AI chat
Ask an AI about the page you're on, and let it click, type, and sort your tabs once you allow it.
The AI chat runs an AI you already have on your computer: Claude Code, Codex, Gemini CLI, or Cursor's agent, signed in to its own account. Nothing extra is billed by 1zero. If you don't have one, 1zero AI gives you hosted models through your 1zero account instead.
AI is off until you turn it on. Go to Settings → AI and switch on Enabled. With it off there's no side chat, no chat tabs, no chat mode in the command center, and saved chats stay out of History.
Picking an agent
The browser looks for the agents installed on your computer. If it finds none, Settings → AI → Agent says so: install one, sign in to it from a terminal, then press Look again.
- Default agent picks which one new chats use. Automatic takes the first one that's signed in.
- Side chat model and Chat tab model pick the model new chats start on, or Last used.
- The model picker by the prompt switches the agent, model, and effort for one chat. Press ⌘Ctrl/ with the chat focused to open it. Star a model to keep it at the top.
The side chat
Press ⌘CtrlE to open the side chat beside the page, and again to close it. You can change the key in Settings → Keyboard shortcuts, or clear it to give ⌘CtrlE back to sites. The side chat button in the titlebar's corner does the same.
The chat follows the tab you're looking at, so "summarize this" means the page in view. A reply keeps working on the tab it started on, even if you switch away. With the side chat closed, the Dynamic Island says "Still working" when you leave that tab and "AI replied" when it's done.
It opens on the right. Settings → Side panel moves it to the left and sets whether it opens below a site's header. See Side panel.
Talking to it
| Keys | Does |
|---|---|
| Enter | Send |
| ⇧ShiftEnter | New line |
| Esc | Stop the reply |
| ⌘Ctrl⇧ShiftK | New chat |
| ⌘CtrlEnter | Allow the action that's waiting |
| ⌘Ctrl⇧ShiftEnter | Write a message where the pointer is |
| ⌘Ctrl⇧ShiftD | Voice typing |
The + in the prompt attaches images and files (PDFs go as their text), captures an area of the page, takes a screenshot of the page, or mentions another tab so its text goes with your message.
Pointing at the page
⌘Ctrl⇧ShiftEnter opens a message box at the pointer, over the page. While it's up:
- Text you had selected goes with the message as a quote.
- Hold ⌥Alt and click to pick something on the page, such as a button, a picture, or a paragraph.
- Hold ⌥Alt and drag to pick an area, the way a screenshot tool does.
What you picked shows as chips on your message. Settings → AI → Send messages to sets where the reply shows: the Dynamic Island (the default) as a wide card, with Open in side chat to carry on there, or the Side chat.
How replies look
Settings → AI → Side chat replies picks Chat bubbles (a short line per thought, like texting) or Full text (short paragraphs). Show tool calls puts what the AI did ("Reading the page") on one line per reply, which you can press to list the steps.
Chat tabs
A chat tab is a conversation on a page of its own, with room for longer answers. In the command center, or the box on the home page, press Tab to switch to Ask AI anything, type, and press Enter. The message opens in a chat tab in the folder you're in. Tab, Esc, or Backspace in an empty box goes back to searching.
You can have as many chat tabs as you like, each with its own chat, and they come back after a restart. To reach the web, a chat tab sends helpers out (see Subagents below), so keep Subagents on.
Turn chat mode off with Settings → AI → Chatting → Chat mode in the command center.
What it can do
It can always read the page you're on. Anything that changes a page, or closes something, asks you first with a card in the chat: Allow, Always allow (on that site, for this chat), or Don't allow. A card waits up to 3 minutes.
Settings → AI → What AI can do sets the rest:
| Setting | What it allows |
|---|---|
| Default permission | Ask before acting (the default), Allow everything, or Read only for new chats. Change it for one chat from the model picker. |
| Act on pages | Click, type, press keys, and go to addresses |
| Run scripts | Its own JavaScript in the page, for restyling and what clicks can't do. You see the code before it runs. Never on the browser's own pages. |
| Sign in with saved logins | Fill in a login from your passwords without seeing it. Set up in Settings → Passwords → AI assistant. See Passwords. |
| Organize tabs and folders | List, open, move, and close tabs, and make, rename, and remove folders. Closing asks first. |
| Subagents | Helpers that work on other sites in private tabs of their own, up to three at once, and report back |
| Show screenshots | Pictures of a page, or one part of it, in the chat |
| Use the Dynamic Island | Timers, alarms, stopwatches, and short notices in the island |
| Search browsing history | Look through the sites you've visited, and when |
| Notes | Read, write, and tidy your notes. It asks before changing one. |
| Interactive views | Cards and buttons in the chat. See Interactive views. |
The AI can't run commands or read and change files on your computer, even if its agent can do that elsewhere. It can search and read the web.
Show the AI's cursor shows a pointer moving to what it clicks or types into, and a bar saying what it's doing. Glow while AI works lights the window's edges while it's in control.
Page text is treated as data, not instructions. Still, a page can try to talk an AI into things, so read what a card asks before you allow it.
Subagents
For a task on another site, the AI can send a subagent: a helper with its own private tab that works in the background and reports back. Each shows as a card in the chat. Press it to watch the live tab, stop it, answer its approvals, or open its tab as a normal one. Up to three work at once, and they follow the chat's permission.
Sorting tabs
With Organize tabs and folders on, the command center has a Sort tabs button (a broom) in its bottom bar, or press ⌘Ctrl⌥AltT while it's open. The AI groups the window's tabs, or the folder on screen, into named and colored folders. Video sites go together in one folder. Nothing is closed or opened, and locked folders are left alone. Press it again to stop.
Chat history
Chats are saved on your computer, the 50 newest, and listed under Recent chats in the chat's menu and on the History page. Type chat in the command center to see them as a list. Incognito windows never save chats.
Settings → AI → Chat history has:
- Save chats: off, new messages aren't kept. Chats saved before stay.
- Name chats: the AI names each new chat from its first message.
- Clear chat history…, which asks first.
Sharing a chat
Share chat… in the chat's menu makes a read-only copy anyone with the link can read. You need to be signed in to your 1zero account.
The copy is encrypted on your computer before it's sent, and the key is only in the link, so 1zero can't read it. It holds your messages and the AI's replies, not the pages, screenshots, or steps. Once shared, the menu has Copy share link, Update shared chat, and Stop sharing…, which deletes the copy.
What leaves your computer
Your messages, and what the AI reads from pages, go to the agent's provider (Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, or Cursor), on the account you signed in with. With Send selected text on, text you've selected goes with your message. Passwords never do.
Other ways to use the AI
- AI memory: facts it keeps about you between chats.
- AI schedules: prompts it runs by itself at set times.
- MCP server: let Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, and other apps use the browser with the same tools.