# Anthropic Moves Full Cowork Sessions Into the Claude Chrome Extension

Skills, plugins and connectors now run inside the browser side panel, and tasks started in the Claude app can be continued in Chrome without re-establishing context.

- Published: 2026-08-15T06:14:29.474Z
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Anthropic updated its Chrome extension on August 12 so the browser's side panel now runs a full Claude Cowork session, rather than just a chat window with access to the page. The Russian-language channel AI ML Big Data reported the change,…

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