Claude For Chrome

Claude for Chrome, which Anthropic brands as Claude in Chrome, is a browser extension that turns Claude into an agent inside your signed-in browser. Claude sees the page you are on, then clicks, types, navigates between pages, and fills forms using your existing logins, while you watch or step away. It is the consumer counterpart to computer-use agents developers build with Browser Use or Skyvern, packaged with permissions and safety checks rather than an API.

It is aimed at anyone who spends the day in web apps that have no connector: booking, admin portals, CRM data entry, research across many tabs. Developers also use it for quick checks on a staging site, though Claude Code has its own Chrome integration for that job.

Highlights

• Acts on the page you are already in. Reads content, clicks, types, fills forms, takes screenshots, and works across the tabs you drag into its tab group.
• A Cowork session in the side panel. On Max and Team plans (rolling out to Pro; Enterprise with admin enablement) the side panel is a full Claude Cowork session: conversations save to your history, sync across devices, and can use skills and plugins.
• Scheduled and background tasks. Set recurring tasks and let Claude complete work while you focus elsewhere.
• Per-site permissions. Grant or revoke Claude's access to specific sites in settings. Adult and pirated-content sites are blocked; financial sites require permission before access.
• Confirmation before consequential actions. Purchases, publishing, sharing personal data, downloading a file, or entering sensitive information trigger a check. In "automatically approve" mode Claude screens each action for risk and hidden instructions and pauses only when something needs you.
• Admin controls. Team and Enterprise organizations can apply allowlists and blocklists to restrict where Claude can go.

In an AI-assisted workflow

The reliable pattern is narrow, read-mostly tasks on sites you would be comfortable letting a contractor use, with the write step left to you. For example, with the side panel open on a vendor portal:

Open each of the six invoices listed on this page, pull the invoice
number, date, amount, and PO reference into a table, and flag any
whose amount differs from the PO. Do not download anything or change
any invoice status. Stop and show me the table before doing anything else.

Because the side panel is a Cowork session, the same plugins and skills you use elsewhere apply here, and a recurring version of this task can be scheduled.

Good to know

Availability, as of September 2026: all paid plans (Pro, Max, Team, Enterprise); not Free. Install from the Chrome Web Store and sign in with your Claude account. The pilot ran from August 25, 2025 with 1,000 Max users on a waitlist; on December 18, 2025 it opened in beta to all paid plans with Claude Code integration and admin controls. The product page now calls it generally available, while the Cowork side-panel mode is still labeled beta in the help center. Supported browser is Google Chrome; the help center says other Chromium browsers and mobile are not supported. A 1Password integration for logins is in beta on macOS.

On safety numbers: Anthropic's launch post reported that its mitigations cut the attack success rate in autonomous mode from 23.6% to 11.2%, and browser-specific attacks from 35.7% to 0%, in its red-teaming at the time. Anthropic's general-availability post of August 26, 2026 reported that, with probes plus the automatic-approval safety classifiers, no attacks succeeded against Claude Sonnet 5 or Opus 5 and 0.3% succeeded against Fable 5, against a 3.8% baseline for Opus 5 without those safeguards. Treat those as Anthropic's own figures, not independent ones. For deeper background on how these agents work, see how computer-use agents work and the browser agents comparison. If the data you need is in a spreadsheet rather than a web page, Claude for Excel is the better fit.