Claude Code 2.1.311

A new entry from Claude's official release notes. The original text is quoted below; check the source link for context.

What changed (original text)

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
Fixed a subagent's isolated worktree being removed while a background subage

Source: Claude Code changelog (view original)