Under the hoodTier: how much it should matter to you
1Useful: my rating, 1 to 5
1Signal: worth watching, 1 to 5
Claude in ChromeArea: what it touches
Internal ChangesKind: in v2.1.280,
Internal ChangesSection of the release
What
A dispatch table used for the Claude-in-Chrome browser extension previously listed many MCP-related actions, including checking MCP status, usage and session cost, listing models, getting the binary version, setting thinking token limits, and managing sessions and background tasks. At this call site, that list has been replaced with just three entries: install, reconnect, and a permissions URL.
Why
This narrows what this particular part of the Chrome extension integration can trigger, down to installing, reconnecting, and pointing to permissions, removing the broader set of MCP actions from this call site.
How sure we are
Something disagreesSomething we can check disagrees with this entry, or the writer said they could not settle it.
The writer flagged doubtThe finding does not say whether the removed actions still exist elsewhere or were dropped from the extension entirely.
Anthropic's release notes agreeFixed Ctrl+C or Ctrl+D pressed twice in most dialogs (/model, /effort, /config, /status, /usage, /plugin, /sandbox, /permissions…
