Browser Use, the open-source web automation framework with over 83,500 GitHub stars, is now available as a plugin directly inside Claude Code. One command drops a full browser agent into your coding session, no separate Python script or MCP server wiring required.
What the plugin system actually is
In Claude Code, a plugin is a package that bundles one or more skills along with optional extensions like hooks and MCP server configurations. Think of skills as reusable instruction sets that tell Claude how to use a specific tool. User-scope installs the plugin to ~/.claude/skills/ so it's available in all your projects, while project-scope installs it into the repo itself, making it shareable with your team through version control.
The opening of the plugin marketplace as a first-class system is the most important update across all of spring 2026. The default Anthropic marketplace has official and verified plugins; to access community plugins, you add third-party marketplaces. Browser Use is one of the first major third-party automation tools to ship through this channel.
Getting it running in 60 seconds
Installing the Browser Use plugin is a two-step process from inside Claude Code:
# Step 1: Register the Browser Use marketplace
claude plugin marketplace add browser-use/plugins
# Step 2: Install the plugin from that marketplace
claude plugin install browser-use@browser-use-plugins
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