Shoulder Surfer
AI-powered article summaries on hover, deep-dive research, and interactive page analysis with LLM.
As of June 2026, Shoulder Surfer has — users in the Productivity category.
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Version
1.0.0
Manifest V3
History
6 snapshotsTracking since Apr 17, 2026.
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| Date | Users | Rating | Reviews | Version |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 17, 2026 | — | — | — | 1.0.0 |
| Apr 27, 2026 | — | — | — | 1.0.0 |
| May 10, 2026 | — | — | — | 1.0.0 |
| May 16, 2026 | 1 | — | — | 1.0.0 |
| May 29, 2026 | — | — | — | 1.0.0 |
| Jun 4, 2026 | 1 | — | — | 1.0.0 |
| Now | — | — | — | 1.0.0 |
Permissions & access
- Permissions
- storageoffscreenscriptingcontextMenus
- Host access
- <all_urls>
Screenshots
About
Shoulder Surfer brings instant AI-powered insights to every link you hover over.
★ HOVER SUMMARIES
Hover over any link for a 1–2 sentence AI summary + key facts. Built on OpenRouter LLM with local caching, no interruption to your reading.
★ DEEP-DIVE RESEARCH (Deep Read)
Click Deep Read to automatically explore related links and synthesize a broader analysis. Agentic pipeline selects and fetches context-rich content, then generates 3–5 recommendations with full summaries.
★ HIGHLIGHT KEY INSIGHTS
Right-click → "Highlight Key Insights" to find and visually mark the most important statements on any page.
★ CHAT-BASED HIGHLIGHTING
Describe what you're looking for ("quotes about climate impact") and the AI finds and highlights matching passages in real-time.
★ CUSTOM SORTING
Re-rank any list or table by your criteria ("highest rated", "most recent").
★ PAGE Q&A
Ask a question about the page and get an instant answer with quoted sources.
★ PAGE SUMMARY
Hit Cmd/Ctrl+Space → Read mode for a full-page summary plus key insights.
★ MODEL PICKER
Choose between 3 LLM tiers (fast 20b, mid-tier 120b, premium grok-4.1-fast) on-the-fly with Ctrl+1/2/3.
REQUIREMENTS:
- OpenRouter API key (get one free at openrouter.ai, pay only for inference)
- Chrome 120+Technical
- Version
- 1.0.0
- Manifest
- V3
- Size
- 10.63MiB
- Min Chrome
- 120
- Languages
- 1
- Featured
- No
Metadata
- ID
- debogkjgmefdobffdckikonnebghlmbg
- Developer ID
- u87e9c235b41887d8e6c473e5d61a707e
- Developer Email
- [email protected]
- Created
- Mar 3, 2026
- Last Updated (Store)
- Mar 3, 2026
- Last Scraped
- Jun 4, 2026
- Website
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- Support URL
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- Privacy Policy
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