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varenc 2 days ago

This is quite cool! Very excited for this concept. Kudos to launching on HN!

some genuine feedback on a frustrating early experience:

- I ran the suggested "Group all my tabs by topic" in productivity agent mode. It worked great.

- I then asked it to remove all tab groups and reset things, but was told this:

    This is a browser automation task. Please use **Agent Mode** for web interactions like clicking, filling forms, navigating sites, or extracting web content.
- Tried "agent mode" and was told:

    This is a productivity task. Please use **Chat Mode** for tab management, bookmarks, sessions, history, and content analysis.
- Basically was being sent back and forth. Went back to productivity mode and argued with it for a bit. The closest I could come to it removing all tabs groups was creating a new tab group encompassing all tabs, but couldn't get it to remove groups entirely. I'm guessing it might lack that API?

Overall, it'd be nice if every browser level action it took had an undo button. Or at least if it was smart enough/able to remove the tab groups it just created.

Will keep playing with it more.

edit1: one more weird issue: While running the chat interface on chrome internal pages like chrome://extensions, it would randomly browse me to google.com for some reason.

edit2: confirmed that productivity mode lacks a tool to ungroup tabs, just a tool to create tab groups.

felarof 2 days ago | parent [-]

Thank you so much for this feedback! And sorry for the annoying experience. I'll debug and fix it. this still early beta version :(

We have this agent mode and chat mode both with separate tools. I think the "prompt" today is not good enough, will see if there is a better way to address it.

Regarding un-grouping, that API is currently missing in chrome. I'm currently looking to add this support.

Hmm couple of people have asked for "undo" now. will see how we can implement this. I imagine something like cursor's "restore checkpoint" would be neat.

Quick question, do you think these productivity features are critical in your day to day workflow? Any specific examples you can share? :)

varenc 2 days ago | parent [-]

> Quick question, do you think these productivity features are critical in your day to day workflow? Any specific examples you can share? :)

hah, absolutely not! That specific nit was pretty low priority... I definitely don't imagine I'll be asking it to ungroup tabs regularly, or if ever. But the loop of it being stuck between Chat and Agent mode seems like more generic, and might happen whenever there's a prompt neither agent can handle. Ideally it would have just said "I can't ungroup tabs".

Restoring to a checkpoint could be nice, but might not be worth it in the early stage if its high effort for you. I've yet to do anything actually useful/productivity focused with Nxtscape yet, but will keep exploring.