Two days after the release that kept SSH sessions awake, the next build is out. It ships Claude Code 2.1.274, and the list is a good deal longer than last time.
Cloud sessions get a file view
The headline change sits under «Code»: cloud sessions now show their files. File links in the transcript open in the app, the Files pane searches the session’s files, and the background tasks panel shows command output. If you have only ever read what Claude claimed it did in a cloud session, you can now go and look.
With it comes a pile of fixes that share a theme. Bang commands and a code block’s Run used to be dropped when the terminal wasn’t ready; now they run within seconds and take the selected terminal tab whenever it’s idle. A session that stopped accepting messages after the app relaunched or the machine slept accepts them again. The OAuth token is renewed in the background instead of killing a session hours in with «OAuth token has expired» — and when a genuine sign-in really is needed, the app asks first and keeps your message. New sessions no longer take minutes to start just because a neighbouring worktree is being cleaned up.
Cowork: four bugs that hurt
Plugin skills using ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT} or ${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR} sometimes got those paths handed to them blank. The preinstalled Node packages — pptxgenjs, docx, pdf-lib, sharp — weren’t found by require(). Search and session loading crashed on very long conversations. And stacked permission prompts slid up under the mouse pointer right after one was answered, sending the next click to the wrong prompt. All four are gone.
Plus: workspace updates that failed with «Not enough disk space» on machines that had plenty once the update replaced the previous version.
The leash gets shorter for admins
The enterprise section is the interesting one this time. With allowedPluginMcpServers, Cowork, Chat and Code sessions connect only the plugin MCP servers whose URL matches an entry; an empty list allows none. At the same time the app stops starting plugin MCP servers on the device at all, except for organization plugins.
builtinBrowserEnabled offers a built-in browser in Cowork and Code sessions, and three further keys control which sites Claude may open in it. Also new: inferenceCredentialHelperWindows, so one configuration can serve Windows and macOS devices, and a Salesforce preset in the marketplace picker.
Visible to everyone: «Customize» is now a full page with rebuilt lists for Skills, Plugins and Connectors — search, an Add menu, a page per item. The old tables in Settings are gone, and Memory moved there instead. The sidebar’s Pinned list shows the first 20 entries and hides the rest behind «Show more».
The bug list tells you where the work went
Release notes read best as a log. This one is almost entirely about sessions that are supposed to keep running: tokens that don’t expire, terminals that don’t swallow commands, sessions that survive a restart, worktrees that don’t block each other. That’s the work that shows up once people start running Claude for hours, several at a time.
Which is exactly where the new Projects that Anthropic announced today is headed. Run several cloud sessions at once and you feel every one of these bugs twice.
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