Ankit Sherke

Product Manager | AI Tinkerer

[Ankit Sherke @sherke_ankit]

Try it in 60 seconds:

Log into https://t.co/uS9uhus1XZ
Download the ZIP from GitHub
Load unpacked in chrome://extensions
Press ⌘E on any page

That's it. No API key. No config. No account creation.
→ https://t.co/9fREUt0cnf

Star ⭐ if it's useful. PRs welcome.

[Ankit Sherke @sherke_ankit]

I got tired of copy-pasting webpage content into Claude every time I wanted to ask about it.
So I built a Chrome extension that lets Claude read what you're looking at.
Press ⌘E on any page. Ask anything. It already has the context.
Meet Claude Sidekick. Free. Open source. 🧵

[Ankit Sherke @sherke_ankit]

Being upfront about how it works:
→ Reads your https://t.co/uS9uhus1XZ session cookies
→ Calls the same API your browser does
→ Messages count against your normal quota
→ No intermediary servers
→ No data stored anywhere
Uses https://t.co/uS9uhus1XZ's unofficial internal API

[Ankit Sherke @sherke_ankit]

The thing most extensions can't do:
It reads Google Docs, Sheets, and Slides natively.
Canvas rendering means most tools can't even see the content. Claude Sidekick uses the export API with your existing Google session.
No workarounds. Just ⌘E and ask.

[Ankit Sherke @sherke_ankit]

What Claude Sidekick does:
⌘E on any webpage → side panel opens with full page context
Works on everything — articles, GitHub, docs, Stack Overflow
10 slash commands: /summarize /factcheck /codereview /eli5 /actions
5 more
Create your own custom skills.

[Ankit Sherke @sherke_ankit]

I looked at what's out there:
→ Dia has page-aware AI chat but runs its own sessions. My Claude history and threads? Gone.
→ Claude in Chrome is built for automation — clicking, filling forms. I didn't need a robot. I needed a reading companion.

[Ankit Sherke @sherke_ankit]

The daily workflow that was driving me crazy:

1. Read something in Chrome
2. Copy the content
3. Switch to Claude
4. Paste it in
5. Ask my question
6. Lose the thread
7. Repeat

20+ tabs a day. Every single one.

[Ankit Sherke @sherke_ankit]

@BadCapitalVC Couldn't figure out how to access it.
Were you able to use it?

[Ankit Sherke @sherke_ankit]

Performance marketing shouldn't be at the cost of your brand.

Performance marketing is short term, brand building is a long game.

[Ankit Sherke @sherke_ankit]

It's not about pursuit of happiness. It's about happiness of pursuit.

[Ankit Sherke @sherke_ankit]

In your business, standardize processes, templates, and methods as soon as possible. Creativity thrives within constraints.

[Ankit Sherke @sherke_ankit]

@stanley_human Same, I saw that too.

[Ankit Sherke @sherke_ankit]

Apart from deep dreamless sleep are there any true objective experiences?

[Ankit Sherke @sherke_ankit]

In spirituality, there is no room for belief.

Doubt, Questioning, and Honest Inquiry should be at the core. So much so that it makes you question reality and your own existence.

Nihilism is a stepping stone not a destination.

[Ankit Sherke @sherke_ankit]

@stanley_human Do you go out of your way to check your biases or do you think biases make a designer unique?

[Ankit Sherke @sherke_ankit]

@stanley_human It hurts...

[Ankit Sherke @sherke_ankit]

@ransegall Waiting eagerly🤞

[Ankit Sherke @sherke_ankit]

@ransegall Fairly new to design https://t.co/cmP69faCwO

[Ankit Sherke @sherke_ankit]

@stanley_human That is the human version of Schrodinger's Cat with existential crisis.

[Ankit Sherke @sherke_ankit]

Do you ever start caring about so many things that you don't care about anything anymore?

I think we are exposed to so much information that our baseline for shock is much higher now.

We are all traumatised in a way.