Claude in Chrome instructions are restructured and tool search knows a batch tool
The long Claude in Chrome guidance on GIFs, console logs, alerts and tabs is gone from its old place, and tool search now mentions a batch browser tool
Nothing to try yetTier: how much it should matter to you
2Useful: my rating, 1 to 5
3Signal: worth watching, 1 to 5
Chrome & BrowserArea: what it touches
In DevelopmentKind: in v2.1.305,
In DevelopmentSection of the release
What
Claude in Chrome lets Claude control your Chrome browser. The instructions Claude Code gives the model for it have been restructured. Long sections on recording GIFs, reading console logs, handling alerts, avoiding rabbit holes and tab context are no longer in the same place. A new step can rewrite this text, but only when a setting controlled by the server is switched on.
The hint for tool search, which loads tools only when needed, now also lists a browser_batch tool.
Why
This may change the browser guidance the model works from.
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Feature flag
tengu_tranquil_starlightNot enough to say
Nothing here resolved what this flag was doing on this version, so nothing here should be read as on or off.
This account: no value returned · anonymous baseline: no value returned · compiled default in v2.1.305: off
These values were read against a different version of Claude Code, so treat them as the nearest reading available instead of one taken on this release.
Flag reading movedThe flag server now returns off for tengu_tranquil_starlight, read as this account.A reading is one sample. Claude Code evaluates its flags remotely, so no client sees the targeting rule behind a value and this says nothing about your account.
Flag reading movedThe flag server now returns nothing at all, having stopped carrying it for tengu_tranquil_starlight, read as this account.A reading is one sample. Claude Code evaluates its flags remotely, so no client sees the targeting rule behind a value and this says nothing about your account.
