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An agentic coding tool from Anthropic that lives in your terminal, understands your codebase, and helps you code faster through natural language commands.
claude --status
$ claude --version
● Version: v2.1.246
● Releases: 30 tracked
⚠ Breaking: 2
● Updated: 5h ago
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Releases 30
Breaking 2
Stable 30
Latest v2.1.246
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2.1.246
Aug 25, 2026 Notable changes
- 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
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Changes
- 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
2.1.245
Aug 25, 2026 Notable changes
- Fixed a crash on startup on Linux distributions that ship glibc 2.44 (for example Arch Linux, CachyOS and Fedora Rawhide)
2.1.243 BREAKING
Aug 25, 2026 Notable changes
- Added a Loops breakdown to /usage: per-loop run count, total tokens, tokens per run, and last run, so runaway or chatty /loop tasks are easy to spot
- Added modelPicker setting: curate the /model picker with an ordered, labeled list of models (any id spelling, including Vertex/Bedrock ids), appended to or replacing the built-in lineup
- Added promptCacheTtl and subagentPromptCacheTtl settings so API-key and cloud-provider users can keep a 1-hour prompt cache on the main conversation while subagents stay at 5 minutes
- Added modelPricing managed setting so an organization's contracted per-model rates and discount multiplier are used for /cost, the status line, and telemetry cost figures instead of list price
- Added a keyless sign-in under /login → Anthropic Console: "Sign in with your Console account" (recommended) alongside creating an API key, so organizations that don't allow API keys can sign in
- Added a Skipped sources line to /status that lists managed settings sources (for example managed-settings.json) present but not applied because a higher-precedence managed source is active
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Changes
- Added a managed marker in /mcp and /plugins on claude.ai connectors whose authentication is managed by your organization
- Added a tip pointing claude.ai users who haven't connected GitHub for Claude Code on the web to /web-setup
- Added a /status line showing whether GitHub is connected for Claude Code on the web (Pro/Max), pointing to /web-setup when it isn't
- Added the model (and effort level) each subagent ran on to /tasks and the agent detail dialogs
- Fixed remote MCP servers in non-interactive (-p) and SDK sessions never recovering after a dropped connection; they now reconnect automatically or report as failed
- Fixed MCP server sign-in started from the desktop app failing with "Invalid redirect URI" on servers that support client ID metadata documents (for example Linear)
- Fixed auto mode staying unavailable at startup when a temporary server-side disable was cached and later flag fetches failed
- Fixed auto mode tool calls being denied as "temporarily unavailable" after about a minute of waiting when the API was briefly overloaded and asked the client to retry
- Fixed the /model picker silently ignoring an Ultracode selection; picking Ultracode now applies it to the current session
- Fixed /resume only listing the 50 most recent sessions; the picker now loads more as you scroll
- Fixed cloud sessions resuming after a mid-turn restart with a pending hook or background-task notification re-sent as the prompt instead of the normal continuation message
- Fixed cross-session messaging silently turning off inside user namespaces and rootless containers after the 2.1.232 socket-directory hardening
- Fixed text that hangs outside its container (for example the sign-in URL in /login) losing its leading columns when another part of the screen repaints
- Fixed spellcheck not underlining a misspelled word typed directly after an emoji
- Fixed background subagents not waking when their last background Bash task completes
- Fixed sessions going silent for 10+ minutes when the Anthropic API never starts a response: the request now times out after ~3 minutes, retries once, then shows API Error: No response from API
- Fixed auth, model-availability, and other client-generated error messages rendering like model output instead of as error lines
- Fixed workload identity federation in CI: processes in one job share the exchanged token instead of re-exchanging the single-use token; a rejected exchange fails fast with the server's message
- Fixed server-managed companyAnnouncements not showing at startup in a session that began with signing in (for example the first launch after /logout)
- Fixed hook if conditions like Bash(cat *) firing on unrelated Bash commands when the command contained $() or backtick command substitution followed by more arguments
- Fixed plugin dependencies declared with a marketplace field never resolving when both plugins are loaded together via --plugin-dir
- Fixed /reload-plugins keeping the LSP tool after the last LSP plugin is disabled; it now also warns before an LSP plugin change that would re-read the conversation
- Fixed --agents silently ignoring invalid JSON or invalid agent definitions; it now exits with a clear error, like --mcp-config
- Fixed /status showing "Found invalid entries in: ." with no filename when ~/.claude.json has an invalid MCP server entry
- Fixed /clear removing the /rename session name from the prompt bar even though the name was kept for the new session
- Fixed Ctrl+R history search and up-arrow history breaking when ~/.claude/history.jsonl contains a malformed entry
- Fixed Ctrl+[ not leaving vim INSERT mode in terminals that encode modified keys (modifyOtherKeys / kitty protocol)
- Fixed the local IDE connection being routed through HTTPS_PROXY (and sometimes failing) when localhost was listed in NO_PROXY but not lowercase no_proxy; both casings are now honored
- Fixed sandbox network-violation details being dropped from the Bash tool result when the blocked command still exited 0 (for example curl printing the proxy's 403 page)
- Fixed the status line rate_limits fields and /usage still showing a rate-limit window's pre-reset usage percentage after the window reset while the session was idle
- Fixed claude --teleport <session> exiting on uncommitted changes instead of offering to stash them and continue, as the session picker already does
- Fixed /web-setup repeatedly asking you to log in when an older GitHub CLI (without gh auth token) was already authenticated
- Fixed Claude in Chrome losing its connection to Claude Code after an auto-update cleaned up the version it was set up with; the native host now launches via the stable claude launcher
- [VSCode] Fixed sessions started before feature flags were first fetched (for example right after install) opening in the default permission mode instead of auto mode or your configured default mode
- [VSCode] Fixed Focus view sections you expanded collapsing on their own during subagent tool activity
- Improved startup time: sandbox and MCP bring-up no longer block the first frame, bare launches skip subcommand registration, and workflow discovery, settings, and trust-store work is cheaper
- Improved native install and auto-update download size: the binary is now zstd-compressed (about 75 MB instead of 340 MB on Linux x64)
- Improved attribution of usage telemetry to your organization for sessions that authenticate with ANTHROPIC_AUTH_TOKEN directly against the Anthropic API, so its data-handling settings apply
- Improved native binary size: about 2 MB smaller by storing the bundled skill and prompt text more compactly
- Improved memory usage of native builds: code is now loaded on demand instead of keeping the whole bundle resident (roughly 40–70 MB less memory per session)
- Improved peak memory usage in long-running sessions (the runtime now garbage-collects sooner as the heap grows)
- Improved /login over SSH: the sign-in URL appears immediately, pressing c reports how the URL was copied instead of always claiming success, and a hint explains how to select text in fullscreen
- Improved the error when effort xhigh/max is used with thinking turned off: it now names the level, the setting that disabled thinking, and /effort high as the fix
- Improved /loop: consecutive wake-ups where Claude has nothing to do now fold into a single line in the terminal instead of printing each one
- Changed the sandboxed Bash tool prompt to no longer list allowed network hosts, so Claude attempts requests (and you can approve new hosts) instead of assuming unlisted hosts are blocked
- Updated the /model picker and the bundled claude-api skill to show Sonnet 5's $2/$10 per Mtok pricing as its standard list price rather than a limited-time promo
- Changed computer use on macOS so clicking the desktop, Dock, or a Finder window requires granting Finder via the access dialog, like any other app
- Changed /model, /fast, and /effort to also run immediately instead of queueing until the turn ends on Bedrock, Vertex, and Foundry and when telemetry is disabled
- Fixed claude remote-control exiting and stranding attached Remote Control sessions when the server drops its environment mid-session; it now recovers
- Fixed Remote Control sessions served by claude remote-control sometimes getting stuck after it was stopped and restarted, for Team and Enterprise members without an admin or owner role
- Changed the cross-session messaging inbox socket to close connections that send no complete line within 30 seconds; scripts posting to it should connect once their data is ready
- Improved the notice when resuming a conversation whose Remote Control is held by another terminal: it now says sessions on other machines can't be seen from, or reach, this one
- [VSCode] Improved history trimming in long sessions: older tool-activity rows are dropped first so your messages and Claude's replies stay visible
- [VSCode] Improved attribution of the extension's own usage telemetry to your organization when you are signed in with a Claude account, so its data-handling settings apply
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