Show HN: ChatPanel, A Privacy-first AI Agent browser side panel

[earth2mars]

I needed an AI agent that understands my work better (meetings, notes, chats and lives where I access the web) and gives me flexibility to use the model of choice. So, I built this and I am a 100x engineer now.

A few features to highlight.

- You bring your own Agent (Codex, claude code etc) or local models or in-browser models or remote models - A live meeting assistant. You got to try to this to see the power of it - A local note taking app where AI Agents live - Voice to Text (all local) - NER and PII redaction before sending data to agents, models - Search across your chats, notes and meetings - Try asking drawing stuff on excalidraw ot tldr draw in browser act mode - in-built MCP hub you can add - Bring your own CLI agent (pi, opencode etc)

Complete flexibility on which model, agent you want to send each message to while we don't track any data. Its Open source for you to validate all the privacy claims to build your trust

You just need the browser extension and associated npm packages to build the bridge between your AI agents/models and the extension. Give it a try.

[earth2mars]

There was question about how live meeting assistant works. 1/ you have to use the browser version of the meeting (not native apps) and have the chatpanel open while the meeting happening. you can ask any question about the meeting while the meeting happening and chatpanel will use configured AI agent/llm provider to answer it. Towards the meeting end it can summarize. the best part is you can ask all sorts of questions after meeting ends which is missing from out of the box meeting features provided by the meeting provider. It depends on the closed captions being enabled and capture that as live scribe. I am planning to add browser audio caption feature as well in the future