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Claude Code 2.1.196

This release introduces clickable file attachments in chat and organization-wide default models for easier management. Significant improvements enhance background session reliability, ensuring long-running tasks persist through restarts, and agents automatically resume. Numerous fixes address issues like background job data loss, rate-limit accuracy, agent panel navigation, and PowerShell command execution, benefiting all users with a more stable and efficient experience.

Added

  • 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

Improved

  • 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%

Changed

  • 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`
  • 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

Fixed

  • 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