Tag: claude-code

Claude Code 2.1.274 still loads only CLAUDE.md. Bridge AGENTS.md with an @AGENTS.md import or a symlink, then avoid the three traps: imports that don't expand from a subdirectory, symlinks that Windows checks out as a 9-byte text file, and Edit refusing to write through the link. Includes a CI check and a SessionStart hook for repos you don't own.

Since Claude Code 2.1.77 a PreToolUse hook's allow cannot override a deny or ask rule. Find the matching rule with /permissions, then move the policy into the hook.

When a Stop hook, /goal condition, or CI-style gate demands a check the agent's environment can never pass, Claude Code keeps re-running it until the 8-consecutive-block cap (2.1.143+) ends the turn. Here is why it happens and the hook patterns that let the agent give up correctly.

OAuth succeeded but every MCP call gets 401 invalid_token? Make the PRM resource, the token's aud and your validator agree on one canonical server URL.

Claude Code 2.1.260 adds a likely-cause diagnosis to the Prompt cache (main) line in /usage and to the prompt_cache status line object. Instead of just counting misses, it tells you whether the tool set changed, the system prompt changed, or the TTL expired.

A skill's body loads on demand, but its name and description sit in a listing that is always in the prompt, capped at 1% of the context window. Claude Code 2.1.261 adds /skill-doctor to say which loaded skills never get used and what each one costs, so you can prune them before the budget starts evicting the skills you do use.

The cold start of a subagent is not what costs you money. Measured across 117 real Claude Code subagent transcripts, startup context was 0.6% to 18% of each agent's total spend. Depth is expensive because every layer runs its own agentic loop and hands the layer above a summary instead of evidence. Here is the compression test that tells you which layer to delete.

Until now the only way to hand every developer the same MCP servers was managed-mcp.json, a file at a system path that takes exclusive control of MCP. Claude Code 2.1.259 adds a managedMcpServers setting for HTTP and SSE servers, and quietly narrows what allowedMcpServers governs.

The experimental /rubber-duck command in VS Code 1.135 hands the agent's plan, code, and tests to a model from another family for review. GPT-5.4 critiques Claude, and the cross-family choice is the whole point.

Agent Plugins 1.0.0 standardizes exactly two component types: skills and MCP servers. Slash commands, hooks, subagents, rules, LSP servers, permission config and secrets all stay vendor-specific. Here is the field-by-field matrix across Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot and Codex, and which layout to author in.