Under the hoodTier: how much it should matter to you
1Useful: my rating, 1 to 5
1Signal: worth watching, 1 to 5
Chrome & BrowserArea: what it touches
Internal ChangesKind: in v2.1.305,
Internal ChangesSection of the release
Unclear What the reworked instruction now says, and whether it changes when the Chrome tools become available.
What
The Claude in Chrome tools let Claude act in your Chrome browser. They are loaded through tool search, which is how Claude finds and loads tools held back until needed. Claude Code gives Claude an instruction naming a specific ToolSearch selection query for these tools, and it now edits that instruction text before using it.
This replaces an earlier check on whether tool search had been refused in the conversation. The ToolSearch tool's own description is unchanged in this release.
Why
It changes how the Chrome tools get loaded through tool search.
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 reworked instruction now says, and whether it changes when the Chrome tools become available.
Anthropic's release notes agreeFixed screen reader mode: search boxes now say "Search:" instead of a symbol VoiceOver read as "telephone recorder", and highlighted prompt…
