using-claude-in-chrome

using-claude-in-chrome is a skill for Claude Code from hamzahamidi/claude-in-chrome-cli. It costs 140 tokens per session (2,795 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A set of instructions for controlling Chrome through a user's existing browser login session. It is intended for pages protected by SSO, cookies, or other login requirements, and also covers reading open tabs and Chrome debugging tools.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to inspect open Chrome tabs, drive logged-in pages, and use Chrome debugging features for tracing, memory snapshots, and Lighthouse checks.
Why use it?
It helps browser actions work with authenticated pages when an ordinary browser tool shows a login screen or an anonymous page.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT} variable. Also seen: mentions Claude Code.

Runs only inside its plugin — its command needs a path that Claude Code sets for a plugin’s own hooks and for nothing else. Install the plugin, not this.

Part of the claude-in-chrome plugin — 1 skill, 2 MCP servers shipped together

Good fit Use it to inspect open Chrome tabs, drive logged-in pages, and use Chrome debugging features for tracing, memory snapshots, and Lighthouse checks.

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Install

Getting it into your agent

This one installs as part of its plugin. Adding the marketplace and installing the plugin brings it with everything else the plugin ships.

Claude Code
/plugin marketplace add hamzahamidi/claude-in-chrome-cli
Claude Code
/plugin install claude-in-chrome

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install claude-in-chrome, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 1 skill, 2 MCP servers.

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Per session 140 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,795 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00140 $0.02795
Opus 5 $0.00070 $0.01398
Sonnet 5 $0.00028 $0.00559
Haiku 4.5 $0.00014 $0.00280

Measured 10d ago against content hash 269d6f381352, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

using-claude-in-chrome scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 10d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

plugins/claude-in-chrome/skills/using-claude-in-chrome/SKILL.md · 104 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 104 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Using Claude in Chrome

Prefer yoke for driving a page

yoke replaces this plugin for anything that drives a browser, and it is the better tool for the job: every tab in every window is addressable, there is no tab group boundary to work around, elements are acted on by reference rather than by coordinate, and a click reports what was actually under the point instead of a hardcoded success.

npm install -g yoke-mcp
yoke install

Then load its extension and register the yoke MCP server. Its own skill, driving-chrome, carries the operational detail. https://github.com/hamzahamidi/yoke

What is below still describes this plugin accurately, and still applies if you are using the Claude in Chrome bridge or the cic CLI. Two things here have no equivalent in yoke and remain the right tool: list_open_tabs, which reads tabs from Chrome's session files on disk with no extension and no running browser at all, and the chrome-devtools guidance further down for tracing, heap snapshots and Lighthouse, which are CDP features yoke does not expose.

First: is the question "what is open?"

Then do not drive a browser at all. Call list_open_tabs, from the chrome-tabs server this plugin ships. It reads Chrome and Chromium session data from disk, so it sees every tab it can recover across readable profiles, with no debugging port, no extension and no tab group. Encrypted, unsupported or unreadable profiles are reported rather than silently counted as empty. Measured on one machine: the bridge could see 4 tabs, list_open_tabs saw 29, of which 25 were outside the group.

Pass include_urls: false for counts and hosts only, or profile to narrow to one Chrome profile. URLs are redacted to a safe origin and path by default; full_urls: true exposes the raw URL, which can contain credentials, query strings or session tokens, so use it only when the raw value is necessary.

It returns URLs and titles, not page content, and it cannot drive a page. It also does not track which tab or window currently has focus, only which page each tab is showing, and Chromium history-pruning events can leave that page stale: do not use it to answer "which tab is the user looking at right now". For either page content or drive, read on.

Read the full file on GitHub · 104 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 10d ago First seen · 104 lines · 140 tokens per session scan A 269d6f381352

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using-claude-in-chrome is a skill published in the GitHub repository hamzahamidi/claude-in-chrome-cli (3 stars, last pushed 17d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 140 tokens to every session and 2,795 once invoked, about $0.0007 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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