Claude in Chrome vs Minded (2026)

Skills, plugins and connectors work in the side panel as they do in desktop Cowork, so the agent takes authenticated action in connected systems through Claude's connectors as well as driving any site in the browser.

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Every plan includes Minded's integrations, connected by OAuth with per tool scopes the tool owner picks, and the agent reads and writes in systems such as QuickBooks, Salesforce, Stripe, Google Drive, Slack and Zendesk; developers add custom tools to flows.

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Claude carries out multi step tasks across several tabs at once, and the classic side panel records a workflow the user performs so Claude can repeat it. The extension has no multi agent execution or composed workflow model.

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Flows orchestrate nodes, edges, tools and memory in a visual editor with two way GitHub sync, playbooks guide agent behavior, and the SDK runs parallel LLM requests; the agent plans a task once and runs each step across the tools it needs.

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Recurring browser tasks run automatically on a schedule the user sets, daily, weekly, monthly or annually, in the background with no manual trigger, so work reaches the agent without a person starting it.

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Agent flows start from webhook triggers or cron schedule triggers with a timezone, Pro plans run scheduled and recurring tasks, and the agent works from Slack, Teams, Gmail and Chrome.

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Context is assembled per run from the page in view and from connectors queried during the task. The extension has no maintained retrieval index over the customer's own knowledge.

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Knowledge bases hold the customer's uploaded documents with metadata, kept per environment (development, staging, production) and queried at run time through a Knowledge Base RAG API and a Knowledge API, so new knowledge is added by upload.

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The side panel runs as a Claude Cowork session on Max and Team plans (rolling out to Pro), and Claude's memory is shared between chat and Cowork in the cloud. It is stored as topics per user with a separate memory space for each project, retained under the account's chat data retention policy, and each entry can be viewed, edited or deleted in Settings > Memory. On Team and Enterprise an owner turns it on. The Chrome pages themselves do not mention memory, so its reach into the side panel rests on the Cowork and memory documentation, not the extension's own.

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Memory is a schema validated data store that persists throughout an agent session and is shared by every node in a flow, and Minded does not describe memory kept across sessions.

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There are three permission modes. Manual pauses for approval before each action, Auto has a safety classifier review each action and block unsafe ones, and Skip removes the checks. Per site always allow grants and a permission history are reviewable. Claude always asks before granting authorizations, entering sensitive information or downloading files, and never makes purchases, creates accounts or permanently deletes.

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Reads run inside the scopes granted, and every other action stops and waits for approval. The request names the tool, account and exact change, the user allows it once, for the task or always, and flagged output goes to a reviewer whose verdict is recorded on the run.

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On Team and Enterprise plans admins enable or disable the extension and set website allowlists and blocklists, and on Enterprise they grant or withhold a per role Claude in Chrome permission in custom roles. Anthropic lists SOC 2 Type I and Type II, ISO 27001:2022 and ISO/IEC 42001:2023 for its commercial products (Claude for Work and the API), so the certifications do not cover the individual Free, Pro and Max plans. The reports are available from Anthropic, whose trust center sits at trust.anthropic.com.

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Tool owners grant per tool scopes that never widen on their own, SAML single sign on is an enterprise feature, Business plans add shared workspaces and team roles, and data is isolated per workspace with least privilege service accounts. Minded says it holds SOC 2 Type II and publishes no trust portal.

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Side panel sessions are saved to Cowork history and sync across devices, and the extension keeps a permission history. There is no audit log, trace export or admin view of Claude in Chrome actions.

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Every run, tool call and approval is logged in plain language, each session opens into its full trace down to the approval that let it through, the activity log exports, and the SDK adds logging, events, debugging and an Analytics API.

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The extension runs in the user's own Chrome and model inference runs in Anthropic's cloud. Usage based Enterprise plans can switch on US-only inference, which covers all Claude apps but not data storage or connectors. The Chrome pages do not name the setting, and there is no storage region, VPC or self hosted option.

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The Operator can be deployed on premises in the customer's own cloud, so the agentic plane (compute and data such as PII) runs in the customer's VPC while Minded's control plane handles orchestration and monitoring.

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Users save their own prompts as shortcuts and record their own workflows for Claude to repeat, which are assets the customer assembles, and skills and plugins work in the side panel. No Chrome page names a packaged set of prebuilt browser agents or templates.

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Customers build skills themselves, by walking through a task once or in the editor, with an example order refund flow to start from. Pages for finance, sales, marketing, HR, operations and support describe use cases, but Minded offers no catalog of prebuilt agents or skills.

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Every public Claude model is available in the extension, all from one provider, Anthropic, so the choice is among one vendor's tiers. There is no other provider or bring your own model route.

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An agent's project configuration sets its model, from OpenAI through ChatOpenAI or the customer's own Azure OpenAI deployment through AzureChatOpenAI, one model family on two routes. The hosted product says it runs each step on the smallest model that does the job, without naming the provider.

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Claude Desktop can enable Claude in Chrome as a connector so a task started there carries on in the browser. That route runs between Anthropic's own apps, and there is no public API, SDK or MCP endpoint with an auth scheme and tool list for an outside caller to drive the extension.

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The MindedJS TypeScript SDK has a published API reference on Minded's GitHub, and Minded also offers an Agent API plus REST Analytics and Knowledge APIs for the platform's own agents and knowledge bases.

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The user's browser tasks have no evaluation harness, test cases or quality gate. Anthropic's published prompt injection attack success rates are its own safety research, not a surface a user runs.

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Minded lays out a method for collecting end to end eval cases and rerunning the agent until they pass, with an expert sign off before going live, plus SDK debugging tools. Teams run this practice by hand, and the product has no evaluation harness, scored test runs or release gate.

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Claude in Chrome reads, clicks, types, fills forms and navigates websites in the user's own Chrome browser, works across several tabs at once and reads console output and network requests. It has been generally available on every paid Claude plan since 26 August 2026.

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RPA tools drive a browser with Playwright to click, fill and submit forms and navigate web apps that have no API, with automatic screenshots, action logging and browser session management, and the browser extension records a task the user walks through once so Minded can repeat it as a skill.

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