Browser and Computer Use

Plenty of work never touches a file: it lives in web dashboards, admin panels, and internal tools. Claude can work in your browser — reading pages, filling forms, clicking through multi-step flows — with the same approval gates as everywhere else. And in Cowork's computer-use research preview, Claude can operate your actual screen: opening files, running apps, clicking through tasks the way you would.

The rule of thumb for what to delegate here: repetitive, well-defined, verifiable. Data entry from a spreadsheet into a web form, pulling numbers from three dashboards into one summary, checking fifty listings against criteria — these are ideal. Open-ended browsing with your logged-in accounts is not where you start: the browser is where your most sensitive sessions live, so extend access as trust accumulates, exactly like folders and connectors.

Research preview means what it says: capable, improving, and worth watching over. Keep an eye on the first few runs of any new browser workflow — it's genuinely satisfying to watch, and it's also how you catch the edge case the tenth run will hit.