Commands and no-prefix search.

Commands are typed like keywords: >, Space, then the command. They start with a slash, so they never collide with a keyword of yours: clear without the slash is still your own keyword. All of them, with the permission each needs, on one page: the cheat sheet.

Wyrd's own pages

/home and /team are ordinary starter keywords: you can alias, rename or delete them.

Tab bundle commands

These work once Tab bundles is switched on in Wyrd's Features page (Chrome then asks for access to your open tabs). Typing one while it is off takes you to its switch.

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Nothing is closed unless it was saved first. How bundles are named, reopened and synced is in tab bundles.

Search without the prefix

Chrome lets you add your own search engines, which it calls site search. Wyrd uses that: it gives you a private search address to register in Chrome, and you choose what you type in front of a keyword instead of > and Space.

• Nothing (the default): Wyrd becomes your default search engine, and everything you type in the address bar goes through it. gh tailwind opens your keyword; anything else goes on to your usual web search.
• A trigger of your own, then a space: / gh tailwind, ; gh tailwind or ! gh tailwind. Your default search engine stays as it is.

1. In Wyrd, open Settings, then Optional setup. Under Before a keyword, I want to type, choose nothing, or a trigger of my own and type it. The steps below it change to match, and you copy your private search address.
2. In Chrome, open Settings → Search engine → Manage search engines and site search. Next to Site search, press Add.
3. Name it Wyrd. In the Shortcut field put your trigger, or wyrd if you chose nothing (Chrome asks for one; you never type it). Wyrd's Optional setup has a Copy button for it. Paste the address into the URL field and save.
4. If you chose nothing: in the entry's menu, choose Make default.
5. Back in Wyrd's Optional setup, press Test it. The step turns to Working when the address reaches Wyrd.

Now gh tailwind works without the > (or after your own trigger), and so do the commands: /clear research, tabs/research.

• > keeps working, and it cannot be changed. Chrome fixes an extension's own address-bar keyword when you install it, the same for everyone, so a different trigger comes through site search instead. Only > shows Wyrd's suggestions while you type; with your own trigger, or none, Wyrd opens what you typed when you press Enter.
• Which triggers work. Up to 16 characters without spaces: a symbol such as /, ;, , or !, or a short word. Not >, and nothing starting with @, which Chrome keeps for its own shortcuts (@bookmarks, @history). Wyrd checks it as you type.
• Always type the space after your trigger. / gh goes to Wyrd; /gh may not, because Chrome can take it for a file on your computer. With / as your trigger, the commands read / /home and / /clear research.
• Slashes. Chrome decides for itself whether what you typed is a search or an address, and team/wiki or work/roadmap look like addresses, so Chrome opens them as such. Type team wiki with a space, or keep the >.
• The address is yours. Keep it to yourself. If a web page ever links to Wyrd's search address, Wyrd shows where the link wants to go and waits for you before opening one of your keywords, and never closes tabs without your Go ahead.
• If Wyrd says the address changed, copy it again from Optional setup and paste it over the old one in Chrome's settings. The same applies if your own searches ever land on a page that asks "A page asked Wyrd to open…".
• If you remove Wyrd, remove this search engine too, or pick another default; otherwise the address bar keeps sending searches to an address that goes nowhere.

Incognito windows

Chrome runs extensions in Incognito only if you allow it: open chrome://extensions, press Details on Wyrd and switch on Allow in Incognito. Without it, > and the search engine entry do nothing in an Incognito window. Optional setup shows whether it is on.

Right-click search

Select text on a page, right-click, and choose Wyrd search: "…" and a keyword: a new tab next to this one searches the selection, exactly as > yt followed by the text would. The menu shows your three most-used search keywords. Switch on Your right-click searches in the Features page to pick up to 12 instead, give each the name the menu shows (Customer Profile Portal rather than a keyword), and add searches that are only a name and an address with %s. A selection is cut at 500 characters. Chrome shows no extension menus on its own pages.

With Define & translate switched on, the same menu also has Define, a single word's dictionary entry (that one word is sent to the Free Dictionary API), and Translate, made on your computer by Chrome's built-in translator (Chrome 138 and later).