In this issue
OpenAI rebuilt its Chrome extension this month, so ChatGPT reads your open tabs and acts on them from a sidebar. It sends messages, fills forms and groups the pile of tabs you left open. At DevDay it also put @ChatGPT inside Slack and Microsoft Teams, on every Business and Enterprise plan. The colleagues it answers there need no licence of their own.
Other news: Anthropic put documents and slides on Claude's free plan. Somebody packed five useful Claude Code mods into eleven minutes. Another published a setup that builds a feature while you do something else, and a six-hour marketing course is sitting free on YouTube.
Topics of the day:
ChatGPT moves into Chrome, Slack and Teams
Claude's free plan makes documents and slides
Five Claude Code mods, installed in eleven minutes
Approve the plan, then let Claude Code build
Curated reads on agent tools and local search
Six free hours on marketing you keep postponing
The Shortlist: the PHP flaw, Notion, agent tolls
OpenAI moves ChatGPT into Chrome, Slack and Teams
What's happening: OpenAI rebuilt its Chrome extension this month, so ChatGPT reads your open tabs and acts on them from a sidebar. At DevDay on September 29 it put @ChatGPT inside Slack and Microsoft Teams, where the colleagues it answers need no licence of their own.
In practice:
Install the extension from the Chrome Web Store, then keep it to a window with nothing private open in it.
Put @ChatGPT in one busy Slack channel this week, since your colleagues can use it without a licence each.
Ask it to stop before the last step on any form, the way OpenAI's own example does, so you approve the submit.
Move bulk API work to GPT-6.1 Sol at $2 per million input tokens, against $10 for Astra.
Bottom line: Pick the one assistant you will let read every tab and channel, because all of them want that seat.
Anthropic puts documents and slides on Claude's free plan
What's happening: Anthropic took the beta label off Claude Docs, Slides and Design on October 8, and put all three on every plan, including Free. Two more opened in beta: Dashboards, which turns company data into live charts, and Motion, which animates an explainer.
In practice:
Ask for the deck, then download it as PowerPoint or PDF, or push it straight to Google Slides.
Point Dashboards at BigQuery, Snowflake, Databricks, Redshift or Salesforce, where every chart shows the query behind it.
Check your plan before you promise anything, since Dashboards needs a paid one and Motion runs on Team and Enterprise only.
Move your team off the standalone Claude Design site before it closes on December 14.
Bottom line: The free plan just became a decent reason to cancel the slide tool you open twice a quarter.
Five Claude Code mods you can install in eleven minutes
What's happening: An eleven-minute walkthrough from Nate Herk, published on October 2, installs five Claude Code mods end to end. They are Next Steps, Cache Keeper, Recording Mode, Goal Meter and Collision Guard. You describe what you want in plain English and the mod gets built.
In practice:
Install Recording Mode before your next screen share, because it hides the details you do not want on the recording.
Add Collision Guard if two of you work in one repository, since it flags a file another chat just edited.
Use Goal Meter on any job that runs longer than a coffee break, which is where attention slips.
Try writing one mod in plain English, because that is the real lesson of the video.
Bottom line: The tool you already pay for is configurable in sentences, so the setup cost is minutes.
Approve the plan, then let Claude Code build while you work
What's happening: A 28-minute build from ZazenCodes, published on October 7 wires Claude Code into three roles: a spec writer, a builder and an approver. You ask for a feature, approve the spec, and the builder works while you do something else. The source code sits in a public repository, and Anthropic sponsored the video.
In practice:
Watch the first ten minutes, then copy the repository, which carries the skill and the slash commands.
Keep the approval step, because the gate between the spec and the build is the part that makes this safe.
Run two features at once only after one has worked end to end, which is the order the video uses.
Borrow the shape even if you write no code, since a spec, a build and a review is how any delegated job should run.
Bottom line: The jump is from asking an agent for an answer to giving it a job with a review step.
Read Later
Monid - One skill file that hands your agent more than 2,400 tools, which is the reach today's ChatGPT story puts inside your Slack.
DigUp - Free, open-source search that finds files on your own computer by what is inside them, using Google DeepMind's EmbeddingGemma 2 locally.
Google Playground - Google's new browser tool builds a playable game from a prompt, open in the US to anyone 18 and over.
Google AI Edge Foresight explained in five minutes - A short walk through Google's on-device prediction tool, for anyone weighing local models.
Six free hours on automating the marketing jobs you postpone
What's happening: A six-hour course from Nick Saraev, free on YouTube, builds a marketing team out of Claude Code. It runs through five functions: ad creative, personalised copy, speed to lead, tracking, and follow-up. Over 200,000 people have watched it. The follow-up section past the five-hour mark is the one most readers can use.
In practice:
Skip to the five functions framework at 47 minutes, which is the map for everything after it.
Take the follow-up section at five hours first, since an unchased lead costs more than a slow ad.
Turn one finished build into a skill the way the course does, so the second use costs nothing.
Watch the final chapter on when to leave a job alone before you automate anything.
Bottom line: Six free hours from someone who does this for a living.
The Shortlist
OpenAI says a security firm used GPT-5.6 Sol to find one of two critical flaws in PHP, and European government, school and hospital sites went offline while their teams installed the fix.
Notion rebuilt its AI on October 19, so an agent can stay on one task for more than 24 hours, against five minutes before, and existing accounts move to new credits on November 2.
Cloudflare opened a gateway that charges an AI agent per request for a page, an API call or a dataset, with four customers live and payment settled in USDC.
Google released Gemini 4 Argon on October 13 at $2 per million input tokens and $10 per million output, and both rates double after November 30.
This newsletter is where I (Kwadwo) share products, articles, and links that I find useful and interesting, mostly around AI. I focus on tools and solutions that bring real value to people in everyday jobs, not just tech insiders.
