Claude Code v2.1.292 Release Notes — What's New

What's changed

Added --marketplace <source> to claude plugin install: adds the marketplace if needed, under the same policy checks as claude plugin marketplace add, then installs the plugin from it
Added an effort parameter to the Agent tool, so Claude runs a sub-agent at the effort level you ask for
Added CLAUDE_CODE_OVERLOADED_RETRY_BASE_DELAY_MS environment variable to set a longer base delay for the backoff when retrying an overloaded (529) request
Added prompt.autocomplete, an event a mod hooks to add its own rows to the prompt box's autocomplete list
Added prompt caching to $.model.complete for mods: prompt and system take blocks of text, and cache: true on a block caches the request up to it
Added workflow agents to the agent.spawn mod hook, with their run and index, so a mod can refuse them
Fixed subagent definitions with permissionMode: auto entering auto mode when auto mode is unavailable (disabled by settings, circuit breaker, or a model that doesn't support it)
Fixed sandboxed commands being able to read the staged file copies of /ultrareview uploads under ~/.claude/seed-admin
Fixed a managed sandbox read-deny path (and user ones beside it) that appears or re-points mid-session not dropping project grants inside it or ending credential injection from files it covers
Fixed a notebook or PDF read on macOS and Windows being able to return a file outside what was approved, through a link swapped in mid-read
Fixed a tampered on-disk cache of server-managed settings being able to switch off or unseat the built-in policy plugin while the settings fetch failed
Fixed rm -rf on the 8.3 short name or another alternate Windows spelling of the home folder or a drive not being treated as removing it
Security: Fixed PreToolUse hook approvals and auto mode bypassing the permission prompt for file reads from network (UNC) paths
Fixed a skill's or slash command's allowed-tools rule coming back in a later turn when you leave auto mode or plan mode partway through that turn
Fixed NO_PROXY being ignored for Claude Code's own API requests (sign-in, policy, feedback, artifacts) when HTTPS_PROXY is set
Fixed an MCP tool with a name longer than 128 characters making every request fail; that tool is now left out and an MCP error names it
Fixed claude plugin commands such as marketplace add and install running before an organization's managed settings had loaded on a first run
Fixed one-shot claude -p and Agent SDK runs stopping a background command 5 seconds after the final result, and one-shot claude -p runs dropping a scheduled wakeup; both are now waited for
Fixed plan mode not being restored when resuming a session from the claude --resume session picker or with /resume
Fixed saved scheduled tasks created after /resume, /branch or /clear never firing, and saved tasks ignoring later creates and deletes after two writes to the tasks file milliseconds apart
Fixed a background session's /loop silently stopping when the session's process restarted (for example after a crash), because its pending wakeup was lost
Fixed Grep and Glob reporting no matches when the file or folder they were given could not be read; Claude now retries once or tells you
Fixed the Read tool returning only the first entry, with no error, when a PDF's pages was a list such as "6,9,15"; it now returns an error saying to read each page or range separately
Fixed @-mentioned text files over 256KB being left out silently: Claude is now told the file's size and to read it in portions
Fixed the usage limit alert repeating once per background agent when agents failed on a limit that had already stopped the main conversation
Fixed Remote Control viewers seeing an empty subagent pane for background subagents in sessions hosted by the desktop app or an IDE
Fixed cross-session delivery notices showing two sessions with similar names as one recipient, and the expiry notice blaming the desktop app when a terminal session let the message lapse
Fixed Send now in the desktop app ending the subagent a turn was waiting on when another message was already queued
Fixed /bug, /share and /feedback <text> starting over after Ctrl+O or Ctrl+Z while a report was being sent, and closing as cancelled after it had been sent
Fixed /remote-env replacing your saved default environment when you pressed Enter right away: the list now opens on your default, and no row has a check mark when no default is in effect
Fixed some pasted text reaching Claude as typed text when several pastes overlapped in one prompt
Fixed vim mode leaving the cursor past the end of a line, j/k losing their column on shorter lines, and f/t/F/T/;/, jumping to, or deleting up to, a match on another line of the prompt
Fixed /add-dir path box letting Shift+Enter or a paste add a line break, and treating fast-typed "tab", "up" or "down" as those keys
Fixed fast typing, input-method text and decomposed accents being dropped while a prompt footer row was selected, and ! leaving the row selected
Fixed fullscreen mode sending a full-screen clear on every window resize and Ctrl+L when iTerm2 is detected, which may be what filled iTerm2's scrollback with stale pages
Fixed a spurious "could not be examined" note for @-words that name no file when a Read deny rule is set and the working directory is under a symlink
Fixed "instruction file not loaded" lines going stale or missing after /cd or a permission change, and added a transcript line when a nested one isn't loaded
Fixed a compaction summary that repeated /name letting Claude invoke a skill that is reserved for the user
Fixed Write, Edit, NotebookEdit and LSP rows, and single Read, Grep and Glob rows, hiding why a mod denied the call: the row now shows the reason
Fixed a cloud session showing a turn that never ended when its worker was stopped just as the turn finished
Fixed cloud sessions with a large transcript sometimes asking for a permission again after it was approved
Fixed scheduled tasks and other queued notifications being lost in cloud sessions when a message was retried or edited while Claude was reading them
Fixed cloud sessions forgetting the thinking setting chosen in the client when the session's container restarted
Fixed Cowork cloud sessions saying a proxy blocked artifacts when Anthropic couldn't confirm the organization's settings
Fixed plugins whose hooks module makes many $.state calls through one const taking minutes to load or validate
Fixed claude plugin validate listing a matcher or state value for a hooks module that the engine reads from elsewhere
Fixed claude plugin validate listing a $.state value read through a top-level var that was declared again or reassigned; such a module is now refused
Fixed a plugin's served $ method restarting the hook origin, which could run a guard hook with a .catch above it again without end
Fixed plugin interface calls made while the plugin hooks worker restarts running without the hooks other plugins put on them
Fixed a mod's config.set, state.set, env.set or agent.spawn hook that denies after calling next(e) being answered as a refusal: the hook is now reported as failed, by name
Fixed /theme, the /config Theme menu and the first-run theme step saving a theme before a plugin's config.set hook was asked
Fixed a plugin's tool.check hook answering allow running a tool that requires your answer (a question, a plan approval) without showing its dialog
Fixed a mod's start-up prompt, command or subagent being queued a second time when the hooks worker was replaced
Fixed a mod's hook that called next(e) and then failed while the turn was interrupted letting the call through; the call is now rejected

…