{"version":"2.1.234","anchor":"process-ancestry-lookup-retries-before-failing","canonical_anchor":"process-ancestry-lookup-retries-before-failing","heading":"Process-ancestry lookup retries before failing","tier":"internal","area":"Elsewhere","scope":null,"heads_up":null,"url":"https:\/\/changelogs.core-directive.com\/v\/2.1.234\/e\/process-ancestry-lookup-retries-before-failing","release_url":"https:\/\/changelogs.core-directive.com\/v\/2.1.234","markdown":"### Process-ancestry lookup retries before failing\n\nWalking the parent-process chain now retries with a bigger limit before giving up.\n\n**What**\n\nWhen 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.\n\n**Details**\n\n- Only applies to a truncated walk; a walk that genuinely failed still errors immediately.\n\n**Evidence**\n\n`ancestry walk failed`\n\n- Area: Elsewhere\n- Tier: Under the hood\n- Useful: 1\/5\n- Signal: 1\/5"}