Assay
Tap a word in a ChatGPT or Claude reply, widen it to the sentence or paragraph, collect a few, annotate them, and send them back as one prompt — or save the whole conversation as a file.
Tap the passages of an AI answer that matter, annotate them in a few words, and send them back as one deep-dive prompt. Nothing leaves the device.
The question
Will a stranger install a browser extension in order to select passages of an AI answer — and then send a selection back as a prompt at least once?
Current decision
Still runningExperiment log4
- built in one evening as a phone-first userscript: select text in a ChatGPT reply, collect fragments, send them back as one prompt. Copied into the phone by hand from a hosted page
- tap replaced text selection — a word, widened to sentence and paragraph, grown across paragraphs by tapping toward other words. Per-conversation lists; exports became the whole conversation with the fragments appended
- renamed three times in one day. DigBoard collided with a scuba company, Winnow turned out to be a live Chrome extension, Pickaxe is an AI-agent platform; Assay screened clean on both stores. The lesson — search the stores before naming — is written into the contract so it costs nobody a third afternoon
- release pipeline live: a merge builds a reproducible package and mints a GitHub Release; v0.8.1 carries the data-collection declaration Firefox now requires (none). Store listings and the site are the remaining gate before anything is announced
What happened
Nothing recorded.
This experiment predates the control plane, so its funnel was never wired up. The numbers stay blank rather than being reconstructed after the fact — a figure invented later is not evidence, it is decoration.
This page stays up whatever happens to the experiment. A dead experiment is still evidence.