Need More Hours in a Day? Use THIS

If you've ever said to yourself, I need more hours in a day, this one's for you. Today on The Prompt, we're drilling down on how Claude's new Chrome extension can help you reduce browser tasks to free you up for other things. Let's jump right into it. A lot of people want to get more done, free up time, and focus on work that matters. The hard part is finding tools that fit into your day without adding extra steps. Many AI tools look great in a demo, then feel awkward when you try to use them in real work. Claude's extension got my attention because it does more than sit in a sidebar and chat. You tell it what you need in plain language, and it carries out the steps in the browser. You do not need to write code or set up a big automation tool. You give a clear task, and it works through it. It can see what's on your screen, click buttons, fill out forms, open tabs, move between sites, and handle multi-step tasks from simple instructions. Anthropic calls this feature computer use. Until recently, it was locked behind a $200 a month max plan. But now it is available to all paid Claude plans, including Pro, Team, and Enterprise. It began with about 1,000 beta testers paying between $100 and $200 a month, and now it is rolling out to many more people. Here is how it works day to day. The extension lives in a side panel that stays open in your browser. It takes screenshots of your active tab so it can keep track of what you are looking at, including buttons, fields, and page layout. From there, you can ask it to do tasks on the page. Cool, right? A common example is a daily analytics check. Many people open a dashboard each morning, pull numbers, paste them into a spreadsheet, and write a short update for the team. That can take 15 or 20 minutes every day. With this extension, you can tell Claude to open the dashboard, collect the key metrics, and write a summary. It can copy the numbers for you and reduce tab switching. If that's not on your morning to-do list, email cleanup is another good fit. Many inboxes fill up with newsletters and marketing emails. Claude can scan your inbox, group messages, and show you a list to delete in bulk. And don't worry, you approve the list before it deletes anything. If you use a CRM, logging can also get easier. Claude can read your calendar, match attendees with contacts, and draft activity notes for sales calls. That helps when meetings pile up and logging falls behind. One feature that I really like is that you can show it the steps one time. Then it can repeat that process daily, weekly, or on whatever schedule you set. That changes it from a tool you call only when you remember into a tool that can run routine jobs on its own. For developers, the extension can connect with Claude code through Model Context Protocol. In simple terms, you can write, debug, and test JavaScript while Claude operates the browser to apply changes. It can test signup flows, spot broken form fields, and keep track of what is happening across your terminal and browser sessions. You can build and test web features faster because you can check results right away instead of jumping back and forth. There are limits, though. This works only on Chromium-based browsers like Chrome, Edge, Brave, and Opera. If you use Firefox, you'll have to switch. One of the first questions that comes up when talking about this new feature is security. You might be asking yourself how safe it is to let AI just take over your screen. Prompt injection is a real risk. Hidden instructions in web pages can try to trick the model into doing things you did not ask for. The extension may have access to logins, payments, and sensitive data. So oversight is important, especially at work. This is not a tool to run without paying attention to what it can reach. Luckily, Anthropic didn't just throw this out into the world and hope for the best. They actually built it with safety rails that make sense. You've got two permission modes. The first is "Ask Before Acting," where Claude shows you exactly what it plans to do before it does anything, so you stay in control. The second is "Act Without Asking," which is more for trusted sites or workflows where you're comfortable letting it run. So you can decide how hands-on you want to be. So far, early users report that step-by-step tasks with clear results work best. Things like pulling data, filling forms, sorting files, and repeating routine processes. Work that needs original ideas or subtle judgment still needs a person involved. The good news is that this tool can handle routine work so you can spend more time thinking and deciding, you know, human stuff. If we zoom out and look at the wider market, Google's Gemini in Chrome can answer questions about a web page, but it does not take control of the browser in the same way. Google has Project Mariner in development for that kind of control, but it is not out yet. Across the industry, the tools that act for you tend to show up first on paid plans, and the gap between free and paid features keeps growing. This also matters for automation tools like Zapier, Make, and Natien. Those tools often depend on APIs. Claude in Chrome adds another path by working through the screen, so it can automate tasks on sites that do not offer strong API access. That can open up many tasks that used to need custom work. If you spend a lot of time in your browser doing repeat work like reports, email cleanup, CRM updates, file sorting, or web testing, this is worth watching. It will not be perfect every time, and it needs supervision at the start, but the time saved on the right tasks can add up fast. If you want to follow this kind of tool closely, come join my Slack community Ctrl+Alt+Build. It's where I share workflows I am building, what is working and what's not, and I help people put tools like this into daily use. I'll drop the link in the show notes. I'd love to have you join us. If you decide to try Claude for Chrome, start small. Pick one task that annoys you every day. Teach Claude to handle it and see how it feels to have that off your plate. Your browser just became a much better place to work. The question is, what will you do with all that time you're about to get back? That's all for today. I'll catch you in the next episode.