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
New FeaturesKind: in v2.1.248,
New FeaturesSection of the release
What
The remote-control bridge now tracks whether each session is busy and removes sessions from its saved active-session list once spawned or exited, so a bridge that reconnects after a restart stops claiming work it already handled.
Details
A per-session busy flag is set on tool start and streamed text, and cleared on result or error.
When the saved list empties, both it and its timestamp are deleted from the pointer file.
Strings lifted out of the shipped bundle, so the claim above can be checked against them.
How sure we are
One source agreesOne thing we can check says the same as this entry.
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…