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Claude Code v2.1.246 ·

Startup and bridge paths carry storage and credentials further

A failed plugin hook prefetch at startup is now logged instead of blowing up.

Under the hood Internal Changes
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Under the hoodTier: how much it should matter to you
2Useful: my rating, 1 to 5
2Signal: worth watching, 1 to 5
StartupArea: what it touches
Internal ChangesKind: in v2.1.246,
Internal ChangesSection of the release
What

Startup awaits an extra hooks-snapshot step when a storage handle is present, both at launch and after entering a worktree, and a failure to prefetch plugin hooks is now caught and logged instead of surfacing as an unhandled error.

Details
  • The snapshot branch requires both a non-undefined storage handle and a further condition that is not resolved in this build.
  • The bridge fast path now primes fast-path credentials and seeds install IDs before the policy check.
Evidence

plugin hooks prefetch:

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

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