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Claude Code v2.1.238 20 Aug 2026

Status line no longer attributes a session model to plan mode

You'll notice

Useful2 Signal1

Terminal UI

The status line now says "(this session only)" instead of blaming plan mode for your model.

What

For a model scoped to the current session, the status line now says "(this session only)" rather than claiming the model came from plan mode.

Details

Effort is read through an accessor everywhere it was previously a stored field, including app-state comparisons, /model and the remote flag-settings path.
The command-line effort resolver now hands back both the session and settings values instead of applying one and returning the other.

Evidence

(this session only)

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

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