Under the hood
File-upload path safety checks were refactored into shared helpers reused across upload paths.
The file_upload tool's path-safety checks, covering network path rejection, Windows-path spoofing detection, percent-encoding/.. rejection, and kernel alias-namespace rejection (paths like /dev, /proc, ..namedfork), are now factored into shared helper functions. These are applied both to a new lightweight pass-through validation path and the existing full resolve-and-check path, tightening protection against path traversal and spoofing when Claude-in-Chrome uploads local files.
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Fixed Claude in Chrome file_upload failing with "paths: expected array, received undefined" in local Cowork sessions run from the Claude…