Rudra AI - Free AI side panel: chat, browser automation & agent workflows

Rudra AI is a free Chrome side panel with BYOK (bring your own key). Chat with your own API provider, automate the browser, and run agent workflows on local project folders—all from one panel beside your tabs. No subscription to Rudra AI. Connect OpenAI, OpenRouter, DeepSeek, Ollama, or any OpenAI-compatible API. Your keys stay on your device. Your models. Your rules. Built for real work—not another “summarize this page” chatbox. Rudra AI is an agent that can actually do things in your browser and on your local project files. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ WHY RUDRA AI ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Most browser extensions stop at Q&A. Rudra AI is a full agent runtime: • Reads and interacts with live web pages (tabs, text, links, forms, navigation) • Edits files in a folder you explicitly choose on your computer • Follows project rules from AGENTS.md, CLAUDE.md, .cursorrules, and similar files • Shows what it did in a clear activity log—with confirmations before risky actions Your API keys stay on your device. You choose the model. You stay in control. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ THREE MODES FOR THREE KINDS OF WORK ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ CHAT Fast conversation with optional page context. Ideal for research, drafting, and quick answers without heavy automation. BROWSER Full browser agent tools: list tabs, read page content, click, type, scroll, navigate, take snapshots, extract links/tables, and more. Great for QA, research across sites, form workflows, and repetitive browser tasks. AGENT The full loop: browser tools plus local folder access. Pick a project folder once, load your instruction files, and let the model read, search, and write files—with preview and confirm gates before writes when you want them. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ BUILT FOR HOW POWER USERS ACTUALLY WORK ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ✓ Bring your own key (BYOK) — no forced subscription to use the core product ✓ Multi-provider support — add base URL, API key, and models in Settings ✓ Project instructions — same idea as Claude Code / Cursor: rules travel with the repo ✓ Plan or Direct execution — approve a plan first, or let the agent run tools immediately ✓ Streaming replies — see responses and tool activity as they happen ✓ Slash commands, snippets, macros, export, and multi-session chat history ✓ Jobs — schedule or watch for changes and queue missions when you need them ✓ Context meter — see how much of the model window you are using ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ SAFETY & TRANSPARENCY ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Rudra AI asks before sensitive actions by default (file writes, risky browser steps). You can review diffs before accepting changes. Browser automation uses Chrome permissions only to perform actions you request—it does not run hidden background tracking of your browsing for ads or resale. A small optional “Sponsored” strip may appear at the bottom of the side panel. Core features are never blocked by ads. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ WHO IT IS FOR ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ • Developers who want an agent beside the page they are debugging • Freelancers and agencies doing research, QA, and content checks across many tabs • WordPress and web professionals who live in the browser all day • Anyone already paying for API access who wants a capable side-panel agent—not another locked-in chat SaaS ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ WHAT YOU NEED TO GET STARTED ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 1. Install Rudra AI and open the side panel from the toolbar icon 2. Add a provider in Settings (API base URL, key, and model) 3. Choose Chat, Browser, or Agent mode 4. For Agent mode, choose a local folder when prompted Rudra AI requires an API key from a provider you configure. Usage and billing are between you and that provider. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ PRIVACY & SUPPORT ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Privacy policy: https://rakesh.in/rudra-ai-privacy-policy.html Product page: https://rakesh.in/rudra-ai.html Support: me@rakesh.in Rudra AI is made by Rakesh Raja (rakesh.in).