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Claude Code v2.1.234 ·

Diagnostics logging builds its payload lazily and swallows failures

Diagnostics logging only builds its payload when a diagnostics file is set, and never throws.

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What

The diagnostics log writer now accepts a function as its payload and calls it only when a diagnostics file is configured, so the cost is skipped otherwise. If building or serialising the payload throws, it writes a failure record instead of letting the error escape.

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diagnostics_payload_failed

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

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