Stop the tab tax
Every context switch costs you focus you never fully get back. A pinned sidebar, a command palette and a side panel mean the tool you need is already where you are — no new tab, no re-login, no lost train of thought.
Robert Szopa is an AI architect, business systems developer, and creative thinker with a background in philosophy and cognitive science.
Version 6.3 · Chrome Web Store launch imminent
Proscris Workbench puts multi-provider AI chat, full-page screenshots, screen and voice recording, on-page SEO auditing and an AI file organiser into one browser extension — so you stop hopping between fifteen tabs and six subscriptions to get one job done.
The story behind Proscris Workbench
Hi — I'm a solo developer who builds and manages digital systems for multiple businesses at once. Most days that meant living inside twenty-plus browser tabs: Gmail in one, Google Ads in another, Analytics next to it, a CRM three tabs over, five different AI chat windows open at the same time, and a dozen client social accounts scattered in between. Every task meant hunting for the right tab, remembering which login belonged to which client, and losing my train of thought a dozen times before lunch.
So I built Proscris Workbench for myself, first. Not as a product — as a way to stop losing my own focus twenty times a day.
This extension exists to protect your flow state. Not to look impressive in a screenshot.
What started as a personal sidebar to stop the tab-hunting grew into the AI co-pilot, the screenshot and recording studio, the SEO auditor, and the file organiser you can see further down this page — each one built the same way: because I genuinely needed it, and building it myself was faster than paying for four separate subscriptions and still switching between all of them every day.
If you manage more than one account, more than one client, or more than one platform, you already know this feeling. Proscris Workbench is the tool I wished existed before I built it — and now it's yours too.
Why it exists
The average operator juggles a screenshot tool, a screen recorder, three AI subscriptions, an SEO plugin, a note app and a downloads folder nobody has opened since 2023. Every one of them is a separate tab, a separate login and a separate bill. Proscris Workbench collapses that entire stack into one extension that lives at the edge of the browser you already have open.
Every context switch costs you focus you never fully get back. A pinned sidebar, a command palette and a side panel mean the tool you need is already where you are — no new tab, no re-login, no lost train of thought.
Screenshot tool, screen recorder, transcription service, SEO checker. Proscris Workbench replaces all four for a single one-time payment, and uses your own AI keys so you never pay a middleman markup on tokens.
Screenshots, recordings, transcripts, chat threads, agents and prompts all save as ordinary files in a folder you control. No export button to hunt for, no vendor lock-in, no account required to open your own work.
The real cost of switching tabs
Research on workplace interruptions consistently puts full-focus recovery at around twenty-three minutes. That's the real price of every "quick tab check" you do — not the ten seconds it felt like.
The average time it takes to fully regain deep focus after a single interruption, according to workplace-attention research cited across productivity studies.
Proscris Workbench exists to delete every one of those micro-interruptions. Everything — your tools, your AI co-pilot, your prompts, your agents — sits one click away, on every page, so checking something never has to mean losing something.
Core features
Nine tool categories, one extension. Each one is fully configurable and works independently — use the whole thing or just the parts you need.
A slim, collapsible rail docked to the left of every page, organised into eight sections you can rename, reorder, re-icon or hide entirely.
One chat interface wired to OpenAI, Anthropic, Google Gemini, Groq, xAI and OpenRouter — in a side panel, a full page, or both.
Build reusable personas with their own model, system prompt, temperature and
connectors, then summon them by @handle from any chat.
Visible area, stitched full page however long it runs, or drag-to-select any region — with your own extension UI cloaked so it never appears in the capture.
Record a tab, a window, your whole screen or your webcam — with a real thumbnail picker instead of a bare system dialog.
Capture voice notes with live transcription, or dictate straight into any text field on any website with an always-visible microphone widget.
A seven-tab technical SEO audit of whatever page you are on, opened straight from the toolbar icon. No crawl credits, no third-party service.
Point it at your Downloads folder and it identifies what each file actually is, renames it descriptively, sorts it into categories and tags it for search.
Save your best prompts once, then fire them anywhere with a backslash command or paste them into any field from the right-click menu.
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Bring your own API keys and every leading model becomes available in the same interface — in the side panel while you work, or on a full page when you need room to think. Switch provider mid-thread without losing your place.
@researcher or @copywriter and that agent's model, prompt and tools load instantly.
\debug, \email, \critique — your saved prompts expand as you type them.
PROSCRIS/Chats as readable .md files after every reply. Nothing is trapped in a database.
You pay providers directly. Proscris Workbench uses your own API keys, so there is no markup on tokens and no usage cap imposed by us. Keys are stored locally and are only ever sent to the provider you chose. Every non-AI feature works with no key at all.
Capture & record
Replace your screenshot tool, your screen recorder and your transcription service with capture tools that already know what page you are on and file everything for you automatically.
Built-in SEO toolkit
Click the toolbar icon and a seven-tab inspector opens beside your quick actions. It reads the live DOM of whatever page you are on — so it works on staging sites, password-protected pages and localhost, where crawler-based tools simply cannot go.
Title and meta description with live character counts and truncation warnings, canonical URL with self-reference check, meta robots, viewport, language, charset, doctype, word count and real load timings.
The complete H1–H6 outline in source order as an indented tree, with per-level counts, hidden and empty heading flags, and automatic detection of skipped levels that break your document hierarchy.
The live HTTP status of the page itself plus an on-demand crawl of every link on it, reporting 200s, 301 redirects, 404s and 500s with the final destination after redirects.
Internal and external links in separate collapsible groups, deduplicated, with
anchor text, nofollow flags, missing-anchor-text warnings and a security check
for target="_blank" without rel="noopener".
Every image with its thumbnail, filename and alt text, separating truly missing alt attributes from intentionally empty decorative ones — plus oversized-for-display warnings, and download and copy buttons on each.
Every JSON-LD block rendered as an expandable, drill-down tree so you can trace
nested @graph structures — with malformed blocks flagged, plus
microdata and RDFa detection.
See exactly how your page will look when shared on Facebook, LinkedIn and X before you publish — rendered as pixel-accurate preview cards using your real Open Graph and Twitter Card tags. Missing tags are flagged, and the preview models the fallback behaviour each platform actually uses when a tag is absent, so you see the real result rather than an idealised one.
twitter:card is missing so your image renders full-width.File explorer & AI organiser
Connect your Downloads folder once and browse it with real thumbnails, rich
metadata and inline previews for images, video, audio, PDFs, text, Markdown,
CSV and HTML. Then let the AI clean up a decade of IMG_4471.png and
invoice(3).pdf in one pass.
One click away
Pre-configured, fully editable, and grouped into collapsible sections. Rename them, re-icon them, re-point them at your own systems, or hide the ones you never touch.
Privacy by architecture
This is not a policy promise — it is how the software is constructed. There is no Proscris server in the path of your data. Here is precisely where everything lives.
| Data | Where it lives | Reaches Proscris? |
|---|---|---|
| Sidebar layout & preferences | Your browser's synced storage | No |
| API keys | Local device storage only — never synced | No |
| AI chat messages | Sent browser-to-provider with your key | No |
| Chat threads & agents | Downloads/PROSCRIS/Chats and /Agents |
No |
| Screenshots & recordings | Downloads/PROSCRIS/Media and /Recordings |
No |
| SEO audit results | In the popup, exported to PROSCRIS/SEO on request |
No |
| Name & email (only if you sign in) | Your device, plus our licence system | Yes — optional |
| Support requests you submit | Our support inbox | Yes — deliberate |
Third-party AI providers have their own terms. When you send a message using your OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Groq, xAI or OpenRouter key, that traffic goes directly to them and is governed entirely by their privacy policy — not ours. We recommend reading the policy of whichever provider you enable. Read the full Proscris privacy policy.
Installation
Two ways in. Once the Chrome Web Store listing is live it is a single click; until then, loading the unpacked folder takes about ninety seconds and works identically.
Click the button below. The listing works in Chrome, Edge, Brave, Opera, Vivaldi and Arc — Edge will simply prompt you to allow extensions from other stores the first time.
Open the Chrome Web Store listing
Listing is in review. This link goes live the moment it is approved — bookmark this page and it will simply start working.
Review the permissions and confirm. The extension installs immediately and the welcome page opens automatically.
Click the puzzle-piece icon and pin Proscris Workbench so the quick actions and SEO inspector are always one click away.
After checkout you receive an immediate download link. Unzip it somewhere permanent — your Documents folder, not Downloads — because the browser reads the extension from this folder every time it starts. Moving or deleting it later will disable the extension.
Click the puzzle-piece icon in your browser toolbar, then choose Manage Extensions at the bottom of the dropdown.
Prefer the keyboard? Paste chrome://extensions into the address bar (or edge://extensions in Edge, brave://extensions in Brave) and press Enter.
In the top-right corner of the Extensions page, switch on the Developer mode toggle. Three new buttons appear along the top of the page. This is a standard browser setting and is entirely reversible.
Click Load unpacked, navigate to the folder you unzipped in
step one, and select it. Choose the folder itself — the one containing
manifest.json — not the ZIP and not a folder above it.
Proscris Workbench installs immediately.
Click the puzzle-piece icon once more and pin Proscris Workbench to your toolbar. The sidebar appears on your next page load, and the welcome screen walks you through adding API keys and connecting your folders.
Keep the folder where you put it. Unlike a store install, an unpacked extension is loaded from its original folder every time your browser launches. If you move, rename or delete that folder the extension will stop loading. Once the Chrome Web Store listing is live you can switch over and this no longer applies — your settings carry across.
Proscris Workbench is a Manifest V3 extension and needs a Chromium-based browser at version 116 or later. Firefox runs the Gecko engine and does not implement the side-panel, offscreen-document or tab-capture APIs the extension depends on, so it is genuinely incompatible today rather than simply untested — a Firefox port would require rebuilding those subsystems. Safari is on the longer-term roadmap.
Pricing
No seats, no tiers, no monthly creep. One licence, every feature, all v6.x updates included.
$99 US dollars
One-time payment · was $150 · Lifetime licence
Secure checkout via PayPal. AI provider usage is billed by those providers directly at their own rates.
Running Proscris Workbench across a team? White-label branding and locked-down Client Mode toolsets are available for agencies — talk to us about team licensing.
Questions
Any Chromium-based browser at version 116 or later: Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge, Brave, Opera, Vivaldi and Arc. It is not currently compatible with Firefox, which uses the Gecko engine and does not implement the side-panel, offscreen-document and tab-capture APIs the extension is built on. Safari is on the longer-term roadmap.
No. Your settings, chat history, screenshots, recordings and files are stored locally on your own device. When you use AI chat, messages travel directly from your browser to the AI provider you configured, using your own API key — we never see or proxy that traffic.
The only data that ever reaches us is your name and email if you deliberately choose to sign in, and the contents of any support request you submit.
Yes, and deliberately so. Proscris Workbench uses your own API keys from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Groq, xAI or OpenRouter, so you pay those providers directly at their published rates with no markup from us and no artificial usage cap.
Every non-AI feature — screenshots, recording, dictation, the SEO inspector, the file explorer, the sidebar and the command palette — works with no API key at all.
No. Ninety-nine US dollars, paid once, for a lifetime licence including every version 6.x update. There is no recurring charge and no seat count.
Everything saves automatically into a PROSCRIS folder inside your
Downloads directory, organised into Media/Screenshots,
Media/Videos, Recordings/Screen,
Recordings/Camera, Recordings/Voice,
Chats, Agents, Prompts and
Tools.
You can optionally connect a different folder on your device — an external drive or a synced folder, for example — and Proscris will mirror every file there as well.
Yes. Signing in is entirely optional and only personalises your sidebar with your name, photo and business domain for placeholder URLs. Every single feature works fully without an account.
It works on any normal http or https page — including staging environments, password-protected pages and localhost, which is precisely where crawler-based SEO tools cannot reach.
Browsers block all extensions from reading internal pages such as
chrome://settings, the Chrome Web Store and other extensions'
pages, so those cannot be audited by any tool.
Never. The AI only ever produces a plan. You see every proposed rename next to the original filename, you can edit any name inline, and you can untick anything you disagree with. Files move only when you press Apply.
Every applied batch is written to an undo journal, so a whole reorganisation can be reversed with one click.
No. The moment before any capture fires — visible area, full page or selection — every piece of Proscris interface is cloaked and any on-screen notification is dismissed, then the browser is given a full paint frame to commit that state before the shutter. The same cloak applies when you print or save a page as PDF.
You will receive an email with the store link. Installing from the store and removing the unpacked copy takes about thirty seconds, and your settings, agents, prompts and saved files all carry across because they live in your browser storage and your Downloads folder rather than inside the extension folder itself.
If Proscris Workbench does not work for you, email support@proscris.com within fourteen days of purchase and we will sort it out. We would rather refund you than have you own software you do not use.
One extension, one payment, and every tool you reach for a hundred times a day is already open where you are working.