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v2.1.251

What's changed

• Added PreModelSwitch and PostModelSwitch hook events (block, confirm, or annotate a model switch); SessionStart resume hooks now receive session staleness and the estimated re-cache cost
• Added live streaming of a foreground subagent's tool calls and results to Remote Control clients (background subagents, the default, still show status only)
• Added a Spend limit bar to /usage and a rate_limits.spend_limit status line field for developers behind a Claude apps gateway with spend limits
• Added a per-session prompt-cache line to /cost (hit ratio, misses, tokens re-cached, warm/cold) and a matching prompt_cache object for status line scripts
• Added attach, logs, stop, respawn, and rm to claude --help; the --resume message for a running background session now names the exact claude attach <id> command
• Fixed file tools (Read, Write, Edit) following a symlink swapped inside the working directory after the permission check, which could read or write outside the approved location
• Fixed plugin commands declared in a marketplace entry being able to point outside the plugin directory; such paths are now rejected with a path-traversal error
• Fixed project settings being able to enable detailed beta tracing or raw API body logging, and a lower-scope beta tracing endpoint bypassing an OTLP collector pinned by managed settings or a host app
• Fixed the Workflow tool reading (and quoting in errors) a scriptPath outside what the session may read before the permission check ran
• Fixed Grep and Glob not applying Read(...) deny rules to files reached through a symlinked search path
• Fixed conversations getting stuck on "text content blocks must be non-empty" errors after a turn where the model produced only thinking
• Fixed the first launch on a fresh install starting in default mode instead of auto mode for accounts whose startup default is auto mode
• Fixed Opus 5 requests failing with "effort … is not supported when thinking is disabled" when effort was xhigh/max and thinking was turned off; effort is now sent as high in that case
• Fixed replying to a message Claude Desktop delivered from another session: SendMessage to that session id now delivers through Claude Desktop instead of failing with "not reachable"
• Fixed TUI lag with many parallel subagents: per-second progress ticks now replace their predecessor instead of piling up in the transcript
• Fixed agent teams: a teammate's final answer not reaching the team lead — it now arrives in the idle notification instead of a content-free "available" notice
• Fixed background subagents being unable to reply to a message from an unnamed sibling or parent agent (from was the agent type, which is not an address)
• Fixed managed-settings disableAutoMode arriving mid-session not moving an already-running auto-mode session back to default mode
• Fixed a "switch to Opus 1M for 5x more context" tip that appeared even when the current Opus model already has a 1M context window
• Fixed Claude apps gateway sessions treating a stored Anthropic profile (e.g. a Console sign-in) as active: listing it in /status and retrying gateway 401s with it, though requests never use it
• Fixed cloud sessions telling Claude the model had changed when the host was only setting the session's initial model
• Fixed Remote Control reporting a failure when an organization's policy disables it; it now shows a single quiet notice instead
• Fixed /mcp reconnect on Remote Control showing a generic withheld-detail error instead of the real remedy when a server was disabled in another session
• Fixed --input-format stream-json: client-injected assistant tool calls sent without a message id were merged into the first one and their results lost, including when resuming older sessions
• Fixed session transcripts being silently overwritten when a directory change relocated a session onto an existing same-ID transcript
• Fixed background sessions and their subagents being unable to edit files inside a git worktree they created with git worktree add
• Fixed background sessions occasionally starting without any plugin skills (and staying that way) when another Claude Code process was refreshing the plugin marketplace at the same moment
• Fixed selecting text in an opened background session inside tmux over SSH: it now copies to the tmux buffer like a foreground session instead of falling back to OSC 52
• Fixed SDK and cloud sessions hanging indefinitely when an SDK MCP server's handshake acknowledgment was lost; the wait now times out after 70 seconds and marks only that server failed
• Fixed self-hosted runner leaving a stuck session's Bash tool processes running after the session was force-stopped
• Fixed /usage-credits for Team and Enterprise members whose admin set the org's usage-credit limit to $0: it now offers to ask the admin instead of saying a cap was reached
• Fixed --worktree --tmux with a merge-request number on a gitlab.com origin trying a doomed GitHub-style fetch first instead of fetching the GitLab ref directly
• Fixed Ctrl+G failing with "Emacs quit unexpectedly" in background sessions for editors that open /dev/tty, such as emacs -nw and micro
• Fixed an additionalDirectories entry containing a null byte crashing startup, or breaking /add-dir and later settings updates when it came from an SDK host, IDE, or hook; it is now skipped
• Fixed the MCP server menu's copy shortcut: it now says how the sign-in URL was copied instead of always claiming success
• Fixed italic text (such as the session recap line) rendering as highlighted blocks in GNU screen and in tmux sessions using a screen terminal type
• Fixed claude mcp add --header and claude mcp add-json help text naming the wrong transports
• Fixed claude ultrareview and /ultrareview waiting the full 30 minutes when the cloud session fails to start; they now stop early and report the reason
• Fixed Bash permission checks auto-approving commands that assign an arithmetic expression to an integer shell variable (e.g. OPTIND=1/0, RANDOM=2+2); these now prompt for approval
• Fixed backgrounded sessions (←, /background, --bg) losing a Vertex/Bedrock gateway (ANTHROPIC_*_BASE_URL + CLAUDE_CODE_SKIP_*_AUTH) exported in the shell, so every request failed
• Fixed claude --bg --model fable on Max plans stopping to ask for usage credits while the interactive session on the same account still had Fable allowance
• Fixed the one-time "make auto mode your default" offer appearing in unattended sessions (e.g. agent-team teammate panes), where a stray keypress could accept it unread
• Fixed the managed-settings approval prompt re-appearing after signing in again to the same Claude apps gateway when the settings are unchanged
• Fixed disabled /bug and /share reporting that /feedback was disabled; tips, /help, and refusal messages no longer suggest /feedback when an org policy or env var turns it off
• Fixed cloud session creation advising GitHub setup after a transient GitHub connection failure — the message now says to retry instead
• Improved CPU usage during turns in interactive sessions by cutting redundant UI re-renders
• Improved install size: the native binary is about 5 MB smaller
• Improved cloud sessions: when the session's network proxy drops a connection during a Bash command, the tool result now names the host and reason instead of only "connection reset"
• Improved /schedule to explain that MCP servers configured in Claude Code can't be attached to cloud routines, instead of a bare "No MCP connectors" message
• Improved framing of messages from your own subagents: Claude is told the sender is a worker inside this session, not an unrelated Claude session
• Improved the prompt placeholder to read "Message @name…" while viewing a background subagent or fork transcript opened from the subagent panel or /tasks
• Improved sanitization of MCP server names in error messages, menus, and command results
• Improved Amazon Bedrock session start under CLAUDE_CODE_PROVIDER_MANAGED_BY_HOST (e.g. Claude Desktop): a session given a Bedrock model ID or ARN no longer waits for inference-profile discovery
• Improved the managed settings approval dialog to list only the settings that changed since you last approved them
• Improved retry when the model's tool call is malformed: the broken output is now dropped from the retry context, including on Bedrock, Vertex, and Foundry
• Changed /radio to be available on Bedrock, Vertex AI, Foundry, and Claude Platform on AWS, and when telemetry is disabled
• Changed Claude in Chrome so browser actions always go through Claude Code's permission checks, including in sessions with telemetry disabled, which previously used the Chrome extension's own prompts
• Changed CLAUDE_CODE_SUBAGENT_MODEL to set the default subagent model rather than override everything: an agent definition's model: and an explicit per-spawn model now take precedence over it
• Changed the default commit trailer to Co-Authored-By: Claude Code when the active model isn't a recognized Claude model (e.g. third-party models behind a custom ANTHROPIC_BASE_URL)
• Changed the default model for seat-based Enterprise subscriptions to Opus 5, matching other premium plans
• Changed /effort to save your default effort level per model, so each model keeps its own setting when you switch
• Changed analytics to no longer turn off before sign-in solely because managed settings force gateway login (or cannot be read); they stay off once signed in to the gateway or via DISABLE_TELEMETRY
• Changed the footer PR badge on Bedrock, Vertex, and Foundry, and when telemetry is off, to call the GitHub API directly (via gh auth token, GH_TOKEN, or GITHUB_TOKEN) instead of gh pr view
• Changed how Bash command output files are created and read back when commands run in the sandbox, so a sandboxed command cannot redirect or replace them
• Changed plugin/LSP install suggestions and the auto-mode default offer to wait until you've sent or cleared what you're typing, so the Enter that sends your prompt can't answer them
• Changed server-managed settings that terminate sandbox TLS, route sandbox traffic through your own proxy, inject credentials, or weaken sandbox isolation to require approval before they apply
• Changed ANTHROPIC_CUSTOM_HEADERS from managed or project settings to require approval when it sets a credential, org/tenant, routing, or API-behavior header (e.g. Authorization, Host)
• Changed project-level .claude/settings.json env to no longer set CLAUDE_CONFIG_DIR, CLAUDE_CODE_TMPDIR, or TMPDIR/TMP/TEMP; set them in your shell, user, or managed settings instead
• Removed syntax highlighting for six rarely used languages (1c, gml, isbl, mathematica, maxima, sqf); the binary is 2.5 MB smaller
• [VSCode] Fixed the sign-in screen's "Bedrock, Foundry, or Vertex" button opening the docs at the top of the page instead of the third-party provider setup section
• [VSCode] Changed the Remote Control banner to a footer pill (shown while Remote Control is on or has failed) that opens the session on claude.ai/code; turn it on or off with /remote-control

v2.1.250

What's changed

• Bug fixes and reliability improvements

v2.1.248

What's changed

• Added --restricted (or CLAUDE_CODE_RESTRICTED=1): removes the built-in tools that run commands or code and WebFetch (unless named in --tools), keeps file tools inside the working directory, refuses bypassPermissions, and ignores user, project and local settings files
• Added experimental.cacheTtl ("5m" or "1h") to agent frontmatter: a per-agent prompt cache TTL used when no subagent TTL setting is configured
• Added claude self-hosted-runner --client-label <label> (or SELF_HOSTED_RUNNER_CLIENT_LABEL) to override the label the runner registers with (default: hostname)
• Added server-managed settings diagnostics: a startup warning when the settings fail to load, and a /doctor and /status line explaining a load failure or why they weren't fetched (Bedrock/Vertex/third-party provider, custom ANTHROPIC_BASE_URL)
• Added a warning in /web-setup when the GitHub CLI token lacks the workflow scope, since pushes to very large repositories can be rejected without it
• Added /usage-credits for Enterprise organizations billed through AWS Marketplace, self-serve Enterprise, and Enterprise trials, so members can request a higher usage limit from their admin
• Added cross-session messaging (SendMessage / ListAgents) between sessions on the same machine on Bedrock, Vertex, and Foundry, and when telemetry is disabled
• Fixed a prompt-cache miss (and lost extended-thinking context) roughly once an hour in long sessions, caused by tool definitions being re-rendered after an OAuth token refresh
• Fixed the ScheduleWakeup tool definition changing between a session and its --resume when the account had entered usage overage, causing a full prompt-cache miss on the resumed session's first turn
• Fixed Claude Desktop and Cowork sessions disappearing after 30 days: the transcript cleanup now keeps desktop-written sessions while they are in the app (unless org policy manages retention); the new desktopSessionCleanupPeriodDays setting caps the exemption
• Fixed being sent to the login screen when another Claude Code process held the token refresh lock while the session token had expired; the request now fails with a retryable error instead
• Windows: Fixed the claude agents list not responding to the keyboard after detaching from a session, or when launched in a terminal tab left in win32-input-mode
• Fixed the recommended Console sign-in in /login failing with an OAuth error before showing a sign-in URL on machines where it can't be used (for example when ANTHROPIC_API_KEY or an API key helper is set); it now falls back to the API-key sign-in
• Fixed model names in /model and fast-mode switch notices to render as code, so suffixes like [1m] display literally instead of as a link
• Fixed claude agents skipping the workspace trust prompt when the CI environment variable is set
• Fixed claude agents crashing on launch when the PR-status cache held a malformed entry
• Fixed agent view resurrecting a weeks-old background session after the machine was off: such a session now shows as stopped at its real end, and opening it asks before resuming its saved conversation
• Fixed agent view sometimes opening an older conversation, and dropping the typed prompt, when starting a new session
• Fixed claude agents: opening a stopped session that you already resumed in another terminal no longer starts a second process on that conversation; the row now says it is open in a terminal
• Fixed claude agents and claude rm refusing to delete a session ("has commits that are not pushed anywhere") when its worktree branch was already merged into your checked-out default branch (e.g. local main) but not yet pushed
• Fixed background sessions waiting silently when a PermissionRequest or PreToolUse hook prints an invalid answer: the claude agents row now names the hook and the schema error
• Fixed hooks silently treating a stdout {…} object that isn't valid JSON as plain text; it's now reported as a hook error with the parse message
• Fixed /mcp listing a project .mcp.json entry that declares the claude.ai connector type under the trusted "claude.ai" heading; it now appears under its real scope
• Fixed MCP servers whose headersHelper supplies the Authorization header falling into OAuth discovery on a 401 instead of re-running the helper and retrying the call as documented
• Fixed /login to a Claude apps gateway hanging when the managed-settings security approval dialog was required
• Fixed gateway model discovery (CLAUDE_CODE_ENABLE_GATEWAY_MODEL_DISCOVERY) never running when apiKeyHelper is the only credential
• Fixed claude logs leaving mouse tracking, bracketed paste and the alternate screen switched on in the terminal it was run from
• Fixed the trust dialog's list of repo permission rules showing a garbled character when a long rule was cut off in the middle of an emoji
• Fixed the permission mode indicator staying hidden behind the "Press Ctrl-C again to exit" hint when you press shift+tab right after ctrl+c
• Fixed /ultrareview and locally seeded cloud sessions uploading uncommitted edits to prod.env-style and *.tfvars files, or to editor swap, temp, and backup copies of credential files (e.g. key.pem.tmp, id_rsa.swo); they now stay on your machine
• Fixed Remote Control sessions occasionally never showing a permission prompt or the latest messages on the connected device after the CLI silently reconnected
• Fixed cloud sessions occasionally failing at startup when the container's session credentials were not yet readable
• Fixed claude remote-control rejecting its own flags (e.g. --spawn, --name) when a global flag or a wrapper-injected option precedes the subcommand
• Fixed startup warnings (e.g. "N MCP servers need authentication") rendering one column right of the rest of the transcript
• Fixed a backgrounded worktree session losing its checkout: the background session now holds the worktree's lock while it runs, so cleanup and git worktree remove leave it alone
• Fixed @-mentions of other sessions not matching names typed with non-Latin characters (for example Korean entered through an IME)
• Fixed an invalid crossSessionInbound value being silently ignored: it now warns and holds cross-session messages (user settings) or refuses them (managed settings) until fixed
• Fixed rate-limit, usage, and fast-mode messages telling you to run /usage-credits when that command isn't available for your organization (e.g. hidden with DISABLE_EXTRA_USAGE_COMMAND)
• [VSCode] Fixed a chat tab getting stuck on "No conversation found" when its session was never saved; it now starts a new conversation instead
• Improved the Workflow tool's prompt footprint: its description is now about 1k tokens instead of 5.7k, with the script-writing reference moved into a bundled workflow-authoring skill
• Improved the prompt-footer PR badge to check GitHub less often while the pull request is unchanged; a push or a gh pr command still refreshes it right away
• Improved managed settings: client-side timeout, MCP startup-mode, and stream-watchdog env vars no longer trigger the settings-approval prompt
• Improved /ultrareview <PR#> to check before launch that the GitHub account connected to your Claude account can access the repository, and to explain how to fix it, instead of failing after the cloud session starts
• Improved cross-session messaging: falls back to a private per-user /tmp directory when the default one can't be used, and the notice and /status name the directory to fix
• Changed shift+enter in the agent view dispatch input to insert a newline (matching the prompt); ctrl+enter now dispatches and attaches
• Changed /loop: self-paced dynamic mode and the no-prompt autonomous default are now always available, including on Bedrock/Vertex/Foundry
• Changed Anthropic telemetry export failures to log at debug level as [Anthropic telemetry] instead of [3P telemetry] OTEL diag error, so they are not mistaken for your OTel collector failing
• Changed cross-session messaging in Linux user namespaces: root-equivalent trust for unmapped owners is limited to canonical system directories
• Changed SendMessage from a subagent to another session: the result now notes that any reply is delivered to the parent session's conversation, not to the subagent

v2.1.247

What's changed

• Added the SendFeedback tool: when something goes wrong in a session, Claude can draft a feedback report for you to review and send from /feedback (turn off with the feedbackDrafts setting)
• Added {id, text, cooldownSessions, priority} entries, tipsFile, and label to spinnerTipsOverride, so organizations can rotate their own tips alongside the built-in ones
• Added a tip on Bash permission prompts pointing to auto mode, with a one-keystroke "Yes, and switch to auto mode" option
• Added /claude-api cost-optimize to profile an existing project's Claude API spend and work through cost levers (caching, token hygiene, batch, effort, model choice) one measured change at a time
• Updated the /claude-api skill with Admin API coverage (organization members, invites, workspaces, API keys, rate limit reports, workload identity federation, CMEK)
• Fixed fast arrow-key + Enter sequences acting on the row above the one you navigated to in history search, /config, /mcp, /skills, background tasks, and /model
• Fixed sub-agents dying on a first-call model 404: they now use the session's fallback model chain, and the error returned to the parent includes the error type, status, request id, and model
• Fixed a hook or background agent that printed megabytes of error output being able to overflow the conversation and wedge the session on "Prompt is too long"
• Fixed Ctrl keyboard shortcuts not firing under non-Latin (e.g. Cyrillic) keyboard layouts in kitty-protocol terminals
• Fixed text like <35;150;7M being inserted into the prompt when a mouse report arrived split across reads right after the escape prefix
• Fixed the Bash sandbox's after-command cleanup deleting a dotfile-managed ~/.claude/settings.json symlink (nix/home-manager, stow) when it is repointed outside the sandbox's writable area
• Fixed /terminal-setup overwriting your entire Zed keymap.json instead of merging in its keybinding
• Fixed /rename silently confirming when the session registry could not be updated; it now says other sessions may still show the old name
• Fixed /compact and "Summarize from here" in sessions started with --agent summarizing under the default system prompt instead of the conversation's own
• Fixed a background session showing "opening…" forever in claude agents after its terminal host process died; the row now fails within seconds with the reason, and Enter restarts it
• Fixed unbounded memory growth when a hook's or background task's output file could not be written; the file now notes where output was lost
• Fixed /install-github-app over SSH: the copy shortcut now says how the sign-in URL was copied instead of always claiming success, and the URL appears immediately when no browser can open
• Fixed shell commands carried over from the foreground logging an internal error or showing a misleading [exited with code -1] line when they finish in background sessions
• Fixed a version-less marketplace plugin's live cache directory being deleted and recreated on a second-scope install, which could disrupt a running session using it
• Fixed Remote Control sessions started with /remote-control not reporting the working-tree diff to connected clients
• Fixed self-hosted runner sessions reporting running before Claude Code had started, which could trigger a premature "Claude is waiting for your input" notification from the Claude desktop app
• Fixed first-run setup exiting with "Unable to connect to Anthropic services" when managed settings configure Claude apps gateway sign-in and Anthropic endpoints are unreachable
• Fixed cloud sessions (Claude Code on the web, desktop and mobile apps) sometimes showing the previous permission mode when you switch modes right after sending a message
• Fixed cloud sessions going silent when the session's container restarts between turns while a background agent, shell, or monitor is still running — the resumed session now reports the lost work
• Improved plugin marketplace hardening: names containing control or invisible characters are rejected, and marketplace-supplied text in /plugin and claude plugin output is escape-safe
• Improved Bedrock, Vertex, and Foundry sessions (and any with telemetry disabled): Claude is now told when a configured MCP server failed to connect, instead of concluding its tools don't exist
• Changed Sonnet 5's default auto-compact window to its full 1M context, so sessions on the 1M window now auto-compact at about 967K tokens instead of about 934K
• Changed cross-session peer messages to collapse by default to a one-line Message from @<sender>: <first line> preview; Ctrl+O expands the full body
• Changed terminal hyperlinks in rendered markdown: link targets that point at a network or automounter path, contain a control character, or lead with an invisible character now render as plain text
• Changed the prompt-footer PR badge to skip its GitHub re-check on terminal refocus when the last check is under a minute old
• Changed analytics to stay off from startup, not only after login, when managed settings force gateway login or a custom OAuth deployment is configured
• Changed Claude apps gateway sign-in requests to identify Claude Code (a surface=claude_code device-authorization parameter and a claude-code/<version> User-Agent)
• Changed organization sign-in enforcement to exit at start when the administrator's managed settings cannot be read, even if host-supplied or per-user Windows registry settings exist

v2.1.246

What's changed

• Added a startup warning for Bash allow rules with a wildcard before the subcommand (e.g. Bash(git * main)), since they also match options inserted before the subcommand
• Added an Auto mode tab to /permissions for viewing and editing auto mode classifier rules
• Added the turn's completion time to the end-of-turn duration line, e.g. ✻ Sautéed for 23s · done 6:05 PM
• Fixed fullscreen mode showing a blank transcript after resizing the terminal and jumping to the bottom until the next keypress
• Fixed a severe transcript slowdown when a diff contained a very long single line (e.g. a base64 string); such lines now render truncated with a marker
• Fixed erratic fullscreen scrolling when positioned at an earlier message, including jump-to-bottom getting stuck mid-transcript
• Fixed background sessions failing to open after 45 seconds when Claude Code's starting directory had been deleted, the machine had slept, or the host is slow to start processes
• Fixed background sessions failing to open with "Couldn't start the background service … EACCES" when another Claude Code process was re-installing the npm package at that moment
• Fixed markdown rendering being disabled for a whole message when its first 500 characters contained no markdown, and for +/N) lists and setext headings
• Fixed MCP tool calls interrupted by an incoming message in headless/remote sessions being reported to the model as "completed with no output" instead of an explicit interrupted error
• Fixed MCP tool arguments being sent as JSON strings when the parameter's schema is empty ({}), instead of their real type
• Fixed a command interrupted mid-run showing as "Ran 1 shell command" with no sign it was cut
• Fixed pressing ← or running /background during a dynamic workflow restarting its finished subagents; it now asks first and says how many subagents would restart
• Fixed opening a just-started session in claude agents while its worker was still booting (common on Windows) stopping it with "was stopped while the respawn was in flight"
• Fixed claude agents listing a backgrounded named session twice; backgrounding the same conversation again now numbers the new row (e.g. my-session (2))
• Fixed the background retention sweep removing git worktrees under .claude/worktrees/ that you created yourself when an old background-session record pointed at them
• Fixed auto mode tool calls being denied as "temporarily unavailable" on very large sessions by scaling the safety-check deadline with prompt size
• Fixed the plugin cache creating duplicate SHA-named directories for the same plugin
• Fixed plugin skills whose frontmatter name already includes the <plugin>: prefix showing it doubled in the slash menu (e.g. /plugin:plugin:skill)
• Fixed claude plugin update failing for an installed plugin given its bare name (only the fully-qualified name worked)
• Fixed plugin installation failing when plugin.json was saved with a UTF-8 byte-order mark (BOM)
• Fixed /reload-plugins reporting 0 skills for plugins that define skills under skills/*/SKILL.md
• Fixed hook error messages showing a literal ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT} instead of the resolved plugin path
• Fixed /rename replacing the theme's prompt border color (including a custom theme's promptBorder) with the default cyan; the border now keeps your theme's color unless you pick one with /color
• Fixed custom theme diff colors (diffAdded/diffRemoved and their dimmed variants) being ignored in diffs and the /theme preview
• Fixed a keybindings.json binding with an unknown action name silently deadening that key; it is now skipped so the default binding keeps working, and a warning is logged under --debug
• Fixed /stats activity heatmap showing each day's activity one cell off (Sunday's count under Monday) in timezones east of UTC
• Fixed /fork from an already-forked or backgrounded session starting the new session with an empty conversation
• Fixed prompts beginning with /-- (e.g. Lean doc comments) being rejected as an unknown slash command instead of being sent to Claude
• Fixed the @ file picker staying open after the typed text stopped matching a real path
• Fixed the status line's cost and duration resetting to zero after navigating to the agents view and back
• Fixed fullscreen mode moving keyboard focus onto the control under the pointer when you clicked the terminal window only to bring it back into focus
• Fixed path completion failing when the completion token or working directory contained a null byte
• Windows/macOS: Fixed headless sessions not cleaning up stale entries in ~/.claude/sessions left by sessions that exited uncleanly
• Fixed the UI stopping with a render error on the first tool call when a third-party Anthropic-compatible endpoint (ANTHROPIC_BASE_URL) streams a tool_use block without an id
• Fixed the Write tool reporting "Out of memory" or freezing for a long time after overwriting a very large existing file, even though the file had been written
• Fixed claude plugin install <name> exiting silently (or hanging in a terminal) instead of reporting an error when ~/.claude/plugins/known_marketplaces.json is empty or corrupted
• Fixed resumed sessions failing every turn with a 400 when the saved history contains tool blocks the Anthropic API does not accept (typically written by a third-party API proxy)
• Fixed curl -fsSL https://claude.ai/install.sh | bash failing with "Raw mode is not supported" for some Team/Enterprise users with server-managed settings
• Fixed sessions that ended in plan mode resuming outside plan mode in the VS Code extension, and in claude -p --continue/--resume with a permission prompt tool, when no permission mode was set
• Fixed the Notification hook not firing while the sandbox "Network request outside of sandbox" permission prompt is waiting
• Fixed Bash permission checks to always require approval for malformed commands with a dangling && or || operator
• Fixed --strict-mcp-config sessions prompting to approve .mcp.json servers they would never load, which left background sessions waiting at startup
• Fixed telemetry and metrics requests to Anthropic carrying the API key configured for a third-party gateway (ANTHROPIC_BASE_URL); a credential is now only sent to its own host
• Fixed a visible API error on the first prompt after idle when apiKeyHelper returns short-lived JWTs: an expired cached token is now refreshed before sending, and 401/403 auth errors retry quietly
• Fixed memory growing with session length in the fullscreen and Ctrl+O transcript views: each rendered message row no longer retains a full copy of the transcript-wide tool lookups
• Fixed /ultrareview runs and cloud sessions launched at the same time from one repository (e.g. from several worktrees) sometimes starting with another launch's uncommitted changes
• Fixed the task progress count (e.g. 3/5) shown for background cloud sessions such as /autofix-pr occasionally missing a task
• Fixed Remote Control sessions keeping their placeholder name in claude.ai and the Claude app until the second prompt; the auto-generated title now appears after the first prompt
• Fixed MCP tools marked requiresUserInteraction still offering "Yes, and don't ask again" in their permission prompt; the option wrote an allow rule the tool then ignored
• Fixed the self-hosted runner ending its live sessions or exiting when a work-poll response is malformed (e.g. an intercepting proxy's HTML page); it now retries the poll
• Improved /cd: the new directory's project settings, hooks, .mcp.json servers (behind the usual approval prompt), skills, and agents now take effect right after the move instead of on --resume
• Improved Bash tool latency on bash shells by replaying snapshot functions without a base64 subshell per function
• Improved subagent results: a subagent that stops at its maxTurns limit now returns its output marked as partial, with a hint to continue it via SendMessage, instead of appearing finished
• Improved non-interactive sessions (-p, SDK, cloud sessions) to automatically continue a response cut off mid-stream by a server error, connection loss, or stall instead of ending with an error
• Improved attribution of usage telemetry to your organization for workload identity federation sessions, events sent while apiKeyHelper runs at startup, and after a login token expired while idle
• Changed /code-review so Claude can also start it on its own on Bedrock, Vertex AI, and Foundry, through the Claude apps gateway, and when telemetry or non-essential traffic is disabled
• /goal: Changed idle sessions to start at most three check-ins on long-running background work per goal; your next message allows three more
• Changed claude install and claude update to defer a pending managed-settings consent prompt to the next interactive session instead of prompting mid-command
• Changed OpenTelemetry plugin events for plugins synced from claude.ai: plugin_id_hash now reflects the plugin's real marketplace, and enabled_via is admin-install for admin-installed plugins
• Fixed the command sandbox's filesystem configuration not respecting --setting-sources

v2.1.245

What's changed

• Fixed a crash on startup on Linux distributions that ship glibc 2.44 (for example Arch Linux, CachyOS and Fedora Rawhide)

v2.1.241

What's changed

• Bug fixes and reliability improvements

v2.1.240

What's changed

• Bug fixes and reliability improvements

v2.1.239

What's changed

• Cost estimates (/cost, status line, --max-budget-usd) now include the 1.1× US-only-inference premium for data-residency workspaces
• Added the one-time fullscreen renderer offer on Bedrock, Vertex, Foundry and other previously excluded setups; new installs there now start in fullscreen
• Added /claude-api upgrade to migrate Python projects from anthropic 0.x to 1.x, and updated the skill's Python reference for 1.x (timeouts use anthropic.Timeout, not httpx.Timeout)
• Cloud sessions: plugins synced from claude.ai now show as name@synced, work with claude plugin enable/disable <name>@synced, and never override a same-named plugin you installed
• Alpine/musl builds: native image paste, clipboard, and audio-capture add-ons now load (musl-built binaries instead of glibc ones refused by the runtime)
• The usage-limit message shown when your monthly spend limit is already used up now also says when your session or weekly limit resets
• Fixed Bedrock streaming behind proxies that strip the response Content-Type header, which silently doubled billed API calls by re-running every turn non-streaming
• Fixed Claude Code hanging at startup behind an HTTPS proxy when using Bedrock with an SSO profile and awsAuthRefresh — the credential pre-check now honors HTTPS_PROXY
• Fixed a raw crash dump when starting Claude Code from a directory that no longer exists; it now prints a clear message
• Fixed Edit and Write calls pausing for about 5 seconds in JetBrains IDE terminals when the Claude Code plugin is connected
• Fixed a race where pressing Esc with a prompt queued could let the next turn finish early, leaving the session idle while Claude was still working and letting a later resubmit repeat actions
• Fixed WebFetch retaining expired page content in memory for the whole session instead of the intended 15 minutes
• Fixed cloud sessions (Claude Code on the web, desktop and mobile apps) resuming out of plan mode after an idle worker restart
• Fixed MCP elicitation forms taller than the terminal being clipped in fullscreen mode: the form now fits the window, with hidden fields reachable by scrolling and Accept/Decline always visible
• Fixed remote MCP servers staying failed after a transient 5xx on a mid-session reconnect in cloud sessions or via SDK setMcpServers()
• Fixed custom session titles disappearing from /resume after more than ~64 KB of conversation was written following the rename
• Fixed claude -c/resume picking up sessions from a different directory whose path differed only by characters like _, -, or .
• Fixed /resume and the agents view showing a session as recently changed (and reordering it) when only its file was touched or it was merely reopened
• Fixed /resume in all-projects mode telling you to cd into a deleted directory (e.g. a removed worktree); such sessions now resume in the current directory
• Fixed the dark-ansi theme rendering expanded tool results in fullscreen mode with text the same color as the background
• Fixed the fullscreen renderer prompt reappearing on every launch when it could never be answered; it now stops after being shown on three launches
• Fixed .worktreeinclude patterns starting with **/ silently matching nothing when the target lived in a gitignored directory
• Fixed agents, skills, and commands whose .md file starts with a UTF-8 BOM being silently ignored
• Fixed /insights echoing literal <message> tags in its response on some models
• Fixed marketplace metadata.pluginRoot having no effect: bare plugin source names now resolve under it as the docs describe
• Fixed mouse movement in browser-based terminals inserting text like "35;150;7M" into the prompt when a mouse report arrived split across writes
• Fixed custom theme overrides for the effort/ultracode status badge colors being ignored
• Fixed OpenTelemetry trace fragmentation: tool executions deferred by a PreToolUse hook now resume in the original turn's trace instead of starting a new trace
• Fixed vim mode in the agent view: Escape now switches to NORMAL mode and keeps your text instead of clearing the prompt
• Fixed the selection:copy keybinding silently dropping a text selection that had been extended with Shift+Arrow keys
• Fixed the /voice startup tip still appearing after voice dictation was enabled via the voice.enabled setting
• Fixed shell-mode (!) Tab completion dropping the ./ from a ./script path, which left a command the shell couldn't run
• Fixed fullscreen mode answering a permission prompt or pressing a button when you clicked the terminal window only to bring it back into focus
• Fixed slash-command panels (e.g. /config, /model) in fullscreen mode covering the latest messages; the conversation now stays pinned above the panel
• Fixed the /workflows detail dialog overflowing the terminal and losing its header off-screen when opened while Claude is still responding
• Fixed the Linux sandbox making a nonexistent .git/config.worktree unreadable, which broke every sandboxed git command in repos with extensions.worktreeConfig set
• Fixed hooks failing with "posix_spawn ENOENT" after the session's working directory was deleted; they now run from the project root or home directory instead
• Fixed claudeMdExcludes not excluding a symlinked .claude/rules file when the pattern names the rules directory or the symlink rather than its target
• Fixed runaway session-title syncing to Remote Control when two Claude Code processes shared one background job's state (2.1.232 regression); title updates are now deduplicated and rate-limited
• Fixed sessions whose title starts with / being unaddressable by SendMessage and shown as "(untitled)" in ListAgents
• Fixed Ctrl+W, Ctrl+U, Ctrl+K, Option+Backspace, Option+D and vim df/dt leaving a broken [Pasted text #N] placeholder when the cursor was inside it
• Fixed masked (password-style) inputs such as the login code field letting their text be pasted back with Ctrl+Y elsewhere or saved to prompt history when cleared with double Esc
• Fixed Ctrl+Backspace deleting one character instead of a word in search boxes
• Fixed a request rejected by an organization policy check being re-sent before the rejection was shown
• Improved the reminder shown after compaction so a skill's original arguments are not re-run as a new request
• Long file paths on tool-use rows now truncate in the middle to stay on one line
• Remote sessions keep sending keep-alives while a long SessionStart or Setup hook runs, so the container is not idle-reaped mid-hook
• /goal: repeat check-ins on long-running background work now back off (30 min, then 1 h, then every 2 h) instead of repeating every 30 minutes
• /goal: resuming a session from the claude --resume picker now restores its active goal
• ListAgents now tells a session its own name (the one peers use to message it), and SendMessage to your own name says so instead of "no agent named …"
• ListAgents and /list-agents now list your live teammates (previously only subagents and other sessions appeared, so a reachable teammate looked absent)
• keybindingFlavor: "readline" now also matches Bash for word keys: Alt+F and Ctrl/Option+→ stop at the end of the word, Alt+D deletes to it (Ctrl+Y pastes it back), and punctuation separates words
• Persistent retry mode (CLAUDE_CODE_RETRY_WATCHDOG) now fails immediately on organization spend-limit and out-of-credits errors instead of waiting indefinitely for a reset
• Claude in Chrome: /clear now closes the session's Chrome tab group, and empty groups are closed on /resume and when Claude Code exits
• Remote sessions: images uploaded from mobile now include their saved file path, so Claude can copy them into files it creates
• Claude Code on the web: requests from Bash and other tools to non-API anthropic.com hosts (e.g. www, docs) now go through the session's network proxy, so your environment's allowed domains apply
• Remote Control: clearer message and claude doctor wording when Remote Control isn't enabled for your account
• Windows: cross-session messaging is now available, so Claude Code sessions across your machines can message each other with SendMessage and find each other with ListAgents, as on macOS and Linux
• [VSCode] "View usage" in the usage-limit banner now sits inline with the warning text instead of floating mid-banner

v2.1.238

What's changed

• Added a keybindingFlavor setting: set it to "readline" to make Ctrl+W in the prompt delete back to the previous whitespace, as in Bash; the default ("classic") is unchanged
• Plugin marketplaces: headersHelper on a url marketplace or a catalog entry runs a command that mints HTTP headers (e.g. a short-lived token) for catalog and same-origin archive fetches
• A catalog entry's headersHelper runs only when you install or update that plugin, after its command is shown; claude plugin install/update ask [y/N] (or pass -y)
• Added claude self-hosted-runner --defer-shutdown-max-min <minutes>: on SIGTERM, keep serving attached sessions, park what is left after that many minutes, then exit
• Added claude self-hosted-runner --proxy-authorization-command / --proxy-authorization-file for egress proxies that require a freshly issued Proxy-Authorization header on every connection
• Fixed unbounded memory growth in long interactive sessions: subagent tool results are now released once they leave the recent display window
• Fixed custom, project, and plugin output styles drifting back to the default voice mid-session
• Fixed CLAUDE_CODE_ENABLE_PROMPT_SUGGESTION=true not keeping prompt suggestions on when your account is near, but not over, its usage limit
• Fixed worktree-isolation Bash refusals telling you to remove a redirect when the command had none
• Fixed self-hosted runners occasionally being removed by the server after a single slow or lost poll request, handing their healthy session to another runner
• Fixed MCP elicitation dialogs showing nothing for URLs longer than 4,096 characters, and permission prompts dropping the "don't ask again" option when the project path didn't fit the terminal width
• Fixed leftover /tmp/claude-*-cwd files when a Bash command is killed, times out, or is interrupted
• Fixed held Backspace being ignored on terminals that send Ctrl+H for Backspace when keystrokes arrive in large bursts (slow SSH/mosh links)
• Fixed text-wrapping in permission prompt diffs: lines containing wide multi-code-point characters (such as emoji) or tabs are no longer clipped
• Fixed killing a suspended (Ctrl+Z) session sometimes leaving the terminal in bracketed-paste mode with the cursor hidden
• Fixed stdio MCP servers receiving a server/discover request before initialize, forcing lazy servers to start their backend on every session open
• Fixed a proxy's refusal of a connection being reported as a generic network error instead of naming the proxy
• Fixed the /model and /effort cache-miss warning appearing when the prompt cache had already expired
• Fixed per-task Stop from the Remote Control tasks panel doing nothing on CLI-hosted sessions
• Fixed remote sessions exiting when a client delivered a user message without a valid role
• Fixed Remote Control sessions started by claude remote-control inheriting session-scoped environment variables from the launching shell
• Fixed a Remote Control session whose process crashed staying unavailable until claude remote-control was restarted; it can now be reused when you next message it
• Fixed Remote Control messages sent from the web or Desktop while Claude is mid-turn disappearing from the transcript after the turn finishes
• Fixed Remote Control model picks made on a phone or web not updating the model shown in the terminal
• Fixed Remote Control disconnecting with "login expired" when a brief network hiccup delays renewing your sign-in; it now retries and stays connected
• Fixed Remote Control reporting a failed reconnect on sign-out; signing out now ends the session with a clear message
• Fixed ListAgents/SendMessage reporting "Remote Control is not connected" in sessions run by claude remote-control (server mode) or Desktop/IDE hosts; they now list and reach Remote Control peers
• Fixed ListAgents and SendMessage exposing the idle worker that the agent view pre-warms for your next background session; it now appears only once a task claims it
• Cross-session messaging: sending to a session on this machine that refuses inbound messages (e.g. crossSessionInbound: "refuse") now reports "refused" to the sender instead of a silent success
• Cross-session messaging: a session whose inbox drops your messages (rate limit or full queue) now tells your session, instead of the messages vanishing silently
• Improved startup: bare claude starts sooner on macOS
• Improved Bash tool permission checking for zsh-specific syntax in shell conditionals
• Improved Remote Control connection resilience: brief HTTP 403 refusals from a network edge, VPN, or proxy are now tolerated for up to 3 minutes, with the refusing party named when a block persists
• Improved startup responsiveness: the automatic update check now runs about 10 seconds after launch instead of competing with startup for CPU
• Updated the bundled claude-api skill for the Managed Agents Aug 19 release: web search/fetch domain settings and memory stores on self-hosted sandboxes
• Changed Ctrl+L and Cmd+K in fullscreen to always just repaint — the double-press /clear shortcut was removed, and 1-row nvim terminals no longer trigger automatic /clear loops
• Changed claude mcp list and claude mcp get to show disabled servers as ⊘ Disabled instead of connecting to them for a health check
• MCP headersHelper in a project .mcp.json, and inline MCP servers in project or --add-dir agent files, now require that folder's trust dialog to have been accepted (also under claude -p)
• MCP headersHelper from a project .mcp.json, plugin, or agent file runs without inherited credential env vars; user, managed and claude.ai-scope helpers now run from the Claude config dir

v2.1.237

What's changed

• Fixed prompt caching for sessions using an LLM gateway or custom base URL
• Added a built-in "Concise" output style: Claude leads with results and skips preamble and narration, while doing the work just as thoroughly. Select it under Output style in /config.

v2.1.236

What's changed

• Added ANTHROPIC_DEFAULT_MODEL environment variable: sets the model new sessions start on, while a /model pick still overrides it and persists across restarts (unlike ANTHROPIC_MODEL)
• Added notify_when_idle to cross-session SendMessage: ask another Claude Code session on this machine to send one notice when it next goes idle — opt-in, one-shot, no polling (macOS and Linux)
• Sandbox: on macOS, wildcard read-deny rules (e.g. **/.env) now take precedence inside allowed read regions, cover matched directories' contents, and can't be bypassed by renaming the denied file
• Fixed clipboard copy, background housekeeping, background sessions, and local MCP logs breaking after the directory a session had switched into was removed (since 2.1.229)
• Fixed the fullscreen renderer failing permanently after a single failed start: it now falls back to the classic renderer instead of exiting on every subsequent launch
• Fixed the /model picker rendering taller than the terminal: it now shows only as many models as fit the window, with the rest reachable by scrolling
• Fixed SendMessage calls being rejected when a malformed closing tag left the message text inside the summary field
• Fixed unhandled promise rejections when a subprocess fails to start, for example powershell.exe on WSL with Windows interop disabled (regression in 2.1.234)
• Fixed fullscreen mode sometimes not showing a newly sent message until the next update after the terminal was resized
• Fixed a blank band that could remain above the prompt after clearing a multi-line prompt, and panes not repainting after resizing the terminal away and back, in fullscreen mode
• Fixed the managed-settings approval prompt sometimes not appearing at startup while still capturing the first keypress as approval
• Fixed terminal tab titles jumping in tmux (iTerm tmux integration): the title is now written only when its text changes instead of animating every 960ms
• Fixed an unclear error when the cloud environments list came back empty or malformed
• Fixed the Fable 5 first-time usage-credits prompt auto-selecting the fallback model after 60 seconds with no answer when using Remote Control
• Fixed spinner tips never appearing, with a repeated background error, when the cached guest-pass reward in ~/.claude.json was malformed
• Fixed skills hot-reload in SDK/VS Code sessions raising an error on every skills change after the session's working directory was deleted (2.1.229+)
• Fixed self-hosted runner sessions released on idle, retire, or startup timeout occasionally resuming on another runner before the post-session hook had finished
• Fixed the Clawd mascot's eyes and feet rendering unevenly in iTerm2 at some font sizes
• Fixed occasional runaway session recaps: recap text (automatic and /recap) is now capped at 400 characters, cut at a word boundary
• Improved startup performance: the session counter is now written in the background
• Improved auto mode: Monitor allow rules are now set aside while auto mode is active, so Monitor commands are reviewed the same way Bash commands are
• Improved auto mode on Bedrock, Vertex AI, and Foundry, and when telemetry is disabled: the classifier now uses the same defaults as on the Claude API, including severity-scored classification
• Improved auto mode: the git status check can no longer be fooled by a repo's status.showUntrackedFiles=no setting into reporting a clean tree
• Changed the /model picker to highlight only the newest model's name, so the highlight marks the new release rather than an arbitrary subset of the list
• /goal: an idle session whose goal is parked behind long-running background work now checks in automatically after 30 minutes (then 1h, 2h) instead of waiting for you to return
• /usage now shows the usage-credits spend row for Team and Enterprise members, and shows a capped row at 0% before anything is spent
• SIGTERM in print/SDK mode no longer records an interrupted turn or synthetic tool denials before exiting; running commands are still terminated and the process still exits with code 143
• Pressing Enter on a slash-command typo or a command unavailable in this session now reports it instead of running the closest fuzzy match; prefixes and aliases still run
• Remote Control now marks a session offline within seconds when the CLI exits or its terminal closes
• SendMessage now refuses further messages to a session up front once a rapid burst would exceed what that session's inbox accepts, instead of reporting them sent while they were dropped
• Aligned the session title chip on the prompt border with the footer's right edge
• Right-aligned footer items (goal indicator, session state, background agent status) and truncated notices now share a consistent right margin with the rest of the prompt area
• [VSCode] Added screen reader support for the transcript: live announcements for replies, permission requests, errors, and status changes, plus per-turn heading navigation

v2.1.235

What's changed

• Added an optional spellcheck setting that underlines misspelled words in the prompt input as you type, using your installed aspell, hunspell, or ispell
• Fixed whole-prompt-cache invalidation when a language server disconnected or reconnected mid-session
• Fixed nested markdown list items misaligning at depth 3+ and added a hanging indent to wrapped list items in the terminal UI
• Fixed prompt input highlights (slash commands, keywords, mentions) appearing shifted by one or more characters in some multi-line prompts
• Fixed Shift+Tab inside the permission prompt's comment field approving the edit and granting session-wide edit permission instead of closing the field
• Fixed the Agent tool advertising a general-purpose default in sessions where that agent is unavailable: an omitted subagent_type there now gets a clear error listing the available agents
• Fixed notebook cell delete/replace approval dialogs silently omitting the existing cell content when the notebook or cell could not be read; the dialog now says why
• Fixed slash commands run while Claude is responding showing HTML entities instead of the actual characters
• Fixed the prompt footer not showing the "Update installed" restart notice after a background auto-update
• Fixed the expanded task list (ctrl+t) always starting collapsed when resuming or relaunching into a session that still has open tasks
• Improved memory and CPU usage while cloud sessions such as /ultrareview or /autofix-pr run in the background — their event streams are no longer re-scanned and re-rendered on every update
• Improved permission dialogs: display text and "don't ask again" options now always match what a grant would cover, and "don't ask again" is withheld when contents cannot be fully displayed
• Improved the embedded grep in native macOS/Linux builds: pathological patterns now fail fast instead of exhausting memory, and -m N with -A/-C prints correct context
• Improved the context-limit error to say when auto-compact is off and point to /config to re-enable it
• Vim mode: NORMAL mode and cursor position are now preserved when toggling the detailed transcript (ctrl+o) or closing a panel
• Dialogs: arrow keys and Enter pressed in quick succession now select the option you navigated to instead of the previously highlighted one
• SendMessage now refuses messages too large for cross-session delivery up front instead of silently dropping them
• Remote Control: claude rc now applies the same enterprise-gateway availability check as interactive startup
• [VSCode] Fixed focus jumping between open Claude tabs on its own when a window with several Claude panels is restored or reloaded

v2.1.234

What's changed

• Added the optional CLAUDE_CODE_PROJECT_DIR_NAME environment variable: hosts that give each session its own config directory can choose a short name for the per-project transcript directory
• Added the selection:clear keybinding action, so a key can be bound to clear an in-app text selection; also works in the agents view
• Added a GitLab merge request badge to the footer and statusline: repos with a GitLab remote and an authenticated glab CLI show MR !N with draft/pending/green states
• Claude Code now continues your session automatically when a claude.ai usage limit resets; turn it off in /config ("Continue automatically at usage limit")
• Claude is now told to use your account email only to identify you, and not to send it to unrelated services unless you ask
• Security: remote file reads, session restore, CLAUDE.md includes, workflow scripts and file uploads now reject Windows NT-namespace (\??\) paths, hardening the remaining pre-approval file accesses against the NTLM credential-leak vector
• Fixed auto mode in very long sessions repeatedly re-checking and denying sandboxed commands' network access after the conversation had been compacted
• Fixed session-scoped permission answers (including denies) being dropped when answering background subagent tool permission prompts
• Fixed a crash when an API response on the non-streaming fallback path (typically via third-party gateways) contained a thinking block missing its thinking field or a text block missing its text field
• Fixed markdown rendering becoming extremely slow for some messages containing unusual Unicode sequences
• Fixed SendMessage rejecting a recipient copied from ListAgents when the session name is at the 200-character cap or emoji-heavy
• Fixed repository detection mis-reading the host of git remotes with unusual userinfo, producing links and repo-specific behavior for the wrong host
• Fixed MCP diagnostics printing resolved secrets: scope-conflict warnings now show the configured ${VAR} form, and connection-failure details show only the server origin
• Fixed strictKnownMarketplaces allowlists accepting SCP-style git marketplace sources whose host differs from the one git would actually connect to
• Fixed modal text such as the /login OAuth URL losing characters when copied in fullscreen
• Fixed a --- horizontal rule in rendered markdown running into the line after it
• Fixed consecutive shell commands splitting into multiple "Ran 1 shell command" rows when todo/task updates were interleaved between them
• Fixed dialogs like /permissions opened while a ! shell command was running being dismissed when the command finished
• Fixed a queued ! shell command being sent to the model as plain text after pressing up-arrow to edit the queued input
• Fixed queued messages reappearing in the prompt history while still queued, Esc while selecting a queued message no longer interrupts the turn, and ! mode no longer sticks after a mid-turn submit
• Fixed accepting the "Try the new fullscreen renderer?" prompt restarting the session without its permission mode (e.g. --dangerously-skip-permissions), tool allow/deny rules, model or effort flags
• Fixed /tui dropping launch --allowed-tools/--disallowed-tools rules when it restarts; it now declines to switch, with the reason, when the session has restrictions a restart can't carry over
• Fixed trust prompts omitting the repository-wide scope warning when the directory was first seen before the repository existed there
• Fixed a case where an IDE diff tab closing during a permission re-prompt could answer the new prompt with the previous input
• Fixed: files sent to the user during Remote Control sessions hosted by Claude Code Desktop or VS Code now upload, so they open on phone and web instead of showing an empty card
• Fixed: after /login while CLAUDE_CODE_OAUTH_TOKEN is set, the stale-token reminder no longer leaks into Claude's automatically resumed turn — it now appears only to you
• Fixed: permission previews now relay only to channel servers admitted by the inbound trust gate, and a server's explicit permission-capability opt-out is honored
• Fixed: credential masking on relayed permission previews can no longer hide commands, paths, or destinations from the approver; oversized private-key blocks now redact under full-strength redaction
• Fixed: provider API tokens that mask on permission previews now mask even when directly followed by shell delimiters
• Fixed Claude Desktop inter-session messages being silently dropped by the recipient session when cross-session messaging read as disabled, which left the sender's query "thinking" for many minutes
• Remote Control: signing this computer in to a different claude.ai account or organization now stops the running session within seconds and says why, instead of a misleading HTTP 404 hours later
• Remote Control sessions started from Claude Code Desktop or VS Code now keep phones and claude.ai/code updated on the session's permission mode (and claude.ai/code on the model) as they change
• Remote Control: effort picks made on a phone or on claude.ai/code now apply to terminal- and Desktop/VS Code-hosted sessions, and the session publishes its effort level to connected clients
• SendMessage and ListAgents now say when your account's session list was too long to check completely, instead of treating unseen sessions as absent
• Expired Anthropic profile credential now points you at /login when a claude.ai login would take precedence
• Improved the transcript: your own prompts now render markdown (highlighted code blocks, inline code, lists) the same way replies do
• Improved the "API returned an empty or malformed response" error to say what came back (content type, body kind, size, request ID) and why the original streaming request failed
• Improved auto-generated session titles to read as short, specific names (e.g. "Login button bug") rather than sentences restating your request (e.g. "Fix the login button on mobile")
• Reduced the context cost of loading the built-in claude-api skill from ~200k+ tokens to ~25k by loading reference docs on demand
• /permissions can now be opened while Claude is working — rule changes apply to the rest of the current turn
• /add-dir <path> can now be used while Claude is working; /add-dir, /autocompact, /theme, /help, /config and /advisor dialogs open mid-turn in the fullscreen TUI
• /goal now clears itself with a notice when a turn dies on an unrecoverable error (e.g. revoked auth, an exhausted credit balance, or a context overflow) instead of staying armed
• /goal: when background tasks keep a goal waiting for 30+ minutes, Claude now checks in on them instead of waiting indefinitely (set CLAUDE_CODE_GOAL_CHECKIN_MINUTES=0 to opt out)
• claude setup-token now rejects unexpected extra arguments instead of silently ignoring them
• Changed Esc in fullscreen mode to no longer clear a mouse text selection: it interrupts or dismisses as usual and the selection stays highlighted
• Removed the redundant "Allowed by auto mode classifier" line that auto mode showed under every Agent tool call
• Removed the "Default teammate model" setting from /config; agent-team teammates now use the leader's model unless the spawn names one
• Dimmed the elapsed-time counter on the running tool header so it no longer competes with the bold counts
• Background task notifications delivered between turns are now sent to the model inside <system-reminder> tags, matching mid-turn delivery
• Mantle: skip the admin-pin availability probe at startup when a main-loop model is already picked
• Windows: startup no longer stalls on repeated rename retries when ~/.claude.json is read-only

v2.1.233

What's changed

• Added GitLab merge request URL support to the --worktree flag and the claude agents view (where MRs display as !N)
• Added an opt-in forward_user_identity apps gateway setting on Anthropic upstreams that sends the signed-in user's identity as headers, so a proxy behind the gateway can attribute spend per user
• Added opt-in memory cgroup support for Bash tool commands on Linux (CLAUDE_CODE_TOOL_MEMORY_LIMIT) so a runaway build can't stall the session
• Added CLAUDE_CODE_WEBFETCH_CACHE_TTL_MS environment variable to configure the WebFetch session URL cache TTL (default unchanged: 15 minutes)
• Fixed cloud sessions occasionally being marked as lost when the environment shut down while Claude was waiting on a permission prompt
• Fixed MCP v2 connections endlessly reopening the subscriptions/listen stream against servers that terminate long-held streams on a fixed timeout (e.g. serverless hosts)
• Fixed Notification hooks not firing for permission prompts when running under Claude Desktop or VS Code
• Fixed idle sessions on Linux sometimes keeping one CPU core at 100% when sandboxing is enabled
• Fixed bundled skill aliases like /checkup and /review reporting "Unknown command" in -p mode or with plugins/MCP loaded when a user or project skill shadows the bundled skill
• Fixed skill/command argument substitution to prevent argument values from being re-expanded as template markers
• Fixed Windows paths spelled with the NT \??\ device prefix bypassing UNC path validation, closing an NTLM credential-leak vector
• Improved claude self-hosted-runner session start time: the session branch is now created without rewriting the working tree, and two server round trips no longer block the agent's launch
• Improved apps gateway error forwarding: 400/413 errors from Vertex, Foundry, and Claude Platform on AWS upstreams now carry the upstream's own message; fixes a bug with auto-compact on apps gateway
• Improved claude plugin validate to check a bare .claude/skills directory, reporting SKILL.md files whose frontmatter fails to parse
• Improved screen reader mode: the /effort selector renders as a numbered list with a typed-number prompt, and hint and dialog text is no longer clipped
• Improved print mode diagnostics: a [claude-code:unrecognized_model] line is written to stderr when a request goes out for a model ID Claude Code doesn't recognize; map it with modelOverrides to silence
• Changed the GitHub app setup tip to no longer appear in repositories whose origin remote is on gitlab.com or bitbucket.org; the enterprise marketplace tip now covers non-GitHub internal git hosts
• Todo/task-tracking tools (TaskCreate/Get/Update/List, TodoWrite) are no longer available on Opus 4.8, Sonnet 5, Fable 5, Mythos 5, and newer models; set CLAUDE_CODE_ENABLE_TODO_TOOLS=1 to bring them back
• Windows: fixed auto mode repeatedly stopping for manual approval on ordinary cd <dir> && <command> > file Bash commands (a 2.1.232 regression)
• Reverted the 2.1.232 Bash permission changes for Cygwin-style symlinks on Windows and for input redirections (< file); a narrower version will return in a later release

v2.1.232

What's changed

• Subagent forking is now on by default: a subagent_type: "fork" subagent inherits the full conversation and prompt cache, and non-teammate agent spawns in interactive sessions now run in the background by default
• Type @ in the prompt to mention another Claude session by name; Claude then uses SendMessage to reach that session directly
• SendMessage now delivers to a bare name that exactly matches one live session, instead of asking to confirm with a ref first
• Interactive sessions on one machine now keep unique names: starting or renaming a session to a name another live session already uses gives it a name-word-word variant and tells you
• Added /config rows for "Dialog expiry" and "Messages from your other sessions" (cross-session inbound accept/hold/refuse)
• Added secret redaction for GitLab token families (glrt-, gloas-, glptt-, glagent-, glimt-, glsoat-, glcbt-, glft-, glffct-) and full redaction of routable glpat-/gldt- tokens; the glab CLI config store gets the same sandbox and credential-path protection as gh
• Added GitLab support to plugin marketplaces: bare gitlab.com repo URLs (including nested subgroups) now clone like github.com URLs, and clone auth-failure hints name your actual git host
• Settings: additionalMarketplaces and allowedMarketplaces are now accepted as friendlier aliases for extraKnownMarketplaces and strictKnownMarketplaces
• Enterprise policy: a url-typed blockedMarketplaces entry for a bare repo URL keeps blocking that URL when the CLI classifies it as a git clone
• Gateway: the desktop: overlay now accepts every released Desktop setting (was 11 hand-listed keys), validated at boot against Desktop's own schema; unknown or invalid keys fail boot
• Gateway: empty managed.policies[].match.groups/admin.admin_groups entries and malformed email_domain values (empty, or containing @, whitespace, or commas) now fail at boot instead of silently matching no one or granting admin access
• Fable 5 is offered as an advisor in /advisor again for organizations with Fable access, with usage-credits consent set up through /model fable
• Fixed a PowerShell permission bypass where variable-writing parameters could silently overwrite $PSDefaultParameterValues and redirect later commands' file access
• Fixed a Windows permission bypass where Git Bash followed Cygwin-style symlinks that path validation saw as regular files; writes through them now require permission approval
• Fixed nested git repositories inheriting trust from a parent directory; each repository now requires its own trust confirmation
• Fixed MCP connections hanging for the full 30-second connect timeout when a server fails to answer or sends a malformed reply to the protocol-version probe
• Fixed Remote Control sessions hosted by a bridge inside a cloud session inheriting that session's transcript or credentials
• Fixed Remote Control sessions started from Claude Desktop or an IDE appearing as a new claude.ai session each time the local session was resumed; they now reattach to the existing one
• Fixed Remote Control sessions appearing unreachable to newly attached clients while idle
• Fixed Remote Control bridge sessions not restoring conversation history when the session worker restarts
• Remote Control: resuming a conversation whose session was deleted from claude.ai or the app now starts a replacement instead of failing with a message about your login (regressed in v2.1.227)
• Fixed Cloud gateway /login exiting silently or leaving an unresponsive terminal after "Press Enter to continue" when managed settings failed to load; the reason is now shown
• Fixed voice mode on native builds getting stuck on "listening…" when the voice service rejected the connection; the rejection is now shown immediately
• Fixed mTLS client certificate rotation requiring a restart; Claude Code now reloads the rotated cert and key automatically on connection errors
• Fixed malformed AWS or Vertex region values being used to build request URLs; they now fall back to the default region
• Fixed stream idle timeout errors failing the request instead of recovering on Bedrock, Vertex, and gateway deployments
• Fixed content-sized overlays containing truncated text rendering one column too wide, and start-truncated text collapsing to an ellipsis
• Fixed a stray garbled character where a long shell-command or agent-description preview was cut off mid-emoji
• Fixed a startup race that could silently unregister a plugin marketplace due to concurrent writes to known_marketplaces.json
• Fixed /update and /tui refusing to restart while work that survives the relaunch was running
• Fixed usage-limit guidance suggesting unavailable slash commands in SDK and remote sessions
• Fixed the consent message for interactive --advisor fable launches, which told you to run /model fable in an interactive session that had just exited
• Improved fullscreen streaming: long sessions stay responsive because the whole conversation is no longer re-normalized on every update
• Improved the managed settings approval dialog: shows endpoint URLs, uses clearer wording for telemetry-only changes, skips routine OpenTelemetry options, and requires approval for server-managed sandbox binary overrides (sandbox.bwrapPath, sandbox.socatPath, sandbox.ripgrep)
• /feedback and /bug now open immediately when invoked while Claude is responding, instead of waiting for the turn to finish
• /plugin install plugin@marketplace now refreshes the marketplace first, so newly published plugins install without a manual marketplace update
• /code-review at high, xhigh, and max effort now runs in a background agent like the other levels
• Pasted and clipboard images are read without blocking the event loop
• Remote Control now keeps reconnecting for about 30 minutes after a network blip and no longer drops after a few blips spread across an hour
• Remote Control: resuming a conversation no longer silently takes Remote Control away from another Claude Code on the same machine that still has it; run /remote-control there to move it
• Updated agent panel: completed subagents hide immediately with a /tasks footer hint, and the "↓ N more" overflow indicator moved left for visibility
• Remote Control: the terminal now says whether a session was taken over by another device, ended from another app, or deleted, and stops suggesting a reconnect that would undo it
• Bash input redirections (< file) are now permission-checked like their argument spellings on all platforms
• Shortened the message shown when resuming a completed background agent
• Cowork sessions no longer inline external @-imports from user-scope memory files
• Hardened the auto-generated cross-session messaging socket directory on shared /tmp: a pre-planted symlink or another user's directory is now refused instead of used
• Hardened the Linux filesystem sandbox against a protected-path bypass
• Changed sandbox.ripgrep to be honored only from user, managed, and --settings settings; project settings can no longer override the sandbox's ripgrep binary
• Removed the startup tip suggesting you create custom subagents, and the matching nudge in the /powerup tour

v2.1.231

What's changed

• Fixed MCP OAuth sign-in failing with a redirect URI mismatch for servers that use a pre-registered OAuth client, such as Slack

v2.1.229

What's changed

• Documented claude remote-control --continue for resuming the most recent Remote Control session
• Added server-supplied Claude Code hook support for self-hosted runner sessions, matching managed-environment behavior
• Added SSE keepalive pings to gateway streaming responses during long thinking pauses, preventing idle-timeout disconnects on Vertex and Bedrock upstreams
• Added plugin marketplace command sources: a local command (e.g. an IDE) prints the plugin directory, which is re-resolved each session and applied without a restart; mode: "link" uses it in place
• ListAgents now marks disconnected Remote Control sessions as offline and labels your cloud sessions as cloud
• Fixed long responses partly disappearing while streaming and being printed twice in the terminal
• Fixed a crash to the error screen (including on --resume of the affected session) when a tool call had a non-string glob, file_path, or command value
• Fixed a RangeError crash when a progress bar or markdown table rendered in a very narrow terminal window (could also crash claude --continue/--resume at startup)
• Fixed a crash on Windows when a tool call or message referenced a file by an extended-length (\\?\) or UNC path
• Fixed auto mode failing on every tool call for users who disable the attribution header via CLAUDE_CODE_ATTRIBUTION_HEADER (direct Anthropic API connections)
• Fixed /model rejecting Sonnet/Opus 1M for claude.ai subscribers using a custom ANTHROPIC_BASE_URL gateway
• Fixed MCP OAuth with strict authorization servers by using 127.0.0.1 instead of localhost in the redirect URI
• Fixed Remote Control clients showing a stuck working spinner after a slash command typed in the laptop terminal
• Fixed the Claude Code Review workflow generated by /install-github-app completing without posting its review on the pull request
• Fixed multi-second UI stalls after editing a file with thousands of IDE diagnostics while the IDE extension is connected
• Fixed one-shot claude plugin commands leaving a stray liveness file that could prevent cleanup of outdated plugin versions
• Fixed dynamic workflows inside CPU-limited containers using the host machine's core count instead of the container's CPU limit
• Fixed a file-watcher handle leak after atomic file replacements, and an uncaught error on Windows when the scheduled-tasks watcher failed on a network or virtual filesystem
• Fixed SDK and --input-format stream-json sessions getting a 400 API error when a whitespace-only message was submitted
• Fixed conversations whose messages alone exceed the API's 32 MB request limit retrying compaction when no images or documents can be stripped; they now fail once with a clear message
• Fixed OpenTelemetry export from Claude Desktop sessions being rejected by the Desktop-managed gateway when that gateway is also the telemetry endpoint
• Fixed self-hosted runner and other remote sessions exiting at startup when managed-mcp.json is deployed and the server delivers MCP servers; those servers are now skipped with a warning
• Fixed self-hosted runner repository preparation hanging on a Git Credential Manager prompt; git now fails fast when credentials are missing
• Improved workflow fan-outs to stagger same-prefix sibling agents so subsequent agents read the cached prompt prefix instead of re-paying it (CLAUDE_CODE_WORKFLOW_PREFIX_STAGGER_MS=0 disables)
• Improved "prompt is too long" errors to explain why automatic compaction could not recover instead of only suggesting /compact
• Improved sandbox: IPv6 literals in network domain lists are now bracketed ([::1]:443), and ambiguous spellings are enforced fail-closed and flagged by /doctor
• Updated /login to repeat the CLAUDE_CODE_OAUTH_TOKEN override warning after a successful login
• Changed /commit-push-pr so git/gh commands with dangerous flags (--force, --amend, --no-verify, etc.) are no longer auto-approved
• Changed self-hosted runner Windows startup to require an explicit --base-dir; there is no default checkout directory on Windows
• [VSCode] "Report a problem" and /bug now open the built-in feedback dialog instead of a retired survey link
• [VSCode] Made the /btw side-question panel resizable by dragging its boundary, in both side-docked and stacked layouts
• [VSCode] Added session groups in the sidebar — right-click to create, rename, or delete; Cmd/Ctrl- or Shift-click to move several sessions at once

v2.1.228

What's changed

• Fixed interactive sessions that could stop redrawing entirely, while the process kept running, after a rare internal layout error
• Fixed git / Git Bash not being found on Windows when Claude Code is launched from a parent folder of the git installation
• Fixed /tui reverting the session to an earlier model when /model had been changed since the last response
• Fixed cross-session messaging sometimes starting without an inbox in the first session after install or upgrade
• Fixed Remote Control /resume while connected leaking the resumed conversation's title or history into the connected session
• Fixed claude self-hosted-runner sessions failing on every fresh runner when the checkout hook fails for a repository the session doesn't push to; that repository is now skipped with a warning
• Fixed self-hosted runners ending sessions in the gap between a background task finishing and the follow-up turn starting
• Fixed session cleanup deleting contents inside a project's memory folder
• Fixed background plugin-cache cleanup deleting a plugin's cache when its only version is a symlinked development checkout
• Fixed a settings-merge issue where a marketplace entry redefined in a higher-precedence settings tier could inherit another tier's custom headers; marketplace entries now merge as whole entries
• Fixed the deferred-tools reminder occasionally being sent to the model twice after a skill invocation
• Hardened skills synced from claude.ai: they no longer shadow local commands or MCP prompts, their descriptions are sanitized and labeled, and on your machine their bodies don't run ! commands or expand @ files
• Improved cross-session messages: the sender and body now display inline instead of a collapsed line, and messages to Remote Control sessions on other machines show your Remote Control session name as the sender
• Improved Vertex AI credential handling: expired or missing Google Cloud credentials now fail within seconds instead of retrying for minutes
• Improved compaction progress: the retry countdown and stall hint now appear during compaction instead of only a progress bar
• Updated terminal title busy-spinner glyphs to reduce tab-bar jitter on some terminals
• Changed the Write tool so newer models can overwrite an existing file they haven't read this session, matching the Edit tool's rules; older models still require the read first
• Removed the outdated note about auto mode sessions costing slightly more from the first-use notice for Pro, Max, and Team plans

v2.1.227

What's changed

• Fixed feature flags being evaluated without the user's subscription tier when a session started with an expired login token, which could wrongly prompt Max plan users to enable usage credits for Fable
• Fixed every Bash command failing under claude-code-action with allowed_non_write_users on GitHub-hosted runners
• Fixed /tui bringing back a conversation that had been rewound to before its first message
• Improved slash-command menu: blue now marks only the selected row, matched characters are bolded instead of recolored, and emoji or accented names keep their glyphs
• Improved performance: fewer event-loop stalls on file-not-found suggestions and at-mention size checks

v2.1.226

What's changed

• Bug fixes and reliability improvements

v2.1.225

What's changed

• Added gateway spend-limit support to Claude Code's usage warning; the limit-reached message now names the cap, its reset time, and the operator's message (requires the gateway on 2.1.225)
• Added a workspace trust prompt to claude agents for untrusted directories, matching the behavior of claude
• Fixed a transient 401 replacing a long-lived CLAUDE_CODE_OAUTH_TOKEN with a stored login's short-lived token, breaking headless sessions until restart
• Fixed MCP OAuth servers on macOS intermittently failing with a burst of 401 errors, as if never authenticated, after a keychain read timed out
• Fixed auto mode counting a safety-filter refusal of its own permission check toward the consecutive-block limit; the action is still denied, but the model is now told to move on rather than retry
• Fixed cross-session messages staying parked without a notice or expiry in headless sessions and during startup
• Fixed conversation history breaking on Remote Control session resume after very large conversations were compacted
• Fixed hovering over a session in another project in the agents list changing the directory the next agent starts in
• Fixed claude self-hosted-runner registering and then failing every session when --base-dir cannot be created or written; it now exits at startup with a clear error
• Fixed Claude Code on the web sessions being misreported as stuck, re-sending a growing event backlog on every reconnect
• Improved Remote Control: photos attached from the Claude app are now shown to Claude directly instead of being read from disk with a separate tool call
• [VSCode] Fixed Focus view folding away the latest to-do list, a pending question's context, and settled answers; thinking-only folds show "Thought for Ns" and re-collapse when their turn completes
• SendMessage can now start a conversation with your Remote Control sessions on other machines by name (ListAgents shows them as name [ref]), instead of only replying after they message you first
• SendMessage: a Remote Control recipient you already confirmed is never swapped for a same-named session on this machine when its own list couldn't be checked

v2.1.224

What's changed

• Added self-hosted environments: claude self-hosted-runner turns your own machines or containers into a place Claude Code web, mobile, and desktop sessions can run, on Team and Enterprise plans
• Added archive plugin source: install plugins from a zip over HTTPS without git or npm, with optional SHA-256 pinning
• Added a cancel-and-confirm step when removing an unavailable paste changes a command's text
• Added ANTHROPIC_BEDROCK_REGION_PREFIX env var for Bedrock to prefer a specific cross-region inference profile over the AWS_REGION-derived one
• Added crossSessionInbound and dialogExpiry settings: cross-session messages sent to a session running with bypassed permissions are held for your approval, and messages to other sessions auto-deliver
• Added sandbox credential-masking options: extract and onExtractNoMatch for structured env values, decode: "jwt" with maskClaims for JWT-aware masking, and awsPairs/sigv4 for AWS SigV4 re-signing; these need network.tlsTerminate and are honored only from user, managed, or --settings settings
• Added cross-session SendMessage: Claude Code sessions can now message each other, on any of your machines, with ListAgents to discover them (macOS and Linux)
• Fixed long (>200 char) project paths resolving to another project's session directory under a shared sanitized prefix; session list, rename, fork, delete and /resume no longer cross projects
• Fixed SendMessage reporting "Message sent" when the write to a teammate's inbox had actually failed; failed deliveries are now reported as errors
• Fixed sandbox filesystem deny entries written with a trailing slash (e.g. denyRead: "~/.aws/") being silently bypassable on Linux and macOS
• Fixed sandbox violation details never appearing in Bash tool results; Claude now sees which file or network access was denied and why
• Fixed MCP tools that connect mid-turn being deferred for tool search without their names announced to the model
• Fixed plugin install records being silently corrupted when the same plugin is installed in multiple projects
• Fixed recalled or restored paste content occasionally attaching wrong data or silently losing text when the paste had aged out or placeholder numbers collided
• Fixed copy-on-select on Wayland sometimes not reaching the clipboard; the two selection writes no longer race
• Fixed the feedback survey's transcript share silently failing on long sessions; a failed share now shows an error instead of a success message
• Fixed Remote Control auto-start intermittently failing with "Remote credentials fetch failed" on a cold start with a stale login token
• Fixed Remote Control and SDK clients showing a blank "(no content)" message after /clear and other output-less commands
• Fixed a Remote Control session recreated after its server session expired uploading prior local conversation history into the new session
• Improved fullscreen mode to keep the full pre-compaction history in scrollback across repeated compactions, instead of only the most recent interval
• Improved Remote Control: attached web and mobile clients now see compaction progress and the post-compaction boundary instead of a silent pause; /clear resets now propagate to attached clients
• Improved Remote Control: connection failures now show a persistent failure indicator with details and a reconnect shortcut, instead of only an 8-second toast
• Removed the 200-subagent-per-session spawn cap; long-running sessions no longer refuse new agents (concurrency and depth limits still apply)
• Changed managed settings: the approval prompt no longer re-appears after re-login or org switching when the organization's settings are unchanged
• Changed the feedback-survey transcript share: with your consent it now also uploads the last request's model settings — the system prompt (which includes your CLAUDE.md instructions), tool definitions, and model parameters. Secrets are redacted as before, and these fields are dropped first if the share is too large
• Changed the Bash tool description to always note that command output is displayed to the model, not reliably to the user
• Changed recalled paste placeholder numbers to renumber when accepted into the input
• Changed Remote Control to archive the stale server session instead of leaving a dead one listed when a fresh session is minted after compaction or /resume
• [VSCode] Fixed the extension showing Remote Control as connected after the connection failed
• Fixed a session resume silently reconnecting Remote Control after the user turned it off (--resume, SDK hosts, and the VS Code extension)
• [VSCode] Fixed sessions not honoring remoteControlAtStartup when explicitly enabled

v2.1.223

What's changed

• Added owner wildcard entries ("owner/*") to the strictKnownMarketplaces and blockedMarketplaces managed settings for allowing or blocking all marketplace repos under a GitHub org
• Added a warning when workflow agents, forked skills, slash commands, or resumed background agents' requested subagent model is restricted and the parent model runs instead
• Added a /teleport hint in cloud sessions showing how to continue locally with claude --teleport <session id>
• Fixed a Bash permission bypass where a crafted command could hide parts of itself from permission checks
• Fixed permission prompts so commands padded with tabs or invisible Unicode can no longer hide part of the command from the approval dialog
• Fixed workflow scripts being able to use dynamic import() to run code outside the workflow sandbox
• Fixed a permission gap where an agent definition's bypassPermissions mode ignored the org bypass-permissions disable policy
• Fixed resuming a session after a mid-session /cd coming back empty
• Fixed gateway model discovery hiding Claude models registered under provider-prefixed IDs such as vertex_ai/claude-* or bedrock/anthropic.claude-*
• Fixed modelOverrides keys that aren't Anthropic model IDs being treated as the session's canonical model ID; unknown keys are now ignored as documented
• Fixed managed settings: server-delivered settings no longer disable the env block of a machine-local managed-settings.json or MDM profile; admin env now merges per key
• Fixed sandboxed commands failing to start on Linux when sandbox.filesystem.denyWrite covers the working directory
• Fixed forked background agents getting stuck "already resuming" for the rest of the session when rebuilding the fork's parent prompt failed during resume
• Fixed a resumed session failing every turn, or leaving the interactive app on an unresponsive error screen, when its history held a malformed diagnostics attachment
• Fixed a rare hang when parsing unusual git push output
• Changed CLAUDE_CODE_DISABLE_1M_CONTEXT to hold every Claude model with a native 1M window to 200K via auto-compaction, not just a fixed list; a startup warning now appears when auto-compaction isn't holding the session to 200K
• Changed auto-compact to keep sessions on unrecognized model IDs within the assumed context window instead of letting them grow past it; set CLAUDE_CODE_DISABLE_UNKNOWN_MODEL_WINDOW_ENFORCEMENT=1 to restore the previous behavior
• Changed /review to be an alias of /code-review, which reviews the current diff or a PR (/code-review <level> <pr#>); use /code-review ultra for a deep cloud review
• Changed /code-review with no effort level to reuse the level you typed last; type a level like /code-review high to change it

v2.1.222

What's changed

• Fixed worktree-isolated sessions and their subagents being able to run destructive git commands against the main checkout; isolation now applies to file edits and Bash in every session type
• Fixed PreToolUse auto-allow hooks bypassing tool restrictions in background agent tasks (summaries, compaction, renames)
• Fixed /usage-credits on Team and Enterprise showing "you've already sent a usage credit request" for members whose earlier request was dismissed, blocking them from sending a new one
• Fixed the startup connectivity check hanging and then failing behind an HTTPS proxy; it now uses the same proxy-aware transport as API requests and times out with a clear message
• Fixed "Connection closed mid-response" errors being reported on responses that had actually completed
• Fixed /usage overattributing usage to MCP servers: a server's share now reflects only the requests that actually consumed its tool results, instead of every turn after any call to it
• Fixed sessions not linking to pull requests created after the branch was pushed, including through the GitHub REST API
• Fixed org-restricted model: opus-style subagent and teammate family aliases dropping to the parent model instead of stepping down to the newest org-allowed model in the family
• Fixed stream idle timeout firing on custom ANTHROPIC_BASE_URL gateways despite server keep-alive pings arriving on the wire
• Fixed claude.ai connectors being falsely marked as needing authorization when the session token is invalid — they now show a /login hint instead
• Fixed tool errors not being displayed for tools no longer available locally, for example after an MCP server is removed
• Fixed SendMessage rejecting a long summary — it now truncates instead, so sends no longer fail on a character limit
• Fixed the spinner's effort label in a subagent's transcript view showing the session's effort level instead of the subagent's own effort: setting
• Fixed rare crashes when a file watcher hit a filesystem error or during file-watcher teardown
• Fixed screen readers re-reading the whole input line on every backspace in --ax-screen-reader mode — end-of-line deletions now echo just the deleted characters
• Fixed host model-selection keys not taking precedence over a stale on-disk managed-settings.json when CLAUDE_CODE_PROVIDER_MANAGED_BY_HOST is set
• Improved auto mode safety: messages sent to other agent sessions via SendMessage are now evaluated by the permission classifier before dispatch
• Improved the refusal when Claude tries to invoke a skill with disable-model-invocation: Claude is now told to ask you to run the skill instead of replicating its workflow
• Improved the /diff view, the Remote Control workspace diff, and file-edit diffs in Claude Code on the web sessions to use raw git blob content, ignoring workspace-configured diff drivers and textconv
• Changed Remote Control auto-start so repo-local settings (.claude/settings.json or .claude/settings.local.json) can no longer turn it on (they can still turn it off); enable it at user scope via /config
• Removed ultraplan feature

v2.1.221

What's changed

• [VSCode] Added Focus view: a chat-menu toggle that hides tool activity behind an expandable per-turn summary with a live running-tool indicator, toggled with Ctrl+Alt+F or the "Claude Code: Toggle Focus view" command
• Added mode: "mask" for sandbox credential files on Linux and WSL — sandboxed commands read a sentinel copy (the whole file, or just the spans captured by an extract regex) while the sandbox proxy substitutes the real value on egress; on macOS file masking falls back to deny
• Added warnings to claude plugin validate when a marketplace or plugin name would be rejected by Claude Desktop's managed marketplace sync
• Added a prompt-audit subcommand to the claude-api skill for auditing prompts and tool descriptions for patterns written for older models
• Fixed a Bash tool permission-check bypass where zsh could execute hidden commands in [[ ]] regex conditionals; affected commands now prompt for permission
• Fixed PowerShell permission checks mishandling paths containing quote characters on Windows; such paths now prompt for approval
• Fixed the thinking toggle having no effect for the rest of a session that started with thinking off; disabling an MCP server mid-connect no longer silently reverts
• Fixed MCP servers from --mcp-config not being connected before the first turn in print mode (-p), which made the model emit tool calls as literal text
• Fixed @-mentioned files being silently dropped when pressing Esc to retract a prompt and resubmitting it
• Fixed a crash when preparing API requests for SDK MCP tools named after built-in object properties such as constructor
• Fixed WebSearch failing with a 400 error at effort xhigh/max when thinking is disabled
• Fixed sandboxed large uploads failing with TLS errors through the sandbox proxy
• Fixed Team and Enterprise spend-limit message incorrectly blaming the org's monthly limit instead of your individual spend limit
• Fixed Bedrock authentication with AWS SSO named profiles failing in desktop-managed sessions on Windows machines that set a stray HOME environment variable
• Fixed CLAUDE_CODE_RESUME_INTERRUPTED_TURN=0 not disabling interrupted-turn auto-resume; falsy values are now honored
• Fixed a rare wake-from-sleep race where two Claude Code processes could both refresh the same MCP connector or WIF OAuth token at once, forcing re-authentication
• Fixed renaming a session from Claude Code Desktop or claude.ai not updating the CLI's session name; session names from every rename surface are now sanitized
• Fixed plugin- and org-delivered skills named after terminal-only built-ins (e.g. /help, /feedback) being un-invocable in non-interactive sessions
• Fixed the "Plugins changed" notification lingering after plugins were reloaded instead of clearing
• Fixed Vim mode: the yank register now survives dialogs, history search, and the transcript view instead of being silently emptied
• Fixed Vim mode: undoing back to an empty prompt now arms the "press ← again" confirm before returning to the agent view
• Improved tool search on Google Vertex AI: re-enabled for Claude 4.5-generation and newer models
• Improved auto mode: permission checks for parallel tool calls are now cache-efficient, and switching modes while a check is pending reliably prompts instead of applying the stale result
• Reduced prompt-cache costs for auto-mode permission checks by reusing the cached conversation prefix across decisions
• Improved Stats panel to count cache tokens in its token totals, with a breakdown by input, output, cache read, and cache write
• Improved /ultrareview error messages when a repo shares no history with its base: a checkout with no branches is now refused up front with advice to create one, and refusal hints no longer suggest git fetch --unshallow on clones that are already complete
• Improved Windows startup: process creation times are now read via a native kernel32 call instead of spawning PowerShell, so endpoint security tools that gate powershell.exe no longer prompt
• Changed background sessions to commit and push to preserve work, open a draft PR only when the task calls for one, follow your CLAUDE.md git instructions, and always end by reporting where the work lives
• Changed /plugin install to refresh a stale marketplace catalog and retry before reporting a plugin not found
• Changed plugins installed from /plugin to activate immediately when safe, instead of always requiring /reload-plugins
• Changed plugins to accept "." as a skills path, and the root-level SKILL.md validation error now suggests using the plugin root
• Changed /status to show the session kind: interactive, or a background job that is attached or unattended
• Changed emoji autocomplete to accept common alternate shortcodes like :thumbsup:, :thumbsdown:, and :love:
• Changed sessions forked with /fork to create a new worktree of their own instead of working in the original session's checkout
• Changed Claude in Chrome to close the browser tabs it opens once it no longer needs them
• Changed fast mode to report on the stream when usage credits run out mid-session, instead of failing silently
• Changed Monitor: a watch that exits without producing any output now says so instead of reporting "stream ended"
• Changed the Gateway model field validation: non-string values are rejected with a 400 instead of being forwarded
• Removed the repeated "Permission mode changed while the auto-mode classifier call was queued" notice from approval prompts

v2.1.220

What's changed

• Bug fixes and reliability improvements

v2.1.219

What's changed

• Added Claude Opus 5 (claude-opus-5), now the default Opus model — 1M context, fast mode at $10/$50 per Mtok
• Added sandbox.network.strictAllowlist setting to deny non-allowlisted hosts for sandboxed commands without prompting
• Added DirectoryAdded hook that fires after /add-dir or the SDK register_repo_root control request registers a new working directory mid-session
• Added mcp_server_errors to the headless stream-json init event, listing --mcp-config entries skipped by config validation; terminal runs print a startup warning
• Added the workflowSizeGuideline settings key so the advisory Dynamic workflow size guideline can be set from any settings file; the /config row is hidden while one does
• Added nested subagent forwarding in stream-json: subagents spawned at depth-2+ now appear when --forward-subagent-text is set, keyed by their spawning Agent tool_use id
• Fixed claude -p text output dropping the answer already produced when a turn dies on a mid-stream API error
• Added HTTP status and error text to claude mcp list and /mcp when a server fails to connect, and a warning for MCP config values with hidden leading or trailing whitespace
• Fixed a permission you approved while a self-hosted runner was restarting being dropped when the session resumed, so the approved action now runs
• Fixed the Fable model row showing "Requires usage credits" for plans that include it, when a stale cache had baked the label in
• Fixed a SIGTERM arriving while a self-hosted runner was starting up leaving a stale active row until the lease expired; it now deregisters cleanly
• Added structured failure categories to self-hosted runner spawn and session failures, so hook errors, runner crashes and config errors can be told apart
• Fixed the /model picker showing the merged Opus row as plain "Opus" instead of "Opus (1M context)"
• Fixed copy-on-select inside GNU screen printing base64 into the terminal instead of copying the selection
• Fixed Remote Control clients keeping a stale fast-mode status after a model switch, reconnect, or failed org check
• Fixed CLAUDE_CODE_GIT_BASH_PATH on Windows exiting or being used as bash when the path isn't a bash/sh binary; it's now ignored with a warning
• Fixed Vim mode: pressing ← on an empty prompt now returns to the agent view from NORMAL mode, not just INSERT
• Fixed screen-reader mode rewriting the entire input line on every keystroke instead of echoing only the typed character
• Improved the "Remote Control is only available via api.anthropic.com" error to name the specific setting that caused it
• Improved claude --teleport to show which repo your current checkout points at when it doesn't match the session's repo
• Changed dynamic workflows to default to a medium size guideline (aim for fewer than 15 agents); pick another size or unrestricted with Dynamic workflow size in /config
• Changed managed MCP allowlist/denylist ${VAR} entries to resolve from the startup environment and managed-settings env instead of settings-file env
• Changed the /model picker to highlight only the newest model's name, so the highlight marks the new release rather than an arbitrary subset of the list
• Added the current default workflow size to the running-workflow status line, with a pointer to /config for changing it
• Removed Opus 4.7 from fast mode; /fast now applies to Opus 5 and Opus 4.8
• Updated the claude-api skill to default to Claude Opus 5, with a migration path from Opus 4.8
• Subagents can now spawn nested subagents up to depth 3 by default (was 1); set CLAUDE_CODE_MAX_SUBAGENT_SPAWN_DEPTH=1 to disable nesting

v2.1.218

What's changed

• Changed /code-review to run as a background subagent, so review work no longer fills your conversation and keeps stacked slash commands as its review target
• Added screen-reader announcements of deleted text for word and line deletions (Option+Delete, Ctrl+W, Cmd+Backspace, Ctrl+U, Ctrl+K) in --ax-screen-reader mode
• Fixed Windows paths with \u-prefixed segments (like C:\Users\unicorn) being corrupted into CJK characters in tool inputs, which made those files inaccessible
• Fixed the left arrow key discarding the conversation with no undo: presses right after editing now ask to confirm, and Esc in the agent view returns to the conversation it backgrounded
• Added HTTP status and error text to claude mcp list and /mcp when a server fails to connect, and a warning for MCP config values with hidden leading or trailing whitespace
• Fixed multi-line paste collapsing into one line with j in place of newlines in terminals that encode pasted newlines as Ctrl+J
• Fixed /context reporting stale pre-compact token usage after compacting from the message picker
• Fixed /ultrareview failing on descriptive arguments like "review my auth changes" — they now run a review of your current branch with the text applied as a note to the findings
• Fixed /code-review ultra silently running a local review in non-interactive sessions — it now launches the cloud review
• Fixed gateway spend metering to price Bedrock application-inference-profile ARNs and other config-mapped upstream model IDs at the configured model's rates
• Fixed mojibake when a long IDE selection was truncated mid-emoji, and a case where a tool executor error could be silently dropped
• Fixed an engine teardown race that could start and abandon a phantom turn, and made input pushed after close consistently rejected
• Fixed spurious "[Request interrupted by user]" messages after interrupted tool calls, and an unpaired tool_use block left in the transcript when a tool aborted mid-response
• Fixed VoiceOver reading "new line" instead of echoing the typed space at the end of the input in --ax-screen-reader mode
• Fixed plugin and settings panels not moving the terminal cursor to the focused row, so screen readers and magnifiers can follow arrow-key navigation
• Fixed crashes (maximum call stack exceeded) when a deeply nested watched directory tree was deleted or moved, and when rendering deeply nested UI trees
• Fixed pull request events occasionally being lost when a session exited immediately after creating or linking a PR
• Fixed the Bedrock setup wizard failing profile verification for assume-role profiles in partitioned AWS regions and on proxy-only networks
• Fixed rare negative or incorrect turn duration measurements after a system clock adjustment by timing turns with a monotonic clock
• Fixed the "N MCP servers need authentication" startup notice over-counting claude.ai connectors that aren't connected in claude.ai
• Fixed prompt history entries being dropped or duplicated when history writes raced or failed
• Fixed a retry loop that re-sent identical doomed requests after a context-overflow error with a large thinking budget; Ctrl+B backgrounding now applies the same background-shell caps as other paths
• Fixed agent frontmatter hooks running from untrusted folders: hooks now require the agent file's own folder to have accepted workspace trust
• Fixed fork-session lineage being lost after compaction in headless and SDK sessions
• Fixed a resumed session failing every turn, or crashing on resume, when its history held a malformed delta attachment
• Improved /ultrareview error feedback so Claude can correct an invalid argument instead of retrying it unchanged
• Improved auto mode: the dangerous-rm, background-&, and suspicious-Windows-path checks no longer open permission dialogs; the auto-mode classifier adjudicates them instead
• Improved sandbox command restrictions for IDE interactions
• Improved trust dialogs to name the repository root the grant covers
• Changed /deep-research to start only when invoked manually; Claude no longer launches it on its own
• Changed plan mode with auto to no longer prompt for Bash commands the static analyzer can't prove read-only; the auto-mode classifier judges them instead
• Added an announcement when fast mode changes as a result of switching models via /config model=<x> or Remote Control
• Changed server-managed settings so benign feature and cost toggles no longer trigger the settings-approval prompt
• Changed agent markdown files to reject agent names containing :, which is reserved for plugin namespacing
• Changed skills with context: fork to run in the background by default; opt out per skill with background: false
• Added yes/no/on/off/1/0 (case-insensitive) as accepted values for skill and plugin frontmatter booleans, alongside true/false
• Fixed remote sessions continuing to send heartbeats after their worker was replaced, which left long-lived desktop and IDE processes retrying a rejected request every few seconds forever

v2.1.217

What's changed

• Added emoji shortcode autocomplete in the prompt input: type :heart: to insert ❤️, or :hea for suggestions — disable with the emojiCompletionEnabled setting
• Added warnings when transcript writes are failing (e.g. disk full) or when session saving is off due to an inherited environment variable, instead of losing transcripts silently
• Fixed a memory leak where truncated MCP tool outputs kept the full untruncated result in memory for the rest of the session
• Fixed Windows auto-update failures that could leave claude.exe missing; failed updates now restore the preserved executable automatically
• Fixed background session isolation not canonicalizing symlinked working directories, which could let sessions escape their workspace folder
• Fixed auto-compact never triggering for Claude Opus 4.8 on Bedrock and /compact failing once over the limit
• Fixed corporate mTLS, TLS-verify, OAuth scope, and proxy settings being ignored in Claude Desktop sessions
• Fixed screen reader mode's startup announcement being cut off by the first prompt render, and the thinking status row re-rendering every few seconds to update elapsed time and token counts
• Fixed managed settings that set OTEL_EXPORTER_OTLP_ENDPOINT not governing all signals — lower-scope signal-specific overrides no longer redirect telemetry away from the managed endpoint
• Fixed --resume/--continue and /resume failing with a TypeError when a transcript has a malformed attachment entry
• Fixed Remote Control sessions not showing a pending permission prompt or dialog to viewers that connected after it appeared
• Fixed background shells sometimes becoming impossible to stop after a session is sent to the background (/background or ←) or when the session exits on a heavily loaded machine, most visible on Windows
• Fixed a CLAUDE.md or SKILL.md paths frontmatter value with many brace groups OOM-killing or stalling the CLI at startup — brace expansion is now budget-bounded
• Fixed the transcript preview sitting flush against the input area when attaching to a starting background session; it now leaves the same one-line gap as the live layout, so the transcript no longer shifts when the session takes over
• Improved footer PR badge links to be clickable hyperlinks even when terminal support can't be detected (e.g. over ssh/tmux); set FORCE_HYPERLINK=0 to opt out
• Changed the login-expiry warning to appear 3 days before expiry instead of 5
• Capped the frontend-design plugin suggestion tip at 3 lifetime impressions instead of repeating indefinitely
• Added a cap on concurrently-running subagents (default 20, override with CLAUDE_CODE_MAX_CONCURRENT_SUBAGENTS) so one message can't fan out unbounded background agents
• Changed subagents to no longer spawn nested subagents by default; set CLAUDE_CODE_MAX_SUBAGENT_SPAWN_DEPTH to allow deeper nesting
• Fixed --max-budget-usd not stopping background subagents: once the cap is reached, new spawns are denied and running background agents are halted

v2.1.216

What's changed

• Added sandbox.filesystem.disabled setting to skip filesystem isolation while keeping network egress control
• Fixed a slowdown in long sessions where message normalization cost grew quadratically with the number of turns, causing multi-second stalls and slow resumes
• Fixed auto mode denying commands with "HTTP 401" classifier errors after the OAuth token expired or rotated mid-session
• Fixed AskUserQuestion telling Claude to continue even when your answer asked it to wait or explain first — free-text answers now get neutral wording
• Fixed Claude Code on the web re-asking the same question and dropping your answer after the session sat idle for a few minutes
• Fixed @-mentions silently attaching nothing after file-modifying hooks, vim dot-repeat of c-operators and paste, statusline running twice on resume, and resume-picker hangs on failure
• Fixed resumed background agent sessions reverting to the default agent: the agent's prompt and tool restrictions are now restored
• Fixed worktree-isolated subagents redirecting git into the shared checkout via git -C, --git-dir, or GIT_DIR/GIT_WORK_TREE
• Fixed worktree sessions landing in another project's leftover worktree when the working directory did not match the selected project
• Fixed background sessions whose worktree has no git repository being undeletable
• Fixed claude daemon stop --any potentially terminating an unrelated process via a stale legacy daemon lockfile
• Fixed Esc-Esc at an idle prompt not opening the rewind picker in long-running sessions with background tasks
• Fixed Bash command permission checking for compound statements with redirects inside && lists or negations
• Fixed pressing Ctrl+X twice in the agent list failing to delete a session, and deleted sessions reappearing when their background worker had died
• Fixed background subagents getting cancelled when a high-priority message arrives during their startup window
• Fixed mouse and focus garbage in the terminal while a GUI editor from /memory, /plan, /keybindings, or Ctrl+G is open; /memory no longer waits for the editor to close
• Fixed Claude-in-Chrome 403-looping on reconnect when the session's OAuth token lacks a required scope
• Fixed workflow saves and scheduled-task writes following a symlink at .claude, which could redirect writes outside the project
• Fixed MCP re-authenticate revoking working credentials before the new sign-in succeeds, and the reconnect needs-auth message in background sessions pointing at an unusable command
• Fixed read-only commands on Windows accessing network paths without a permission prompt
• Fixed Bash command parsing of non-ASCII characters to match real shell word boundaries
• Fixed PowerShell tool permission validation of commands containing invisible Unicode characters
• Fixed dialogs in fullscreen mode stretching past the right-hand edge of their panel
• Fixed the /config settings list in fullscreen mode clipping its keyboard-hint footer
• Fixed the transcript-mode (Ctrl+O) footer hint wrapping on terminals narrower than 104 columns
• Fixed the Prometheus metrics endpoint (OTEL_METRICS_EXPORTER=prometheus) emitting invalid # UNIT lines
• Fixed skills and commands changed during a session not appearing in the slash menu until restart
• Fixed plugin skills with a name frontmatter field losing their plugin prefix in slash-command autocomplete
• Fixed telemetry misreporting permission denials: failed permission-prompt requests no longer count as user rejections, and user interrupts are now reported as user aborts instead of rejections
• Improved the /fork confirmation to one line with the new session's name, claude attach id, and a note when the copy shares your checkout
• Improved validation of git and gh command arguments in the PowerShell tool
• Improved the /ultrareview diff-too-large error to show configured limits, measured diff size, and largest contributing files
• Improved /code-review ultra empty-diff message to name the exact base ref and suggest passing an explicit base
• Improved the spend limit adjustment prompt to show the server's reason when a spend limit change is rejected
• /context now shows an explicit warning when the conversation exceeds the context window, and a failed /compact displays as an error
• /rewind no longer restores or deletes files through symlinks or hard links at tracked paths and reports how many paths it skipped
• Background sessions: /mcp and /install-github-app now park a "needs input" request in the agent view when no client is attached
• Updated the bundled dataviz skill: reordered the default chart palette and fixed guidance that suggested direct labels for four-series charts
• [VSCode] Fixed right-to-left text (Arabic, Hebrew, Persian) rendering in the wrong order when mixed with English or code
• Fixed cloud sessions dropping the in-flight message when the session's container restarts mid-turn — the interrupted turn now re-runs on resume instead of leaving the session unresponsive

v2.1.215

What's changed

• Claude no longer runs the /verify and /code-review skills on its own; invoke them with /verify or /code-review when you want them

v2.1.214

What's changed

• Fixed single-segment dir/** allow rules like Edit(src/**) auto-approving writes to nested dir/ directories anywhere in the tree instead of only <cwd>/dir
• Fixed a permission-check bypass affecting commands run in Windows PowerShell 5.1 sessions
• Fixed Bash permission checks to fail closed on file-descriptor redirect forms that bash parses differently than the permission analyzer
• Fixed Bash permission checks misjudging very long commands — commands over 10,000 characters now always prompt instead of running automatically
• Fixed Bash permission checks treating zsh variable subscripts and modifiers in [[ ]] comparisons as inert text — these commands now prompt for approval
• Fixed Bash permission checks to no longer auto-approve certain help and man commands that could run unsafe options, command substitutions, or backslash paths
• Fixed permission prompts on remote sessions that could proceed before the local confirmation dialog
• Added the EndConversation tool: Claude can end sessions with highly abusive users or jailbreak attempts, as on claude.ai since 2025 — see https://www.anthropic.com/research/end-subset-conversations
• Added a periodic progress heartbeat for long-running tool calls that previously went silent
• Added an ISO modified timestamp to memory file frontmatter
• Added message.uuid, client_request_id, and tool_source attributes to OpenTelemetry log events for message-level correlation and tool provenance
• Added CLAUDE_CODE_OTEL_CONTENT_MAX_LENGTH to configure the 60 KB truncation limit on OpenTelemetry content attributes
• Added reasoning effort to the subagentStatusLine payload, so custom agent rows can render model and effort
• Added permission prompts for docker commands (including the Podman docker shim) carrying daemon-redirect flags (--url, --connection, --identity, and Podman's remote mode) that previously ran without one
• Fixed a crash when a GrowthBook feature evaluates to null, and a bug where a malformed flag payload could wipe the cached feature flags
• Fixed Bash tool killing the Claude session when a pkill -f pattern accidentally matched the CLI's own process (Linux)
• Fixed unbounded memory growth when --settings points at a device file or multi-GB file; oversized (>2 MiB) settings files now fail at startup with a clear error
• Fixed streaming turns failing with "Socket is closed" behind corporate proxies on Windows
• Fixed stream-json output truncation at exit for slow-reading SDK/pipeline consumers; the exit drain now scales with queued bytes instead of a flat 2s cap
• Fixed scheduled tasks refusing their own configured prompt as untrusted input — the fired prompt is now delivered as the session's assigned task
• Fixed PowerShell tool commands hanging until timeout when a child process waited on standard input (Windows)
• Fixed Python scripts under the PowerShell tool crashing with UnicodeDecodeError when reading non-UTF-8 data from standard input (Windows)
• Fixed Python scripts run via the PowerShell tool crashing with UnicodeEncodeError on non-ASCII output, and PowerShell 7 error messages containing raw ANSI escape sequences (Windows)
• Fixed the PowerShell tool reporting where.exe, fc.exe, and diff.exe as errors when they return a valid negative answer (Windows)
• Fixed > and >> under the PowerShell tool on Windows PowerShell 5.1 writing UTF-16LE files that other tools couldn't read as UTF-8
• Fixed a displaced background daemon deleting its successor's control socket on shutdown, which made the next client kill the healthy replacement daemon
• Fixed background sessions parked with ← or /background and left idle keeping the background daemon and a worker process alive indefinitely
• Fixed completed background sessions being impossible to remove via claude rm or the agent view once the background service had gone idle
• Fixed background sessions dispatched from a non-git folder being impossible to delete from the agents view
• Fixed reopening a stopped background session failing to restore its saved conversation when an unreadable folder exists in the session store
• Fixed the Remote Control "session ready" push notification firing for sessions where Remote Control was not explicitly enabled
• Fixed /install-github-app and the /mcp settings menu being blocked in agent-view sessions — they're now refused only in background sessions with no terminal attached
• Fixed plugins enabled via the --settings CLI flag not loading (regression since v2.1.181)
• Fixed feature flags going stale in long-running sessions after the OAuth token rotates
• Fixed /ultrareview refusing to run in repos with no merge base — it now offers to review all tracked files
• Fixed claude update and claude doctor hanging silently, and the /status System diagnostics section going blank, when a shell-config path is a directory
• Fixed memory frontmatter values being silently truncated at an inline # when memory files are saved
• Fixed session cost and token telemetry double-counting on streams that emit multiple cumulative message_delta frames
• Fixed a spurious "check your network" warning that appeared while the advisor was thinking
• Fixed hooks with exit code 2 not blocking as documented when the hook's stdout JSON fails schema validation
• Fixed OTel log events emitted outside the turn's async context missing the interaction span's trace context
• Fixed MCP transient errors during prompts/resources refresh clearing the server's slash commands and resources
• Improved the claude rc workspace-trust error in the home directory to say trust there is never saved and to suggest running from a project directory
• Changed single-segment dir/** hook if: conditions to match only <cwd>/dir; write **/dir/** for any-depth matching. deny/ask permission rules keep their any-depth match.
• Changed file commands using -m/--magic-file or -f/--files-from to require permission instead of being auto-allowed as read-only
• Changed keep-alive connection pooling to disable after a stale-connection error, so retries open a fresh socket
• Changed SessionStart hooks to report source "fork" when a session begins as a fork instead of "resume"

v2.1.212

What's changed

• /fork now copies your conversation into a new background session (its own row in claude agents) while you keep working; the in-session subagent it used to launch is now /subtask
• Added claude auto-mode reset to restore the default auto-mode configuration, with a confirmation prompt (pass --yes to skip)
• Added a session-wide limit on WebSearch tool calls (default 200, tunable via CLAUDE_CODE_MAX_WEB_SEARCHES_PER_SESSION) to stop runaway search loops
• Added a per-session cap on subagent spawns (default 200, override with CLAUDE_CODE_MAX_SUBAGENTS_PER_SESSION) to stop runaway delegation loops; /clear resets the budget
• MCP tool calls running longer than 2 minutes now move to the background automatically so the session stays usable; configure the threshold or disable with CLAUDE_CODE_MCP_AUTO_BACKGROUND_MS
• Typing /resume in the agent view now opens a picker of past sessions — including sessions deleted from the list — and resumes your pick as a background session
• Fixed plan mode auto-running file-modifying Bash commands (e.g. touch, rm) without a permission prompt or SDK canUseTool callback
• Fixed worktree creation following a repository-committed symlink at .claude/worktrees, which could create files outside the repository
• Fixed a continue:false hook's halt being dropped when the tool fails or completes mid-stream, and hook infrastructure errors being misreported as user rejections
• Fixed SIGTERM during a running Bash tool orphaning the command's process tree in print/SDK mode; the CLI now aborts the turn, kills the tree, and exits 143
• Fixed /background and claude --bg failing with "EUNKNOWN: unknown error, uv_spawn" on Windows when Group Policy blocks PowerShell 5.1; the daemon now prefers PowerShell 7
• Fixed shell mode (!) not executing commands containing file paths while the path autocomplete popup was open
• Fixed auto-mode denial notifications rendering broken characters when a long denial reason was truncated mid-emoji
• Fixed Ctrl+J not inserting a newline in the agent view dispatch input on terminals with extended key reporting, and surfaced the newline shortcut in the ? help overlay
• Fixed /ultrareview rejecting PR references like #123, PR 123, and pasted PR URLs; error hints now name the command you actually typed
• Fixed /ultrareview <branch> not fetching the branch from origin when it exists remotely; it now suggests the closest branch name on typos
• Fixed /ultrareview skipping the billing confirmation in a new conversation after /clear
• Fixed /ultrareview's "not a git repository" error on Claude Desktop now suggesting the project's repository folder instead of terminal commands
• Fixed hosted (host-managed) sessions failing at startup when repository settings configured mTLS certs, extra CA bundles, or OAuth scopes; these transport settings are now ignored with a warning
• Fixed a spurious "File has not been read yet" error when editing a file that had been read with offset/limit before resuming a session
• Fixed ExitWorktree failing with "no active EnterWorktree session" after resuming a session with --continue/--resume in print/SDK mode
• Fixed the workflow agent grid staying empty for Remote Control clients that join a session mid-run
• Fixed streaming-mode control requests being marked complete before their handler finished, which could lose the request on session restart
• Fixed background sessions created with /fork losing their live-parent protection after a state write failure
• Fixed reopening a stopped background session from the agent view failing silently — it now resumes the session, or shows why it can't and lets you force a restart
• Fixed agent teams: a stopping teammate could send the leader duplicate idle notifications when team initialization re-ran within a session
• Fixed the plan-approval dialog footer splitting "ctrl+g to edit in " apart when the file path is long
• Fixed the welcome banner keeping its old panel widths after a combined width+height terminal resize in fullscreen mode
• Fixed diff previews losing their line numbers and +/- markers in narrow layouts
• Fixed @-mentions attaching nothing after a partial file read, plugin uninstall targeting the wrong marketplace, and false "Command timed out" on exit code 143
• Fixed OpenTelemetry HTTP exports being rejected with 411/400 by Azure Monitor and other endpoints that don't accept chunked transfer encoding
• Fixed OTLP event log records missing trace_id/span_id when TRACEPARENT is set in SDK/headless mode
• Fixed conversations with many images incorrectly failing with "Request too large" errors, and improved the error message to explain the actual cause
• Fixed web search and web fetch returning "API Error" text as search results or page content when the API was overloaded
• Improved web search and web fetch reliability by retrying 529 errors and rate-limited requests with bounded backoff
• Improved prompt caching: the mid-conversation system block now works behind LLM gateways and custom base URLs (Bedrock, Vertex, 1P)
• Improved background agent attach: cold-attaching now instantly shows the formatted transcript while the session boots, instead of a blank wait
• Reduced token usage in inter-agent messaging: SendMessage bodies are no longer duplicated into replayed history and tool results
• Changed /fork to name the copy after your prompt when the session has no title, so the row is recognizable in the agent view
• Changed bare /btw to reopen the side-question panel on your most recent exchange so you can browse earlier answers
• Changed the ← footer hint to pulse N done for a moment when a background agent finishes while nothing needs your input
• Deprecated the Task tool's mode parameter (now ignored); subagents inherit the parent session's permission mode by default
• Changed Enterprise forceLoginMethod to be enforced for VS Code extension, SDK, setup-token, and install-github-app logins, not just the terminal
• Changed session transcripts to record the reasoning effort level on each assistant message
• Changed headless/SDK sessions to apply a set_model control request mid-turn; the next model round-trip uses the new model instead of waiting for the next turn
• Changed agent view / claude agents --json: sessions waiting on a sandbox, MCP-input, or managed-settings prompt now show as "Needs input" instead of "Working"
• Updated the auth status panel title from "Cloud authentication" to "Authentication"
• Corrected an earlier release note (2.1.200): tmux through the 3.6 series lacks synchronized output; newer tmux with support is detected automatically

v2.1.211

What's changed

• Added --forward-subagent-text flag and CLAUDE_CODE_FORWARD_SUBAGENT_TEXT environment variable to include subagent text and thinking in stream-json output
• Fixed permission previews relayed to chat channels not neutralizing bidirectional-override, zero-width, and look-alike quote characters, so tool inputs cannot visually alter the approval message
• Fixed auto mode overriding a PreToolUse hook's ask decision for unsandboxed Bash — a hook ask now floors the decision at a prompt
• Fixed parallel Claude Code sessions all logging out simultaneously after wake-from-sleep when many sessions share one credential store
• Fixed plugin MCP servers not reconnecting after an idle web session woke, leaving MCP calls failing until the next message
• Fixed Claude Code on Vertex and Bedrock attempting the default Opus model at startup and printing a spurious fallback notice when a model is explicitly configured
• Fixed subagents spawned with an explicit model override reverting to the parent's model when resumed or sent a follow-up message
• Fixed nested .claude/rules/*.md files loading even when setting sources exclude project settings
• Fixed file upload validation: filenames ending in a DOS device suffix (.prn) or trailing dot are now accepted, and files with multiple hard links are refused
• Fixed file uploads to Claude in Chrome from remote and CLI sessions
• Fixed edits that leave the input as "?" being silently swallowed and toggling the shortcuts panel
• Fixed a startup hang when the Claude in Chrome extension is enabled but Chrome is not running
• Fixed a 300ms delay revealing async content (Settings tabs, Stats, diff views, and other loading states)
• Fixed reopening a just-stopped background session from the agents view starting a blank conversation under the same session id
• Fixed /loop hiding the session from /resume after a single use
• Fixed screen reader users losing the audible terminal bell after /terminal-setup or onboarding terminal setup
• Fixed background jobs on LLM gateway auth (ANTHROPIC_AUTH_TOKEN + ANTHROPIC_BASE_URL) coming back "Not logged in" after the daemon respawns them
• Fixed claude agents jobs becoming permanently undeletable when git no longer recognizes their worktree — the row now shows why the delete was refused instead of silently reappearing
• Fixed /clear not resetting the session cost counter — the statusline's cost now starts at $0 after /clear
• Fixed Claude in Chrome setup pages failing to open in the browser on Windows
• Fixed headless print-mode sessions on Windows crashing or silently exiting when stdin is unreadable
• Fixed background session titles in the agents view showing the naming model's refusal text when the prompt contains a link
• Fixed background agents killed by the user auto-respawning, and revived agents re-running stale prompts from old sessions
• Fixed routines with no schedule reporting a next run time in the year 1
• Hardened synced skill/plugin directory naming on Windows and kept CCR web fetch/search proxies working after /clear
• Improved terminal layout and rendering performance
• Improved background agent result reporting — Claude now reports the status of still-running agents and waits for the real completion instead of fabricating results
• Improved the memory index over-limit warning to measure only loaded content, excluding frontmatter and HTML comments
• Updated integer environment variables (timeouts, token budgets, retry counts) to accept scientific notation and digit-separator spellings like 1e6 and 64_000
• Updated documentation links to the current docs sites
• Changed "always allow" permission rules to save at the repository root, so approvals granted in a git worktree persist across sessions and worktrees
• Changed /usage-credits to ask for confirmation before sending a request to organization admins
• Changed Vim mode s and S (substitute char/line) to work in NORMAL mode, matching vim behavior
• [VSCode] Updated the Remote Control banner to describe what it does
• Claude in Chrome: hardened file-upload path validation
• Claude in Chrome: save_to_disk on screenshot actions now writes the image to disk and returns the path; previously it did nothing
• Fixed a prompt-caching regression on Bedrock, Vertex, Mantle, and Foundry that billed the trailing system context block as fresh input tokens on every request.

v2.1.210

What's changed

• Added a live elapsed-time counter to the collapsed tool summary line so long-running tool calls visibly tick instead of looking stuck
• Added a startup warning for Write(path), NotebookEdit(path), and Glob(path) permission rules — use Edit(path) or Read(path) instead
• Fixed isolation: 'worktree' subagents being able to run git-mutating commands against the main repo checkout instead of their own isolated worktree
• Fixed the ultracode keyword opt-in firing on non-human-originated input such as webhook payloads and relayed PR comments
• Fixed a rendered text fragment leaking into crash telemetry when a UI component returned content outside a styled text element
• Fixed paste markers leaking into external editors opened from Claude Code, which could appear as stray È/É characters around pasted text
• Fixed claude attach sometimes failing with "job not found" or "agent is still starting" errors during session transitions — attach now waits for the daemon to settle, and terminal resizes during a slow attach are applied once it completes
• Fixed a session crash when a tool's result renderer returned a numeric bigint value or plain text instead of a UI element
• Fixed a hook callback timeout being misreported to the model as a user rejection, which made unattended sessions stop and wait
• Fixed Claude assuming a cd took effect after its command was moved to the background; the tool result now states the working directory is unchanged
• Fixed plugin-provided MCP servers being torn down when MCP servers are re-synced mid-session
• Fixed plan approvals without edits being labeled "(edited by user)" and overwriting the plan file with a stale snapshot
• Fixed /doctor skipping its auto-mode-default proposal on Bedrock, Vertex, and Foundry, where auto mode no longer needs an opt-in
• Fixed Grep content mode claiming "No matches found" when paginating past the end of results
• Fixed unmatched $1/$2 positional placeholders in skills and commands being silently stripped; they are now preserved verbatim
• Fixed plugin cache writes leaving temp files behind on failure and failing on locked-file renames on Windows and network filesystems
• Fixed background workers crash-looping when a client resets its connection to the background service
• Fixed claude agents --effort ultracode not reaching dispatched sessions; the value was silently dropped
• Fixed pressing ← to open the agents view dropping the task tracker when returning to the session
• Fixed the agents dashboard retaining pasted images from abandoned reply drafts after their session was deleted
• Fixed killed background sessions leaving a permanent git worktree lock behind; the periodic sweep now releases locks whose owning process is gone
• Fixed SDK MCP servers registered via an initialize control request waiting until the next turn to start connecting
• Fixed returning to the agents view from a session leaving overlapping ghost frames with CLAUDE_CODE_DISABLE_ALTERNATE_SCREEN=1
• Fixed late-appearing .claude/* symlinks not being reconciled into the sandbox deny-write list
• Hardened the Agent tool against indirect prompt injection via content a subagent read
• Improved the Bash/PowerShell tool message when a command hits its timeout and is auto-backgrounded, so the model can distinguish a hang from an explicit background request
• Improved auto mode: the permission classifier now defaults to Sonnet 5 for external sessions, validated on the session's first request and pinned for the session
• Improved the bundled dataviz skill's chart color validation with perceptual OKLab color difference and recalibrated color-blindness thresholds
• Memory writes that leave a MEMORY.md index over its read limit now produce an explicit error instead of silent truncation
• Screen reader mode now announces permission mode changes aloud when cycling modes with Shift+Tab
• The agents footer hint now shows how many background agents are waiting on your input, with a brief color emphasis when the count changes
• Agent view: the session you pressed ← from stays visibly marked even after mouse hover or arrow keys move the selection
• Fable temporarily shows as unavailable in the advisor picker while a server-side issue causing Fable advisor failures is fixed

v2.1.209

What's changed

• Fixed /model and other dialogs being blocked in claude agents background sessions (reverts an overly broad guard)

v2.1.208

What's changed

• Added screen reader mode: opt-in plain-text rendering for screen reader users. Run claude --ax-screen-reader, set CLAUDE_AX_SCREEN_READER=1, or add "axScreenReader": true to settings.
• Added vimInsertModeRemaps setting: map two-key insert-mode sequences like jj to Escape in vim mode
• Added CLAUDE_CODE_PROCESS_WRAPPER: agent view and the background service now honor a corporate launcher by running every Claude Code self-spawn through a required wrapper executable
• Added mouse-click support for multi-select menus and "Other" input rows in fullscreen mode
• Fixed fast mode staying off after switching back to a model that supports it — it now restores automatically when enabled in settings
• Fixed replies typed to a background agent being lost when delivery fails — the text is now saved and delivered when the session restarts
• Fixed background-session attach failing permanently ("Couldn't start the background daemon") after an update replaced the binary a running claude agents process was launched from
• Fixed the context window (and auto-compact indicator) briefly resetting to 200k after the CLI auto-updates, causing a false "100% context used" when resuming long-context sessions
• Fixed supervised and background sessions crashing when a server closed an HTTP/2 connection with a GOAWAY while requests were in flight
• Fixed truncated stream-json/JSON output and missing result message when piping large responses from claude -p
• Fixed CLAUDE_CODE_MAX_OUTPUT_TOKENS and similar env vars silently using the mantissa of scientific-notation values (1e6 became 1)
• Fixed very large markdown tables stalling rendering or using excessive memory; tables over 200 rows show the first 200 with a "… N more rows" notice
• Fixed the Edit tool failing on files modified after reading when the target text still matches uniquely
• Fixed Read reporting empty files as "shorter than offset", Grep silently returning "No files found" for invalid regex patterns, Grep count mode under-reporting totals when paginated, and Glob crashing with an unclear error when the pattern, path, or working directory contained a null byte
• Fixed apiKeyHelper script failures being hidden behind a generic 401 after ~10 silent retries; the script's own error is now shown within 3 attempts
• Fixed Bedrock streaming requests failing with a misleading "Truncated event message received" when a gateway transforms the response — the error now names the content-type and points at the proxy
• Fixed /upgrade showing a login flow instead of the upgrade URL when the browser fails to open
• Fixed stream-json input killing the session on blank CRLF or whitespace-only lines from Windows-style SDK hosts
• Fixed headless stream-json sessions hanging permanently when a control_request carried a non-string set_model payload; the CLI now answers with an error response
• Fixed repeated "No completion record was found" notices on session resume — orphaned background tasks now collapse into a single summary
• Fixed Remote Control clients attaching to a terminal-hosted session not seeing background agents and workflow progress until a task started or stopped
• Fixed the Agent tool launching with no tools when a subagent's tools list resolves to nothing — it now returns a clear error naming the unrecognized entries
• Fixed /usage showing stale cached bars over fresher data, and /mcp not reclassifying placeholder servers after config edits
• Fixed "Change directory" in SDK hosts (e.g. Claude Desktop) failing with "A turn is in progress" on idle sessions that have a running background task
• Fixed the workflow save dialog showing ~/.claude/workflows/ instead of the CLAUDE_CONFIG_DIR location for user-scope saves
• Fixed /release-notes adding the viewed notes to the model's context — "Show all" previously injected the entire changelog into every subsequent request
• Fixed a memory leak in the agent view where pasted images were retained for the screen's lifetime after sending peek replies
• Fixed SDK sessions losing agents defined via the initialize request when a plugin refresh ran before the client attached
• Fixed several memory leaks in long sessions: MCP stdio server stderr accumulating up to 64 MB per server, LSP documents staying open indefinitely (now LRU with 50-doc cap), async hook output retained after backgrounding, and unbounded growth in headless/SDK sessions from large tool-result payloads
• Fixed a memory blowup when reading files with extremely long single lines using offset/limit — the read now returns a clean error instead of loading the whole line
• Fixed multi-second per-turn slowdowns in sessions with many permission deny/ask rules — rule matchers are now compiled once and cached
• Improved input responsiveness while agent task lists update — task updates no longer re-render the entire UI
• Reduced per-tool-call CPU overhead in print/SDK sessions with many MCP tools by caching tool-pool assembly (up to 7x faster tool rounds at high tool counts)
• Reduced memory usage by bounding the file edit read cache to 16 MB instead of pinning up to 1,000 full files
• Reduced session transcript size (up to 79x in edit-heavy sessions) and bounded checkpoint disk usage by pruning superseded file-history backups
• Reduced memory usage when resuming sessions with background agents or forks spawned from large conversations
• Completed background agents now stay listed in /tasks until cleanup instead of vanishing the moment they finish
• Attaching to a stopped background agent now shows its transcript immediately while the session warms up, instead of a blank "Session is starting" screen
• Background sessions: an older daemon no longer silently restarts workers spawned by a newer version onto the older binary
• Agent view: Ctrl+X now deletes renamed-branch worktrees, never destroys unpushed commits, keeps the session row when a worktree is kept, and reused worktree names reset to the current base
• Catastrophic removals (e.g. rm -rf ~) in commands containing $(…)/backticks/<(…) now prompt in --dangerously-skip-permissions and auto mode, matching the plain form
• /install-github-app and the /mcp settings menu no longer open in background sessions
• MCP servers configured with an empty URL now show as "not configured" in /mcp instead of a config error
• /usage now shows your last-known usage bars with an "as of" note when the usage endpoint is rate-limited, instead of an error screen
• Fixed Bedrock auth failing with "Session token not found or invalid" for AWS SSO profiles whose sso_region differs from the Bedrock region (2.1.207 regression)

v2.1.207

What's changed

• Auto mode is now available without CLAUDE_CODE_ENABLE_AUTO_MODE opt-in on Bedrock, Vertex AI, and Foundry; disable via disableAutoMode in settings
• Fixed the terminal freezing and keystrokes lagging while streaming responses containing very long lists, tables, paragraphs, or code blocks
• Fixed remote managed settings from a non-interactive run (claude -p, the SDK) being permanently recorded as consented without ever showing the security consent dialog
• Fixed spurious prompt-injection warnings triggered by benign system-generated conversation updates
• Fixed the auto-updater overwriting a custom launcher script or symlink at ~/.local/bin/claude on every release; /doctor now reports an externally managed launcher
• Fixed compound commands with cd prompting for permission when the only output redirect was to /dev/null
• Fixed the transcript jumping above the start of the answer when a response finishes streaming
• Fixed extensions.worktreeConfig being left in the repo's .git/config (breaking go-git tools like tea) after the last worktree.sparsePaths worktree was removed
• Fixed malformed bracket patterns in rules globs, skill paths, .ignore, and .worktreeinclude breaking file reads, file suggestions, and worktree creation
• Fixed a crash loop in agent teams where a malformed teammate mailbox message caused repeated errors every second until the mailbox file was manually deleted
• Fixed background sessions auto-named by accepting a plan not showing that name on their agent-view row
• Fixed background sessions that entered a git worktree resuming blank after a cold reopen from the agent list
• Fixed Remote Control task status updates being lost when the connection recovered from a network interruption or credential refresh
• Fixed Remote Control sessions hosted by the desktop app not showing background agent and workflow progress on mobile and web
• Fixed Deep research runs labeling every Fetch-phase agent "unknown" — chips now show the source hostname
• Fixed Bedrock repeatedly requesting fresh AWS SSO credentials from IAM Identity Center on every API request
• Improved agent view: pasting the same text again now expands the collapsed [Pasted text #N] placeholder instead of adding a second one
• Improved agent view: blocked session peeks now lead with the question and show a worded staleness clock (waiting 3m) instead of the same timestamp twice
• Changed Bedrock, Vertex, and Claude Platform on AWS to default to Claude Opus 4.8
• Changed auto mode to no longer read autoMode from .claude/settings.local.json (repo-resident); use ~/.claude/settings.json instead
• Fixed an indefinite hang on Windows when AWS credential resolution stalls (e.g. a stuck credential_process): the 60-second stall guard now fires instead of waiting forever.
• Plugin hooks/monitors/MCP headersHelper: ${user_config.*} in shell-form commands is now rejected (shell-injection fix). Hooks: use exec form (args array) or $CLAUDE_PLUGIN_OPTION_<KEY>; monitors and headersHelper: read the value inside the script (config file or the server's env block).
• Plugin option values (pluginConfigs) are no longer read from project-level .claude/settings.json; only user, --settings, and managed settings are honored
• Fixed /usage-credits amount inputs silently stripping malformed values (e.g. a pasted timestamp) to digits; malformed amounts are now rejected with an error, and amounts over $1,000 require a typed confirmation

v2.1.206

What's changed

• Added directory path suggestions to /cd, matching /add-dir behavior
• Added a /doctor check that proposes trimming checked-in CLAUDE.md files by cutting content Claude could derive from the codebase
• /commit-push-pr now auto-allows git push to the repo's configured push remote (remote.pushDefault, or the sole remote when only one is configured) in addition to origin
• Gateway: /login now supports Anthropic-operated public gateway endpoints
• EnterWorktree now asks for confirmation before entering a git worktree outside the project's .claude/worktrees/ directory
• Background agents now upgrade to a new version in the background right after a Claude Code update, instead of paying a slow stale-session upgrade when you attach
• Fixed an expired login failing every model with a misleading "There's an issue with the selected model" error instead of prompting to run /login
• Fixed claude --resume and --continue not responding to keyboard input on startup
• Fixed MCP servers configured via --mcp-config or .mcp.json ignoring a per-server request_timeout_ms, which caused long-running MCP tool calls to time out at the 60s default in fresh sessions
• Fixed CLAUDE_CODE_EXTRA_BODY being silently ignored by claude agents / --bg background workers; the shell-exported override now follows the dispatching session
• Fixed OAuth MCP servers requiring manual re-authentication after a single failed token refresh
• Fixed --permission-prompt-tool pointing at an MCP server crashing with "MCP tool not found" on cold start before the server finishes connecting
• Fixed /model picker rows printing a price for a different model than the row named, and stopped quoting first-party list prices on providers that don't bill them
• Fixed server-provided model rows being misplaced in the /model picker when an entitlement or allowlist restriction drops the row they were positioned against
• Fixed desktop sessions getting stuck showing "running" after a slash command was sent mid-turn
• Fixed keyboard input being ignored in the agents view when a setup prompt appeared before a bare claude --resume on Windows
• Fixed claude rm leaving the removed job in the daemon roster, causing the row to reappear in claude agents
• Fixed /remote-control showing "Unknown command" when logged out — it now explains how to sign in
• Fixed left arrow not stepping back out of a phase or agent in the workflow detail view
• Fixed /status listing the same broken-install warning twice
• Fixed false "disused plugin" tips and skewed disuse telemetry for LSP plugins
• Fixed /doctor's update check to compare Homebrew installs against their cask's channel instead of the settings channel
• Fixed the fullscreen jump-to-bottom pill suggesting Ctrl+End on macOS, not showing rebound chords, and wrapping over the transcript
• Bedrock: fixed a multi-minute startup hang when using an awsCredentialExport helper on networks with restricted egress
• Improved /code-review findings quality on claude-opus-4-8 across all effort levels
• Improved agents view: status column now uses full terminal width instead of truncating at 64 characters
• Changed agents view: Ctrl+X now permanently removes a completed session, and sessions no longer render twice; deleted background jobs stay deleted

v2.1.205

What's changed

• Added an auto mode rule that blocks tampering with session transcript files
• Fixed --json-schema silently producing unstructured output when the schema was invalid, and schemas using the format keyword being rejected
• Fixed a message sent while Claude was working being silently lost when the turn ended at the --max-turns limit
• Fixed Windows worktree removal deleting files outside the worktree when an NTFS junction or directory symlink existed inside it
• Fixed background agents staying shown as "failed" or "completed" in the agent list after being resumed with SendMessage
• Fixed background jobs flipping from "needs input" back to "working" in the agent list when the agent's turn contained no readable text
• Fixed claude attach erroring when a background agent was mid-upgrade restart instead of waiting for it to come back
• Fixed session-to-PR linking missing a PR created in a Bash call whose output exceeded the 30K inline limit
• Fixed claude mcp add-from-claude-desktop getting stuck when a server name contains unsupported characters; invalid names are now reported and remaining servers still import
• Fixed a plugin LSP server that fails to initialize preventing a valid LSP server from another plugin handling the same file extension
• Fixed a Windows crash when the directory Claude was launched from is deleted, locked, or unmounted while a command is running
• Fixed a crash when a file watcher was closed while a directory scan was still in flight
• Fixed project verify skills being rewritten on every session instead of only when a documented command changed
• Fixed the agent view rendering one line too high and clipping its header when the job list slightly overflowed the screen
• Fixed background tasks in the web and mobile Remote Control panels showing stale "Running" status by forwarding full task state on every membership change
• Improved auto mode to ask before running rm -rf on a variable it can't resolve from context
• Auto-update binary downloads now stream to disk instead of buffering in memory, cutting the updater's peak memory usage by roughly 400 MB
• Background task notifications now explicitly state that no human input has occurred, preventing fabricated in-transcript approvals from being acted on
• Improved agent view: sessions that edit, merge, comment on, or push to an existing PR now link it in claude agents
• Improved agent view: rows now show a colored state word and a classifier-written headline instead of raw tool call text, and the peek opens with full status including the exact ask for blocked sessions
• /doctor is now a full setup checkup that can diagnose and fix issues; /checkup is its alias
• Reserved the "Claude Browser" MCP server name (alongside "Claude Preview") ahead of the Claude Desktop pane rename; user-configured MCP servers can no longer register under either name
• Fixed Cowork VM-mode local-agent sessions failing to start with "Not logged in · Please run /login" on CLI 2.1.203+

v2.1.204

What's changed

• Fixed hook events not streaming during SessionStart hooks in headless sessions, which could cause remote workers to be idle-reaped mid-hook

v2.1.203

What's changed

• Added a warning when your login is about to expire, so you can re-authenticate before background sessions are interrupted
• Added a grey ⏸ badge to the footer when in manual permission mode, making the active mode always visible
• Added the session's additional working directories to MCP roots/list, with notifications/roots/list_changed sent when the set changes
• Fixed opening or switching background agent sessions on macOS stalling for 15–20 seconds due to a false low-memory detection (regression in 2.1.196)
• Fixed background sessions becoming permanently unresponsive to attach, replies, and stop when the daemon's session token went stale — the session now recovers automatically
• Fixed returning to claude agents silently stopping running subagents and re-running the prompt from scratch — their work now carries over
• Fixed a memory and per-turn CPU regression in interactive sessions: the context-usage indicator no longer re-analyzes the entire transcript after every turn
• Fixed background agents inheriting a stale PATH from the daemon instead of the dispatching shell, causing missing tools on Windows
• Fixed background and agent-view sessions dropping a shell-exported ANTHROPIC_BASE_URL, which sent API keys to the default endpoint and failed with 401
• Fixed Bash failing with "argument list too long" in repos with many git worktrees
• Fixed worktree-isolated subagents sometimes running shell commands in the parent checkout instead of their own worktree
• Fixed worktree creation rejecting nested repositories in multi-repo workspaces, leaving background sessions unable to isolate and edit
• Fixed background agents crash-looping when their working directory was deleted, replaced by a file, or became an invalid path — they now fail once with a clear error
• Fixed a background daemon auto-upgrade failure silently killing all running background sessions
• Fixed TaskStop and TaskOutput failing to find background agents spawned by another agent — errors now list running agents by id and description
• Fixed the claude agents composer discarding your typed message when a slash command isn't available there
• Fixed the agent list crashing when opening a stopped session whose conversation was already open in another session
• Fixed background sessions showing "Needs input" in the agent list after the question was already answered
• Fixed background agent startup failures showing only "exit_with_message" instead of the actual error
• Fixed background sessions ignoring effortLevel changes in settings.json when forked through the daemon
• Fixed attached background sessions ignoring CLAUDE_CODE_DISABLE_MOUSE and CLAUDE_CODE_DISABLE_MOUSE_CLICKS opt-outs
• Fixed /exit incorrectly warning about running background agents after all named agents had completed
• Fixed background sessions started from a non-git directory unable to edit files when a WorktreeCreate hook was configured
• Fixed the @ directory picker in claude agents not showing registered git worktrees
• Fixed background task output on Windows being permanently replaced by an empty file after /clear
• Fixed content jumping when scrolling up through long transcript history
• Fixed the terminal flickering and jumping while typing in bash mode when a shell-history suggestion was shown
• Fixed literal ^[[I / ^[[O escape codes being printed when reattaching to a background session
• Fixed LSP-only plugins being incorrectly flagged for disuse when their language servers deliver diagnostics or answer navigation requests
• Improved responsiveness while long responses stream: live-preview updates no longer re-render the whole screen
• Improved subagent behavior: agents are now less likely to re-delegate their entire task to another subagent
• Reduced binary size by ~7 MB and startup memory by ~7 MB by loading a large bundled dependency lazily instead of inlining it
• Changed left arrow to no longer close the background tasks, diff, and workflow detail views — press Esc instead
• Changed the empty claude agents view to always show the organized sections (Needs input / Working / Completed) with descriptions
• Removed the startup "claude command missing or broken" warnings — they now appear in /doctor and /status instead
• Removed a redundant navigation hint from the claude agents footer
• [VSCode] Added a Settings toggle for "Enable Remote Control for all sessions"

v2.1.202

What's changed

• Added a "Dynamic workflow size" setting in /config for controlling how large Claude generally makes dynamic workflows (small/medium/large agent counts) — an advisory guideline, not an enforced cap
• Added workflow.run_id and workflow.name OpenTelemetry attributes to telemetry emitted by workflow-spawned agents, so a workflow run's activity can be reconstructed from OTel data
• Fixed a crash in the inline Ctrl+R history search when accepting or cancelling while the search was still scanning the history file
• Fixed /rename on background sessions being reverted when the job restarts, which broke addressing the session by its new name
• Fixed transient mTLS handshake failures when settings were re-applied during an in-place client certificate rotation
• Fixed commands sent from Remote Control (mobile/web) into an interactive session failing with "Unknown command"
• Fixed images and files sent from the Remote Control mobile or web app without a caption being silently dropped
• Fixed the sign-in URL printed by claude auth login and claude mcp login --no-browser not being reliably clickable when it wraps over SSH — it is now emitted as a single hyperlink
• Fixed opening a chat from claude agents sometimes failing with "currently running as a background agent" followed by a worker crash/respawn loop
• Fixed workflow scripts with unicode quote escapes in strings being corrupted before parsing; workflow parse errors now show the offending line instead of always blaming TypeScript
• Fixed voice dictation retrying in an unbounded loop when the microphone or audio recorder fails — repeated capture failures now pause voice input
• Fixed /remote-control sessions showing the wrong permission mode in the mobile and web apps
• Fixed resuming a session by name, or opening the resume picker, taking minutes and using a large amount of memory in repositories with many git worktrees
• Fixed installer and updater downloads failing immediately with "aborted" when a proxy or network drops the connection mid-download — transient connection drops now retry
• Fixed re-invoking an already-loaded skill appending a duplicate copy of its instructions to context
• Improved /workflows agent list layout: wider titles, a dedicated time column, shorter model names, and no per-row tool-call counts
• Improved MCP error messages: clearer error when a server config has url but no type, suggesting "type": "http" instead of the misleading "command: expected string"
• Changed /review <pr> back to a fast single-pass review; use /code-review <level> <pr#> for the multi-agent review at a chosen effort level

v2.1.201

What's changed

• Claude Sonnet 5 sessions no longer use the mid-conversation system role for harness reminders

v2.1.200

What's changed

• Changed AskUserQuestion dialogs to no longer auto-continue by default; opt into an idle timeout via /config
• Changed the "default" permission mode to "Manual" across the CLI, --help, VS Code, and JetBrains; --permission-mode manual and "defaultMode": "manual" are accepted alongside default
• Fixed a crash at startup when disabledMcpServers or enabledMcpServers in .claude.json is set to a non-array value
• Fixed background sessions silently stopping mid-turn after sleep/wake or when reopening a stalled session
• Fixed background sessions re-running a turn cancelled with Esc after a stall respawn
• Fixed background agents never starting again after a crash left a stale daemon.lock whose PID the OS reused
• Fixed background-agent daemon handover so a reinstalled older build can no longer take over the daemon; build recency is now judged by the version's embedded build timestamp
• Fixed background-agent roster issues: transient corruption permanently disabling orphan cleanup, older binaries not preserving fields written by newer versions, and socket auth tokens being stripped during daemon restarts
• Fixed subagents cut off by a rate limit before producing any text output returning an empty result instead of failing cleanly
• Fixed control bytes from background-agent output reaching the terminal in the agent view
• Fixed claude agents --plugin-dir <dir> not showing the plugin's agents and skills in the agent view when the flag is placed after agents
• Fixed project-scoped plugins not loading correctly from git worktrees of the same repository
• Fixed /mcp server list not tracking focus for screen readers and magnifiers
• Fixed voice dictation showing a misleading "Voice connection failed" message when a recording captures no audio
• Fixed rendering flicker under tmux 3.4+ by enabling synchronized terminal output
• Improved screen-reader output: decorative glyphs are now hidden, transcript symbols read as short labels, and nested tables read as Header: value. lines
• Improved the install script to explain when installation is killed by the system running out of memory

v2.1.199

What's changed

• Stacked slash-skill invocations like /skill-a /skill-b do XYZ now load all leading skills (up to 5), not just the first
• Fixed SSL certificate errors (TLS-inspecting proxies, missing NODE_EXTRA_CA_CERTS, expired certs) burning retries before showing actionable guidance — they now fail immediately with the fix hint
• Fixed streaming responses being discarded when the API emits a mid-stream overloaded/server error after partial output — the partial is now kept with an incomplete-response notice
• Fixed subagents cut off by a rate limit or server error silently failing instead of returning their partial work to the parent
• Fixed subagents reporting API errors (e.g. usage limit reached) as successful results — the error is now reported to the parent agent
• Fixed the background-agent daemon on Linux killing itself and every running agent every ~50 seconds after an unclean shutdown left a corrupted worker record
• Fixed background agents failing to cold-start over SSH on macOS with "Could not switch to audit session" (regression in 2.1.196)
• Fixed claude stop being silently undone when it raced a background-agent respawn — the respawn now honors the stop
• Fixed background job progress indicators stalling for minutes while the job ran long commands
• Fixed background sessions on memory-starved machines showing a generic error — they now indicate low memory and suggest freeing resources
• Fixed remote sessions briefly flapping between Working and Idle in the agent view when a background agent completes
• Fixed idle subagents vanishing from the agent panel while other subagents were still working; surplus idle agents now collapse into an expandable summary row
• Fixed typing /model or /fast while viewing a subagent silently opening the lead's model picker — a notice now explains the command applies to the lead
• Fixed SessionStart, Setup, and SubagentStart hooks silently hiding stderr when exiting with code 2 — the error is now shown in the transcript
• Fixed claude --dangerously-skip-permissions daemon <subcommand> being treated as a chat prompt instead of running the subcommand
• Fixed SendMessage silently misrouting when a re-spawned agent reuses a previous agent's name — the tool now detects the mismatch and asks the caller to retarget
• Fixed opening or resuming a session with no new messages needlessly growing the transcript file
• Fixed backgrounding a session with ← or /background dropping its /color from the agent view row
• Fixed resetting a corrupted config file from the startup recovery dialog destroying it unrecoverably — it now backs up the file first
• Fixed Claude in Chrome repeatedly opening the reconnect page when sessions run from different builds or config directories
• Fixed plan mode not prompting for state-changing browser tool calls; read-only browser_batch calls are now correctly auto-allowed
• Transient server rate-limit errors (429s unrelated to your usage limit) are now retried automatically with backoff for subscribers instead of failing the turn
• CLAUDE_CODE_RETRY_WATCHDOG now raises the default retry count for non-capacity transient errors to 300 and lifts the cap of 15 on CLAUDE_CODE_MAX_RETRIES
• claude agents session rows now show pull-request links as bare #N without the redundant "PR" label

v2.1.198

What's changed

• Subagents now run in the background by default, so Claude keeps working while they run and is notified when they finish (previously a gradual rollout)
• Claude in Chrome is now generally available
• Added background agent notifications in claude agents — sessions that need input or finish now fire the Notification hook (agent_needs_input / agent_completed)
• Added /dataviz skill for chart and dashboard design guidance with a runnable color-palette validator
• Gateway: added Claude Platform on AWS (anthropicAws) as an upstream provider; model-not-found responses now advance the failover chain
• Background agents launched from claude agents now commit, push, and open a draft PR when they finish code work in a worktree, instead of stopping to ask
• The built-in Explore agent now inherits the main session's model (capped at opus) instead of running on haiku
• Subagents and context compaction now inherit the session's extended thinking configuration, improving output quality on delegated tasks
• Fixed brief network drops mid-response aborting the turn — transient errors like ECONNRESET now retry with backoff instead of failing
• Fixed excessive background classifier requests when sandboxed processes repeatedly accessed the same network host
• Fixed background tasks in web, desktop, and VS Code task panels getting stuck on "Running" after they finish or after resuming a session
• Fixed agent teams: a teammate that dies on an API error now reports "failed" to the lead, and messaging a stuck teammate wakes it to retry immediately
• Fixed the /diff panel not refreshing when you switch branches or commit outside the session
• Fixed markdown tables overflowing and wrapping their right border when rendered in fullscreen mode
• Fixed Claude Platform on AWS and Mantle sessions dead-ending with "Please run /login" when the STS token expires — awsAuthRefresh now runs automatically
• Fixed "no route to host" for local-network hosts in macOS background agent sessions by declaring Local Network entitlements
• Fixed /desktop failing with "Cannot determine working directory" after entering and exiting a worktree
• Fixed background agents repeatedly showing "Reconnecting…" every ~52 seconds on macOS while the agents view was open
• Fixed pressing ← inside claude attach <id> exiting to the shell instead of opening the agent view
• Fixed claude --bg silently creating an unattachable session when combined with --print/-p; the conflicting flags are now rejected up front
• Fixed the workflow progress view dropping the earliest agents from the list while the phase counter stayed correct in SDK and desktop-app sessions
• Fixed .claude/rules/ conditional rules not loading when the target file is reached via a symlinked path
• Fixed Cmd+click not opening URLs in fullscreen mode in Warp on macOS
• Fixed double-click word selection in fullscreen mode to select the entire URL including the scheme
• Fixed plan mode not auto-allowing read-only tool calls when a session starts in plan mode
• Fixed /branch deriving its default fork name from the compaction summary instead of the first real prompt
• Improved focus mode: subagents launched in a turn now appear in its activity summary, and completed background notifications fold into a single count
• Improved syntax highlighting accuracy in code blocks, diffs, and file previews by upgrading to highlight.js 11
• Keyboard shortcut hints now show opt/cmd instead of alt/super when connected from a Mac over SSH
• Improved API retry UX: the error reason is now shown after the second attempt, and a status page link replaces the spinner tip when the API is overloaded
• /login now opens the sign-in dialog from the claude agents view instead of saying it isn't available
• Subagents now treat messages from the agent that launched them as normal task direction; an agent's message is still never treated as the user's approval
• Removed the /agents wizard; ask Claude to create or manage subagents, or edit .claude/agents/ directly

v2.1.197

What's changed

• Introducing Claude Sonnet 5: now the default model in Claude Code, with a native 1M-token context window and promotional pricing of $2/$10 per Mtok through August 31. Update to version 2.1.197 for access. https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-sonnet-5

v2.1.196

What's changed

• Added support for organization default models — admins set it in the org console; it shows as "Org default" (or "Role default") in /model when you haven't picked one yourself
• Added readable default names for sessions at start, making them easier to identify and message
• Added clickable file attachments in chat — Cmd/Ctrl-click reveals the file in Finder/Explorer
• Security: claude mcp list/get no longer spawn .mcp.json servers that a repo self-approved via a committed .claude/settings.json; untrusted workspaces show ⏸ Pending approval
• Fixed waking a background job permanently deleting its conversation and re-running the original prompt when the transcript probe misread a real transcript; the file is now set aside, never deleted
• Fixed the rate-limit warning flickering off and rate-limit telemetry being over-counted when multiple parallel requests were in flight at the moment a usage limit was hit
• Fixed duplicate recap lines after a background session's turn: a schema-rejected StructuredOutput attempt no longer renders alongside its retry
• Fixed PowerShell git diff/git grep, egrep/fgrep, and quoted search patterns containing | being reported as failures when they exit 1, matching Bash behavior
• Fixed multiple claude agents side panel issues: keyboard focus getting stuck when opening an agent, background jobs losing their subagent types on every open, and sessions showing incorrect status while actively running
• Fixed claude agents --dangerously-skip-permissions silently falling back to auto mode instead of showing the bypass disclaimer and applying bypass mode to spawned agents
• Fixed mid-turn crash recovery for Remote sessions — sessions interrupted by a server restart now auto-resume on the next worker
• Fixed sessions moved with /cd reappearing in the old directory's resume list after a non-graceful exit when the old path contained special characters
• Fixed claude plugin validate skipping local plugins whose source is "." and stopping after the first error class
• Fixed Esc Esc at an idle prompt not opening the rewind menu (regression); use Ctrl+C or Ctrl+X Ctrl+K to stop background agents
• Fixed MCP OAuth requesting the authorization server's full scopes_supported catalog when no scope is specified, causing invalid_scope failures on GitLab self-hosted and other enterprise IdPs
• Fixed /context showing 0 tokens for all tool groups on Bedrock
• Fixed /deep-research misreporting verifier failures as "all claims refuted" instead of unverified
• Fixed plugin dependency version pins not being honored when the marketplace was added as a local folder path backed by a git repo
• Fixed claude agents session status: completed rows no longer flip between "Done" and "Needs your input", stalled agents are now labeled "Needs attention", and results that mention a PR show a clickable link
• Fixed voice dictation swallowing spaces and spuriously starting a recording during very fast typing when voice mode is enabled
• Improved background session reliability: long-running commands and workflows now survive the session's process being stopped, restarted, or updated — including on Windows, where background shells are handed off instead of being killed
• Improved background agents: workers killed by a daemon restart are now automatically resumed from where they left off the next time the agents view opens
• Improved /code-review workflow: merged five cleanup finders into one, cutting token usage by roughly 25%
• Reduced per-frame rendering work in the terminal UI by skipping no-op subtree walks during streaming
• The streaming idle watchdog is now on by default for all providers — it aborts and retries when a response stream produces no events for 5 minutes. Set CLAUDE_ENABLE_STREAM_WATCHDOG=0 to disable.
• Remote Control is now disabled when ANTHROPIC_BASE_URL points at a non-Anthropic host, matching the existing behavior under CLAUDE_CODE_USE_BEDROCK/_VERTEX/_FOUNDRY
• Changed opening the agents view from a foreground session to require a single ← press instead of two, matching the behavior in background sessions

v2.1.195

What's changed

• Added CLAUDE_CODE_DISABLE_MOUSE_CLICKS to disable mouse click/drag/hover in fullscreen mode while keeping wheel scroll
• Fixed hook matchers with hyphenated identifiers (e.g. code-reviewer, mcp__brave-search) accidentally substring-matching — they now exact-match. Use mcp__brave-search__.* to match all tools from a hyphenated MCP server.
• Fixed voice dictation on macOS capturing silence in long-running sessions after the default input device changes
• Fixed voice dictation auto-submit never firing for languages written without spaces (Japanese, Chinese, Thai)
• Fixed external plugins enabled only by project .claude/settings.json not requiring explicit install consent on every loader path
• Fixed /plugin Enable/Disable not working when a plugin's plugin.json name differs from its marketplace entry name
• Fixed background jobs disappearing from claude agents or losing data when written by a newer Claude Code version
• Fixed reopening a crashed background task showing a blank screen for up to 5 seconds instead of its restart
• Fixed background agent daemons running unreachable when the control socket fails to start, blocking restarts
• Improved voice mode on Linux: now distinguishes "no microphone" from "SoX not installed" when SoX is present but no audio capture device exists
• Improved claude agents completed list to fill available vertical space; on short terminals the header compacts so live sessions stay visible
• Improved Remote session startup with a provisioning checklist while the container starts

v2.1.193

What's changed

• Added autoMode.classifyAllShell setting to route all Bash/PowerShell commands through the auto-mode classifier instead of only arbitrary-code-execution patterns
• Added auto-mode denial reasons to the transcript, the denial toast, and /permissions recent denials
• Added claude_code.assistant_response OpenTelemetry log event containing the model's response text. Redacted unless OTEL_LOG_ASSISTANT_RESPONSES=1; when that var is unset it follows OTEL_LOG_USER_PROMPTS, so deployments that already log prompt content will start receiving response content on upgrade — set OTEL_LOG_ASSISTANT_RESPONSES=0 to keep prompts-only.
• Added live file path autocomplete to bash mode (!)
• Added a startup notice when MCP servers need authentication, pointing at /mcp
• Added automatic memory-pressure reaping for idle background shell commands (disable with CLAUDE_CODE_DISABLE_BG_SHELL_PRESSURE_REAP=1)
• Fixed /model and other client-data-gated UI showing stale/empty state immediately after /login
• Fixed backgrounding (←←) spuriously cancelling with "N background tasks would be abandoned" when all running tasks carry over to the new session
• Fixed pinned background agents being re-prompted to "Continue from where you left off" after every auto-update
• Fixed backgrounding the main turn spawning a phantom "general-purpose (resumed)" subagent that re-ran the main conversation
• Fixed agent panel hiding sibling agents when viewing a subagent
• Improved background agents: the launch result no longer instructs Claude to "end your response" — it keeps working on other tasks while the agent runs
• Improved MCP headersHelper auth: the helper now re-runs and reconnects automatically when a tool call returns 401/403
• Improved plugin auto-rename: marketplace renames maps are now followed automatically, updating your settings to the new name
• Improved /add-dir message when the directory is already a working directory

v2.1.191

What's changed

• Added /rewind support for resuming a conversation from before /clear was run
• Fixed scroll position jumping to the bottom while reading earlier output during a streaming response
• Fixed background agents resurrecting after being stopped — stopping an agent from the tasks panel is now permanent
• Fixed /voice showing a generic "not available" message when disabled by an organization's policy — it now explains the restriction
• Fixed /login URL opening truncated in Windows Terminal when it wraps across lines
• Fixed Cmd+click on links in fullscreen mode for Ghostty over ssh/tmux
• Fixed claude agents sending builtin slash commands like /usage to background sessions as prompt text instead of showing a hint
• Fixed claude agents job rows showing full filesystem paths for pasted images instead of the [Image #N] placeholder
• Fixed hooks with comma-separated matchers (e.g. "Bash,PowerShell") silently never firing
• Fixed /permissions Recently-denied tab: approving a denial now persists on close instead of being silently discarded
• Fixed the agent panel jumping by one row when scrolling the roster past the overflow cap
• Fixed the welcome splash art overflowing the default 80×24 macOS Terminal window
• Fixed managed settings: forceRemoteSettingsRefresh now takes effect when set via MDM or file policy, and the fetch sends Cache-Control: no-cache to prevent proxies from serving stale responses
• Improved sandbox network permission dialog: hosts you allow with "Yes" are now remembered for the rest of the session instead of re-prompting on every connection
• Improved MCP server reliability: capability discovery (tools/list, prompts/list, resources/list) now retries transient network errors with short backoff
• Improved MCP OAuth: discovery and token requests now retry once after transient network errors, and headless environments skip the browser popup and go straight to the paste-the-URL prompt
• Improved MCP error messages: HTTP 404 errors now show the URL and point to your MCP config
• Improved vim mode prompt-history search (NORMAL /) to hint how to reach slash commands
• Reduced CPU usage during streaming responses by ~37% by coalescing text updates to 100ms
• Reduced long-session memory growth from terminal output cache

v2.1.190

What's changed

• Bug fixes and reliability improvements

v2.1.187

What's changed

• Added sandbox.credentials setting to block sandboxed commands from reading credential files and secret environment variables
• Added org-configured model restrictions to the model picker, --model, /model, and ANTHROPIC_MODEL, with a "restricted by your organization's settings" message when a restricted model is selected
• Added mouse click support to select menus (permission prompts, /model, /config, etc.) in fullscreen mode
• Fixed --resume failing with "No conversation found" when the original -p run produced no model turns
• Fixed --json-schema and workflow agent({schema}) structured output: the model can no longer re-call StructuredOutput indefinitely after a successful call, and follow-up turns now reliably return structured output
• Fixed remote MCP tool calls that hang with no response for 5 minutes — they now abort with an error instead of blocking indefinitely (override with CLAUDE_CODE_MCP_TOOL_IDLE_TIMEOUT)
• Fixed Claude Code Remote sessions taking ~2.7s longer to start after the agent proxy CA system-trust install was added
• Fixed pasted Korean/CJK text turning into mojibake in terminals that deliver paste as per-byte extended-key events
• Fixed /update over Remote Control hanging when a startup trust dialog would have shown
• Fixed background jobs in the agents view getting stuck in "working" indefinitely when the agent ended a turn without producing structured output
• Fixed channel connections dropping after navigating to the agents view and back, and after /bg, /tui, or /update
• Fixed agent stop notifications not correctly attributing who stopped the agent, and improved wording ("finished"/"stopped" instead of "came to rest")
• Fixed subagent depth tracking: resumed subagents now restore their original spawn depth, and forked subagents now count toward the depth cap
• Fixed leaked agent worktree registrations: locked .git/worktrees/ entries from killed agents are now cleaned up automatically
• Fixed Cmd+click not opening URLs in fullscreen mode in Ghostty on macOS
• Fixed claude --help not listing the --bg/--background flag
• Fixed Esc, Ctrl-C, and Ctrl-D not working while /share is uploading
• Improved /install-github-app: GitHub Actions workflow setup is now optional — you can install just the GitHub App and skip the workflow/secret steps
• Improved /btw with ←/→ arrow navigation to step through earlier answers
• Improved /plugin to surface plugins you haven't used recently so you can clean them up
• [VSCode] Fixed extension becoming unresponsive when resuming a large session

v2.1.186

What's changed

• Added claude mcp login <name> and claude mcp logout <name> to authenticate MCP servers from the CLI without opening the interactive /mcp menu, with --no-browser stdin redirect support for completing over SSH
• Added status filtering (press f) to the /workflows agent detail view
• Added a "Skills" section to the /plugin Installed tab
• Added teammateMode: "iterm2" setting with a warning when auto mode cannot find the it2 CLI
• Added "Claude Platform on AWS - refresh credentials" option to /login when awsAuthRefresh is configured
• ! bash commands now trigger Claude to respond to the output automatically; set "respondToBashCommands": false in settings.json to keep the previous context-only behavior
• Fixed streaming requests failing with "Content block not found" or JSON parse errors after the machine wakes from sleep
• Fixed subagent transcript scroll position bleeding into the main transcript on exit
• Fixed background task previews flashing raw tool names before the agent's plan loaded
• Fixed Chrome tab-group isolation not applying when the in-product permissions gate is off for concurrent CLI sessions
• Fixed background session recaps being duplicated; the agent's own end-of-turn summary now shows as the recap line
• Fixed opening a background session from claude agents leaving the previous screen painted behind it
• Fixed Agent(type) deny rules and Agent(x,y) allowed-types restrictions not being enforced for named subagent spawns
• Fixed Esc and Ctrl+C not responding while background agents are still running after the main turn ends
• Fixed misaligned option numbers in permission prompts when the option text overflows
• Fixed pressing x on a finished subagent in the agent panel not dismissing it
• Fixed a misleading "MCP server disconnected" notice for intentionally retired tools when resuming older sessions
• Fixed /plugin Installed showing a "more above" indicator when already scrolled to the top
• Fixed ~~strikethrough~~ showing literal tildes in assistant messages instead of rendering as strikethrough
• Fixed --tools allowing feature-gated tools to slip through before flags loaded on a cold first launch
• Fixed background job status in claude agents showing a stale "needs input" message after replying
• Fixed a dark-theme flash when opening a background session from claude agents on a light terminal
• Fixed mouse-selected text staying highlighted after deleting it in claude agents
• Fixed session cost not showing for usage-based Enterprise and Team subscribers
• Fixed agent teams: teammates spawned via tmux/pane backends now inherit the leader's --effort level
• Fixed Workflow agent({schema}) subagents looping forever on repeated schema validation failures instead of aborting after 5 attempts
• Improved claude mcp get and claude mcp remove to suggest the closest configured server name on a typo and truncate long server lists
• Improved memory: the agent is now reminded to compact its MEMORY.md index when nearing the size limit
• Improved skill frontmatter: display-name, default-enabled, fallback, and metadata.* keys now accept kebab-case, snake_case, and camelCase
• Improved malformed SKILL.md YAML frontmatter handling: loads the skill body with empty metadata instead of failing silently
• Changed CLAUDE_CODE_MAX_RETRIES to cap at 15; for unattended sessions, use CLAUDE_CODE_RETRY_WATCHDOG instead
• Changed background subagents to surface permission prompts in the main session instead of auto-denying; the dialog shows which agent is asking, and Esc denies just that tool
• Changed /review <pr> to use the same review engine as /code-review medium

v2.1.185

What's changed

• The stream-stall hint now reads "Waiting for API response · will retry in …" instead of "No response from API · Retrying in …", and triggers after 20s of silence instead of 10s

v2.1.183

What's changed

• Improved auto mode safety: destructive git commands (git reset --hard, git checkout -- ., git clean -fd, git stash drop) are now blocked when you didn't ask to discard local work, git commit --amend is blocked when the commit wasn't made by the agent this session, and terraform destroy/pulumi destroy/cdk destroy are blocked unless you asked for the specific stack
• Added a warning when the requested model is deprecated or automatically updated to a newer model, shown on stderr in print mode (-p) and now also covering models set in agent frontmatter
• Added attribution.sessionUrl setting to omit the claude.ai session link from commits and PRs in web and Remote Control sessions
• Added /config --help to list all available shorthand keys for /config key=value
• Changed /config toggle behavior: Enter and Space both change the selected setting, and Esc now saves and closes instead of reverting
• Removed the startup "setup issues" line under the logo — run /doctor to see configuration issues or use --debug
• Fixed thinking.disabled.display: Extra inputs are not permitted 400 errors on subagent spawns and session-title generation for affected configurations
• Fixed WebSearch returning empty results in subagents
• Fixed the terminal cursor being stranded above the prompt after navigating history in vim mode with the native cursor enabled
• Fixed fullscreen TUI corruption (statusline mid-screen, duplicated spinner rows, merged text) in Windows Terminal under heavy nested-subagent load
• Fixed turns silently completing with no visible output when the model returned only a thinking block; Claude now re-prompts once
• Fixed user-level skills appearing multiple times in slash-command autocomplete when multiple plugins are enabled
• Fixed MCP servers requiring authentication exposing auth-stub tools to the model in headless/SDK mode
• Fixed tmux teammate panes failing to launch when the shell has slow rc-file initialization, and keystrokes typed during agent spawn leaking into the new tmux pane instead of the leader prompt
• Fixed background tasks started by a teammate being killed when the teammate finishes a turn
• Fixed scheduled task and webhook trigger deliveries being treated as keyboard input; they now classify as task notifications and can no longer approve a pending action or set the session title in auto mode
• Fixed focus mode showing "Ran N PostToolUse hooks" timing lines under each response

v2.1.181

What's changed

• Added /config key=value syntax to set any setting from the prompt (e.g. /config thinking=false) — works in interactive, -p, and Remote Control
• Added sandbox.allowAppleEvents opt-in setting that lets sandboxed commands send Apple Events on macOS
• Added CLAUDE_CLIENT_PRESENCE_FILE environment variable: point it at a marker file to suppress mobile push notifications while you're at the machine
• Upgraded the bundled Bun runtime to 1.4
• Improved streaming of long paragraphs: text now appears line-by-line instead of waiting for the first line break
• Improved auto-retry: API connection drops mid-thinking now automatically retry instead of showing "Connection closed while thinking"
• Improved the subagent panel: idle subagents auto-hide after 30s, the list caps at 5 rows with scroll hints, and keyboard hints now show in the footer
• Improved the MCP OAuth browser page to match Claude Code's visual style and auto-close on success
• Changed fullscreen mode URL opening to require Cmd+click (macOS) / Ctrl+click, matching native terminal behavior
• Changed the Improved N memories line to no longer list individual files outside verbose mode
• Fixed prompt caching not reading on custom ANTHROPIC_BASE_URL and on Foundry due to a per-request attestation token changing every turn
• Fixed Write/Edit producing 0-byte or truncated files on network drives and cloud-synced folders
• Fixed open, osascript, and browser-based auth flows failing with error -600 on macOS by adding the Apple Events entitlement
• Fixed a startup regression (~120ms per launch in fresh environments, introduced in 2.1.169): the first prompt no longer waits for the managed-settings fetch when no MCP servers are configured
• Fixed startup blocking with a blank terminal for up to 15 seconds when the account settings fetch is slow on a degraded network
• Fixed startup crash (TypeError: Cannot read properties of null) when .claude.json contains corrupted null project entries
• Fixed macOS TUI freezing at session start (Ctrl+C unresponsive) when Spotlight is busy reindexing
• Fixed long-running idle sessions losing their history when another Claude Code process ran the 30-day transcript cleanup
• Fixed foreground subagents spawning unbounded nested chains; they now respect the same 5-level depth limit as background subagents
• Fixed /recap and conversation forks using the previous model immediately after a model switch
• Fixed subagent "Thinking" duration showing the parent agent's elapsed time instead of the subagent's own
• Fixed subagents blocked on a nested agent showing a ticking elapsed time instead of "waiting" in the agent panel
• Fixed the API retry indicator ("Retrying in 0s · attempt N/10") staying on screen after the retry succeeded
• Fixed AWS awsCredentialExport credentials with a short remaining lifetime causing credential refreshes every minute, and now accepts the JSON shape from aws configure export-credentials
• Fixed claude mcp get/list showing ✓ Connected when tools/list fails; they now show ! Connected · tools fetch failed with the error detail
• Fixed /remote-control leaving a stale "connecting…" line; it now confirms in the transcript once connected
• Fixed ExitWorktree refusing to remove a clean worktree with "Could not verify worktree state" when bare git cannot be resolved on Windows
• Fixed settings changes (such as /effort or /model) failing with ENOENT when ~/.claude/settings.json is a relative symlink under a symlinked ~/.claude
• Fixed IDE selection line numbers in context reminders being off by one (IntelliJ and VS Code)
• Fixed Ctrl+C in fullscreen after a native terminal selection (modifier+drag) overwriting the clipboard with the app's prior selection
• Fixed Ctrl+V showing "No image found in clipboard" instead of pasting when the clipboard contains text
• Fixed agent creation failing with "EEXIST: file already exists" when the agents directory already exists (Windows/OneDrive)
• Fixed AskUserQuestion preview content being cut off at the dialog edge instead of word-wrapping
• Fixed AskUserQuestion multi-select questions silently dropping a typed "Other" free-text answer when submitting
• Fixed /stats "Most active day" and daily token chart dates showing one day early in UTC-negative timezones
• Fixed /copy and copy-on-select on Linux not detecting a clipboard utility installed after Claude Code started
• Fixed tab-indented code rendering with incorrect indentation in the Write (create-file) preview
• Fixed user prompts queued mid-turn not showing a full-width background highlight in the transcript
• Fixed the activity spinner's pulse dwelling on the wrong glyph size in Ghostty

v2.1.179

What's changed

• Fixed mid-stream connection drops: partial responses are now preserved instead of showing a raw error, and the spinner no longer gets stuck at "running tool"
• Fixed mouse-wheel scrolling in WSL2 under Windows Terminal and VS Code (regression in 2.1.172)
• Fixed a sandbox denyRead/allowRead glob over a large directory tree making the Bash tool description enormous and the session unusable on Linux
• Fixed the feedback survey capturing a single-digit reply as a session rating immediately after a turn completes
• Fixed the welcome screen stacking multiple promotional banners — at most one promo now shows per session
• Fixed Ctrl+O not showing the subagent's transcript when viewing a subagent
• Fixed clicking the prompt input not returning focus from the subagent/footer panel
• Fixed remote session background tasks appearing stuck as "still running" between turns
• Improved plugin loading performance in remote sessions

v2.1.178

What's changed

• Added Tool(param:value) syntax for permission rules to match a tool's input parameters (with * wildcard), e.g. Agent(model:opus) to block Opus subagents
• Skills in nested .claude/skills directories now load when working on files there; on a name clash, the nested skill appears as <dir>:<name> so both stay available
• Nested .claude/ directories: the agent, workflow, and output-style closest to the working directory now wins when names collide; project-scope workflow saves now target the closest existing .claude/workflows/
• Improved auto mode: subagent spawns are now evaluated by the classifier before launch, closing a gap where a subagent could request a blocked action without review
• Improved /doctor with consistent flat tree layout across all sections, clearer section status icons, and highlighted command names
• Improved the skill listing truncation warning to show how many skill descriptions are affected
• Changed the workflow prompt keyword to use a purple shimmer highlight and trigger only on explicit phrases like "run a workflow" or "workflow:", not on any mention of the word
• Improved Remote Control error messages: connection failures now show a persistent red "/rc failed" indicator in the footer, and the "not yet enabled" error now explains whether it's a gate, a check failure, stale entitlement, or org policy
• /bug now requires a description before submitting, and no longer uses model-refusal text as the GitHub issue title
• Fixed a crash (out-of-memory) when the CLI inherits a stale websocket/OAuth file-descriptor environment variable from a parent process
• Fixed Claude in Chrome silently failing to connect when the OAuth token belongs to a different account than the Claude Code login
• Fixed nested .claude/skills skills with directory-qualified names being blocked by permission prompts in non-interactive runs
• Fixed several subagent issues: viewing a subagent's transcript now shows tool results and live progress, messages sent while it finishes its turn are no longer dropped, and backgrounding a running subagent (ctrl+b) no longer restarts it from scratch
• Fixed claude agents workers failing with 401 Invalid bearer token when the daemon was started from a shell with a custom API gateway via ANTHROPIC_BASE_URL and ANTHROPIC_AUTH_TOKEN
• Fixed compaction not honoring --fallback-model: compaction now falls back to the configured fallback model chain on overload or model-availability errors
• Fixed model requests continuing to fail with auth errors after credentials were refreshed outside the session, due to a stale cached request configuration
• Fixed background sessions created with /bg or ←← after a turn finished showing "Working" forever in the agents list
• Fixed CLAUDE_CODE_PLUGIN_KEEP_MARKETPLACE_ON_FAILURE=1 preventing fresh marketplace installs from cloning
• Fixed MCP server-level specs (mcp__server, mcp__server__*, mcp__*) in subagent disallowedTools being silently ignored
• Fixed vim mode undo: u now steps through NORMAL/VISUAL-mode commands one at a time instead of merging commands in quick succession into a single undo step
• Fixed statusline links with custom URI schemes (e.g. vscode://) not opening when clicked in claude agents
• [VSCode] Fixed pressing Esc to dismiss a CJK IME candidate window canceling the running Claude task

v2.1.177

v2.1.176

What's changed

• Session titles are now generated in the language of your conversation (set the language setting to pin a specific language)
• Added footerLinksRegexes setting for regex-matched link badges in the footer row, configurable via user or managed settings
• Improved Bedrock credential caching: credentials from awsCredentialExport are now cached until their Expiration instead of a fixed 1 hour
• Fixed availableModels enforcement: alias model picks can no longer be redirected to a blocked model via ANTHROPIC_DEFAULT_*_MODEL environment variables, and /fast now refuses to toggle when it would switch to a model outside the allowlist
• Fixed auto mode failing on Fable 5 for organizations without Opus 4.8 enabled — the classifier now falls back to the best available Opus model
• Fixed hook if conditions for Read/Edit/Write tool paths: documented patterns like Edit(src/**), Read(~/.ssh/**), and Read(.env) now match correctly
• Fixed Linux sandbox failing to start when .claude/settings.json is a symlink with an absolute target
• Fixed /copy and mouse-selection copy not reaching the system clipboard inside tmux over SSH, and tmux paste buffer not loading on versions older than 3.2
• Fixed Remote Control connecting from web/mobile silently switching the session's model
• Fixed Remote Control disconnect notifications showing a bare numeric code instead of a human-readable reason, and connection failures adding a duplicate line to the conversation transcript
• Fixed Remote Control sessions not disconnecting when you sign in to a different account
• Fixed /cd and worktree moves leaving the session reporting the previous directory's git branch
• Fixed claude agents: pressing back in one window no longer detaches other windows attached to the same session
• Fixed backgrounded sessions showing "Working" forever when /bg mid-turn had nothing left to continue
• Fixed background agent search by PR URL: PRs opened during scheduled wakeups or while a job was blocked now appear in claude agents search
• Fixed the agents view input showing no text cursor on Windows
• Fixed claude --bg -cn <name> not seeding the session name
• Fixed background sessions to neutralize Windows network paths in persisted state before respawn
• Fixed background-session respawn rejecting malformed resume IDs from corrupted state files
• Fixed the Windows background-service daemon not starting when ~/.claude/daemon has the ReadOnly attribute set
• Fixed cloud sessions failing with "Could not resolve authentication method" when idle for too long before being claimed
• Background sessions now show clearer guidance when a window left open across an auto-update can't submit a reply, and claude daemon status explains version-skew behavior

v2.1.175

What's changed

• Added enforceAvailableModels managed setting — when enabled, the availableModels allowlist also constrains the Default model (a Default that would resolve to a disallowed model now falls back to the first allowed model), and user or project settings can no longer widen a managed availableModels list

v2.1.174

What's changed

• Added wheelScrollAccelerationEnabled setting to disable mouse-wheel scroll acceleration in fullscreen mode
• Fixed the /model picker hiding the model family that Default resolves to — Opus now appears as its own row on Max/Team Premium/Enterprise plans, Sonnet on Pro/Team plans, and Opus on pay-as-you-go API accounts
• Fixed /model picker showing a hardcoded Sonnet version label when ANTHROPIC_DEFAULT_SONNET_MODEL pins a different Sonnet
• Fixed the "Fable 5 is now consuming usage credits" banner incorrectly showing for enterprise accounts with usage-based billing
• Fixed Bedrock GovCloud regions (us-gov-*) deriving the wrong inference profile prefix (global instead of us-gov), causing 400 errors on derived model IDs
• Fixed background sessions inheriting another session's ANTHROPIC_* provider env (gateway URL, custom headers, /model aliases) from the shell that started the background daemon
• Fixed a 1-2 second pause when exiting Claude Code shortly after a shell command was interrupted or killed on macOS and Linux
• Fixed git commit co-author attribution showing an incorrect model name for some models
• Fixed the /advisor dialog pre-selecting a saved advisor model that is blocked by the availableModels allowlist
• Fixed skill hot-reload re-sending the entire skill listing when a single skill changed; only changed skills are now re-announced
• Fixed Workflow tool agent() subagents missing per-agent attribution headers
• [VSCode] Added usage attribution to the Account & usage dialog (/usage) showing cache misses, long context, subagents, and per-skill/agent/plugin/MCP breakdowns over the last 24h or 7d
• Fixed pre-warmed background workers failing with "Could not resolve authentication method" when claimed after sitting idle

v2.1.173

What's changed

• Fixed Fable 5 model names with a [1m] suffix not being normalized — Fable 5 includes 1M context by default, so the suffix is now stripped automatically
• Fixed a spurious "sandbox dependencies missing" startup warning on Windows when sandbox was enabled in settings

v2.1.172

What's changed

• Sub-agents can now spawn their own sub-agents (up to 5 levels deep)
• Amazon Bedrock now reads the AWS region from ~/.aws config files when AWS_REGION isn't set, matching AWS SDK precedence; /status shows where the region came from
• Added a search bar when browsing a marketplace's plugins in /plugin
• Added model attribute to the claude_code.lines_of_code.count OTEL metric
• Fixed sessions using 1M context without usage credits getting permanently stuck — the session now automatically compacts back under the standard context limit
• Fixed a repeating "an image in the conversation could not be processed and was removed" error when the conversation contained multiple images
• Fixed the agents view keeping a session under Working with a busy spinner for up to 30 seconds after the worker replied
• Fixed background agents potentially reading another directory's project settings (.mcp.json approvals, trust) when dispatched onto a pre-warmed worker
• Fixed background-session attach failing with EAUTH for sessions started on an older version after the daemon auto-updated
• Fixed a background sub-agent staying stuck as "active" in the agent panel after a nested agent it spawned was stopped
• Fixed /model suggestions in the claude agents dispatch input rendering with a misleading slash prefix and showing models disabled for your org
• Fixed availableModels restrictions not being applied to subagent model overrides, the agent dispatch model picker, and the advisor model
• Fixed availableModels allowlists hiding the /model picker's Opus and Sonnet 1M rows when entries use version-specific IDs like claude-opus-4-8
• Fixed the /model picker on Bedrock offering models the provider doesn't serve — selecting one silently switched the session model and lit the selection marker on multiple rows
• Fixed model IDs getting a doubled 1M-context suffix (e.g. [1M][1m]) when ANTHROPIC_DEFAULT_OPUS_MODEL already includes one
• Fixed opusplan model setting not shipping with 1M context in plan mode for entitled users; the opusplan[1m] workaround now also correctly switches to Opus in plan mode
• Fixed WebFetch(domain:*.example.com) wildcard domain rules never matching subdomains in allow, deny, and ask position, and file permission rules with mid-pattern wildcards (e.g. Read(secrets-*/config.json)) being rejected at startup
• Fixed up-arrow prompt history showing the main agent's prompts while a subagent's chat tab is open
• Fixed memory recall not finding mounted team memory stores (CLAUDE_MEMORY_STORES) in remote sessions
• Fixed workflow validation rejecting scripts whose prompt strings or comments merely mention Date.now()/Math.random()
• Disable mouse tracking on Windows consoles that don't fully support it
• Fixed the /plugin marketplace list losing its cursor after backing out of a long plugin list, and Esc from the plugin browser returning to the wrong tab
• Improved performance in long conversations by removing redundant message normalization and avoiding full message-history transforms when streaming tool-use state is unchanged
• Reduced idle CPU usage: /goal status chip no longer re-renders the terminal at 5 Hz while idle, and fewer UI re-renders while subagents run in parallel
• Improved Claude in Chrome tool loading: browser tools now load in a single batched call instead of one per tool
• Improved the non-interactive Usage Policy refusal message to suggest starting a new session or changing your model
• /code-review now keeps the ultra option visible when you're not signed in to claude.ai, with an explanation that the cloud review requires a claude.ai account
• Shortened the Remote Control footer indicator to "/rc active" and hid it on narrow terminals
• Stopped promoting /loop in remote sessions, where pending loops don't keep the container alive
• [VSCode] Fixed PowerShell tool calls rendering as raw JSON instead of a proper command display and permission dialog, and stripped ANSI escape codes from displayed shell output

v2.1.170

What's changed

• Introducing Claude Fable 5: a Mythos-class model that we’ve made safe for general use. Fable’s capabilities exceed those of any model we’ve ever made generally available. Update to version 2.1.170 for access. https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-fable-5-mythos-5
• Fixed sessions not saving transcripts (and not appearing in --resume) when launched from the VS Code integrated terminal or any shell that inherited Claude Code environment variables.

v2.1.169

What's changed

• Added --safe-mode flag (and CLAUDE_CODE_SAFE_MODE) to start Claude Code with all customizations (CLAUDE.md, plugins, skills, hooks, MCP servers) disabled for troubleshooting
• Added /cd command to move a session to a new working directory without breaking the prompt cache mid-session
• Added a disableBundledSkills setting and CLAUDE_CODE_DISABLE_BUNDLED_SKILLS environment variable to hide bundled skills, workflows, and built-in slash commands from the model
• Fixed Up/Down arrows jumping to command history past the wrapped rows of a long input line — they now move through each visual row first, and history recall enters at the near edge
• Fixed enterprise managed MCP policies (allowedMcpServers/deniedMcpServers) not being enforced on reconnect, IDE-typed configs, --mcp-config servers during the first session after install, or before remote settings loaded; also fixed slow cold starts for orgs without remote settings
• Fixed a ~30-50ms UI stall at the start of each turn for macOS users logged in with claude.ai credentials
• Fixed claude -p being slow or appearing to hang on Windows while waiting for the slash-command/skill scan (regression in 2.1.161)
• Fixed Remote Control getting stuck on "reconnecting" after resuming a session when an OAuth token refresh happened at the same time
• Fixed Git Credential Manager's "Connect to GitHub" popup appearing on Windows at startup when background git commands ran without cached credentials
• Fixed footer hints (e.g. "esc to interrupt") not showing for users with a custom statusline
• Fixed stale permission and dialog prompts reappearing every time you reattached to a remote session whose worker had died while waiting on them
• Fixed claude agents --json omitting blocked and just-dispatched background sessions; added --all to include completed sessions, plus new id and state fields
• Fixed agents view leaving a stale/garbled frame after navigating back from an agent on WSL in Windows Terminal
• Fixed background agents ignoring project-level settings env values (e.g. ANTHROPIC_MODEL) when dispatched onto a pre-warmed worker
• Fixed MCPB plugin cache being spuriously invalidated on Windows, causing unnecessary re-extraction
• Fixed plugin .in_use PID lock files accumulating without bound; stale markers from crashed sessions are now swept once per day
• Fixed untrusted project settings being able to set OTEL client-certificate paths without trust confirmation
• /workflows now opens immediately even while a turn is in progress
• Improved TaskCreate reliability: malformed inputs are repaired automatically and validation errors for unloaded tools include the schema
• Improved the error message shown when your organization has disabled API key authentication, with guidance based on where the active API key comes from
• Reduced CPU usage while responses stream and during spinner animations
• Restored a default 5-minute idle timeout on Vertex/Foundry so a stalled stream aborts instead of hanging indefinitely; set API_FORCE_IDLE_TIMEOUT=0 to opt out
• Remote-managed settings with an invalid entry now apply their remaining valid policies and surface the validation error, instead of silently dropping the whole payload
• Background sessions now preserve --ide, --chrome, --bare, --remote-control, and other flags across retire→wake, and respawn state validation was hardened
• Background sessions are now told that shared-checkout edits are blocked until they enter a worktree, avoiding a wasted rejected edit before EnterWorktree
• The "CLAUDE.md is too long" warning threshold now scales with the model's context window
• Auto-updater on Windows now stops retrying within a session once claude.exe is held by another process
• Improved color contrast for skill tags in the slash-command menu
• Promo credit claims for Apple/Google-billed subscribers without a payment method now explain where to add one
• Added a tip suggesting claude agents when running multiple concurrent sessions

v2.1.168

What's changed

• Bug fixes and reliability improvements

v2.1.167

What's changed

• Bug fixes and reliability improvements

v2.1.166

What's changed

• Added fallbackModel setting to configure up to three fallback models tried in order when the primary model is overloaded or unavailable; --fallback-model now also applies to interactive sessions
• Added glob pattern support in deny rule tool-name position ("*" denies all tools); allow rules reject non-MCP globs, and unknown tool names in deny rules warn at startup
• Hardened cross-session messaging: messages relayed via SendMessage from other Claude sessions no longer carry user authority — receivers refuse relayed permission requests, and auto mode blocks them
• MAX_THINKING_TOKENS=0, --thinking disabled, and the per-model thinking toggle now disable thinking on models that think by default via the Claude API (3P providers unchanged)
• Claude Code now retries a turn once on the fallback model when the API rejects an unexpected non-retryable error; auth, rate-limit, request-size, and transport errors still surface immediately
• claude update now announces the target version before downloading instead of going silent
• claude agents: typing a URL into the list now filters to the session whose first prompt contained it
• Fixed a recurring "image could not be processed" error and extra token usage when an unprocessable image was sent in a session
• Fixed remote sessions becoming permanently stuck when a brief backend disruption occurred during worker registration at startup
• Fixed flickering in JetBrains IDE terminals (IntelliJ, PyCharm, WebStorm, etc.) on 2026.1+ by enabling synchronized output
• Fixed Shift+non-ASCII characters (e.g. Shift+ä → Ä) being dropped in terminals using the Kitty keyboard protocol (WezTerm, Ghostty, kitty)
• Fixed PowerShell command validation occasionally hanging far past its time budget on Windows when a killed process's children held its output pipes
• Fixed orphaned claude --bg-pty-host processes spinning at 100% CPU after the daemon dies while connected on macOS
• Fixed voice mode requiring /login to clear a stale auth check after toggling /voice
• Fixed managed settings with an invalid entry silently disabling enforcement of their remaining valid policies
• Fixed managed-settings allowedMcpServers/deniedMcpServers predicates not matching when they use ${VAR} references
• Fixed background agent sessions that entered a git worktree crash-looping with "No conversation found" when reopened from claude agents
• Fixed duplicated thinking text in the Ctrl+O transcript view while streaming
• Fixed /doctor showing a contradictory failed "Not inside a remote session" check when run inside a remote session
• Fixed the cursor sticking at the end of the first line when typing a multiline prompt in the claude agents dispatch and reply inputs
• Fixed blank lines appearing between background agent rows in the task list on terminals without Unicode support

v2.1.165

What's changed

• Bug fixes and reliability improvements

v2.1.163

What's changed

• Added requiredMinimumVersion and requiredMaximumVersion managed settings — Claude Code refuses to start if its version is outside the allowed range and directs the user to an approved version
• Added /plugin list command to list installed plugins, with --enabled/--disabled filters
• Added a "c to copy" shortcut to /btw that copies the raw markdown answer to the clipboard, preserving formatting when pasted elsewhere
• Hooks: Stop and SubagentStop hooks can now return hookSpecificOutput.additionalContext to give Claude feedback and keep the turn going without being labeled a hook error
• Skills: added \$ escape syntax to include a literal $ before a digit in command bodies
• stdio MCP servers now receive the same CLAUDE_CODE_SESSION_ID as hooks/Bash on --resume
• Fixed claude -p hanging forever after its final result when a backgrounded command never exits — background shells are now stopped ~5s after the result once stdin closes
• Fixed claude -p failing with "ANTHROPIC_API_KEY required" on Bedrock/Vertex/Foundry when CI=true and no Anthropic API key is set
• Fixed bash commands failing under bazel and EDR-protected Go workflows: $TMPDIR was overridden to /tmp/claude-{uid} for all commands instead of only sandboxed ones (regression in 2.1.154)
• Fixed Bash commands failing on Windows with "EEXIST: file already exists" on the session-env directory when it has the read-only attribute or is inside OneDrive
• Fixed org-managed permission rules not applying for the entire session when the managed settings fetch completed during startup on a fresh config directory
• Fixed background sessions in claude agents losing their running background tasks when reattached after a Claude Code update
• Fixed terminal misalignment and a multi-second hang when exiting the agent view by pressing Esc
• Fixed clicking Stop on a background-task chip in the desktop app not clearing the chip when the underlying process was already gone
• Fixed keyboard input becoming permanently unresponsive after a paste operation whose end marker is dropped by the terminal
• Fixed hook if: "Bash(...)" conditions firing on every Bash command containing $() or $VAR; the pattern now matches against commands inside subshells and backticks too
• Fixed deny rules on home-directory paths (e.g. Read(~/Desktop/**)) not blocking Bash commands that reference the path via $HOME
• Fixed a stray "(no content)" line left in the transcript after closing panel dialogs like /mcp and /plugins
• Background agent sessions now update to a new Claude Code version in the background, so opening a session after an update no longer waits on a cold restart
• Clearer descriptions for built-in commands and skills in the / menu
• The subscription-switch suggestion now shows in the startup announcement slot instead of a toast
• claude agents dispatching from the state-grouped view now starts the session in the directory the agent view was opened from

v2.1.162

What's changed

• claude agents --json now includes waitingFor showing what a waiting session is blocked on (e.g. permission prompt)
• --tools: explicitly listing Grep/Glob now provides the dedicated search tools on native builds with embedded search (previously these names were silently ignored)
• /effort now confirms when your chosen level will persist as the default for new sessions
• Clicking a slash command in the autocomplete menu now fills it into your prompt instead of running it immediately; press Enter to run
• Remote Control now shows as a persistent footer pill (with a link to the session) instead of a startup message
• Renamed Windsurf to Devin Desktop in the /ide menu, /terminal-setup, and /scroll-speed, following the editor's rebrand
• Fixed a silent startup hang when the config directory is read-only or unwritable — Claude Code now starts with in-memory config and surfaces startup errors instead of showing a blank screen
• Fixed WebFetch permission rules not being applied to built-in preapproved domains; explicit WebFetch(domain:...) deny/ask/allow rules now take precedence over the preapproved-host auto-allow
• Fixed Windows permission rules never matching when spelled with backslashes (~\, \\server\share) or case-variant paths, and Read deny rules not hiding files from Glob/Grep results
• Fixed an interrupt (Esc) sent at the very start of a turn being silently dropped in stream-json/SDK sessions, leaving the turn running with no "Interrupted" feedback
• Fixed API 400 no low surrogate in string errors for classifier side-queries and MCP server descriptions containing emoji near a truncation boundary
• Fixed MCP per-server timeout config values below 1000 ms being floored to a 1-second watchdog that aborted every tool call; sub-1000 ms values are now ignored (falling back to MCP_TOOL_TIMEOUT or default), and claude mcp get annotates them accordingly
• Fixed the LSP tool's workspaceSymbol operation returning no results; it now accepts a query parameter and passes it to the language server
• Fixed claude agents cutting live status text (tool args, replies, prompts, exec output) at 60–120 columns on wide terminals; the status detail now uses the full terminal width
• Fixed claude agents truncating long session names at 40 columns; the name column now grows with terminal width
• Fixed claude agents attach occasionally bouncing straight back to the session list on the first try after a background-service restart
• Fixed claude agents Ctrl+V image paste doing nothing in the dispatch input and the session reply box; pasting with no image now shows a hint
• Fixed backgrounding a session with ← silently losing the conversation when the background service cannot start; the session stays in the list as a failed row you can wake with Enter
• Fixed replies from the agents view that fail to send being lost; they are now queued for delivery on the next session start
• Fixed cross-session messaging (SendMessage) silently breaking when CLAUDE_CODE_TMPDIR or $TMPDIR points at a deep directory
• Fixed opening a running background session from claude agents stalling for 5 seconds before attaching
• Quieter startup: notices group by severity, and session info and announcements share a single line per launch
• Startup warnings rewritten to be shorter and clearer, each with a concrete fix
• Launch-prompt warnings (deep link/pre-filled prompt) now stay pinned below the input until you act instead of scrolling away
• Failed turns now show a compact warning line instead of a multi-line red error block
• Improved background service startup and claude update verification to wait out endpoint-security scanning of new binaries instead of failing after 5 seconds
• Background dispatch spawn failures now report the error class name when no errno is available
• Removed the "Claude in Chrome enabled" and "marketplace installed" startup messages; model auto-updates and the team-onboarding tip now show as quiet notices under the logo

v2.1.161

What's changed

• OTEL_RESOURCE_ATTRIBUTES values are now included as labels on metric datapoints, so you can slice usage metrics by custom dimensions like team or repo
• claude agents rows now show done/total before the detail when work is fanned out; peek shows the longest-running item
• /mcp now collapses claude.ai connectors you've never signed in to behind a "Show unused connectors" row
• Parallel tool calls: a failed Bash command no longer cancels other calls in the same batch — each tool returns its own result independently
• Fullscreen mode: clipboard now uses wl-copy/xclip/xsel on Linux when available, copies to both the clipboard and PRIMARY selection for middle-click paste, and the "hold {key} for native selection" hint now shows the correct key per terminal
• Fixed the /effort dialog, workflow animations, and prompt keyword shimmer not honoring the "Reduce motion" setting
• Fixed forceLoginOrgUUID/forceLoginMethod managed-settings policies blocking third-party provider sessions (Bedrock, Vertex, Foundry, Mantle) alongside the org pin (regression in 2.1.146)
• Fixed background subagent output corrupting claude -p stdout when using --output-format text or json
• Fixed /usage-credits starting a re-login for Team and Enterprise admins instead of pointing to the organization's usage settings page
• Fixed /autofix-pr reporting "cannot run on the default branch" when the session is inside a git worktree or another repository
• Fixed --resume picker not showing sessions from the current directory when it isn't a git worktree (e.g., jj workspaces)
• Fixed Windows hooks that invoke bash explicitly (e.g., /usr/bin/bash script.sh) failing with "command not found" or "cannot execute binary file"
• Fixed OpenTelemetry log events (user_prompt, api_request, tool_result, tool_decision) being silently dropped when emitted before telemetry initialization completed
• Fixed claude mcp list/get/add printing secrets to the terminal: ${VAR} references are no longer expanded, and credential headers and URL secrets are redacted
• Fixed Workflow agents spawned with isolation: "worktree" in background sessions being blocked from editing files inside their own worktree
• Fixed background sessions dispatched from claude agents booting on a stale model from the daemon's environment instead of the model in settings.json
• Fixed a potential crash when rendering Write tool results after resuming a session
• Fixed completed subagents getting stuck showing as running when an error occurs while finalizing their result
• Fixed EADDRINUSE errors from tools that bind Unix sockets under $TMPDIR when CLAUDE_CODE_TMPDIR is set to a deep path
• Improved terminal rendering performance by stabilizing the layout engine's JIT compilation profile
• Improved rendering performance for large file writes
• [VSCode] Added a tip suggesting disabling terminal GPU acceleration (or running /terminal-setup) to fix garbled glyphs

v2.1.160

What's changed

• Added a prompt before writing to shell startup files (.zshenv, .zlogin, .bash_login) and ~/.config/git/, which could otherwise lead to unintended command execution
• acceptEdits mode now prompts before writing build-tool config files that grant code execution (.npmrc, .yarnrc*, bunfig.toml, .bazelrc, .pre-commit-config.yaml, .devcontainer/, etc.)
• Edit no longer requires a separate Read after viewing a file with grep: single-file grep/egrep/fgrep commands now satisfy the read-before-edit check
• Fixed copy-on-select not writing to the Windows clipboard on WSL — now uses PowerShell interop instead of OSC 52, which terminals like MobaXterm don't support
• Fixed restoring a completed session from claude agents dropping chat history and re-running the original prompt
• Fixed background sessions re-attached after overnight retire losing their conversation and re-running the original prompt
• Fixed claude --bg occasionally failing with "socket missing" when the background daemon was cold-starting on a loaded machine
• Fixed an issue on Windows where the directory a background session was started in could not be deleted after claude rm until the background daemon exited
• Fixed background agents that resumed work being shown under Completed in the agents list
• Fixed claude agents freezing for several seconds when returning to the session list due to the auto-updater re-checking on every exit
• Fixed Esc, arrow keys, and typing becoming unresponsive on Windows when attached to a background session or in the agent view while the host is under heavy CPU load
• Fixed background agents emitting terminal sync-output markers to terminals that don't support them (Apple Terminal, tmux), causing render artifacts when entering a running agent
• Fixed mouse wheel scrolling prompt history instead of the transcript right after opening a session from the agents list
• Fixed CJK IME composition appearing at the bottom-left of the screen instead of at the input caret in the claude agents view
• Fixed valid file:///C:/... links being rewritten to a broken path on Windows terminals with hyperlink support
• Fixed voice mode failing to connect when the project directory or branch name contains non-ASCII or special characters
• Fixed the auto mode unavailability message on third-party providers (Bedrock/Vertex/Foundry) to point to the CLAUDE_CODE_ENABLE_AUTO_MODE opt-in instead of incorrectly blaming the model
• Fixed /effort ultracode incorrectly blaming the dynamic workflows setting when the model cannot run xhigh; ultracode is no longer offered on models that do not support it
• Fixed model-not-found errors suggesting --model when running via the SDK or other hosts where the CLI flag doesn't apply
• Fixed Claude's past replies disappearing from scrollback when resuming a brief mode session with brief mode turned off
• Fixed vim mode p pasting on the line below instead of at the cursor when the register was yanked with v$
• Improved performance of opening recently-inactive background agent sessions in claude agents
• Improved auto mode classifier latency by reducing reasoning on routine actions, lowering the chance of "could not evaluate this action" blocks
• Improved background-session teardown (claude rm/stop, idle reap) to send SIGTERM to running shell subprocesses before SIGKILL, so cleanup handlers run
• Removed CLAUDE_CODE_OPUS_4_6_FAST_MODE_OVERRIDE; the environment variable is now a no-op
• Removed the JetBrains plugin install suggestion from startup
• Renamed the dynamic-workflow trigger keyword from workflow to ultracode. The word "workflow" no longer triggers a run; asking for one in your own words still works. The trigger keyword is highlighted in violet in the prompt input

v2.1.159

What's changed

• Internal infrastructure improvements (no user-facing changes)

v2.1.158

What's changed

• Auto mode is now available on Bedrock, Vertex, and Foundry for Opus 4.7 and Opus 4.8. Opt in by setting CLAUDE_CODE_ENABLE_AUTO_MODE=1

v2.1.157

What's changed

• Plugins in .claude/skills directories are now automatically loaded, no marketplace required
• Added claude plugin init <name> to scaffold a new plugin in .claude/skills
• Added autocomplete for /plugin arguments: subcommands, installed plugin names, and plugins from known marketplaces
• claude agents: the agent field in settings.json is now honored for dispatched sessions, with --agent <name> to override it
• EnterWorktree can now switch between Claude-managed worktrees mid-session
• tool_decision telemetry events now include tool_parameters (bash commands, MCP/skill names) when OTEL_LOG_TOOL_DETAILS=1
• Worktrees managed by Claude are now left unlocked when the agent finishes, so git worktree remove/prune can clean them up
• Fixed unprocessable images (zero-byte, corrupt) attached via paste, MCP, or dialog crashing the request instead of becoming a text placeholder
• Fixed sandbox network permission prompts appearing in auto and bypass-permissions mode when using the desktop app, IDE extensions, or SDK
• Fixed claude agents completed sessions not retiring when an idle subagent was still parked or had leaked a backgrounded shell
• Fixed claude agents pressing Esc not cancelling a slow "opening…", leaving the list unresponsive
• Fixed background agent worktrees under .claude/worktrees/ being orphaned after the 30-day job retention sweep
• Fixed background sessions re-attached after a sleep/wake not telling the model the correct date
• Fixed copy-on-select in claude agents not reaching the system clipboard inside tmux with set-clipboard on (regression in 2.1.153)
• Fixed --resume not reporting background subagents that were running when the previous Claude Code process exited
• Fixed the --resume session picker leaving its contents on the terminal after exiting in fullscreen mode
• Fixed --worktree and --worktree --tmux returning to the canonical repo root instead of the current linked worktree
• Fixed the /model picker showing an incorrect "Newer version available" hint when the selected model is already the newest in its family; the pinned-model row now shows the model's description instead of its raw ID
• Fixed literal markdown markers (backticks, asterisks) appearing in the in-progress message text in fullscreen mode
• Fixed the terminal freezing after approving the managed-settings security dialog at startup
• Fixed a rare duplicate line appearing in scrollback after the terminal UI redraws
• Fixed right-click paste duplicating the clipboard in the VS Code, Cursor, and Windsurf integrated terminals
• WSL: fixed image paste (alt+v keybinding), screenshot paste on Windows 11, and added support for dragging images from Windows Explorer
• Improved performance of long and resumed conversations by eliminating redundant message-rendering recomputations
• /terminal-setup now disables GPU acceleration in VS Code/Cursor/Windsurf integrated terminals to prevent garbled-text rendering
• The Feature of the Week credit-claim status now appears as a notification in the status area instead of a line above the prompt
• claude agents: slash-command autocomplete in the dispatch input now matches substrings
• Removed the "bash commands will be sandboxed" startup banner — sandbox status still shows in /status and when a command is blocked
• Removed the "/ide for …" startup hint toast
• [IDE] Fixed clicking Stop while a background subagent is running not actually stopping it
• [VSCode] Fixed the fast mode indicator not appearing on Opus 4.8
• Pressing backspace right after a workflow trigger keyword now dismisses the workflow request (same as alt+w) instead of deleting a character
• Added a "Workflow keyword trigger" setting in /config to stop the word "workflow" in a prompt from triggering a dynamic workflow

v2.1.156

What's changed

• Fixed an issue when using Opus 4.8 where thinking blocks were modified, leading to API errors.

v2.1.154

What's changed

• Opus 4.8 is here! Now defaults to high effort · /effort xhigh for your hardest tasks
• Introducing dynamic workflows: ask Claude to create a workflow and it orchestrates work across tens to hundreds of agents in the background, so you can take on larger, more complex tasks. Run /workflows to view your runs
• Fast mode on Opus 4.8 is now available at a fraction of its previous cost: 2x the standard rate for 2.5x the speed
• The lean system prompt is now the default for all models except Haiku, Sonnet, and Opus 4.7 and earlier
• Claude now reserves the multiple-choice question prompt for decisions it genuinely cannot make itself, instead of asking when it already has enough context to proceed
• /simplify now runs a cleanup-only review (reuse, simplification, efficiency, altitude) and applies the fixes, instead of running the full /code-review --fix bug-hunting review
• Renamed the /effort slider labels from "Speed"/"Intelligence" to "Faster"/"Smarter" for clarity
• claude agents: type ! <command> to run a shell command as a background session you can attach to and detach from. Also available as claude --bg --exec '<command>'
• claude agents: /logout now signs you out instead of being sent to a background session
• ←← to open the agents view now works on Bedrock, Vertex, Foundry, and with telemetry disabled
• Claude in Chrome: pick which connected browser to use via /chrome → "Select browser…", or in-chat when a browser action runs with multiple connected
• Plugins can now declare defaultEnabled: false in plugin.json or a marketplace entry; enable them with /plugin or claude plugin enable. Dependencies of enabled plugins are still enabled automatically
• The /plugin Discover tab now pins plugins whose relevance signals match the current directory with a "suggested for this directory" annotation
• Streaming tool execution is now always enabled, including when telemetry is disabled or on Bedrock/Vertex/Foundry (previously behind a feature flag)
• Stdio MCP server subprocesses now receive CLAUDE_CODE_SESSION_ID and CLAUDECODE=1 in their environment
• claude mcp list/get now show unapproved .mcp.json servers as ⏸ Pending approval instead of auto-approving and connecting when output is piped
• /remote-control autocomplete now shows "Disconnect Remote Control" when Remote Control is already active
• Added Claude Opus 4.8 support and 4.7 → 4.8 migration guidance to the /claude-api skill
• Deprecated CLAUDE_CODE_OPUS_4_6_FAST_MODE_OVERRIDE (will be removed on 06/01). To use fast mode on Opus 4.6, switch with /model claude-opus-4-6[1m] and then /fast on
• Improved the auto-mode classifier's detection of data exfiltration, particularly bulk transfers of repository contents
• Fixed rm -rf $HOME not being blocked as a dangerous path when HOME has a trailing slash
• Fixed $TMPDIR resolving to different directories in sandboxed vs unsandboxed Bash commands within the same session
• Fixed unreadable highlighted-row text in claude agents when the Claude Code theme doesn't match the terminal background
• Fixed background-agent completion notifications triggering premature "out of context" behavior on some 1M-context models
• Fixed background-session classifier losing the user's goal when a scheduled /command fires
• Fixed pinned background sessions respawning every minute after a Claude Code update, causing repeated agent-start notifications and process churn at idle
• Fixed background sessions stuck at "blocked", "running", or "working" not retiring after the idle grace period
• Fixed subagents in background sessions bypassing the worktree-isolation guard and writing to the shared checkout
• Fixed orphaned claude --bg-pty-host processes spinning at 100% CPU after the daemon exits on macOS
• Fixed number key shortcuts not working for options shown below the divider in option dialogs
• Fixed worktree.baseRef: "head" resolving to the main checkout's HEAD instead of the current worktree's HEAD when spawning subagents or calling EnterWorktree from inside a linked worktree
• Fixed a stray leading space on wrapped lines when the previous line ended exactly at the terminal width
• Fixed intermittent terminal rendering corruption in VS Code by capping the number of distinct colors the thinking spinner produces
• Fixed plan file names including [Image #N] / [Pasted text #N] placeholders when a plan-mode prompt starts with pasted images or text
• Fixed a phantom expand/click affordance on colored tool output: short ANSI-colored lines that fit on screen no longer show a "ctrl+o to expand" hint
• Fixed a single invalid allowedMcpServers/deniedMcpServers entry in managed settings discarding all managed-settings policy; the bad entry is now dropped with a claude doctor warning
• Fixed API 400 errors on models that don't support the effort parameter when CLAUDE_CODE_ALWAYS_ENABLE_EFFORT is set
• Windows: Fixed update failures caused by claude.exe being in use showing a generic error instead of telling you to close other sessions and retry
• Removed the stale "& for background" hint from the shortcuts help panel
• [VSCode] Auto mode no longer requires the bypass-permissions setting to appear in the mode picker, and a dismissable notice on the new-session screen explains auto mode the first time it's active
• Fixed the task panel below the prompt showing a stray unselectable "main" row when only a workflow is running
• Fixed /mcp tools list and tool detail rendering when MCP servers have long or multi-line tool names or long descriptions
• Fixed the /model picker not showing fast mode pricing on the Default option for API (pay-as-you-go) users when fast mode is on
• Fixed auto mode incorrectly blocking actions with "could not evaluate this action" when the safety classifier ran out of output tokens while reasoning

v2.1.153

What's changed

• Added skipLfs option to github/git plugin marketplace sources to skip Git LFS downloads during clone and update
• Claude Code now shows a one-time notice when your npm global install can't auto-update; /doctor lists the fixes
• Status line commands now receive COLUMNS and LINES environment variables so scripts can size output to the terminal width
• claude agents: autocomplete in the dispatch input now suggests native slash commands and bundled skills, not just project skills
• claude agents: PR column now shows PR #N for a single PR or N PRs for multiple
• claude doctor now shows the result of your last update attempt
• Combined the separate "needs authentication" startup notifications for MCP servers and connectors into a single message
• macOS: background agents now appear as "Claude Code" in Privacy & Security and keep their permission grants across upgrades
• Fixed stateful MCP servers without the optional GET SSE stream reconnect-looping on tools/list (regression in v2.1.147)
• Fixed a regression where a custom API gateway could receive the user's Anthropic OAuth credential instead of the gateway's own token
• Fixed subagent (Agent tool) frontmatter MCP servers ignoring --strict-mcp-config, --bare, remote mode, enterprise managed MCP config, and managed-settings MCP server allow/deny policies
• --strict-mcp-config no longer strips inline mcpServers from explicitly-passed agent definitions (--agents / SDK agents), and blocked subagent MCP servers now surface a visible warning
• Fixed the Windows PowerShell installer reporting "Installation complete!" when installation actually failed
• Fixed claude update installing the latest version instead of the configured release channel's version for npm installations
• Fixed excessive memory usage (multiple GB) when resuming a session by transcript file path on machines with many stored sessions
• Fixed claude agents and claude --bg running on a stale daemon started before binary-takeover support, even after upgrading
• Fixed a hang where the CLI could fail to exit when stdin was closed without EOF in stream-json mode, leaving a stale session marker behind
• Fixed malformed file:// links in Claude's responses not being clickable in the terminal
• Fixed claude --help rendering unwrapped output on terminals narrower than 92 columns
• Fixed MCP tool progress notifications not rendering in the collapsed tool view
• Fixed Agent tool with subagent_type: 'claude' running in an undocumented temporary worktree, which could silently discard outputs written to gitignored paths
• /bg while Claude is responding now continues the response in the background session instead of dropping it
• Fixed /btw keyboard shortcuts becoming unresponsive in background sessions while a task is running
• Fixed background sessions writing temp files to $CLAUDE_JOB_DIR triggering a "sensitive file" permission prompt
• Fixed recovering a background agent whose working directory was deleted showing a truncated stack trace instead of a clear error message
• Fixed EnterWorktree not being available immediately in background sessions (previously required ToolSearch first)
• Fixed cmd+k in iTerm2/Terminal.app not repainting attached background sessions
• Fixed the IME candidate window appearing at the bottom of the screen instead of next to the input caret in attached background sessions on Windows
• Fixed background-color bleed when attaching to a background agent from 256-color-only terminals after the agent had rendered file diffs
• Fixed /copy and copy-on-select silently failing to update the system clipboard when attached to a background session inside tmux
• Fixed opening claude agents with Remote Control enabled leaving zombie session entries on the Code tab after exiting
• Fixed /rename in background sessions not updating the session banner immediately
• Fixed Windows update rollback: if a Windows update fails, Claude Code now restores the original executable by copy and tells you how to recover
• [VSCode] Fixed Claude Code processes not shutting down cleanly when VS Code closed on Windows, causing false "unclean exit" reports and orphaned MCP servers
• /model now saves your selection as the default for new sessions (matching the IDE). Press s in the picker to switch models for the current session only.
• If you customized the modelPicker:setAsDefault keybinding, rename it to modelPicker:thisSessionOnly in keybindings.json (the d action was replaced by s)

v2.1.152

What's changed

• /code-review --fix now applies review findings to your working tree after the review, surfacing reuse, simplification, and efficiency suggestions; /simplify now invokes /code-review --fix
• Skills and slash commands can now set disallowed-tools in frontmatter to remove tools from the model while the skill is active
• Added /reload-skills command to re-scan skill directories without restarting the session
• SessionStart hooks can now return reloadSkills: true to re-scan skill directories, making skills installed by the hook available in the same session
• SessionStart hooks can now set the session title via hookSpecificOutput.sessionTitle on startup and resume
• Added a MessageDisplay hook event that lets hooks transform or hide assistant message text as it is displayed
• Added pluginSuggestionMarketplaces managed setting: admins can allowlist org marketplaces whose plugins may be suggested via context-aware tips
• claude plugin marketplace remove now accepts --scope user|project|local for symmetry with marketplace add, install, and uninstall
• Claude Code now switches to your configured --fallback-model for the rest of the session when the primary model is not found, instead of failing every request
• Auto mode no longer requires opt-in consent
• Vim mode: / in NORMAL mode now opens reverse history search (like Ctrl+R), matching bash/zsh vi-mode
• The /usage breakdown now includes large session files; files are scanned with a streaming read so memory usage stays flat
• Thinking summaries in the collapsed group now stay readable for at least 3 seconds, render as markdown, and cap at 10 lines (Ctrl+O shows the full thinking)
• In fullscreen mode, the "Thinking for Ns" indicator now counts up live while the model is thinking, and keeps its value if you interrupt mid-thought
• Simplified the Workflow tool's inline progress display — live agent counts now show only in the persistent workflow status row below the prompt
• The post-response timer now shows "Waiting for N background agents/workflows to finish" when backgrounded agents or workflows are still running, and reports the cumulative time once their results are processed
• Added the session entrypoint as an OpenTelemetry metric attribute (app.entrypoint, opt-in via OTEL_METRICS_INCLUDE_ENTRYPOINT=true)
• Fixed terminal styling degrading in very long sessions by recycling the renderer's style pool
• Fixed the sandbox-enabled warning not appearing in condensed startup mode — it now shows in every layout
• Fixed the loading spinner showing "still thinking"/"almost done thinking" while a tool is running, and reset the thinking status to "thinking" after each tool
• Fixed focus mode showing a spurious "N messages hidden" count on turns with no hidden activity
• Fixed clicking a link inside an expanded tool result collapsing the section instead of opening the link
• Fixed markdown table cell borders inheriting the color of inline code, wrapped continuation lines losing their style, and empty header cells showing a label in the narrow-terminal stacked layout
• Fixed plugin MCP servers with the same command but different environment variables being incorrectly deduplicated
• Fixed /doctor reporting "marketplace not found" or "plugin not found" for stale enabledPlugins entries referencing removed marketplaces or dropped plugins
• Fixed plugins that track a git branch silently no longer receiving updates after the plugin registry was rebuilt
• Fixed remote MCP servers failing to connect in Claude Code Remote sessions when the egress proxy is enabled
• Fixed the effort-change confirmation dialog appearing when the conversation has no messages or when switching between effort levels that resolve to the same underlying value
• Fixed the Agent tool description referencing an agent list that is never delivered when running with --bare or with attachments disabled
• Fixed a background worker crash in claude agents when accepting a stale permission prompt after a subagent was cancelled
• Fixed cache_creation_input_tokens reporting as 0 in transcript and result usage when the API reports cache writes only via the nested cache_creation breakdown
• Fixed the PushNotification tool incorrectly reporting "Mobile push not sent (Remote Control inactive)" in SDK-hosted sessions when Remote Control is enabled
• Fixed sessions getting stuck after a model or login switch left stale thinking-block signatures in history; now stripped proactively with a retry safety-net

v2.1.150

What's changed

• Internal infrastructure improvements (no user-facing changes)

v2.1.149

What's changed

• /usage now shows a per-category breakdown of what's driving your limits usage — skills, subagents, plugins, and per-MCP-server cost
• /diff detail view can now be scrolled with the keyboard (arrows, j/k, PgUp/PgDn, Space, Home/End)
• Markdown output now renders GFM task list checkboxes (- [ ] todo / - [x] done) instead of plain bullets
• Enterprise: added the allowAllClaudeAiMcps managed setting to load claude.ai cloud MCP connectors alongside managed-mcp.json
• Fixed a PowerShell permission bypass: built-in cd functions (cd.., cd\, cd~, X:) changed the working directory undetected, letting a later command read outside the workspace
• Fixed the sandbox write allowlist in git worktrees covering the entire main repository root instead of only the shared .git directory (with hooks/ and config denied)
• Fixed PowerShell prefix/wildcard allow rules (e.g. PowerShell(dotnet.exe build *)) not pre-approving native executables and scripts
• Fixed a permission-analysis gap where the parser trusted stale variable-tracking values for PWD/OLDPWD/DIRSTACK across cd/pushd/popd
• Fixed find in the Bash tool exhausting the macOS system file/vnode table and crashing the host on large directory trees
• Fixed the managed-settings approval dialog leaving the terminal frozen after accepting at startup
• Fixed /ultraplan and remote session creation failing with "Could not capture uncommitted changes" when the working tree has no real changes
• Fixed otelHeadersHelper failing silently when the script path contains spaces; helper failures are now reported in /doctor and the debug log
• Fixed the thinking spinner staying amber across tool calls and onto fresh thinking bursts
• Fixed collapsed Bash output reporting the wrong hidden-line count for outputs with many short lines
• Fixed slash-command argument-hint clipping trailing typed characters when the hint overflows the input box
• Fixed argument-hint and progressive arg suggestions not appearing after Tab-completing a skill whose frontmatter name: differs from its directory basename
• Fixed the status bar showing the user's baseline /effort setting instead of the effort level applied by skill/agent effort: frontmatter
• Fixed Ctrl+O transcript view freezing at the moment it was opened instead of tailing new messages
• Fixed editing a recalled prompt-history entry losing the edit when navigating further up/down with arrow keys
• Fixed /config exit summary reporting phantom changes to auto-compact and theme when toggling unrelated settings
• Fixed /insights crashing when cached session-meta files are missing optional fields
• Fixed malformed PowerShell and History tool calls with missing input being misclassified as reads in transcript collapsing
• Fixed renaming a Remote Control session from claude.ai or the Claude mobile app not updating the local session name for claude --resume
• Fixed a race where a just-submitted prompt could appear twice in the up-arrow history
• Fixed tapping the "Jump to bottom" pill in fullscreen mode not dismissing it immediately
• Improved /feedback reports to include the conversation that happened before context compaction, making issues from earlier in long sessions easier to triage

v2.1.148

What's changed

• Fixed the Bash tool returning exit code 127 on every command for some users (a regression introduced in 2.1.147)

v2.1.147

What's changed

• Pinned background sessions (Ctrl+T in claude agents) now stay alive when idle, are restarted in place to apply Claude Code updates, and are shed under memory pressure only after non-pinned sessions
• Renamed /simplify to /code-review. It now reports correctness bugs at a chosen effort level (e.g., /code-review high); pass --comment to post findings as inline GitHub PR comments. The old cleanup-and-fix behavior has been removed
• Improved auto-updater: retries transient network failures, reports specific error categories and OS error codes on failure, and shows the current version when an update fails
• Improved diff rendering performance for large file edits
• Prompt history no longer records consecutive duplicate entries — recalling a prompt with arrow-up and submitting it again won't add another copy
• Fixed enterprise login restrictions (forceLoginOrgUUID and forceLoginMethod managed-settings) not being enforced against third-party-provider and API-key sessions
• Fixed & in ! command output displaying as &, which broke copy-pasting URLs from commands like gcloud auth login on headless machines
• Fixed unknown slash commands silently doing nothing in headless/SDK mode — they now show an error message
• Fixed /help rendering a broken tab header and showing only one command per page on small terminals when not in fullscreen mode
• Fixed shell snapshot dropping user functions whose names start with a single underscore, which broke aliases referencing them
• Fixed plugin agents that declare multiple Agent(...) types in tools: frontmatter dropping all but the last entry
• Fixed hook if conditions like PowerShell(git push*) never matching — only PowerShell(*) worked
• Fixed PowerShell tool dropping output for commands that rely on the default formatter
• Fixed: on Windows, "Yes, and don't ask again" for a PowerShell script invocation now writes a rule that actually matches on subsequent runs
• Fixed PowerShell tool failing on Windows with exit code 1 when pwsh is installed via winget or the Microsoft Store
• Fixed /effort opening with the slider on the wrong level — it now starts at your current effort
• Fixed paginating MCP servers dropping resources, templates, and prompts past page 1
• Fixed full-screen strobing in attached background sessions on Windows Terminal while Claude is streaming
• Fixed: on Windows, removing a background-job worktree no longer follows NTFS junctions into the main repo
• Fixed /background refusing sessions whose only typed input was a skill or custom slash command
• Fixed auto mode suppressing AskUserQuestion when the user or a skill explicitly relies on it; the auto-mode classifier now sees the user's answers as intent signal
• Fixed /theme "New custom theme" and color editor dialogs not responding to Esc
• Fixed an uncaught exception at the end of streaming sessions when running via the Agent SDK
• Fixed a rare hang when waiting for scroll to settle on Windows
• Fixed stale and doubled rows in the agent view list on Windows when background session results contain wide (CJK) characters
• Fixed pasted text being delivered to agents as an unreadable [Pasted text #N] placeholder instead of the actual content
• Fixed plugin component counts in claude plugin details and /plugin being doubled when a plugin's manifest listed paths overlapping its default directories
• Fixed backgrounded sessions re-prompting for tool permissions you already granted with "don't ask again"
• Fixed GNOME Terminal right-click and middle-click paste not inserting text
• Fixed CLAUDE_CODE_SUBAGENT_MODEL not applying to teammate processes spawned by agent teams
• Fixed slash commands followed by a tab or newline being treated as an unknown command
• Fixed several spacing and layout glitches in the /plugin, /status, /mobile, /sandbox, and /permissions menus
• Fixed stripped images prompting the model to repeatedly re-read media that was no longer present

v2.1.146

What's changed

• Renamed /simplify to /code-review with an optional effort level (e.g. /code-review high)
• Auto mode no longer suppresses AskUserQuestion when the user or a skill explicitly relies on it
• Fixed Windows PowerShell tool failing with "command line is invalid" when pwsh is installed via winget or the Microsoft Store (regression in v2.1.124)
• Fixed MCP resources/list, resources/templates/list, and prompts/list dropping items past page 1 on paginating servers
• Fixed full-screen strobing in attached background sessions on Windows Terminal while Claude is streaming
• Fixed the auto-updater status line not showing your current version when an update fails
• Fixed on Windows, removing a background-job worktree no longer follows NTFS junctions into the main repo
• Fixed /background refusing sessions whose only typed input was a skill or custom slash command
• Fixed backgrounded sessions re-prompting for tool permissions you already granted with "don't ask again"
• Fixed /theme color editor and "New custom theme" dialogs not responding to Esc
• Fixed an uncaught exception at the end of streaming sessions when running via the Agent SDK
• Fixed forceLoginOrgUUID and forceLoginMethod managed-settings policies not being enforced against third-party-provider and API-key sessions
• Fixed GNOME Terminal right-click and middle-click paste not inserting text
• Fixed CLAUDE_CODE_SUBAGENT_MODEL not being forwarded to child processes in multi-agent sessions
• Improved auto-updater reliability: native version checks and downloads now retry transient network failures instead of failing immediately
• Improved diff rendering performance for large file edits

v2.1.145

What's changed

• Added claude agents --json to list live Claude sessions as JSON for scripting (tmux-resurrect, status bars, session pickers)
• Added agent_id and parent_agent_id attributes to claude_code.tool OTEL spans, and fixed trace parenting so background subagent spans nest under the dispatching Agent tool span
• Status line JSON input now includes GitHub repo and PR information when detected
• /plugin Discover and Browse screens now show a plugin's commands, agents, skills, hooks, and MCP/LSP servers before installation
• claude agents terminal tab title now shows the awaiting-input count so an alt-tabbed window tells you when an agent needs attention
• Slash command and @-mention suggestion list now supports mouse hover and click in fullscreen mode
• Stop and SubagentStop hook input now includes background_tasks and session_crons fields
• Fixed a permission-prompt bypass where bare variable assignments to non-allowlisted environment variables in Bash commands were auto-approved
• Fixed MCP prompt slash commands showing raw server validation errors when a required argument is omitted — the error now names the missing argument and shows expected usage
• Fixed the spinner and elapsed-time display freezing until a keypress after the terminal was resized or refocused
• Fixed the cross-project resume hint failing in default Windows PowerShell 5.1 — Windows now uses ; as the command separator
• Fixed voice push-to-talk not working in the agent view's reply pane
• Fixed task lists rendering in random order when several tasks are created at once
• Fixed stale "Failed to install Anthropic marketplace" banner showing when the marketplace is already installed
• Fixed the PR badge in the footer not updating immediately after gh pr create and other PR-state-changing commands run in-session
• Fixed Agent Teams teammates with non-ASCII names failing every API call due to invalid header encoding
• Fixed /review using a deprecated projectCards GraphQL query that errored on repos with Classic Projects
• Fixed claude plugin validate not flagging skills: entries that point at a file instead of a directory — the error now suggests the parent directory
• Fixed an infinite loop where a skill using context: fork could repeatedly re-invoke itself instead of running
• Improved the Read tool to return a truncated first page with a "PARTIAL view" notice instead of a hard error when a whole-file read exceeds the token limit

v2.1.144

What's changed

• Added /resume support for background sessions — sessions started via claude --bg or agent view now appear alongside interactive ones, marked with bg
• Added elapsed duration to background subagent completion notifications (e.g. "Agent completed · 3h 2m 5s")
• The /plugin browse and discover panes now show when a plugin was last updated
• /model now changes the model for the current session only; press d in the model picker to set a default for new sessions
• Renamed "extra usage" to "usage credits" across CLI copy; /extra-usage is now /usage-credits (old name still works)
• Fixed startup hanging up to 75s when api.anthropic.com is unreachable (captive portal, firewall, VPN issues) — side-channel API calls now time out after 15s
• Fixed garbled terminal output after a missed window-resize event (e.g. dragging a VS Code split-pane divider) — now self-heals on the next frame instead of requiring Ctrl+L
• Fixed progressive terminal display corruption (stale/garbled glyphs) that could appear in very long sessions and only cleared on terminal resize or restart
• Reduced terminal rendering glitches in VS Code by reducing spinner animation color count
• Fixed macOS background sessions crashing with "exit 1 before init" when the project lives under a Full Disk Access-protected folder (regression in 2.1.143)
• Fixed an unrecoverable conversation when reading a file whose image extension doesn't match its contents (e.g. HTML saved as .png) — now falls back to text
• Fewer spurious tool errors during search: head/tail file views now satisfy the read-before-edit check, and a "no matches" result (exit code 1) from egrep, fgrep, git grep, or git diff is no longer reported as a command failure
• Fixed /branch failing with "No conversation to branch" after entering a worktree or in some background sessions
• Fixed pressing Escape in the AskUserQuestion notes field aborting the turn instead of returning to answer selection
• Fixed model selection not applying when changed via the IDE model picker or applyFlagSettings after startup
• Resumed sessions now keep the model they were using instead of picking up another session's /model choice
• Fixed Bedrock and Vertex users unable to select "Opus (1M context)" from the /model picker (regression in v2.1.129)
• Fixed remote-session login failing with "Can't access this organization" for users with forceLoginMethod and forceLoginOrgUUID set
• Fixed MCP servers with paginated tools/list responses only returning the first page, silently dropping tools
• Fixed MCP images with unsupported MIME types (e.g. SVG) breaking the conversation — now saved to disk and referenced in the tool result
• Fixed file descriptor exhaustion when a build runs inside a skill directory — non-.md files no longer trigger skill reloads
• Fixed session title being generated from plugin monitor output instead of the user's first prompt
• Fixed Skill tool failing with permission error in headless mode (regression in v2.1.141)
• Fixed plugins enabled in your own settings showing "not cached" errors after first load on a fresh machine; plugins enabled only by a project's .claude/settings.json now show an actionable claude plugin install hint
• Fixed claude mcp list silently reporting no servers when .mcp.json can't be parsed (e.g. using VS Code's "servers" key instead of "mcpServers") — now shows configuration errors
• Fixed background side-queries on custom ANTHROPIC_BASE_URL setups and Bedrock Mantle not using Haiku — now falls back correctly when a first-party API key is configured or no Haiku model is set
• Fixed scrolling in attached background sessions on Windows — PgUp/PgDn, mouse wheel, and Ctrl+O transcript navigation now work
• Fixed a crash when closing the terminal while attached to a background session
• Fixed on Windows, pressing ← in claude agents leaving the list unresponsive to keyboard input
• Fixed ghost characters at the left edge when switching panes in Agent View on Windows Terminal with CJK content
• /bg and ←-detach now preserve directories added via /add-dir
• Fixed Edit/Write refusing with "background session hasn't isolated its changes yet" right after detaching a session that was already editing in place
• Fixed claude respawn <id> on a stopped background session showing "stopped" instead of running
• Fixed /resume picker not showing sessions forked from a background session
• Fixed opening a session from claude agents or running claude logs <id> hanging when the background service is unresponsive — now times out after 10s with a recovery hint
• Fixed background Bash tasks spawned by subagents staying "Running" in SDK task panels after the process exits
• Fixed completed or stopped background sessions briefly failing to wake being permanently marked as a startup crash
• Fixed markdown links in claude agents attached sessions rendering as plain text instead of clickable hyperlinks
• Fixed custom spinnerVerbs applying to the post-turn duration message — past-tense built-ins like "Worked for 5s" are restored there
• claude agents / --bg rejection messages now name the specific gate (non-TTY, env var, or setting) instead of a generic message
• claude --bg --name <label> now echoes the name in the post-spawn confirmation
• claude agents: renaming a background session with Ctrl+R now updates the attached session's banner immediately
• Background session worktree isolation guard now applies for non-git VCS users with WorktreeCreate hooks configured
• Plugin marketplace add/update now respects CLAUDE_CODE_PLUGIN_PREFER_HTTPS
• /plugin now returns to the Installed list after enabling, disabling, or uninstalling a plugin
• /doctor now shows an exec-form example when a command hook is missing the command field
• Skill-listing truncation is no longer shown as a startup notification — run /doctor for the full breakdown
• Improved recovery from rare pre-response stream stalls — now retries streaming once instead of falling back to a slower non-streaming request
• Improved SDK/headless MCP startup: pre-wait now overlaps startup instead of blocking before the first turn (up to 2s faster with slow MCP servers)
• The post-survey follow-up hint now appears after every non-dismiss survey response with context-aware copy, making it easier to share more detail via /feedback.

v2.1.143

What's changed

• Added plugin dependency enforcement: claude plugin disable now refuses when another enabled plugin depends on the target (with a copy-pasteable disable-chain hint), and claude plugin enable force-enables transitive dependencies
• Added projected context cost (per-turn and per-invocation token estimates) to the /plugin marketplace browse pane
• Added worktree.bgIsolation: "none" setting to let background sessions edit the working copy directly without EnterWorktree, for repos where worktrees are impractical
• PowerShell tool now passes -ExecutionPolicy Bypass. Opt out with CLAUDE_CODE_POWERSHELL_RESPECT_EXECUTION_POLICY=1
• Background sessions now preserve the model and effort level you set after waking from idle
• Shift+Tab in attached agent sessions now includes auto mode in the cycle
• Fixed a corrupt .credentials.json with a non-array scopes value hanging the CLI on startup or silently aborting OAuth token refresh
• Fixed right-click paste in claude agents on Windows Terminal and WSL
• Fixed stop hooks that block repeatedly looping forever — the turn now ends with a warning after 8 consecutive blocks (override via CLAUDE_CODE_STOP_HOOK_BLOCK_CAP)
• Fixed Esc/Ctrl+C not cancelling a pending /loop wakeup while Claude is idle between iterations
• Fixed /goal evaluator firing while background shells or delegated subagents are still running
• Fixed NO_COLOR/FORCE_COLOR in settings.json env stripping Claude Code's own UI colors — they now apply to subprocesses only
• Fixed agent view spawning repeated PowerShell processes on Windows when listing sessions
• Fixed /bg without a prompt sending "continue" to the forked session — the fork now waits for input
• Fixed --agent <name> not finding plugin-contributed agents without the plugin: prefix
• Fixed deleting a session from agent view not removing its transcript file
• Fixed stale-fragment rendering when scrolling in attached background sessions on Windows Terminal
• Fixed background agents false-positive worker-stall detection storm after host sleep or macOS App Nap
• Fixed 5xx error messages pointing at status.claude.com instead of naming the configured gateway or cloud provider
• The PowerShell tool is now enabled by default on Windows for Bedrock, Vertex, and Foundry users. Opt out with CLAUDE_CODE_USE_POWERSHELL_TOOL=0.
• claude agents now accepts --add-dir, --settings, --mcp-config, and --plugin-dir and applies them to the dashboard and to background sessions dispatched from it
• claude agents accepts --permission-mode, --model, --effort, and --dangerously-skip-permissions to set defaults for sessions dispatched from the view
• claude --bg --dangerously-skip-permissions now persists across retire→wake
• Fixed background sessions silently capturing IDE file references into the warm spare's input, which caused the reference to be prepended to the next prompt dispatched from claude agents
• Worktree cleanup no longer falls back to rm -rf when git worktree remove fails, preventing loss of gitignored or in-progress files
• Fixed background-job sessions on macOS getting "Operation not permitted" errors when reading files under ~/Documents, ~/Desktop, or ~/Downloads, even with Full Disk Access granted.
• /bg now preserves --mcp-config, --settings, --add-dir, --plugin-dir, and --strict-mcp-config, so backgrounded sessions keep their MCP servers and settings across respawn.
• Background sessions launched from claude agents now honor permissions.defaultMode from settings.json (was previously overridden to auto mode)
• Fixed: on Windows, pressing ← in claude agents while a response was streaming could leave the agents list unresponsive to all input
• /bg and ←-detach now preserve --fallback-model, so backgrounded workers degrade to the fallback model on overload instead of hard-failing.
• /bg and ←-detach now preserve --allow-dangerously-skip-permissions, so the forked worker keeps bypass-permissions available in its Shift+Tab cycle.
• Fixed: background daemon spawn now falls back to the running binary when the ~/.local/bin/claude launcher is missing or non-executable
• Fixed claude agents --allow-dangerously-skip-permissions defaulting dispatched sessions to bypass mode instead of making it available in the permission cycle

v2.1.142

What's changed

• Added new claude agents flags: --add-dir, --settings, --mcp-config, --plugin-dir, --permission-mode, --model, --effort, and --dangerously-skip-permissions to configure dispatched background sessions
• Fast mode now uses Opus 4.7 by default (previously Opus 4.6). Set CLAUDE_CODE_OPUS_4_6_FAST_MODE_OVERRIDE=1 to pin fast mode to Opus 4.6
• Plugins with a root-level SKILL.md and no skills/ subdirectory are now surfaced as a skill
• The /plugin details pane and claude plugin details now show LSP servers a plugin provides
• /web-setup warns before replacing an existing GitHub App connection
• Fixed MCP_TOOL_TIMEOUT not raising the per-request fetch timeout for remote HTTP and SSE MCP servers, which capped tool calls at 60 seconds regardless of the configured value
• Fixed background sessions not recognizing pre-existing git worktrees, blocking Edit while EnterWorktree refused to create a duplicate
• Fixed background sessions disappearing and daemon reconnect failing after macOS sleep/wake — the daemon now detects clock jumps instead of treating them as elapsed idle time
• Fixed daemon not exiting cleanly after the binary is upgraded (e.g. brew upgrade), causing dispatched agents to crash-loop on the deleted path
• Fixed background agents crash-looping when the Claude-in-Chrome extension is connected without a shared tab
• Fixed clicking links in an attached claude agents session — the background worker's headless browser shim no longer applies while attached
• Fixed claude agents "v to open in editor" using the daemon's default editor instead of your shell's $EDITOR/$VISUAL
• Fixed claude agents deadlocking on Windows with network-drive working directories; Ctrl+C now works during startup
• Fixed background-color bleed when attaching to a claude agents session from Apple Terminal or other 256-color-only terminals
• Fixed claude --bg --dangerously-skip-permissions not persisting across retire/wake
• Fixed session titles being derived from the URL when the first message is a link
• Fixed redundant set_model requests from remote clients injecting duplicate /model breadcrumbs into the transcript
• Fixed plugins using skills: ["./"] showing a false "path escapes plugin directory" error
• Fixed plugin cache cleanup deleting the active plugin version directory when no installation metadata is present
• Fixed /plugin browse pane showing "0 installs" for newly published plugins
• Fixed plugin advisories not naming every plugin.json key that shadows a default folder
• Improved reactive compaction: the first summarize attempt now seeds from the original request's overflow size, avoiding a wasted near-full-context retry
• Improved hook configuration error: configuring a prompt- or agent-type hook for SessionStart/Setup/SubagentStart now shows a clear "use a command-type hook instead" error
• Removed stale /model claude-sonnet-4-20250514 suggestion from Usage Policy refusal messages

v2.1.141

What's changed

• Added terminalSequence field to hook JSON output so hooks can emit desktop notifications, window titles, and bells without a controlling terminal
• Added CLAUDE_CODE_PLUGIN_PREFER_HTTPS to clone GitHub plugin sources over HTTPS instead of SSH, for environments without a GitHub SSH key
• Added ANTHROPIC_WORKSPACE_ID environment variable for workload identity federation — scopes the minted token to a specific workspace when the federation rule covers more than one
• Added claude agents --cwd <path> to scope the session list to a directory
• /feedback can now include recent sessions (last 24 hours or 7 days) for issues spanning more than the current session
• Rewind menu: added "Summarize up to here" to compress earlier context while keeping recent turns intact
• Auto mode permission dialog now explains when a permissions.ask rule caused the prompt
• Restored the "view diff in your IDE" option on file-edit permission prompts when an IDE is connected
• Background agents launched via /bg or ←← now preserve the current permission mode instead of reverting to default
• claude agents: agents that finish work but leave a background shell running now move to Completed instead of staying under Working
• Improved spinner feedback during long thinking periods — the spinner now warms to amber after 10 seconds to signal Claude is still working
• Improved plugin menu navigation: →/Tab switch tabs, ↑ moves to the tab strip, and tab headers and search box are clickable in fullscreen mode
• Fixed background side-queries sending an unavailable Haiku model ID on Bedrock/Vertex/Foundry/gateway when no ANTHROPIC_SMALL_FAST_MODEL override is set — now falls back to the main-loop model
• Fixed claude daemon status and /doctor on Windows throwing when the daemon pipe key file is locked or unreadable — now shows the underlying error instead of an opaque failure
• Fixed claude agents showing the agent-type list instead of the dashboard when launched through a wrapper that adds flags
• Fixed claude agents opening a crashed session firing redundant dispatches when the working directory was deleted
• Fixed background jobs on a custom ANTHROPIC_BASE_URL gateway not getting auto-named — the namer now uses the main model when no Haiku model is configured
• Fixed /model in one session silently changing the autocompact threshold in other concurrent sessions
• Fixed switching permission mode while a tool-permission prompt is open not auto-dismissing the prompt when the new setting permits the tool
• Fixed pressing Enter while a permission/dialog prompt is open also submitting text in the input box
• Fixed hooks receiving a non-existent transcript_path after EnterWorktree switches the working directory
• Fixed markdown tables with cell wrapping falling back to the vertical key-value layout instead of rendering as a bordered grid (regression in 2.1.136)
• Fixed cancelled prompts being removed from Up-arrow history when auto-restored into the input box, avoiding duplicate entries
• Fixed prompts cancelled with Ctrl+C/Esc before any response being dropped from Up-arrow history
• Fixed Ctrl+C not interrupting a running turn while in vim INSERT/VISUAL mode
• Fixed alternative chat:submit keybindings (e.g. meta+enter, ctrl+enter) not working when enter is rebound to chat:newline
• Fixed prompt suggestions being silently disabled when an output style was configured
• Fixed spinnerVerbs setting not being honored in turn-completion messages
• Fixed AskUserQuestion popup hiding the last line of preceding chat content
• Fixed Web Search status showing "Did 0 searches" when searches returned errors
• Fixed multi-line statusline output dropping or corrupting rows when any line exceeds terminal width
• Fixed light-ansi theme using invisible white for diff context lines on light backgrounds — now uses black
• Fixed error overlay dumping minified bundle source that hid the original error message
• Fixed pressing Enter after typing a feedback survey rating digit submitting it as a chat message instead of the rating
• Fixed pressing x on a selected subagent in the agent panel typing into the prompt instead of stopping the agent
• Fixed session title being derived from plugin monitor notifications before the user's first prompt
• Fixed "Allowed by PermissionRequest hook" repeating once per tool call under a collapsed read/search group
• Fixed /tui silently dropping running background shells and subagents — now refuses and asks to wait for them to finish
• Fixed welcome banner showing "API Usage Billing" on Bedrock, Vertex, Foundry, and other third-party providers — now shows the provider name
• Fixed /mcp server list not keeping the focused server visible in short terminals in fullscreen mode
• Fixed redaction in /feedback bundles producing invalid JSON for quoted values like session IDs
• Fixed desktop and third-party provider sessions incorrectly inheriting apiKeyHelper/ANTHROPIC_AUTH_TOKEN from host managed-settings
• Fixed early analytics events being silently dropped when fired before logger initialization
• Fixed claude plugin install failing for plugins whose marketplace ref no longer exists upstream when a sha is also pinned
• Fixed plugin details pane showing 0 MCP servers for plugins that declare them via .mcp.json
• Fixed plugin MCP servers with unset config variables showing a generic connection failure instead of a "config issue" message with a fix-it hint; malformed .mcp.json entries no longer drop other MCP servers
• Fixed MCP server configs using POSIX shell parameter expansions (e.g. ${var%pattern}) being incorrectly flagged as missing environment variables
• Fixed MCP HTTP/SSE servers returning 403 on connect showing as "failed" instead of "needs auth"
• Fixed remote MCP servers disconnecting unnecessarily when the optional server-events stream failed to reconnect — tool calls continue over POST
• Fixed Remote Control MCP connectors all failing with 401 when the worker session token rotated mid-session
• Fixed Remote Control automatically re-enrolling a trusted device when the server rejects a stale token, instead of looping through /login
• Fixed a race where early OTel spans could be silently dropped in SDK/headless mode with beta tracing enabled
• Fixed custom voice:pushToTalk keybindings and "space": null unbinds being silently ignored
• Fixed Windows Alt+V image paste reporting "no image found" when the clipboard contains a screenshot
• Fixed SDK "Claude Code native binary not found" on Linux when both glibc and musl platform packages are installed
• Bedrock: awsCredentialExport now always runs when configured instead of being skipped when ambient AWS credentials resolve, fixing auth for cross-account access
• [VSCode] Fixed in-chat mic showing no feedback when the microphone produced only silence — now shows "No audio detected"
• [VSCode] Voice mode: the WSL error now suggests installing sox libsox-fmt-pulse for WSLg users
• claude agents: launching a session no longer fails when the pre-warmed background worker is unhealthy — now falls back to a fresh launch
• claude agents no longer shows empty placeholder sessions left over from backgrounding a fresh REPL, and shows onboarding text when entered via ← with no other agents
• Empty idle background sessions left over from ← are now automatically retired by the daemon after 5 minutes

v2.1.140

What's changed

• Improved Agent tool subagent_type matching to accept case- and separator-insensitive values (e.g. "Code Reviewer" resolves to code-reviewer)
• Updated agent color palette
• Fixed /goal silently hanging when disableAllHooks or allowManagedHooksOnly is set — now shows a clear message instead of an indicator that never resolves
• Fixed a regression in settings hot-reload where symlinked settings files caused misattributed change events and spurious ConfigChange hooks
• Fixed claude --bg failing with "connection dropped mid-request" when the background service was about to idle-exit
• Fixed background service startup failing on machines with enterprise endpoint security by allowing more time
• Fixed remote managed settings not retrying on 401 — now retries once with a force-refreshed token
• Fixed managed extraKnownMarketplaces auto-update policy not being persisted to known_marketplaces.json
• Fixed /loop scheduling redundant wakeups to poll for background tasks that already notify on completion
• Fixed a recurring event-loop stall on Windows when a missing executable (e.g. gh) triggered synchronous where.exe re-spawns on every check
• Fixed Read tool calls failing validation when offset is passed as a whitespace-padded or +-prefixed string
• Fixed native terminal cursor not staying at the input caret when the terminal loses focus
• Plugins now warn when a default component folder (e.g. commands/) is silently ignored because plugin.json sets the matching key. Shown in /doctor, claude plugin list, and /plugin.

v2.1.139

What's changed

• Added agent view (Research Preview): a single list of every Claude Code session — running, blocked on you, or done. Run claude agents to get started. See https://code.claude.com/docs/en/agent-view
• Added /goal command: set a completion condition and Claude keeps working across turns until it's met. Works in interactive, -p, and Remote Control. Shows live elapsed/turns/tokens as an overlay panel
• Added /scroll-speed command to tune mouse wheel scroll speed with a live preview
• Added claude plugin details <name> to show a plugin's component inventory and projected per-session token cost
• Added transcript view navigation: ? for keyboard shortcuts, {/} to jump between user prompts, v to toggle shortcut panel
• Added hook args: string[] field (exec form) that spawns the command directly without a shell, so path placeholders never need quoting
• Added hook continueOnBlock config option for PostToolUse — set to true to feed the hook's rejection reason back to Claude and continue the turn
• MCP stdio servers now receive CLAUDE_PROJECT_DIR in their environment, matching hooks. Plugin configs can reference ${CLAUDE_PROJECT_DIR} in commands
• Compaction prompt now asks the model to preserve sensitive user instructions
• /mcp Reconnect now picks up .mcp.json edits without a restart, and shows the HTTP status and URL when reconnecting fails
• /context all per-skill token estimates now account for the model's tokenizer and show rounded values
• claude plugin install <name>@<marketplace> now auto-refreshes the marketplace and retries before reporting a plugin as not found
• /plugin installed-plugin details now show hook event names and MCP server names cleanly
• /context now shows the providing plugin's name for plugin-sourced skills
• Remote MCP server reconnect retry on transient failures is now enabled for all users
• API requests from subagents now carry x-claude-code-agent-id / x-claude-code-parent-agent-id headers, and claude_code.llm_request OTEL spans include agent_id / parent_agent_id attributes
• Remote Control, /schedule, claude.ai MCP connectors, and notification preferences are now disabled when ANTHROPIC_API_KEY / apiKeyHelper / ANTHROPIC_AUTH_TOKEN is set, even if a Claude.ai login also exists. Unset the API key to use these features
• Fixed a deadlock where expired credentials and the forceRemoteSettingsRefresh policy setting blocked claude auth login/logout/status with no way to recover
• Fixed autoAllowBashIfSandboxed not auto-approving commands with shell expansions like $VAR and $(cmd)
• Fixed a bug where a hook writing to the terminal could corrupt an on-screen interactive prompt; hooks now run without terminal access
• Fixed unbounded memory growth when an HTTP/SSE MCP server streams non-protocol data — response bodies now capped at 16 MB per SSE frame
• Fixed Skill(name *) permission rules — the wildcard form now works as a prefix match, matching Bash(ls *) behavior
• Fixed settings hot-reload not detecting edits to symlinked ~/.claude/settings.json
• Fixed plugin details failing to load when the marketplace key differs from the manifest name
• Fixed /model picker "Default" row not reflecting ANTHROPIC_DEFAULT_OPUS_MODEL/ANTHROPIC_DEFAULT_SONNET_MODEL overrides
• Fixed spurious "stream idle timeout" 5 minutes after a response completed, caused by the watchdog timer not being cleared on stream cancellation
• Fixed silent exit 1 when 10+ MCP servers are configured and the cache directory is unwritable — the error message now includes the underlying cause
• Fixed a typing cursor blinking on tab names, list pointers, and select rows in dialogs
• Fixed transcript view letter shortcuts not working after mouse click
• Fixed Bash-mode up-arrow history repeating the first entry and clobbering the in-progress draft
• Fixed pasting or dropping multiple images only inserting the last one
• Fixed hyperlinks using unreadable dark navy on dark themes — they now adapt to the active theme
• Fixed model picker showing a redundant "Current model" row for third-party users whose model is set to the opus alias
• Fixed legacy Opus picker entry on PAYG 3P providers resolving to the same model as the default entry
• Fixed mouse wheel scrolling speed in Cursor and VS Code 1.92–1.104; the trackpad now scrolls at a steady rate and the mouse wheel keeps ~3 lines per notch
• Fixed scroll behavior in Windows Terminal and VS Code when attached to background sessions
• Fixed MCP resources from disconnected servers lingering in @server: autocomplete
• Fixed two-file diff snippets over-reporting the number of truncated lines by one
• Fixed Grep results not relativizing Windows drive-letter paths and count mode reporting wrong totals for single-file paths
• Fixed border-embedded text overflowing on CJK/emoji due to visual cell width miscalculation
• Fixed fuzzy-match highlighting splitting emoji and astral-plane characters mid-pair
• Fixed skill argument names containing regex metacharacters breaking argument substitution
• Fixed ProgressBar rendering a full block for an almost-full fractional cell
• Fixed task polling and fs.watch being resurrected when the last subscriber leaves while a fetch is in flight
• Fixed plugin dependency resolution leaving a stale count when the manifest name differs from the source identifier
• Fixed Insights Time-of-Day chart skewing when a session has an unparseable timestamp
• Fixed keybindings using only the cmd/super/win modifier being flagged as unparseable
• Fixed claude_code.active_time.total OpenTelemetry metric not being emitted in --print mode
• Fixed claude plugin update not preserving cross-plugin symlinks inside a marketplace
• [VSCode] Press Cmd/Ctrl+Shift+T to reopen the most recently closed session tab, configurable via claudeCode.enableReopenClosedSessionShortcut

v2.1.138

What's changed

• Internal fixes

v2.1.137

What's changed

• [VSCode] Fixed extension failing to activate on Windows

v2.1.136

What's changed

• Added CLAUDE_CODE_ENABLE_FEEDBACK_SURVEY_FOR_OTEL to re-enable the session quality survey for enterprises capturing responses through OpenTelemetry
• Added settings.autoMode.hard_deny for auto mode classifier rules that block unconditionally regardless of user intent or allow exceptions
• Fixed MCP servers configured in .mcp.json, plugins, and claude.ai connectors silently disappearing after /clear in the VS Code extension, JetBrains plugin, and Agent SDK
• Fixed a rare login loop where a concurrent credential write could overwrite a freshly-rotated OAuth token and force re-login
• Fixed MCP OAuth refresh tokens being lost when multiple servers refresh concurrently — users with several remote MCP servers should no longer need daily re-authentication
• Fixed an API error (400) when extended thinking emitted a redacted thinking block after a tool call
• Fixed --resume / --continue not finding sessions when the project path contains underscores
• Fixed plan mode not blocking file writes when a matching Edit(...) allow rule exists
• WSL2: image paste from Windows clipboard now works via a PowerShell fallback when xclip/wl-paste cannot read image data
• Fixed plugin Stop/UserPromptSubmit hooks failing when cache cleanup deletes a version still in use by a running session
• Improved visual consistency across slash command dialogs: standardized footer hints, dialog spacing, and arrow-key styling, and the dialog frame now appears immediately during loading instead of popping in after
• Fixed colors appearing at wrong positions in bash command output and markdown code blocks
• Fixed ReasonML diffs rendering corrupted "undefined" text artifacts at word-diff boundaries
• Fixed worktree exit dialog warning about uncommitted files in the wrong directory after worktree removal
• Fixed @ file picker not matching files created mid-session in small non-git directories
• Fixed @-mention file picker not finding files in directories with more than 100 entries
• Fixed failed tool calls not being click-to-expand in fullscreen mode when their output was truncated
• Fixed Backspace and Ctrl+Backspace getting swapped after using Ctrl+G to open an external editor on terminals with persistent extended-key modes
• Fixed /usage weekly reset showing time of day instead of the calendar date
• Fixed welcome banner ellipsis causing column overflow on CJK terminals
• Fixed /insights crash when session history contains tool calls with malformed input fields
• Fixed a renderer crash when a tool's collapsibility classification changes mid-session
• Fixed a skills entry in plugin.json hiding the plugin's default skills/ directory, and listing a file path now shows an error instead of failing silently
• Fixed IDE shell-integration lock files not respecting CLAUDE_CONFIG_DIR
• Fixed trailing whitespace in copied terminal output during streaming
• Fixed plugin uninstall and enable/disable not matching slugs case-insensitively
• Fixed tool error truncation marker showing a negative count for surrogate-pair strings
• Fixed env vars from CLAUDE_ENV_FILE SessionStart hooks going stale after /resume or /clear
• Fixed /branch saving a multi-line session title when given a pasted multi-line name
• Fixed a stray leading space on the second line of wrapped text at the column boundary
• Fixed Esc not dismissing dialogs in /install-github-app, /desktop, /resume, and /web-setup
• Fixed /doctor MCP schema errors not naming the missing field or showing the source file path
• Fixed Bash permission prompts showing an internal parser diagnostic instead of a user-readable explanation
• Fixed plugin slash commands with spaces (e.g. /myplugin review) not resolving to their namespaced form
• Fixed AskUserQuestion discarding multi-select answers when supplied as an array
• Fixed /clear <name> not labeling the cleared session for /resume
• Fixed CronList output missing qualifiers and the scheduled prompt
• Fixed "Jump to bottom" overlay leaving color artifacts on CJK characters in fullscreen mode
• Fixed wide markdown tables leaving a stale bordered render in terminal scrollback while streaming
• Fixed pasted text being silently dropped when a long prompt with a pasted-text placeholder was auto-truncated
• Fixed /release-notes getting stuck on an old version after a failed changelog refresh
• Fixed /mcp server list not scrolling when there are more servers than fit in the terminal
• Fixed mid-input slash command autocomplete not working after an initial slash command
• Fixed scrolling to bottom re-engaging auto-follow with autoScrollEnabled: false
• Fixed prompt suggestions being auto-submitted by Enter on an empty input instead of requiring Tab or arrow to accept
• Fixed keyboard shortcut hints not reflecting rebound keys from keybindings.json
• Fixed /settings language change being reverted on Escape after confirming
• Fixed /terminal-setup only appearing in autocomplete on exact name match instead of partial prefixes
• Fixed "Chat about this" on an AskUserQuestion dialog erasing the question text
• Fixed MCP tool results being invisible when the server returns content blocks
• Improved error message when --worktree collides with an existing or stale worktree
• Changed plugin marketplace removal key to d (matching delete elsewhere) instead of r which collided with retry

v2.1.133

What's changed

• Added worktree.baseRef setting (fresh | head) to choose whether --worktree, EnterWorktree, and agent-isolation worktrees branch from origin/<default> or local HEAD. Note: the default fresh changes EnterWorktree's base back to origin/<default> (it has been local HEAD since 2.1.128) — set worktree.baseRef: "head" to keep unpushed commits in new worktrees
• Added sandbox.bwrapPath and sandbox.socatPath managed settings (Linux/WSL) to specify custom bubblewrap and socat binary locations
• Added parentSettingsBehavior admin-tier key ('first-wins' | 'merge') to let admins opt SDK managedSettings (parent tier) into the policy merge
• Hooks now receive the active effort level via the effort.level JSON input field and the $CLAUDE_EFFORT environment variable, and Bash tool commands can read $CLAUDE_EFFORT
• Improved focus mode behavior
• Improved memory usage by releasing warm-spare background workers under memory pressure
• Fixed parallel sessions all dead-ending at 401 after a refresh-token race wiped shared credentials
• Fixed Edit/Write allow rules scoped to a drive root (C:\) or POSIX / matching incorrectly and always prompting
• Fixed an unhandled rejection (ECOMPROMISED) when a history or session-log file lock is compromised by clock skew or slow disk
• Fixed pressing Esc during conversation compaction showing a spurious "Error compacting conversation" notification
• Fixed HTTP(S)_PROXY / NO_PROXY / mTLS not being respected for the full MCP OAuth flow including discovery, dynamic client registration, token exchange, and token refresh
• Fixed Read/Write/Edit being denied on mapped network drives passed via --add-dir / SDK additionalDirectories
• Fixed Remote Control stop/interrupt from claude.ai not fully canceling the CLI session the same way local Esc does, causing queued messages to never advance after interrupting a stuck tool or prompt
• Fixed /effort in one session unexpectedly changing the effort level of other concurrent sessions, and a related issue where an IDE effort change could be silently dropped
• Fixed subagents not discovering project, user, or plugin skills via the Skill tool
• claude --help now lists --remote-control alongside --remote-control-session-name-prefix
• [VSCode] Fixed claudeCode.claudeProcessWrapper failing with "Unsupported platform" when the extension build doesn't bundle a Claude binary

v2.1.132

What's changed

• Added CLAUDE_CODE_SESSION_ID environment variable to the Bash tool subprocess environment, matching the session_id passed to hooks
• Added CLAUDE_CODE_DISABLE_ALTERNATE_SCREEN=1 env var to opt out of the fullscreen alternate-screen renderer and keep the conversation in the terminal's native scrollback
• Added a "Pasting…" footer hint while a Ctrl+V image paste is being read from the clipboard
• Fixed external SIGINT (e.g. IDE stop button, kill -INT) not running graceful shutdown — terminal modes are now restored and the --resume hint is printed instead of an abrupt exit
• Fixed an uncaught exception when the terminal is closed or SSH disconnects mid-session under the native build
• Fixed --resume failing with no low surrogate in string when a tool error truncation split an emoji; pre-corrupted sessions are sanitized on load
• Fixed --permission-mode flag being ignored when resuming a plan-mode session with -p --continue/--resume, and plan mode not being re-applied after ExitPlanMode within the same session
• Fixed fullscreen mode showing a blank screen after laptop sleep/wake or Ctrl+Z/fg until the next keystroke or stream output
• Fixed cursor landing mid-grapheme on Ctrl+E/A/K/U/arrow keys when an Indic conjunct or ZWJ emoji wraps across lines
• Fixed vim operators corrupting text containing decomposed (NFD) accented characters
• Fixed pasting text starting with / silently swallowing the input or triggering an unknown-command reply
• Fixed pasting dumping stray escape sequences into the prompt when focus events or mouse-tracking reports interleave with the bracketed paste
• Fixed mouse wheel scrolling being too fast in Cursor and VS Code 1.92–1.104 due to an upstream xterm.js bug
• Fixed scroll-wheel handling in JetBrains IDE 2025.2 terminals (spurious arrow keys, wrong-direction events, runaway acceleration)
• Fixed /usage Ctrl+S hanging when copying the stats screenshot to the clipboard on Linux/X11
• Fixed /terminal-setup showing a contradictory error in Windows Terminal — Shift+Enter is natively supported there
• Fixed /effort picker not reflecting the CLAUDE_CODE_EFFORT_LEVEL env var override
• Fixed /status showing the wrong default model for some users
• Fixed slash command autocomplete popup being capped at ~3–5 visible commands instead of scaling with terminal height
• Fixed statusline context_window token counts reflecting cumulative session totals instead of current context usage
• Fixed Alt+T (thinking toggle) not working on macOS terminals without "Option as Meta" enabled (iTerm2, Terminal.app defaults)
• Fixed dead keyboard input on Windows after re-opening a background session from claude agents
• Fixed unbounded memory growth (10GB+ RSS) when a stdio MCP server writes non-protocol data to stdout
• Fixed MCP servers that connect but fail tools/list silently showing 0 tools — they now retry once and show "connected · tools fetch failed" in /mcp
• Fixed unauthorized claude.ai MCP connectors showing as "failed" instead of "needs auth", and headless -p mode retrying non-transient 4xx connection failures
• Improved visual consistency in slash command dialogs and /login, /upgrade, /extra-usage dialog spacing
• Updated the /tui fullscreen startup banner to describe additional renderer benefits (lower memory usage, mouse support, auto-copy on select)
• Fixed Bedrock and Vertex 400 errors when ENABLE_PROMPT_CACHING_1H is set

v2.1.131

What's changed

• Fixed VS Code extension failing to activate on Windows due to a hardcoded build path in the bundled SDK (createRequire polyfill bug)
• Fixed Mantle endpoint authentication failing with missing x-api-key header

v2.1.129

What's changed

• Added --plugin-url <url> flag to fetch a plugin .zip archive from a URL for the current session
• Added CLAUDE_CODE_FORCE_SYNC_OUTPUT=1 env var to force-enable synchronized output on terminals that auto-detection misses (e.g. Emacs eat)
• Added CLAUDE_CODE_PACKAGE_MANAGER_AUTO_UPDATE: when set on Homebrew or WinGet installations, Claude Code runs the upgrade command in the background and prompts to restart
• Plugin manifests: themes and monitors should now be declared under "experimental": { ... }. Top-level declarations still work but claude plugin validate will warn
• Gateway /v1/models discovery for the /model picker is now opt-in via CLAUDE_CODE_ENABLE_GATEWAY_MODEL_DISCOVERY=1 (was automatic in 2.1.126–2.1.128)
• Ctrl+R history picker now defaults to searching all prompts across all projects, matching pre-2.1.124 behavior. Press Ctrl+S to narrow to the current project or session
• Third-party deployments (Bedrock, Vertex, Foundry, or ANTHROPIC_BASE_URL gateway) no longer see spinner tips pointing at first-party Anthropic surfaces
• skillOverrides setting now works: off hides from model and /, user-invocable-only hides from model only, name-only collapses description
• The claude_code.pull_request.count OTel metric now counts PRs/MRs created via MCP tools, not just shell commands
• Policy refusal error messages now include the API Request ID for easier support debugging
• Fixed API errors with unrecognized 400 status codes showing raw JSON instead of the underlying error message
• Fixed /clear not resetting the terminal tab title after a conversation
• Fixed session title chip from /rename disappearing while a permission or other dialog is active
• Fixed agent panel below the prompt being hidden when subagents are running (regression in 2.1.122)
• Fixed external-editor handoff (Ctrl+G) blanking the conversation history above the prompt
• Fixed /context dumping its rendered ASCII visualization grid into the conversation, wasting ~1.6k tokens per call
• Fixed /agents Library list arrow-key navigation: the highlighted agent now stays visible when the list exceeds the viewport
• Fixed /branch success message not including the new branch's session id for /resume
• Fixed bold headers with keycap/ZWJ/skin-tone emoji losing trailing characters in fullscreen mode
• Fixed server-managed settings policy not applying for enterprise/team users whose stored OAuth credentials lacked the user:inference scope
• Fixed OAuth refresh race after wake-from-sleep that could log out all running sessions
• Fixed 1-hour prompt cache TTL being silently downgraded to 5 minutes
• Fixed cache-miss warning appearing spuriously after /clear or compaction when changing /effort or /model
• Fixed Bash(mkdir *), Bash(touch *) and similar allow rules not being honored for in-project paths
• Fixed deniedMcpServers patterns with a *:// scheme wildcard not matching mixed-case hostnames
• Fixed harmless WebSocket warning being logged as an error in --debug during voice mode
• [VSCode] Fixed /clear not clearing the conversation context and displayed transcript

v2.1.128

What's changed

• Bare /color (no args) now picks a random session color
• /mcp now shows the tool count for connected servers and flags servers that connected with 0 tools
• --plugin-dir now accepts .zip plugin archives in addition to directories
• --channels now works with console (API key) authentication — console orgs with managed settings must set channelsEnabled: true to enable
• Updated /model picker: collapsed duplicate Opus 4.7 entries, and current Opus now shows as "Opus" instead of "Opus 4.7"
• Subprocesses (Bash, hooks, MCP, LSP) no longer inherit OTEL_* environment variables, so OTEL-instrumented apps run via the Bash tool no longer pick up the CLI's own OTLP endpoint
• MCP: workspace is now a reserved server name — existing servers with that name will be skipped with a warning
• Reconnecting MCP servers no longer flood the conversation with full tool-name lists on every reconnect — re-announced tools are summarized by server prefix
• SDK hosts now receive a persistent localSettings suggestion for Bash permission prompts, so "Always allow" writes to .claude/settings.local.json
• EnterWorktree now creates the new branch from local HEAD as documented, instead of origin/<default-branch> — unpushed commits are no longer dropped
• Auto mode: when the classifier can't evaluate an action, the error now includes a hint (retry, /compact, or run with --debug)
• Fixed focus mode briefly dimming the previous response when submitting a new prompt
• Fixed stray "4;0;" desktop notification on every /exit in Kitty and other terminals that interpret OSC 9 as a notification
• Fixed Remote Control showing an empty "Opening your options…" message on rate limit instead of actionable upsell options
• Fixed drag-and-drop image upload hanging on "Pasting text…" when the image read fails
• Fixed crash loop when piping very large input (>10 MB) to claude -p via stdin
• Fixed long URLs not being individually clickable on every wrapped row in fullscreen mode
• Fixed /plugin Components panel showing "Marketplace 'inline' not found" for plugins loaded via --plugin-dir
• Fixed MCP tool results dropping images when the server returns both structured content and content blocks
• Fixed fenced code blocks inside list items carrying leading whitespace into the clipboard on copy-paste
• Fixed tab navigation in /config stranding focus — the tab header now stays focused so arrows and Esc keep working
• Fixed markdown link labels being lost on terminals without OSC 8 hyperlink support — links now render as label (url) instead of just the URL
• Fixed sessions on 1M-context models with a smaller autocompact window being falsely blocked with "Prompt is too long" before reaching the actual API limit
• Fixed parallel shell tool calls: a failing read-only command (grep, git diff, ls) no longer cancels sibling calls
• Fixed banner showing "with X effort" on models that don't support effort
• Fixed /fast on 3P providers fuzzy-matching to an unrelated skill instead of showing "not available"
• Fixed Bedrock default model resolving to global.* instead of the region-appropriate prefix
• Fixed vim mode: Space in NORMAL mode now moves the cursor right, matching standard vi/vim behavior
• Fixed terminal progress indicator (OSC 9;4) flickering off between tool calls — stays visible across the full turn
• Fixed /rename without args failing on resumed sessions whose last entry is a compact boundary
• Fixed stale "remote-control is active" status lines from prior sessions appearing after --resume/--continue
• Fixed stale installed_plugins.json entries pointing at deleted cache directories polluting PATH
• Fixed MCP stdio servers receiving corrupted arguments when CLAUDE_CODE_SHELL_PREFIX is set and an argument contains spaces or shell metacharacters
• Fixed sub-agent progress summaries missing the prompt cache (~3× cache_creation reduction)
• Fixed /plugin update never detecting new versions of npm-sourced plugins
• Fixed sub-agent summaries firing repeatedly while a sub-agent's transcript is static, capping worst-case token cost on idle sub-agents
• Headless --output-format stream-json: init.plugin_errors now includes --plugin-dir load failures in addition to dependency demotions

v2.1.126

What's changed

• The /model picker now lists models from your gateway's /v1/models endpoint when ANTHROPIC_BASE_URL points at an Anthropic-compatible gateway
• • Added claude project purge [path] to delete all Claude Code state for a project (transcripts, tasks, file history, config entry) — supports --dry-run, -y/--yes, -i/--interactive, and --all
• --dangerously-skip-permissions now bypasses prompts for writes to .claude/, .git/, .vscode/, shell config files, and other previously-protected paths (catastrophic removal commands still prompt as a safety net)
• claude auth login now accepts the OAuth code pasted into the terminal when the browser callback can't reach localhost (WSL2, SSH, containers)
• claude_code.skill_activated OpenTelemetry event now fires for user-typed slash commands and carries a new invocation_trigger attribute ("user-slash", "claude-proactive", or "nested-skill")
• Auto mode: the spinner now turns red when a permission check stalls, instead of looking like the tool is running
• Host-managed deployments (CLAUDE_CODE_PROVIDER_MANAGED_BY_HOST) no longer auto-disable analytics on Bedrock/Vertex/Foundry
• Windows: PowerShell 7 installed via the Microsoft Store, MSI without PATH, or .NET global tool is now detected
• Windows: when the PowerShell tool is enabled, Claude now treats PowerShell as the primary shell instead of defaulting to Bash
• Read tool: removed the per-file malware-assessment reminder that could cause spurious refusals and "this is not malware" commentary on legacy models
• Security: Fixed allowManagedDomainsOnly / allowManagedReadPathsOnly being ignored when a higher-priority managed-settings source lacked a sandbox block
• Fixed pasting an image larger than 2000px breaking the session — images are now downscaled on paste, and oversized images in history are automatically removed and the request retried
• Fixed showing the login screen for "OAuth not allowed for organization" errors — now shows guidance to contact your admin
• Fixed OAuth login failing with timeout on slow or proxied connections, in IPv6-only devcontainers, and when the browser callback can't reach localhost
• Fixed a rare race where a concurrent credential write could clear a valid OAuth refresh token
• Fixed API retry countdown sticking at "0s" instead of counting down between attempts
• Fixed "Stream idle timeout" error after waking Mac from sleep mid-request
• Fixed background and remote sessions falsely aborting with "Stream idle timeout" during long model thinking pauses
• Fixed a hang where the assistant could finish thinking but show no output after a run of empty turns
• Fixed overly fast trackpad scrolling in Cursor and VS Code 1.92–1.104 integrated terminals
• Fixed claude.ai MCP connectors being suppressed by manual servers stuck in needs-auth state
• Fixed Japanese/Korean/Chinese text rendering as garbled characters on Windows in no-flicker mode
• Fixed Ctrl+L clearing the prompt input — it now only forces a screen redraw, matching readline behavior
• Fixed deferred tools (WebSearch, WebFetch, etc.) not being available to skills with context: fork and other subagents on their first turn
• Fixed plan-mode tools being unavailable in interactive sessions launched with --channels
• Fixed /plugin Uninstall reporting "Enabled" instead of "Uninstalled"
• Bounded total size of file-modified reminders when a linter touches many files at once
• Fixed /remote-control retries appearing stuck on "connecting…" — each retry now shows its result
• Fixed Remote Control failure notification not showing the error reason for initial connection failures
• Windows: clipboard writes no longer expose copied content in process command-line arguments visible to EDR/SIEM telemetry; also fixes >22KB selections not reaching the clipboard
• PowerShell tool: bare -- (e.g. git diff -- file) is no longer mis-flagged as the --% stop-parsing token
• Fixed Agent SDK hang when the model emits a malformed tool name in a parallel tool call batch

v2.1.123

What's changed

• Fixed OAuth authentication failing with a 401 retry loop when CLAUDE_CODE_DISABLE_EXPERIMENTAL_BETAS=1 is set

v2.1.122

What's changed

• Added ANTHROPIC_BEDROCK_SERVICE_TIER environment variable to select a Bedrock service tier (default, flex, or priority), sent as the X-Amzn-Bedrock-Service-Tier header
• Pasting a PR URL into the /resume search box now finds the session that created that PR (GitHub, GitHub Enterprise, GitLab, and Bitbucket)
• /mcp now shows claude.ai connectors hidden by a manually-added server with the same URL, with a hint to remove the duplicate
• Clarified the /mcp message shown when an MCP server is still unauthorized after the browser sign-in flow
• OpenTelemetry: numeric attributes on api_request/api_error log events are now emitted as numbers, not strings
• OpenTelemetry: added claude_code.at_mention log event for @-mention resolution
• Fixed /branch producing forks that fail with "tool_use ids were found without tool_result blocks" when the source session contained entries from rewound timelines
• Fixed /model not showing the Effort option for Bedrock application inference profile ARNs, and those ARNs not receiving output_config.effort
• Fixed Vertex AI / Bedrock returning invalid_request_error: output_config: Extra inputs are not permitted on session-title generation and other structured-output queries
• Fixed Vertex AI count_tokens endpoint returning 400 errors for users behind proxy gateways
• Fixed spinnerTipsOverride.excludeDefault not suppressing the time-based spinner tips
• Fixed ToolSearch missing MCP tools that connected after session start in nonblocking mode
• Fixed !exit / !quit in bash mode terminating the CLI instead of running as a shell command
• Fixed images sent to newer models being resized to 2576px per side instead of the correct 2000px maximum
• Fixed remote control session idle status redrawing twice per second, which could flood tmux -CC control pipes and pause the terminal
• Fixed assistant messages appearing blank in some sessions due to a stale view preference
• Fixed a malformed hooks entry in settings.json no longer invalidating the entire file
• Voice mode: keybindings bound to Caps Lock now show an error since terminals don't deliver Caps Lock as a key event

v2.1.121

What's changed

• Added alwaysLoad option to MCP server config — when true, all tools from that server skip tool-search deferral and are always available
• Added claude plugin prune to remove orphaned auto-installed plugin dependencies; plugin uninstall --prune cascades
• Added a type-to-filter search box to /skills so you can find a skill in long lists without scrolling
• PostToolUse hooks can now replace tool output for all tools via hookSpecificOutput.updatedToolOutput (previously MCP-only)
• Fullscreen mode: typing into the prompt no longer jumps scroll back to the bottom after you've scrolled up to read earlier output
• Dialogs that overflow the terminal are now scrollable with arrow keys, PgUp/PgDn, home/end, and mouse wheel in both fullscreen and non-fullscreen modes
• Clicking any line of a long URL that wraps across rows in fullscreen mode now opens the full URL
• SDK and claude -p: CLAUDE_CODE_FORK_SUBAGENT=1 now works in non-interactive sessions
• --dangerously-skip-permissions no longer prompts for writes to .claude/skills/, .claude/agents/, and .claude/commands/
• /terminal-setup now enables iTerm2's "Applications in terminal may access clipboard" setting so /copy works, including from tmux
• MCP servers that hit a transient error during startup now auto-retry up to 3 times instead of staying disconnected
• The terminal tab session title is now generated in your configured language setting
• Claude.ai connectors with the same upstream URL are now deduplicated instead of appearing as duplicates
• Vertex AI: support X.509 certificate-based Workload Identity Federation (mTLS ADC)
• Faster startup after upgrading: removed the Recent Activity panel from the release-notes splash
• LSP diagnostic summaries now expand on click/ctrl+o and show the expand hint
• SDK: mcp_authenticate now supports redirectUri for custom scheme completion and claude.ai connectors
• OpenTelemetry: added stop_reason, gen_ai.response.finish_reasons, and user_system_prompt (gated behind OTEL_LOG_USER_PROMPTS) to LLM request spans
• [VSCode] Voice dictation now respects the accessibility.voice.speechLanguage setting when no Claude Code language is configured
• [VSCode] /context now opens a native token usage dialog
• Fixed unbounded memory growth (multi-GB RSS) when processing many images in a session
• Fixed /usage leaking up to ~2GB of memory on machines with large transcript histories
• Fixed memory leak when long-running tools fail to emit a clear progress event
• Fixed Bash tool becoming permanently unusable when the directory Claude was started in is deleted or moved mid-session
• Fixed --resume crashing on startup in external builds
• Fixed --resume failing on large sessions when a transcript line was corrupted by an unclean shutdown — the corrupt line is now skipped
• Fixed thinking.type.enabled is not supported error when using Bedrock application inference profile ARNs
• Fixed Microsoft 365 MCP OAuth failing with duplicate or unsupported prompt parameter
• Fixed scrollback duplication when pressing Ctrl+L or triggering a redraw in non-fullscreen mode on tmux, GNOME Terminal, Windows Terminal, and Konsole
• Fixed claude.ai MCP connectors silently disappearing when the connector-list fetch hits a transient auth error at startup
• Fixed "Always allow" rules for built-in tools in remote sessions not surviving worker restarts
• Fixed NO_PROXY not being respected for all HTTP clients when set via managed-settings.json under the native build
• Fixed managed settings approval prompt exiting the session even when accepted — now applies settings and continues
• Fixed /usage returning "rate limited" after a stale OAuth token — now refreshes automatically
• Fixed invalid legacy enum values in settings.json invalidating the entire settings file
• Fixed /usage dialog content being clipped when no-flicker mode is off
• Fixed /focus showing "Unknown command" when the fullscreen renderer is off — now explains how to enable it
• Fixed embedded grep/find/rg shell wrappers failing when the running binary is deleted mid-session — now falls back to installed tools
• Reduced peak file descriptor usage during find in the Bash tool on large directory trees

v2.1.119

What's changed

• /config settings (theme, editor mode, verbose, etc.) now persist to ~/.claude/settings.json and participate in project/local/policy override precedence
• Added prUrlTemplate setting to point the footer PR badge at a custom code-review URL instead of github.com
• Added CLAUDE_CODE_HIDE_CWD environment variable to hide the working directory in the startup logo
• --from-pr now accepts GitLab merge-request, Bitbucket pull-request, and GitHub Enterprise PR URLs
• --print mode now honors the agent's tools: and disallowedTools: frontmatter, matching interactive-mode behavior
• --agent <name> now honors the agent definition's permissionMode for built-in agents
• PowerShell tool commands can now be auto-approved in permission mode, matching Bash behavior
• Hooks: PostToolUse and PostToolUseFailure hook inputs now include duration_ms (tool execution time, excluding permission prompts and PreToolUse hooks)
• Subagent and SDK MCP server reconfiguration now connects servers in parallel instead of serially
• Plugins pinned by another plugin's version constraint now auto-update to the highest satisfying git tag
• Vim mode: Esc in INSERT no longer pulls a queued message back into the input; press Esc again to interrupt
• Slash command suggestions now highlight the characters that matched your query
• Slash command picker now wraps long descriptions onto a second line instead of truncating
• owner/repo#N shorthand links in output now use your git remote's host instead of always pointing at github.com
• Security: blockedMarketplaces now correctly enforces hostPattern and pathPattern entries
• OpenTelemetry: tool_result and tool_decision events now include tool_use_id; tool_result also includes tool_input_size_bytes
• Status line: stdin JSON now includes effort.level and thinking.enabled
• Fixed pasting CRLF content (Windows clipboards, Xcode console) inserting an extra blank line between every line
• Fixed multi-line paste losing newlines in terminals using kitty keyboard protocol sequences inside bracketed paste
• Fixed Glob and Grep tools disappearing on native macOS/Linux builds when the Bash tool is denied via permissions
• Fixed scrolling up in fullscreen mode snapping back to the bottom every time a tool finishes
• Fixed MCP HTTP connections failing with "Invalid OAuth error response" when servers returned non-JSON bodies for OAuth discovery requests
• Fixed Rewind overlay showing "(no prompt)" for messages with image attachments
• Fixed auto mode overriding plan mode with conflicting "Execute immediately" instructions
• Fixed async PostToolUse hooks that emit no response payload writing empty entries to the session transcript
• Fixed spinner staying on when a subagent task notification is orphaned in the queue
• Tool search is now disabled by default on Vertex AI to avoid an unsupported beta header error (opt in with ENABLE_TOOL_SEARCH)
• Fixed @-file Tab completion replacing the entire prompt when used inside a slash command with an absolute path
• Fixed a stray p character appearing at the prompt on startup in macOS Terminal.app via Docker or SSH
• Fixed ${ENV_VAR} placeholders in headers for HTTP/SSE/WebSocket MCP servers not being substituted before requests
• Fixed MCP OAuth client secret stored via --client-secret not being sent during token exchange for servers requiring client_secret_post
• Fixed /skills Enter key closing the dialog instead of pre-filling /<skill-name> in the prompt
• Fixed /agents detail view mislabeling built-in tools unavailable to subagents as "Unrecognized"
• Fixed MCP servers from plugins not spawning on Windows when the plugin cache was incomplete
• Fixed /export showing the current default model instead of the model the conversation actually used
• Fixed verbose output setting not persisting after restart
• Fixed /usage progress bars overlapping with their "Resets …" labels
• Fixed plugin MCP servers failing when ${user_config.*} references an optional field left blank
• Fixed list items containing a sentence-final number wrapping the number onto its own line
• Fixed /plan and /plan open not acting on the existing plan when entering plan mode
• Fixed skills invoked before auto-compaction being re-executed against the next user message
• Fixed /reload-plugins and /doctor reporting load errors for disabled plugins
• Fixed Agent tool with isolation: "worktree" reusing stale worktrees from prior sessions
• Fixed disabled MCP servers appearing as "failed" in /status
• Fixed TaskList returning tasks in arbitrary filesystem order instead of sorted by ID
• Fixed spurious "GitHub API rate limit exceeded" hints when gh output contained PR titles mentioning "rate limit"
• Fixed SDK/bridge read_file not correctly enforcing size cap on growing files
• Fixed PR not linked to session when working in a git worktree
• Fixed /doctor warning about MCP server entries overridden by a higher-precedence scope
• Windows: removed false-positive "Windows requires 'cmd /c' wrapper" MCP config warning
• [VSCode] Fixed voice dictation's first recording producing nothing on macOS while the microphone permission prompt is showing

v2.1.118

What's changed

• Added vim visual mode (v) and visual-line mode (V) with selection, operators, and visual feedback
• Merged /cost and /stats into /usage — both remain as typing shortcuts that open the relevant tab
• Create and switch between named custom themes from /theme, or hand-edit JSON files in ~/.claude/themes/; plugins can also ship themes via a themes/ directory
• Hooks can now invoke MCP tools directly via type: "mcp_tool"
• Added DISABLE_UPDATES env var to completely block all update paths including manual claude update — stricter than DISABLE_AUTOUPDATER
• WSL on Windows can now inherit Windows-side managed settings via the wslInheritsWindowsSettings policy key
• Auto mode: include "$defaults" in autoMode.allow, autoMode.soft_deny, or autoMode.environment to add custom rules alongside the built-in list instead of replacing it
• Added a "Don't ask again" option to the auto mode opt-in prompt
• Added claude plugin tag to create release git tags for plugins with version validation
• --continue/--resume now find sessions that added the current directory via /add-dir
• /color now syncs the session accent color to claude.ai/code when Remote Control is connected
• The /model picker now honors ANTHROPIC_DEFAULT_*_MODEL_NAME/_DESCRIPTION overrides when using a custom ANTHROPIC_BASE_URL gateway
• When auto-update skips a plugin due to another plugin's version constraint, the skip now appears in /doctor and the /plugin Errors tab
• Fixed /mcp menu hiding OAuth Authenticate/Re-authenticate actions for servers configured with headersHelper, and HTTP/SSE MCP servers with custom headers being stuck in "needs authentication" after a transient 401
• Fixed MCP servers whose OAuth token response omits expires_in requiring re-authentication every hour
• Fixed MCP step-up authorization silently refreshing instead of prompting for re-consent when the server's insufficient_scope 403 names a scope the current token already has
• Fixed an unhandled promise rejection when an MCP server's OAuth flow times out or is cancelled
• Fixed MCP OAuth refresh proceeding without its cross-process lock under contention
• Fixed macOS keychain race where a concurrent MCP token refresh could overwrite a freshly-refreshed OAuth token, causing unexpected "Please run /login" prompts
• Fixed OAuth token refresh failing when the server revokes a token before its local expiry time
• Fixed credential save crash on Linux/Windows corrupting ~/.claude/.credentials.json
• Fixed /login having no effect in a session launched with CLAUDE_CODE_OAUTH_TOKEN — the env token is now cleared so disk credentials take effect
• Fixed unreadable text in the "new messages" scroll pill and /plugin badges
• Fixed plan acceptance dialog offering "auto mode" instead of "bypass permissions" when running with --dangerously-skip-permissions
• Fixed agent-type hooks failing with "Messages are required for agent hooks" when configured for events other than Stop or SubagentStop
• Fixed prompt hooks re-firing on tool calls made by an agent-hook verifier subagent
• Fixed /fork writing the full parent conversation to disk per fork — now writes a pointer and hydrates on read
• Fixed Alt+K / Alt+X / Alt+^ / Alt+_ freezing keyboard input
• Fixed connecting to a remote session overwriting your local model setting in ~/.claude/settings.json
• Fixed typeahead showing "No commands match" error when pasting file paths that start with /
• Fixed plugin install on an already-installed plugin not re-resolving a dependency installed at the wrong version
• Fixed unhandled errors from file watcher on invalid paths or fd exhaustion
• Fixed Remote Control sessions getting archived on transient CCR initialization blips during JWT refresh
• Fixed subagents resumed via SendMessage not restoring the explicit cwd they were spawned with

v2.1.117

What's changed

• Forked subagents can now be enabled on external builds by setting CLAUDE_CODE_FORK_SUBAGENT=1
• Agent frontmatter mcpServers are now loaded for main-thread agent sessions via --agent
• Improved /model: selections now persist across restarts even when the project pins a different model, and the startup header shows when the active model comes from a project or managed-settings pin
• The /resume command now offers to summarize stale, large sessions before re-reading them, matching the existing --resume behavior
• Faster startup when both local and claude.ai MCP servers are configured (concurrent connect now default)
• plugin install on an already-installed plugin now installs any missing dependencies instead of stopping at "already installed"
• Plugin dependency errors now say "not installed" with an install hint, and claude plugin marketplace add now auto-resolves missing dependencies from configured marketplaces
• Managed-settings blockedMarketplaces and strictKnownMarketplaces are now enforced on plugin install, update, refresh, and autoupdate
• Advisor Tool (experimental): dialog now carries an "experimental" label, learn-more link, and startup notification when enabled; sessions no longer get stuck with "Advisor tool result content could not be processed" errors on every prompt and /compact
• The cleanupPeriodDays retention sweep now also covers ~/.claude/tasks/, ~/.claude/shell-snapshots/, and ~/.claude/backups/
• OpenTelemetry: user_prompt events now include command_name and command_source for slash commands; cost.usage, token.usage, api_request, and api_error now include an effort attribute when the model supports effort levels. Custom/MCP command names are redacted unless OTEL_LOG_TOOL_DETAILS=1 is set
• Native builds on macOS and Linux: the Glob and Grep tools are replaced by embedded bfs and ugrep available through the Bash tool — faster searches without a separate tool round-trip (Windows and npm-installed builds unchanged)
• Windows: cached where.exe executable lookups per process for faster subprocess launches
• Default effort for Pro/Max subscribers on Opus 4.6 and Sonnet 4.6 is now high (was medium)
• Fixed Plain-CLI OAuth sessions dying with "Please run /login" when the access token expires mid-session — the token is now refreshed reactively on 401
• Fixed WebFetch hanging on very large HTML pages by truncating input before HTML-to-markdown conversion
• Fixed a crash when a proxy returns HTTP 204 No Content — now surfaces a clear error instead of a TypeError
• Fixed /login having no effect when launched with CLAUDE_CODE_OAUTH_TOKEN env var and that token expires
• Fixed prompt-input undo (Ctrl+_) doing nothing immediately after typing, and skipping a state on each undo step
• Fixed NO_PROXY not being respected for remote API requests when running under Bun
• Fixed rare spurious escape/return triggers when key names arrive as coalesced text over slow connections
• Fixed SDK reload_plugins reconnecting all user MCP servers serially
• Fixed Bedrock application-inference-profile requests failing with 400 when backed by Opus 4.7 with thinking disabled
• Fixed MCP elicitation/create requests auto-cancelling in print/SDK mode when the server finishes connecting mid-turn
• Fixed subagents running a different model than the main agent incorrectly flagging file reads with a malware warning
• Fixed idle re-render loop when background tasks are present, reducing memory growth on Linux
• [VSCode] Fixed "Manage Plugins" panel breaking when multiple large marketplaces are configured
• Fixed Opus 4.7 sessions showing inflated /context percentages and autocompacting too early — Claude Code was computing against a 200K context window instead of Opus 4.7's native 1M

v2.1.116

What's changed

• /resume on large sessions is significantly faster (up to 67% on 40MB+ sessions) and handles sessions with many dead-fork entries more efficiently
• Faster MCP startup when multiple stdio servers are configured; resources/templates/list is now deferred to first @-mention
• Smoother fullscreen scrolling in VS Code, Cursor, and Windsurf terminals — /terminal-setup now configures the editor's scroll sensitivity
• Thinking spinner now shows progress inline ("still thinking", "thinking more", "almost done thinking"), replacing the separate hint row
• /config search now matches option values (e.g. searching "vim" finds the Editor mode setting)
• /doctor can now be opened while Claude is responding, without waiting for the current turn to finish
• /reload-plugins and background plugin auto-update now auto-install missing plugin dependencies from marketplaces you've already added
• Bash tool now surfaces a hint when gh commands hit GitHub's API rate limit, so agents can back off instead of retrying
• The Usage tab in Settings now shows your 5-hour and weekly usage immediately and no longer fails when the usage endpoint is rate-limited
• Agent frontmatter hooks: now fire when running as a main-thread agent via --agent
• Slash command menu now shows "No commands match" when your filter has zero results, instead of disappearing
• Security: sandbox auto-allow no longer bypasses the dangerous-path safety check for rm/rmdir targeting /, $HOME, or other critical system directories
• Fixed Devanagari and other Indic scripts rendering with broken column alignment in the terminal UI
• Fixed Ctrl+- not triggering undo in terminals using the Kitty keyboard protocol (iTerm2, Ghostty, kitty, WezTerm, Windows Terminal)
• Fixed Cmd+Left/Right not jumping to line start/end in terminals that use the Kitty keyboard protocol (Warp fullscreen, kitty, Ghostty, WezTerm)
• Fixed Ctrl+Z hanging the terminal when Claude Code is launched via a wrapper process (e.g. npx, bun run)
• Fixed scrollback duplication in inline mode where resizing the terminal or large output bursts would repeat earlier conversation history
• Fixed modal search dialogs overflowing the screen at short terminal heights, hiding the search box and keyboard hints
• Fixed scattered blank cells and disappearing composer chrome in the VS Code integrated terminal during scrolling
• Fixed an intermittent API 400 error related to cache control TTL ordering that could occur when a parallel request completed during request setup
• Fixed /branch rejecting conversations with transcripts larger than 50MB
• Fixed /resume silently showing an empty conversation on large session files instead of reporting the load error
• Fixed /plugin Installed tab showing the same item twice when it appears under Needs attention or Favorites
• Fixed /update and /tui not working after entering a worktree mid-session

v2.1.114

What's changed

• Fixed a crash in the permission dialog when an agent teams teammate requested tool permission

v2.1.113

What's changed

• Changed the CLI to spawn a native Claude Code binary (via a per-platform optional dependency) instead of bundled JavaScript
• Added sandbox.network.deniedDomains setting to block specific domains even when a broader allowedDomains wildcard would otherwise permit them
• Fullscreen mode: Shift+↑/↓ now scrolls the viewport when extending a selection past the visible edge
• Ctrl+A and Ctrl+E now move to the start/end of the current logical line in multiline input, matching readline behavior
• Windows: Ctrl+Backspace now deletes the previous word
• Long URLs in responses and bash output stay clickable when they wrap across lines (in terminals with OSC 8 hyperlinks)
• Improved /loop: pressing Esc now cancels pending wakeups, and wakeups display as "Claude resuming /loop wakeup" for clarity
• /extra-usage now works from Remote Control (mobile/web) clients
• Remote Control clients can now query @-file autocomplete suggestions
• Improved /ultrareview: faster launch with parallelized checks, diffstat in the launch dialog, and animated launching state
• Subagents that stall mid-stream now fail with a clear error after 10 minutes instead of hanging silently
• Bash tool: multi-line commands whose first line is a comment now show the full command in the transcript, closing a UI-spoofing vector
• Running cd <current-directory> && git … no longer triggers a permission prompt when the cd is a no-op
• Security: on macOS, /private/{etc,var,tmp,home} paths are now treated as dangerous removal targets under Bash(rm:*) allow rules
• Security: Bash deny rules now match commands wrapped in env/sudo/watch/ionice/setsid and similar exec wrappers
• Security: Bash(find:*) allow rules no longer auto-approve find -exec/-delete
• Fixed MCP concurrent-call timeout handling where a message for one tool call could silently disarm another call's watchdog
• Fixed Cmd-backspace / Ctrl+U to once again delete from the cursor to the start of the line
• Fixed markdown tables breaking when a cell contains an inline code span with a pipe character
• Fixed session recap auto-firing while composing unsent text in the prompt
• Fixed /copy "Full response" not aligning markdown table columns for pasting into GitHub, Notion, or Slack
• Fixed messages typed while viewing a running subagent being hidden from its transcript and misattributed to the parent AI
• Fixed Bash dangerouslyDisableSandbox running commands outside the sandbox without a permission prompt
• Fixed /effort auto confirmation — now says "Effort level set to max" to match the status bar label
• Fixed the "copied N chars" toast overcounting emoji and other multi-code-unit characters
• Fixed /insights crashing with EBUSY on Windows
• Fixed exit confirmation dialog mislabeling one-shot scheduled tasks as recurring — now shows a countdown
• Fixed slash/@ completion menu not sitting flush against the prompt border in fullscreen mode
• Fixed CLAUDE_CODE_EXTRA_BODY output_config.effort causing 400 errors on subagent calls to models that don't support effort and on Vertex AI
• Fixed prompt cursor disappearing when NO_COLOR is set
• Fixed ToolSearch ranking so pasted MCP tool names surface the actual tool instead of description-matching siblings
• Fixed compacting a resumed long-context session failing with "Extra usage is required for long context requests"
• Fixed plugin install succeeding when a dependency version conflicts with an already-installed plugin — now reports range-conflict
• Fixed "Refine with Ultraplan" not showing the remote session URL in the transcript
• Fixed SDK image content blocks that fail to process crashing the session — now degrade to a text placeholder
• Fixed Remote Control sessions not streaming subagent transcripts
• Fixed Remote Control sessions not being archived when Claude Code exits
• Fixed thinking.type.enabled is not supported 400 error when using Opus 4.7 via a Bedrock Application Inference Profile ARN

v2.1.112

What's changed

• Fixed "claude-opus-4-7 is temporarily unavailable" for auto mode

v2.1.111

What's changed

• Claude Opus 4.7 xhigh is now available! Use /effort to tune speed vs. intelligence
• Auto mode is now available for Max subscribers when using Opus 4.7
• Added xhigh effort level for Opus 4.7, sitting between high and max. Available via /effort, --effort, and the model picker; other models fall back to high
• /effort now opens an interactive slider when called without arguments, with arrow-key navigation between levels and Enter to confirm
• Added "Auto (match terminal)" theme option that matches your terminal's dark/light mode — select it from /theme
• Added /less-permission-prompts skill — scans transcripts for common read-only Bash and MCP tool calls and proposes a prioritized allowlist for .claude/settings.json
• Added /ultrareview for running comprehensive code review in the cloud using parallel multi-agent analysis and critique — invoke with no arguments to review your current branch, or /ultrareview <PR#> to fetch and review a specific GitHub PR
• Auto mode no longer requires --enable-auto-mode
• Windows: PowerShell tool is progressively rolling out. Opt in or out with CLAUDE_CODE_USE_POWERSHELL_TOOL. On Linux and macOS, enable with CLAUDE_CODE_USE_POWERSHELL_TOOL=1 (requires pwsh on PATH)
• Read-only bash commands with glob patterns (e.g. ls *.ts) and commands starting with cd <project-dir> && no longer trigger a permission prompt
• Suggest the closest matching subcommand when claude <word> is invoked with a near-miss typo (e.g. claude udpate → "Did you mean claude update?")
• Plan files are now named after your prompt (e.g. fix-auth-race-snug-otter.md) instead of purely random words
• Improved /setup-vertex and /setup-bedrock to show the actual settings.json path when CLAUDE_CONFIG_DIR is set, seed model candidates from existing pins on re-run, and offer a "with 1M context" option for supported models
• /skills menu now supports sorting by estimated token count — press t to toggle
• Ctrl+U now clears the entire input buffer (previously: delete to start of line); press Ctrl+Y to restore
• Ctrl+L now forces a full screen redraw in addition to clearing the prompt input
• Transcript view footer now shows [ (dump to scrollback) and v (open in editor) shortcuts
• The "+N lines" marker for truncated long pastes is now a full-width rule for easier scanning
• Headless --output-format stream-json now includes plugin_errors on the init event when plugins are demoted for unsatisfied dependencies
• Added OTEL_LOG_RAW_API_BODIES environment variable to emit full API request and response bodies as OpenTelemetry log events for debugging
• Suppressed spurious decompression, network, and transient error messages that could appear in the TUI during normal operation
• Reverted the v2.1.110 cap on non-streaming fallback retries — it traded long waits for more outright failures during API overload
• Fixed terminal display tearing (random characters, drifting input) in iTerm2 + tmux setups when terminal notifications are sent
• Fixed @ file suggestions re-scanning the entire project on every turn in non-git working directories, and showing only config files in freshly-initialized git repos with no tracked files
• Fixed LSP diagnostics from before an edit appearing after it, causing the model to re-read files it just edited
• Fixed tab-completing /resume immediately resuming an arbitrary titled session instead of showing the session picker
• Fixed /context grid rendering with extra blank lines between rows
• Fixed /clear dropping the session name set by /rename, causing statusline output to lose session_name
• Improved plugin error handling: dependency errors now distinguish conflicting, invalid, and overly complex version requirements; fixed stale resolved versions after plugin update; plugin install now recovers from interrupted prior installs
• Fixed Claude calling a non-existent commit skill and showing "Unknown skill: commit" for users without a custom /commit command
• Fixed 429 rate-limit errors on Bedrock/Vertex/Foundry referencing status.claude.com (it only covers Anthropic-operated providers)
• Fixed feedback surveys appearing back-to-back after dismissing one
• Fixed bare URLs in bash/PowerShell/MCP tool output being unclickable when the terminal wraps them across lines
• Windows: CLAUDE_ENV_FILE and SessionStart hook environment files now apply (previously a no-op)
• Windows: permission rules with drive-letter paths are now correctly root-anchored, and paths differing only by drive-letter case are recognized as the same path

v2.1.110

What's changed

• Added /tui command and tui setting — run /tui fullscreen to switch to flicker-free rendering in the same conversation
• Changed Ctrl+O to toggle between normal and verbose transcript only; focus view is now toggled separately with the new /focus command
• Added push notification tool — Claude can send mobile push notifications when Remote Control and "Push when Claude decides" config are enabled
• Added autoScrollEnabled config to disable conversation auto-scroll in fullscreen mode
• Added option to show Claude's last response as commented context in the Ctrl+G external editor (enable via /config)
• Improved /plugin Installed tab — items needing attention and favorites appear at the top, disabled items are hidden behind a fold, and f favorites the selected item
• Improved /doctor to warn when an MCP server is defined in multiple config scopes with different endpoints
• --resume/--continue now resurrects unexpired scheduled tasks
• /autocompact, /context, /exit, and /reload-plugins now work from Remote Control (mobile/web) clients
• Write tool now informs the model when you edit the proposed content in the IDE diff before accepting
• Bash tool now enforces the documented maximum timeout instead of accepting arbitrarily large values
• SDK/headless sessions now read TRACEPARENT/TRACESTATE from the environment for distributed trace linking
• Session recap is now enabled for users with telemetry disabled (Bedrock, Vertex, Foundry, DISABLE_TELEMETRY). Opt out via /config or CLAUDE_CODE_ENABLE_AWAY_SUMMARY=0.
• Fixed MCP tool calls hanging indefinitely when the server connection drops mid-response on SSE/HTTP transports
• Fixed non-streaming fallback retries causing multi-minute hangs when the API is unreachable
• Fixed session recap, local slash-command output, and other system status lines not appearing in focus mode
• Fixed high CPU usage in fullscreen when text is selected while a tool is running
• Fixed plugin install not honoring dependencies declared in plugin.json when the marketplace entry omits them; /plugin install now lists auto-installed dependencies
• Fixed skills with disable-model-invocation: true failing when invoked via /<skill> mid-message
• Fixed --resume sometimes showing the first prompt instead of the /rename name for sessions still running or exited uncleanly
• Fixed queued messages briefly appearing twice during multi-tool-call turns
• Fixed session cleanup not removing the full session directory including subagent transcripts
• Fixed dropped keystrokes after the CLI relaunches (e.g. /tui, provider setup wizards)
• Fixed garbled startup rendering in macOS Terminal.app and other terminals that don't support synchronized output
• Hardened "Open in editor" actions against command injection from untrusted filenames
• Fixed PermissionRequest hooks returning updatedInput not being re-checked against permissions.deny rules; setMode:'bypassPermissions' updates now respect disableBypassPermissionsMode
• Fixed PreToolUse hook additionalContext being dropped when the tool call fails
• Fixed stdio MCP servers that print stray non-JSON lines to stdout being disconnected on the first stray line (regression in 2.1.105)
• Fixed headless/SDK session auto-title firing an extra Haiku request when CLAUDE_CODE_DISABLE_NONESSENTIAL_TRAFFIC or CLAUDE_CODE_DISABLE_TERMINAL_TITLE is set
• Fixed potential excessive memory allocation when piped (non-TTY) Ink output contains a single very wide line
• Fixed /skills menu not scrolling when the list overflows the modal in fullscreen mode
• Fixed Remote Control sessions showing a generic error instead of prompting for re-login when the session is too old
• Fixed Remote Control session renames from claude.ai not persisting the title to the local CLI session

v2.1.109

What's changed

• Improved the extended-thinking indicator with a rotating progress hint

v2.1.108

What's changed

• Added ENABLE_PROMPT_CACHING_1H env var to opt into 1-hour prompt cache TTL on API key, Bedrock, Vertex, and Foundry (ENABLE_PROMPT_CACHING_1H_BEDROCK is deprecated but still honored), and FORCE_PROMPT_CACHING_5M to force 5-minute TTL
• Added recap feature to provide context when returning to a session, configurable in /config and manually invocable with /recap; force with CLAUDE_CODE_ENABLE_AWAY_SUMMARY if telemetry disabled.
• The model can now discover and invoke built-in slash commands like /init, /review, and /security-review via the Skill tool
• /undo is now an alias for /rewind
• Improved /model to warn before switching models mid-conversation, since the next response re-reads the full history uncached
• Improved /resume picker to default to sessions from the current directory; press Ctrl+A to show all projects
• Improved error messages: server rate limits are now distinguished from plan usage limits; 5xx/529 errors show a link to status.claude.com; unknown slash commands suggest the closest match
• Reduced memory footprint for file reads, edits, and syntax highlighting by loading language grammars on demand
• Added "verbose" indicator when viewing the detailed transcript (Ctrl+O)
• Added a warning at startup when prompt caching is disabled via DISABLE_PROMPT_CACHING* environment variables
• Fixed paste not working in the /login code prompt (regression in 2.1.105)
• Fixed subscribers who set DISABLE_TELEMETRY falling back to 5-minute prompt cache TTL instead of 1 hour
• Fixed Agent tool prompting for permission in auto mode when the safety classifier's transcript exceeded its context window
• Fixed Bash tool producing no output when CLAUDE_ENV_FILE (e.g. ~/.zprofile) ends with a # comment line
• Fixed claude --resume <session-id> losing the session's custom name and color set via /rename
• Fixed session titles showing placeholder example text when the first message is a short greeting
• Fixed terminal escape codes appearing as garbage text in the prompt input after --teleport
• Fixed /feedback retry: pressing Enter to resubmit after a failure now works without first editing the description
• Fixed --teleport and --resume <id> precondition errors (e.g. dirty git tree, session not found) exiting silently instead of showing the error message
• Fixed Remote Control session titles set in the web UI being overwritten by auto-generated titles after the third message
• Fixed --resume truncating sessions when the transcript contained a self-referencing message
• Fixed transcript write failures (e.g., disk full) being silently dropped instead of being logged
• Fixed diacritical marks (accents, umlauts, cedillas) being dropped from responses when the language setting is configured
• Fixed policy-managed plugins never auto-updating when running from a different project than where they were first installed

v2.1.107

What's changed

• Show thinking hints sooner during long operations

v2.1.105

What's changed

• Added path parameter to the EnterWorktree tool to switch into an existing worktree of the current repository
• Added PreCompact hook support: hooks can now block compaction by exiting with code 2 or returning {"decision":"block"}
• Added background monitor support for plugins via a top-level monitors manifest key that auto-arms at session start or on skill invoke
• /proactive is now an alias for /loop
• Improved stalled API stream handling: streams now abort after 5 minutes of no data and retry non-streaming instead of hanging indefinitely
• Improved network error messages: connection errors now show a retry message immediately instead of a silent spinner
• Improved file write display: long single-line writes (e.g. minified JSON) are now truncated in the UI instead of paginating across many screens
• Improved /doctor layout with status icons; press f to have Claude fix reported issues
• Improved /config labels and descriptions for clarity
• Improved skill description handling: raised the listing cap from 250 to 1,536 characters and added a startup warning when descriptions are truncated
• Improved WebFetch to strip <style> and <script> contents from fetched pages so CSS-heavy pages no longer exhaust the content budget before reaching actual text
• Improved stale agent worktree cleanup to remove worktrees whose PR was squash-merged instead of keeping them indefinitely
• Improved MCP large-output truncation prompt to give format-specific recipes (e.g. jq for JSON, computed Read chunk sizes for text)
• Fixed images attached to queued messages (sent while Claude is working) being dropped
• Fixed screen going blank when the prompt input wraps to a second line in long conversations
• Fixed leading whitespace getting copied when selecting multi-line assistant responses in fullscreen mode
• Fixed leading whitespace being trimmed from assistant messages, breaking ASCII art and indented diagrams
• Fixed garbled bash output when commands print clickable file links (e.g. Python rich/loguru logging)
• Fixed alt+enter not inserting a newline in terminals using ESC-prefix alt encoding, and Ctrl+J not inserting a newline (regression in 2.1.100)
• Fixed duplicate "Creating worktree" text in EnterWorktree/ExitWorktree tool display
• Fixed queued user prompts disappearing from focus mode
• Fixed one-shot scheduled tasks re-firing repeatedly when the file watcher missed the post-fire cleanup
• Fixed inbound channel notifications being silently dropped after the first message for Team/Enterprise users
• Fixed marketplace plugins with package.json and lockfile not having dependencies installed automatically after install/update
• Fixed marketplace auto-update leaving the official marketplace in a broken state when a plugin process holds files open during the update
• Fixed "Resume this session with..." hint not printing on exit after /resume, --worktree, or /branch
• Fixed feedback survey shortcut keys firing when typed at the end of a longer prompt
• Fixed stdio MCP server emitting malformed (non-JSON) output hanging the session instead of failing fast with "Connection closed"
• Fixed MCP tools missing on the first turn of headless/remote-trigger sessions when MCP servers connect asynchronously
• Fixed /model picker on AWS Bedrock in non-US regions persisting invalid us.* model IDs to settings.json when inference profile discovery is still in-flight
• Fixed 429 rate-limit errors showing a raw JSON dump instead of a clean message for API-key, Bedrock, and Vertex users
• Fixed crash on resume when session contains malformed text blocks
• Fixed /help dropping the tab bar, Shortcuts heading, and footer at short terminal heights
• Fixed malformed keybinding entry values in keybindings.json being silently loaded instead of rejected with a clear error
• Fixed CLAUDE_CODE_DISABLE_NONESSENTIAL_TRAFFIC in one project's settings permanently disabling usage metrics for all projects on the machine
• Fixed washed-out 16-color palette when using Ghostty, Kitty, Alacritty, WezTerm, foot, rio, or Contour over SSH/mosh
• Fixed Bash tool suggesting acceptEdits permission mode when exiting plan mode would downgrade from a higher permission level

v2.1.104

v2.1.101

What's changed

• Added /team-onboarding command to generate a teammate ramp-up guide from your local Claude Code usage
• Added OS CA certificate store trust by default, so enterprise TLS proxies work without extra setup (set CLAUDE_CODE_CERT_STORE=bundled to use only bundled CAs)
• /ultraplan and other remote-session features now auto-create a default cloud environment instead of requiring web setup first
• Improved brief mode to retry once when Claude responds with plain text instead of a structured message
• Improved focus mode: Claude now writes more self-contained summaries since it knows you only see its final message
• Improved tool-not-available errors to explain why and how to proceed when the model calls a tool that exists but isn't available in the current context
• Improved rate-limit retry messages to show which limit was hit and when it resets instead of an opaque seconds countdown
• Improved refusal error messages to include the API-provided explanation when available
• Improved claude -p --resume <name> to accept session titles set via /rename or --name
• Improved settings resilience: an unrecognized hook event name in settings.json no longer causes the entire file to be ignored
• Improved plugin hooks from plugins force-enabled by managed settings to run when allowManagedHooksOnly is set
• Improved /plugin and claude plugin update to show a warning when the marketplace could not be refreshed, instead of silently reporting a stale version
• Improved plan mode to hide the "Refine with Ultraplan" option when the user's org or auth setup can't reach Claude Code on the web
• Improved beta tracing to honor OTEL_LOG_USER_PROMPTS, OTEL_LOG_TOOL_DETAILS, and OTEL_LOG_TOOL_CONTENT; sensitive span attributes are no longer emitted unless opted in
• Improved SDK query() to clean up subprocess and temp files when consumers break from for await or use await using
• Fixed a command injection vulnerability in the POSIX which fallback used by LSP binary detection
• Fixed a memory leak where long sessions retained dozens of historical copies of the message list in the virtual scroller
• Fixed --resume/--continue losing conversation context on large sessions when the loader anchored on a dead-end branch instead of the live conversation
• Fixed --resume chain recovery bridging into an unrelated subagent conversation when a subagent message landed near a main-chain write gap
• Fixed a crash on --resume when a persisted Edit/Write tool result was missing its file_path
• Fixed a hardcoded 5-minute request timeout that aborted slow backends (local LLMs, extended thinking, slow gateways) regardless of API_TIMEOUT_MS
• Fixed permissions.deny rules not overriding a PreToolUse hook's permissionDecision: "ask" — previously the hook could downgrade a deny into a prompt
• Fixed --setting-sources without user causing background cleanup to ignore cleanupPeriodDays and delete conversation history older than 30 days
• Fixed Bedrock SigV4 authentication failing with 403 when ANTHROPIC_AUTH_TOKEN, apiKeyHelper, or ANTHROPIC_CUSTOM_HEADERS set an Authorization header
• Fixed claude -w <name> failing with "already exists" after a previous session's worktree cleanup left a stale directory
• Fixed subagents not inheriting MCP tools from dynamically-injected servers
• Fixed sub-agents running in isolated worktrees being denied Read/Edit access to files inside their own worktree
• Fixed sandboxed Bash commands failing with mktemp: No such file or directory after a fresh boot
• Fixed claude mcp serve tool calls failing with "Tool execution failed" in MCP clients that validate outputSchema
• Fixed RemoteTrigger tool's run action sending an empty body and being rejected by the server
• Fixed several /resume picker issues: narrow default view hiding sessions from other projects, unreachable preview on Windows Terminal, incorrect cwd in worktrees, session-not-found errors not surfacing in stderr, terminal title not being set, and resume hint overlapping the prompt input
• Fixed Grep tool ENOENT when the embedded ripgrep binary path becomes stale (VS Code extension auto-update, macOS App Translocation); now falls back to system rg and self-heals mid-session
• Fixed /btw writing a copy of the entire conversation to disk on every use
• Fixed /context Free space and Messages breakdown disagreeing with the header percentage
• Fixed several plugin issues: slash commands resolving to the wrong plugin with duplicate name: frontmatter, /plugin update failing with ENAMETOOLONG, Discover showing already-installed plugins, directory-source plugins loading from a stale version cache, and skills not honoring context: fork and agent frontmatter fields
• Fixed the /mcp menu offering OAuth-specific actions for MCP servers configured with headersHelper; Reconnect is now offered instead to re-invoke the helper script
• Fixed ctrl+], ctrl+\, and ctrl+^ keybindings not firing in terminals that send raw C0 control bytes (Terminal.app, default iTerm2, xterm)
• Fixed /login OAuth URL rendering with padding that prevented clean mouse selection
• Fixed rendering issues: flicker in non-fullscreen mode when content above the visible area changed, terminal scrollback being wiped during long sessions in non-fullscreen mode, and mouse-scroll escape sequences occasionally leaking into the prompt as text
• Fixed crash when settings.json env values are numbers instead of strings
• Fixed in-app settings writes (e.g. /add-dir --remember, /config) not refreshing the in-memory snapshot, preventing removed directories from being revoked mid-session
• Fixed custom keybindings (~/.claude/keybindings.json) not loading on Bedrock, Vertex, and other third-party providers
• Fixed claude --continue -p not correctly continuing sessions created by -p or the SDK
• Fixed several Remote Control issues: worktrees removed on session crash, connection failures not persisting in the transcript, spurious "Disconnected" indicator in brief mode for local sessions, and /remote-control failing over SSH when only CLAUDE_CODE_ORGANIZATION_UUID is set
• Fixed /insights sometimes omitting the report file link from its response
• [VSCode] Fixed the file attachment below the chat input not clearing when the last editor tab is closed

v2.1.100

v2.1.98

What's changed

• Added interactive Google Vertex AI setup wizard accessible from the login screen when selecting "3rd-party platform", guiding you through GCP authentication, project and region configuration, credential verification, and model pinning
• Added CLAUDE_CODE_PERFORCE_MODE env var: when set, Edit/Write/NotebookEdit fail on read-only files with a p4 edit hint instead of silently overwriting them
• Added Monitor tool for streaming events from background scripts
• Added subprocess sandboxing with PID namespace isolation on Linux when CLAUDE_CODE_SUBPROCESS_ENV_SCRUB is set, and CLAUDE_CODE_SCRIPT_CAPS env var to limit per-session script invocations
• Added --exclude-dynamic-system-prompt-sections flag to print mode for improved cross-user prompt caching
• Added workspace.git_worktree to the status line JSON input, set whenever the current directory is inside a linked git worktree
• Added W3C TRACEPARENT env var to Bash tool subprocesses when OTEL tracing is enabled, so child-process spans correctly parent to Claude Code's trace tree
• LSP: Claude Code now identifies itself to language servers via clientInfo in the initialize request
• Fixed a Bash tool permission bypass where a backslash-escaped flag could be auto-allowed as read-only and lead to arbitrary code execution
• Fixed compound Bash commands bypassing forced permission prompts for safety checks and explicit ask rules in auto and bypass-permissions modes
• Fixed read-only commands with env-var prefixes not prompting unless the var is known-safe (LANG, TZ, NO_COLOR, etc.)
• Fixed redirects to /dev/tcp/... or /dev/udp/... not prompting instead of auto-allowing
• Fixed stalled streaming responses timing out instead of falling back to non-streaming mode
• Fixed 429 retries burning all attempts in ~13s when the server returns a small Retry-After — exponential backoff now applies as a minimum
• Fixed MCP OAuth oauth.authServerMetadataUrl config override not being honored on token refresh after restart, affecting ADFS and similar IdPs
• Fixed capital letters being dropped to lowercase on xterm and VS Code integrated terminal when the kitty keyboard protocol is active
• Fixed macOS text replacements deleting the trigger word instead of inserting the substitution
• Fixed --dangerously-skip-permissions being silently downgraded to accept-edits mode after approving a write to a protected path via Bash
• Fixed managed-settings allow rules remaining active after an admin removed them, until process restart
• Fixed permissions.additionalDirectories changes not applying mid-session — removed directories lose access immediately and added ones work without restart
• Fixed removing a directory from additionalDirectories revoking access to the same directory passed via --add-dir
• Fixed Bash(cmd:*) and Bash(git commit *) wildcard permission rules failing to match commands with extra spaces or tabs
• Fixed Bash(...) deny rules being downgraded to a prompt for piped commands that mix cd with other segments
• Fixed false Bash permission prompts for cut -d /, paste -d /, column -s /, awk '{print $1}' file, and filenames containing %
• Fixed permission rules with names matching JavaScript prototype properties (e.g. toString) causing settings.json to be silently ignored
• Fixed agent team members not inheriting the leader's permission mode when using --dangerously-skip-permissions
• Fixed a crash in fullscreen mode when hovering over MCP tool results
• Fixed copying wrapped URLs in fullscreen mode inserting spaces at line breaks
• Fixed file-edit diffs disappearing from the UI on --resume when the edited file was larger than 10KB
• Fixed several /resume picker issues: --resume <name> opening uneditable, filter reload wiping search state, empty list swallowing arrow keys, cross-project staleness, and transient task-status text replacing conversation summaries
• Fixed /export not honoring absolute paths and ~, and silently rewriting user-supplied extensions to .txt
• Fixed /effort max being denied for unknown or future model IDs
• Fixed slash command picker breaking when a plugin's frontmatter name is a YAML boolean keyword
• Fixed rate-limit upsell text being hidden after message remounts
• Fixed MCP tools with _meta["anthropic/maxResultSizeChars"] not bypassing the token-based persist layer
• Fixed voice mode leaking dozens of space characters into the input when re-holding the push-to-talk key while the previous transcript is still processing
• Fixed DISABLE_AUTOUPDATER not fully suppressing the npm registry version check and symlink modification on npm-based installs
• Fixed a memory leak where Remote Control permission handler entries were retained for the lifetime of the session
• Fixed background subagents that fail with an error not reporting partial progress to the parent agent
• Fixed prompt-type Stop/SubagentStop hooks failing on long sessions, and hook evaluator API errors showing "JSON validation failed" instead of the real message
• Fixed feedback survey rendering when dismissed
• Fixed Bash grep -f FILE / rg -f FILE not prompting when reading a pattern file outside the working directory
• Fixed stale subagent worktree cleanup removing worktrees that contain untracked files
• Fixed sandbox.network.allowMachLookup not taking effect on macOS
• Improved /resume filter hint labels and added project/worktree/branch names in the filter indicator
• Improved footer indicators (Focus, notifications) to stay on the mode-indicator row instead of wrapping at narrow terminal widths
• Improved /agents with a tabbed layout: a Running tab shows live subagents, and the Library tab adds Run agent and View running instance actions
• Improved /reload-plugins to pick up plugin-provided skills without requiring a restart
• Improved Accept Edits mode to auto-approve filesystem commands prefixed with safe env vars or process wrappers
• Improved Vim mode: j/k in NORMAL mode now navigate history and select the footer pill at the input boundary
• Improved hook errors in the transcript to include the first line of stderr for self-diagnosis without --debug
• Improved OTEL tracing: interaction spans now correctly wrap full turns under concurrent SDK calls, and headless turns end spans per-turn
• Improved transcript entries to carry final token usage instead of streaming placeholders
• Updated the /claude-api skill to cover Managed Agents alongside Claude API
• [VSCode] Fixed false-positive "requires git-bash" error on Windows when CLAUDE_CODE_GIT_BASH_PATH is set or Git is installed at a default location
• Fixed CLAUDE_CODE_MAX_CONTEXT_TOKENS to honor DISABLE_COMPACT when it is set.
• Dropped /compact hints when DISABLE_COMPACT is set.

v2.1.97

What's changed

• Added focus view toggle (Ctrl+O) in NO_FLICKER mode showing prompt, one-line tool summary with edit diffstats, and final response
• Added refreshInterval status line setting to re-run the status line command every N seconds
• Added workspace.git_worktree to the status line JSON input, set when the current directory is inside a linked git worktree
• Added ● N running indicator in /agents next to agent types with live subagent instances
• Added syntax highlighting for Cedar policy files (.cedar, .cedarpolicy)
• Fixed --dangerously-skip-permissions being silently downgraded to accept-edits mode after approving a write to a protected path
• Fixed and hardened Bash tool permissions, tightening checks around env-var prefixes and network redirects, and reducing false prompts on common commands
• Fixed permission rules with names matching JavaScript prototype properties (e.g. toString) causing settings.json to be silently ignored
• Fixed managed-settings allow rules remaining active after an admin removed them until process restart
• Fixed permissions.additionalDirectories changes in settings not applying mid-session
• Fixed removing a directory from settings.permissions.additionalDirectories revoking access to the same directory passed via --add-dir
• Fixed MCP HTTP/SSE connections accumulating ~50 MB/hr of unreleased buffers when servers reconnect
• Fixed MCP OAuth oauth.authServerMetadataUrl not being honored on token refresh after restart, fixing ADFS and similar IdPs
• Fixed 429 retries burning all attempts in ~13 seconds when the server returns a small Retry-After — exponential backoff now applies as a minimum
• Fixed rate-limit upgrade options disappearing after context compaction
• Fixed several /resume picker issues: --resume <name> opening uneditable, Ctrl+A reload wiping search, empty list swallowing navigation, task-status text replacing conversation summary, and cross-project staleness
• Fixed file-edit diffs disappearing on --resume when the edited file was larger than 10KB
• Fixed --resume cache misses and lost mid-turn input from attachment messages not being saved to the transcript
• Fixed messages typed while Claude is working not being persisted to the transcript
• Fixed prompt-type Stop/SubagentStop hooks failing on long sessions, and hook evaluator API errors displaying "JSON validation failed" instead of the actual message
• Fixed subagents with worktree isolation or cwd: override leaking their working directory back to the parent session's Bash tool
• Fixed compaction writing duplicate multi-MB subagent transcript files on prompt-too-long retries
• Fixed claude plugin update reporting "already at the latest version" for git-based marketplace plugins when the remote had newer commits
• Fixed slash command picker breaking when a plugin's frontmatter name is a YAML boolean keyword
• Fixed copying wrapped URLs in NO_FLICKER mode inserting spaces at line breaks
• Fixed scroll rendering artifacts in NO_FLICKER mode when running inside zellij
• Fixed a crash in NO_FLICKER mode when hovering over MCP tool results
• Fixed a NO_FLICKER mode memory leak where API retries left stale streaming state
• Fixed slow mouse-wheel scrolling in NO_FLICKER mode on Windows Terminal
• Fixed custom status line not displaying in NO_FLICKER mode on terminals shorter than 24 rows
• Fixed Shift+Enter and Alt/Cmd+arrow shortcuts not working in Warp with NO_FLICKER mode
• Fixed Korean/Japanese/Unicode text becoming garbled when copied in no-flicker mode on Windows
• Fixed Bedrock SigV4 authentication failing when AWS_BEARER_TOKEN_BEDROCK or ANTHROPIC_BEDROCK_BASE_URL are set to empty strings (as GitHub Actions does for unset inputs)
• Improved Accept Edits mode to auto-approve filesystem commands prefixed with safe env vars or process wrappers (e.g. LANG=C rm foo, timeout 5 mkdir out)
• Improved auto mode and bypass-permissions mode to auto-approve sandbox network access prompts
• Improved sandbox: sandbox.network.allowMachLookup now takes effect on macOS
• Improved image handling: pasted and attached images are now compressed to the same token budget as images read via the Read tool
• Improved slash command and @-mention completion to trigger after CJK sentence punctuation, so Japanese/Chinese input no longer requires a space before / or @
• Improved Bridge sessions to show the local git repo, branch, and working directory on the claude.ai session card
• Improved footer layout: indicators (Focus, notifications) now stay on the mode-indicator row instead of wrapping below
• Improved context-low warning to show as a transient footer notification instead of a persistent row
• Improved markdown blockquotes to show a continuous left bar across wrapped lines
• Improved session transcript size by skipping empty hook entries and capping stored pre-edit file copies
• Improved transcript accuracy: per-block entries now carry the final token usage instead of the streaming placeholder
• Improved Bash tool OTEL tracing: subprocesses now inherit a W3C TRACEPARENT env var when tracing is enabled
• Updated /claude-api skill to cover Managed Agents alongside the Claude API

v2.1.96

What's changed

• Fixed Bedrock requests failing with 403 "Authorization header is missing" when using AWS_BEARER_TOKEN_BEDROCK or CLAUDE_CODE_SKIP_BEDROCK_AUTH (regression in 2.1.94)

v2.1.94

What's changed

• Added support for Amazon Bedrock powered by Mantle, set CLAUDE_CODE_USE_MANTLE=1
• Changed default effort level from medium to high for API-key, Bedrock/Vertex/Foundry, Team, and Enterprise users (control this with /effort)
• Added compact Slacked #channel header with a clickable channel link for Slack MCP send-message tool calls
• Added keep-coding-instructions frontmatter field support for plugin output styles
• Added hookSpecificOutput.sessionTitle to UserPromptSubmit hooks for setting the session title
• Plugin skills declared via "skills": ["./"] now use the skill's frontmatter name for the invocation name instead of the directory basename, giving a stable name across install methods
• Fixed agents appearing stuck after a 429 rate-limit response with a long Retry-After header — the error now surfaces immediately instead of silently waiting
• Fixed Console login on macOS silently failing with "Not logged in" when the login keychain is locked or its password is out of sync — the error is now surfaced and claude doctor diagnoses the fix
• Fixed plugin skill hooks defined in YAML frontmatter being silently ignored
• Fixed plugin hooks failing with "No such file or directory" when CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT was not set
• Fixed ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT} resolving to the marketplace source directory instead of the installed cache for local-marketplace plugins on startup
• Fixed scrollback showing the same diff repeated and blank pages in long-running sessions
• Fixed multiline user prompts in the transcript indenting wrapped lines under the ❯ caret instead of under the text
• Fixed Shift+Space inserting the literal word "space" instead of a space character in search inputs
• Fixed hyperlinks opening two browser tabs when clicked inside tmux running in an xterm.js-based terminal (VS Code, Hyper, Tabby)
• Fixed an alt-screen rendering bug where content height changes mid-scroll could leave compounding ghost lines
• Fixed FORCE_HYPERLINK environment variable being ignored when set via settings.json env
• Fixed native terminal cursor not tracking the selected tab in dialogs, so screen readers and magnifiers can follow tab navigation
• Fixed Bedrock invocation of Sonnet 3.5 v2 by using the us. inference profile ID
• Fixed SDK/print mode not preserving the partial assistant response in conversation history when interrupted mid-stream
• Improved --resume to resume sessions from other worktrees of the same repo directly instead of printing a cd command
• Fixed CJK and other multibyte text being corrupted with U+FFFD in stream-json input/output when chunk boundaries split a UTF-8 sequence
• [VSCode] Reduced cold-open subprocess work on starting a session
• [VSCode] Fixed dropdown menus selecting the wrong item when the mouse was over the list while typing or using arrow keys
• [VSCode] Added a warning banner when settings.json files fail to parse, so users know their permission rules are not being applied

v2.1.92

What's changed

• Added forceRemoteSettingsRefresh policy setting: when set, the CLI blocks startup until remote managed settings are freshly fetched, and exits if the fetch fails (fail-closed)
• Added interactive Bedrock setup wizard accessible from the login screen when selecting "3rd-party platform" — guides you through AWS authentication, region configuration, credential verification, and model pinning
• Added per-model and cache-hit breakdown to /cost for subscription users
• /release-notes is now an interactive version picker
• Remote Control session names now use your hostname as the default prefix (e.g. myhost-graceful-unicorn), overridable with --remote-control-session-name-prefix
• Pro users now see a footer hint when returning to a session after the prompt cache has expired, showing roughly how many tokens the next turn will send uncached
• Fixed subagent spawning permanently failing with "Could not determine pane count" after tmux windows are killed or renumbered during a long-running session
• Fixed prompt-type Stop hooks incorrectly failing when the small fast model returns ok:false, and restored preventContinuation:true semantics for non-Stop prompt-type hooks
• Fixed tool input validation failures when streaming emits array/object fields as JSON-encoded strings
• Fixed an API 400 error that could occur when extended thinking produced a whitespace-only text block alongside real content
• Fixed accidental feedback survey submissions from auto-pilot keypresses and consecutive-prompt digit collisions
• Fixed misleading "esc to interrupt" hint appearing alongside "esc to clear" when a text selection exists in fullscreen mode during processing
• Fixed Homebrew install update prompts to use the cask's release channel (claude-code → stable, claude-code@latest → latest)
• Fixed ctrl+e jumping to the end of the next line when already at end of line in multiline prompts
• Fixed an issue where the same message could appear at two positions when scrolling up in fullscreen mode (iTerm2, Ghostty, and other terminals with DEC 2026 support)
• Fixed idle-return "/clear to save X tokens" hint showing cumulative session tokens instead of current context size
• Fixed plugin MCP servers stuck "connecting" on session start when they duplicate a claude.ai connector that is unauthenticated
• Improved Write tool diff computation speed for large files (60% faster on files with tabs/&/$)
• Removed /tag command
• Removed /vim command (toggle vim mode via /config → Editor mode)
• Linux sandbox now ships the apply-seccomp helper in both npm and native builds, restoring unix-socket blocking for sandboxed commands

v2.1.91

What's changed

• Added MCP tool result persistence override via _meta["anthropic/maxResultSizeChars"] annotation (up to 500K), allowing larger results like DB schemas to pass through without truncation
• Added disableSkillShellExecution setting to disable inline shell execution in skills, custom slash commands, and plugin commands
• Added support for multi-line prompts in claude-cli://open?q= deep links (encoded newlines %0A no longer rejected)
• Plugins can now ship executables under bin/ and invoke them as bare commands from the Bash tool
• Fixed transcript chain breaks on --resume that could lose conversation history when async transcript writes fail silently
• Fixed cmd+delete not deleting to start of line on iTerm2, kitty, WezTerm, Ghostty, and Windows Terminal
• Fixed plan mode in remote sessions losing track of the plan file after a container restart, which caused permission prompts on plan edits and an empty plan-approval modal
• Fixed JSON schema validation for permissions.defaultMode: "auto" in settings.json
• Fixed Windows version cleanup not protecting the active version's rollback copy
• /feedback now explains why it's unavailable instead of disappearing from the slash menu
• Improved /claude-api skill guidance for agent design patterns including tool surface decisions, context management, and caching strategy
• Improved performance: faster stripAnsi on Bun by routing through Bun.stripANSI
• Edit tool now uses shorter old_string anchors, reducing output tokens

v2.1.90

What's changed

• Added /powerup — interactive lessons teaching Claude Code features with animated demos
• Added CLAUDE_CODE_PLUGIN_KEEP_MARKETPLACE_ON_FAILURE env var to keep the existing marketplace cache when git pull fails, useful in offline environments
• Added .husky to protected directories (acceptEdits mode)
• Fixed an infinite loop where the rate-limit options dialog would repeatedly auto-open after hitting your usage limit, eventually crashing the session
• Fixed --resume causing a full prompt-cache miss on the first request for users with deferred tools, MCP servers, or custom agents (regression since v2.1.69)
• Fixed Edit/Write failing with "File content has changed" when a PostToolUse format-on-save hook rewrites the file between consecutive edits
• Fixed PreToolUse hooks that emit JSON to stdout and exit with code 2 not correctly blocking the tool call
• Fixed collapsed search/read summary badge appearing multiple times in fullscreen scrollback when a CLAUDE.md file auto-loads during a tool call
• Fixed auto mode not respecting explicit user boundaries ("don't push", "wait for X before Y") even when the action would otherwise be allowed
• Fixed click-to-expand hover text being nearly invisible on light terminal themes
• Fixed UI crash when malformed tool input reached the permission dialog
• Fixed headers disappearing when scrolling /model, /config, and other selection screens
• Hardened PowerShell tool permission checks: fixed trailing & background job bypass, -ErrorAction Break debugger hang, archive-extraction TOCTOU, and parse-fail fallback deny-rule degradation
• Improved performance: eliminated per-turn JSON.stringify of MCP tool schemas on cache-key lookup
• Improved performance: SSE transport now handles large streamed frames in linear time (was quadratic)
• Improved performance: SDK sessions with long conversations no longer slow down quadratically on transcript writes
• Improved /resume all-projects view to load project sessions in parallel, improving load times for users with many projects
• Changed --resume picker to no longer show sessions created by claude -p or SDK invocations
• Removed Get-DnsClientCache and ipconfig /displaydns from auto-allow (DNS cache privacy)

v2.1.89

What's changed

• Added "defer" permission decision to PreToolUse hooks — headless sessions can pause at a tool call and resume with -p --resume to have the hook re-evaluate
• Added CLAUDE_CODE_NO_FLICKER=1 environment variable to opt into flicker-free alt-screen rendering with virtualized scrollback
• Added PermissionDenied hook that fires after auto mode classifier denials — return {retry: true} to tell the model it can retry
• Added named subagents to @ mention typeahead suggestions
• Added MCP_CONNECTION_NONBLOCKING=true for -p mode to skip the MCP connection wait entirely, and bounded --mcp-config server connections at 5s instead of blocking on the slowest server
• Auto mode: denied commands now show a notification and appear in /permissions → Recent tab where you can retry with r
• Fixed Edit(//path/**) and Read(//path/**) allow rules to check the resolved symlink target, not just the requested path
• Fixed voice push-to-talk not activating for some modifier-combo bindings, and voice mode on Windows failing with "WebSocket upgrade rejected with HTTP 101"
• Fixed Edit/Write tools doubling CRLF on Windows and stripping Markdown hard line breaks (two trailing spaces)
• Fixed StructuredOutput schema cache bug causing ~50% failure rate when using multiple schemas
• Fixed memory leak where large JSON inputs were retained as LRU cache keys in long-running sessions
• Fixed a crash when removing a message from very large session files (over 50MB)
• Fixed LSP server zombie state after crash — server now restarts on next request instead of failing until session restart
• Fixed prompt history entries containing CJK or emoji being silently dropped when they fall on a 4KB boundary in ~/.claude/history.jsonl
• Fixed /stats undercounting tokens by excluding subagent usage, and losing historical data beyond 30 days when the stats cache format changes
• Fixed -p --resume hangs when the deferred tool input exceeds 64KB or no deferred marker exists, and -p --continue not resuming deferred tools
• Fixed claude-cli:// deep links not opening on macOS
• Fixed MCP tool errors truncating to only the first content block when the server returns multi-element error content
• Fixed skill reminders and other system context being dropped when sending messages with images via the SDK
• Fixed PreToolUse/PostToolUse hooks to receive file_path as an absolute path for Write/Edit/Read tools, matching the documented behavior
• Fixed autocompact thrash loop — now detects when context refills to the limit immediately after compacting three times in a row and stops with an actionable error instead of burning API calls
• Fixed prompt cache misses in long sessions caused by tool schema bytes changing mid-session
• Fixed nested CLAUDE.md files being re-injected dozens of times in long sessions that read many files
• Fixed --resume crash when transcript contains a tool result from an older CLI version or interrupted write
• Fixed misleading "Rate limit reached" message when the API returned an entitlement error — now shows the actual error with actionable hints
• Fixed hooks if condition filtering not matching compound commands (ls && git push) or commands with env-var prefixes (FOO=bar git push)
• Fixed collapsed search/read group badges duplicating in terminal scrollback during heavy parallel tool use
• Fixed notification invalidates not clearing the currently-displayed notification immediately
• Fixed prompt briefly disappearing after submit when background messages arrived during processing
• Fixed Devanagari and other combining-mark text being truncated in assistant output
• Fixed rendering artifacts on main-screen terminals after layout shifts
• Fixed voice mode failing to request microphone permission on macOS Apple Silicon
• Fixed Shift+Enter submitting instead of inserting a newline on Windows Terminal Preview 1.25
• Fixed periodic UI jitter during streaming in iTerm2 when running inside tmux
• Fixed PowerShell tool incorrectly reporting failures when commands like git push wrote progress to stderr on Windows PowerShell 5.1
• Fixed a potential out-of-memory crash when the Edit tool was used on very large files (>1 GiB)
• Improved collapsed tool summary to show "Listed N directories" for ls/tree/du instead of "Read N files"
• Improved Bash tool to warn when a formatter/linter command modifies files you have previously read, preventing stale-edit errors
• Improved @-mention typeahead to rank source files above MCP resources with similar names
• Improved PowerShell tool prompt with version-appropriate syntax guidance (5.1 vs 7+)
• Changed Edit to work on files viewed via Bash with sed -n or cat, without requiring a separate Read call first
• Changed hook output over 50K characters to be saved to disk with a file path + preview instead of being injected directly into context
• Changed cleanupPeriodDays: 0 in settings.json to be rejected with a validation error — it previously silently disabled transcript persistence
• Changed thinking summaries to no longer be generated by default in interactive sessions — set showThinkingSummaries: true in settings.json to restore
• Documented TaskCreated hook event and its blocking behavior
• Preserved task notifications when backgrounding a running command with Ctrl+B
• PowerShell tool on Windows: external-command arguments containing both a double-quote and whitespace now prompt instead of auto-allowing (PS 5.1 argument-splitting hardening)
• /env now applies to PowerShell tool commands (previously only affected Bash)
• /usage now hides redundant "Current week (Sonnet only)" bar for Pro and Enterprise plans
• Image paste no longer inserts a trailing space
• Pasting !command into an empty prompt now enters bash mode, matching typed ! behavior
• /buddy is here for April 1st — hatch a small creature that watches you code

v2.1.87

What's changed

• Fixed messages in Cowork Dispatch not getting delivered

v2.1.86

What's changed

• Added X-Claude-Code-Session-Id header to API requests so proxies can aggregate requests by session without parsing the body
• Added .jj and .sl to VCS directory exclusion lists so Grep and file autocomplete don't descend into Jujutsu or Sapling metadata
• Fixed --resume failing with "tool_use ids were found without tool_result blocks" on sessions created before v2.1.85
• Fixed Write/Edit/Read failing on files outside the project root (e.g., ~/.claude/CLAUDE.md) when conditional skills or rules are configured
• Fixed unnecessary config disk writes on every skill invocation that could cause performance issues and config corruption on Windows
• Fixed potential out-of-memory crash when using /feedback on very long sessions with large transcript files
• Fixed --bare mode dropping MCP tools in interactive sessions and silently discarding messages enqueued mid-turn
• Fixed the c shortcut copying only ~20 characters of the OAuth login URL instead of the full URL
• Fixed masked input (e.g., OAuth code paste) leaking the start of the token when wrapping across multiple lines on narrow terminals
• Fixed official marketplace plugin scripts failing with "Permission denied" on macOS/Linux since v2.1.83
• Fixed statusline showing another session's model when running multiple Claude Code instances and using /model in one of them
• Fixed scroll not following new messages after wheel scroll or click-to-select at the bottom of a long conversation
• Fixed /plugin uninstall dialog: pressing n now correctly uninstalls the plugin while preserving its data directory
• Fixed a regression where pressing Enter after clicking could leave the transcript blank until the response arrived
• Fixed ultrathink hint lingering after deleting the keyword
• Fixed memory growth in long sessions from markdown/highlight render caches retaining full content strings
• Reduced startup event-loop stalls when many claude.ai MCP connectors are configured (macOS keychain cache extended from 5s to 30s)
• Reduced token overhead when mentioning files with @ — raw string content no longer JSON-escaped
• Improved prompt cache hit rate for Bedrock, Vertex, and Foundry users by removing dynamic content from tool descriptions
• Memory filenames in the "Saved N memories" notice now highlight on hover and open on click
• Skill descriptions in the /skills listing are now capped at 250 characters to reduce context usage
• Changed /skills menu to sort alphabetically for easier scanning
• Auto mode now shows "unavailable for your plan" when disabled by plan restrictions (was "temporarily unavailable")
• [VSCode] Fixed extension incorrectly showing "Not responding" during long-running operations
• [VSCode] Fixed extension defaulting Max plan users to Sonnet after the OAuth token refreshes (8 hours after login)
• Read tool now uses compact line-number format and deduplicates unchanged re-reads, reducing token usage

v2.1.85

What's changed

• Added CLAUDE_CODE_MCP_SERVER_NAME and CLAUDE_CODE_MCP_SERVER_URL environment variables to MCP headersHelper scripts, allowing one helper to serve multiple servers
• Added conditional if field for hooks using permission rule syntax (e.g., Bash(git *)) to filter when they run, reducing process spawning overhead
• Added timestamp markers in transcripts when scheduled tasks (/loop, CronCreate) fire
• Added trailing space after [Image #N] placeholder when pasting images
• Deep link queries (claude-cli://open?q=…) now support up to 5,000 characters, with a "scroll to review" warning for long pre-filled prompts
• MCP OAuth now follows RFC 9728 Protected Resource Metadata discovery to find the authorization server
• Plugins blocked by organization policy (managed-settings.json) can no longer be installed or enabled, and are hidden from marketplace views
• PreToolUse hooks can now satisfy AskUserQuestion by returning updatedInput alongside permissionDecision: "allow", enabling headless integrations that collect answers via their own UI
• tool_parameters in OpenTelemetry tool_result events are now gated behind OTEL_LOG_TOOL_DETAILS=1
• Fixed /compact failing with "context exceeded" when the conversation has grown too large for the compact request itself to fit
• Fixed /plugin enable and /plugin disable failing when a plugin's install location differs from where it's declared in settings
• Fixed --worktree exiting with an error in non-git repositories before the WorktreeCreate hook could run
• Fixed deniedMcpServers setting not blocking claude.ai MCP servers
• Fixed switch_display in the computer-use tool returning "not available in this session" on multi-monitor setups
• Fixed crash when OTEL_LOGS_EXPORTER, OTEL_METRICS_EXPORTER, or OTEL_TRACES_EXPORTER is set to none
• Fixed diff syntax highlighting not working in non-native builds
• Fixed MCP step-up authorization failing when a refresh token exists — servers requesting elevated scopes via 403 insufficient_scope now correctly trigger the re-authorization flow
• Fixed memory leak in remote sessions when a streaming response is interrupted
• Fixed persistent ECONNRESET errors during edge connection churn by using a fresh TCP connection on retry
• Fixed prompts getting stuck in the queue after running certain slash commands, with up-arrow unable to retrieve them
• Fixed Python Agent SDK: type:'sdk' MCP servers passed via --mcp-config are no longer dropped during startup
• Fixed raw key sequences appearing in the prompt when running over SSH or in the VS Code integrated terminal
• Fixed Remote Control session status staying stuck on "Requires Action" after a permission is resolved
• Fixed shift+enter and meta+enter being intercepted by typeahead suggestions instead of inserting newlines
• Fixed stale content bleeding through when scrolling up during streaming
• Fixed terminal left in enhanced keyboard mode after exit in Ghostty, Kitty, WezTerm, and other terminals supporting the Kitty keyboard protocol — Ctrl+C and Ctrl+D now work correctly after quitting
• Improved @-mention file autocomplete performance on large repositories
• Improved PowerShell dangerous command detection
• Improved scroll performance with large transcripts by replacing WASM yoga-layout with a pure TypeScript implementation
• Reduced UI stutter when compaction triggers on large sessions

v2.1.84

What's changed

• Added PowerShell tool for Windows as an opt-in preview. Learn more at https://code.claude.com/docs/en/tools-reference#powershell-tool
• Added ANTHROPIC_DEFAULT_{OPUS,SONNET,HAIKU}_MODEL_SUPPORTS env vars to override effort/thinking capability detection for pinned default models for 3p (Bedrock, Vertex, Foundry), and _MODEL_NAME/_DESCRIPTION to customize the /model picker label
• Added CLAUDE_STREAM_IDLE_TIMEOUT_MS env var to configure the streaming idle watchdog threshold (default 90s)
• Added TaskCreated hook that fires when a task is created via TaskCreate
• Added WorktreeCreate hook support for type: "http" — return the created worktree path via hookSpecificOutput.worktreePath in the response JSON
• Added allowedChannelPlugins managed setting for team/enterprise admins to define a channel plugin allowlist
• Added x-client-request-id header to API requests for debugging timeouts
• Added idle-return prompt that nudges users returning after 75+ minutes to /clear, reducing unnecessary token re-caching on stale sessions
• Deep links (claude-cli://) now open in your preferred terminal instead of whichever terminal happens to be first in the detection list
• Rules and skills paths: frontmatter now accepts a YAML list of globs
• MCP tool descriptions and server instructions are now capped at 2KB to prevent OpenAPI-generated servers from bloating context
• MCP servers configured both locally and via claude.ai connectors are now deduplicated — the local config wins
• Background bash tasks that appear stuck on an interactive prompt now surface a notification after ~45 seconds
• Token counts ≥1M now display as "1.5m" instead of "1512.6k"
• Global system-prompt caching now works when ToolSearch is enabled, including for users with MCP tools configured
• Fixed voice push-to-talk: holding the voice key no longer leaks characters into the text input, and transcripts now insert at the correct position
• Fixed up/down arrow keys being unresponsive when a footer item is focused
• Fixed Ctrl+U (kill-to-line-start) being a no-op at line boundaries in multiline input, so repeated Ctrl+U now clears across lines
• Fixed null-unbinding a default chord binding (e.g. "ctrl+x ctrl+k": null) still entering chord-wait mode instead of freeing the prefix key
• Fixed mouse events inserting literal "mouse" text into transcript search input
• Fixed workflow subagents failing with API 400 when the outer session uses --json-schema and the subagent also specifies a schema
• Fixed missing background color behind certain emoji in user message bubbles on some terminals
• Fixed the "allow Claude to edit its own settings for this session" permission option not sticking for users with Edit(.claude) allow rules
• Fixed a hang when generating attachment snippets for large edited files
• Fixed MCP tool/resource cache leak on server reconnect
• Fixed a startup performance issue where partial clone repositories (Scalar/GVFS) triggered mass blob downloads
• Fixed native terminal cursor not tracking the text input caret, so IME composition (CJK input) now renders inline and screen readers can follow the input position
• Fixed spurious "Not logged in" errors on macOS caused by transient keychain read failures
• Fixed cold-start race where core tools could be deferred without their bypass active, causing Edit/Write to fail with InputValidationError on typed parameters
• Improved detection for dangerous removals of Windows drive roots (C:\, C:\Windows, etc.)
• Improved interactive startup by ~30ms by running setup() in parallel with slash command and agent loading
• Improved startup for claude "prompt" with MCP servers — the REPL now renders immediately instead of blocking until all servers connect
• Improved Remote Control to show a specific reason when blocked instead of a generic "not yet enabled" message
• Improved p90 prompt cache rate
• Reduced scroll-to-top resets in long sessions by making the message window immune to compaction and grouping changes
• Reduced terminal flickering when animated tool progress scrolls above the viewport
• Changed issue/PR references to only become clickable links when written as owner/repo#123 — bare #123 is no longer auto-linked
• Slash commands unavailable for the current auth setup (/voice, /mobile, /chrome, /upgrade, etc.) are now hidden instead of shown
• [VSCode] Added rate limit warning banner with usage percentage and reset time
• Stats screenshot (Ctrl+S in /stats) now works in all builds and is 16× faster

v2.1.83

What's changed

• Added managed-settings.d/ drop-in directory alongside managed-settings.json, letting separate teams deploy independent policy fragments that merge alphabetically
• Added CwdChanged and FileChanged hook events for reactive environment management (e.g., direnv)
• Added sandbox.failIfUnavailable setting to exit with an error when sandbox is enabled but cannot start, instead of running unsandboxed
• Added disableDeepLinkRegistration setting to prevent claude-cli:// protocol handler registration
• Added CLAUDE_CODE_SUBPROCESS_ENV_SCRUB=1 to strip Anthropic and cloud provider credentials from subprocess environments (Bash tool, hooks, MCP stdio servers)
• Added transcript search — press / in transcript mode (Ctrl+O) to search, n/N to step through matches
• Added Ctrl+X Ctrl+E as an alias for opening the external editor (readline-native binding; Ctrl+G still works)
• Pasted images now insert an [Image #N] chip at the cursor so you can reference them positionally in your prompt
• Agents can now declare initialPrompt in frontmatter to auto-submit a first turn
• chat:killAgents and chat:fastMode are now rebindable via ~/.claude/keybindings.json
• Fixed mouse tracking escape sequences leaking to shell prompt after exit
• Fixed Claude Code hanging on exit on macOS
• Fixed screen flashing blank after being idle for a few seconds
• Fixed a hang when diffing very large files with few common lines — diffs now time out after 5 seconds and fall back gracefully
• Fixed a 1–8 second UI freeze on startup when voice input was enabled, caused by eagerly loading the native audio module
• Fixed a startup regression where Claude Code would wait ~3s for claude.ai MCP config fetch before proceeding
• Fixed --mcp-config CLI flag bypassing allowedMcpServers/deniedMcpServers managed policy enforcement
• Fixed claude.ai MCP connectors (Slack, Gmail, etc.) not being available in single-turn --print mode
• Fixed caffeinate process not properly terminating when Claude Code exits, preventing Mac from sleeping
• Fixed bash mode not activating when tab-accepting !-prefixed command suggestions
• Fixed stale slash command selection showing wrong highlighted command after navigating suggestions
• Fixed /config menu showing both the search cursor and list selection at the same time
• Fixed background subagents becoming invisible after context compaction, which could cause duplicate agents to be spawned
• Fixed background agent tasks staying stuck in "running" state when git or API calls hang during cleanup
• Fixed --channels showing "Channels are not currently available" on first launch after upgrade
• Fixed uninstalled plugin hooks continuing to fire until the next session
• Fixed queued commands flickering during streaming responses
• Fixed slash commands being sent to the model as text when submitted while a message is processing
• Fixed scrollback jumping when collapsed read/search groups finish after scrolling offscreen
• Fixed scrollback jumping to top when the model starts or stops thinking
• Fixed SDK session history loss on resume caused by hook progress/attachment messages forking the parentUuid chain
• Fixed copy-on-select not firing when you release the mouse outside the terminal window
• Fixed ghost characters appearing in height-constrained lists when items overflow
• Fixed Ctrl+B interfering with readline backward-char at an idle prompt — it now only fires when a foreground task can be backgrounded
• Fixed tool result files never being cleaned up, ignoring the cleanupPeriodDays setting
• Fixed space key being swallowed for up to 3 seconds after releasing voice hold-to-talk
• Fixed ALSA library errors corrupting the terminal UI when using voice mode on Linux without audio hardware (Docker, headless, WSL1)
• Fixed voice mode SoX detection on Termux/Android where spawning which is kernel-restricted
• Fixed Remote Control sessions showing as Idle in the web session list while actively running
• Fixed footer navigation selecting an invisible Remote Control pill in config-driven mode
• Fixed memory leak in remote sessions where tool use IDs accumulate indefinitely
• Improved Bedrock SDK cold-start latency by overlapping profile fetch with other boot work
• Improved --resume memory usage and startup latency on large sessions
• Improved plugin startup — commands, skills, and agents now load from disk cache without re-fetching
• Improved Remote Control session titles: AI-generated titles now appear within seconds of the first message
• Improved WebFetch to identify as Claude-User so site operators can recognize and allowlist Claude Code traffic via robots.txt
• Reduced WebFetch peak memory usage for large pages
• Reduced scrollback resets in long sessions from once per turn to once per ~50 messages
• Faster claude -p startup with unauthenticated HTTP/SSE MCP servers (~600ms saved)
• Bash ghost-text suggestions now include just-submitted commands immediately
• Increased non-streaming fallback token cap (21k → 64k) and timeout (120s → 300s local) so fallback requests are less likely to be truncated
• Interrupting a prompt before any response now automatically restores your input so you can edit and resubmit
• /status now works while Claude is responding, instead of being queued until the turn finishes
• Plugin MCP servers that duplicate an org-managed connector are now suppressed instead of running a second connection
• Linux: respect XDG_DATA_HOME when registering the claude-cli:// protocol handler
• Changed "stop all background agents" keybinding from Ctrl+F to Ctrl+X Ctrl+K to stop shadowing readline forward-char
• Deprecated TaskOutput tool in favor of using Read on the background task's output file path
• [VSCode] Spinner now turns red with "Not responding" when the backend hasn't responded for 60 seconds
• [VSCode] Fixed session history not loading correctly when reopening a session via URL or after restart

v2.1.81

What's changed

• Added --bare flag for scripted -p calls — skips hooks, LSP, plugin sync, and skill directory walks; requires ANTHROPIC_API_KEY or an apiKeyHelper via --settings (OAuth and keychain auth disabled); auto-memory fully disabled
• Added --channels permission relay — channel servers that declare the permission capability can forward tool approval prompts to your phone
• Fixed multiple concurrent Claude Code sessions requiring repeated re-authentication when one session refreshes its OAuth token
• Fixed voice mode silently swallowing retry failures and showing a misleading "check your network" message instead of the actual error
• Fixed voice mode audio not recovering when the server silently drops the WebSocket connection
• Fixed CLAUDE_CODE_DISABLE_EXPERIMENTAL_BETAS not suppressing the structured-outputs beta header, causing 400 errors on proxy gateways forwarding to Vertex/Bedrock
• Fixed --channels bypass for Team/Enterprise orgs with no other managed settings configured
• Fixed a crash on Node.js 18
• Fixed unnecessary permission prompts for Bash commands containing dashes in strings
• Fixed plugin hooks blocking prompt submission when the plugin directory is deleted mid-session
• Fixed a race condition where background agent task output could hang indefinitely when the task completed between polling intervals
• Resuming a session that was in a worktree now switches back to that worktree
• Fixed /btw not including pasted text when used during an active response
• Fixed a race where fast Cmd+Tab followed by paste could beat the clipboard copy under tmux
• Fixed terminal tab title not updating with an auto-generated session description
• Fixed invisible hook attachments inflating the message count in transcript mode
• Fixed Remote Control sessions showing a generic title instead of deriving from the first prompt
• Fixed /rename not syncing the title for Remote Control sessions
• Fixed Remote Control /exit not reliably archiving the session
• Improved MCP read/search tool calls to collapse into a single "Queried {server}" line (expand with Ctrl+O)
• Improved ! bash mode discoverability — Claude now suggests it when you need to run an interactive command
• Improved plugin freshness — ref-tracked plugins now re-clone on every load to pick up upstream changes
• Improved Remote Control session titles to refresh after your third message
• Updated MCP OAuth to support Client ID Metadata Document (CIMD / SEP-991) for servers without Dynamic Client Registration
• Changed plan mode to hide the "clear context" option by default (restore with "showClearContextOnPlanAccept": true)
• Disabled line-by-line response streaming on Windows (including WSL in Windows Terminal) due to rendering issues
• [VSCode] Fixed Windows PATH inheritance for Bash tool when using Git Bash (regression in v2.1.78)

v2.1.80

What's changed

• Added rate_limits field to statusline scripts for displaying Claude.ai rate limit usage (5-hour and 7-day windows with used_percentage and resets_at)
• Added source: 'settings' plugin marketplace source — declare plugin entries inline in settings.json
• Added CLI tool usage detection to plugin tips, in addition to file pattern matching
• Added effort frontmatter support for skills and slash commands to override the model effort level when invoked
• Added --channels (research preview) — allow MCP servers to push messages into your session
• Fixed --resume dropping parallel tool results — sessions with parallel tool calls now restore all tool_use/tool_result pairs instead of showing [Tool result missing] placeholders
• Fixed voice mode WebSocket failures caused by Cloudflare bot detection on non-browser TLS fingerprints
• Fixed 400 errors when using fine-grained tool streaming through API proxies, Bedrock, or Vertex
• Fixed /remote-control appearing for gateway and third-party provider deployments where it cannot function
• Fixed /sandbox tab switching not responding to Tab or arrow keys
• Improved responsiveness of @ file autocomplete in large git repositories
• Improved /effort to show what auto currently resolves to, matching the status bar indicator
• Improved /permissions — Tab and arrow keys now switch tabs from within a list
• Improved background tasks panel — left arrow now closes from the list view
• Simplified plugin install tips to use a single /plugin install command instead of a two-step flow
• Reduced memory usage on startup in large repositories (~80 MB saved on 250k-file repos)
• Fixed managed settings (enabledPlugins, permissions.defaultMode, policy-set env vars) not being applied at startup when remote-settings.json was cached from a prior session

v2.1.79

What's changed

• Added --console flag to claude auth login for Anthropic Console (API billing) authentication
• Added "Show turn duration" toggle to the /config menu
• Fixed claude -p hanging when spawned as a subprocess without explicit stdin (e.g. Python subprocess.run)
• Fixed Ctrl+C not working in -p (print) mode
• Fixed /btw returning the main agent's output instead of answering the side question when triggered during streaming
• Fixed voice mode not activating correctly on startup when voiceEnabled: true is set
• Fixed left/right arrow tab navigation in /permissions
• Fixed CLAUDE_CODE_DISABLE_TERMINAL_TITLE not preventing terminal title from being set on startup
• Fixed custom status line showing nothing when workspace trust is blocking it
• Fixed enterprise users being unable to retry on rate limit (429) errors
• Fixed SessionEnd hooks not firing when using interactive /resume to switch sessions
• Improved startup memory usage by ~18MB across all scenarios
• Improved non-streaming API fallback with a 2-minute per-attempt timeout, preventing sessions from hanging indefinitely
• CLAUDE_CODE_PLUGIN_SEED_DIR now supports multiple seed directories separated by the platform path delimiter (: on Unix, ; on Windows)
• [VSCode] Added /remote-control — bridge your session to claude.ai/code to continue from a browser or phone
• [VSCode] Session tabs now get AI-generated titles based on your first message
• [VSCode] Fixed the thinking pill showing "Thinking" instead of "Thought for Ns" after a response completes
• [VSCode] Fixed missing session diff button when opening sessions from the left sidebar

v2.1.78

What's changed

• Added StopFailure hook event that fires when the turn ends due to an API error (rate limit, auth failure, etc.)
• Added ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_DATA} variable for plugin persistent state that survives plugin updates; /plugin uninstall prompts before deleting it
• Added effort, maxTurns, and disallowedTools frontmatter support for plugin-shipped agents
• Terminal notifications (iTerm2/Kitty/Ghostty popups, progress bar) now reach the outer terminal when running inside tmux with set -g allow-passthrough on
• Response text now streams line-by-line as it's generated
• Fixed git log HEAD failing with "ambiguous argument" inside sandboxed Bash on Linux, and stub files polluting git status in the working directory
• Fixed cc log and --resume silently truncating conversation history on large sessions (>5 MB) that used subagents
• Fixed infinite loop when API errors triggered stop hooks that re-fed blocking errors to the model
• Fixed deny: ["mcp__servername"] permission rules not removing MCP server tools before sending to the model, allowing it to see and attempt blocked tools
• Fixed sandbox.filesystem.allowWrite not working with absolute paths (previously required // prefix)
• Fixed /sandbox Dependencies tab showing Linux prerequisites on macOS instead of macOS-specific info
• Security: Fixed silent sandbox disable when sandbox.enabled: true is set but dependencies are missing — now shows a visible startup warning
• Fixed .git, .claude, and other protected directories being writable without a prompt in bypassPermissions mode
• Fixed ctrl+u in normal mode scrolling instead of readline kill-line (ctrl+u/ctrl+d half-page scroll moved to transcript mode only)
• Fixed voice mode modifier-combo push-to-talk keybindings (e.g. ctrl+k) requiring a hold instead of activating immediately
• Fixed voice mode not working on WSL2 with WSLg (Windows 11); WSL1/Win10 users now get a clear error
• Fixed --worktree flag not loading skills and hooks from the worktree directory
• Fixed CLAUDE_CODE_DISABLE_GIT_INSTRUCTIONS and includeGitInstructions setting not suppressing the git status section in the system prompt
• Fixed Bash tool not finding Homebrew and other PATH-dependent binaries when VS Code is launched from Dock/Spotlight
• Fixed washed-out Claude orange color in VS Code/Cursor/code-server terminals that don't advertise truecolor support
• Added ANTHROPIC_CUSTOM_MODEL_OPTION env var to add a custom entry to the /model picker, with optional _NAME and _DESCRIPTION suffixed vars for display
• Fixed ANTHROPIC_BETAS environment variable being silently ignored when using Haiku models
• Fixed queued prompts being concatenated without a newline separator
• Improved memory usage and startup time when resuming large sessions
• [VSCode] Fixed a brief flash of the login screen when opening the sidebar while already authenticated
• [VSCode] Fixed "API Error: Rate limit reached" when selecting Opus — model dropdown no longer offers 1M context variant to subscribers whose plan tier is unknown

v2.1.77

What's changed

• Increased default maximum output token limits for Claude Opus 4.6 to 64k tokens, and the upper bound for Opus 4.6 and Sonnet 4.6 models to 128k tokens
• Added allowRead sandbox filesystem setting to re-allow read access within denyRead regions
• /copy now accepts an optional index: /copy N copies the Nth-latest assistant response
• Fixed "Always Allow" on compound bash commands (e.g. cd src && npm test) saving a single rule for the full string instead of per-subcommand, leading to dead rules and repeated permission prompts
• Fixed auto-updater starting overlapping binary downloads when the slash-command overlay repeatedly opened and closed, accumulating tens of gigabytes of memory
• Fixed --resume silently truncating recent conversation history due to a race between memory-extraction writes and the main transcript
• Fixed PreToolUse hooks returning "allow" bypassing deny permission rules, including enterprise managed settings
• Fixed Write tool silently converting line endings when overwriting CRLF files or creating files in CRLF directories
• Fixed memory growth in long-running sessions from progress messages surviving compaction
• Fixed cost and token usage not being tracked when the API falls back to non-streaming mode
• Fixed CLAUDE_CODE_DISABLE_EXPERIMENTAL_BETAS not stripping beta tool-schema fields, causing proxy gateways to reject requests
• Fixed Bash tool reporting errors for successful commands when the system temp directory path contains spaces
• Fixed paste being lost when typing immediately after pasting
• Fixed Ctrl+D in /feedback text input deleting forward instead of the second press exiting the session
• Fixed API error when dragging a 0-byte image file into the prompt
• Fixed Claude Desktop sessions incorrectly using the terminal CLI's configured API key instead of OAuth
• Fixed git-subdir plugins at different subdirectories of the same monorepo commit colliding in the plugin cache
• Fixed ordered list numbers not rendering in terminal UI
• Fixed a race condition where stale-worktree cleanup could delete an agent worktree just resumed from a previous crash
• Fixed input deadlock when opening /mcp or similar dialogs while the agent is running
• Fixed Backspace and Delete keys not working in vim NORMAL mode
• Fixed status line not updating when vim mode is toggled on or off
• Fixed hyperlinks opening twice on Cmd+click in VS Code, Cursor, and other xterm.js-based terminals
• Fixed background colors rendering as terminal-default inside tmux with default configuration
• Fixed iTerm2 session crash when selecting text inside tmux over SSH
• Fixed clipboard copy silently failing in tmux sessions; copy toast now indicates whether to paste with ⌘V or tmux prefix+]
• Fixed ←/→ accidentally switching tabs in settings, permissions, and sandbox dialogs while navigating lists
• Fixed IDE integration not auto-connecting when Claude Code is launched inside tmux or screen
• Fixed CJK characters visually bleeding into adjacent UI elements when clipped at the right edge
• Fixed teammate panes not closing when the leader exits
• Fixed iTerm2 auto mode not detecting iTerm2 for native split-pane teammates
• Faster startup on macOS (~60ms) by reading keychain credentials in parallel with module loading
• Faster --resume on fork-heavy and very large sessions — up to 45% faster loading and ~100-150MB less peak memory
• Improved Esc to abort in-flight non-streaming API requests
• Improved claude plugin validate to check skill, agent, and command frontmatter plus hooks/hooks.json, catching YAML parse errors and schema violations
• Background bash tasks are now killed if output exceeds 5GB, preventing runaway processes from filling disk
• Sessions are now auto-named from plan content when you accept a plan
• Improved headless mode plugin installation to compose correctly with CLAUDE_CODE_PLUGIN_SEED_DIR
• Show a notice when apiKeyHelper takes longer than 10s, preventing it from blocking the main loop
• The Agent tool no longer accepts a resume parameter — use SendMessage({to: agentId}) to continue a previously spawned agent
• SendMessage now auto-resumes stopped agents in the background instead of returning an error
• Renamed /fork to /branch (/fork still works as an alias)
• [VSCode] Improved plan preview tab titles to use the plan's heading instead of "Claude's Plan"
• [VSCode] When option+click doesn't trigger native selection on macOS, the footer now points to the macOptionClickForcesSelection setting

v2.1.76

What's changed

• Added MCP elicitation support — MCP servers can now request structured input mid-task via an interactive dialog (form fields or browser URL)
• Added new Elicitation and ElicitationResult hooks to intercept and override responses before they're sent back
• Added -n / --name <name> CLI flag to set a display name for the session at startup
• Added worktree.sparsePaths setting for claude --worktree in large monorepos to check out only the directories you need via git sparse-checkout
• Added PostCompact hook that fires after compaction completes
• Added /effort slash command to set model effort level
• Added session quality survey — enterprise admins can configure the sample rate via the feedbackSurveyRate setting
• Fixed deferred tools (loaded via ToolSearch) losing their input schemas after conversation compaction, causing array and number parameters to be rejected with type errors
• Fixed slash commands showing "Unknown skill"
• Fixed plan mode asking for re-approval after the plan was already accepted
• Fixed voice mode swallowing keypresses while a permission dialog or plan editor was open
• Fixed /voice not working on Windows when installed via npm
• Fixed spurious "Context limit reached" when invoking a skill with model: frontmatter on a 1M-context session
• Fixed "adaptive thinking is not supported on this model" error when using non-standard model strings
• Fixed Bash(cmd:*) permission rules not matching when a quoted argument contains #
• Fixed "don't ask again" in the Bash permission dialog showing the full raw command for pipes and compound commands
• Fixed auto-compaction retrying indefinitely after consecutive failures — a circuit breaker now stops after 3 attempts
• Fixed MCP reconnect spinner persisting after successful reconnection
• Fixed LSP plugins not registering servers when the LSP Manager initialized before marketplaces were reconciled
• Fixed clipboard copying in tmux over SSH — now attempts both direct terminal write and tmux clipboard integration
• Fixed /export showing only the filename instead of the full file path in the success message
• Fixed transcript not auto-scrolling to new messages after selecting text
• Fixed Escape key not working to exit the login method selection screen
• Fixed several Remote Control issues: sessions silently dying when the server reaps an idle environment, rapid messages being queued one-at-a-time instead of batched, and stale work items causing redelivery after JWT refresh
• Fixed bridge sessions failing to recover after extended WebSocket disconnects
• Fixed slash commands not found when typing the exact name of a soft-hidden command
• Improved --worktree startup performance by reading git refs directly and skipping redundant git fetch when the remote branch is already available locally
• Improved background agent behavior — killing a background agent now preserves its partial results in the conversation context
• Improved model fallback notifications — now always visible instead of hidden behind verbose mode, with human-friendly model names
• Improved blockquote readability on dark terminal themes — text is now italic with a left bar instead of dim
• Improved stale worktree cleanup — worktrees left behind after an interrupted parallel run are now automatically cleaned up
• Improved Remote Control session titles — now derived from your first prompt instead of showing "Interactive session"
• Improved /voice to show your dictation language on enable and warn when your language setting isn't supported for voice input
• Updated --plugin-dir to only accept one path to support subcommands — use repeated --plugin-dir for multiple directories
• [VSCode] Fixed gitignore patterns containing commas silently excluding entire filetypes from the @-mention file picker

v2.1.75

v2.1.74

What's changed

• Added actionable suggestions to /context command — identifies context-heavy tools, memory bloat, and capacity warnings with specific optimization tips
• Added autoMemoryDirectory setting to configure a custom directory for auto-memory storage
• Fixed memory leak where streaming API response buffers were not released when the generator was terminated early, causing unbounded RSS growth on the Node.js/npm code path
• Fixed managed policy ask rules being bypassed by user allow rules or skill allowed-tools
• Fixed full model IDs (e.g., claude-opus-4-5) being silently ignored in agent frontmatter model: field and --agents JSON config — agents now accept the same model values as --model
• Fixed MCP OAuth authentication hanging when the callback port is already in use
• Fixed MCP OAuth refresh never prompting for re-auth after the refresh token expires, for OAuth servers that return errors with HTTP 200 (e.g. Slack)
• Fixed voice mode silently failing on the macOS native binary for users whose terminal had never been granted microphone permission — the binary now includes the audio-input entitlement so macOS prompts correctly
• Fixed SessionEnd hooks being killed after 1.5 s on exit regardless of hook.timeout — now configurable via CLAUDE_CODE_SESSIONEND_HOOKS_TIMEOUT_MS
• Fixed /plugin install failing inside the REPL for marketplace plugins with local sources
• Fixed marketplace update not syncing git submodules — plugin sources in submodules no longer break after update
• Fixed unknown slash commands with arguments silently dropping input — now shows your input as a warning
• Fixed Hebrew, Arabic, and other RTL text not rendering correctly in Windows Terminal, conhost, and VS Code integrated terminal
• Fixed LSP servers not working on Windows due to malformed file URIs
• Changed --plugin-dir so local dev copies now override installed marketplace plugins with the same name (unless that plugin is force-enabled by managed settings)
• [VSCode] Fixed delete button not working for Untitled sessions
• [VSCode] Improved scroll wheel responsiveness in the integrated terminal with terminal-aware acceleration

v2.1.73

What's changed

• Added modelOverrides setting to map model picker entries to custom provider model IDs (e.g. Bedrock inference profile ARNs)
• Added actionable guidance when OAuth login or connectivity checks fail due to SSL certificate errors (corporate proxies, NODE_EXTRA_CA_CERTS)
• Fixed freezes and 100% CPU loops triggered by permission prompts for complex bash commands
• Fixed a deadlock that could freeze Claude Code when many skill files changed at once (e.g. during git pull in a repo with a large .claude/skills/ directory)
• Fixed Bash tool output being lost when running multiple Claude Code sessions in the same project directory
• Fixed subagents with model: opus/sonnet/haiku being silently downgraded to older model versions on Bedrock, Vertex, and Microsoft Foundry
• Fixed background bash processes spawned by subagents not being cleaned up when the agent exits
• Fixed /resume showing the current session in the picker
• Fixed /ide crashing with onInstall is not defined when auto-installing the extension
• Fixed /loop not being available on Bedrock/Vertex/Foundry and when telemetry was disabled
• Fixed SessionStart hooks firing twice when resuming a session via --resume or --continue
• Fixed JSON-output hooks injecting no-op system-reminder messages into the model's context on every turn
• Fixed voice mode session corruption when a slow connection overlaps a new recording
• Fixed Linux sandbox failing to start with "ripgrep (rg) not found" on native builds
• Fixed Linux native modules not loading on Amazon Linux 2 and other glibc 2.26 systems
• Fixed "media_type: Field required" API error when receiving images via Remote Control
• Fixed /heapdump failing on Windows with EEXIST error when the Desktop folder already exists
• Improved Up arrow after interrupting Claude — now restores the interrupted prompt and rewinds the conversation in one step
• Improved IDE detection speed at startup
• Improved clipboard image pasting performance on macOS
• Improved /effort to work while Claude is responding, matching /model behavior
• Improved voice mode to automatically retry transient connection failures during rapid push-to-talk re-press
• Improved the Remote Control spawn mode selection prompt with better context
• Changed default Opus model on Bedrock, Vertex, and Microsoft Foundry to Opus 4.6 (was Opus 4.1)
• Deprecated /output-style command — use /config instead. Output style is now fixed at session start for better prompt caching
• VSCode: Fixed HTTP 400 errors for users behind proxies or on Bedrock/Vertex with Claude 4.5 models

v2.1.72

What's changed

• Changed tool search to bypass the third-party proxy gate when the environment variable is set (replaces CLAUDE_CODE_PROXY_SUPPORTS_TOOL_REFERENCE, now removed)
• Added w key in /copy to write the focused selection directly to a file, bypassing the clipboard (useful over SSH)
• Added optional description argument to /plan (e.g., /plan fix the auth bug) that enters plan mode and immediately starts
• Added claude plugins as an alias for claude plugin
• Added ExitWorktree tool to leave an EnterWorktree session
• Added CLAUDE_CODE_DISABLE_CRON environment variable to immediately stop scheduled cron jobs mid-session
• Added lsof, pgrep, tput, ss, fd, and fdfind to the bash auto-approval allowlist, reducing permission prompts for common read-only operations
• Added support for marketplace git URLs without .git suffix (Azure DevOps, AWS CodeCommit)
• Restored the model parameter on the Agent tool for per-invocation model overrides
• Simplified effort levels to low/medium/high (removed max) with new symbols (○ ◐ ●) and a brief notification instead of a persistent icon. Use /effort auto to reset to default
• Improved /config — Escape now cancels changes, Enter saves and closes, Space toggles settings
• Improved up-arrow history to show current session's messages first when running multiple concurrent sessions
• Improved voice input transcription accuracy for repo names and common dev terms (regex, OAuth, JSON)
• Improved marketplace clone failure messages to show diagnostic info even when git produces no stderr
• Improved claude plugin validate to explain that marketplace.json source paths are relative to the repo root when rejecting ../ paths
• Improved bash command parsing by switching to a native module — faster initialization and no memory leak
• Reduced false-positive bash permission prompts — tree-sitter parsing now handles find -exec, variable assignments, command substitutions, and many other patterns that previously triggered unnecessary prompts. Also fixed tree-sitter not loading in npm-installed versions
• Reduced bundle size by ~510 KB
• Changed CLAUDE.md HTML comments (<!-- ... -->) to be hidden from Claude when auto-injected. Comments remain visible when read with the Read tool
• Fixed slow exits when background tasks or hooks were slow to respond
• Fixed agent task progress stuck on "Initializing…"
• Fixed skill hooks firing twice per event when a hooks-enabled skill is invoked by the model
• Fixed several voice mode issues: occasional input lag, false "No speech detected" errors after releasing push-to-talk, and stale transcripts re-filling the prompt after submission
• Fixed --continue not resuming from the most recent point after --compact
• Fixed bash security parsing edge cases
• Fixed several plugin issues: installation failing on Windows with EEXIST error in OneDrive folders, marketplace blocking user-scope installs when a project-scope install exists, CLAUDE_CODE_PLUGIN_CACHE_DIR creating literal ~ directories, and plugin.json with marketplace-only fields failing to load
• Fixed feedback survey appearing too frequently in long sessions
• Fixed --effort CLI flag being reset by unrelated settings writes on startup
• Fixed backgrounded Ctrl+B queries losing their transcript or corrupting the new conversation after /clear
• Fixed /clear killing background agent/bash tasks — only foreground tasks are now cleared
• Fixed worktree isolation issues: Task tool resume not restoring cwd, and background task notifications missing worktreePath and worktreeBranch
• Fixed /model not displaying results when run while Claude is working
• Fixed digit keys selecting menu options instead of typing in plan mode permission prompt's text input
• Fixed sandbox permission issues: certain file write operations incorrectly allowed without prompting, and output redirections to allowlisted directories (like /tmp/claude/) prompting unnecessarily
• Improved CPU utilization in long sessions
• Fixed prompt cache invalidation in SDK query() calls, reducing input token costs up to 12x
• Fixed Escape key becoming unresponsive after cancelling a query
• Fixed double Ctrl+C not exiting when background agents or tasks are running
• Fixed team agents to inherit the leader's model
• Fixed "Always Allow" saving permission rules that never match again
• Fixed several hooks issues: transcript_path pointing to the wrong directory for resumed/forked sessions, agent prompt being silently deleted from settings.json on every settings write, PostToolUse block reason displaying twice, async hooks not receiving stdin with bash read -r, and validation error message showing an example that fails validation
• Fixed session crashes in Desktop/SDK when Read returned files containing U+2028/U+2029 characters
• Fixed terminal title being cleared on exit even when CLAUDE_CODE_DISABLE_TERMINAL_TITLE was set
• Fixed several permission rule matching issues: wildcard rules not matching commands with heredocs, embedded newlines, or no arguments; sandbox.excludedCommands failing with env var prefixes; "always allow" suggesting overly broad prefixes for nested CLI tools; and deny rules not applying to all command forms
• Fixed oversized and truncated images from Bash data-URL output
• Fixed a crash when resuming sessions that contained Bedrock API errors
• Fixed intermittent "expected boolean, received string" validation errors on Edit, Bash, and Grep tool inputs
• Fixed multi-line session titles when forking from a conversation whose first message contained newlines
• Fixed queued messages not showing attached images, and images being lost when pressing ↑ to edit a queued message
• Fixed parallel tool calls where a failed Read/WebFetch/Glob would cancel its siblings — only Bash errors now cascade
• VSCode: Fixed scroll speed in integrated terminals not matching native terminals
• VSCode: Fixed Shift+Enter submitting input instead of inserting a newline for users with older keybindings
• VSCode: Added effort level indicator on the input border
• VSCode: Added vscode://anthropic.claude-code/open URI handler to open a new Claude Code tab programmatically, with optional prompt and session query parameters

v2.1.71

What's changed

• Added /loop command to run a prompt or slash command on a recurring interval (e.g. /loop 5m check the deploy)
• Added cron scheduling tools for recurring prompts within a session
• Added voice:pushToTalk keybinding to make the voice activation key rebindable in keybindings.json (default: space) — modifier+letter combos like meta+k have zero typing interference
• Added fmt, comm, cmp, numfmt, expr, test, printf, getconf, seq, tsort, and pr to the bash auto-approval allowlist
• Fixed stdin freeze in long-running sessions where keystrokes stop being processed but the process stays alive
• Fixed a 5–8 second startup freeze for users with voice mode enabled, caused by CoreAudio initialization blocking the main thread after system wake
• Fixed startup UI freeze when many claude.ai proxy connectors refresh an expired OAuth token simultaneously
• Fixed forked conversations (/fork) sharing the same plan file, which caused plan edits in one fork to overwrite the other
• Fixed the Read tool putting oversized images into context when image processing failed, breaking subsequent turns in long image-heavy sessions
• Fixed false-positive permission prompts for compound bash commands containing heredoc commit messages
• Fixed plugin installations being lost when running multiple Claude Code instances
• Fixed claude.ai connectors failing to reconnect after OAuth token refresh
• Fixed claude.ai MCP connector startup notifications appearing for every org-configured connector instead of only previously connected ones
• Fixed background agent completion notifications missing the output file path, which made it difficult for parent agents to recover agent results after context compaction
• Fixed duplicate output in Bash tool error messages when commands exit with non-zero status
• Fixed Chrome extension auto-detection getting permanently stuck on "not installed" after running on a machine without local Chrome
• Fixed /plugin marketplace update failing with merge conflicts when the marketplace is pinned to a branch/tag ref
• Fixed /plugin marketplace add owner/repo@ref incorrectly parsing @ — previously only # worked as a ref separator, causing undiagnosable errors with strictKnownMarketplaces
• Fixed duplicate entries in /permissions Workspace tab when the same directory is added with and without a trailing slash
• Fixed --print hanging forever when team agents are configured — the exit loop no longer waits on long-lived in_process_teammate tasks
• Fixed "❯ Tool loaded." appearing in the REPL after every ToolSearch call
• Fixed prompting for cd <cwd> && git ... on Windows when the model uses a mingw-style path
• Improved startup time by deferring native image processor loading to first use
• Improved bridge session reconnection to complete within seconds after laptop wake from sleep, instead of waiting up to 10 minutes
• Improved /plugin uninstall to disable project-scoped plugins in .claude/settings.local.json instead of modifying .claude/settings.json, so changes don't affect teammates
• Improved plugin-provided MCP server deduplication — servers that duplicate a manually-configured server (same command/URL) are now skipped, preventing duplicate connections and tool sets. Suppressions are shown in the /plugin menu.
• Updated /debug to toggle debug logging on mid-session, since debug logs are no longer written by default
• Removed startup notification noise for unauthenticated org-registered claude.ai connectors

v2.1.70

What's changed

• Fixed API 400 errors when using ANTHROPIC_BASE_URL with a third-party gateway — tool search now correctly detects proxy endpoints and disables tool_reference blocks
• Fixed API Error: 400 This model does not support the effort parameter when using custom Bedrock inference profiles or other model identifiers not matching standard Claude naming patterns
• Fixed empty model responses immediately after ToolSearch — the server renders tool schemas with system-prompt-style tags at the prompt tail, which could confuse models into stopping early
• Fixed prompt-cache bust when an MCP server with instructions connects after the first turn
• Fixed Enter inserting a newline instead of submitting when typing over a slow SSH connection
• Fixed clipboard corrupting non-ASCII text (CJK, emoji) on Windows/WSL by using PowerShell Set-Clipboard
• Fixed extra VS Code windows opening at startup on Windows when running from the VS Code integrated terminal
• Fixed voice mode failing on Windows native binary with "native audio module could not be loaded"
• Fixed push-to-talk not activating on session start when voiceEnabled: true was set in settings
• Fixed markdown links containing #NNN references incorrectly pointing to the current repository instead of the linked URL
• Fixed repeated "Model updated to Opus 4.6" notification when a project's .claude/settings.json has a legacy Opus model string pinned
• Fixed plugins showing as inaccurately installed in /plugin
• Fixed plugins showing "not found in marketplace" errors on fresh startup by auto-refreshing after marketplace installation
• Fixed /security-review command failing with unknown option merge-base on older git versions
• Fixed /color command having no way to reset back to the default color — /color default, /color gray, /color reset, and /color none now restore the default
• Fixed a performance regression in the AskUserQuestion preview dialog that re-ran markdown rendering on every keystroke in the notes input
• Fixed feature flags read during early startup never refreshing their disk cache, causing stale values to persist across sessions
• Fixed permissions.defaultMode settings values other than acceptEdits or plan being applied in Claude Code Remote environments — they are now ignored
• Fixed skill listing being re-injected on every --resume (~600 tokens saved per resume)
• Fixed teleport marker not rendering in VS Code teleported sessions
• Improved error message when microphone captures silence to distinguish from "no speech detected"
• Improved compaction to preserve images in the summarizer request, allowing prompt cache reuse for faster and cheaper compaction
• Improved /rename to work while Claude is processing, instead of being silently queued
• Reduced prompt input re-renders during turns by ~74%
• Reduced startup memory by ~426KB for users without custom CA certificates
• Reduced Remote Control /poll rate to once per 10 minutes while connected (was 1–2s), cutting server load ~300×. Reconnection is unaffected — transport loss immediately wakes fast polling.
• [VSCode] Added spark icon in VS Code activity bar that lists all Claude Code sessions, with sessions opening as full editors
• [VSCode] Added full markdown document view for plans in VS Code, with support for adding comments to provide feedback
• [VSCode] Added native MCP server management dialog — use /mcp in the chat panel to enable/disable servers, reconnect, and manage OAuth authentication without switching to the terminal

v2.1.69

What's changed

• Added the /claude-api skill for building applications with the Claude API and Anthropic SDK
• Added Ctrl+U on an empty bash prompt (!) to exit bash mode, matching escape and backspace
• Added numeric keypad support for selecting options in Claude's interview questions (previously only the number row above QWERTY worked)
• Added optional name argument to /remote-control and claude remote-control (/remote-control My Project or --name "My Project") to set a custom session title visible in claude.ai/code
• Added Voice STT support for 10 new languages (20 total) — Russian, Polish, Turkish, Dutch, Ukrainian, Greek, Czech, Danish, Swedish, Norwegian
• Added effort level display (e.g., "with low effort") to the logo and spinner, making it easier to see which effort setting is active
• Added agent name display in terminal title when using claude --agent
• Added sandbox.enableWeakerNetworkIsolation setting (macOS only) to allow Go programs like gh, gcloud, and terraform to verify TLS certificates when using a custom MITM proxy with httpProxyPort
• Added includeGitInstructions setting (and CLAUDE_CODE_DISABLE_GIT_INSTRUCTIONS env var) to remove built-in commit and PR workflow instructions from Claude's system prompt
• Added /reload-plugins command to activate pending plugin changes without restarting
• Added a one-time startup prompt suggesting Claude Code Desktop on macOS and Windows (max 3 showings, dismissible)
• Added ${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR} variable for skills to reference their own directory in SKILL.md content
• Added InstructionsLoaded hook event that fires when CLAUDE.md or .claude/rules/*.md files are loaded into context
• Added agent_id (for subagents) and agent_type (for subagents and --agent) to hook events
• Added worktree field to status line hook commands with name, path, branch, and original repo directory when running in a --worktree session
• Added pluginTrustMessage in managed settings to append organization-specific context to the plugin trust warning shown before installation
• Added policy limit fetching (e.g., remote control restrictions) for Team plan OAuth users, not just Enterprise
• Added pathPattern to strictKnownMarketplaces for regex-matching file/directory marketplace sources alongside hostPattern restrictions
• Added plugin source type git-subdir to point to a subdirectory within a git repo
• Added oauth.authServerMetadataUrl config option for MCP servers to specify a custom OAuth metadata discovery URL when standard discovery fails
• Fixed a security issue where nested skill discovery could load skills from gitignored directories like node_modules
• Fixed trust dialog silently enabling all .mcp.json servers on first run. You'll now see the per-server approval dialog as expected
• Fixed claude remote-control crashing immediately on npm installs with "bad option: --sdk-url" (anthropics/claude-code#28334)
• Fixed --model claude-opus-4-0 and --model claude-opus-4-1 resolving to deprecated Opus versions instead of current
• Fixed macOS keychain corruption when using multiple OAuth MCP servers. Large OAuth metadata blobs could overflow the security -i stdin buffer, silently leaving stale credentials behind and causing repeated /login prompts.
• Fixed .credentials.json losing subscriptionType (showing "Claude API" instead of "Claude Pro"/"Claude Max") when the profile endpoint transiently fails during token refresh (anthropics/claude-code#30185)
• Fixed ghost dotfiles (.bashrc, HEAD, etc.) appearing as untracked files in the working directory after sandboxed Bash commands on Linux
• Fixed Shift+Enter printing [27;2;13~ instead of inserting a newline in Ghostty over SSH
• Fixed stash (Ctrl+S) being cleared when submitting a message while Claude is working
• Fixed ctrl+o (transcript toggle) freezing for many seconds in long sessions with lots of file edits
• Fixed plan mode feedback input not supporting multi-line text entry (backslash+Enter and Shift+Enter now insert newlines)
• Fixed cursor not moving down into blank lines at the top of the input box
• Fixed /stats crash when transcript files contain entries with missing or malformed timestamps
• Fixed a brief hang after a streaming error on long sessions (the transcript was being fully rewritten to drop one line; it is now truncated in place)
• Fixed --setting-sources user not blocking dynamically discovered project skills
• Fixed duplicate CLAUDE.md, slash commands, agents, and rules when running from a worktree nested inside its main repo (e.g. claude -w)
• Fixed plugin Stop/SessionEnd/etc hooks not firing after any /plugin operation
• Fixed plugin hooks being silently dropped when two plugins use the same ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/... command template
• Fixed memory leak in long-running SDK/CCR sessions where conversation messages were retained unnecessarily
• Fixed API 400 errors in forked agents (autocompact, summarization) when resuming sessions that were interrupted mid-tool-batch
• Fixed "unexpected tool_use_id found in tool_result blocks" error when resuming conversations that start with an orphaned tool result
• Fixed teammates accidentally spawning nested teammates via the Agent tool's name parameter
• Fixed CLAUDE_CODE_MAX_OUTPUT_TOKENS being ignored during conversation compaction
• Fixed /compact summary rendering as a user bubble in SDK consumers (Claude Code Remote web UI, VSCode extension)
• Fixed voice space bar getting stuck after a failed voice activation (module loading race, cold GrowthBook)
• Fixed worktree file copy on Windows
• Fixed global .claude folder detection on Windows
• Fixed symlink bypass where writing new files through a symlinked parent directory could escape the working directory in acceptEdits mode
• Fixed sandbox prompting users to approve non-allowed domains when allowManagedDomainsOnly is enabled in managed settings — non-allowed domains are now blocked automatically with no bypass
• Fixed interactive tools (e.g., AskUserQuestion) being silently auto-allowed when listed in a skill's allowed-tools, bypassing the permission prompt and running with empty answers
• Fixed multi-GB memory spike when committing with large untracked binary files in the working tree
• Fixed Escape not interrupting a running turn when the input box has draft text. Use Up arrow to pull queued messages back for editing, or Ctrl+U to clear the input line.
• Fixed Android app crash when running local slash commands (/voice, /cost) in Remote Control sessions
• Fixed a memory leak where old message array versions accumulated in React Compiler memoCache over long sessions
• Fixed a memory leak where REPL render scopes accumulated over long sessions (~35MB over 1000 turns)
• Fixed memory retention in in-process teammates where the parent's full conversation history was pinned for the teammate's lifetime, preventing GC after /clear or auto-compact
• Fixed a memory leak in interactive mode where hook events could accumulate unboundedly during long sessions
• Fixed hang when --mcp-config points to a corrupted file
• Fixed slow startup when many skills/plugins are installed
• Fixed cd <outside-dir> && <cmd> permission prompt to surface the chained command instead of only showing "Yes, allow reading from /"
• Fixed conditional .claude/rules/*.md files (with paths: frontmatter) and nested CLAUDE.md files not loading in print mode (claude -p)
• Fixed /clear not fully clearing all session caches, reducing memory retention in long sessions
• Fixed terminal flicker caused by animated elements at the scrollback boundary
• Fixed UI frame drops on macOS when using MCP servers with OAuth (regression from 2.1.x)
• Fixed occasional frame stalls during typing caused by synchronous debug log flushes
• Fixed TeammateIdle and TaskCompleted hooks to support {"continue": false, "stopReason": "..."} to stop the teammate, matching Stop hook behavior
• Fixed WorktreeCreate and WorktreeRemove plugin hooks being silently ignored
• Fixed skill descriptions with colons (e.g., "Triggers include: X, Y, Z") failing to load from SKILL.md frontmatter
• Fixed project skills without a description: frontmatter field not appearing in Claude's available skills list
• Fixed /context showing identical token counts for all MCP tools from a server
• Fixed literal nul file creation on Windows when the model uses CMD-style 2>nul redirection in Git Bash
• Fixed extra blank lines appearing below each tool call in the expanded subagent transcript view (Ctrl+O)
• Fixed Tab/arrow keys not cycling Settings tabs when /config search box is focused but empty
• Fixed service key OAuth sessions (CCR containers) spamming [ERROR] logs with 403s from profile-scoped endpoints
• Fixed inconsistent color for "Remote Control active" status indicator
• Fixed Voice waveform cursor covering the first suffix letter when dictating mid-input
• Fixed Voice input showing all 5 spaces during warmup instead of capping at ~2 (aligning with the "keep holding…" hint)
• Improved spinner performance by isolating the 50ms animation loop from the surrounding shell, reducing render and CPU overhead during turns
• Improved UI rendering performance in native binaries with React Compiler
• Improved --worktree startup by eliminating a git subprocess on the startup path
• Improved macOS startup by eliminating redundant settings-file reloads when managed settings resolve
• Improved macOS startup for Claude.ai enterprise/team users by skipping an unnecessary keychain lookup
• Improved MCP -p startup by pipelining claude.ai config fetch with local connections and using a concurrency pool instead of sequential batching
• Improved voice startup by removing imperceptible warmup pulse animations that were causing re-render stutter
• Improved MCP binary content handling: tools returning PDFs, Office documents, or audio now save decoded bytes to disk with the correct file extension instead of dumping raw base64 into the conversation context. WebFetch also saves binary responses alongside its summary.
• Improved memory usage in long sessions by stabilizing onSubmit across message updates
• Improved LSP tool rendering and memory context building to no longer read entire files
• Improved session upload and memory sync to avoid reading large files into memory before size/binary checks
• Improved file operation performance by avoiding reading file contents for existence checks (6 sites)
• Improved documentation to clarify that --append-system-prompt-file and --system-prompt-file work in interactive mode (the docs previously said print mode only)
• Reduced baseline memory by ~16MB by deferring Yoga WASM preloading
• Reduced memory footprint for SDK and CCR sessions using stream-json output
• Reduced memory usage when resuming large sessions (including compacted history)
• Reduced token usage on multi-agent tasks with more concise subagent final reports
• Changed Sonnet 4.5 users on Pro/Max/Team Premium to be automatically migrated to Sonnet 4.6
• Changed the /resume picker to show your most recent prompt instead of the first one. This also resolves some titles appearing as (session).
• Changed claude.ai MCP connector failures to show a notification instead of silently disappearing from the tool list
• Changed example command suggestions to be generated deterministically instead of calling Haiku
• Changed resuming after compaction to no longer produce a preamble recap before continuing
• [SDK] Changed task creation to no longer require the activeForm field — the spinner falls back to the task subject
• [VSCode] Added compaction display as a collapsible "Compacted chat" card with the summary inside
• [VSCode] The permission mode picker now respects permissions.disableBypassPermissionsMode from your effective Claude Code settings (including managed/policy settings) — when set to disable, bypass permissions mode is hidden from the picker
• [VSCode] Fixed RTL text (Arabic, Hebrew, Persian) rendering reversed in the chat panel (regression in v2.1.63)

v2.1.68

What's changed

• Opus 4.6 now defaults to medium effort for Max and Team subscribers. Medium effort works well for most tasks — it's the sweet spot between speed and thoroughness. You can change this anytime with /model
• Re-introduced the "ultrathink" keyword to enable high effort for the next turn
• Removed Opus 4 and 4.1 from Claude Code on the first-party API — users with these models pinned are automatically moved to Opus 4.6

v2.1.66

v2.1.63

What's changed

• Added /simplify and /batch bundled slash commands
• Fixed local slash command output like /cost appearing as user-sent messages instead of system messages in the UI
• Project configs & auto memory now shared across git worktrees of the same repository
• Added ENABLE_CLAUDEAI_MCP_SERVERS=false env var to opt out from making claude.ai MCP servers available
• Improved /model command to show the currently active model in the slash command menu
• Added HTTP hooks, which can POST JSON to a URL and receive JSON instead of running a shell command
• Fixed listener leak in bridge polling loop
• Fixed listener leak in MCP OAuth flow cleanup
• Added manual URL paste fallback during MCP OAuth authentication. If the automatic localhost redirect doesn't work, you can paste the callback URL to complete authentication.
• Fixed memory leak when navigating hooks configuration menu
• Fixed listener leak in interactive permission handler during auto-approvals
• Fixed file count cache ignoring glob ignore patterns
• Fixed memory leak in bash command prefix cache
• Fixed MCP tool/resource cache leak on server reconnect
• Fixed IDE host IP detection cache incorrectly sharing results across ports
• Fixed WebSocket listener leak on transport reconnect
• Fixed memory leak in git root detection cache that could cause unbounded growth in long-running sessions
• Fixed memory leak in JSON parsing cache that grew unbounded over long sessions
• VSCode: Fixed remote sessions not appearing in conversation history
• Fixed a race condition in the REPL bridge where new messages could arrive at the server interleaved with historical messages during the initial connection flush, causing message ordering issues.
• Fixed memory leak where long-running teammates retained all messages in AppState even after conversation compaction
• Fixed a memory leak where MCP server fetch caches were not cleared on disconnect, causing growing memory usage with servers that reconnect frequently
• Improved memory usage in long sessions with subagents by stripping heavy progress message payloads during context compaction
• Added "Always copy full response" option to the /copy picker. When selected, future /copy commands will skip the code block picker and copy the full response directly.
• VSCode: Added session rename and remove actions to the sessions list
• Fixed /clear not resetting cached skills, which could cause stale skill content to persist in the new conversation

v2.1.62

What's changed

• Fixed prompt suggestion cache regression that reduced cache hit rates

v2.1.61

What's changed

• Fixed concurrent writes corrupting config file on Windows

v2.1.59

What's changed

• Claude automatically saves useful context to auto-memory. Manage with /memory
• Added /copy command to show an interactive picker when code blocks are present, allowing selection of individual code blocks or the full response.
• Improved "always allow" prefix suggestions for compound bash commands (e.g. cd /tmp && git fetch && git push) to compute smarter per-subcommand prefixes instead of treating the whole command as one
• Improved ordering of short task lists
• Improved memory usage in multi-agent sessions by releasing completed subagent task state
• Fixed MCP OAuth token refresh race condition when running multiple Claude Code instances simultaneously
• Fixed shell commands not showing a clear error message when the working directory has been deleted

v2.1.58

What's changed

• Expand Remote Control to more users

v2.1.56

What's changed

• VS Code: Fixed another cause of "command 'claude-vscode.editor.openLast' not found" crashes

v2.1.55

What's changed

• Fixed BashTool failing on Windows with EINVAL error

v2.1.53

What's changed

• Fixed a UI flicker where user input would briefly disappear after submission before the message rendered
• Fixed bulk agent kill (ctrl+f) to send a single aggregate notification instead of one per agent, and to properly clear the command queue
• Fixed graceful shutdown sometimes leaving stale sessions when using Remote Control by parallelizing teardown network calls
• Fixed --worktree sometimes being ignored on first launch
• Fixed a panic ("switch on corrupted value") on Windows
• Fixed a crash that could occur when spawning many processes on Windows
• Fixed a crash in the WebAssembly interpreter on Linux x64 & Windows x64
• Fixed a crash that sometimes occurred after 2 minutes on Windows ARM64

v2.1.52

What's changed

• VS Code: Fixed extension crash on Windows ("command 'claude-vscode.editor.openLast' not found")

v2.1.51

What's changed

• Added claude remote-control subcommand for external builds, enabling local environment serving for all users.
• Updated plugin marketplace default git timeout from 30s to 120s and added CLAUDE_CODE_PLUGIN_GIT_TIMEOUT_MS to configure.
• Added support for custom npm registries and specific version pinning when installing plugins from npm sources
• BashTool now skips login shell (-l flag) by default when a shell snapshot is available, improving command execution performance. Previously this required setting CLAUDE_BASH_NO_LOGIN=true.
• Fixed a security issue where statusLine and fileSuggestion hook commands could execute without workspace trust acceptance in interactive mode.
• Tool results larger than 50K characters are now persisted to disk (previously 100K). This reduces context window usage and improves conversation longevity.
• Fixed a security issue where HTTP hooks could interpolate arbitrary environment variables from header values. Env var interpolation now requires an explicit allowedEnvVars list in the hook configuration.
• Fixed a bug where duplicate control_response messages (e.g. from WebSocket reconnects) could cause API 400 errors by pushing duplicate assistant messages into the conversation.
• Added CLAUDE_CODE_ACCOUNT_UUID, CLAUDE_CODE_USER_EMAIL, and CLAUDE_CODE_ORGANIZATION_UUID environment variables for SDK callers to provide account info synchronously, eliminating a race condition where early telemetry events lacked account metadata.
• Fixed slash command autocomplete crashing when a plugin's SKILL.md description is a YAML array or other non-string type
• HTTP hooks are now routed through the sandbox network proxy when sandboxing is enabled, enforcing the domain allowlist. HTTP hooks are not supported for SessionStart/Setup events.
• The /model picker now shows human-readable labels (e.g., "Sonnet 4.5") instead of raw model IDs for pinned model versions, with an upgrade hint when a newer version is available.

v2.1.50

What's changed

• Added support for startupTimeout configuration for LSP servers
• Added WorktreeCreate and WorktreeRemove hook events, enabling custom VCS setup and teardown when agent worktree isolation creates or removes worktrees.
• Fixed a bug where resumed sessions could be invisible when the working directory involved symlinks, because the session storage path was resolved at different times during startup. Also fixed session data loss on SSH disconnect by flushing session data before hooks and analytics in the graceful shutdown sequence.
• Linux: Fixed native modules not loading on systems with glibc older than 2.30 (e.g., RHEL 8)
• Fixed memory leak in agent teams where completed teammate tasks were never garbage collected from session state
• Fixed CLAUDE_CODE_SIMPLE to fully strip down skills, session memory, custom agents, and CLAUDE.md token counting
• Fixed /mcp reconnect freezing the CLI when given a server name that doesn't exist
• Fixed memory leak where completed task state objects were never removed from AppState
• Added support for isolation: worktree in agent definitions, allowing agents to declaratively run in isolated git worktrees.
• CLAUDE_CODE_SIMPLE mode now also disables MCP tools, attachments, hooks, and CLAUDE.md file loading for a fully minimal experience.
• Fixed bug where MCP tools were not discovered when tool search is enabled and a prompt is passed in as a launch argument
• Improved memory usage during long sessions by clearing internal caches after compaction
• Added claude agents CLI command to list all configured agents
• Improved memory usage during long sessions by clearing large tool results after they have been processed
• Fixed a memory leak where LSP diagnostic data was never cleaned up after delivery, causing unbounded memory growth in long sessions
• Fixed a memory leak where completed task output was not freed from memory, reducing memory usage in long sessions with many tasks
• Improved startup performance for headless mode (-p flag) by deferring Yoga WASM and UI component imports
• Fixed prompt suggestion cache regression that reduced cache hit rates
• Fixed unbounded memory growth in long sessions by capping file history snapshots
• Added CLAUDE_CODE_DISABLE_1M_CONTEXT environment variable to disable 1M context window support
• Opus 4.6 (fast mode) now includes the full 1M context window
• VSCode: Added /extra-usage command support in VS Code sessions
• Fixed memory leak where TaskOutput retained recent lines after cleanup
• Fixed memory leak in CircularBuffer where cleared items were retained in the backing array
• Fixed memory leak in shell command execution where ChildProcess and AbortController references were retained after cleanup

v2.1.49

What's changed

• Fixed Ctrl+C and ESC being silently ignored when background agents are running and the main thread is idle. Pressing twice within 3 seconds now kills all background agents.
• Fixed prompt suggestion cache regression that reduced cache hit rates.
• Fixed plugin enable and plugin disable to auto-detect the correct scope when --scope is not specified, instead of always defaulting to user scope
• Simple mode (CLAUDE_CODE_SIMPLE) now includes the file edit tool in addition to the Bash tool, allowing direct file editing in simple mode.
• Permission suggestions are now populated when safety checks trigger an ask response, enabling SDK consumers to display permission options
• Sonnet 4.5 with 1M context is being removed from the Max plan in favor of our frontier Sonnet 4.6 model, which now has 1M context. Please switch in /model.
• Fixed verbose mode not updating thinking block display when toggled via /config — memo comparators now correctly detect verbose changes
• Fixed unbounded WASM memory growth during long sessions by periodically resetting the tree-sitter parser
• Fixed potential rendering issues caused by stale yoga layout references
• Improved performance in non-interactive mode (-p) by skipping unnecessary API calls during startup
• Improved performance by caching authentication failures for HTTP and SSE MCP servers, avoiding repeated connection attempts to servers requiring auth
• Fixed unbounded memory growth during long-running sessions caused by Yoga WASM linear memory never shrinking
• SDK model info now includes supportsEffort, supportedEffortLevels, and supportsAdaptiveThinking fields so consumers can discover model capabilities.
• Added ConfigChange hook event that fires when configuration files change during a session, enabling enterprise security auditing and optional blocking of settings changes.
• Improved startup performance by caching MCP auth failures to avoid redundant connection attempts
• Improved startup performance by reducing HTTP calls for analytics token counting
• Improved startup performance by batching MCP tool token counting into a single API call
• Fixed disableAllHooks setting to respect managed settings hierarchy — non-managed settings can no longer disable managed hooks set by policy (#26637)
• Fixed --resume session picker showing raw XML tags for sessions that start with commands like /clear. Now correctly falls through to the session ID fallback.
• Improved permission prompts for path safety and working directory blocks to show the reason for the restriction instead of a bare prompt with no context

v2.1.47

What's changed

• Fixed FileWriteTool line counting to preserve intentional trailing blank lines instead of stripping them with trimEnd().
• Fixed Windows terminal rendering bugs caused by os.EOL (\r\n) in display code — line counts now show correct values instead of always showing 1 on Windows.
• Improved VS Code plan preview: auto-updates as Claude iterates, enables commenting only when the plan is ready for review, and keeps the preview open when rejecting so Claude can revise.
• Fixed a bug where bold and colored text in markdown output could shift to the wrong characters on Windows due to \r\n line endings.
• Fixed compaction failing when conversation contains many PDF documents by stripping document blocks alongside images before sending to the compaction API (anthropics/claude-code#26188)
• Improved memory usage in long-running sessions by releasing API stream buffers, agent context, and skill state after use
• Improved startup performance by deferring SessionStart hook execution, reducing time-to-interactive by ~500ms.
• Fixed an issue where bash tool output was silently discarded on Windows when using MSYS2 or Cygwin shells.
• Improved performance of @ file mentions - file suggestions now appear faster by pre-warming the index on startup and using session-based caching with background refresh.
• Improved memory usage by trimming agent task message history after tasks complete
• Improved memory usage during long agent sessions by eliminating O(n²) message accumulation in progress updates
• Fixed the bash permission classifier to validate that returned match descriptions correspond to actual input rules, preventing hallucinated descriptions from incorrectly granting permissions
• Fixed user-defined agents only loading one file on NFS/FUSE filesystems that report zero inodes (anthropics/claude-code#26044)
• Fixed plugin agent skills silently failing to load when referenced by bare name instead of fully-qualified plugin name (anthropics/claude-code#25834)
• Search patterns in collapsed tool results are now displayed in quotes for clarity
• Windows: Fixed CWD tracking temp files never being cleaned up, causing them to accumulate indefinitely (anthropics/claude-code#17600)
• Use ctrl+f to kill all background agents instead of double-pressing ESC. Background agents now continue running when you press ESC to cancel the main thread, giving you more control over agent lifecycle.
• Fixed API 400 errors ("thinking blocks cannot be modified") that occurred in sessions with concurrent agents, caused by interleaved streaming content blocks preventing proper message merging.
• Simplified teammate navigation to use only Shift+Down (with wrapping) instead of both Shift+Up and Shift+Down.
• Fixed an issue where a single file write/edit error would abort all other parallel file write/edit operations. Independent file mutations now complete even when a sibling fails.
• Added last_assistant_message field to Stop and SubagentStop hook inputs, providing the final assistant response text so hooks can access it without parsing transcript files.
• Fixed custom session titles set via /rename being lost after resuming a conversation (anthropics/claude-code#23610)
• Fixed collapsed read/search hint text overflowing on narrow terminals by truncating from the start.
• Fixed an issue where bash commands with backslash-newline continuation lines (e.g., long commands split across multiple lines with \) would produce spurious empty arguments, potentially breaking command execution.
• Fixed built-in slash commands (/help, /model, /compact, etc.) being hidden from the autocomplete dropdown when many user skills are installed (anthropics/claude-code#22020)
• Fixed MCP servers not appearing in the MCP Management Dialog after deferred loading
• Fixed session name persisting in status bar after /clear command (anthropics/claude-code#26082)
• Fixed crash when a skill's name or description in SKILL.md frontmatter is a bare number (e.g., name: 3000) — the value is now properly coerced to a string (anthropics/claude-code#25837)
• Fixed /resume silently dropping sessions when the first message exceeds 16KB or uses array-format content (anthropics/claude-code#25721)
• Added chat:newline keybinding action for configurable multi-line input (anthropics/claude-code#26075)
• Added added_dirs to the statusline JSON workspace section, exposing directories added via /add-dir to external scripts (anthropics/claude-code#26096)
• Fixed claude doctor misclassifying mise and asdf-managed installations as native installs (anthropics/claude-code#26033)
• Fixed zsh heredoc failing with "read-only file system" error in sandboxed commands (anthropics/claude-code#25990)
• Fixed agent progress indicator showing inflated tool use count (anthropics/claude-code#26023)
• Fixed image pasting not working on WSL2 systems where Windows copies images as BMP format (anthropics/claude-code#25935)
• Fixed background agent results returning raw transcript data instead of the agent's final answer (anthropics/claude-code#26012)
• Fixed Warp terminal incorrectly prompting for Shift+Enter setup when it supports it natively (anthropics/claude-code#25957)
• Fixed CJK wide characters causing misaligned timestamps and layout elements in the TUI (anthropics/claude-code#26084)
• Fixed custom agent model field in .claude/agents/*.md being ignored when spawning team teammates (anthropics/claude-code#26064)
• Fixed plan mode being lost after context compaction, causing the model to switch from planning to implementation mode (anthropics/claude-code#26061)
• Fixed alwaysThinkingEnabled: true in settings.json not enabling thinking mode on Bedrock and Vertex providers (anthropics/claude-code#26074)
• Fixed tool_decision OTel telemetry event not being emitted in headless/SDK mode (anthropics/claude-code#26059)
• Fixed session name being lost after context compaction — renamed sessions now preserve their custom title through compaction (anthropics/claude-code#26121)
• Increased initial session count in resume picker from 10 to 50 for faster session discovery (anthropics/claude-code#26123)
• Windows: fixed worktree session matching when drive letter casing differs (anthropics/claude-code#26123)
• Fixed /resume <session-id> failing to find sessions whose first message exceeds 16KB (anthropics/claude-code#25920)
• Fixed "Always allow" on multiline bash commands creating invalid permission patterns that corrupt settings (anthropics/claude-code#25909)
• Fixed React crash (error #31) when a skill's argument-hint in SKILL.md frontmatter uses YAML sequence syntax (e.g., [topic: foo | bar]) — the value is now properly coerced to a string (anthropics/claude-code#25826)
• Fixed crash when using /fork on sessions that used web search — null entries in search results from transcript deserialization are now handled gracefully (anthropics/claude-code#25811)
• Fixed read-only git commands triggering FSEvents file watcher loops on macOS by adding --no-optional-locks flag (anthropics/claude-code#25750)
• Fixed custom agents and skills not being discovered when running from a git worktree — project-level .claude/agents/ and .claude/skills/ from the main repository are now included (anthropics/claude-code#25816)
• Fixed non-interactive subcommands like claude doctor and claude plugin validate being blocked inside nested Claude sessions (anthropics/claude-code#25803)
• Windows: Fixed the same CLAUDE.md file being loaded twice when drive letter casing differs between paths (anthropics/claude-code#25756)
• Fixed inline code spans in markdown being incorrectly parsed as bash commands (anthropics/claude-code#25792)
• Fixed teammate spinners not respecting custom spinnerVerbs from settings (anthropics/claude-code#25748)
• Fixed shell commands permanently failing after a command deletes its own working directory (anthropics/claude-code#26136)
• Fixed hooks (PreToolUse, PostToolUse) silently failing to execute on Windows by using Git Bash instead of cmd.exe (anthropics/claude-code#25981)
• Fixed LSP findReferences and other location-based operations returning results from gitignored files (e.g., node_modules/, venv/) (anthropics/claude-code#26051)
• Moved config backup files from home directory root to ~/.claude/backups/ to reduce home directory clutter (anthropics/claude-code#26130)
• Fixed sessions with large first prompts (>16KB) disappearing from the /resume list (anthropics/claude-code#26140)
• Fixed shell functions with double-underscore prefixes (e.g., __git_ps1) not being preserved across shell sessions (anthropics/claude-code#25824)
• Fixed spinner showing "0 tokens" counter before any tokens have been received (anthropics/claude-code#26105)
• VSCode: Fixed conversation messages appearing dimmed while the AskUserQuestion dialog is open (anthropics/claude-code#26078)
• Fixed background tasks failing in git worktrees due to remote URL resolution reading from worktree-specific gitdir instead of the main repository config (anthropics/claude-code#26065)
• Fixed Right Alt key leaving visible [25~ escape sequence residue in the input field on Windows/Git Bash terminals (anthropics/claude-code#25943)
• The /rename command now updates the terminal tab title by default (anthropics/claude-code#25789)
• Fixed Edit tool silently corrupting Unicode curly quotes (\u201c\u201d \u2018\u2019) by replacing them with straight quotes when making edits (anthropics/claude-code#26141)
• Fixed OSC 8 hyperlinks only being clickable on the first line when link text wraps across multiple terminal lines.

v2.1.45

What's changed

• Added support for Claude Sonnet 4.6
• Added support for reading enabledPlugins and extraKnownMarketplaces from --add-dir directories
• Added spinnerTipsOverride setting to customize spinner tips — configure tips with an array of custom tip strings, and optionally set excludeDefault: true to show only your custom tips instead of the built-in ones
• Added SDKRateLimitInfo and SDKRateLimitEvent types to the SDK, enabling consumers to receive rate limit status updates including utilization, reset times, and overage information
• Fixed Agent Teams teammates failing on Bedrock, Vertex, and Foundry by propagating API provider environment variables to tmux-spawned processes (anthropics/claude-code#23561)
• Fixed sandbox "operation not permitted" errors when writing temporary files on macOS by using the correct per-user temp directory (anthropics/claude-code#21654)
• Fixed Task tool (backgrounded agents) crashing with a ReferenceError on completion (anthropics/claude-code#22087)
• Fixed autocomplete suggestions not being accepted on Enter when images are pasted in the input
• Fixed skills invoked by subagents incorrectly appearing in main session context after compaction
• Fixed excessive .claude.json.backup files accumulating on every startup
• Fixed plugin-provided commands, agents, and hooks not being available immediately after installation without requiring a restart
• Improved startup performance by removing eager loading of session history for stats caching
• Improved memory usage for shell commands that produce large output — RSS no longer grows unboundedly with command output size
• Improved collapsed read/search groups to show the current file or search pattern being processed beneath the summary line while active
• [VSCode] Improved permission destination choice (project/user/session) to persist across sessions

v2.1.44

What's changed

• Fixed auth refresh errors

v2.1.42

What's changed

• Fixed /resume showing interrupt messages as session titles
• Fixed Opus 4.6 launch announcement showing for Bedrock/Vertex/Foundry users
• Improved error message for many-image dimension limit errors with /compact suggestion

v2.1.41

What's changed

• Fixed AWS auth refresh hanging indefinitely by adding a 3-minute timeout
• Added claude auth login, claude auth status, and claude auth logout CLI subcommands
• Added Windows ARM64 (win32-arm64) native binary support
• Improved /rename to auto-generate session name from conversation context when called without arguments
• Improved narrow terminal layout for prompt footer
• Fixed file resolution failing for @-mentions with anchor fragments (e.g., @README.md#installation)
• Fixed FileReadTool blocking the process on FIFOs, /dev/stdin, and large files
• Fixed background task notifications not being delivered in streaming Agent SDK mode
• Fixed cursor jumping to end on each keystroke in classifier rule input
• Fixed markdown link display text being dropped for raw URL
• Fixed auto-compact failure error notifications being shown to users
• Fixed permission wait time being included in subagent elapsed time display
• Fixed proactive ticks firing while in plan mode
• Fixed clear stale permission rules when settings change on disk
• Fixed hook blocking errors showing stderr content in UI

v2.1.39

What's changed

• Improved terminal rendering performance
• Fixed fatal errors being swallowed instead of displayed
• Fixed process hanging after session close
• Fixed character loss at terminal screen boundary
• Fixed blank lines in verbose transcript view

v2.1.38

What's changed

• Fixed VS Code terminal scroll-to-top regression introduced in 2.1.37
• Fixed Tab key queueing slash commands instead of autocompleting
• Fixed bash permission matching for commands using environment variable wrappers
• Fixed text between tool uses disappearing when not using streaming
• Fixed duplicate sessions when resuming in VS Code extension
• Improved heredoc delimiter parsing to prevent command smuggling
• Blocked writes to .claude/skills directory in sandbox mode

v2.1.37

What's changed

• Fixed an issue where /fast was not immediately available after enabling /extra-usage

v2.1.36

What's changed

• Fast mode is now available for Opus 4.6. Learn more at https://code.claude.com/docs/en/fast-mode

v2.1.34

What's changed

• Fixed a crash when agent teams setting changed between renders
• Fixed a bug where commands excluded from sandboxing (via sandbox.excludedCommands or dangerouslyDisableSandbox) could bypass the Bash ask permission rule when autoAllowBashIfSandboxed was enabled

v2.1.33

What's changed

• Fixed agent teammate sessions in tmux to send and receive messages
• Fixed warnings about agent teams not being available on your current plan
• Added TeammateIdle and TaskCompleted hook events for multi-agent workflows
• Added support for restricting which sub-agents can be spawned via Task(agent_type) syntax in agent "tools" frontmatter
• Added memory frontmatter field support for agents, enabling persistent memory with user, project, or local scope
• Added plugin name to skill descriptions and /skills menu for better discoverability
• Fixed an issue where submitting a new message while the model was in extended thinking would interrupt the thinking phase
• Fixed an API error that could occur when aborting mid-stream, where whitespace text combined with a thinking block would bypass normalization and produce an invalid request
• Fixed API proxy compatibility issue where 404 errors on streaming endpoints no longer triggered non-streaming fallback
• Fixed an issue where proxy settings configured via settings.json environment variables were not applied to WebFetch and other HTTP requests on the Node.js build
• Fixed /resume session picker showing raw XML markup instead of clean titles for sessions started with slash commands
• Improved error messages for API connection failures — now shows specific cause (e.g., ECONNREFUSED, SSL errors) instead of generic "Connection error"
• Errors from invalid managed settings are now surfaced
• VSCode: Added support for remote sessions, allowing OAuth users to browse and resume sessions from claude.ai
• VSCode: Added git branch and message count to the session picker, with support for searching by branch name
• VSCode: Fixed scroll-to-bottom under-scrolling on initial session load and session switch

v2.1.32

What's changed

• Claude Opus 4.6 is now available!
• Added research preview agent teams feature for multi-agent collaboration (token-intensive feature, requires setting CLAUDE_CODE_EXPERIMENTAL_AGENT_TEAMS=1)
• Claude now automatically records and recalls memories as it works
• Added "Summarize from here" to the message selector, allowing partial conversation summarization.
• Skills defined in .claude/skills/ within additional directories (--add-dir) are now loaded automatically.
• Fixed @ file completion showing incorrect relative paths when running from a subdirectory
• Updated --resume to re-use --agent value specified in previous conversation by default.
• Fixed: Bash tool no longer throws "Bad substitution" errors when heredocs contain JavaScript template literals like ${index + 1}, which previously interrupted tool execution
• Skill character budget now scales with context window (2% of context), so users with larger context windows can see more skill descriptions without truncation
• Fixed Thai/Lao spacing vowels (สระ า, ำ) not rendering correctly in the input field
• VSCode: Fixed slash commands incorrectly being executed when pressing Enter with preceding text in the input field
• VSCode: Added spinner when loading past conversations list

v2.1.31

What's changed

• Added session resume hint on exit, showing how to continue your conversation later
• Added support for full-width (zenkaku) space input from Japanese IME in checkbox selection
• Fixed PDF too large errors permanently locking up sessions, requiring users to start a new conversation
• Fixed bash commands incorrectly reporting failure with "Read-only file system" errors when sandbox mode was enabled
• Fixed a crash that made sessions unusable after entering plan mode when project config in ~/.claude.json was missing default fields
• Fixed temperatureOverride being silently ignored in the streaming API path, causing all streaming requests to use the default temperature (1) regardless of the configured override
• Fixed LSP shutdown/exit compatibility with strict language servers that reject null params
• Improved system prompts to more clearly guide the model toward using dedicated tools (Read, Edit, Glob, Grep) instead of bash equivalents (cat, sed, grep, find), reducing unnecessary bash command usage
• Improved PDF and request size error messages to show actual limits (100 pages, 20MB)
• Reduced layout jitter in the terminal when the spinner appears and disappears during streaming
• Removed misleading Anthropic API pricing from model selector for third-party provider (Bedrock, Vertex, Foundry) users

v2.1.30

What's changed

• Added pages parameter to the Read tool for PDFs, allowing specific page ranges to be read (e.g., pages: "1-5"). Large PDFs (>10 pages) now return a lightweight reference when @ mentioned instead of being inlined into context.
• Added pre-configured OAuth client credentials for MCP servers that don't support Dynamic Client Registration (e.g., Slack). Use --client-id and --client-secret with claude mcp add.
• Added /debug for Claude to help troubleshoot the current session
• Added support for additional git log and git show flags in read-only mode (e.g., --topo-order, --cherry-pick, --format, --raw)
• Added token count, tool uses, and duration metrics to Task tool results
• Added reduced motion mode to the config
• Fixed phantom "(no content)" text blocks appearing in API conversation history, reducing token waste and potential model confusion
• Fixed prompt cache not correctly invalidating when tool descriptions or input schemas changed, only when tool names changed
• Fixed 400 errors that could occur after running /login when the conversation contained thinking blocks
• Fixed a hang when resuming sessions with corrupted transcript files containing parentUuid cycles
• Fixed rate limit message showing incorrect "/upgrade" suggestion for Max 20x users when extra-usage is unavailable
• Fixed permission dialogs stealing focus while actively typing
• Fixed subagents not being able to access SDK-provided MCP tools because they were not synced to the shared application state
• Fixed a regression where Windows users with a .bashrc file could not run bash commands
• Improved memory usage for --resume (68% reduction for users with many sessions) by replacing the session index with lightweight stat-based loading and progressive enrichment
• Improved TaskStop tool to display the stopped command/task description in the result line instead of a generic "Task stopped" message
• Changed /model to execute immediately instead of being queued
• [VSCode] Added multiline input support to the "Other" text input in question dialogs (use Shift+Enter for new lines)
• [VSCode] Fixed duplicate sessions appearing in the session list when starting a new conversation

v2.1.29

What's changed

• Fixed startup performance issues when resuming sessions that have saved_hook_context

v2.1.27

What's changed

• Added tool call failures and denials to debug logs
• Fixed context management validation error for gateway users, ensuring CLAUDE_CODE_DISABLE_EXPERIMENTAL_BETAS=1 avoids the error
• Added --from-pr flag to resume sessions linked to a specific GitHub PR number or URL
• Sessions are now automatically linked to PRs when created via gh pr create
• Fixed /context command not displaying colored output
• Fixed status bar duplicating background task indicator when PR status was shown
• VSCode: Enabled Claude in Chrome integration
• Permissions now respect content-level ask over tool-level allow. Previously allow: ["Bash"], ask: ["Bash(rm *)"] allowed all bash commands, but will now permission prompt for rm.
• Windows: Fixed bash command execution failing for users with .bashrc files
• Windows: Fixed console windows flashing when spawning child processes
• VSCode: Fixed OAuth token expiration causing 401 errors after extended sessions

v2.1.25

What's changed

• Fixed beta header validation error for gateway users on Bedrock and Vertex, ensuring CLAUDE_CODE_DISABLE_EXPERIMENTAL_BETAS=1 avoids the error

v2.1.23

What's changed

• Added customizable spinner verbs setting (spinnerVerbs)
• Fixed mTLS and proxy connectivity for users behind corporate proxies or using client certificates
• Fixed per-user temp directory isolation to prevent permission conflicts on shared systems
• Fixed a race condition that could cause 400 errors when prompt caching scope was enabled
• Fixed pending async hooks not being cancelled when headless streaming sessions ended
• Fixed tab completion not updating the input field when accepting a suggestion
• Fixed ripgrep search timeouts silently returning empty results instead of reporting errors
• Improved terminal rendering performance with optimized screen data layout
• Changed Bash commands to show timeout duration alongside elapsed time
• Changed merged pull requests to show a purple status indicator in the prompt footer
• [IDE] Fixed model options displaying incorrect region strings for Bedrock users in headless mode

v2.1.22

What's changed

• Fixed structured outputs for non-interactive (-p) mode

v2.1.21

What's changed

• Added support for full-width (zenkaku) number input from Japanese IME in option selection prompts
• Fixed shell completion cache files being truncated on exit
• Fixed API errors when resuming sessions that were interrupted during tool execution
• Fixed auto-compact triggering too early on models with large output token limits
• Fixed task IDs potentially being reused after deletion
• Fixed file search not working in VS Code extension on Windows
• Improved read/search progress indicators to show "Reading…" while in progress and "Read" when complete
• Improved Claude to prefer file operation tools (Read, Edit, Write) over bash equivalents (cat, sed, awk)
• [VSCode] Added automatic Python virtual environment activation, ensuring python and pip commands use the correct interpreter (configurable via claudeCode.usePythonEnvironment setting)
• [VSCode] Fixed message action buttons having incorrect background colors

v2.1.20

What's changed

• Added arrow key history navigation in vim normal mode when cursor cannot move further
• Added external editor shortcut (Ctrl+G) to the help menu for better discoverability
• Added PR review status indicator to the prompt footer, showing the current branch's PR state (approved, changes requested, pending, or draft) as a colored dot with a clickable link
• Added support for loading CLAUDE.md files from additional directories specified via --add-dir flag (requires setting CLAUDE_CODE_ADDITIONAL_DIRECTORIES_CLAUDE_MD=1)
• Added ability to delete tasks via the TaskUpdate tool
• Fixed session compaction issues that could cause resume to load full history instead of the compact summary
• Fixed agents sometimes ignoring user messages sent while actively working on a task
• Fixed wide character (emoji, CJK) rendering artifacts where trailing columns were not cleared when replaced by narrower characters
• Fixed JSON parsing errors when MCP tool responses contain special Unicode characters
• Fixed up/down arrow keys in multi-line and wrapped text input to prioritize cursor movement over history navigation
• Fixed draft prompt being lost when pressing UP arrow to navigate command history
• Fixed ghost text flickering when typing slash commands mid-input
• Fixed marketplace source removal not properly deleting settings
• Fixed duplicate output in some commands like /context
• Fixed task list sometimes showing outside the main conversation view
• Fixed syntax highlighting for diffs occurring within multiline constructs like Python docstrings
• Fixed crashes when cancelling tool use
• Improved /sandbox command UI to show dependency status with installation instructions when dependencies are missing
• Improved thinking status text with a subtle shimmer animation
• Improved task list to dynamically adjust visible items based on terminal height
• Improved fork conversation hint to show how to resume the original session
• Changed collapsed read/search groups to show present tense ("Reading", "Searching for") while in progress, and past tense ("Read", "Searched for") when complete
• Changed teammate messages to render with rich Markdown formatting (bold, code blocks, lists, etc.) instead of plain text
• Changed ToolSearch results to appear as a brief notification instead of inline in the conversation
• Changed the /commit-push-pr skill to automatically post PR URLs to Slack channels when configured via MCP tools
• Changed the /copy command to be available to all users
• Changed background agents to prompt for tool permissions before launching
• Changed permission rules like Bash(*) to be accepted and treated as equivalent to Bash
• Changed config backups to be timestamped and rotated (keeping 5 most recent) to prevent data loss

v2.1.19

What's changed

• Added env var CLAUDE_CODE_ENABLE_TASKS, set to false to keep the old system temporarily
• Added shorthand $0, $1, etc. for accessing individual arguments in custom commands
• Fixed crashes on processors without AVX instruction support
• Fixed dangling Claude Code processes when terminal is closed by catching EIO errors from process.exit() and using SIGKILL as fallback
• Fixed /rename and /tag not updating the correct session when resuming from a different directory (e.g., git worktrees)
• Fixed resuming sessions by custom title not working when run from a different directory
• Fixed pasted text content being lost when using prompt stash (Ctrl+S) and restore
• Fixed agent list displaying "Sonnet (default)" instead of "Inherit (default)" for agents without an explicit model setting
• Fixed backgrounded hook commands not returning early, potentially causing the session to wait on a process that was intentionally backgrounded
• Fixed file write preview omitting empty lines
• Changed skills without additional permissions or hooks to be allowed without requiring approval
• Changed indexed argument syntax from $ARGUMENTS.0 to $ARGUMENTS[0] (bracket syntax)
• [SDK] Added replay of queued_command attachment messages as SDKUserMessageReplay events when replayUserMessages is enabled
• [VSCode] Enabled session forking and rewind functionality for all users

v2.1.17

What's changed

• Fixed crashes on processors without AVX instruction support

v2.1.16

What's changed

• Added new task management system, including new capabilities like dependency tracking
• [VSCode] Added native plugin management support
• [VSCode] Added ability for OAuth users to browse and resume remote Claude sessions from the Sessions dialog
• Fixed out-of-memory crashes when resuming sessions with heavy subagent usage
• Fixed an issue where the "context remaining" warning was not hidden after running /compact
• Fixed session titles on the resume screen not respecting the user's language setting
• [IDE] Fixed a race condition on Windows where the Claude Code sidebar view container would not appear on start

v2.1.15

What's changed

• Added deprecation notification for npm installations - run claude install or see https://docs.anthropic.com/en/docs/claude-code/getting-started for more options
• Improved UI rendering performance with React Compiler
• Fixed the "Context left until auto-compact" warning not disappearing after running /compact
• Fixed MCP stdio server timeout not killing child process, which could cause UI freezes

v2.1.14

What's changed

• Added history-based autocomplete in bash mode (!) - type a partial command and press Tab to complete from your bash command history
• Added search to installed plugins list - type to filter by name or description
• Added support for pinning plugins to specific git commit SHAs, allowing marketplace entries to install exact versions
• Fixed a regression where the context window blocking limit was calculated too aggressively, blocking users at ~65% context usage instead of the intended ~98%
• Fixed memory issues that could cause crashes when running parallel subagents
• Fixed memory leak in long-running sessions where stream resources were not cleaned up after shell commands completed
• Fixed @ symbol incorrectly triggering file autocomplete suggestions in bash mode
• Fixed @-mention menu folder click behavior to navigate into directories instead of selecting them
• Fixed /feedback command generating invalid GitHub issue URLs when description is very long
• Fixed /context command to show the same token count and percentage as the status line in verbose mode
• Fixed an issue where /config, /context, /model, and /todos command overlays could close unexpectedly
• Fixed slash command autocomplete selecting wrong command when typing similar commands (e.g., /context vs /compact)
• Fixed inconsistent back navigation in plugin marketplace when only one marketplace is configured
• Fixed iTerm2 progress bar not clearing properly on exit, preventing lingering indicators and bell sounds
• Improved backspace to delete pasted text as a single token instead of one character at a time
• [VSCode] Added /usage command to display current plan usage

v2.1.12

What's changed

• Fixed message rendering bug

v2.1.11

What's changed

• Fixed excessive MCP connection requests for HTTP/SSE transports

v2.1.9

What's changed

• Added auto:N syntax for configuring the MCP tool search auto-enable threshold, where N is the context window percentage (0-100)
• Added plansDirectory setting to customize where plan files are stored
• Added external editor support (Ctrl+G) in AskUserQuestion "Other" input field
• Added session URL attribution to commits and PRs created from web sessions
• Added support for PreToolUse hooks to return additionalContext to the model
• Added ${CLAUDE_SESSION_ID} string substitution for skills to access the current session ID
• Fixed long sessions with parallel tool calls failing with an API error about orphan tool_result blocks
• Fixed MCP server reconnection hanging when cached connection promise never resolves
• Fixed Ctrl+Z suspend not working in terminals using Kitty keyboard protocol (Ghostty, iTerm2, kitty, WezTerm)

v2.1.7

What's changed

• Added showTurnDuration setting to hide turn duration messages (e.g., "Cooked for 1m 6s")
• Added ability to provide feedback when accepting permission prompts
• Added inline display of agent's final response in task notifications, making it easier to see results without reading the full transcript file
• Fixed security vulnerability where wildcard permission rules could match compound commands containing shell operators
• Fixed false "file modified" errors on Windows when cloud sync tools, antivirus scanners, or Git touch file timestamps without changing content
• Fixed orphaned tool_result errors when sibling tools fail during streaming execution
• Fixed context window blocking limit being calculated using the full context window instead of the effective context window (which reserves space for max output tokens)
• Fixed spinner briefly flashing when running local slash commands like /model or /theme
• Fixed terminal title animation jitter by using fixed-width braille characters
• Fixed plugins with git submodules not being fully initialized when installed
• Fixed bash commands failing on Windows when temp directory paths contained characters like t or n that were misinterpreted as escape sequences
• Improved typing responsiveness by reducing memory allocation overhead in terminal rendering
• Enabled MCP tool search auto mode by default for all users. When MCP tool descriptions exceed 10% of the context window, they are automatically deferred and discovered via the MCPSearch tool instead of being loaded upfront. This reduces context usage for users with many MCP tools configured. Users can disable this by adding MCPSearch to disallowedTools in their settings.
• Changed OAuth and API Console URLs from console.anthropic.com to platform.claude.com
• [VSCode] Fixed claudeProcessWrapper setting passing the wrapper path instead of the Claude binary path

v2.1.6

What's changed

• Added search functionality to /config command for quickly filtering settings
• Added Updates section to /doctor showing auto-update channel and available npm versions (stable/latest)
• Added date range filtering to /stats command - press r to cycle between Last 7 days, Last 30 days, and All time
• Added automatic discovery of skills from nested .claude/skills directories when working with files in subdirectories
• Added context_window.used_percentage and context_window.remaining_percentage fields to status line input for easier context window display
• Added an error display when the editor fails during Ctrl+G
• Fixed permission bypass via shell line continuation that could allow blocked commands to execute
• Fixed false "File has been unexpectedly modified" errors when file watchers touch files without changing content
• Fixed text styling (bold, colors) getting progressively misaligned in multi-line responses
• Fixed the feedback panel closing unexpectedly when typing 'n' in the description field
• Fixed rate limit warning appearing at low usage after weekly reset (now requires 70% usage)
• Fixed rate limit options menu incorrectly auto-opening when resuming a previous session
• Fixed numpad keys outputting escape sequences instead of characters in Kitty keyboard protocol terminals
• Fixed Option+Return not inserting newlines in Kitty keyboard protocol terminals
• Fixed corrupted config backup files accumulating in the home directory (now only one backup is created per config file)
• Fixed mcp list and mcp get commands leaving orphaned MCP server processes
• Fixed visual artifacts in ink2 mode when nodes become hidden via display:none
• Improved the external CLAUDE.md imports approval dialog to show which files are being imported and from where
• Improved the /tasks dialog to go directly to task details when there's only one background task running
• Improved @ autocomplete with icons for different suggestion types and single-line formatting
• Updated "Help improve Claude" setting fetch to refresh OAuth and retry when it fails due to a stale OAuth token
• Changed task notification display to cap at 3 lines with overflow summary when multiple background tasks complete simultaneously
• Changed terminal title to "Claude Code" on startup for better window identification
• Removed ability to @-mention MCP servers to enable/disable - use /mcp enable <name> instead
• [VSCode] Fixed usage indicator not updating after manual compact

v2.1.5

What's changed

• Added CLAUDE_CODE_TMPDIR environment variable to override the temp directory used for internal temp files, useful for environments with custom temp directory requirements

v2.1.4

What's changed

• Added CLAUDE_CODE_DISABLE_BACKGROUND_TASKS environment variable to disable all background task functionality including auto-backgrounding and the Ctrl+B shortcut
• Fixed "Help improve Claude" setting fetch to refresh OAuth and retry when it fails due to a stale OAuth token

v2.1.3

What's changed

• Merged slash commands and skills, simplifying the mental model with no change in behavior
• Added release channel (stable or latest) toggle to /config
• Added detection and warnings for unreachable permission rules, with warnings in /doctor and after saving rules that include the source of each rule and actionable fix guidance
• Fixed plan files persisting across /clear commands, now ensuring a fresh plan file is used after clearing a conversation
• Fixed false skill duplicate detection on filesystems with large inodes (e.g., ExFAT) by using 64-bit precision for inode values
• Fixed mismatch between background task count in status bar and items shown in tasks dialog
• Fixed sub-agents using the wrong model during conversation compaction
• Fixed web search in sub-agents using incorrect model
• Fixed trust dialog acceptance when running from the home directory not enabling trust-requiring features like hooks during the session
• Improved terminal rendering stability by preventing uncontrolled writes from corrupting cursor state
• Improved slash command suggestion readability by truncating long descriptions to 2 lines
• Changed tool hook execution timeout from 60 seconds to 10 minutes
• [VSCode] Added clickable destination selector for permission requests, allowing you to choose where settings are saved (this project, all projects, shared with team, or session only)

v2.1.2

What's changed

• Added source path metadata to images dragged onto the terminal, helping Claude understand where images originated
• Added clickable hyperlinks for file paths in tool output in terminals that support OSC 8 (like iTerm)
• Added support for Windows Package Manager (winget) installations with automatic detection and update instructions
• Added Shift+Tab keyboard shortcut in plan mode to quickly select "auto-accept edits" option
• Added FORCE_AUTOUPDATE_PLUGINS environment variable to allow plugin autoupdate even when the main auto-updater is disabled
• Added agent_type to SessionStart hook input, populated if --agent is specified
• Fixed a command injection vulnerability in bash command processing where malformed input could execute arbitrary commands
• Fixed a memory leak where tree-sitter parse trees were not being freed, causing WASM memory to grow unbounded over long sessions
• Fixed binary files (images, PDFs, etc.) being accidentally included in memory when using @include directives in CLAUDE.md files
• Fixed updates incorrectly claiming another installation is in progress
• Fixed crash when socket files exist in watched directories (defense-in-depth for EOPNOTSUPP errors)
• Fixed remote session URL and teleport being broken when using /tasks command
• Fixed MCP tool names being exposed in analytics events by sanitizing user-specific server configurations
• Improved Option-as-Meta hint on macOS to show terminal-specific instructions for native CSIu terminals like iTerm2, Kitty, and WezTerm
• Improved error message when pasting images over SSH to suggest using scp instead of the unhelpful clipboard shortcut hint
• Improved permission explainer to not flag routine dev workflows (git fetch/rebase, npm install, tests, PRs) as medium risk
• Changed large bash command outputs to be saved to disk instead of truncated, allowing Claude to read the full content
• Changed large tool outputs to be persisted to disk instead of truncated, providing full output access via file references
• Changed /plugins installed tab to unify plugins and MCPs with scope-based grouping
• Deprecated Windows managed settings path C:\ProgramData\ClaudeCode\managed-settings.json - administrators should migrate to C:\Program Files\ClaudeCode\managed-settings.json
• [SDK] Changed minimum zod peer dependency to ^4.0.0
• [VSCode] Fixed usage display not updating after manual compact

v2.1.1

v2.0.76

What's changed

• Fixed issue with macOS code-sign warning when using Claude in Chrome integration

v2.0.74

What's changed

• Added LSP (Language Server Protocol) tool for code intelligence features like go-to-definition, find references, and hover documentation
• Added /terminal-setup support for Kitty, Alacritty, Zed, and Warp terminals
• Added ctrl+t shortcut in /theme to toggle syntax highlighting on/off
• Added syntax highlighting info to theme picker
• Added guidance for macOS users when Alt shortcuts fail due to terminal configuration
• Fixed skill allowed-tools not being applied to tools invoked by the skill
• Fixed Opus 4.5 tip incorrectly showing when user was already using Opus
• Fixed a potential crash when syntax highlighting isn't initialized correctly
• Fixed visual bug in /plugins discover where list selection indicator showed while search box was focused
• Fixed macOS keyboard shortcuts to display 'opt' instead of 'alt'
• Improved /context command visualization with grouped skills and agents by source, slash commands, and sorted token count
• [Windows] Fixed issue with improper rendering
• [VSCode] Added gift tag pictogram for year-end promotion message

v2.0.73

What's changed

• Added clickable [Image #N] links that open attached images in the default viewer
• Added alt-y yank-pop to cycle through kill ring history after ctrl-y yank
• Added search filtering to the plugin discover screen (type to filter by name, description, or marketplace)
• Added support for custom session IDs when forking sessions with --session-id combined with --resume or --continue and --fork-session
• Fixed slow input history cycling and race condition that could overwrite text after message submission
• Improved /theme command to open theme picker directly
• Improved theme picker UI
• Improved search UX across resume session, permissions, and plugins screens with a unified SearchBox component
• [VSCode] Added tab icon badges showing pending permissions (blue) and unread completions (orange)