A Chrome extension that puts an AI agent in the browser sidebar. It reads the page you're on, understands context, takes actions — clicking, typing, navigating, extracting data — and remembers everything across sessions. It's not a chatbot overlay. It's a working copilot with eyes and hands.

Anthropic shipped "Claude in Chrome" months after this was already running. That product resets every session, can't touch local files, and is locked to one model. Gorgon Eye connects to the full OpenClaw agent fleet, maintains persistent memory, and works with whatever model is assigned to the browser agent role.

What It Does

The Hard Parts

Manifest V3's security model fights you at every turn. Content scripts run in an isolated world. The page's actual JavaScript runs in the MAIN world. The background service worker has no DOM access. The side panel is its own context. Getting all four to communicate reliably — especially when Chrome can suspend the service worker at any moment — required a self-healing harness architecture that detects and recovers from broken message channels.

The biggest recurring failure mode: agents trying to type text into a field and hit Enter as two separate commands instead of using the atomic chat command. Under context pressure (long conversations, complex pages), agents regress to less efficient patterns. The fix was documentation in the agent's memory — not code changes, but making sure the agent remembers the right way to do it.

CSS selector stability is another ongoing challenge. A critical fix — div.font-claude-response — was the difference between the extension working and silently failing on Claude's own interface. Site adapters exist to isolate these brittle selectors so the core logic doesn't break when a site updates their CSS classes.

Where It's Going

Workflow recording — do a task once, the extension records the steps, replays them on demand. Scheduled tasks for recurring browser work. Inline rendering of visualizations and diagrams in the sidebar. These are on the roadmap, informed by what Anthropic shipped in their version and what's still missing.

The longer-term vision: this is one sensory channel for the agent fleet. Gorgon Eye is browser eyes. Serpent Wing is physical-world eyes (drone). SC-Mail is the inbox. The agents don't care which channel they're operating through — the perception and action interfaces are interchangeable.