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Paw Work - selection-first web agent for Chrome: select on the live page, describe the outcome, take away an editable office file. BYOK, sandboxed, no server.
The Lens
By Erik Loyd, SaaS CEO and former COO/CFO of an AWS Premier Partner.
Updated Sep 2026
Paw Work is a Chrome extension that turns a web page into raw material for an AI agent. You flip on Paw Mode, click the parts of a live page that matter (product photos, a table, a block of copy), then describe the outcome you want, and it hands back an editable file: a spreadsheet, an 8-page deck, a poster, a document, or a working HTML site. Bring your own model key; it is MIT and there is no server.
The selection-first idea is the point. Instead of dumping a whole page at a model and hoping, you point at exactly what you want and the agent works from that. Generated code runs in a sandboxed QuickJS VM that never touches the page DOM or your other files, and complex jobs show you a plan card to approve before anything is written. Your keys stay in the browser and go only to the endpoints you set.
For turning messy web content into something you can actually edit and keep (decks, comparison sheets, docs) this is a sharp little tool, and the privacy model is better than most browser agents. The catch: it is not on the Chrome Web Store yet, so you load an unpacked extension yourself, and quality rides entirely on whatever model key you plug in. Early, but the approach is right.
Free vs Self-Hosted vs Paid
fully freeFree: Paw Work is MIT and open source. The extension has no paid tier, no account, and no Paw Work server.
Self-hosted: It runs as an unpacked Chrome extension on your own machine (not yet on the Chrome Web Store). Model keys live in the browser and are sent only to the endpoints you configure.
Paid: None from Paw Work. It is bring-your-own-key, so your only cost is whatever the model provider (OpenAI, Claude, etc.) charges for the API calls you make.
The extension is free and open source. You pay only for whatever model API key you bring.
What to do by team size
- Solo
- free; you cover model API costs
- Small team
- free; you cover model API costs
- Medium team
- free; sideloading an unpacked extension may not suit IT policy
- Large team
- free, but vet the unpacked-extension model for your org
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License: MIT License
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