gnome-shell-extension-ai-assistant

Gnome Shell - AI Assistant

Artificial intelligence LLM chat integration and MCP server exposing the shell environment.

Featuring:

• Background webview with tootle panel button
• Selecting text allows you to send it to the LLM (No need to copy furst)
• Window context prompt options
• Panel context prompt options

Roadmap:

• Add screenshot support (paste screenshot of windows and screen to be analyzed)
• Add more LLM's
• Add MCP server for controlling the shell and provide more context for the desktop

Important Notice: Be cautious what you share with the online AI chat bots, consider running your LLM's locally using Open WebUI (https://openwebui.com/) and Ollama (https://ollama.com/).

Installation from gnome extension website

https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/8224/ai-assistant/

Manual installation

1. git clone https://github.com/2nv2u/gnome-shell-extension-ai-assistant.git
2. ./gnome-shell-extension-ai-assistant/install.sh
3. Restart shell or log out & log in

Debugging during development

clear && export G_MESSAGES_DEBUG=all && dbus-run-session -- gnome-shell --nested --wayland | grep ai-assistant