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New --chrome flag for spawned and remote-control sessions

A new --chrome / --no-chrome flag controls whether spawned and Remote Control sessions can use Claude in Chrome

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A new --chrome / --no-chrome flag controls whether spawned and Remote Control sessions can use Claude in Chrome

What

  • Spawning or reattaching a session now supports a --[no-]chrome flag that controls whether "Claude in Chrome" is available for that session, defaulting to the machine's own Chrome setting.
  • The claude remote-control command's argument parser also gained matching --chrome/--no-chrome flags.
  • When Remote Control starts with --chrome, Claude Code now checks whether an enterprise MCP policy or a denied-MCP-servers list blocks the Claude-in-Chrome MCP server, and exits with an error instead of silently proceeding if it's blocked.
  • Child sessions spawned by Remote Control now inherit the --chrome setting from their parent, so the option is passed through consistently.

Why

This gives explicit, per-session control over whether Claude in Chrome is enabled, and ensures that enterprise policies restricting MCP servers (which Claude in Chrome relies on) are respected rather than bypassed when Remote Control starts with Chrome access requested.

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Names in the bundle--chrome--no-chrome
What the documentation says
Since it was published

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 --no-chrome, on CLI reference. | `--no-chrome` | Disable [Chrome browser integration](/docs/en/chrome) for this session | `claude --no-chrome` | cli-reference see the edit
Confirmed since Anthropic's documentation has since written up --chrome, on CLI reference. | `--chrome` | Enable [Chrome browser integration](/docs/en/chrome) for web automation and testing | `claude --chrome` | cli-reference see the edit
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Anthropic's documentation agreesAnthropic's documentation has since written up --chrome, on CLI reference.

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