DevOps / SRE / Platform · 12.08.2026, 21:55 UTC
Anthropic’s Chrome extension is now a Cowork session
| Schweregrad | info |
|---|---|
| Kategorie | DevOps / SRE / Platform |
| Quelle | The New Stack ↗ |
| Veröffentlicht | 12.08.2026 UTC |
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Anthropic announced a major update to its Chrome extension on Wednesday that turns Claude in Chrome from a useful but somewhat disconnected experience into a full Claude Cowork client in the browser with sessions that persist across Anthropic’s various apps
The updated extension is now available to all Max and Team plan subscribers, with plans to bring it to Pro users in the coming weeks.
Until now, Claude in Chrome was more or less its own thing and almost completely separate from the other Claude apps, making it useful in the browser context but not as a companion to the other Claude surfaces. Indeed, that’s one of the main complaints reviewers have about the extension in the Chrome Web Store.
Since the extension is now deeply connected to the overall Claude ecosystem, all conversations are now saved in the user’s history, so it’s easy to start a conversation on the desktop or mobile app and pick it up in the browser, for example.
What’s just as important, though, is that all of a user’s skills and connectors are now also available in the Claude sidebar on Chrome.
Credit: Anthropic.
The main advantage of the browser extension is, of course, that it can use the browser and see what the user is looking at.
“Many of the tools you use every day connect directly to Claude, but others don’t, such as internal dashboards, legacy systems, and vendor portals,” Anthropic explains. “With Claude in Chrome, Claude can work in these apps through the browser.”
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