Under the hood
The Chrome MCP server now tries to sign in to the Cloud gateway at startup and falls back gracefully if that fails
What
The claude-in-chrome MCP server (the background service that lets Claude Code control Chrome) now attempts to load its Cloud gateway sign-in as soon as it starts. If that attempt fails, it logs a warning and keeps running as if it were never signed in to the gateway, until the server is restarted.
Why
This makes a gateway sign-in failure visible and predictable instead of failing silently or behaving inconsistently. If Chrome-based tools seem to be missing gateway access, restarting the server is the way to retry the sign-in.