MindShield v1.1.5: User Experience Improvements

MindShield 1.1.5

What's New

🖥️ Prompt Bar - Removed

⚡ Improved User Experience

Removed prompt bar makes the extension less bothersome visually, functionally, and removes some friction a user might have experience before.

🧹 Project Cleanup

Cleaned Up Unneeded Code

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Installation

Chrome

Download the Chrome release and install it as an unpacked extension.

1. Download the release ZIP.
2. Extract the ZIP.
3. Open chrome://extensions/.
4. Enable Developer mode.
5. Select Load unpacked.
6. Select the extracted MindShield folder.

Firefox

Download the Firefox release from the MindShield Firefox repository.

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MindShield v1.1.0: Over Haul

MindShield 1.1.0

MindShield 1.1.0 focuses on improving the user experience, prompt detection, and overall project quality.

What's New

🖥️ Improved Prompt Bar

The prompt bar now includes a gray inner area, improving its visual appearance and making the input area clearer.

⚡ Improved User Experience

Auto-focus has been added to make interacting with MindShield faster and more convenient.

🎯 More Accurate Prompt Detection

MindShield now focuses its detection specifically on questions.

This significantly reduces false positives caused by casual discussion, statements, and normal information sharing.

🧠 Improved AI Classification

The AI classifier has been tweaked to better distinguish between different types of questions.

Knowledge-based questions are now more likely to pass through normally, while questions involving things you could reasonably think through yourself are more likely to trigger MindShield's reflection mechanism.

The goal is to make MindShield feel less intrusive while still encouraging independent thinking.

🧹 Project Cleanup

Unneeded bloat files have been removed.

This reduces the extension's file size and makes the project easier to inspect and understand.

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Full Development Notes

For a more detailed explanation of the changes and the reasoning behind them, see the MindShield 1.1.0 development blog post:

Read the full 1.1.0 development post

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Installation

Chrome

Download the Chrome release and install it as an unpacked extension.

1. Download the release ZIP.
2. Extract the ZIP.
3. Open chrome://extensions/.
4. Enable Developer mode.
5. Select Load unpacked.
6. Select the extracted MindShield folder.

Firefox

Download the Firefox release from the MindShield Firefox repository.

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MindShield v1.0.2: Grok Integration & UI Fixes

🛡️ MindShield v1.0.2: Grok Integration & UI Fixes

This patch fixes overlay positioning on Grok and ensures prompt auto-submission works smoothly after the 5-second reflection timer finishes.

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🐛 Bug Fixes & Improvements

• Grok.com: Fixed an issue where the prompt bar overlay stretched across the entire viewport. The overlay container now neatly matches the input box.
• X.com (Grok): Resolved an edge case where prompts failed to auto-submit after the reflection countdown hit zero.

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📦 Quick Installation (Unpacked / Developer Mode)

1. Download MindShield.zip (28.7 MB) from the assets below. (Note: Includes the full on-device WASM AI model for 100% offline privacy).
2. Extract the ZIP file to a local folder.
3. Open Chrome and go to chrome://extensions/.
4. Enable Developer mode (top right toggle).
5. Click Load unpacked and select your extracted folder.

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💬 Feedback & Bug Reports

Found an issue on another AI platform or have a feature idea?
👉 Open an Issue on GitHub

MindShield v1.0.1

MindShield: Protect Your Critical Thinking

Changes 1.0.1 update:
Improved User Experience

MindShield is a lightweight behavioral intervention tool designed to help you build mindful habits around conversational AI. By introducing a brief friction point when lazy shortcuts are submitted, this privacy-first browser extension counters cognitive offloading, breaks AI dependency, and protects your cognitive independence, MindShield encourages active problem solving and protects your cognitive independence from being outsourced to machines.

We often default to asking AI for simple answers we could easily compute, recall, or decide ourselves. MindShield helps you pause, reflect, and maintain your critical thinking skills without disrupting your productive workflows.

How It Works:

1. Write Your Prompt:

2. Local Evaluation: When you submit, MindShield’s on device AI quickly analyzes the structure and complexity of your query.

The "Brain Drain" Penalty:

If your prompt is flagged as a simple query or shortcut, the input area locks down for a brief 5-second countdown to encourage independent thought. As soon as the timer reaches zero, the input unlocks, and your original prompt is automatically submitted no re-typing required. Instant Approval: Complex prompts, step-by-step educational requests, and factual research bypass the timer and are submitted instantly.

Key Features:

Multi-Platform Support: Consistent, integrated coverage across ChatGPT, Claude, Google Gemini, and Grok (including both grok.com and Grok inside x.com).100% Local AI Processing: Uses a private, on-device machine learning model (DistilBERT-MNLI) compiled natively via WebAssembly. Your text prompts are evaluated entirely inside your browser and are never sent to external servers. Lag Free Typing Experience: Built utilizing the browser's native idle-scheduling APIs (requestIdleCallback) to ensure that background checks never interfere with your typing performance or active rendering loops. Smart Factual Filtering: Designed to distinguish between "lazy shortcuts" and genuine information retrieval. Academic tutoring requests, debugging, and factual reference lookups pass through cleanly.

Why MindShield?

• Conversational AI is a powerful tool, but over-relying on it for trivial tasks can lead to cognitive offloading. MindShield acts as an intellectual companion, ensuring you use AI as a productive partner and tutor rather than a cognitive crutch.

Privacy Policy:

• MindShield is designed with a strict privacy-first architecture. No Data Collection: We do not collect, store, or transmit your prompts, browsing history, or personal information.

Disclaimer:

The software is provided ""as is" the developer is not liable for any issues that might be caused.

MindShield v1.0.0

MindShield: Protect Your Critical Thinking

MindShield is a lightweight behavioral intervention tool designed to help you build mindful habits around conversational AI. By introducing a brief friction point when lazy shortcuts are submitted, this privacy-first browser extension counters cognitive offloading, breaks AI dependency, and protects your cognitive independence, MindShield encourages active problem solving and protects your cognitive independence from being outsourced to machines.

We often default to asking AI for simple answers we could easily compute, recall, or decide ourselves. MindShield helps you pause, reflect, and maintain your critical thinking skills without disrupting your productive workflows.

How It Works:

1. Write Your Prompt:

2. Local Evaluation: When you submit, MindShield’s on device AI quickly analyzes the structure and complexity of your query.

The "Brain Drain" Penalty:

If your prompt is flagged as a simple query or shortcut, the input area locks down for a brief 5-second countdown to encourage independent thought. As soon as the timer reaches zero, the input unlocks, and your original prompt is automatically submitted no re-typing required. Instant Approval: Complex prompts, step-by-step educational requests, and factual research bypass the timer and are submitted instantly.

Key Features:

Multi-Platform Support: Consistent, integrated coverage across ChatGPT, Claude, Google Gemini, and Grok (including both grok.com and Grok inside x.com).100% Local AI Processing: Uses a private, on-device machine learning model (DistilBERT-MNLI) compiled natively via WebAssembly. Your text prompts are evaluated entirely inside your browser and are never sent to external servers. Lag Free Typing Experience: Built utilizing the browser's native idle-scheduling APIs (requestIdleCallback) to ensure that background checks never interfere with your typing performance or active rendering loops. Smart Factual Filtering: Designed to distinguish between "lazy shortcuts" and genuine information retrieval. Academic tutoring requests, debugging, and factual reference lookups pass through cleanly.

Why MindShield?

• Conversational AI is a powerful tool, but over-relying on it for trivial tasks can lead to cognitive offloading. MindShield acts as an intellectual companion, ensuring you use AI as a productive partner and tutor rather than a cognitive crutch.

Privacy Policy:

• MindShield is designed with a strict privacy-first architecture. No Data Collection: We do not collect, store, or transmit your prompts, browsing history, or personal information.

Disclaimer:

The software is provided ""as is" the developer is not liable for any issues that might be caused.