Claude Code v2.1.282 Patch Improves Stability and Usability

Added a startup notice, and /status and claude doctor entries, listing telemetry variables in a project's settings files that were ignored or that turned telemetry off

Added the allowClaudeInChromeWithManagedMcp managed setting to let claude --chrome run alongside an exclusive managed-mcp.json; the error shown when Chrome is blocked now names it

Added store.readiness_grace_seconds to the Claude apps gateway so /readyz can stay ready through a short Postgres outage such as a database failover

Improved the error shown on Windows when a session can't be resumed because its transcript file could not be read (EBADF): it now names possible causes and what to try

Improved /artifacts: titles line up in one column, details are dropped whole instead of cut mid-word, and the list supports PgUp/PgDn, Home/End, the mouse wheel and clicks

Updated the claude-api skill: pre-output refusal billing now links to the How refusals are billed docs, mid-stream refusals bill at normal rates, and pre-output refusals count against rate limits

Changed auto mode to use the server-side classifier by default on a direct Anthropic API connection when telemetry is off (CLAUDE_CODE_AUTO_MODE_SERVER=0 opts out)

Changed sandbox.excludedCommands to ignore project and local settings entries when managed settings or --settings set allowUnsandboxedCommands: false, or managed allowManagedDomainsOnly: true

Changed project and local settings to ignore OpenTelemetry variables that turn on export, set its endpoint, or capture content, like CLAUDE_CODE_ENABLE_TELEMETRY and OTEL_LOG_

Changed Windows/WSL managed settings so an admin policy that is present but invalid or unreadable (HKLM, managed-settings.json) keeps user-writable HKCU and WSL /etc/claude-code from applying

Changed Skill(anthropic-skills:*) and Skill(claude-ai:*) allow rules to cover only skills synced from claude.ai, not plugins or other skills that merely use such a name

Changed skill folders, command files and workflow commands in the anthropic-skills or claude-ai namespace to no longer load; a plugin so named still loads but yields name ties to synced skills

Changed MCP servers configured under the name anthropic-skills or claude-ai to list no skills or prompts (their tools still work); rename the server in your MCP configuration to list them again

Changed the ultracode visuals in /effort and the prompt input to plain styling (no ripple, border flourish or keyword glimmer) and removed the dynamic-workflows spinner tip

Fixed every request failing with a 400 error in conversations whose history holds web search results the API cannot decrypt (for example, from a turn answered through a third-party gateway)

Fixed more cases of continued or resumed sessions (--continue, --resume) re-sending earlier messages in a changed form, which could make the API drop Claude's earlier reasoning

Fixed earlier extended thinking being dropped when /model, /rename, /artifacts or another immediate slash command was used while Claude was working

Fixed continued or resumed conversations losing earlier extended thinking when relaunched with a --tools list that leaves out a built-in tool offered earlier in the conversation

Fixed sessions failing on every turn with an "Invalid data in redacted_thinking block" API error; Claude Code now drops the conversation's thinking blocks and retries once

Fixed a failed turn ("Effort 'xhigh' isn't available with thinking turned off") after a safety-related model switch in sessions with thinking off and effort above high

Fixed an unanswered Fable usage-credits prompt switching models in SDK-hosted sessions such as Claude Desktop; the turn now ends instead, and Remote Control clients now see the model-switch notice

Fixed /model with a full Fable model id stopping at an API error instead of opening the usage-credits prompt when the plan needs usage credits that aren't turned on yet

Fixed requests failing for up to a minute with an "another Claude Code process is refreshing it" login error after that other process was closed or killed mid-refresh

Fixed sessions started while another Claude Code window was refreshing the sign-in (common with several VS Code windows) not retrying their organization policy fetch

Fixed CLAUDE.md and rules being read at startup through a repository symlink reaching macOS's /Network via .. or a /.vol-style kernel path, or a rules link to macOS's /home being listed

Fixed Bash permission rules with a mid-pattern :* being skipped in settings files while --allowedTools honored them; they now work from every source, with a startup warning on how they match

Fixed managed settings ignoring a mistyped value for boolean lock keys such as disableClaudeAiConnectors or allowManagedPermissionRulesOnly; the lock now applies and startup names the key

Fixed managed permissions, autoMode, worktree and attribution settings being ignored entirely when one nested value was invalid; the rest of the block now still applies

Fixed repository, user and --add-dir skills, commands and skills-directory plugin manifests pre-approving their own tools via allowed-tools under managed allowManagedPermissionRulesOnly

Fixed tool input validation errors naming only an unknown, missing or mistyped parameter when other parameters in the same call were also invalid; those are now listed too

Fixed garbled, misplaced rows in the non-fullscreen renderer after the screen got shorter while still taller than the terminal, e.g. deleting a prompt line while a shell command streams output

Fixed the send-now hint showing ctrl+enter on terminals that send it as a newline (Windows Terminal before 1.25); it now shows ctrl+x ctrl+s there

Fixed claude remote-control --debug failing with "Unknown argument: --debug", although Remote Control's own eligibility error says to run with --debug

Fixed /install-github-app saying "cancelled" and then still pushing the branch and saving the API key secret; leaving now stops the remaining steps and reports what was already done

Fixed /feedback, /bug and /share on Bedrock, Vertex and other third-party providers still saving the report file after you cancelled during the save

Fixed plugin uninstall reporting success and deleting the plugin's saved options when its settings file still enabled it or could not be read; it now stops and names the file

Fixed plugin uninstall deleting a plugin's saved options and secrets when the list of installed plugins could not be read after the removal; they are now kept and the uninstall says so

Fixed the terminal cursor jumping from the /skills search box to the skill list while typing, which could hide the caret and put IME input in the wrong place

Fixed lists with a scrollbar, such as /skills and /mcp, being two columns narrower outside fullscreen mode, where the scrollbar can never appear

Fixed screen-reader mode, quoted lists and very long lists dropping the blank lines at the top of a code block that opens a list item, directly or inside a quote

Fixed PDF page-read error messages: paths with accented or non-Latin characters now appear readably, and a folder named like "password" or "invalid" can no longer make the error name the wrong cause

Fixed vim mode >> indenting empty lines, r with a count longer than the line changing text, 2J joining one line too many, and a count on the last line (2dd, 2>>) shifting or deleting it

Fixed vim mode cursor placement: after dd, dj, dG or a whole-line p/P it lands on the first non-blank, yy no longer moves it, and Esc after an emoji no longer leaves it inside the emoji

Fixed vim mode ignoring a count typed before . when repeating x, s, p, d or c, and whole-line p/P, o, O, J, >> and << acting on the wrong line when a line above wraps

Fixed vim mode leaving the cursor past the end of a prompt recalled from history or pulled back from the queue in normal mode, so x did nothing