From c7e1b14e5aa71a33d00fbc52046deee498bf5db0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Alex Rudenko <alexrudenko@chromium.org>
Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2026 18:43:55 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] docs: update auto-connect docs

---
 README.md  | 2 +-
 src/cli.ts | 6 +++---
 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 20668aee7..78c60e642 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -370,7 +370,7 @@ The Chrome DevTools MCP server supports the following configuration option:
 <!-- BEGIN AUTO GENERATED OPTIONS -->
 
 - **`--autoConnect`/ `--auto-connect`**
-  If specified, automatically connects to a browser (Chrome 145+) running in the user data directory identified by the channel param. Requires remote debugging being enabled in Chrome here: chrome://inspect/#remote-debugging.
+  If specified, automatically connects to a browser (Chrome 144+) running in the user data directory identified by the channel param. Requires the remoted debugging server to be started in the Chrome instance via chrome://inspect/#remote-debugging.
   - **Type:** boolean
   - **Default:** `false`
 
diff --git a/src/cli.ts b/src/cli.ts
index 13c497685..24d5efba2 100644
--- a/src/cli.ts
+++ b/src/cli.ts
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ export const cliOptions = {
   autoConnect: {
     type: 'boolean',
     description:
-      'If specified, automatically connects to a browser (Chrome 145+) running in the user data directory identified by the channel param. Requires remote debugging being enabled in Chrome here: chrome://inspect/#remote-debugging.',
+      'If specified, automatically connects to a browser (Chrome 144+) running in the user data directory identified by the channel param. Requires the remoted debugging server to be started in the Chrome instance via chrome://inspect/#remote-debugging.',
     conflicts: ['isolated', 'executablePath'],
     default: false,
     coerce: (value: boolean | undefined) => {
@@ -267,11 +267,11 @@ export function parseArguments(version: string, argv = process.argv) {
       ],
       [
         '$0 --auto-connect',
-        'Connect to a stable Chrome instance (Chrome 145+) running instead of launching a new instance',
+        'Connect to a stable Chrome instance (Chrome 144+) running instead of launching a new instance',
       ],
       [
         '$0 --auto-connect --channel=canary',
-        'Connect to a canary Chrome instance (Chrome 145+) running instead of launching a new instance',
+        'Connect to a canary Chrome instance (Chrome 144+) running instead of launching a new instance',
       ],
     ]);