Claude Code: enable Chrome browser use by default

Claude Code can control your Chrome browser—navigating pages, clicking elements, filling forms, reading content.

For coding, this enables integration test loops, so that Claude can autonomously find and fix bugs you'd otherwise have to find and report manually.

For non-coding tasks, it's not unusual that having Claude actually do things in the browser can help (e.g. for some accounting tasks). It's nice that it can use your actual browsing session, rather than (e.g.) Playwright, because this sidesteps common frictions around authentication and bot blockers.

Browser use is off by default. To enable it permanently:

Type /chrome in Claude Code
Select "Enabled by default".

Codex and Gemini do not have a similar feature, yet.