WebAI is a revolutionary ecosystem that bridges the gap between your premium consumer web AI subscriptions and your developer tools. Instead of paying expensive per-token API fees on top of your existing subscriptions (like Gemini Advanced or ChatGPT Plus), WebAI hooks directly into your web browser session, allowing you to bring your existing consumer plans natively into your IDE.
While it currently features a powerful VS Code extension for Google Gemini, WebAI will soon expand across other environments and support multiple leading AI platforms.
- Zero API Keys (Bring Your Own Subscription): Why pay twice? WebAI's killer feature is its ability to utilize your active web session cookies. If you have a premium subscription on the web, you automatically have it in your IDE. Zero developer API keys required.
- Agentic AI: The autonomous agent can read files, write code, search your workspace, and even run terminal commands to test and compile code on your behalf.
- Context-Aware: The agent automatically has access to your workspace structure and can read open files to understand your context.
- Chat Persistence: Your chat history is saved seamlessly across window reloads and restarts.we are working to improve it.
⚠️ Disclaimer: WebAI utilizes your personal web session cookies to communicate with AI platforms. Automating web sessions is technically an unofficial workaround and may violate the Terms of Service of platforms like Google. Use this tool responsibly at your own risk, or consider using a secondary/burner account to be absolutely safe.
Since WebAI is not yet available on the VS Code Marketplace, you will need to install it manually using the provided .vsix file:
- Download the latest
webai-agent.vsixfile from the Releases section of this repository. - Open Visual Studio Code.
- Open the Extensions view (
Ctrl+Shift+XorCmd+Shift+Xon Mac). - Click on the three dots
...(Views and More Actions) in the top right corner of the Extensions view. - Select "Install from VSIX..." from the dropdown menu.
- Locate and select the downloaded
webai-agent.vsixfile.
- Once the extension is installed, open your web browser and navigate to gemini.google.com.
- Log into your Google account.
- Open your browser's Developer Tools (F12) -> Application/Storage tab -> Cookies.
- Copy the values of the
__Secure-1PSIDand__Secure-1PSIDTScookies. - In VS Code, open Settings and search for
webai. - Paste the cookie values into the respective fields.
- Open the WebAI sidebar and start coding!