Claude – v2.1.311

What’s in this update

What's changed

• Added --hold-idle-file and --max-hold-min to self-hosted-runner, to keep an idle session while your host reports processes it left running
• Added a tip for the Explanatory output style, shown when you ask Claude for explanations
• Fixed long freezes at startup and after reading or editing files when a CLAUDE.md file holds a very long list item
• Fixed interrupting Claude not taking effect until a timeout while an MCP server had not answered a resource read or a skill was still downloading
• Fixed standard-context sessions stopping with "Usage credits required for 1M context" when a request ran over 200K tokens; Claude Code now compacts the conversation and continues
• Fixed Write and Edit stalling for up to 5 seconds after they ran, and reporting 0 lines changed, when changing thousands of lines in a file
• Fixed subagents being unable to use MCP tools from servers that finish connecting after the subagent starts
• Fixed Claude seeing stale MEMORY.md and CLAUDE.md content right after automatic compaction when those files were edited earlier in the session
• Fixed claude -p and SDK sessions saving transcript messages out of order or keeping messages that were taken back
• Fixed SubagentStop hooks running about twice a minute for each running subagent instead of once when it finishes
• Fixed the @ file picker ignoring .ignore/.rgignore negation rules that re-include git-ignored files

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