Pathlight

Tracking since Apr 8, 2026.

Changelog

• Apr 19, 2026
  description

  Pathlight is an AI-powered side panel that reads any webpage and helps you complete tasks — step by step.
  
  HOW IT WORKS
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  Open the Pathlight panel, ask your question in plain English, and watch as the exact button, link, or field you need gets highlighted on screen. For multi-step tasks, tap "What's next?" and Pathlight walks you through to the end.
  
  FEATURES
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  • Reads the real page — answers based on what's actually on screen, not generic help docs
  • Spotlight overlay — dims the page and highlights exactly what to click
  • Step-by-step guidance — breaks complex tasks into numbered steps
  • Works on any website — GitHub, banking portals, enterprise tools, e-commerce, anything
  • SPA-aware — detects page navigation and refreshes automatically
  • Privacy controls — toggle off page text sending; only structural metadata is required
  
  PRIVACY
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  Pathlight does not require an account. No tracking, no ads, no analytics. Page text is optional and off by default. Full privacy policy at [YOUR_PRIVACY_URL].
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  **Privacy tab:**
  - **Privacy policy URL:** your deployed URL from Step 2
  - **Single purpose:** "Provides AI-powered guidance for completing tasks on any website"
  - **Permission justifications:**
    - `activeTab` — needed to extract page structure from the current tab
    - `scripting` — needed to inject the content script that reads the DOM and renders the spotlight overlay
    - `storage` — needed to save user settings (backend URL, privacy preferences)
    - `sidePanel` — needed to display the Pathlight panel alongside the page

  Pathlight is an AI-powered side panel that reads any webpage and helps you complete tasks — step by step.
  
  HOW IT WORKS
  ━━━━━━━━━━━━
  Open the Pathlight panel, ask your question in plain English, and watch as the exact button, link, or field you need gets highlighted on screen. For multi-step tasks, tap "What's next?" and Pathlight walks you through to the end.
  
  FEATURES
  ━━━━━━━━
  • Reads the real page — answers based on what's actually on screen, not generic help docs
  • Spotlight overlay — dims the page and highlights exactly what to click
  • Step-by-step guidance — breaks complex tasks into numbered steps
  • Works on any website — GitHub, banking portals, enterprise tools, e-commerce, anything
  • SPA-aware — detects page navigation and refreshes automatically
  • Privacy controls — toggle off page text sending; only structural metadata is required
  
  PRIVACY
  ━━━━━━━
  Pathlight does not require an account. No tracking, no ads, no analytics. Page text is optional and off by default. Full privacy policy at https://pathlight-site.vercel.app/privacy-policy.html.
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Permissions & access

Permissions

activeTabscriptingstoragesidePanel

Host access

None declared

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