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Asking the user to escalate from one app to the whole screen

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Computer Use

A session can ask to escalate from one app to full screen control, and hand it back.

request_full_control and release_full_control need a host takeover handler that this build does not supply.

What

Two tools, request_full_control and release_full_control, let a session ask permission to move from controlling one application to controlling the whole screen, and hand that control back. Escalation needs the host's takeover handler and an explicit user approval; during scheduled or unattended runs it is refused with the reason code unattended_no_approver.

Details
  • The permission dialog now carries a preferred-mode default, so a user who prefers per-app control keeps it as the default choice.
  • The access-request result includes guidance steering the model toward the per-app tools when that is the user's preference.
  • Neither tool name nor the preferred-mode setting exists in v2.1.241.
Evidence

release_full_control

Strings lifted out of the shipped bundle, so the claim above can be checked against them.

Related

Other releases about the same thing. Found by shared names or similar wording; neither means one caused the other.

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