.
 - **Only the creator and admins can edit**: only the creator and admins can edit or delete the link, marked **Restricted**.
 
 Changes to links are recorded in your organization's [audit logs](/platform/enterprise/audit-logs).

apps/extension/README.md

@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ SIM_EXTENSION_DEV=1 SIM_EXTENSION_ORIGIN=http://localhost:3000 bun run --cwd app
 ## Data and permissions
 
 - Required capabilities: `activeTab`, `scripting`, `sidePanel`, `storage`, `contextMenus`, `declarativeNetRequestWithHostAccess`, and access to the configured Sim origin and to `http(s)://sim/*` and `http(s)://go/*`.
-- Type `sim`, press Space, enter the name, and press Enter to open an organization's [Sim link](https://docs.sim.ai/search/sim-links). `go/<name>` opens the same link, for people used to go links elsewhere. Chrome can treat bare `go/<name>` or `sim/<name>` as a search before the redirect rule runs. Typing `http://go/<name>` once lets Chrome learn the short host in that profile. A trailing slash (`go/<name>/`) also selects navigation without relying on that history. A single static redirect rule rewrites top-level navigations to `http(s)://sim/*` and `http(s)://go/*` to `<Sim origin>/sim/*` with the path and query unchanged. The `sim` and `go` host permissions exist only for that rule: every navigation to those hosts is redirected before it loads, and no other request is matched or observed. An organization that already serves an intranet host named `sim` or `go` should not install this build, since its links would be redirected to Sim. When another extension (such as another go-links tool) also redirects `go/`, Chrome applies the most recently installed extension's rule.
+- Type `sim`, press Space, enter the name, and press Enter to open an organization's [link](https://docs.sim.ai/search/sim-links). `go/<name>` opens the same link. Chrome can treat bare `go/<name>` or `sim/<name>` as a search before the redirect rule runs. Typing `http://go/<name>` once lets Chrome learn the short host in that profile. A trailing slash (`go/<name>/`) also selects navigation without relying on that history. A single static redirect rule rewrites top-level navigations to `http(s)://sim/*` and `http(s)://go/*` to `<Sim origin>/sim/*` with the path and query unchanged. The `sim` and `go` host permissions exist only for that rule: every navigation to those hosts is redirected before it loads, and no other request is matched or observed. An organization that already serves an intranet host named `sim` or `go` should not install this build, since its links would be redirected to Sim. When another extension (such as another go-links tool) also redirects `go/`, Chrome applies the most recently installed extension's rule.
 - The `sim` address-bar keyword (`sim`, then Space) lists matching Sim links while you type and opens what you enter through the same resolver. For these suggestions, the background worker sends the text typed before the first `/` or `?`, and nothing else, unless that text contains a space (a search) or is longer than a link name can be, to `<Sim origin>/api/sim-links/suggestions` with the signed-in session, and the extension's content security policy allows connections to that origin alone. Unlisted links are never suggested.
 - **+ → Browser shortcuts** separately opts into recovery for exact Google, Bing, DuckDuckGo, or Yahoo HTTPS search hosts. After a direct Chrome permission grant, dynamic request rules redirect only top-level GET requests with one query parameter containing a whole `go/<name>` or `sim/<name>` shortcut. Only that value reaches `/sim-links/recover`, which validates it and redirects to the existing authenticated resolver. Ordinary search terms, additional search parameters, subframes, and unsupported inputs are not forwarded. Chrome applies these rules without an extension search-URL observer. Turning a provider off removes its rules while preserving site access; revoking access clears its recovery choice. This does not enable page reference or change the default search provider.
 - Optional HTTP/HTTPS site access is requested only by a menu action naming that site. Chrome's `activeTab` access is temporary and does not follow arbitrary new sites.

apps/extension/scripts/build.ts

@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@ import { createPublicKey } from 'node:crypto'
 import { cp, mkdir, readFile, rm, writeFile } from 'node:fs/promises'
 import { dirname, resolve } from 'node:path'
 import { fileURLToPath } from 'node:url'
+import { SIM_LINK_HOST_PATTERN, SIM_LINK_HOSTS } from '@sim/browser-extension-protocol'
 import { build } from 'esbuild'
 import postcss from 'postcss'
 import loadPostcssConfig from 'postcss-load-config'
@@ -90,16 +91,18 @@ for (const [size, file] of [
   await cp(resolve(root, '../sim/public/favicon', file), resolve(dist, `icon-${size}.png`))
 }
 /**
- * Only requests to the short hosts reach this rule: `go/` is the habit people bring from other
- * companies, `sim/` our own. Chrome can classify a bare `go/<name>` as a search before navigation.
- * Preserve the path and query for actual short-host navigations.
+ * Only requests to the short hosts reach this rule. Chrome can classify a bare `go/<name>` as a
+ * search before navigation. Preserve the path and query for actual short-host navigations.
  */
 const simLinkRules = [
   {
     id: 1,
     priority: 1,
     action: { type: 'redirect', redirect: { regexSubstitution: `${origin.origin}/sim/\\1` } },
-    condition: { regexFilter: '^https?://(?:sim|go)/(.*)$', resourceTypes: ['main_frame'] },
+    condition: {
+      regexFilter: `^https?://(?:${SIM_LINK_HOST_PATTERN})/(.*)$`,
+      resourceTypes: ['main_frame'],
+    },
   },
 ]
 await writeFile(resolve(dist, 'sim-links.json'), JSON.stringify(simLinkRules, null, 2))
@@ -123,10 +126,7 @@ await writeFile(
       ],
       host_permissions: [
         `${origin.origin}/*`,
-        'http://sim/*',
-        'https://sim/*',
-        'http://go/*',
-        'https://go/*',
+        ...SIM_LINK_HOSTS.flatMap((host) => [`http://${host}/*`, `https://${host}/*`]),
       ],
       declarative_net_request: {
         rule_resources: [{ id: 'sim_links', enabled: true, path: 'sim-links.json' }],

apps/extension/scripts/test-e2e.ts

@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@ import {
   type AppToExtensionMessage,
   extensionToAppMessageSchema,
   pageSnapshotSchema,
+  SIM_LINK_HOSTS,
 } from '@sim/browser-extension-protocol'
 import { SecretReveal } from '@sim/emcn'
 import { createLogger } from '@sim/logger'
@@ -363,20 +364,17 @@ try {
     'HTTP and HTTPS navigations to the sim and go hosts reach the configured resolver',
     async () => {
       const tab = await page.context().newPage()
-      for (const [scheme, host] of [
-        ['http', 'sim'],
-        ['https', 'sim'],
-        ['http', 'go'],
-        ['https', 'go'],
-      ]) {
-        for (const path of [
-          'handbook',
-          'handbook/',
-          'jira/123?view=board',
-          'jira/a%2Fb?view=board%20view',
-        ]) {
-          await tab.goto(`${scheme}://${host}/${path}`)
-          assert(tab.url() === `${origin}/sim/${path}`, `${host}/${path} reached ${tab.url()}`)
+      for (const scheme of ['http', 'https']) {
+        for (const host of SIM_LINK_HOSTS) {
+          for (const path of [
+            'handbook',
+            'handbook/',
+            'jira/123?view=board',
+            'jira/a%2Fb?view=board%20view',
+          ]) {
+            await tab.goto(`${scheme}://${host}/${path}`)
+            assert(tab.url() === `${origin}/sim/${path}`, `${host}/${path} reached ${tab.url()}`)
+          }
         }
       }
       await tab.close()
@@ -1439,12 +1437,10 @@ try {
           await unchanged(url)
           await toggle(provider.id, true)
           for (const host of provider.hosts) {
-            for (const shortcut of [
-              'sim%2Faskit',
-              'sim/jira/ABC-123',
-              'go%2Faskit',
-              'go/jira/ABC-123',
-            ]) {
+            for (const shortcut of SIM_LINK_HOSTS.flatMap((short) => [
+              `${short}%2Faskit`,
+              `${short}/jira/ABC-123`,
+            ])) {
               const candidate = `https://${host}${provider.path}?client=chrome&${provider.parameter}=${shortcut}&source=qa`
               const prior = searchRequests.filter((request) => request.url === candidate).length
               await tab.goto(candidate)

apps/extension/src/omnibox.ts

@@ -24,14 +24,15 @@ interface SuggestedLink {
 
 /**
  * What was typed after the `sim` keyword, split where the name ends: `sim/jira/ABC-1?tab=all`
- * (a `sim/` or `go/` prefix is optional) has the name `jira` and the rest `/ABC-1?tab=all`. Surrounding spaces,
+ * (the `sim/` is optional) has the name `jira` and the rest `/ABC-1?tab=all`. Surrounding spaces,
  * the prefix, leading slashes, and any `#fragment` are dropped, as the address bar would; values
  * and the query otherwise stay exactly as typed.
  */
 function readTyped(text: string): { name: string; rest: string } {
   const typed = text
     .trim()
-    .replace(/^(?:sim|go)\//i, '')
+    // Only the keyword's own `sim/`: after it, `go/x` can be a link named `go` with a value.
+    .replace(/^sim\//i, '')
     .replace(/^\/+/, '')
     .replace(/#.*$/, '')
   const nameEnd = typed.search(/[/?]/)

apps/extension/src/search-recovery-dialog.tsx

@@ -122,7 +122,7 @@ export function SearchRecoveryDialog({ onClose }: SearchRecoveryDialogProps) {
               title={provider.label}
               titleActions={
                 <Switch
-                  aria-label={`${provider.label} sim/ and go/ shortcuts`}
+                  aria-label={`${provider.label} go/ and sim/ shortcuts`}
                   aria-busy={busyProvider === provider.id}
                   checked={settings?.[provider.id] ?? false}
                   disabled={!settings || loadError || busyProvider !== null}

apps/extension/src/search-recovery.ts

@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
+import { SIM_LINK_HOST_PATTERN } from '@sim/browser-extension-protocol'
 import { createLogger } from '@sim/logger'
 import { isRecordLike } from '@sim/utils/object'
 import { escapeRegExp } from '@sim/utils/string'
@@ -50,7 +51,7 @@ function recoveryRules(
 ): chrome.declarativeNetRequest.Rule[] {
   const hosts = provider.origins.map((origin) => escapeRegExp(new URL(origin).host)).join('|')
   const character = '(?:[a-z0-9._~:@/-]|%(?:2[6def]|3[0-9a]|4[0-9a-f]|5[0-9af]|6[1-9a-f]|7[0-9ae]))'
-  const shortcut = `(?:sim|go)(?:/|%2f)${character}+`
+  const shortcut = `(?:${SIM_LINK_HOST_PATTERN})(?:/|%2f)${character}+`
   const condition = {
     isUrlFilterCaseSensitive: false,
     requestDomains: provider.origins.map((origin) => new URL(origin).hostname),

apps/sim/app/(landing)/privacy/privacy-content.tsx

@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ function richText(content: string): ReactNode {
 export const PRIVACY_CONFIG: LegalPageConfig = {
   title: 'Privacy Policy',
   description: 'Sim Studio, Inc. · Operating the Sim platform (sim.ai)',
-  lastUpdated: 'November 3, 2026',
+  lastUpdated: 'November 4, 2026',
   intro: [
     {
       kind: 'paragraph',
@@ -836,7 +836,7 @@ export const PRIVACY_CONFIG: LegalPageConfig = {
         {
           kind: 'paragraph',
           content: richText(
-            'When You use the sim address-bar keyword, the extension sends the typed link name, before any path values or query, to Sim with Your authenticated session to suggest Your organization’s links. Suggestions are cached in memory and are not written to extension storage. Opening a sim/ shortcut sends its path and query to Sim to resolve the destination, then opens that destination. Sim records each link’s visit count and last-visited time. These requests also use the operational diagnostics described in this Privacy Policy. Choosing Create Sim Link from the browser menu opens a draft with the selected link’s address, omitting query parameters and fragments. The destination becomes an organization Sim Link only when You confirm creation. The extension does not read Your browser history or unrelated address-bar input.'
+            'When You use the sim address-bar keyword, the extension sends the typed link name, before any path values or query, to Sim with Your authenticated session to suggest Your organization’s links. Suggestions are cached in memory and are not written to extension storage. Opening a sim/ or go/ shortcut sends its path and query to Sim to resolve the destination, then opens that destination. Sim records each link’s visit count and last-visited time. These requests also use the operational diagnostics described in this Privacy Policy. Choosing Create link in Sim from the browser menu opens a draft with the selected link’s address, omitting query parameters and fragments. The destination becomes an organization link only when You confirm creation. The extension does not read Your browser history or unrelated address-bar input.'
           ),
         },
         {

apps/sim/app/extension/sign-in.tsx

@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ function LinkDraftSignIn() {
   const href = `/login?callbackUrl=${encodeURIComponent(SIM_LINK_DRAFT_PATH)}`
   return (
     <main className='flex h-dvh flex-col items-center justify-center gap-4 bg-[var(--bg)] p-6 text-center text-[var(--text-body)] text-small'>
-      <h1 className='text-lg'>Sign in to create a Sim Link</h1>
+      <h1 className='text-lg'>Sign in to create a link</h1>
       {needsSeparateTab ? (
         <>
           <p>Sign in in another tab, then reload this draft.</p>

apps/sim/app/o/[organizationId]/links/managed-bookmarks.tsx

@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ export function ManagedBookmarks({ organizationId }: ManagedBookmarksProps) {
   const visible = new Set(listed.map((link) => link.id))
   const options = [...candidates.values()].map((link) => ({
     value: link.id,
-    label: `sim/${link.name}`,
+    label: link.name,
     hidden: !visible.has(link.id),
     disabled: selected.length >= MAX_MANAGED_BOOKMARKS && !selectedIds.has(link.id),
   }))
@@ -57,7 +57,7 @@ export function ManagedBookmarks({ organizationId }: ManagedBookmarksProps) {
           url: new URL(routes.openSimLink(name), window.location.origin).href,
         }))
         saveBlob(
-          new Blob([JSON.stringify([{ name: 'Sim Links', children }], null, 2)], {
+          new Blob([JSON.stringify([{ name: 'Links', children }], null, 2)], {
             type: 'application/json',
           }),
           'sim-managed-bookmarks.json'