Show HN: ClaudeFS – Give claude.ai access to a local folder, no local process
claudeFS Connect a local folder to claude.ai. A browser extension (MV3) for Chrome and Edge: authorize a folder once, and Claude can read, search, and edit the files in it right from the chat — no desktop app, no API key, no command line. English | 中文 English Getting Started Prerequisites: a Chromium-based browser (Chrome, Edge, etc.) with Manifest V3 and File System Access API support, plus a claude.ai account.
- ▪claudeFS Connect a local folder to claude.ai.
- ▪A browser extension (MV3) for Chrome and Edge: authorize a folder once, and Claude can read, search, and edit the files in it right from the chat — no desktop app, no API key, no command line.
- ▪English | 中文 English Getting Started Prerequisites: a Chromium-based browser (Chrome, Edge, etc.) with Manifest V3 and File System Access API support, plus a claude.ai account.
Hacker News (AI / LLM) files mainly under ai. We currently carry 2,791 of its stories.
Story provenance
Source · retrieval · rights · ranking — open for full record
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Story provenance
Attribution is not the same as permission. This drawer separates discovery metadata, excerpts, WeSearch-generated summaries, reuse status, and whether the publisher receives the visit. Nothing here claims a legal grant the publisher has not made.
Record
| Original publisher | GitHub |
| Canonical URL | https://github.com/vincentping/claudeFS |
| Publication time | Wed, 29 Jul 2026 15:36:06 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-07-29T16:01:03.472Z |
| Last seen | 2026-07-29T16:01:03.472Z |
| Headline source | Publisher (no WeSearch rewrite) |
| Excerpt source | publisher body |
| Excerpt method | First ~120 words (~800 chars) of extracted publisher body, fair-use limited. |
| Summary | WeSearch · cerebras-chat (WeSearch summarizer) |
| Summary source text | contentText |
| Citation coverage | Summary is a WeSearch-generated derivative; primary citation is the original publisher URL. |
| Cluster | PG99_MeY23Pz · 1 stories |
| Cluster logic | Grouped by semantic title/content similarity across sources within a rolling window. Same-publisher template collisions are excluded from coverage comparison. |
| Ranking reason | Story pages are not engagement-ranked. Hub feeds use recency, with optional source-diversified chronological ordering (cap consecutive stories per source). No personalized ranking. |
| Publisher visit | Yes — open original |
| Substitutes article? | No — link-out required for full text |
Rights status (four layers)
WeSearch handling by dimension
| Indexing | May the item be indexed (stored, ranked, made findable)? | Allowed |
| Snippet | May a short excerpt of the publisher's text be shown? | Allowed |
| AI summary | May WeSearch generate its own short summary of the article? | Limited |
| Retrieval / RAG | May the content be exposed for third-party retrieval-augmented generation? | Not asserted |
| Model training | May the content be used to train AI models? | Not asserted |
| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
Basis: Derived from the published RSS/Atom feed. Contact: [email protected]. Reviewed: 2026-07-24.
Opening excerpt (first ~120 words) tap to expand
claudeFS Connect a local folder to claude.ai. A browser extension (MV3) for Chrome and Edge: authorize a folder once, and Claude can read, search, and edit the files in it right from the chat — no desktop app, no API key, no command line. Works on the free claude.ai plan. English | 中文 English Getting Started Prerequisites: a Chromium-based browser (Chrome, Edge, etc.) with Manifest V3 and File System Access API support, plus a claude.ai account. Install Edge (recommended): install from the Microsoft Edge Add-ons store. Chrome / from source: clone or download this repository (no build step needed), then load the src/ folder via Developer mode → "Load unpacked". (A Chrome Web Store listing is under review — this section will be updated once it's live.) Use Open claude.ai.
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Excerpt limited to ~120 words for fair-use compliance. The full article is at GitHub.