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Claude Code v2.1.228 ·

Assistant messages carry two new null fields

Messages Claude Code writes itself now include two empty fields to match the upgraded message format.

Under the hood Internal Changes
JSON All of v2.1.228
Under the hoodTier: how much it should matter to you
1Useful: my rating, 1 to 5
1Signal: worth watching, 1 to 5
API ClientArea: what it touches
Internal ChangesKind: in v2.1.228,
Internal ChangesSection of the release
What

Messages Claude Code synthesizes itself, such as tool-use notices, stop-sequence messages and virtual transcript entries, now set diagnostics: null and a null token-details field in usage, matching the upgraded SDK message type.

Evidence

diagnostics: null

Strings lifted out of the shipped bundle, so the claim above can be checked against them.

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