What
In Claude in Chrome, a turn that made a single tool call now draws a reminder to combine clicks, typing, navigation and screenshots into one browser_batch call because it is significantly faster.
Details
- The nudge is keyed to the
claude-in-chromesurface and fires only after a one-tool-call turn.
Evidence
Prefer browser_batch to execute multiple actions in one call
Strings lifted out of the shipped bundle, so the claim above can be checked against them.
Names in the bundlebrowser_batch
The entry above is what we published on the day. These lines were added later, as Anthropic's own pages caught up, and they sit beside the original rather than replacing it.
Confirmed since
Anthropic's documentation has since written up browser_batch, on Use Claude Code with Chrome.
A `tabs_context_mcp` call also prompts when it sets `createIfEmpty`, and so does a `browser_batch` call that includes any of these actions.chrome see the edit
One source agreesOne thing we can check says the same as this entry.
Anthropic's documentation agrees
Anthropic's documentation has since written up browser_batch, on Use Claude Code with Chrome.