# yize/xswitch

A Chrome Extension for redirecting/forwarding request urls

Repository: https://github.com/yize/xswitch
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/xswitch
Homepage: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/xswitch/idkjhjggpffolpidfkikidcokdkdaogg
Language: TypeScript
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Topics: chrome-extension, forwarding, proxy, redirect-urls, redirecting-requests
Last push: 2026-07-23T07:50:38+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 84/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 94, release rhythm 61, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 3156, "days_push": 41, "days_rel": 44, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 1}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1074, forks 144 (observed 2026-08-28T04:03:28.976850+00:00)

## What it is
XSwitch is a Chrome browser extension for redirecting and forwarding request URLs using browser-native APIs, with rule groups, CORS support, cache disabling, and a Monaco-based rule editor. It also ships a local stdio MCP server so AI clients like Claude Code can read and modify forwarding rules safely on the machine.

## Use cases
- redirect production CDN assets to localhost during frontend development
- forward HTTPS URLs to a local dev server without security warnings
- enable CORS headers for specific domains while testing
- disable browser cache while debugging
- replace substrings or regex patterns in request URLs
- let an AI assistant manage redirect rules via MCP

## When to choose
- you need request-level URL rewriting inside Chrome without a separate proxy server
- you want CORS or cache toggles per-site during development
- you prefer declarative JSONC rules with comments and autocomplete

## When to avoid
- you need a system-wide or non-Chromium proxy solution
- you need to intercept or modify request/response bodies, not just URLs
- you use Windows for the MCP bridge, which only supports macOS and Linux

## Facets
- artifact type: plugin
- maturity: active
- function: proxy, developer-tools, plugin-system, mcp
- domain: developer-tools, web-development, browser-extensions
- platform: browser-extension, browser
- tags: request-redirect, url-forwarding, chrome-extension, cors, rule-based-proxy, ai-rule-configuration, macos, linux, nodejs

## Member repositories
- yize/xswitch (main) score 84

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:03:28.976850+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T06:53:34.391519+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/yize/xswitch (fetched 2026-08-28T04:03:28.976850+00:00, sha 30904ec39adf)
  - homepage: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/xswitch/idkjhjggpffolpidfkikidcokdkdaogg (fetched 2026-08-29T12:55:17.601161+00:00, sha ed8f3bb75691)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.