Letting Claude Drive Your Browser with Claude in Chrome — Setup and Caveats After the Paid-Plan Rollout

Claude in Chrome puts Claude in the Chrome side panel, watching the current tab and doing the clicking, typing, form filling, and cross-tab work for you. Announced as a Max-only research preview in August 2025, it is now on every paid plan as of August 2026. This is a hands-on note on getting it running, on the shape of tasks it handles well versus the ones that will bite you, and on how the permission model actually splits between you, Anthropic, and your org admin.

Letting Codex Drive Your Browser with the Codex Chrome Extension — Hands-On Impressions and Splitting Work with Claude in Chrome

This is the Codex-side companion to the Claude in Chrome piece from earlier this year. The Codex Chrome extension launched on May 7, 2026, and takes the same 'AI in a sidebar extension' shape as Claude in Chrome, but tilts noticeably toward developer workflows (DevTools access, driving a local web app under test, and cross-tab context). This post walks through what two-plus months of daily-driver use looks like and how work splits between the two extensions.