🦎 From French Army officer to open-source dev, say hi to Gecko Agent

[Gecko51]

Introduce yourself

I'm Guillaume, a solopreneur based in France. After 21 years in the French Army, I made a hard pivot into tech, taught myself to code, fell deep into the AI/automation rabbit hole, and never looked back.

I just open-sourced a project:
Gecko Agent a Chrome extension that turns your browser's side panel into an AI-powered automation assistant.

What it does:
You chat with an AI agent and it can actually do things in your browser : read pages, click buttons, fill forms, extract data, navigate across tabs. It runs in a think → act → observe loop, up to 40 iterations, until the job's done.

If you find the idea useful, a ⭐ on the repo would genuinely help with visibility : github.com/Gecko51/gecko-agent
Happy to answer any questions about the project or the army-to-dev journey !

Links (optional)

github.com/Gecko51/gecko-agent
https://www.linkedin.com/in/gay-guillaume/
https://geckomind.fr

Where are you in your GitHub journey?

Learning the basics

And where are you going next on GitHub?

Growing my first open-source project Gecko Agent an AI-powered Chrome extension for browser automation. Looking for early feedback and contributors, so if that sounds interesting, a ⭐ goes a long way!

What technical skills or projects are you working on?

Building Gecko Agent with React 19, TypeScript and the Chrome Extensions API (Manifest V3).

I'm also deep into AI agent design my extension runs an autonomous think → act → observe loop to automate browser tasks like data extraction and form filling.

Got a question for us? (optional)

What's the best way to get an open-source Chrome extension noticed on GitHub ?
Any community, topic tag, or strategy you'd recommend for early-stage projects ?