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The Autousers Chrome extension lets you launch an evaluation against the URL in the active tab. Useful for product managers checking a staging URL, designers smoke-testing a deploy preview, or sales running a live demo.

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Install

Chrome Web Store → Autousers Available for Chromium-based browsers (Chrome, Edge, Brave, Arc, Opera).

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First-run

  1. Click the Autousers icon in the toolbar.
  2. Click Sign in. A browser tab opens at app.autousers.ai/extension/pair.
  3. Sign in if necessary. Pick a team.
  4. The extension captures a session cookie + a short-lived API key bound to the team.
The credential is stored in the extension’s chrome.storage.session — wiped when the browser closes. Re-pair on next launch.

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Workflow

1

Open the URL you want to evaluate

Any https:// URL works. The extension does not require any markup on the target page.
2

Click the toolbar icon

The popup opens. The current tab URL is pre-filled.
3

Pick personas + template

Same picker as the Figma plugin. Built-ins first, custom personas below.
4

Click Run

The extension calls POST /v1/evaluations with dryRun: true, shows the cost, then on confirm re-issues without dryRun.
5

Watch in the popup or open the dashboard

The popup shows a live progress bar fed by the autouser-stream SSE endpoint. Click Open in dashboard for the full experience.

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Live-rate mode

A second flow lets the extension open a sidebar on the current page and surface autouser ratings as they arrive:
  1. Click Live-rate in the popup.
  2. The extension injects a sidebar iframe onto the page.
  3. Autousers run; ratings appear in the sidebar in real time, anchored to the dimensions on the active template.
  4. The sidebar persists across navigation within the same origin until you close it.
Useful for screen-share demos and live product reviews.

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Permissions

The extension requests:
PermissionWhy
activeTabRead the URL of the current tab on user click.
storagePersist the session token between popup opens.
scriptingInject the live-rate sidebar iframe on user request.
cookiesRead the app.autousers.ai session cookie for first-run pair.
It does not request broad host permissions. The extension cannot read or modify pages other than the one you click Live-rate on.

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Authentication paths

The extension uses two paths, depending on flow:
  • Popup → API: short-lived ak_live_* key minted at pair time and stored in chrome.storage.session. Scopes: evaluations:read, evaluations:write, autousers:read.
  • Live-rate sidebar: same key.
Both expire on browser close. There is no long-lived credential.

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Privacy

  • The extension does not screenshot or scrape the active tab. The autouser run pulls its own copy of the URL via the GKE worker, which navigates the page in a clean browser.
  • Live-rate sidebar data is loaded over CORS from app.autousers.ai; no page DOM is read.
  • No analytics; no third-party requests.