{"version":"2.1.281","anchor":"new-fallback-text-when-a-call-cannot-connect-the-users-comp","canonical_anchor":"new-deferred-no-op-tool-request-computer-your-computer","heading":"Placeholder device tools gain endsRelayOnCall, plus a new no-op 'Your computer' tool","tier":"soon","area":"Computer Use","scope":null,"heads_up":null,"url":"https:\/\/changelogs.core-directive.com\/v\/2.1.281\/e\/new-fallback-text-when-a-call-cannot-connect-the-users-comp","release_url":"https:\/\/changelogs.core-directive.com\/v\/2.1.281","markdown":"### Placeholder device tools gain endsRelayOnCall, plus a new no-op 'Your computer' tool\n\nChrome, Browser and computer-use placeholder tools now record a device request during a relay, and a new request_computer tool points Claude to remote-device tools\n\n**Unclear.** The finding does not say when this tool is available to the model, only that an internal check decides it.\n\n**What**\n\nIn cloud (CCR) remote sessions, Claude sees placeholder tools for connecting \"Claude in Chrome\", \"Browser\" and \"Computer use\". They now take an `endsRelayOnCall` option, and a fourth placeholder was added.\n\n- `endsRelayOnCall` is true for \"Claude in Chrome\", \"Browser\" and \"Computer use\". When the main agent calls one of them while a relay is active, Claude Code records a device-tool request, or a repeated request when automation tools are on and the call repeats.\n\n- A new tool, `request_computer`, labelled \"Your computer\", does nothing when called. It is deferred and read-only and has `endsRelayOnCall: !1`, so it records no request.\n\n- Its description says it cannot connect a computer, and that tools whose names start with `mcp__remote-devices__`, if any, run on the user's computer.\n\n- A new result text tells Claude that the call did not connect a computer and no tool here can, to use `mcp__remote-devices__` tools if present, and otherwise to carry on with its own tools and tell the user if the task needs their computer. That tool is enabled only in some sessions.\n\n**Why**\n\nClaude is steered toward remote-device tools, or to be honest with you, instead of claiming your computer is connected when nothing in the session can connect it. Calling a browser or computer placeholder can now end or hand off a relay.\n\n- Area: Computer Use\n- Tier: Nothing to try yet\n- Useful: 4\/5\n- Signal: 5\/5"}