{"version":"2.1.321","anchor":"chrome-device-selection-tool-now-asks-permission-before-link","canonical_anchor":"chrome-device-selection-tool-now-asks-permission-before-link","heading":"The Chrome computer-picking tool can now ask before linking a computer","tier":"soon","area":"Claude in Chrome","scope":"individual","heads_up":false,"url":"https:\/\/changelogs.core-directive.com\/v\/2.1.321\/e\/chrome-device-selection-tool-now-asks-permission-before-link","release_url":"https:\/\/changelogs.core-directive.com\/v\/2.1.321","markdown":"### The Chrome computer-picking tool can now ask before linking a computer\n\nClaude Code can now ask you which computer to use before linking one to a chat, and denies the request if claude.ai does not answer in time\n\n**What**\n\nThe deferred tool behind the `tengu_merry_tide` remote switch, a tool loaded only when needed, now asks permission before it runs. When a second remote switch, `tengu_noble_spring`, is set, and no computer is linked yet, it asks: \"Ask which of your computers to use for this chat?\" It does not ask when a subagent (a helper Claude starts for part of a task) makes the call. If claude.ai's server does not answer the permission request in time, the call is denied.\n\nBoth switches fall back to off when the server sends nothing.\n\n**Why**\n\nWhere this is switched on, a computer is no longer linked to a chat without you agreeing, and a slow server means the request fails rather than going ahead.\n\n- Flag `tengu_noble_spring`: Off in both readings (read for one account on one subscription tier against v2.1.321; this account: off, anonymous baseline: off, compiled default: 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.\n- Flag `tengu_merry_tide`: Off in both readings (read for one account on one subscription tier against v2.1.321; this account: off, anonymous baseline: off, compiled default: 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.\n- Flag `tengu_copper_thimble`: Off in both readings (read for one account on one subscription tier against v2.1.321; this account: off, anonymous baseline: off, compiled default: 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.\n- Area: Claude in Chrome\n- Tier: Nothing to try yet\n- Useful: 3\/5\n- Signal: 4\/5\n- Scope: individual\n- Heads-up: no\n- Present in the build but not switched on"}