Connect
Player One.
Sidekick is a small app in your system tray, or the Mac menu bar. It connects your computer to your Player One, so your agents can work with the files, apps and screen in front of you.
In Chrome or Brave, its extension puts your Player One chats in the side panel and lets your agents work in the page.
You choose what it may do, and you can change that or switch it off at any moment.
Choose where it runs.
Chrome and Brave
Free with your Player One account. Works on its own, with no desktop app needed.
Browser extension
From the Chrome Web Store · updates itself
Your Player One chats in the browser side panel, and your own agents working in the page when you allow it.
Add to your browserWindows
Windows 10 and 11, 64-bit. Installs for your account, so no administrator password.
Windows installer
x64 · updates itself
Installs for your account, so Windows never asks for an administrator password. Signed by Generation One Malta Limited.
Download for WindowsmacOS
macOS 14 (Sonoma) or later. One universal package for both chips.
macOS installer
Apple silicon and Intel · universal · experimental build
Code signing is not available for this experimental build yet. macOS blocks it once: choose Done, then in System Settings, Privacy & Security, click Open Anyway.
Not available yetBefore you try on a Mac
One permission needs adding by hand
Seeing the screen needs Screen Recording, and this unsigned experimental background app is never prompted for it. The Mac notes say how to add it.
Read the Mac notesLinux
Not built yet.
- Linux Debian, Ubuntu and FedoraComing soon
Your computer, in reach of your agents.
Everything Player One already does stays the same. Sidekick adds your own machine to the places it can work.
See your screen
Share a screenshot or a list of open windows so an agent can look at what you are looking at, instead of you describing it.
Click and type for you
Let an agent drive an application on your desktop: fill a form, work through a dialog, get past the dull part of a task.
Run commands
Open a PowerShell session on your machine so an agent can check something, run a script or sort out a local job.
Work with your files
Read and write files in the folders you have chosen, so local documents go straight into the work without an upload.
Sits in your tray
Sidekick runs quietly in the notification area. Its icon tells you whether anything is connected, and it is one click to pause.
Signs in through your browser
You log in to your Player One instance the normal way. Sidekick keeps the connection in Windows Credential Manager, or your Mac login keychain, not in a file.
- 4Access levels in the desktop app, each one enforced on your own machine
- 1 clickTo pause everything, from the tray or the menu bar
- NoAdministrator password to install it on Windows
- 2 minOr so, from download to your first task
Nothing happens that you have not allowed.
The desktop app has one access setting with four levels. It starts at the safest one and changes only when you change it.
| OffSigned in and idle. Nothing on the computer is reachable. | Observe onlyLooking, never touching. | Change thingsYou switch on each kind of help. | Full accessEverything Sidekick can offer, with no sandbox. | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| See the screen | No | If you allow it | If you allow it | Yes |
| Click and type | No | No | If you allow it | Yes |
| Run commands | No | No | If you allow it | Yes |
| Read shared folders | No | If you allow it | If you allow it | Yes |
| Change files in them | No | No | If you allow it | Yes |
Always If you tick it Never
The browser extension has the first three levels, Off, Observe only and Change things, and works only in the web pages you allow. It has no Full access, and no shell or file access.
With Observe only and Change things, tick the boxes for what you want to allow. Observe only stays read-only; Change things lets you choose screen, actions, shell and files separately. If you enable shell, folder limits no longer apply because a shell already has access to your whole filesystem, and Full access reaches every file your account can. Everything is enforced by Sidekick on your own machine, so a refusal is decided locally. Pause stops everything immediately, and shell sessions close on their own once they have been idle for a while. Read the full access guide.
Running in about two minutes.
Download and run
Install the app, or add the extension to Chrome or Brave. On Windows it installs for your account, with no administrator password.
Sign in
Sidekick asks for the address of your Player One instance and opens your browser so you can log in as usual.
Choose your access level
Pick a level. Start at Observe only if you would rather see how it behaves first.
Ask an agent
Your computer, or your browser, now appears to your agents. Tell one what you need doing and it will get on with it.
Tap one to copy it, then paste it to any of your agents.
Common questions.
Do I need Player One to use this?
Yes. Sidekick is a companion to a Player One instance rather than a standalone app: it connects your computer to the agents you already have. It is included with your subscription at no extra cost.
Can an agent do things when I am not there?
Only within the level you have set, and only while Sidekick is running and connected. Close it, pause it, or set it to Off and your computer is out of reach immediately.
On a Mac, why can Sidekick not see my screen?
Because macOS never offered you the choice. Seeing the screen needs Screen Recording, and macOS shows no permission prompt to a background app, so Sidekick cannot ask and does not appear in the list on its own. Add it by hand: System Settings, Privacy & Security, Screen & System Audio Recording, press +, choose Sidekick, switch it on, then quit Sidekick from the menu bar and start it again. Because code signing is not available for this build yet, the grant does not survive an update: after installing a newer one, select Sidekick in that list, press − and add it again. Everything else, including acting on the screen, grants normally.
Where are my sign-in details kept?
On Windows, in Credential Manager. On a Mac, in your login keychain. Both are the store the system provides for exactly this. Settings and logs sit in your own user folder.
Do I need administrator rights?
No. Sidekick installs into your own user profile, which is why it does not prompt for elevation. That also means it only affects your account on that machine.
What happens if I uninstall it?
Your credentials and settings are deliberately left in place, so reinstalling later picks up where you left off without pairing again. If you want them gone, remove the Sidekick entry from Credential Manager as well.
Is there a Mac version?
Yes, as an experimental build: one universal package runs on Apple silicon and Intel, needing macOS 14 or later. Code signing is not available yet, so macOS asks you to confirm it before opening. Linux is still to come and has no date.
Ready when you are.
Download the Windows app, or add the extension to Chrome or Brave. The Mac app follows here. Whichever you use, you can change what it may do at any point.