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Claude Code v2.1.228

Relaunching Claude Code keeps your selected model

You'll notice
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Models

Restarting after an update keeps the model you picked instead of reverting to the default.

--model
What

When the CLI restarts itself, it now passes --model with the model you had selected, so an update relaunch or a renderer switch no longer drops you back to the default model.

Details
  • Appended next to the existing --add-dir, --effort and --permission-mode arguments.
  • Omitted when the selection is the default, when running a mantle deployment, or when it equals the configured fallback model.
  • Applies to the auto-update relaunch ("Switching from … to latest") and to /tui renderer switching.
Evidence

--model

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

Related

Other releases about the same thing. Found by shared names or similar wording; neither means one caused the other.

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