The browser extension is highly recommended. It shows your team their pulses in the browser's toolbar when they are due, and each tool's decision on the tool's own website. People without it can still read the AI policies and answer every pulse in their AI Adoption Portal.
This article walks you through getting the extension on your own machine so you can see how it looks. For team-wide rollout, see Rolling out the extension to your team.
Step 1: Install from your browser's storeLink to this section
- Open Chrome or Edge (any Chromium browser works, including Brave and Arc)
- Go to the listing for The GAiGE:
- Chrome: Chrome Web Store
- Edge: Microsoft Edge Add-ons
- Click Add to Chrome (or Get on Edge)
- Confirm the permissions prompt
The GAiGE icon will appear in your browser toolbar. If you don't see it, click the puzzle-piece icon and pin The GAiGE.
Step 2: Sign inLink to this section
- Click the G icon
- Click Sign in
- A new tab opens for you to sign in
- Once you're signed in, the panel shows your organisation's name and anything waiting on you
The extension keeps its own sign-in: signing out of the web app doesn't sign it out, and it stops working after 30 days unused, or 90 days at most. To sign it out now, choose Sign out in the extension's panel.
Step 3: Allow it on all sitesLink to this section
Click the G icon. Under Pulses and notices, press Allow on all sites, then choose Allow when your browser asks. Until then, your pulses wait in the panel under Waiting on you, and you can answer them in your AI Adoption Portal.
If you press Start first, the panel says "To show pulses on this website, allow The GAiGE on all sites." If your browser doesn't ask, or you said no, it says "Access to all sites is still off."; press How to turn it on for the steps.
This is the step that decides whether your rollout reaches people in their browser.
Pulses are delivered on a cadence, not on visits to a tool's website. When one comes due, the extension can put it on whatever website the person has open at that moment, and when someone opens one of your AI tools' websites, it shows what the organisation has decided about that tool. Any website could be that website, so the browser treats the access as broad and makes it optional, which means every person allows it themselves. An admin can't allow it for them, force-install included.
Step 4: See a pulse for yourselfLink to this section
The quickest check is the extension's panel: anything due sits under Waiting on you, and pressing Start opens it on the page you're on.
Otherwise, wait for a scheduled one. The AI Pulse comes round three times a week per assigned tool, spread across the week inside working hours (Monday to Friday, 9:30am to 4pm by default, or your organisation's window if you've set one). Answer it, and your answer shows in your AI Adoption Portal, in the user menu, within a minute.
If nothing is ever due, check that you're assigned to at least one tool and that the pulse is active. Why is response rate low? covers the rest.
Browser supportLink to this section
The extension is built on Manifest V3 and works in:
- Google Chrome (preferred)
- Microsoft Edge
- Brave
- Arc
- Other Chromium-based browsers
It does not currently work in Firefox or Safari.
Permissions explainedLink to this section
At install time, the extension asks for:
- Storage: to keep the person's pulses, schedule and unsent answers on their own machine
- Alarms: a once-a-minute timer that checks whether a pulse is due, and a fifteen-minute one that re-syncs the pulse list
- Tabs: to check each page's address on the person's device against your organisation's list of AI tools (the address never leaves the device)
- Scripting and activeTab: to place the pulse card, or a tool's first-visit notice, on the current page
- Access to
thegaige.comandapi.thegaige.com: to sign in and send answers
Broad site access (<all_urls>) is optional and requested separately, with Allow on all sites. A pulse or a tool's notice can appear on any website, and the browser offers no narrower way to describe that. The browser words it as "Read and change all your data on all websites".
The extension does not read or send the content of any page. It checks each page's address on the person's device; the address never leaves the device. It compares the address with your organisation's list of AI tools, so it can show the tool's decision on its website. See What data we collect: for Owners and Admins for the full story.
What if my team is on a managed Chrome (Workspace / MDM)?Link to this section
You can deploy the extension via Google Workspace's Force-installed apps or any MDM that supports Chrome enterprise policies. See Rolling out the extension to your team for the policy to push.
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