Replace go-rod with chromedp for installability

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -6,6 +6,20 @@ All notable changes to kage are recorded here. The format follows
 
 ## [Unreleased]
 
+### Fixed
+
+- `go install github.com/tamnd/kage/cmd/kage@latest` works again ([#72](https://github.com/tamnd/kage/issues/72)).
+  The module no longer carries a `replace` directive for `github.com/ysmood/leakless`.
+  Headless Chrome is driven with [chromedp](https://github.com/chromedp/chromedp), so the antivirus-flagged leakless helper is not linked at all (also keeping [#68](https://github.com/tamnd/kage/issues/68) fixed without a replace).
+
+### Changed
+
+- Page renders no longer apply [go-rod-stealth](https://github.com/go-rod/stealth)'s anti-detection evasions, which the chromedp migration does not carry over.
+  Chrome still launches with automation flags off, but pages now see headless Chrome's default user agent on renders (asset and robots fetches still use `--user-agent`).
+  Sites with aggressive bot detection may serve a clone different content than before.
+- `--settle` is now a fixed wait after page load instead of a network-idle watch: chromedp has no equivalent of go-rod's request-idle helper.
+  A page that keeps fetching past the settle window may be snapshotted slightly earlier than before.
+
 ## [0.3.9] - 2026-07-08
 
 ### Fixed
@@ -14,6 +28,7 @@ All notable changes to kage are recorded here. The format follows
   go-rod's launcher imports [leakless](https://github.com/ysmood/leakless), which base64/gzip-embeds a prebuilt helper for every platform and links the Windows one into `kage.exe`.
   kage already launches Chrome with leakless disabled, so the helper never ran, only added the flagged bytes.
   A `replace` directive now points the package at an API-compatible stub under `third_party/leakless` that carries no embedded binary, dropping about 1.28 MB from the Windows build.
+  *(Superseded in Unreleased by the chromedp migration, which removes leakless entirely and restores `go install`.)*
 
 ## [0.3.6] - 2026-06-19
 

README.md

@@ -258,7 +258,7 @@ The repo is split by concern:
 cmd/kage/   thin main: pins the main thread, then hands off to cli.Execute
 cli/        the cobra command tree and flag wiring
 clone/      the crawl: frontier, render workers, asset workers, resume state
-browser/    headless Chrome control and DOM snapshotting
+browser/    headless Chrome control (chromedp) and DOM snapshotting
 sanitize/   strip scripts, handlers, and javascript: URLs from the DOM
 asset/      download and localise CSS, images, and fonts
 urlx/       the deterministic URL-to-path mapping