AI Tools

AI models can not only generate text, but also choose to use tools to accomplish a goal. By enabling tools you can turn BrowseWiz AI chat into an AI agent that helps with web research or automates various tasks.

The Tools menu

Turn tools on and off from the chat. The wrench button ("Tools") is the first button in the row of icons in the chat input, before the attach, screenshot (when shown), microphone and Promptbook buttons. Click it to open the Tools menu above the input.

At the top of the menu, Manage tools opens the Tools page of the options. Below it, the switches are grouped under headings:

• Built-in Tools:
  • Enable spreadsheet: the Google Spreadsheet toolset;
  • Enable calendar: the Google Calendar toolset;
  • Enable browser agent: the Browser Use Agent. The same switch also lets the AI open tabs, plan scheduled tasks and edit them in the chat, and set up monitors in the chat.
• Custom Tools: a switch for each API/Webhook tool;
• MCP Server Tools: a switch for each tool from your MCP servers.

Click a tool to flip its switch. The menu closes. A built-in tool that needs setting up first, such as the calendar before a calendar is configured, shows a disabled switch, and clicking it opens the options page so you can set it up.

By default, the spreadsheet and the browser agent are on and the calendar is off.

The menu and the Built-in Tools section of the options page show the same switches: turning a tool on or off in one place also changes it in the other. MCP tool switches are not remembered: when you reopen the side panel, all MCP tools are on again.

Turning on a Google tool in the menu doesn't sign you in to Google. The first time the AI uses it, the chat asks you to sign in.

Tools only work with a model that supports them. With other models, "This model does not support tools." shows above the input.

Claude Code

You can also connect Claude Code on your computer to BrowseWiz, from the Claude Code section of Options → Tools.