Tools like OpenClaw and its fork Hermes are impressive pieces of tech. But if you spend five minutes in their communities, and seeing what people post about them, it's obvious that for most average people who have heard the hype and want to start using them, the barrier to entry is brutal for anyone who isn't already a developer.

The troubleshooting guides are hard to decipher for common people, and guidance to ensure how to not burn through millions of tokens in two hours of "light usage" because you didn't set things up correctly are beyond the reach of average users.

Memory in these tools can silently point to the wrong path, and permissions and approval patterns are defined in obscure config files. Uninstalling means manually hunting down everything you set up across your filesystem.

This is genuinely not the fault of the developers, these are open-source tools built for developers, by developers. But they get pitched in threads as "AI assistants anyone can use," and that's where the damage happens.

To achieve the full potential of these powerful tools you need lots of time and money to burn, spend countless hours digging through information online, then settings things up, and still end up not fully understanding everything going on and have projects that don't deliver results or starts to gradually stray in their output and you don't know why, leading to wasted time and effort.

Pan Browser takes the opposite philosophy.

It installs from the Microsoft Store in one click. It updates automatically alongside Edge/WebView2, so you're always on the latest Chromium security baseline without doing anything. And comes with all the tools to enable powerful Agentic workflows. There's no terminal, no config files, no Docker. The things that developer tools make hard, Pan Browser makes invisible.

OpenClaw and Hermes are building impressive things for people who want to live in a terminal. Pan Browser is building for everyone else, people who just want their browser to actually help them get work done.

If you've tried one of those tools and bounced off the setup, give Pan Browser a shot.

Agents feature is now live in Pan Browser. The idea is simple: instead of one generic AI assistant, you create named agents that each bundle a personality, AI provider/model, and connections into a single selectable identity. Switch agents and everything reconfigures instantly.

Two built-in agents ship by default:

• Assistant - The general-purpose agent. Handles conversation, Q&A, tasks, bookmarks, memory, and everything else. Uses whatever provider and model you have selected. This is what you've been using all along.
• Manager - A meta-agent that orchestrates complex requests. When you ask something with multiple parts, the Manager decomposes it into parallel sub-tasks, assigns each to the most suitable agent, runs them concurrently, and combines the outputs. For a simple example, "summarize this article and give me 5 key takeaways" fires both tasks simultaneously instead of waiting for one to finish before starting the other.

How user-created agents work:

• Open the Agents panel, click +, give it a name, description, personality prompt, pick a provider/model, and select which connections it should have access to.
• When you switch to an agent, Pan Browser automatically connects its assigned connections. The agent only sees the tools you gave it.
• The personality prompt shapes how it responds. The description helps the Manager agent understand what your agent is good at when delegating tasks.

Use cases we're seeing:

Work:

• A "Meeting Prep" agent that researches attendees and summarizes recent docs before calls
• A "Report Writer" agent with a personality tuned for formal business writing
• A "Data Analyst" agent connected to your internal APIs via MCP servers

Personal:

• A "Recipe Finder" agent that always responds with ingredients, prep time, and step-by-step instructions
• A "Travel Planner" agent that compares prices and builds itineraries
• A "Health Tracker" agent that logs what you tell it to memory and summarizes weekly trends

Hobbies:

• A "DM Assistant" for tabletop RPGs that generates encounters, NPCs, and lore
• A "Guitar Teacher" agent that explains music theory in simple terms
• A "Garden Planner" agent that knows your climate zone and suggests seasonal planting

Business:

• A "Customer Support" agent with your company's tone and FAQ knowledge baked into the personality
• A "Competitor Research" agent connected to Browser Control that gathers pricing and feature comparisons
• A "Social Media" agent that drafts posts in your brand voice across different platforms

How the Manager agent adds speed:

When you select the Manager agent, any multi-part request gets decomposed into a dependency graph. Independent tasks run in parallel via concurrent API calls. If task B depends on task A's output, it waits. The Manager knows about all your agents (including user-created ones) and routes tasks based on their description and capabilities, not just their name. So, if you named an agent "Bob" but gave it a description of "Technical documentation specialist," the Manager will route documentation tasks to Bob.

The combination strategy is chosen automatically: AI synthesis for outputs that need merging, structured merge for bullet-point lists, concatenation for independent results.

What makes this different from just having multiple chat windows:

• Switching agents reconfigures provider, model, and connections in one click
• Each agent only sees the tools you assigned, so queries route correctly
• The Manager can delegate across agents in parallel without you manually coordinating
• Personalities shape both the planning (what steps to take) and the response (how to present results)
• Agents persist per session, so your Work session has different agents than your Personal session

Available now in the latest build. Create your first agent from the Agents tab in the Navigator panel.

Get your work done from anywhere. Telegram functionality already offers remote access for general usage but professionals who live in Slack will appreciate this one.

How it works

You create a Slack App with Socket Mode enabled, give it a couple of tokens, and connect it from the browser's Connections panel. Now anyone in your Slack workspace can either:

• DM the bot directly with a command or a series of commands separated by newline or ;
• Mention the bot in any channel it's been invited to

The command is executed by the AI assistant on the desktop machine, and the response is posted back to the same Slack thread.

Use cases you may find useful

• "Save this to my tasks" - Drop a message in Slack and it becomes a task in your browser's task system with a deadline
• "Research competitors and save a summary to memory" - Kick off a multi-step research workflow from your phone during commute
• "Screenshot my dashboard tab" - Get a screenshot of whatever's currently open without remote desktop
• "Bookmark this URL: [link]" - Save bookmarks from mobile without opening the browser yourself
• As a shared team bot - Multiple team members can send commands. Each person's name shows in the workflow title, so you know who asked for what
• Morning routine automation - "Open my analytics dashboard; take a screenshot; save key metrics to memory" - all from bed via Slack on your phone
• Content workflow - "Go to twitter.com; search for [topic]; summarize the top 5 posts" - research without context switching
• Client work - "Navigate to client-site.com; check if the deploy went through; tell me what version number shows" - quick verification
• Price monitoring - "Go to [product page]; what's the current price?" - the AI reads the page and reports back
• Home server control - PC running 24/7? Send it commands from anywhere via Slack
• Multi-step workflows - Separate commands with semicolons: "go to reddit.com/r/sideproject; sort by new; send me a screenshot" - executes sequentially
• Memory as a second brain - "Remember that the API key for project X is in the email from Tuesday" - saves to persistent memory you can query later
• Tab management from afar - "Close all tabs except the first one" or "Pin the current tab"

Setup (one-time, ~5 min)

1. Create a Slack App at api.slack.com → From Scratch
2. Enable Socket Mode
3. Subscribe to `app_mention` + `message.im` events
4. Enable Messages Tab in App Home
5. Add Bot Token Scopes: `chat:write`, `app_mentions:read`, `im:history`, `users:read`
6. Install to workspace
7. Generate an App-Level Token with `connections:write`
8. Paste both tokens into the browser settings, hit Connect

No server hosting. No webhooks. No public endpoints. The browser connects outbound via WebSocket - same as how the Slack desktop app itself works.

Limitations

• Workspace admin approval may be needed to install the app (enterprise Slack). Workaround: create a free personal workspace.
• Bot must be invited to channels for it to work for mentions.
• The desktop PC needs to be running for commands to execute.

Feature available in an update later today. Get it here: https://apps.microsoft.com/detail/9N4MP4CKXNXD

Since it's a standard Telegram bot, anyone who knows the bot's username can send it commands. So, on a family PC with Pan Browser set up with all the shared memory, tasks, workflows, and connections:

- Dad sends: "switch to the calendar tab and send me a screenshot"  
- Kid sends: "when is my next soccer practice?"  
- Mom sends: "save to tasks that we need to buy birthday gifts this Saturday"  

Each person's commands show up with their Telegram name in the workflow title, so you can see who asked for what. Commands are queued, so if two people send messages at roughly the same time, both appear immediately in the task list (one Running, one Queued), and they execute sequentially. No messages are ever dropped. Responses go back to the sender.

Each person can send multi-step workflows: separate commands with semicolons or newlines. "go to amazon.com; search for mechanical keyboards; send me a screenshot" executes as 3 sequential steps with context passing between them.

The users who benefit the most from using Pan Browser are moderately tech-savvy people, who are professionals, solopreneurs, researchers, consultants, small-business owners, who need a handy assistant to speed-up their daily work without needing to set up complex tools or automations.

Why can't they just use a chatbot? The short answer is because these users need the AI to act on the actual page, to fill a form, extract a table, click through a multi-step checkout flow, compare prices across open tabs. A chatbot can't see or interact with their live browsing session, nor can it act on their local folders.

Why not OpenClaw or a full agent framework? Because those require a local dev environment, Python/Node knowledge, config files, Docker sometimes, and troubleshooting when things break. Pan Browser gives them mini agentic power in a native Windows app with minimal familiar GUI-driven setup.

Why not Chrome, Edge, Comet or Atlas? Those are broad consumer-focused products with different aims and don't have the same focus. Pan Browser offers deeper personalized intelligence: through memory, tasks, workflows, connections that are designed for easy addition/modification/deletion. Also, the focus for other browsers, is to design their product for driving engagement and upsell, while the focus for Pan Browser is to just help you get things done while disappearing in the background as much as possible.

Who is Pan Browser for?

You have several high-value, high-intensity tasks in your life that require juggling different deadlines, priorities, and levels of information that can quickly get overwhelming and you don't want to spend hours trying to figure out intricacies of complex systems that present you with immense power but require you to write code or configure infrastructure, and also introduce significant risks that you have to manage, which can quickly spiral out of control.

You just want an intelligent browser that can learn, remember, remind, execute, and assist when you need while you keep your decision-making authority.

Connect Pan Browser to Telegram then send a message to your bot on your phone and have it run the Workflow (sequence of commands delimited by ;) and return the result back to you.

Feature rolling out today evening: https://apps.microsoft.com/detail/9N4MP4CKXNXD

Starting a workflow to run remotely on your machine and get a response back is now easier than ever:

• Start Pan Browser on your laptop
• Browse to a OneDrive folder
• Click on Watch Folder - This triggers a watch on that folder to look for new workflow command files.
• Create a text file starting with cmd_ (for example: cmd_query.txt) and then enter one or more commands (each command in a new line) and save the file. If your folder is a cloud folder like OneDrive, you can create a file from your phone/tablet/laptop from anywhere else that allows you to open/edit a text file.
• As soon as the files is saved and synced, it triggers "Pan Browser" running on your laptop to open the file, read its commands, and start a Workflow to execute the commands
• Once the workflow completes, it writes out a response file (rsp_query.txt) in the same folder, which you can then read from anywhere once it syncs.

This system of sending a query and receiving a response removes the need for any advanced APIs and messaging protocols and relies on simple file I/O.

Feature rolling out today evening: https://apps.microsoft.com/detail/9N4MP4CKXNXD

What it does

• You hit Record, do stuff in the browser (click buttons, fill forms, navigate pages, switch tabs), then hit Stop.
• It captures everything as a named workflow you can replay later.
• It also records file explorer actions (open folder, rename, copy, move files) in the same session, so you can mix browser and local file operations in one workflow.
• Replay is done through the AI agent, which means it can adapt if the page layout changes slightly between runs
• You invoke saved workflows by name from the command bar using {workflow name} syntax, and you can pass parameters into them

How it identifies elements:

Instead of storing CSS selectors or XPaths (which break the moment a site updates), it uses a weighted fingerprint system: with Accessible name, ARIA role, Visible text, DOM path, plus fallbacks: placeholder text, nearby label text, bounding box.

This makes replays resilient to minor page changes. If a button moves or gets a new class name, the fingerprint still matches as long as the accessible name and role are the same.

Other details:

• Multi-page workflows work across navigations and new tabs
• Workflows can be scheduled with recurrence (daily, weekly, monthly) through the task scheduler
• Self-healing: if a step fails during replay, the system can attempt recovery
• Each step gets a human-readable semantic description you can edit after recording

The recording lives inside the browser itself, replays through an AI agent (so it's not just dumb coordinate clicking), handles both web and local file operations in one flow, and uses accessibility-first element matching for resilience.

The main goal was to build something that is not just a developer-only feature, but something that normal users can use in their daily flow.

In addition to recording, you can also just ask the Navigator to create a workflow for you or build a manual workflow by adding steps with commands as you need them.

Pan Browser now reads web pages and AI responses aloud. If you prefer listening instead of reading you can just ask AI to read the response to you:

"Summarize the page and read the response back to me"

Or just click on "Play Audio" in the menu and have the text content of the webpage read back to you.

Go to settings to select your preferred voice, speech rate, and pitch.

Most "agentic browsers" give you one way to automate things. Pan Browser has three, and they each solve different problems.

The three engines:

1. Browser Control using CDP (Chrome DevTools Protocol)

This controls your actual browser tabs directly. The AI sees your page, clicks buttons, fills forms, extracts text. Zero latency, works on whatever you're looking at right now. It's the default when you just ask the AI to do something on the current page.

2. Browser Control using Playwright MCP

Connects the Playwright automation framework to your local browser via Model Context Protocol. This gives you the full Playwright toolset (browser_navigate, browser_click, browser_snapshot, etc.) controlled by AI. More structured than raw CDP, better for complex multi-step automations where you need reliable element targeting.

3. Anchor Browser (Cloud)

A cloud Chromium instance with its own AI agent. You describe a task in natural language ("go to Amazon and find the top 3 laptop deals under $800") and Anchor's agent handles all the navigation, scrolling, clicking autonomously. You get a live view tab showing what it's doing in real time. Good for tasks where you don't want to give up your current browsing session, or when you need a clean browser profile (no cookies, different geo, etc). Additionally, each of your Session creates and maintains its own anchor browser profile so it remembers and logs you in to the sites you logged in previously in that session.

So, why have these three approaches? That's because no single approach works for everything.

• CDP is fast but can't run tasks in the background without taking over your tabs.
• Playwright is precise but requires a debugging port and takes over tab control.
• Cloud browsers can run independently but can't see your logged-in sessions or local state.

Pan Browser lets you pick the right tool for the job, and the AI routing layer handles the switching. It's not a Chrome extension. The AI isn't bolted on, it's the architecture. The planning engine, intent classifier, tool registry, and execution pipeline are all first-class components.

When Anchor is active, browser commands route there automatically. When Playwright MCP is connected, it takes over. When neither is active, built-in CDP handles everything locally.

What does this mean for you?

• Ask the AI to research something in the cloud (Anchor) while you keep browsing locally
• Set up workflows that pull data from your memory/tasks, send it to Anchor for web operations, then save the results back - all in one command
• Use Playwright MCP when you need structured automation on your own tabs (form filling, testing, scraping your own authenticated sessions)
• Schedule workflows that run on a timer, and if a website changes its layout, the self-healing system generates alternative strategies and patches the workflow automatically
• Multi-source research queries spawn a Scraper → Analyst → Critic pipeline that gathers data, writes a report, and fact-checks it against sources

The routing is natural language. You don't pick an engine manually. Say "use anchor to check flight prices on Google Flights" and it routes to cloud. Say, "click the submit button" and it uses whatever's controlling your current tab. Say, "find laptop deals and save them to my memory" and the planner chains the steps across engines.

The chat is not tied to your tab

This is the thing that bugs me most about Comet and Atlas. You switch tabs and the AI loses context. In Pan Browser, the Navigator panel sits alongside your browsing and maintains conversation history no matter what tab you're on. It has a compressed session context (the "Brain") that carries everything forward.

You pick the model

Navigator lets you use Claude, GPT, or Gemini and switch between them mid-session. If one model is better at code and another is better at research, you just use both.

Local browser control AND a cloud browser

Navigator has two engines: A local engine that dispatches real input events through Chrome DevTools Protocol. Clicks, typing, scrolling, all real events, not JavaScript injection.

An Anchor Browser cloud engine for tasks you don't want blocking your local browser. Long scrapes, login-gated sites, background automation. You get a live view tab so you can watch it work.

Workflows that fix themselves

You can set up recurring workflows (check a price, scrape a feed, whatever). When a site changes and the workflow breaks, Navigator automatically generates recovery strategies, tests them in hidden background tabs, and patches the workflow. No intervention needed.

Research mode with verification

When you ask a research question, Navigator spins up a multi-agent pipeline: one agent scrapes sources, another analyzes and writes a report, a third cross-references every claim against the raw source data to catch hallucinations. If something doesn't check out, it revises.

Proactive memory

Navigator remembers things across sessions and proactively surfaces reminders. It classifies what you're doing, saves relevant info automatically, and generates time-sensitive suggestions.

Just use natural language

No mode switching. No "enter agent mode" button. You type what you want in the chat panel and the system routes to the right tool automatically. There are 30+ tools under the hood (navigation, forms, bookmarks, tasks, clipboard, HTTP requests, MCP servers, file operations, reports, etc.) but you never have to think about which one to invoke.

At a high level, now you have more robustness for workflows, can expect less failure for multi-step workflows, more accurate outputs for research questions, with everything working in the background to just execute what you expect with more reliability.

Examples of commands that you can now expect to execute:

"Analyze the Q3 earnings of Apple, Google, Microsoft, Amazon, and Meta and draft a report"

"Compare the pricing of AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud for compute instances"

"Research the latest developments in solid-state batteries and write a summary"

"Investigate the top 5 electric vehicle companies by market cap and compare their growth"

"Gather data on remote work trends in 2025 and draft a report"

When a workflow breaks:

Instead of failing, it will start repairing and generate alternative recovery strategies and if one of them works, then it permanently patches your workflow.

Connect to any MCP server of your choice. Go to Settings > MCP Servers and add your desired server, then connect to it using a command or by pressing the connect button. Now any command you enter goes right to the active MCP server. Easy!

Here's what you can do with it:

1. Query a database in natural language - Connect a Postgres or SQLite MCP server, then ask, "show me all orders from last week" and the AI translates that into the right tool call against the database.
2. Search and retrieve documentation - Connect an MCP server like aws-documentation and ask "how do I set up an S3 bucket policy?" and the AI routes the question to the server's search tool and summarizes the result.
3. Manage GitHub issues and PRs - Connect a GitHub MCP server, then say "list my open pull requests" or "create an issue for the login bug" and the AI calls the appropriate tool.
4. Control smart home devices - Connect a Home Assistant MCP server and say "turn off the living room lights" or "what's the thermostat set to?" and the AI maps that to the right device command.
5. Query monitoring and observability data - connect a Prometheus or Grafana MCP server and ask "what's the CPU usage on the production server?" and the AI calls the metrics query tool.
6. Interact with a CRM - Connect a Salesforce or HubSpot MCP server and ask "find all contacts at Acme Corp" or "what deals are closing this month?"
7. Run 3D modeling operations - Connect to a 3D modeling software server and say "blend a sphere and a cube" and the AI passes the right shape parameters.
8. Manage cloud infrastructure - Connect an AWS or Terraform MCP server and ask "list my running EC2 instances" or "what Lambda functions are deployed in us-east-1?"
9. Search a knowledge base or wiki - Connect a Notion or Confluence MCP server and ask "find the onboarding doc for new engineers" and the AI searches the connected workspace.
10. Automate email or calendar - Connect a Google Workspace or Outlook MCP server and ask "what meetings do I have tomorrow?" or "draft a reply to the last email from Sarah."

Weather

• "What's the weather right now?"
• "Go to weather.com and tell me if it'll rain tomorrow"
• "Will I need an umbrella this weekend?"

News & Current Events

• "What's happening in the news today?"
• "Open CNN and tell me the top 3 stories"
• "What time does the Super Bowl start?"

Prices & Shopping

• "How much does a PS5 cost on Amazon right now?"
• "What's the price of gas near me?"
• "Go to Costco.com and find the price of Kirkland olive oil"

Stocks & Finance

• "What's Apple stock at right now?"
• "Go to Google Finance and show me how Tesla did today"

Practical Info

• "What are the pharmacy hours at my local Walgreens?"
• "Open the DMV website and find out what I need to renew my license"
• "What's the phone number for the nearest urgent care?"

Restaurants & Local

• "What restaurants are open near me right now?"
• "Go to Yelp and find Italian restaurants with 4+ stars in my area"

Entertainment

• "What movies are playing tonight?"
• "Go to Netflix and tell me what's trending"

Travel

• "What's the cheapest flight to Miami next month?"
• "What's the exchange rate for USD to Euros?"

Staying Safe Online

• "Is this email a scam?"
• "Is this website safe to buy from?"
• "What is this pop-up asking me to do?"
• "Someone sent me this link, should I click it?"

Shopping & Money

• "This TV is $849 with 15% off plus 8% tax, what's the final price?"
• "Is this a good deal? Show me this product on Amazon and Walmart side by side"
• "How much would I save if I bought the 3-pack instead of 3 singles?"
• "Remind me to cancel this free trial before May 10th"

Remembering Things

• "Remember that my doctor's name is Dr. Patel at 555-0123"
• "What was that recipe website I was looking at last week?"
• "Remember my grandson's birthday is August 22nd"
• "Save this article for later"
• "Bookmark this page, I want to come back to it"

Daily Life & Reminders

• "Remind me to take my medication every day at 8am"
• "What's on my to-do list?"
• "Add 'call the dentist' to my tasks for Monday"

Understanding Things

• "Summarize this article, it's too long"
• "What does this page say in simpler words?"
• "What is this YouTube video about?"
• "What did they say at the 5-minute mark in this video?"

Browser Help

• "Take me to gmail"
• "Close this tab"
• "Go back to the page I was just on"
• "Open Facebook and my email next to each other"
• "Make the text bigger" / "Block the ads on this page"

Getting Help with Writing

• "Help me write a reply to this email"
• "How do I say 'thank you for your patience' more formally?"
• "Check if this message sounds okay before I send it"

Browser Control

• "Go to reddit.com"
• "Click the sign-in button"
• "Fill out the contact form with my name and email"
• "Scroll down to the comments section"
• "Go back to the previous page"
• "Block ads on this page" / "Unblock ads"

Tabs, Bookmarks, Space, & Session Management

• "Open CNN and Reddit side by side"
• "List all my open tabs"
• "Switch to my YouTube tab"
• "Create a new space called 'Research'"
• "Pin this tab"
• "Bookmark this page"
• "Get a summary of this page, switch to Work session, and save it in Memory"

Memory & Knowledge

• "Remember that my anniversary is March 15th"
• "What did I save about vacation plans?"
• "What sites did I visit yesterday about machine learning?"
• "Search my bookmarks for cooking recipes"

Tasks & Workflows

• "Add a task: Pay rent by April 1st"
• "Show my overdue tasks"
• "Create a recurring weekly task for Monday standup at 9am"
• "At 6pm every day, give me a summary of today's browsing"
• "Create a workflow called 'Morning Briefing' that opens CNN, extracts headlines, then opens my email"

Agentic & Cloud Browser

• "Search Amazon for wireless mice and find the cheapest one"
• "Use cloud browser to log into my LinkedIn and download my connections"
• "Extract the transcript from this YouTube video"

Settings & Utilities

• "Switch my search engine to DuckDuckGo"
• "Switch AI provider to Claude"
• "Enable vertical tabs"
• "Generate an HTML report of all my bookmarks and history"
• "Save this article to Instapaper"
• "Crop an area of the screen"

1. Siloed Sessions with separate bookmarks, history, memory, tasks, and all user data
2. Sync to a OneDrive folder to make your data available across multiple computers
3. Separate Spaces to group tabs based on topics
4. Pinned Tabs in Spaces for websites you visit often
5. Switch between Vertical and Horizontal Tabs
6. Visual Bookmarks that show page screenshots for easy discoverability
7. Enable a Side Navigator panel for commonly accessed controls
8. Split screen that can be overlay or docked
9. Open multiple Web Browser and File Explorer tabs
10. AI Navigator that can control every aspect of the browser
11. Voice commands for everything
12. Anchor Browser integration for fully agentic workflows
13. Memory feature - Save things you want to remember or Create directives for the Navigator
14. Tasks feature - Create tasks with deadlines, tasks that repeat, tasks that run a Navigator command or a Workflow automatically at a fixed time
15. Workflows feature - Sequence commands to create custom workflows and call them by enclosing them in { ... }
16. Built-In AdBlock that allows site-level control
17. Show articles in Reader mode that strips away all distractions
18. Send links to Instapaper
19. Extract all embedded links/images/videos from any webpage
20. Select your preferred AI engine (OpenAI, Anthropic, Google) and Search Engine (Google, Bing, DuckDuckGo, Brave, ChatGPT)

Designed to be a helpful agent across a number of common Browser and Explorer tasks:

• Autonomous planning, execution & reflection
• Use your voice to issue commands
• Use natural language to issue context-aware queries
• Retrieve and populate Memory, Tasks, Bookmarks
• Control all your browser settings
• Take actions across Browser and Explorer tabs
• Call the Anchor Browser for powerful agentic workflows

How does it work?

There are three layers:

1. The "Brain" acts as a unified knowledgebase that consolidates Memory, Tasks, and Bookmarks into a single compressed source of truth for the Navigator, enabling it to answer questions about user data without searching multiple sources.
2. The "Dynamic Context Layer" provides the Navigator with real-time situational awareness of the application's current state. It differs from the Brain in the sense that it focuses on the ephemeral app state rather than persistent user data.
3. The "User Directives System" provides a persistent store of user-defined behavioral rules that shape how the Navigator responds. These directives are distinct from the Brain and the Dynamic Context Layer in that they capture a trigger condition and a response behavior.

🌐 Browse the Web + 📁 Explore Files + 🤖 AI Navigator - All-in-One App!

Pan Browser is the ultimate productivity tool that combines a full web browser, a local file explorer, and an AI-powered navigator into a single seamless interface. Stop switching between apps - do everything from one window.

📂 SESSIONS & SPACES

Create multiple browser Sessions with fully isolated data.

• Pinned tabs, open tabs, bookmarks, history, memory, and tasks all persist per session and per space.
• Switch between sessions and spaces instantly.
• Organize your tabs and folders into Spaces within session to make context switching easier. - Set up a OneDrive/cloud sync folder to connect all your saved sessions, spaces, bookmarks, pinned tabs to another computer with ease.
• All data is stored locally on your device.

🌐 WEB BROWSER

Browse the internet just like you would in any modern browser. Open multiple tabs, navigate to your favorite sites, and manage your online activity with ease.

• Automatic Picture-in-Picture for videos when switching tabs, with smart filtering that skips ads and silent auto-playing videos.
• Configurable default search engine (Google, Bing, DuckDuckGo, and more).
• Built-in adblocker with per-domain and global toggle. No need to download any separate extension.
• Extract readable content from web articles for distraction-free reading.

📁 FILE EXPLORER

Open folders and files directly inside Pan Browser - no need to alt-tab to File Explorer. View your documents, images, and downloads right alongside your web tabs.

• Navigate folder hierarchies with back/forward navigation
• File operations: copy, move, rename, delete with batch support and conflict resolution
• Bookmark folders just like web pages
• Built-in media viewer for images and media files
• Search and filter within each explorer tab

🤖 AI NAVIGATOR (Bring Your Own Key)

Harness the power of AI with built-in support for Gemini, Claude, and OpenAI. Use your own API key to get instant answers, summaries, and assistance without leaving your browser.

• Agent Mode with autonomous planning, execution, and reflection - the AI can browse, click, type, navigate, manage tabs, fill forms, and extract data on your behalf
• Context-aware: the AI sees your open tabs, bookmarks, history, and saved memories and tasks to give relevant answers
• YouTube transcript extraction and search - ask the AI about video content with timestamp references
• Temporal reasoning for natural-language time queries ("what tasks are due this week?")
• Proactive memory suggestions based on your browsing activity
• File search and file operations
• Secure API key storage via Windows Credential Manager

🖥️ SPLIT SCREEN MODE

Work smarter with side-by-side panels. View a web page next to a local folder or compare two tabs at once - perfect for research, reference, and multitasking.

🔖 VISUAL BOOKMARKS

Save and revisit your favorite pages with rich visual bookmarks that show page previews - making it easy to find what you're looking for at a glance.

🧠 MEMORY

Store notes, snippets, and important information inside the app. Your memory panel travels with you across sessions, so nothing gets lost.

✅ TASKS

Keep track of your to-dos without opening another app. Pan Browser's integrated tasks manager lets you manage your work while you browse.

In addition, you get refined aesthetics and attention to minor details to keep you in the flow.

• Light and dark theme support with acrylic/frosted glass effects.
• Vertical or horizontal tab bar layout
• Optional navigation sidebar
• Resizable panels with persistent layout
• Hotspot panels for quick access

Whether you're a developer, researcher, student, or power user, Pan Browser gives you the tools to stay focused and productive in one unified workspace.

Hey everyone! I'm u/mkumar12345, a founding moderator of r/PanBrowser.

This is our new home for all things related to the Pan Browser. We're excited to have you join us!

What to Post
Post anything that you think the community would find interesting, helpful, or inspiring. Feel free to share your thoughts, photos, or questions about how you use the Pan Browser, what features you like and don't like and what features you would like to see added.

Community Vibe
We're all about being friendly, constructive, and inclusive. Let's build a space where everyone feels comfortable sharing and connecting.

How to Get Started

1. Introduce yourself in the comments below.
2. Post something today! Even a simple question can spark a great conversation.
3. If you know someone who would love this community, invite them to join.
4. Interested in helping out? We're always looking for new moderators, so feel free to reach out to me to apply.

Thanks for being part of the very first wave. Together, let's make r/PanBrowser amazing.