New capabilities
Prompt Paul now keeps context visible, can ground answers with live sources, and can take carefully bounded actions on the page you are already using. Each capability is optional.
Open Prompt Paul from the toolbar, a context menu, or the Options page. Connect an OpenAI-compatible model, then use the Page, Web, Act, and More controls as needed. The composer shows selected text, page content, and media as removable context chips.
In Options, open Web Search Grounding, add your Brave Search API key, and save that section. The key is separate from your model profile and remains in Chrome storage.
Enable Web in the side panel when current, verifiable, or time-sensitive information would improve the answer. Web is off by default and is a permission, not a command to search.
If the model searches, Prompt Paul returns a bounded, source-linked result and adds a first-party Sources section to the response. Your model endpoint must support function calling. Brave pricing and quotas apply.
Turn on Act for a run that needs Prompt Paul to inspect a bounded page snapshot, then click, fill, select, or scroll standard controls on the current tab. After a change, the extension requests a fresh snapshot rather than reusing stale targets.
State-changing actions ask for approval by default. Passwords, one-time codes, payment fields, security controls, destructive actions, arbitrary JavaScript, unsafe links, and cross-tab work are blocked or kept behind additional policy checks.
Options includes an optional trusted page-actions mode for allowed low- and medium-risk actions. It does not enable JavaScript, cross-tab control, credentials, payments, or destructive actions. Act resets after its run and remains separate from Web.
In Connection settings, choose Codex subscription (ChatGPT) and select Sign in with ChatGPT. A successful device-code login creates or selects a local Codex profile, discovers available models, and exposes model-specific thinking levels.
Codex OAuth credentials stay owned by the background worker and are not included in backups. If you restore a Codex profile, sign in again. API-key profiles and Hermes connections continue to use their own setup paths.
The composer keeps active context visible and offers contextual actions for selected text and loaded pages. While a response streams, use Stop. After completion, use Retry, Edit, or Continue; Continue explicitly builds on the previous response. Removing a context chip changes the next run without deleting the conversation history.
