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Claude Code v2.1.233

Startup install check is async and skipped on remote workspaces

You'll notice
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Startup

The startup installation check runs in the background and is skipped entirely on remote workspaces.

What

The check for problems with your Claude Code installation now runs asynchronously at startup and returns immediately on a remote workspace, where the local install layout means nothing. Failures go to the error reporter rather than the screen.

Evidence

install check:

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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