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"