{"version":"2.1.319","anchor":"local-pairing-can-relay-external-messages-and-config","canonical_anchor":"local-pairing-can-relay-external-messages-and-config","heading":"Local pairing with the extension can carry outside messages and config","tier":"internal","area":"Extension Pairing","scope":"individual","heads_up":false,"url":"https:\/\/changelogs.core-directive.com\/v\/2.1.319\/e\/local-pairing-can-relay-external-messages-and-config","release_url":"https:\/\/changelogs.core-directive.com\/v\/2.1.319","markdown":"### Local pairing with the extension can carry outside messages and config\n\nThe extension pairing link can now pass on outside messages and configuration when the other side says it can relay them\n\n**Unclear.** Nothing shows this being used yet, so it is unclear whether any user can reach it.\n\n**What**\n\nClaude Code can pair with an extension on the same machine. That pairing link can now carry two more kinds of traffic, external configuration and external messages. They are passed on only when the other side reports that it can relay them.\n\n**Why**\n\nThis looks like groundwork for the extension passing on messages from outside the pairing.\n\n- Area: Extension Pairing\n- Tier: Under the hood\n- Useful: 2\/5\n- Signal: 3\/5\n- Scope: individual\n- Heads-up: no"}