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Keyboard-first AI browser for macOS — WebKit + Rust, built-in AI sidebar, isolated workspaces, and an MCP server that lets your agents drive the web.
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octoweb is an open-source ai agents skill for AI coding assistants such as Claude Code, Codex CLI, and ChatGPT, built by Muvon. Keyboard-first AI browser for macOS — WebKit + Rust, built-in AI sidebar, isolated workspaces, and an MCP server that lets your agents drive the web. It has 123 GitHub stars.
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Clone the repository with "git clone https://github.com/Muvon/octoweb" and add it to your Claude Code skills directory (see the Installation section above).
octoweb is primarily written in Rust. It is open-source under Muvon on GitHub, so you can review or fork the full source.
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The browser you reach for when you want to think. macOS only, by design.
Built on WebKit and Rust. No Electron. No Chrome. No mouse required.
🏠 Website · Releases · Changelog
Most browsers are built around the mouse. Octoweb is built around the keyboard — and around the idea that your browser should amplify your thinking, not interrupt it. Every action has a shortcut. The AI assistant lives in a sidebar, not a tab. And your AI tools can drive the browser directly via MCP. No config. Just open it and go.
Three things it does differently:
Keyboard-first navigation — Every action has a shortcut. Nothing requires a click. The command palette (⌘⇧P) fuzzy-searches tabs and history. Pin any page to a fast-access slot with ⌘⇧1–⌘⇧0 and jump back with ⌘1–⌘9 from anywhere.
AI assistant built in — Not an extension, not a tab. A sidebar overlay powered by a local octomind agent server. Ask questions about the current page, get code explanations, summarize content — all without leaving the browser.
MCP server inside the browser — Your AI tools can actually drive the browser. Octoweb runs an MCP server on localhost:3434/mcp that exposes 38 tools for navigation, tab management, page interaction, content extraction, and mail. Point Claude Desktop or any MCP client at it and watch it browse.
⌘⇧P) — Fuzzy search across tabs and history. Type a URL, search query, or page fragment./ in the palette) — Search the text of pages you have visited, not just titles. "Where did I see that pricing table" is one keystroke away; the agent gets the same search as an MCP tool. Private tabs are never indexed.⌘⇧C) — Copies the URL, or the selection with the URL under it, as plain text. ⌥⌘C copies markdown instead: a quote with its source link, or the whole page as clean markdown when nothing is selected. ⌥-click the address bar's copy button for a [title](url) link.⌘⇧L) — A reading queue that decays instead of a bookmark shelf: saved pages sit on top of the palette and the new-tab page, opening one removes it, and after later_days they drop out while their text stays searchable. The digest-later workflow turns whatever you never opened into three lines each.⌘⇧K) — Select text on any page and ask the sidebar to explain it, with the page as context. No selection asks about the page.⌘⇧↵ in the palette) — Open any result in an isolated tab with in-memory cookies and storage. Nothing is written to history, the session file, or the favicon cache; closing the tab discards everything.⌘1–⌘0) — Pin up to 10 pages for instant access, one set per workspace. Footer bar shows all slots.⌘⇧N) — Pin the current tab to the fast-access bar with one keystroke.⌘⇧O) — Isolated browser profiles: each workspace has its own tabs, history, AI sessions, and a dedicated WebKit data store, so cookies, localStorage, and cache never leak between them. Switch with ⌘1–⌘0 while the popover is open.⌘,). Changes apply on the next keystroke, no restart.⌘⇧A) — Chat with a local AI agent about the current page. Streaming responses, code blocks with copy.⌘⇧E) — Select text on any page, transform it with AI. Rewrite, summarize, translate.⌘,).⌘⇧I) — Gmail, iCloud, Outlook, Private Email, or any IMAP account in a pane beside the page: Important and Other, single-key triage, snooze, undo send, send later, search, attachment previews. Accounts are scoped per workspace.⌘⇧D) — The calendars of those same accounts (Google Calendar, Outlook, iCloud, CalDAV) in the pane: the next meeting with a Join button, an alert before it starts, ⌘J to join from anywhere, list/day/week views, RSVP, quick add in plain English ("Lunch with anna@x.com tomorrow 1pm"), and your free times copied as text. Subscribe to webcal:// / ICS feeds, import .ics files (drop them on the pane), and answer invitations right in the mail message. With mail AI on: an event drafted from an email, free times offered in a reply, meeting prep from the guests' mail and last notes, and tasks or a follow-up from the meeting's notes.⌘⇧J) — One markdown file per workspace. ⌥⌘J captures the page as a task, or the selection as a quote.⌥⌘T) — The open - [ ] lines of the notes, above the text in a block you can fold: an add field, then Overdue, Today, Upcoming and the ones without a date. >fri in a task becomes an Obsidian Tasks date (📅 2026-10-30); due tasks show in the calendar and as a count on the Notes tab.⌘`) — A real shell under the page, with tabs and splits, per workspace; layout, directories, and output come back after a restart..crx, .zip, .xpi, or unpacked folder, scoped per workspace (macOS 15.4+).⌘F) — Full-text search with highlighting.+/- to zoom, ⌘0 to reset.⌘S for viewport, ⌘⇧S for full page. Copied to clipboard.Press ⌘⇧A to open the sidebar. It talks to a local octomind agent server over WebSocket. Responses stream in as they arrive.
octoweb ──WebSocket (loopback, per-run token)──▶ octomind server
│ one session per chat / background job │
│ (own working dir + agent tag each) specialist agent configs
│ from the tap registry
◀───────── MCP (browser tools, render_ui) ──────────────┤
your chosen AI provider
Octoweb starts ONE octomind server process the first time an assistant is needed and runs every assistant in it —
every chat in every workspace, inline edit, background learning and the mail jobs — each as its own session with its
own working directory and agent tag. The server is stopped when octoweb quits.
octomind is a plug-and-play AI agent runtime. You install it once, point it at an API key, and get a fully configured specialist agent — model, system prompt, tools, and all — with zero manual setup. The octoweb:chief tag fetches that agent's configuration from the community tap registry automatically.
1. Install octomind:
curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/muvon/octomind/master/install.sh | bash
2. Set an API key (any supported provider):
export OPENROUTER_API_KEY="your_key" # easiest — covers all providers
# or: OPENAI_API_KEY, ANTHROPIC_API_KEY, etc.
3. Nothing else to start — octoweb launches octomind server itself (on a free loopback port, with a per-run
secret), resolves the octoweb:chief agent from the tap, and connects every sidebar session to it.
4. Open the sidebar in octoweb: ⌘⇧A
The agent tag in the sidebar header defaults to octoweb:chief. You can type any tag your octomind instance knows about — developer:rust, assistant, your own custom agents — the new-session picker autocompletes as you type, and the sidebar reconnects to that agent immediately. The list now offers domains first (for example developer); picking one starts that domain's chief agent.
Shipped tags include octoweb:chief (sidebar chat), octoweb:editor (inline text transformation, used by ⌘⇧E), octoweb:learning (background learning), and octoweb:trend (live social trend research) — see the tap registry.
The octoweb:chief agent uses a stable working directory per browser workspace.
Default keeps ~/.local/share/octoweb; other workspaces use
~/.local/share/octoweb-workspaces/octoweb-<workspace-id>. Renaming a workspace
keeps its directory and Octomind lesson scope. Each directory has the same local
tools and links to Default's .env and AGENTS.md when present; existing
workspace-specific files are kept. Existing lessons stay in Default's sco