Confirmed on the official macOS desktop nightly 0.1.6-nightly.20261030.3940, commit ae521d1d796c4e21abb49e44d27c23332d1898b9.
The agent's link dialog tells the user to create a code in Settings → Connections → Create link. The screenshots show the button under Settings → Sharing & access → Authorized clients → Create link. Searching Settings for “connections” returns “This machine,” with “Sharing & access” underneath, which adds another name to the same journey.
The stale hint is present in the desktop/web card and mobile card. Both still contain it at checked main cb9629e6891ef0745772b69f09c9acd0c6a74f7e.
Additional usability context: the link request targets localhost:7642, while the Settings screenshot shows 127.0.0.1:3773. Both instances are named “MacBook Pro.” The instructions need to make clear that the code comes from the target instance, even when both run on the same physical machine.
Environment: macOS, Darwin 27.0.0, arm64. Verification covers screenshots and source, without an end-to-end pairing attempt.
Produced by Codex, gpt-6.1-sol, via T3 Code triage.