ChatGPT just introduced me to bookmarklettes for scraping web pages with JavaScript. It’s one in that group of skills that ChatGPT does very well—the prompt is just a few sentences and the results just work.
Turn your best AI prompts into one-click tools in Chrome
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#102Earlier quoted context omitted.
Gah - What a dumb take. There's nothing APT about an agent that you can open on a webpage to do things. If anything it's a fantastic accessibility win. Some people's critical thinking turns off when it comes to AI flows.
> There's nothing APT about an agent that you can open on a webpage to do things You can "hack" the agent by literally just putting some text on any website it reads. AI browsers have turned EVERY comment feature EVERYWHERE into XSS. This is stupid but mostly benign where the AI only spits out text. It's catastrophic if the AI does anything to the webpage. (And AI firms want people to use this everywhere) What is the…
1) This is not APT.
2) While injection has potential, this is fairly well mitigated. Look at comet and others.
These are all whataboutisms coming from a place of fear.
Re: Turn your best AI prompts into one-click tools in Chrome
#103A big limitation for skills (or agents using browsers) is that the LLM is working against raw html/DOM/pixels. The new WebMCP API solves this: apps register schema-validated tools via navigator.modelContext, so the agent has structured JSON to work with and can be way more reliable. WebMCP is currently being incubated in W3C [1], so if it lands as a proper browser standard, this becomes a endpoint every website can e…
>Remote APIs need hand-crafted endpoints for every possible agent action.
They already need a remote API for every possible user action. MCP is just duplicate work.
Re: Turn your best AI prompts into one-click tools in Chrome
#104Earlier quoted context omitted.
> There's nothing APT about an agent that you can open on a webpage to do things You can "hack" the agent by literally just putting some text on any website it reads. AI browsers have turned EVERY comment feature EVERYWHERE into XSS. This is stupid but mostly benign where the AI only spits out text. It's catastrophic if the AI does anything to the webpage. (And AI firms want people to use this everywhere) What is the…
1) This is not APT. 2) While injection has potential, this is fairly well mitigated. Look at comet and others. These are all whataboutisms coming from a place of fear.
No LLM model has enough mitigations to prevent injections.
Re: Turn your best AI prompts into one-click tools in Chrome
#105Earlier quoted context omitted.
> There's nothing APT about an agent that you can open on a webpage to do things You can "hack" the agent by literally just putting some text on any website it reads. AI browsers have turned EVERY comment feature EVERYWHERE into XSS. This is stupid but mostly benign where the AI only spits out text. It's catastrophic if the AI does anything to the webpage. (And AI firms want people to use this everywhere) What is the…
1) This is not APT. 2) While injection has potential, this is fairly well mitigated. Look at comet and others. These are all whataboutisms coming from a place of fear.
Pretty sure simonw's lethal trifecta [1] has not been "fairly well" mitigated.
[1] https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jun/16/the-lethal-trifecta/
Re: Turn your best AI prompts into one-click tools in Chrome
#106I know everyone hates ads or whatever, but why would anyone make content on their own website anymore if google and the browser are doing everything in their power to keep your users from interacting with your own page. Also I don't want to hear the crap about ads being too invasive, its their content, they can do that if they want, and you can not have access to their content. They have to be able to monetize the pa…
This touches on something I've been thinking about. I'm making an ad blocker that tries to replace native ads with ads that actually add value to the viewer's life. In the public version, I'd like to offer some of the profits to the web hosts even if they haven't heard of it. Do you have any thoughts on how it would be best to go about that?
I don't want your product, and I don't want ads. "But ads are what supports XYZ!" I don't care. I don't want it. Whatever you think will crumble away without advertisements, let it all fade away into nothing.
Re: Turn your best AI prompts into one-click tools in Chrome
#107So you're telling me we spent over a decade turning the browser from a sieve full of vulnerabilities into an impenetrable sandbox, and now we're directly introducing an APT?
Gah - What a dumb take. There's nothing APT about an agent that you can open on a webpage to do things. If anything it's a fantastic accessibility win. Some people's critical thinking turns off when it comes to AI flows.
Fine. Now give me back browser plugins that can actually do whatever I want them to.
You can justify manifest v3 for security reasons, or you can can do this. You cannot do both without severe cognitive dissonance.
Re: Turn your best AI prompts into one-click tools in Chrome
#108Who wants this?
I can imagine a moderator, or a marketing person, wanting such a tool. "Respond to this post in a polite and friendly manner, thank the user for choosing our company, discovering a problem, and taking the time to report it. Promise to sort this out quickly. If the user is really angry and threatens legal action, promise an immediate refund, and shoot me an email with the summary of the issue, and all the details." If…
>If instead of a copy-pasting spree, or setting up a whateverClaw, the user might just click a button in Chrome, it could be actually useful. (Consider a dozen such buttons.)
isn't this basically just putting a decision tree on top of the llms?
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#109From a user's perspective, this is amazing. I love the idea and want to do this. However, as soon as Google does something you can use they either depreciate it, discontinue it or change the price model in an unexpected way. So I'm always hesitant to commit to the Google Solution.
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#110Earlier quoted context omitted.
UBI feels like a natural solution to what I assume is a ubiquitous problem in the workforce: A certain percentage of people are absolutely worthless in their job, and everyone would be better off if we just paid those people to stay home.
Even if you’re competent and useful, work is an incredible sacrifice. Perhaps only 10% of workers (the most unattached and lacking in obligations) would voluntarily work. For example for parents there are only a litany of bad choices available. If UBI is offered, why would most people suffer through their work sacrifices.
> Perhaps only 10% of workers (the most unattached and lacking in obligations) would voluntarily work.
That's not even close to true. Basically every study on UBI, everywhere, has shown that either more people work, or employment stays about the same, but in each case happiness and health go up vs the control.
Since it's very clear you haven't researched your claim whatsoever - why are you making it? Why would you say something so wrong with so much confidence?