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

A developer released ChatPanel, an open-source browser side panel that acts as a privacy-first AI agent, allowing users to bring their own models (Codex, Claude Code, local, in-browser, or remote) and featuring a live meeting assistant, local note-taking, voice-to-text, NER/PII redaction, and an MCP hub. The creator claims the tool provides complete model flexibility with no data tracking, requiring only a browser extension and associated npm packages.

read1 min views3 publishedJul 21, 2026

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.

Comments URL: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48991094](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48991094)

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