Show HN: ChatPanel, A Privacy-first AI Agent browser side panel
TL;DR
A developer built ChatPanel, a privacy-first AI agent that lives in a browser side panel. You bring your own agent — Codex, Claude Code, or local and remote models. It adds a live meeting assistant, local note-taking, voice-to-text, and PII redaction that strips sensitive data before anything reaches a model. Everything is open source and no data is tracked.
Nauti's Take
Nauti sees real potential here: bring-your-own-agent plus local PII redaction is a genuine privacy win for anyone wary of cloud AI. The catch is a one-person Show HN project heavy on hype ('100x engineer') with open questions around stability and upkeep.
Promising for privacy-conscious power users and devs — teams needing support should wait.
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