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BrowserKitten (爪爪 / PawWork) is a side-panel Chrome agent that treats your already-logged-in browser as a programmable computer: you select something on the live page, describe the outcome you want, and it hands back an editable sheet, Univer document, or page snapshot.
BrowserKitten (爪爪 / PawWork) is a side-panel Chrome agent that treats your already-logged-in browser as a programmable computer: you select something on the live page, describe the outcome you want, and it hands back an editable sheet, Univer document, or page snapshot.Is this a Chrome Web Store app or something else?It is an unpacked Chrome MV3 extension you load yourself through Developer mode, not something installed from the Chrome Web Store.
It is an unpacked Chrome MV3 extension you load yourself through Developer mode, not something installed from the Chrome Web Store.How do I get it running?Download the Release zip or clone the repo and point Chrome at the extension/ folder, then load it as an unpacked extension via chrome://extensions → Developer mode → Load unpacked, and open the side panel.
Download the Release zip or clone the repo and point Chrome at the extension/ folder, then load it as an unpacked extension via chrome://extensions → Developer mode → Load unpacked, and open the side panel.Do I need an API key to use it?Yes — it is BYOK, so you paste your own provider API key straight into the side panel; you also need Chrome 135+ (138+ to enable 'Allow User Scripts' for sys.eval/page fetch).
Yes — it is BYOK, so you paste your own provider API key straight into the side panel; you also need Chrome 135+ (138+ to enable 'Allow User Scripts' for sys.eval/page fetch).What won't work with this?Restricted pages such as chrome:// URLs or the Web Store return a NEEDPAGE error and can't be automated, and you must close DevTools (F12) on the target tab before the agent's CDP connection works.
Restricted pages such as chrome:// URLs or the Web Store return a NEEDPAGE error and can't be automated, and you must close DevTools (F12) on the target tab before the agent's CDP connection works.What can it actually do out of the box?It ships one packaged playbook, page-restyle, plus demonstrated use cases: scraping a logged-in page into a sheet, auto-filling forms, downloading files with your page identity, batch-processing tabs, and injecting reading aids.
It ships one packaged playbook, page-restyle, plus demonstrated use cases: scraping a logged-in page into a sheet, auto-filling forms, downloading files with your page identity, batch-processing tabs, and injecting reading aids.How does the agent work under the hood?Requests flow from the side panel to a service worker to an offscreen SessionWorkspaceService built on an AI SDK ToolLoopAgent, which calls 'action' (snapshot/mutate the live tab), 'run' (sandboxed JS with sys helpers for tabs/eval/fetch/cdp/download/screenshot), and sheet/doc/web tools backed by Univer.
Requests flow from the side panel to a service worker to an offscreen SessionWorkspaceService built on an AI SDK ToolLoopAgent, which calls 'action' (snapshot/mutate the live tab), 'run' (sandboxed JS with sys helpers for tabs/eval/fetch/cdp/download/screenshot), and sheet/doc/web tools backed by Univer.Why isn't this on the Chrome Web Store?It is built deliberately as unpacked-only with no hosted model and no userscript catalog — BYOK by design, trading store convenience for full control over what the agent is allowed to run.
It is built deliberately as unpacked-only with no hosted model and no userscript catalog — BYOK by design, trading store convenience for full control over what the agent is allowed to run.What kind of files does a task hand back?Depending on the task it returns an editable Univer spreadsheet or document, or a captured site-HTML snapshot, so a browsing task ends up as something you can keep editing.
Depending on the task it returns an editable Univer spreadsheet or document, or a captured site-HTML snapshot, so a browsing task ends up as something you can keep editing.What are similar projects?nanobrowser, stagehand, integrity_baozi-, automa, ai-newtab, bb-browser, jev-ultrafast, chatGPTBox
nanobrowser, stagehand, integrity_baozi-, automa, ai-newtab, bb-browser, jev-ultrafast, chatGPTBoxWhich topics is it in?browser-agent, pptx, extension, byok, chrome-extension, browser-extension, web-scraping, sandbox, browser-automation, browser, ai-agent, productivity
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