n4ze3m/page-assist is a browser extension that lets you chat with an AI model running locally and ask questions based on the content of the web page you are currently viewing. It is written in TypeScript and distributed under the MIT license. The repository was created in April 2023 and currently has 8264 stars. The latest public release tag is v1.5.88.
The README explains that Page Assist provides a sidebar and a web UI for local AI models. The sidebar is a small panel that docks beside the browser window, and the web UI is a separate screen that opens inside the extension. The extension passes the current page content along to the model, so you can ask questions about the page with that content as the basis. It supports Chrome, Brave, Firefox, Edge, and similar browsers. The premise of the project is a setup where you prepare and run the model directly on your own computer instead of sending it to an external server.
That said, apart from the fact that the latest release tag is v1.5.88, no changelog for that version is given. What was added and what was fixed is not recorded in the release notes either. There are no performance scores or benchmark figures either, so the only verifiable quantitative indicator is the 8264 stars. Since the accuracy and speed of responses depend on which local model you set up, the evidence is not enough to put it straight into business use. It seems worth expecting only within the scope of an assistant tool for asking questions based on page content.