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Claude Code v2.1.234

Process-ancestry lookup retries before failing

Under the hood
Useful1 Signal1
Elsewhere

Walking the parent-process chain now retries with a bigger limit before giving up.

What

When Claude Code walks the chain of parent processes and the walk is cut short by its own step limit without reaching the current process, it now retries with a larger limit instead of reporting failure straight away.

Details
  • Only applies to a truncated walk; a walk that genuinely failed still errors immediately.
Evidence

ancestry walk failed

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

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