The Chrome extension — your assistant beside every tab
Put your assistant in a Chrome side panel, next to whatever you are working on — and let it read the page you are on when you ask.
Last updated August 27, 2026
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The Chrome extension puts your assistant in a side panel, next to whatever you are working on. It is a channel like any other — the same assistant, the same conversation history, in sync with the web app. Start a thought in the panel and finish it on praxivara.com, or the other way round.
Install and sign in
Open Praxivara Assistant in the Chrome Web Store and choose Add to Chrome. You need Chrome 116 or newer.
Click the Praxivara button in the toolbar, or press Ctrl+Shift+Y (Command+Shift+Y on a Mac). Pinning the button to the toolbar makes it easier to find.
The first time, the panel opens on a short screen explaining what the assistant can and cannot do with the page you are on. Read it and press I understand.
Choose Sign in to Praxivara in the panel. A Praxivara sign-in window opens; sign in as you normally would and approve the browser.
The panel opens on your conversation. Type, attach a file, or dictate — and anything you send here appears on the web and on your phone too.
Ask about the page you are on
Most of what you ask has nothing to do with whichever tab you happen to have open, and it is treated that way. When your question is about what is on your screen — summarise this, what does this clause mean, pull the figures out of this table — the assistant reads that tab and answers from it. Nothing is read in the background.
You can also right-click: Ask Praxivara about this appears when you have text selected, and Ask Praxivara about this page on any page. Either one opens the panel with that page or selection in hand.
How site access works
- Nothing is granted when you install it. The extension only ever needs praxivara.com — its own backend. Access to other sites is optional and is never given up front.
- Opening it yourself covers that tab. Open the panel from the toolbar button, the keyboard shortcut, or the right-click menu and Chrome grants access to that one tab for that visit, so those routes read with no prompt.
- Otherwise it asks once per site. Typically when the panel is already open and you move to a new site, the first read there shows Chrome's own permission prompt. Your answer is remembered for that site.
- You stay in charge. Widen it to all sites, or take any of it back, from Extensions › Praxivara Assistant › Site access.
What the panel can do
- Attach files. Click the paperclip, or paste an image straight into the composer.
- Dictate. Press the microphone instead of typing. The first time, Chrome opens a normal tab to grant microphone access, because it will not ask from a side panel.
- Pick a model. Leave it on Auto, or choose one for the conversation.
- Use slash commands. Type / for shortcuts like a task, a reminder, a web search, or reading the page you are on.
- Stop a reply. The Stop button cancels a reply that is still coming.
- Get told when it is done. If a reply lands while you are looking at something else, Chrome shows one notification. Clicking it reopens the panel.
What it can show
The panel runs the same card renderer as the web assistant, so tool results, charts, diagrams and interactive widgets look the way they do on the web. Approval cards work here too: anything that needs your say-so — sending an email, spending money — waits for you to press the button, exactly as it does everywhere else in Praxivara.
Good to know
Chrome does not let extensions read its own pages, such as chrome:// tabs or the Web Store, so the assistant will tell you rather than fail quietly. The extension is Chrome only, and each browser you connect is listed in your account — disconnect any of them whenever you like.