Under the hoodTier: how much it should matter to you
1Useful: my rating, 1 to 5
1Signal: worth watching, 1 to 5
Chrome & BrowserArea: what it touches
Internal ChangesKind: in v2.1.271,
Internal ChangesSection of the release
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.
