You'll noticeTier: how much it should matter to you
1Useful: my rating, 1 to 5
2Signal: worth watching, 1 to 5
ElsewhereArea: what it touches
ImprovementsKind: in v2.1.307,
ImprovementsSection of the release
What
When Claude has used up its allowance of web searches, Claude Code tells it so. That message already forbade getting around the limit with curl or wget, third-party readers, proxies and archives. It now also forbids querying search engines in a browser or through a computer-use tool, a tool that lets Claude operate a computer's screen, mouse and keyboard.
Why
Claude should stop searching once the allowance is gone instead of finding another route to a search engine.