I tried the new Claude in Chrome extension, and it delivered convenience with a side of digital paranoia

A virtual intern with total access to your browser history

20 Dec 2025, 03:00 · TechRadar

Features By Eric Hal Schwartz published 20 December 2025

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Anthropic has opened access to the Google Chrome browser extension version of its Claude AI assistant to Claude Pro, Team, and Enterprise subscribers, following several months of testing with subscribers to the highest tier, Max. Claude in Chrome actively works to navigate the web, complete tasks across tabs and even perform coding duties, not just summarize websites..

The idea is to place Claude in areas it previously couldn’t reach. Instead of asking an AI to explain what you’re seeing, Claude can now see it too and interpret and interact with live webpages. I gave the new version of Claude a spin. I activated the extension and assented to giving the AI access to basically everything I do online.

That gave me a moment of trepidation, but the broad permission to observe and interact with my browsing activity pretty well defines the Claude in Chrome experience. Once authorized, a small Claude icon appeared next to my Chrome address bar. I clicked it and saw the familiar chat interface slide into view.

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There are a lot of tasks you can assign to Claude in Chrome. I had it set up a meeting by giving a brief description of when, where, and with whom I wanted to meet. The AI scanned my Google Calendar and proposed open time slots within a draft email to my guests.

I also took a page from Anthropic's demos to see how well the AI did at organizing my incredibly scattered Google Drive. After giving it access to the platform, I asked it to go through and put the hundreds of documents and spreadsheets into some order, arranging them in folders with related documents. The AI did exactly that, setting aside any it wasn't sure of for me to assign appropriately. I went from close to 900 loose documents and spreadsheets to six top folders with several subfolders, and nearly 50 duplicates were tidied away.

Workflow training

Arguably, the most intriguing and powerful feature offered by Claude in Chrome is recording a workflow to teach the AI how to do something on your behalf. You click the record button, go about your business as usual, and Claude watches and remembers. The tabs and menus you open, the forms you fill out, and the ultimate goals are all absorbed and become a repeatable pattern that Claude. When you stop recording, Claude doesn’t just memorize clicks; it understands the sequence as a task it can repeat when asked.

I recorded myself running a series of checks across various reward programs I belong to and logging the results in a spreadsheet. When I asked Claude in Chrome to "run the reward points check workflow," it followed my instructions. Claude handled it quite well, with only a couple of errors in passwords slowing it down. The AI even offered to make it a monthly routine that I won't even have to check up on.

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