Your staff is going to a conference this spring. You have their names in a spreadsheet.

You open the registration page. You copy a name from the sheet and paste it into the form, then do the same with the email address.

You pick a ticket type and start over for the next person. By the sixth person, two email addresses are in the wrong place.

Next month, you will do the same kind of clicking for the town’s community events page. Claude can do this part for you now.

WHAT CLAUDE IN CHROME IS

Claude in Chrome is a browser extension. It lets Claude read web pages, click, and go from page to page alongside you.

You work with it in a side panel next to the page you’re on. Claude can read that page, click buttons, type, open other pages, and fill out forms. It can also work across more than one tab.

You can watch the whole time. Claude walks through the task on the site step by step while you watch. It can also send you a notification when it needs your approval or when it finishes.

You can start browser tasks from the Chrome side panel. You can also connect it to the Claude desktop app and start them there.

HOW TO SET IT UP

These steps come from Anthropic’s help center.

1. Open Google Chrome. Claude in Chrome only works in Chrome on a computer. Other browsers built on Chromium and mobile devices are not supported.
2. Go to the Claude in Chrome listing in the Chrome Web Store.
3. Click “Add to Chrome.”
4. Sign in with your Claude account.
5. Pin the extension. Click the puzzle piece icon, then the thumbtack next to “Claude.”
6. Grant the permissions the extension asks for.

To use it from the Claude desktop app, go to Settings, then Customize, then Connectors. Click “Configure” next to Claude in Chrome and turn it on. Then turn it on for each conversation from the Connectors menu.

The side panel starts in a mode called “Automatically approve.” In that mode, Claude pauses and asks you when something needs your approval. If you change the mode, the side panel keeps your choice for next time.

3 WAYS CHURCH STAFF CAN USE IT

Start with conference and training sign-ups. Give Claude the spreadsheet of names and the registration link, and ask it to sign up each person.

Claude opens the form and fills it in one field at a time while you watch. You check every detail before anything gets paid for or sent.

Next, try community event listings. Your town or your local paper may have a web form for community events. Ask Claude to post your fall festival there using the details from your event page.

Then use it to pull numbers off a web page. If your event registrations are on a website, ask Claude to open the page and tell you how many people have signed up so far.

The best tasks to hand off are the ones you do the same way every week. The steps stay the same, so they are easy for Claude to follow.

GUARDRAILS FOR CHURCHES

Anthropic’s help center says Claude in Chrome has safety classifiers and is still risky. Read Anthropic’s guide called “Use Claude in Chrome safely” before you start.

Keep Claude away from sites with private member information. That includes care notes in your church management system, counseling records, and online giving portals with donor details. Start with public forms and low-risk tasks.

Stay close for anything that spends money or sends a message in your church’s name. Watch it work, and approve those steps yourself.

On Team and Enterprise plans, your admin decides whether the extension is turned on for your organization. Your admin can also limit which websites Claude can use, with an allowlist and a blocklist. That way your church chooses where Claude is allowed to work.

If you can’t install or use the extension, talk to your admin. The person who manages your Claude Team plan is a good fit to own those site lists. Start with a short list of sites you trust and add more over time.

WHICH PLANS HAVE CLAUDE IN CHROME

Claude in Chrome is available on paid plans: Pro, Max, Team, and Enterprise.

Hand off the clicking you do every week, and get that time back.

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