"can claude code control the chrome extension?"
claude itself told me no. said the CLI has no way to activate or control browser extensions.
an hour later it figured it out anyway.
claude code is insanely capable but blind — no browser, no UI, no logged-in sessions. the chrome extension can see and click everything but needs you there. connecting them was supposed to be impossible.
5 failed attempts. chrome's security model blocks every obvious path. the trick that worked is one ugly sudo mount --bind command and a puppeteer script.
setup takes 2 minutes. after that your claude code can browse the web, check your email, fill forms — anything you're logged into in chrome.
open source skill full writeup:
github.com/human-pages-ai/ai…