Pipeup

Comment on any web page with Pipeup. Your comments stay in this browser until you send them.

Pipeup lets you comment on web pages and hand your comments to the person or AI agent who asked for your feedback. Press Pipeup in the toolbar (or Alt+Shift+P) and choose Comment on this page. Point at what you mean: select a few words, click a picture or a block, or pin a spot. A box opens beside it with the cursor in it. Write your note and press Enter. You can reply, resolve and reopen, and edit or delete your own comments. What you can do • Comment on ordinary web pages (http and https). The browser's own pages, such as settings, the new tab page and extension stores, are closed to extensions, and Pipeup says so there. • Right-click selected words, a picture, a link or the page and choose Comment with Pipeup. • See every comment on the page in one list, with replies, Resolve and Reopen. Turn on Keep comments beside the page to show it in the browser's side panel; otherwise each thread opens beside its place on the page. • Copy comments as Markdown or as text, ready to paste into a message, a ticket or a chat with an AI. • Save comments as a Markdown file, or as a Pipeup file, which keeps every change and which Pipeup's command-line tools can read. • Send to my agent: give the page's comments to AI agents on this computer, and see their replies in the threads. It needs a small helper program that you install yourself with one command, which Pipeup shows you, filled in for Chrome, Edge or Brave. The helper runs on macOS and Linux and needs Node.js 20 or later. Send to my agent isn't offered on Windows. Everything else works without it. • Comments you've made lists every page you have commented on, newest first. • Always on for this site starts Pipeup whenever you open that site, without a press. The browser asks your permission for that one site. Pages on this computer (localhost and 127.0.0.1) have one switch for every port. • Keep a picture of where each comment was made, so a comment whose place has gone still shows what it was about. • Add-ons, each turned on or off in the extension's settings: Emoji (on by default), Voice, Share, Live, Save to GitHub and My identity. Where your comments are kept Your comments, the pages you commented on (address and title), the sites where you started Pipeup, your name and signing key, your settings, the add-ons' choices (such as whether you agreed to go live, and your recent emoji) and the pictures are kept by the extension, in this browser. Nothing is written to the site's own storage. There is no account to make. Pipeup has no analytics or telemetry, sends nothing to its makers, and loads no code from the web. Who else can see them • Not the page you are on. Pipeup draws its highlights, comment boxes and menus inside the page but closed to the page's own scripts, so they can't read your comments, your name or the recovery code My identity shows. What you type into Pipeup's boxes on a page is typed in the extension's own frame, so the page can't see the words or the keys you press. • Whoever you give them to with Copy comments or Save comments. • Send to my agent sends the page's comments, with their earlier versions, and the page's full address and title, to the helper program on this computer, which keeps them in ~/.pipeup/browser. Once you have used it, the toolbar menu also asks the helper for agents' replies on pages where Pipeup is on. That request carries only a code made from the page's address. • Add-ons that send, once you turn them on: – Voice: when you press the microphone, the browser turns your speech into text. Depending on the browser and the language, the audio may go to the browser maker's speech service. – Share: works only on pages that carry a Pipeup document id and a sharing address (yours from the settings, or the page's own if you set none). While sending is on, it sends your new comments to that server about every 10 seconds, encrypted with the key in the address, and brings others' comments back. Anyone with the address, including a page that names it, can read them. The server sees your IP address. Comments you wrote before Share was on wait until you choose. – Live: works only on pages that carry a Pipeup document id. After you agree in Live's own panel, it connects you through public relays (or ones the page names) to others on the same page, and sends them the page's comments, your name, where you point and select, and when you are typing. The relays, public connection (STUN) servers and the others see your IP address. A page can't give that agreement for you. – Save to GitHub: when you mention someone by their GitHub name and press Mention on GitHub in Pipeup's menu, it opens a github.com new-issue page with the comment, your name, the page title and its full address filled in. GitHub receives these when that page opens. Nothing is filed until you submit it there. – My identity shows a recovery code for your Pipeup identity, which you can copy or save. It sends nothing. Good to know • When you make a comment on a page where you pressed Pipeup, a picture of the visible tab is taken and cut to the comment's place. Pictures are kept by the extension, shown only in the side panel, and never copied, saved in files or sent. Deleting a comment deletes its picture, and turning pictures off deletes them all. • Editing or deleting a comment keeps the earlier text in its history, which goes into a Pipeup file, Send to my agent, Share and Live. • Your comments carry your name and a public key that is the same on every site, so comments shared or saved from different sites can be linked to you. • Sites can tell that Pipeup is installed, because pages can load its files. • To remove what the extension keeps, remove the extension. Files you saved and what Send to my agent wrote on your computer (in ~/.pipeup/browser) stay until you delete them. Open source Pipeup is open source under the MIT licence. Source code, build steps and issues: https://github.com/pipeup-ai/pipeup Website: https://pipeup-ai.github.io/pipeup/