Overview
- Claude for Chrome can see webpages, click buttons, fill forms and maintain browser context to carry out user‑approved tasks.
- Access starts with 1,000 Claude Max subscribers, with a waitlist open; reports peg the Max plan at $100 to $200 per month.
- Anthropic’s red‑team testing showed prompt‑injection success fell from 23.6% without mitigations to 11.2% with new safeguards.
- On a focused set of four browser‑specific attacks, defenses reduced successful exploits from 35.7% to 0%, though broader risks remain under study.
- Safety controls include site‑level permissions, confirmations for high‑risk actions, and default blocks on categories such as financial services, adult content and pirated sites, with the pilot limited to trusted, non‑critical use cases.