Under the hoodTier: how much it should matter to you
1Useful: my rating, 1 to 5
1Signal: worth watching, 1 to 5
ChromeArea: what it touches
Internal ChangesKind: in v2.1.287,
Internal ChangesSection of the release
What
Claude Code can report the status of its Chrome connection to programs that host it. That status now has an optional at_startup field, filled in from whether Claude in Chrome is set to be enabled by default.
Two smaller changes ship alongside it:
Claude Code now has names for recording use of a plugin directory: opening its catalog, switching it, and toggling it.
An entry for plugin types was removed from an internal list.
Why
Programs that host Claude Code read this status, so they may behave differently when the "Enabled by default" option for Claude in Chrome is changed.
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 doubtWhat the removed plugin types entry did is not known.
