For most of last year, my writing workflow looked like a crime scene. Twelve open tabs. A doc in one window, the source material in another, a chatbot in a third. Every time I wanted help drafting something, I’d copy text out, paste it into a chat, wait, copy the response back, and lose the thread of what I was actually doing. Lite Agent is the thing I built to kill that loop. It’s an AI assistant that runs in a side panel inside your browser — not a separate app, not a tab you forget about. It sees the page you’re on and works with it.
Here’s what changed for me once it was the default.
The first thing I noticed: I stopped rewriting everything it gave me. Lite Agent picks up how I actually write — the cadence, the directness, the way I’d rather show you a thing than describe it. When I ask it to draft a reply, a post, or a summary, it comes back sounding like me on a good day, not like a press release.
That matters more than it sounds like it should. Most assistants optimize for “correct.” Lite Agent optimizes for yours. The draft is a starting point I can ship, not a paragraph I have to translate.
Because it lives in the side panel, it never loses context. I’m reading an article and want to respond to it — the assistant already has the article. I’m filling out a form and need to phrase something — it’s right there. No “paste the context again.” No “what were we talking about.”
For builders, operators, and founders who live in the browser, that’s the whole game. The tool should sit next to the work, not across the room from it. This is the part I didn’t know I needed. Lite Agent can store backups of what we work on. Drafts, notes, the half-finished things you’d normally lose when you close the tab. It’s not just a chat that evaporates the moment you navigate away. The work persists.
And “backups” is really shorthand for a bigger idea: it keeps state. Your tone profile, your in-progress writing, the references you’ve built up — they’re there next time instead of gone.
The side panel turns out to be a good home for a lot of small jobs:
None of these are revolutionary alone. Together, they’re the difference between an assistant you open when you’re stuck and one you never close.
I wrote elsewhere about not wanting an assistant that’s manipulative or slippery — the design choice that matters is whether the tool respects your context and your voice, or hijacks them. Lite Agent is built on the boring version of that bet: stay in the page, match the user, keep their stuff safe. The boring design wins.
If your writing life looks like my old twelve-tab mess, that’s the pitch. It’s on GitHub, it runs where you already work, and it sounds like you.
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