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Turn your best AI prompts into one-click tools in Chrome

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_doctor_lovetoday at 7:24 PM

I really hope this doesn't have the same security model as Chrome Extensions!

I can see the appeal of this feature and I am generally speaking an AI booster.

On the other hand...like...wat? This feature feels way too premature and risky to let loose on the public.

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skeeter2020today at 6:49 PM

my most commonly repeated prompt; would be nice if the baked it into the tool itself:

"No emojis. be concise. no suggestions unless I explicitly ask for them. answer questions like the machine you are. Don't try and add personality or humour; remember you're a robot."

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woodydesigntoday at 9:13 PM

My prompt collection lives in three different places right now — Raycast snippets, Apple Notes, and a Notion page that keeps growing. I know I wrote a good one for my git commit/push flow somewhere, but finding it when I need it usually takes longer than just rewriting it.

The browser approach makes sense for Claude code and ChatGPT. I wonder how well it holds up once you have 50+ prompts though — finding the right one fast is the real problem for me.

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hotsaladtoday at 8:48 PM

So, bookmarklets for Chrome's AI integration?

parastitoday at 7:47 PM

These days announcements like this just make me want to put on my tinfoil hat - what's in it for Google, though? Why make it more convenient for people to submit webpages to you?

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orwintoday at 6:21 PM

I hate that. I understand that it might be useful, and tbh, on personnal PC, i'm not even concerned. But it is going towards people pushing to replace XQL or other query languages with prompting in natural languages, for no good reasons. Generate your query and copy paste if you don't want to read the documentation man, but please, please keep an intermediary between the LLM and the real world data. The last time your fucking prompt gave me a "log overview" i lost 2 hours understanding what the fuck i was reading, when a query would have taken me at most 20 minutes.

Convert my AI prompt into the code for a one-click tool, let me read and share it, that would be _great_.

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pacman1337today at 8:17 PM

I need skill to block ads

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londons_exploretoday at 7:41 PM

So much of the web has no API anymore and is hostile to robots.

The script to turn the coffee maker on when dad posts on Facebook for the first time each morning that worked in 2014 won't work anymore in 2026.

Having this sort of thing built into a mainstream browser will open up a new avenue for automation, which I think will be a good thing for breaking down data silos and being good for the world overall.

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mwkaufmatoday at 7:31 PM

Never before have people been able to effortlessly visualize whole landing pages to tell them to put glue on pizza.

skybriantoday at 7:42 PM

This sounds to me like yet another way to automate filling out forms. I had been thinking about vibe-coding a Chrome extension for one form I fill in regularly, but perhaps this is easier.

jeffbeetoday at 6:18 PM

I would be more excited by this if there was a better permissions model for these things. For example I can think of a skill that would need access to a certain corpus of documents that I host on Google Drive, but, as far as I have been able to determine using Google's other AI products, there is no way for me to grant read-only access to that corpus without granting read-write access to all of my data on Google, which is simply too much access for my taste. There has to be something less binary than Personalization:on/off?

marsavartoday at 7:05 PM

Who wants this?

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christoff12today at 5:46 PM

This could be interesting

hypfertoday at 7:46 PM

Ah yes. Ticks all the boxes

- Becoming a Platform

- AI

- User-generated content

[list continues]

There is something comforting about seeing that the SV stopped having ideas and now just recycles and recombines the same tropes over and over again.

It's still all terrible, but it's a devil you know. You can live with that. You can skip the broken stair and duck, knowing exactly when they're trying to punch you in the face again.

Now here's hoping that eventually, they get bored and just stop entirely.

PunchTornadotoday at 7:20 PM

Jesus, I don't want to be mean, but some things that Google creates are completeyl useless...

fragromtoday at 6:54 PM

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