Claude in Chrome

Claude in Chrome is an official browser extension that lets Claude act as an AI agent directly inside Google Chrome. It opens as a persistent side panel while you browse, allowing Claude to read page content, click buttons, fill forms, and navigate websites on your behalf — not just answer questions about them. The extension works by taking screenshots of your active tab and interacting with the page's DOM (the underlying structure of a webpage). You can ask Claude to handle tasks across multiple tabs, schedule recurring browser jobs, record a workflow once and have Claude repeat it, and even connect it to Claude Desktop or Claude Code for end-to-end software development workflows. Browser use is a beta feature with real security implications. Claude can see everything visible on your screen when the panel is open, and malicious content on web pages could potentially influence Claude's actions (prompt injection). Anthropic provides two operating modes — 'Ask before acting' and 'Act without asking' — and recommends the safer, approval-based mode for most tasks, especially on unfamiliar or untrusted websites.