You'll noticeTier: how much it should matter to you
3Useful: my rating, 1 to 5
3Signal: worth watching, 1 to 5
Chrome & BrowserArea: what it touches
ImprovementsKind: in v2.1.285,
ImprovementsSection of the release
What
Claude in Chrome lets Claude Code work with your Chrome browser. It runs as an MCP server, a small add-on program that gives Claude Code extra tools. Before, Claude Code always started its own built-in Chrome server.
Now, if the remote session host supplies a Claude in Chrome server through --mcp-config, Claude Code does not start the built-in one. One of three things then happens:
An organization policy denies the extension, and the entry is not used.
Otherwise the entry is used, and a matching instruction is added to Claude's system prompt.
Why
Browser tools supplied by the remote host now take priority over the local built-in server, while existing admin policies can still block them.
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 doubtHow Claude Code recognises that an entry came from the remote host is not known.
Anthropic's release notes agreeChanged MCP tools so a tool that sets its own _meta['anthropic/alwaysLoad'] to false stays deferred when its --mcp-config, Agent SDK or…
