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title: "Websites"
description: "Let the Matchai Assistant work on other websites for you, in your own browser, while you watch. What it needs, what it does, and what always asks."
last_updated: "2026-10-21"
lang: "en"
status: "beta"
canonical: "https://matchai.co/docs/guide/assistant/websites"
---

# Websites

> Let the Matchai Assistant work on other websites for you, in your own browser, while you watch. What it needs, what it does, and what always asks.

**In closed beta. This feature is open to a small group of professionals while we finish it, so it may change. It is coming to every account.**

Source: https://matchai.co/docs/guide/assistant/websites

The assistant can work on other websites for you: look something up on a city's website, fill in a form on a portal, draft a listing on a site you use. It works in your own browser, where you are already signed in, and you can watch every step. In the assistant's **Tools**, this is the **Websites** area.

Just ask for the task in the chat, the way you would ask a colleague. Not sure where to start? Ask "What can you do in my browser?" or "Which websites do you already know?". A website the assistant has not seen before is not off limits: it works the page out as it goes.

For a plain question about something public, such as a municipality's rules or a school, the assistant searches the web and reads public pages without opening your browser at all.

## What you need [#what-you-need]

- **A computer.** Tasks on websites do not run on a phone.
- **Chrome, with Matchai for Chrome.** The extension is what lets the assistant work in your browser. See [Matchai for Chrome](https://matchai.co/docs/guide/chrome-extension) to install it and for the browsers it supports.

If the extension is missing, the task's card offers **Add to Chrome** and waits. If you are on a phone or another browser, the card says the task needs Chrome on a computer.

## Run a task [#run-a-task]

<Steps>
<Step>
Ask for the task in the chat, with what it needs: the address, the listing, the website if you know it.
</Step>
<Step>
The assistant puts a card in the chat. It shows where the task **Starts on**, the **Task** in plain words, and that it **Asks you before any final button, and before attaching your files**.
</Step>
<Step>
Choose **Start**. The site opens in your Chrome, and the page glows at its edges while the assistant works. The card shows each step as it happens.
</Step>
<Step>
When the task ends, its result arrives in the chat as its own message, with anything it saved, such as a page filed on the listing or saved to your Cloud.
</Step>
</Steps>

Choose **Stop** on the card at any time to end the task. After a task ends, **Run again** runs it once more.

You can ask for other things while a task runs. The conversation carries on, and the result arrives when it is ready.

## When it needs you [#when-it-needs-you]

The assistant does the work and stops only when it needs you:

- **A question.** If it needs a detail you have not given, it asks on the card. Type in **Your answer** and press **Send**. If you already gave that detail in the conversation, the assistant answers for you and says what it answered.
- **A page that is yours to do.** A sign-in page, a CAPTCHA or a card form: the assistant tells you what it is waiting on and hands you the page. Do that one thing in the window, then choose **I'm done — carry on**.
- **A final button.** Before any button that signs, pays, sends, publishes, deletes or submits, or that confirms, orders or authorises, it asks: "Ready to press « Submit »?". Choose **Press it**, or **Not yet** to take the page yourself. For a payment, the card shows the price, or warns you when the page does not show one.
- **Your files.** Before it puts one of your files on a website, it asks with **Attach it** or **Not this one**. With several files, tick the ones that may go and choose the **Attach** button, which shows how many you ticked, or **Not these**.

Saving a draft, going to the next step, creating something you can still change and downloading do not ask. They change nothing you cannot change back.

<Callout title="Why it works this way">
A final button cannot be undone. A payment is made, a form reaches a registry, a message reaches a client. Everything before it can be fixed, so the assistant does it without interrupting you, and your attention goes to the one press that matters. A yes covers that button for the rest of that one task only, so a yes given for one client never presses a button for the next.
</Callout>

## Take over [#take-over]

Choose **Take over** whenever you want the page yourself, for example to show the assistant how a step is done. The assistant steps back. Choose **Hand back** when you are done, and it carries on from where you left the page.

When you show it a step this way, it remembers the steps for the next time you ask for the same thing. The card lists what it will remember, with **Forget** if you would rather it did not. It keeps the buttons and fields you used, never what you typed.

## What it never does [#what-it-never-does]

- **Type your passwords or codes.** It never types a password, a card number or a two-factor code. When a page asks for one, it hands the page to you.
- **Press a final button without your yes.** Every time, on every website, in every task.
- **Follow instructions on a page.** If a website tells it to do something, it treats that as information and asks you, never as an order.

## Your rules for websites [#your-rules-for-websites]

In **Settings → Matchai for Chrome**, under **Browser runs**:

- **Rules your assistant checks before a run**: limits you set, such as how many tasks may start in a day.
- **How you want sites worked**: your own instructions for particular websites.
- **What your assistant learned**: everything it remembered when you took over, by website. Forget any of it there.

## Skills and websites [#skills-and-websites]

A [skill](https://matchai.co/docs/guide/assistant/skills) can include tasks on websites. When you type the skill, its tasks on the websites it lists start on their own after a short countdown, with **Stop** on each card. When the assistant picks the skill itself, it asks once first. Either way, final buttons still ask. See [Approvals](https://matchai.co/docs/guide/assistant/approvals).

## What it costs [#what-it-costs]

Each task on a website uses [Matchai Energy](https://matchai.co/docs/guide/energy-and-billing), step by step. If you run out, the task stops before its next step.

## Sitemap

- [Every page of Matchai Docs](https://matchai.co/docs/sitemap.md)
- [llms.txt](https://matchai.co/docs/llms.txt)
