Under the hoodTier: how much it should matter to you
1Useful: my rating, 1 to 5
1Signal: worth watching, 1 to 5
ElsewhereArea: what it touches
Bug FixesKind: in v2.1.234,
Bug FixesSection of the release
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.
