Claude Code v2.1.246

What's changed

• Added a startup warning for Bash allow rules with a wildcard before the subcommand (e.g. Bash(git * main)), since they also match options inserted before the subcommand
• Added an Auto mode tab to /permissions for viewing and editing auto mode classifier rules
• Added the turn's completion time to the end-of-turn duration line, e.g. ✻ Sautéed for 23s · done 6:05 PM
• Fixed fullscreen mode showing a blank transcript after resizing the terminal and jumping to the bottom until the next keypress
• Fixed a severe transcript slowdown when a diff contained a very long single line (e.g. a base64 string); such lines now render truncated with a marker
• Fixed erratic fullscreen scrolling when positioned at an earlier message, including jump-to-bottom getting stuck mid-transcript
• Fixed background sessions failing to open after 45 seconds when Claude Code's starting directory had been deleted, the machine had slept, or the host is slow to start processes
• Fixed background sessions failing to open with "Couldn't start the background service … EACCES" when another Claude Code process was re-installing the npm package at that moment
• Fixed markdown rendering being disabled for a whole message when its first 500 characters contained no markdown, and for +/N) lists and setext headings
• Fixed MCP tool calls interrupted by an incoming message in headless/remote sessions being reported to the model as "completed with no output" instead of an explicit interrupted error
• Fixed MCP tool arguments being sent as JSON strings when the parameter's schema is empty ({}), instead of their real type
• Fixed a command interrupted mid-run showing as "Ran 1 shell command" with no sign it was cut
• Fixed pressing ← or running /background during a dynamic workflow restarting its finished subagents; it now asks first and says how many subagents would restart
• Fixed opening a just-started session in claude agents while its worker was still booting (common on Windows) stopping it with "was stopped while the respawn was in flight"
• Fixed claude agents listing a backgrounded named session twice; backgrounding the same conversation again now numbers the new row (e.g. my-session (2))
• Fixed the background retention sweep removing git worktrees under .claude/worktrees/ that you created yourself when an old background-session record pointed at them
• Fixed auto mode tool calls being denied as "temporarily unavailable" on very large sessions by scaling the safety-check deadline with prompt size
• Fixed the plugin cache creating duplicate SHA-named directories for the same plugin
• Fixed plugin skills whose frontmatter name already includes the <plugin>: prefix showing it doubled in the slash menu (e.g. /plugin:plugin:skill)
• Fixed claude plugin update failing for an installed plugin given its bare name (only the fully-qualified name worked)
• Fixed plugin installation failing when plugin.json was saved with a UTF-8 byte-order mark (BOM)
• Fixed /reload-plugins reporting 0 skills for plugins that define skills under skills/*/SKILL.md
• Fixed hook error messages showing a literal ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT} instead of the resolved plugin path
• Fixed /rename replacing the theme's prompt border color (including a custom theme's promptBorder) with the default cyan; the border now keeps your theme's color unless you pick one with /color
• Fixed custom theme diff colors (diffAdded/diffRemoved and their dimmed variants) being ignored in diffs and the /theme preview
• Fixed a keybindings.json binding with an unknown action name silently deadening that key; it is now skipped so the default binding keeps working, and a warning is logged under --debug
• Fixed /stats activity heatmap showing each day's activity one cell off (Sunday's count under Monday) in timezones east of UTC
• Fixed /fork from an already-forked or backgrounded session starting the new session with an empty conversation
• Fixed promp