{"version":"2.1.178","anchor":"designsync-works-without-a-claude-ai-session-login","canonical_anchor":"designsync-works-without-a-claude-ai-session-login","heading":"DesignSync: Works Without a claude.ai Session Login","tier":null,"area":null,"scope":null,"heads_up":null,"url":"https:\/\/changelogs.core-directive.com\/v\/2.1.178\/e\/designsync-works-without-a-claude-ai-session-login","release_url":"https:\/\/changelogs.core-directive.com\/v\/2.1.178","markdown":"### DesignSync: Works Without a claude.ai Session Login\n\n**What**\n\nDesignSync (and the DesignSync tool) now works even when the session authenticates with an API key or provider token, as long as a design credential has been stored via `\/design-login`.\n\n**Details**\n\n- Previously, design access required expanding the main OAuth token with design scopes \u2014 impossible with API keys\n- Now there is a separate credential slot (`designOauth`) checked independently of the main session token\n- Error messages are updated to reflect this: the new message for needing authorization is \"Run \/design-login to authorize it with your claude.ai account \u2014 this works even when this session authenticates with an API key or a provider token.\"\n- The DesignSync tool description is updated to note the `(or, for sessions without one, a dedicated design authorization from \/design-login)` path\n\n**Evidence**\n\nDesignSync error message (search for `\"DesignSync needs design-system authorization. Run \/design-login\"`, `\"designOauth\"`)"}