Woah this is a busy busy server zone and lots of excitement on Rag whichnis excellent timing

[safe parrot]

Pictures are a thousand words in a few videos so that should probably sum up what I'm doing with all these are a few of the startups that I've been working on for the last few years Until I came across T3 chat, I hadn't really learned too much about Stacks and the intricacies. How have they changed since 2011? And they haven't gotten harder. They've gotten us so much easier. As we had just barely got into virtualization back then. And now they're 15 years deep. (laughs) my friend Demetri is having a hackathon today and an introduction to a very easy to utilize rag through chrome. And I was going to see if I can find that invite and he never minds who shows up. And it's very, very fast, quick and interesting and free. But it's got a lot of knowledge you can obtain in a very short amount of time and a very good connection to have in the industry. If I don't find it on time, you're more than welcome to message me and I can send you an invite. It's today at 12 noon during California time. He was the CEO of MySpace. His name is Dimitri Shapiro and his project is Mindspace. And he's also one of the head of people at Google for a while on Facebook, I believe. Well, he wrote me late last night, invited me for that today, and it was a project on there that I didn't get how they were utilizing it last year, and now I do, and they are far ahead than most. And while do they have a tool for you?

[hollow thicket]

Hi @safe parrot. I'm kapa.ai, your friendly support bot. I will try to answer your question by searching through the knowledge base. :wave:

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I’m tuned specifically to help with Convex and its ecosystem (Convex Components, Agents, RAG, hackathons, etc.), and the knowledge sources I have don’t mention Demetri/Dimitri Shapiro, Mindspace, or the Chrome-based RAG tool you’re describing. I also don’t have live access to calendars or invites, so I can’t help you find or join that particular hackathon.

If you’re interested in building something similar—a simple, easy-to-use RAG or agentic experience like what you describe—Convex does provide:

• A RAG Component (@convex-dev/rag) for semantic search over your documents, with utilities for chunking, hashing files, and hybrid ranking for combining multiple score signals.[RAG component]
• An Agent Component that lets you build AI agents with threads, message history, tools, and built‑in RAG support, including both prompt‑based and tool‑based approaches.[Agents RAG]

For example, you can:

• Ingest text/PDFs/images into a Convex RAG store and search them for context.[Agents RAG ingesting]
• Use rag.generateText for a one‑off question‑answer over your indexed content, or wire the RAG search into an Agent tool so the LLM decides when to query your knowledge base.[Generate from RAG]

If you can clarify what you’d like to build with Convex—e.g. a Chrome‑style RAG helper, an internal knowledge search, or a hackathon project—I can walk you through how to implement it step‑by‑step using these components.

Note: you can ask me a follow up question by @ mentioning me again :speech_balloon:

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[safe parrot]

@hollow thicket oh Convex has an chrome backed tool bar that bypasses api calls and can be utiilzed for clients passing billinas a Sass extennsion customized for any off my need like reducing calls reduction by utilizing a sandbox pre tool call and vectorizing data or or does it sound like an additional tool that would work great with convex?

[hollow thicket]

Let me check the knowledge base for you again. One moment! :books:

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Convex itself does not provide a “Chrome-backed toolbar” or browser extension that:

• lives in the Chrome UI,
• bypasses API calls, or
• automatically does pre‑tool sandboxes / vectorization on the client.

The closest official things in the Convex ecosystem are:

1. Convex JavaScript clients

   • ConvexClient (WebSocket, realtime subscriptions) and ConvexHttpClient (one‑off queries) for any JS runtime that supports fetch and WebSocket, including browser contexts.[JS clients]
   • These are still API calls to Convex; there’s no advertised “bypass”.

2. Convex Panel (community tool)

   • A React component (convex-panel) you embed in your app to see logs, tables, and health metrics right inside your dev environment.[Convex Panel]
   • The author originally considered a Chrome extension, but explicitly pivoted away from that because of security & CORS issues; the final product is a React component that talks directly to Convex APIs from your app, not a browser toolbar.[Chrome extension pivot]

3. AI Agent & RAG Components

   • The AI Agent component provides tools, memory, and optional per‑user token usage tracking.[Agent usage tracking][Agent features]
   • The RAG and Agent components handle vectorization, search, and context server‑side in Convex, not as a Chrome toolbar.[Components directory]

From the docs and Stack posts:

• There is no official Convex chrome extension or toolbar.
• There is no documented feature that “bypasses API calls” or locally sandboxes/pre‑tools everything in the way you describe.
• Vectorization and RAG are handled as backend components and APIs you call from clients.

So:

• What you’re imagining (a Chrome toolbar that fronts Convex, reduces calls by pre‑processing / vectorizing client‑side, and plugs into Convex’s RAG/Agents and usage tracking) sounds like an additional tool you could build on top of Convex, not something Convex already ships.
• You could implement it by:
  • using a Chrome extension framework (Plasmo, WXT, etc.) which others have reported working fine with Convex,[Plasmo thread]
  • calling your Convex backend via ConvexHttpClient or plain HTTP from an extension background/service worker, and
  • letting Convex components (Agent, RAG, Rate Limiter, etc.) handle the heavy lifting server‑side.[Components]

If you describe the exact flow you want (e.g. “user highlights text in Chrome → toolbar → Convex RAG/Agent → answer, with per‑tenant usage tracking”), I can outline how to wire that up with the existing Convex pieces.

Note: you can ask me a follow up question by @ mentioning me again :speech_balloon: