SideWire

Tracking since Apr 30, 2026.

Changelog

• May 23, 2026
  description

  SideWire: Your Unified AI Workspace in the Side Panel
  
  Stop switching tabs and losing your focus. SideWire brings the world’s most powerful AI models—Claude, ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Gemini—directly into your browser’s side panel, creating a persistent, seamless workspace that stays with you as you browse.
  
  Key Features:
  
  Unified AI Access: Host all your favorite AI providers in one panel. Switch between Claude’s reasoning, ChatGPT’s versatility, and Gemini’s speed with a single click.
  
  Instant Context Capture: Seamlessly capture current tabs, specific screen regions, or PDFs and feed them directly into your AI chat for instant analysis or summarization.
  
  Smart Prompt Library: Build and save a collection of your most effective prompts. Deploy them instantly to automate repetitive tasks like code explanation, email drafting, or data extraction.
  
  Deep Browser Integration: SideWire interacts directly with AI web interfaces, enabling automatic text pasting and file uploads to streamline your workflow.
  
  Productivity-First Design: Built for developers, researchers, and writers who need AI power without the friction of constant tab management.
  
  Why SideWire? Most AI tools live in isolated tabs. SideWire turns your browser into an integrated AI powerhouse. Whether you are debugging complex code, summarizing long-form research, or brainstorming ideas, SideWire ensures your AI tools are always exactly where you need them.
  
  Experience a faster, smarter way to browse with SideWire.

  SideWire turns Chrome's side panel into a multi-provider AI workspace. Pick a chat — Claude, ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, or the built-in on-device Local model — and send the page you're looking at into it in one click.
  
  WHAT IT CAPTURES
  • Markdown of the current tab (clean article text, links preserved)
  • Visible-tab screenshots
  • A region of the page you drag-select
  • A desktop window or monitor (not just browser tabs)
  • Anything you've saved as a reusable prompt
  
  HOW IT DELIVERS
  SideWire pastes captures directly into the active provider's composer. Your conversation stays on the provider's site — SideWire only acts as a fast input pipeline.
  
  LOCAL CHAT (NEW IN 0.5)
  For private work, switch to Local. SideWire talks to Gemini Nano running entirely on your device, when Chrome supports it. Features:
  • Persistent conversations with a slide-in sidebar (Today / Yesterday / Previous 7 days / Previous 30 days / Older)
  • Markdown rendering, copy & retry on assistant replies, edit pencil on your last message
  • Long pastes (>1500 chars or >15 lines) auto-collapse into an attachment chip — like in Claude.ai
  • Paperclip to attach image and text files the model can actually read
  • Auto-compress: when the small on-device context window fills past 75%, SideWire summarizes the older turns into a single note so the conversation keeps flowing
  • Top-right indicator shows live context usage, amber at 75%, red at 90%
  
  KEYBOARD SHORTCUTS
  • Alt+Shift+S — capture screen / window
  • Alt+Shift+T — capture the visible tab
  • Alt+Shift+P — open saved prompts
  • Alt+Shift+A — toggle the floating widget on AI sites
  
  PRIVACY
  • Local chat conversations never leave your machine.
  • Cloud providers (Claude / ChatGPT / Perplexity / Gemini) receive only what you explicitly send.
  • No analytics, no third-party trackers.

• May 23, 2026
  short_description

  SideWire: AI panel for Claude, ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Gemini. Capture screens, tabs, or PDFs; save reusable prompts.

  AI side panel for Claude, ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, and on-device Local. Capture screens, tabs, regions; save reusable prompts.

• May 23, 2026
  host_permissions

  https://chatgpt.com/*, https://chat.openai.com/*, https://claude.ai/*, https://www.perplexity.ai/*, https://perplexity.ai/*, https://gemini.google.com/*

  https://chatgpt.com/*, https://chat.openai.com/*, https://claude.ai/*, https://claude.com/*, https://www.perplexity.ai/*, https://perplexity.ai/*, https://gemini.google.com/*

• May 23, 2026
  permissions

  desktopCapture, sidePanel, clipboardWrite, tabs, scripting, storage, offscreen, declarativeNetRequestWithHostAccess

  desktopCapture, sidePanel, clipboardWrite, tabs, scripting, storage, offscreen, contextMenus, declarativeNetRequestWithHostAccess

Permissions & access

Permissions

desktopCapturesidePanelclipboardWritetabsscriptingstorageoffscreencontextMenusdeclarativeNetRequestWithHostAccess

Host access

https://chatgpt.com/*, https://chat.openai.com/*, https://claude.ai/*, https://claude.com/*, https://www.perplexity.ai/*, https://perplexity.ai/*, https://gemini.google.com/*

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