Chrome browser
Record ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity, and Microsoft Copilot conversations from the browser.
What it records. Conversations on chatgpt.com, claude.ai, gemini.google.com, perplexity.ai, and copilot.microsoft.com: what the person typed, what the AI replied, the model, and the signed-in account email.
How. The Surface browser extension watches the web app’s own traffic and hands each turn to the scanner on the same endpoint. It never sends anything to the internet by itself, asks for no browser permissions beyond the local scanner address, and shows disconnected when the scanner is not running.
Recording Chrome needs two things: the switch in Hub, and the browser extension on endpoints. The switch is on when your organization is created; the extension is not, so the browser records nothing until you push it.
Before you begin
- You have the Admin role.
- You can push a Chrome policy through your MDM, or you are testing on one endpoint where you can run
surfaceas an administrator.
Set it up
Confirm the switch in Hub
Click Hub at the bottom of the left menu. Under AI Tools, the Chrome browser card already reads Enabled. If it reads Configure, someone turned it off: click the card and turn Enabled on.
Install the browser extension on endpoints
Through your MDM: see Browser extension for the force-install policy on each platform.
On one endpoint: sudo surface extension install chrome, which applies the same policy.
Check
The extension icon in Chrome shows connected. The next conversation on one of the four sites appears on the Sessions page.
Firefox
The extension is also published for Firefox. Force-install it with your Firefox policy.
Turn it off
Click the Chrome browser card in Hub and turn Enabled off. The browser extension stays installed but the scanner stops accepting sessions from it. Remove the force-install policy to uninstall it.
Next steps
- Session Trace to open a Session Trace or Conversation
- Amazon S3 or Splunk to keep the data in your own storage