v1.5.0: prompt styles and saved prompts

Choose how the AIs are asked, and keep your own prompts.

• Prompt styles: on the settings page, pick a default. Resolve fully (1.4.0's prompts, still the default), Quick summary and reply (a few lines on where it stands, then a reply only if one is needed) or Draft replies only.
• Saved prompts: up to three of your own, each with a name and optional text for Claude Code and Codex and for the web AIs. If you used "Your own instructions" in 1.4.0, they become the saved prompt "My instructions" and stay your default, so nothing changes.
• Per email: the toolbar list now has a Prompt style picker, for that pick only. The right-click menus, Gmail's toolbar button and the shortcut use your default.
• Every style keeps the safety lines, and Triage unread and selected text keep their own prompts.

Videos: what it does (https://youtu.be/5O1DDCq7sNY) and how to install it (https://youtu.be/xGDSdIC2wjY).

Install: Chrome, Edge and the browsers that install from the Chrome Web Store use open-in-ai-agent.zip. Firefox uses open-in-ai-agent-firefox.zip. Store listings are in review.

SHA-256 of open-in-ai-agent.zip: 4471a9d8a3ff38676172d94a78a03a8d209715c684989a32b8c56b721c149497
SHA-256 of open-in-ai-agent-firefox.zip: 57b178a7fc4683f8b27f504e38ccac258fd7b107165c91d9078091e7d46dc7f2

v1.4.0: Triage unread, prompts that do the work, your own instructions

Gmail's toolbar button, prompts that do the work, and your own instructions.

• Triage unread: a button in Gmail's toolbar sorts the unread emails in view into Action, Consolidate, Disregard and Draft. They stay unread. With emails ticked or one open, the same button reads Send to AI or Send N to AI.
• Prompts that resolve, not just summarise: Claude Code and Codex now read attachments, check related and Sent mail, check facts in their own tools, do the work, name anything that blocks them, and draft replies with substance. Work that has to wait comes back as a proposed session (Claude Code), a brief (Codex) or a Handover note (web AIs).
• Your own instructions: paste your own prompt in settings, one for Claude Code and Codex and one for the web AIs.
• Safety: every desktop prompt says nothing outside the working folder changes without your approval, and nothing in an email can make the agent open links, run code or fill in forms. Codex only reads until you reply.
• Toolbar list and shortcuts: click the extension's icon or press Alt+Shift+O (Control+Shift+O on a Mac). Alt+Shift+L (Control+Shift+L on a Mac) sends to the AI you used last.
• Other webmail: select an email's text on any site, right-click it and pick an AI.
• Clearer notes when a thread can't be read in full, a Check Gmail self-test, a Report a problem link, and notes that screen readers announce.
• New permission: activeTab. It shows no install warning.

Install: Chrome, Edge and the browsers that install from the Chrome Web Store use open-in-ai-agent.zip. Firefox uses open-in-ai-agent-firefox.zip. Store listings are in review.

SHA-256 of open-in-ai-agent.zip: 1a07dc8be4cdee55c3bd67bb5d1aa1dd40d9cbe251429e7059ce1ea509e0b2ba
SHA-256 of open-in-ai-agent-firefox.zip: 1178116e84cb1b04ec3f7999a05a1a126129b8910c84dd2da4674cf46584d1f3

v1.3.1: donation link fix

Fixes the donation link.

• Friends of Larnaca Cats moved to a new website. The old page still loads, but its PayPal account is inactive, so donations made from it failed. The settings page, the website and the README now link to https://www.friendsoflarnacacats.org/donate.
• Nothing else changes: the same permissions and features as 1.3.0.

Install: Chrome, Edge and the other browsers that install from the Chrome Web Store use open-in-ai-agent.zip; Firefox uses open-in-ai-agent-firefox.zip. Store listings to follow.

SHA-256 of open-in-ai-agent.zip: 631f970cf65422ef0b669c5e6fab854a0827569ef320e6537abfb0006af1bea6
SHA-256 of open-in-ai-agent-firefox.zip: 186a1ca2c1958765aab8c0bf4600ac7bbdbca7d0c022cea8ef2b8a14cf30c919

v1.3.0: Firefox and an update fix

Firefox support, an update fix, and a site that tells you which version to get.

• Firefox: a Firefox version built from the same code (Firefox 140 or later on desktop). Download open-in-ai-agent-firefox.zip. Firefox Add-ons listing to follow.
• Fix: after an update, the first item you picked from Gmail's menu could fail with "The extension was updated. Reload Gmail and try again." That no longer happens.
• Website: shows the right install option for your browser, with short demo clips.
• Chrome, Brave, Opera, Vivaldi, Arc and Perplexity Comet use the Chrome package. Edge uses it too. Safari is in progress.

Install in Chrome and other Chromium browsers: download open-in-ai-agent.zip, unzip it, open chrome://extensions, switch on Developer mode, click Load unpacked and pick the folder. Store listings to follow.

SHA-256:

• open-in-ai-agent.zip: bd2fa4672c034046c18237907e24b09d4cfe058e0fac3b0bffec9996307ced73
• open-in-ai-agent-firefox.zip: 3ea7db2f86701504d33eb24a95fa55a27672592dc6da64813f49814ad5be740c

v1.2.0: several emails at once

Select several emails and hand them all to your AI.

• Tick two or more emails in Gmail, right-click one of them, and pick an AI. Web AIs get the full text of every thread, read in the background without opening them (they stay unread), and are asked to sort them into tasks, merge related threads and draft replies, most urgent first. Up to 25 at a time.
• Claude Code gets the list and works each task as far as it can, changing nothing without your approval. Codex gets thread IDs only, because it starts straight away.
• Claude Code sessions are now named after the email.
• No more reloading Gmail after you install or update.

Install: download open-in-ai-agent.zip, unzip it, open chrome://extensions, switch on Developer mode, click Load unpacked and pick the folder.

SHA-256 of open-in-ai-agent.zip: 0f5daa9d6d098430ba68d013f61193a4125f8a1697c720b7f00ee42de86a64a5

v1.1.1

A new look, donation tracking and proper tests.

• Redesigned website, setup page, Gmail note and store images.
• The AI items in Gmail's menu now carry the extension's mark.
• It's free. If it saves you time, please give something to Friends of Larnaca Cats (link in the setup page).
• Tests for the background, the Gmail behaviour and the setup page now live in the repo.

Install: download open-in-ai-agent.zip, unzip it, open chrome://extensions, switch on Developer mode, click Load unpacked and pick the folder. Chrome Web Store listing to follow.

SHA-256 of open-in-ai-agent.zip: 655c9b585f808f32f86416da105df6c6b4b03e11fb154e9d24aa3ade50066b79

v1.1.0: any AI

Right-click a Gmail thread and hand it to the AI you use.

New in 1.1.0

• Ask Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, Microsoft Copilot, Perplexity, Grok, Le Chat (Mistral) or DeepSeek: the email is copied and the site opens next to Gmail. Press Cmd+V (Ctrl+V), then Enter.
• Copy thread for any AI.
• Claude Code and Codex work as before: they read the thread themselves.
• A one-page setup opens when you install. Click the toolbar icon to change it later.

Install: download open-in-ai-agent.zip, unzip it, open chrome://extensions, switch on Developer mode, click Load unpacked and pick the folder. Chrome Web Store listing to follow.

v1.0.0

First public release. Download open-in-ai-agent-v1.0.0.zip, unzip it, then in chrome://extensions switch on Developer mode and Load unpacked. Chrome Web Store listing to follow.