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Claude Code v2.1.248 ·

Remote-control startup checks moved into shared helpers

Remote-control startup checks moved into shared helpers and the local refusal runs earlier.

Under the hood Internal Changes
JSON All of v2.1.248
Under the hoodTier: how much it should matter to you
2Useful: my rating, 1 to 5
2Signal: worth watching, 1 to 5
Remote ControlArea: what it touches
Internal ChangesKind: in v2.1.248,
Internal ChangesSection of the release
What

The startup checks for claude remote-control moved out of the command entrypoint into three shared functions, and the local refusal now runs before account storage is primed rather than after. The user-facing messages moved with them, so whether any wording changed is not visible from the entrypoint.

Evidence

refuseRemoteControlLocally

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

Read from
Names in the bundleclaude remote-control
Since it was published

The entry above is what we published on the day. These lines were added later, as Anthropic's own pages caught up, and they sit beside the original rather than replacing it.

Confirmed since Anthropic's documentation has since written up claude remote-control, on Claude Code changelog. * Fixed Remote Control sessions served by `claude remote-control` showing a generated name instead of their session title in `ListAgents` changelog see the edit
Added since A small documentation edit on Continue local sessions from any device with Remote Control touched a line naming claude remote-control after this was published. All traffic travels through the Anthropic API over TLS, the same transport security as any Claude Code session. The connection uses multiple short-lived credentials, each scoped to a single purpose and expiring independently. When a `claud… remote-control see the edit
How sure we are
Two sources agreeTwo things we can check say the same as this entry.
Anthropic's documentation agreesA small documentation edit on Continue local sessions from any device with Remote Control touched a line naming claude remote-control after…
Anthropic's release notes agreeFixed claude remote-control rejecting its own flags (e.g. --spawn, --name) when a global flag or a wrapper-injected option precedes the…

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