AI assistants and search
Prompt Sloth alternatives
2 open-source projects that already do this job. Free to use - not free to run, which is what the numbers on the right are for.
The projects
hangwin/mcp-chrome★12,286 GitHub starsMIT licenceChrome extension MCP server exposing browser functionality to AI assistants for automation and content analysis.Open on GitHub ↗szczyglis-dev/py-gpt★1,878 GitHub starslicence unclearCross-platform desktop AI assistant supporting many models, agents, retrieval, presets, and rich assistant features.Open on GitHub ↗
What you give up either way
- Polish of a shipped cross-browser extension (edge-cases across many AI tools)
- Existing community template library and shared templates
- Desktop app integration with system-wide ⌘E and app-specific quirks
- Priority support and product updates from the vendor
An open-source project doing the core job proves a replacement is possible. It does not prove it matches Prompt Sloth, and it does not prove anyone has run it for a month. How we decide.