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Claude Code v2.1.248

Cloud and pool flags no longer confuse prompt detection

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CLI not in their notes

Cloud flags like --pool and --ref no longer swallow their values as your prompt.

--environment--pool--ref--on-branch--correlation-id
What

Claude Code does a quick scan of the command line before the real argument parser runs, to find the positional prompt. That scan now knows --environment, --pool, --ref, --on-branch, --correlation-id and --forward-home-settings each take a value, so those values are no longer mistaken for your prompt or for another flag's argument.

Details
  • All six are real options elsewhere in the build, including the hidden --forward-home-settings <true|false> and --on-branch/--ref for cloud pool revisions.
Evidence

--forward-home-settings

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

Related

Other releases about the same thing. Found by shared names or similar wording; neither means one caused the other.

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