Anthropic’s release pace for Claude Code remains impressive. In the last week of April, versions 2.1.121 through 2.1.126 shipped — no revolution, but solid improvements that make daily work noticeably smoother.
The highlights
Plugin Pruning: claude plugin prune cleans up orphaned plugin dependencies left behind after uninstallations. With plugin uninstall --prune, cleanup cascades automatically. No more manual tidying.
Skills Search: The /skills command now has a type-to-filter search box. If you’ve got a lot of skills installed, you no longer have to scroll through endless lists — just start typing. Sounds small, saves real time.
PostToolUse Hooks expanded: Hooks can now replace tool output for all tools via hookSpecificOutput.updatedToolOutput — not just specific ones. This opens the door for more advanced automations.
The important Bash fix
A particularly annoying bug was squashed: if the directory Claude Code was started in got deleted or moved during a session, the Bash tool would become permanently unusable. You had to restart Claude Code entirely. Now it’s handled gracefully.
Also fixed: --resume was failing on large sessions when a transcript line was corrupted by an unclean shutdown. The corrupt line is now skipped instead of making the entire session unrecoverable.
My take
None of these changes are headline-grabbers. But taken together, they show Anthropic is systematically smoothing out the rough edges that annoy you in daily use. Plugin pruning and the skills search solve problems that were becoming increasingly pressing as the plugin ecosystem grows. And the Bash fix — anyone who ran into that issue knows how frustrating it was.
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