Browser Extension

Status: not shipped · nothing to install

There is no browser extension

loci does not ship a browser extension. An earlier version of this page described a Chrome extension as a buildable package (packages/extension/) with install steps, an architecture, and a roadmap. That package does not exist in the repository and never has. There is nothing to build and nothing to load into chrome://extensions. This page was corrected on 2026-07-03.

What actually ships

The current release is v0.6.0-beta (2026-07-02). It contains three ways to run loci, all in the public repository. None of them is a browser extension.

Surface	Where in the repo	What it is
Plain markdown	templates/	The substrate itself: templates and processes that any file-aware AI can run. No build step.
Desktop app	desktop/	A Tauri app (v0.6.0-beta): a native dashboard plus one tab per instrument your palace generates for itself.
CLI	loci-cli/	A Rust binary (v0.6.0-beta): read-only, no network, no inference.

The desktop app and the CLI are expressions built on top of the substrate. You do not need either to start.

If you came here to install something

The plain-markdown path is the door. It needs no browser and no build:

git clone https://github.com/huximaxi/loci

1. Copy the templates/ kit into a folder of your own.
2. Open FIRST-SESSION.md and point any file-aware AI at your palace CLAUDE.md.
3. That is the setup. The full walkthrough is in SETUP-GUIDE.md. If an agent runs setup for you, use AGENT-SETUP.md.

If you want a terminal surface instead, the CLI installs from source:

cd loci
cargo install --path loci-cli

Five commands, all read-only: loci status, loci crystals, loci read, loci handover, loci init. No network calls, no inference, no daemons.

Will an extension ever exist?

Nothing is committed. The repository's forward scope (RC-1.6-SCOPE.md) grows the CLI's write side and the template shelves; a browser extension appears nowhere in it. If one ever ships, it will land through the project's release gates (docs/RELEASING.md) and show up in the repository's CHANGELOG before it shows up here.

Until then, treat any install instructions for a loci browser extension, on this site or elsewhere, as unverified.