veneta and Chrome

2026-10-05. A note for people who want veneta’s memory inside their browser. It records what we tried in one day, in the order we tried it, so nobody has to repeat it. The code, including the extension described here, is published together with the v0.1 release on 2026-11-24; this note goes out ahead of it so the question is answered now. How things work inside is for the release and the paper; this note says only what a person will see.

The question

“I write in Chrome. Can the Claude that lives in my browser remember through veneta?”

What we tried

Claude Desktop + Claude in Chrome. veneta installs into Claude Desktop with one click. We hoped Claude in Chrome, signed in with the same account, would see the same local memory. It does not: Claude in Chrome’s side panel lists only its own browser tools and the connectors of the claude.ai account. Memory on your own machine is invisible to it. Its own suggestion is to connect through a remote server — a public address with a key.
We did not take that suggestion. A remote server means your memory leaves your PC to reach a cloud service. veneta’s rule is that nothing leaves your machine, so that door is not built, now or later. Several people or machines sharing one veneta is a different product, veneta Enterprise, and it is designed for that: it supports those connections because a company needs them inside its own network — between its people, machines and agents, in a closed network, never across the public internet.
A veneta extension of its own. The same day we built a small extension for Chrome and Edge. It talks only to the veneta running on your machine, reads nothing from a page except the text you select, and nothing in your browser but veneta itself can write your memory or approve a rule.

What works, as of this note

Claude Desktop: one-click install; Claude Desktop’s own chats can recall, remember, propose and read the ledger. Verified on Windows.
Chrome, with the veneta extension: select text on any page → right-click → Remember with veneta. Ask in the side panel → what veneta knows, stamped with when it was read, ready to paste ahead of your question in any chat. Propose a lesson → it waits in your inbox → approve or reject there. Verified on Windows; Edge uses the same build (check pending).
One memory across surfaces. On one laptop, the extension wrote a fact, Claude Desktop recalled it, and a claude.ai session connected to that laptop recalled the same fact. Three surfaces, one memory.
Claude in Chrome itself: not connected, for the reason above. This page stays up so the question is answered once.

Why you can use it

veneta sends nothing off your machine. If your chat client is a cloud service (Claude Desktop, claude.ai), what you type and what veneta recalled into that conversation go where that client sends them — that is the client’s traffic, not veneta’s. With a local model nothing leaves at all. The extension adds no new path out: it only talks to your own veneta.

What it does for you

What you read in the browser becomes memory with one right-click, with the site as its source.
Before you ask a model anything, you can see what veneta already knows, stamped with when it was read, and paste it in — the model answers from your facts instead of guessing.
Lessons do not accumulate on their own: a proposed rule waits for you, and the ledger shows every decision. The last step is a person, in the browser too.

Want your own extension?

The extension is open source (Apache-2.0). From release day you can take it, rename it, and run your own; the release notes will say how. Two things to keep so it stays something people can trust: it must talk only to the veneta on the same machine, and a redistributed copy uses its own name — veneta, the logo and the mascot are trademarks; the code is free.

Edge check; a store listing for the extension; a side-panel picture on these pages. If a future client learns to see local memory, it joins the list without a remote door.

Field note — veneta and Chrome: what we tried, what works, and why it is safe to use