Claude Code 2.1.239

When setting strict budgets, knowing exactly what you are spending and when limits reset is essential. Now when running /cost, checking the status line, or passing --max-budget-usd 10.0, workspaces with data residency requirements automatically factor in the 1.1× US-only inference surcharge. If your monthly spend limit is reached, the warning dialog explicitly tells you when your session or weekly limit resets. Furthermore, persistent retry mode with CLAUDE_CODE_RETRY_WATCHDOG=1 now exits immediately on organization spending caps or out-of-credit errors rather than waiting forever. The "View usage" button in VSCode has also been shifted inline with the alert text.

Connecting through corporate proxies to reach Claude is now much safer and smoother. Previously, when using Bedrock behind proxies that stripped response Content-Type headers, the client mistakenly assumed streaming failed and secretly re-ran turns non-streaming, silently doubling API costs; this double-billing glitch is now completely resolved. Furthermore, when using Bedrock with SSO profiles and awsAuthRefresh, startup credential checks properly honor export HTTPS_PROXY="http://proxy.corp.com:8080", eliminating startup freezes. In web sessions, requests from Bash or other tools to non-API anthropic.com domains also route through the session proxy to enforce organizational allowlists.

Multi-agent coordination and session messaging are now fully refined. Running ListAgents or typing /list-agents displays active teammates alongside subagents and other sessions, so reachable peers never look absent. A session now discovers its own peer-facing address via ListAgents, and sending a SendMessage to your own name explicitly informs you that it is yourself rather than claiming the agent does not exist. Titles starting with / are no longer rendered as "(untitled)" or broken in routing, and Windows users now enjoy cross-session messaging on equal footing with macOS and Linux.

Running background tasks no longer interrupts your workflow with non-stop pings. When using /goal for long-running jobs, check-in prompts now back off progressively (from 30 minutes, to 1 hour, to every 2 hours) instead of constantly buzzing you every 30 minutes. Resuming a session with claude --resume automatically restores its active goal. For remote and cloud sessions, executing lengthy SessionStart or Setup hooks (scripts triggered on events) continuously sends keep-alive heartbeats to keep the hosting container from being reaped mid-hook. Cloud workers restarting after being idle also cleanly preserve their active plan mode.

Naming your conversations keeps your workspace organized, but long sessions used to lose their custom titles. Renaming a session now keeps its title in /resume even after the conversation grows beyond ~64 KB. Path matching in claude -c and /resume properly distinguishes directories that differ only by _, -, or . separators instead of accidentally loading foreign chats. Merely touching or reopening a session file no longer falsely marks it as updated or disrupts its display order. In all-projects mode, if a session's previous directory (such as a removed worktree) no longer exists, Claude resumes safely in your current directory rather than asking you to cd into a ghost folder.

Opening tall forms or configuration panels in fullscreen mode no longer clips essential buttons or buries recent messages. When an MCP elicitation form exceeds terminal height, it neatly fits the viewport with scrollable fields while the Accept and Decline buttons remain pinned and visible at all times. Slash-command panels like /config and /model keep the active conversation pinned above them instead of covering your latest messages. Opening the /workflows dialog while Claude is actively streaming a response also properly constrains window dimensions, ensuring dialogue headers never scroll out of view.

Terminal power users will find cursor navigation and line editing much more natural. Configuring {"keybindingFlavor": "readline"} in ~/.claude/settings.json matches Bash word manipulation exactly: Alt+F and Ctrl/Option+→ jump to word boundaries, Alt+D deletes forward to word ends (restorable with Ctrl+Y), and punctuation acts as word dividers. In search boxes, Ctrl+Backspace deletes entire words instead of single characters. Text selections extended with Shift+Arrow keys are reliably grabbed by selection:copy. Deleting text with Ctrl+W, Ctrl+U, Option+Backspace, Option+D, or vim df/dt while inside [Pasted text #N] placeholders no longer leaves corrupted placeholder markers. In agent view with vim mode active, pressing Escape switches cleanly to NORMAL mode while preserving typed text.

Entering credentials or moving the mouse in web terminals used to risk leaking sensitive secrets or injecting stray text. Masked fields like login verification codes no longer leak into prompt history or let cleared secrets be pasted via Ctrl+Y after double-pressing Esc. Browser-based terminals no longer leak fragmented mouse tracking strings like "35;150;7M" into your input prompt when mouse reports arrive across multiple writes.

When switching to shell mode with an exclamation mark (!) and pressing Tab to autocomplete executable scripts, commands now execute seamlessly. Previously, Tab completion on a ./script path dropped the leading ./ prefix, leaving a bare command name that the underlying shell could not resolve or run; completion now faithfully retains ./.

Managing plugins across local environments and cloud accounts is now completely conflict-free. In cloud sessions, plugins synced from claude.ai are designated with a name@synced suffix, can be independently controlled with claude plugin enable <name>@synced or claude plugin disable <name>@synced, and will never overwrite local custom plugins sharing the same name. In plugin marketplaces, configuring {"metadata": {"pluginRoot": "packages"}} now properly resolves bare package source names under that subdirectory as documented.

Remote MCP (protocols connecting AI to external tools) servers recover gracefully from transient connection drops. When reconnecting mid-session in cloud environments or reconfiguring servers dynamically via the SDK's setMcpServers(), encountering a momentary 5xx server error no longer leaves the remote MCP server permanently broken; it automatically recovers and resumes tool availability.

Cleaning up temporary project directories or managing complex Git ignore patterns is now error-free. Launching Claude Code from a deleted working directory prints a helpful diagnostic message instead of throwing an unhandled stack trace. If the session working directory disappears mid-session, hooks (event-driven helper scripts) automatically fall back to executing from the project root or home directory rather than failing with ENOENT errors. In Git worktrees (parallel repository working copies), .worktreeinclude patterns starting with **/ successfully match paths inside gitignored folders, and in repositories with extensions.worktreeConfig set, Linux sandboxes no longer break git commands when .git/config.worktree is missing. Adding rule exclusions:

{"claudeMdExcludes": [".claude/rules"]}

cleanly excludes symlinked rule files when referencing the link name or parent directory.

In lightweight Alpine Linux environments built on the musl standard C library, Claude Code now loads dedicated musl-compiled native add-ons instead of glibc binaries rejected by the runtime. Developers running inside Alpine containers can now enjoy native clipboard access, native image pasting, and audio capture without compatibility hitches.

Creating configuration docs in certain text editors often introduces invisible header bytes that caused custom behaviors to fail silently. Markdown .md definitions for declarative agents, skills, and custom commands that begin with a UTF-8 BOM (byte order mark) were previously ignored without warning. Claude Code now parses and activates them reliably.

Enabling voice dictation now keeps your terminal startup interface clean and uncluttered. If you have already enabled voice dictation by adding the following snippet to ~/.claude/settings.json:

{"voice": {"enabled": true}}

Claude Code properly recognizes your configuration on startup, permanently silencing the redundant /voice onboarding tip.

Running /insights to analyze conversation history and generate codebase usage trends now yields cleaner reports. When querying certain underlying models, literal <message> tags previously leaked into the generated insights output; they are now stripped before the report is shown.

Custom theme styling for terminal badges is now fully supported. Configuration overrides for the effort and ultracode status badge colors were previously ignored by the interface renderer; Claude Code now honors your custom theme colors across all status indicators.

Pipeline execution now cleanly avoids unintended request duplicates. Pressing Esc with a prompt queued no longer triggers a race condition that prematurely idles the session and causes resubmissions to repeat prior actions. Requests rejected by organizational policy checks are no longer re-sent before the rejection reason is displayed. Context compaction reminders have also been updated to ensure skill arguments are not accidentally re-executed as fresh user requests.

Editing files within IDEs and fetching web resources no longer suffers from unexpected pauses or memory leaks. In JetBrains IDE terminals, a 5-second pause during Edit and Write tool calls when connected to the Claude Code plugin has been resolved. Furthermore, WebFetch cache entries properly expire and free up system memory after 15 minutes as intended, rather than hoarding memory for the remainder of the session.

Observing tool execution flows with OpenTelemetry while using custom interception hooks is now reliable and unbroken. Previously, tool executions deferred by a PreToolUse hook started a brand-new trace, fragmenting telemetry data into disconnected chunks; deferred tool calls now properly resume within the parent turn's original OpenTelemetry trace.