๐Ÿ›ก๏ธ Cognitive Offloading Analyzer

Are You Outsourcing Your Thinking?

Test your prompt below to see if you're using AI productively or bypassing thinking you could easily do yourself.

๐Ÿ” Prompt Analyzer Sandbox

Try a sample prompt

๐Ÿ“Š How Prompts Are Classified

This web demo runs a lightweight, on-device AI model in your browser (compiled via WebAssembly) that scores prompt intent into three distinct categories:

๐ŸŸข PASS โ€” Productive AI Use

Deep research, code architecture, technical debugging, synthesis, and learning concepts. You are driving the work and using AI as a tool.

๐ŸŸ  WARNING โ€” Mental Shortcut

Quick arithmetic, routine formulation, or questions you could easily recall or compute with minimal effort.

๐Ÿ”ด FLAGGED โ€” Direct Cognitive Offloading

Riddles, social decision-making ("what should I say?"), or asking AI to problem-solve before you've attempted it yourself.

๐Ÿ›ก๏ธ What is the MindShield Extension?

This sandbox runs the same classification engine used in MindShield, a lightweight browser extension for ChatGPT, Claude, Google Gemini, and Grok.

Instead of blocking AI, the extension automatically intercepts mental shortcuts in real time and inserts a brief reflection pause: asking "Do you actually need AI for this?" before you submit. Everything runs 100% locally on your machine with zero server telemetry.