If you read this story, you might be shrugging your shoulders. "Okay, I managed to make a Chrome extension in 5 minutes. What's that?” But if I told you how many hours of work it took to come up with that five-minute solution, you'd ask, why didn't I start with Agent-Zero?
The False Lure of Free
What did I actually make? A Chrome Extension that logs and makes searchable the online marketing activities of a guerrilla online marketing specialist on the web.
I thought it was small enough to fit into free vibe coders. And I wasn't wrong. Three services wrote codes, but none of them worked. Two services said that the manifest.json program part needed to be rewritten. No matter how I rewrote the manifest.json codes again and again and again, it simply wouldn't start.
Then let's pay, but it matters how
I have an agent that runs on my machine in a Docker container. Anyone can download and use it for free, you just have to pay for one of the LLM API keys - or you musn't pay even for that. So why don't I try this?
And it worked. That is, it didn't work. I couldn't create a working extension with Agent-Zero either. But he told me why. He said that the manifest.json is not good because the background file is not good. That's where the problem lies. But the problem was with me.
You have to be able to notice
The mistake was that I left out the letter "k" from the name of the background file. If Agent-Zero doesn't tell me to check the background file, I might as well scrap the whole plan.
What's the lesson from this?
No, it's not just about being attentive. It's also about using an agent that makes LLM capable of real dialogue. The solution wasn't about LLMs. It wasn't about paying a few cents to use the API. I could even use free LLMs form Venice.ai The key to the solution is in the structure and memory of Agent-Zero. This opened the door for me to a solution. You may try Agent-Zero too.
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