Your VA.gov Data,
Operationalized on Your Behalf
The VCS Chrome Extension establishes a secure, read-only synchronization layer between VA.gov and your encrypted VCS account, enabling the structured ingestion of claims data, disability ratings, appeals records, compensation payments, and profile information directly from the Department of Veterans Affairs' own digital systems. The result is not merely convenience, but fidelity: AIDEN's analysis is grounded in the actual administrative record rather than in recollection, approximation, or manually re-entered data.
Read-only by design. Open source in implementation. Encrypted with AES-256-GCM. Deployed within HIPAA-compliant infrastructure.
Seven discrete data domains, synchronized directly from VA.gov
The extension captures only the categories enumerated below, and nothing beyond them. Its collection boundaries are fixed, inspectable, and transparent. Every captured field is visible in the public source code, permitting independent verification of both scope and behavior.
Installation and operation are deliberately minimal
Install from Chrome Web Store
Add the extension to Chrome in one click from the Chrome Web Store. No manual configuration required.
Authenticate Through VA.gov
Sign into VA.gov in the ordinary manner. The extension relies exclusively on your existing authenticated browser session and does not request, intercept, store, or transmit login credentials.
Automatic Synchronization
Once authenticated, relevant claims, ratings, appeals, payment, and profile data are synchronized automatically into your encrypted VCS account. No separate submission workflow is required; no copying, exporting, or manual transfer is necessary.
A transition from fragmented administrative data to informed strategic action
Source-Grounded Form Preparation
Supported VA forms—including 526EZ, Higher-Level Review, Supplemental Claim, Board Appeal, Intent to File, TDIU, and Power of Attorney documentation—are pre-filled using actual VA-sourced data. This means that names, service details, ratings, and identifying numbers are populated from the authoritative record itself, rather than reconstructed from memory.
Rating Gap Analysis
Because AIDEN is able to interpret the veteran’s existing rated conditions and associated diagnostic codes, it can identify potential secondary conditions, underdeveloped avenues for increased evaluation, and evidentiary deficiencies that may bear directly on claims strategy.
Real-Time Claim Visibility
Each claim may be followed across all eight VA processing phases, with immediate visibility into phase transitions, tracked items, and action-required indicators as soon as they are reflected in VA.gov.
AI Analysis Anchored in the Actual Record
AIDEN does not reason from partial recollection, anecdotal summary, or manually curated fragments. It analyzes the same live claim data reflected in the VA’s own systems. Strategic recommendations, evidentiary checklists, and C&P examination preparation are therefore grounded in documentary reality rather than informal approximation.
Sensitive data warrant exacting treatment, not vague assurances
Veterans are asked to entrust the platform with information of a highly consequential nature. Such trust is not appropriately answered with generalized promises or marketing abstractions. It must be answered with architectural restraint, operational transparency, and verifiable safeguards.
Read-Only by Architectural Constraint
The extension is designed exclusively to read data from VA.gov. It does not submit forms, modify claims, alter profile information, or write data back into VA.gov under any circumstance.
No Storage of VA.gov Credentials
Authentication occurs solely through the user’s existing VA.gov browser session. The extension does not access, retain, or transmit the user’s VA.gov username or password. Credential exchange remains confined to the relationship between the user and VA.gov.
Handling of Sensitive Identifiers
The VA file number, including the BIRLS ID when applicable, is captured exclusively for legitimate downstream use in document preparation and pre-filling workflows. It is never stored in browser storage. It is transmitted securely to encrypted backend infrastructure over HTTPS and is immediately removed from extension memory thereafter.
Encryption Standard
All personal data are encrypted at rest using AES-256-GCM, a cryptographic standard widely employed in high-assurance environments, including financial and defense-adjacent systems. Encryption is applied prior to persistence on disk.
HIPAA-Compliant Infrastructure
The platform is deployed on AWS within an environment covered by a signed Business Associate Agreement. Core infrastructure components—including compute, storage, and database services—operate within BAA-covered services and are maintained in accordance with HIPAA compliance requirements.
Full Source Transparency
The entire extension codebase is publicly available on GitHub. This permits any technically literate user, auditor, or security reviewer to inspect precisely what data are collected, how collection occurs, where transmission is directed, and how the extension behaves in practice.
User Authority Over Data
The extension may be removed at any time. Users may also request complete deletion of their synchronized data. No hidden persistence mechanisms, residual background agents, or unauthorized retention practices are employed beyond the bounds of user authorization.
Transmission Path of Sensitive Data
Sensitive identifiers do not appear in: browser storage • API responses • chat context • logs • error reporting systems
Functional in minutes
The extension is not yet distributed through the Chrome Web Store. At present, installation is performed manually through Chrome's Developer Mode.
Administrative truth is more valuable than administrative improvisation.
Veterans should not be forced to manage consequential claims data through spreadsheets, memory, or repeated manual entry. Install the extension, authenticate through VA.gov, and allow your actual record to inform AIDEN's analysis with the precision such matters require.