chrome-health-check

chrome-health-check is a skill for Claude Code from MSApps-Mobile/claude-plugins. It costs 85 tokens per session (1,841 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A health check for the Claude in Chrome connection, which lets Claude interact with an open Chrome browser through an extension.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it before browser-based work to test the connection, list available tabs when needed, and identify the next connection problem to fix.
Why use it?
It quickly shows whether the browser connection works and distinguishes a closed browser from an extension that is open but not paired.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the fix-chrome-connection plugin — 3 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it before browser-based work to test the connection, list available tabs when needed, and identify the next connection problem to fix.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/msapps-mobile/claude-plugins/chrome-health-check
Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Any agent
npx skills add MSApps-Mobile/claude-plugins --skill chrome-health-check
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/MSApps-Mobile/claude-plugins

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install fix-chrome-connection, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 3 skills.

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Per session 85 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,841 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 $0.00085 $0.01841
Opus 5 $0.00043 $0.00920
Sonnet 5 $0.00017 $0.00368
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00184

Measured 9d ago against content hash 703e2e14f722, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

chrome-health-check 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 9d 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/fix-chrome-connection/skills/chrome-health-check/SKILL.md · 163 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 163 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Chrome Connection Health Check

Run a quick connection test. If broken, diagnose the root cause and fix it.


Step 1: Test the connection

Call tabs_context_mcp with createIfEmpty: false.

If successful (returns tab info or "no tab group exists"): → Report: "✅ Chrome is connected and ready." Stop here.

If it returns "No Chrome extension connected after discovery": → Report: "❌ Chrome extension not connected — diagnosing now…" → Before assuming Chrome is closed, run Step 1b to distinguish "Chrome closed" from "extension not paired". → Then proceed to Step 2.


Step 1b: Distinguish closed vs. unpaired Chrome

Even when tabs_context_mcp fails, Chrome may be running — the extension just isn't paired to this session. Run these two checks before escalating.

Check A: Control_Chrome tab list

Call mcp__Control_Chrome__list_tabs (no args needed).

  • Returns a list of tabs → Chrome IS running. The extension is simply not paired to this session. Tell the user: "Chrome is open but the Claude extension isn't connected — please click the Claude extension icon in your Chrome toolbar and hit Connect." Stop here unless they need more help.
  • Returns error or empty → Chrome may actually be closed → proceed to Step 2.

⚠️ Important (observed 2026-05-03): Control_Chrome.list_tabs and open_url succeed even with no Claude-in-Chrome connection. However, get_page_content and execute_javascript will still fail with "Google Chrome is not running." This is a known limitation of Control_Chrome's DOM layer — it does NOT mean Chrome is closed. Trust list_tabs for the liveness check.

Check B: Computer-use screenshot (visual backup)

If computer-use is available, call mcp__computer-use__request_access for Google Chrome, then take a screenshot. Chrome will be granted as read-tier (visible but not clickable). A screenshot showing the Chrome window with tabs confirms Chrome is running regardless of tool errors.

Chrome is always read-only via computer-use (tier "read") — you can see the screen but cannot click or type. For actual browser interaction, the Claude-in-Chrome extension must be connected.

Read the full file on GitHub · 163 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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. 9d ago First seen · 163 lines · 85 tokens per session scan A 703e2e14f722

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chrome-health-check is a skill published in the GitHub repository MSApps-Mobile/claude-plugins (9 stars, last pushed 14d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 85 tokens to every session and 1,841 once invoked, about $0.0004 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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