Pagehand

AI that puts a hand on the current page.

Side-panel copilot for Chrome. It reads the page, clicks, fills, and inspects console & network — through CDP, with your own API key.

Download for Chrome How to install

Manifest V3 · chrome.debugger · BYO OpenAI / Anthropic / DeepSeek

Install

Load it into Chrome in a few clicks.

No Node, no build tools. Download the release zip, unpack it, and load the folder as an unpacked extension.

  1. Download

    Get pagehand.zip from the latest GitHub Release.

  2. Unzip

    Extract the zip to a folder you will keep — Chrome reads that folder every time it starts. Don’t delete it after installing.

  3. Open Extensions

    In Chrome’s address bar, go to chrome://extensions and press Enter.

  4. Turn on Developer mode

    Toggle Developer mode in the top-right corner of that page.

  5. Load unpacked

    Click Load unpacked, then choose the folder you unzipped (the one that contains manifest.json).

  6. Open Pagehand

    Click the puzzle icon in the toolbar, pin Pagehand, open the side panel, and add your API key in Settings.

To update later: download the new zip, replace the folder contents, then click the reload icon on chrome://extensions. Prefer building yourself? See the GitHub setup.

How it works

The side panel owns the debugger.

No Node sidecar. No MCP bridge. Pagehand talks Chrome DevTools Protocol from inside the extension and drives the page you are looking at.

  1. Open the panel

    ⌘/Ctrl+Shift+K, or click the toolbar icon.

  2. Drop in a key

    DeepSeek by default — OpenAI, Anthropic, or any OpenAI-compatible endpoint also work.

  3. Ask it to act

    Summarize, click, fill forms, chase console errors, or walk a multi-step flow on the live page.

Capabilities

Same protocol Puppeteer speaks.

Accessibility snapshots, input, navigation, screenshots, console and network — implemented against CDP domains, not a brittle DOM scraper.

  • take_snapshot

    Read the page as a structured accessibility tree with stable uids.

  • click / fill / type

    Drive forms and UI the way a user would — including select-all before replace.

  • navigate / pages

    Move between pages and manage them while the agent keeps context.

  • console / network

    Inspect errors and requests without opening DevTools yourself.

  • evaluate_script

    Run focused page scripts when reading the tree is not enough.

  • take_screenshot

    Capture what the page looks like and keep it in the chat thread.

Privacy

Your key never leaves your machine for us.

Pagehand has no backend. API keys stay in chrome.storage.local and are sent only to the model provider you choose. While attached, Chrome shows a “Pagehand is debugging this browser” banner — that is intentional and cannot be hidden. Read the full privacy policy →