# Skill: use a web browser to review tax messages on a government portal

Published: 2025-12-15T00:00:00.000Z
Updated: 2026-01-16T00:00:00.000Z
Canonical: https://wow.pjh.is/journal/claude-skill-computer-use-urssaf

As a tax-resident in France, I get 30-50 emails a year that look like this:

![Whenever you pay or contact URSSAF, they send you this email to confirm receipt... a few days later. They then send an identical email when they've actually replied. Or when anything else happens.](https://wow.pjh.is/static/images/blog/urssaf-email.jpeg "Whenever you pay or contact URSSAF, they send you this email to confirm receipt... a few days later. They then send an identical email when they've actually replied. Or when anything else happens.")

In >80% of cases, no action is required. But to determine that, I have to log into the portal, wait for it to load (\~5 seconds), click several buttons, download the PDF, and finally open the PDF to actually read the message.

![Image](https://wow.pjh.is/static/images/blog/urssaf-inbox.jpeg)

Could Claude do all this for me?

In short: yes. With less than 30 minutes' work, I created a skill that reliably checks the inbox and gives me an output like this:

![Image](https://wow.pjh.is/static/images/blog/urssaf-claude-output.jpeg)

All I have to do is say "hey Claude, check my URSSAF messages".

Watch Claude complete the task:[^1]

[Loom video](https://www.loom.com/share/702f937f627a4ae5a8bb40c994193917)

Here's how I made it:[^2]

[Loom video](https://www.loom.com/share/08547f258a9e499cb1396712bf19a301)

Pre-requisites: [Claude Code](https://claude.com/product/claude-code) with the [Browserbase Automation Skill](https://github.com/browserbase/agent-browse). Coding knowledge *not* required.

**Update 2026-01-16:** Claude Code now has [browser use built-in](https://code.claude.com/docs/en/chrome). So you don't need Browserbase, you can just run `claude --chrome`.

[^1]: For the first few runs, I keep computer use tasks running on one of my [LLM screens](https://wow.pjh.is/journal/llm-screen). But once I trust them, I just hide them and wait for Claude to let me know when it's done.

[^2]: I'm sorry for the audio quality. Forgot to use [the lapel](https://wow.pjh.is/journal/lapel-mic).