{"version":"2.1.305","anchor":"claude-in-chrome-skill-text-now-inlined-with-extra-tool-hint","canonical_anchor":"claude-in-chrome-skill-text-now-inlined-with-extra-tool-hint","heading":"Claude in Chrome guidance suggests adding task-specific browser tools together","tier":"notice","area":"Chrome & Browser","scope":"individual","heads_up":false,"url":"https:\/\/changelogs.core-directive.com\/v\/2.1.305\/e\/claude-in-chrome-skill-text-now-inlined-with-extra-tool-hint","release_url":"https:\/\/changelogs.core-directive.com\/v\/2.1.305","markdown":"### Claude in Chrome guidance suggests adding task-specific browser tools together\n\nThe Claude in Chrome skill text now tells Claude to add task-specific browser tools to the same call when a task clearly needs them\n\n**Unclear.** Whether the instructions Claude actually receives in a browser session changed is unclear.\n\n**What**\n\nClaude in Chrome lets Claude work in your Chrome browser. Its skill, a set of written instructions Claude reads, now carries a line telling Claude to add task-specific tools to the same call when the task obviously needs them:\n\n- `read_console_messages` or `read_network_requests` for debugging\n\n- `form_input` for filling in forms\n\n- `gif_creator` for recordings\n\n- `javascript_tool` for running scripts on a page\n\nThe text used to be stored as a separate compressed file and is now written directly into Claude Code.\n\n**Why**\n\nThe line guides how Claude chooses browser tools, so it reaches for the right ones up front.\n\n- Area: Chrome & Browser\n- Tier: You'll notice\n- Useful: 1\/5\n- Signal: 1\/5\n- Scope: individual\n- Heads-up: no"}