Automattic / Automattic/harper

Autocorrect in the Chrome Extension

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Description

We have implemented hotkeys for opening a suggestion, and for actually applying the most likely suggestion without review. I'd love to extend this functionality to allow people to configure Harper to simply and directly apply the suggestion automatically, but only if it is high-confidence.

In the beginning, we can apply it to only spellchecking, then expand from there. I'm not sure how we'd feed confidence scores to the frontend. Perhaps `priority` is a good enough approximation?

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Research direction

Start by tracing the existing hotkey flows for opening and applying suggestions, then inspect how the frontend receives spellchecking suggestions and their priority. Define the high-confidence threshold and verify that only eligible spelling suggestions are applied automatically, while preserving the existing manual actions.

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Assessment

Tech stack
rust
Domain
frontend
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Activity status
Quiet
Clarity
Mostly clear
Newbie friendliness
45/100

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