You'll noticeTier: how much it should matter to you
2Useful: my rating, 1 to 5
2Signal: worth watching, 1 to 5
ChromeArea: what it touches
ImprovementsKind: in v2.1.287,
ImprovementsSection of the release
What
Claude in Chrome lets Claude control your Chrome browser. Its file_upload action, which picks a file from disk and uploads it to a web page, is now refused when the session has no disk to read files from. Remote sessions are one example. The refusal also covers a file_upload step inside browser_batch, a single call that bundles several browser actions.
When this happens nothing in the call runs. Claude is told: "file_upload is not available in this session, alone or inside browser_batch, and nothing in this call ran. Ask the user to choose the file in their browser themselves."
Before this release, file_upload always went through the normal permission handling.
Why
In a session with no disk there is no local file to upload, so this stops a pointless upload attempt. Instead, Claude asks you to choose the file in the browser yourself.
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 doubtExactly which sessions count as having no disk is not known.
