You'll noticeTier: how much it should matter to you
2Useful: my rating, 1 to 5
3Signal: worth watching, 1 to 5
CachingArea: what it touches
Internal ChangesKind: in v2.1.251,
Internal ChangesSection of the release
What
Two internal cache-state updates, one on cache reads and one on deletions, now return immediately unless CLAUDE_CODE_IS_COWORK is set or the entrypoint is claude-desktop. In the terminal CLI this work no longer runs at all.
Evidence
if (!xC()) return;
Strings lifted out of the shipped bundle, so the claim above can be checked against them.
