KeepChatGPT: Stop Fighting ChatGPT Errors, Let Automation Handle It

Intro

If you've spent any real time using ChatGPT, you've probably seen it. The dreaded red banner. "An error occurred." Or the endless spinning circle that never resolves. Or the network timeout that kills a long conversation mid-flow.

These issues aren't just annoying. They break your flow, especially when you're in the middle of debugging code or drafting documentation. You refresh, paste your query again, and hope it works this time. It's a small tax on your productivity, but it adds up.

Now imagine a browser extension that watches for those errors and silently fixes them before you even notice. That's exactly what KeepChatGPT does. No more manual retries. No more lost work.

What It Does

KeepChatGPT is an open source browser userscript (works with Tampermonkey or Violentmonkey) that sits in the background while you use chat.openai.com. It monitors for three common failure modes:

• Network errors – timeouts, connection resets, or transient failures
• Audit errors – those random "this content may violate our usage policies" blocks that often happen on harmless queries
• General API errors – the random "something went wrong" messages that interrupt your session

When it detects one of these, it automatically retries the request without losing your input. No page reload needed. No manual intervention. You just keep typing while it handles the cleanup.

Why It's Cool

The clever part isn't the retry logic itself, but how invisible it is. The extension doesn't change the ChatGPT UI, doesn't add buttons, and doesn't ask for any permissions beyond what's needed for the ChatGPT domain. It hooks into the network requests and error handlers already in place, then quietly re-queues failed requests until they succeed.

Most userscripts for ChatGPT add extra features like export buttons or prompt templates. This one removes a friction point instead. It's a defensive utility. You install it, forget about it, and suddenly you stop noticing ChatGPT's flaky moments.

Another nice touch: it handles the "content audit" errors that normally require a manual "Regenerate response" click. If you've ever been hit by a false positive on content policy (yes, even innocent code queries can trigger it), you know how frustrating it is to re-prompt. KeepChatGPT retries automatically, usually before you even see the warning.

How to Try It

You need a userscript manager first. If you don't have one:

1. Install Tampermonkey or Violentmonkey for your browser
2. Go to the KeepChatGPT GitHub repo
3. Click on the keepChatGPT.user.js file, then click "Raw" – Tampermonkey should prompt you to install
4. Accept the installation

That's it. Open or refresh chat.openai.com, and the script starts running silently. You'll know it's active because errors will start auto-retrying instead of breaking your session.

No config files, no API keys, no accounts. It runs locally in your browser.

Final Thoughts

This isn't a flashy tool. It doesn't add charts or analytics or AI magic. It's just a small piece of automation that solves a real pain point. For anyone who uses ChatGPT daily for work or side projects, that's worth more than most feature-heavy extensions.

If you've ever cursed at a "Network Error" banner while mid-sentence, give KeepChatGPT a try. It won't fix everything about ChatGPT's reliability, but it will make the bad moments invisible. And sometimes that's exactly what you need.

Originally spotted on @githubprojects