# The Missing Link

> Find the case the article didn't link. Claude identifies the U.S. court case discussed on the page and links you straight to it on CourtListener. Bring your own Anthropic API key.

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/the-missing-link](https://chrome-stats.com/d/the-missing-link)

## Overview

- **ID:** `the-missing-link`
- **Platform:** Firefox
- **Type:** Firefox add-on
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** rlfordon
- **Category:** search-tools
- **Daily users:** 42
- **Rating:** 5.00 / 5 (1 ratings)
- **Version:** 0.6.0
- **Last updated:** 2026-06-13
- **First published:** 2026-06-05
- **Size:** 51 KB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-11
- **Store listing:** [Firefox Add-ons Store](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/the-missing-link/)
- **Website:** [https://github.com/rlfordon/the-missing-link](https://github.com/rlfordon/the-missing-link)
- **Privacy policy:** [https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/the-missing-link/privacy/](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/the-missing-link/privacy/)

## Description

The Missing Link finds the U.S. court case discussed on the page you're reading — a news article, blog post, or opinion piece — and links you straight to it on CourtListener.

Click the toolbar button (or right-click a text selection). Claude reads the visible page text, identifies the case, and the extension searches CourtListener for the matching opinion or docket — usually in a few seconds. On a page that discusses several cases, select the passage you care about first to target that one.

WHAT YOU NEED
• An Anthropic API key (<a href="https://prod.outgoing.prod.webservices.mozgcp.net/v1/3ea84f82b78d56c86a52142468c94df5ba8f86ca57477fe9b9b46daa62ce9372/http%3A//console.anthropic.com" rel="nofollow">console.anthropic.com</a>). A few dollars of credit lasts hundreds of lookups. You paste it once in the extension's settings.
• No CourtListener account — searches are unauthenticated.

CHOOSE YOUR MODEL
Pick the Claude model in settings: Sonnet 4.6 (balanced, the default), Haiku 4.5 (faster and cheaper), or Opus 4.7 (best on tricky or ambiguous cases).

PRIVACY
• The visible page text and your selection are sent only to Anthropic, to identify the case.
• The resulting case identifiers (name, docket number, court, citation) are sent only to CourtListener, to find the record. No page text goes to CourtListener.
• Your API key is stored locally in your browser and sent only to Anthropic — never logged, never shared, never sent anywhere else.
• No analytics, no telemetry, no backend of any kind.

Works on appellate and Supreme Court opinions as well as district-court dockets. Some video-led or heavily script-rendered pages have no readable text to analyze; that's expected, not a malfunction.

Open source: <a href="https://prod.outgoing.prod.webservices.mozgcp.net/v1/8d9687f0fecb5df61da706fee0f1c453a0b09974682e04c617d3d8b9bdba4f85/https%3A//github.com/rlfordon/the-missing-link" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/rlfordon/the-missing-link</a>

## Rankings

- #17,527 — Overall
- #37 — mission
- #79 — identify
- #197 — links
- #221 — broken links

## Permissions and access

### Permissions

- `activeTab`
- `scripting`
- `storage`
- `contextMenus`

### Host permissions

- `https://api.anthropic.com/*`
- `https://www.courtlistener.com/*`

## Safety

- **Risk impact:** Low risk impact
- **Risk likelihood:** Moderate risk likelihood

### Analysis details

- Request access to the following domains: anthropic.com, courtlistener.com
- This extension has low user count. Unpopular extensions may not be stable or safe.

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