I enjoy using the Opera browser. It is a great advantage that features such as Workspace, Tab Island and sidebar come without plugins.
However, we cannot add new services such as Add Workspaces to the "AI Services" section.
The solution to this is to enable the "Add Custom Site Panels" feature.
How to Add AI Services to the Sidebar?
Type opera://flags in the address bar and log in. Set the "Custom user sites for browser sidebar" setting to Enabled.
Opera-Flags
Restart your browser.
Click the "..." at the bottom of the sidebar, and you should be able to see "Custom Panels" section when you scroll down.
I added Perplexity and DeepSeek, I recommend it.
Opera-Custom-Side-Panels
Alternative Solutions with Coding
Some sources say that this process can be done with coding, but I did not bother with this because the "Custom Site Panels" method is already quite practical.
It would be nice if Opera made AI integration more flexible, but for now this is the way we can add any AI tools we want to the sidebar.
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