Mention Inspector
See ChatGPT’s internal signals in one click.
What It Does
Mention Inspector helps you view the hidden technical details behind ChatGPT’s answers — without opening Developer Tools or digging into network logs.
How It Works
Open ChatGPT.
Ask your question.
Click the Mention Inspector button.
The extension instantly shows:
• Query fanout – the internal searches ChatGPT generated
• Snippets – the text fragments extracted from web pages
• Sources – URLs, title tags, and metadata
• Timeline – tools used, steps taken, and reasoning traces
• Final answers – clean messages captured for comparison
Everything runs locally on your device.
No account. No data collection.
Free for everyone.