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Claude setup token silently disables user connectors

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A user encountered an issue where setting the CLAUDE_CODE_OAUTH_TOKEN environment variable for a scheduled agent job on macOS caused their Claude connectors (Gmail, Google Calendar, Google Drive) to disappear. This token, intended for model requests in CI/CD environments, has a higher authentication precedence than the user's active session, effectively disabling the connectors without explicit error messages. The user found that removing the setup token and relying on their keychain session restored the connectors, highlighting a conflict in authentication priorities for background processes. AI

IMPACT Highlights a potential configuration conflict for users running background AI agent jobs with specific authentication tokens.

RANK_REASON User-reported issue with a specific product configuration.

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Claude setup token silently disables user connectors

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  1. dev.to — MCP tag TIER_1 English(EN) · Bryan Clark ·

    claude setup-token fixed my launchd auth and dropped my connectors

    <blockquote> <p>If you added <code>CLAUDE_CODE_OAUTH_TOKEN</code> to a scheduled <code>claude -p</code> job, your claude.ai connectors — Gmail, Google Calendar, Google Drive — are gone, and nothing told you. A <code>setup-token</code> "can only make model requests", and it sits <…

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