prompt-api

💬 A proposal for a web API for prompting browser-provided language models (by webmachinelearning)

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  • Chrome's Gemini Nano Prompt API: A Step-by-Step Guide
    3 projects | dev.to | 5 May 2026
    The technical name for this is the Prompt API (official spec, Chrome docs). It's been in Chrome's bowels since version 138 — initially behind a flag, now also available as an Origin Trial for production sites. The big news is that a critical mass of developers just figured out it's there, and the demos hitting HN every week (Decaf rewriting comments, Subtitle Insights translating YouTube live, the side-panel UI above) are no longer "look what's possible" — they're "I shipped it last weekend."
  • Mozilla's Opposition to Chrome's Prompt API
    12 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 30 Apr 2026
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    7 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 3 Jan 2026
    I guess this is the Dunning-Kruger effect everyone talks about!

    To understand just enough to regurgitate what happened, but miss why it happened... and then assume someone who's pointing at the much more relevant why is just plain wrong.

    Because the why requires actually understanding of things like developer mindshare rather than regurgitating search results.

    -

    The hint I'll leave if you're willing to consider maybe you don't know everything ever... look at who's feedback is being promoted when Chrome wants to do obviously unpopular things on the web: https://github.com/webmachinelearning/prompt-api/blob/main/R...

    https://github.com/mozilla/standards-positions/issues/1213

    And model for yourself what happens if the developer interest exceeds vendor refusal in magnitude, so Google just ships the thing, without a feature flag, to a massive percentage of the web-going world.

  • WebMCP
    10 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 17 Oct 2025
    https://github.com/webmachinelearning/prompt-api

    https://developer.chrome.com/docs/ai/built-in :

    > Standardization effort: We're working to standardize all of these APIs for cross-browser compatibility.

    > The Language Detector API and Translator API have been adopted by the W3C WebML Working Group. We've asked Mozilla and WebKit for their standards positions.

    > The Summarizer API, Writer API, and Rewriter API have also been adopted by the W3C WebML Working Group. We've asked asked Mozilla and WebKit for their standards positions.

    webmachinelearning/webmcp:

  • Show HN: Grammit – Local-only AI grammar checker (Chrome extension)
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 28 Aug 2025
    I don't know if Vivaldi supports the new Prompt API [0] that Grammit uses to run the local LLM.

    As far as I know, the only browsers supporting it currently are Chrome [1] and Edge [2].

    [0] https://github.com/webmachinelearning/prompt-api

    [1] https://developer.chrome.com/docs/extensions/ai/prompt-api

    [2] https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/web-platfor...

  • WebGPU enables local LLM in the browser. Demo site with AI chat
    4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 2 Aug 2025
    There is a Prompt API in development that's available in both Chrome and Edge to give pages to a local LLM. Chrome extensions have access to it and I believe websites can request access as part of an origin trial.

    The model is fully managed by the browser. It's currently the Gemini Nano model on Chrome, and they are testing a version of the Gemma 3n model in beta channels. Edge uses phi-4-mini.

    You can learn more here: https://github.com/webmachinelearning/prompt-api

  • Explainer for the Prompt API: design sketch by the Chrome built-in AI team
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 29 Jul 2025
  • Orbit. Mozilla's AI Assistant for Firefox
    10 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 30 Dec 2024
    I wish they would copy this one https://github.com/webmachinelearning/prompt-api and include a few options for small self-hosted LLMs using WebGPU or some built-in accelerated AI for Firefox.
  • Explainer for the Prompt API
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 10 Oct 2024
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