Last week we said browser companions were rolling out. Today the first one is live: the Safeguard extension is on the Chrome Web Store. One click, and Griffin search opens in Chrome's side panel next to whatever you're working on.
What you get
Click the Safeguard icon and a side panel opens with the same AI search you get at app.safeguard.sh — the live agentic view included. You can watch Griffin think, call tools, and read sources, and pick the model tier per query, all without leaving the page you're on.
That matters because security questions rarely start in a security tool. They start on a GitHub advisory, a vendor's trust page, a package registry, a news story. Now the answer lives one panel away:
- Reading a dependency's release notes? Ask whether the new version clears the CVEs flagged in your last scan.
- On a vendor's website mid-review? Pull their posture and your open questionnaire items side by side.
- Skimming an advisory? Ask Griffin whether anything in your SBOMs is in the blast radius.
Deliberately tiny
The whole extension is under 8 KiB, and that's the point. It requests exactly one browser permission — Chrome's sidePanel API. No host permissions. No content scripts. No ability to read, modify, or intercept the pages you visit. No analytics, no tracking, no data collection in the extension itself.
There's no extension-level login either: the panel embeds the production search page, and you sign in there with your normal Safeguard web session, exactly as you would in a tab. Everything powerful — the models, the tools, the tenant isolation, the audit trail — stays server-side where it's governed.
You don't have to take our word for any of this: the manifest is inspectable right in chrome://extensions, and the browser extension docs walk through exactly what it declares.
Install it
- Open the Safeguard listing on the Chrome Web Store.
- Click Add to Chrome.
- Pin the icon, click it, and sign in inside the panel.
Requires Chrome 114+. It's included with every Safeguard plan — no extra cost, nothing to configure. You'll also find it under Integrations → Platforms in the app, alongside the CLI, IDE extensions, MCP server, and desktop app.
What's next
Edge and Firefox builds already exist in the same codebase and are headed to Microsoft Edge Add-ons and addons.mozilla.org next. So is Gold Open Source, a companion launcher for Safeguard Gold, the public CVE and package intelligence site.
Try it, and tell us what you want the panel to do next: press@safeguard.sh.