You'll noticeTier: how much it should matter to you
3Useful: my rating, 1 to 5
1Signal: worth watching, 1 to 5
StartupArea: what it touches
ImprovementsKind: in v2.1.233,
ImprovementsSection of the release
What
The walk from your working directory up to your home directory looking for .claude subdirectories (agents, commands and the rest) now uses async filesystem calls instead of synchronous ones, so cold discovery does not stall the event loop.
Details
The warning printed when the system file-descriptor table is exhausted is unchanged: "hit ENFILE (system fd-table full); skipping".
Evidence
hit ENFILE (system fd-table full); skipping
Strings lifted out of the shipped bundle, so the claim above can be checked against them.