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Claude Code v2.1.251 ·

Forked agents are spawned asking to inherit the parent model

Forked agents now ask for the parent's model explicitly instead of leaving it blank.

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What

When a forked or inline agent is spawned, the model is now passed as the literal string "inherit" rather than being left unset, so the parent's model propagates explicitly instead of by omission.

Details
  • Only the fork path changed; non-forked spawns still pass their resolved model.
Evidence

ze ? "inherit" : Rr

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

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Names in the bundleinherit
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.

Added since A small documentation edit on Claude apps gateway configuration touched a line naming inherit after this was published. Set it to `1` only in the policies whose groups you want traced. A policy that doesn't set it inherits the value from your `match: {}` catch-all policy if that policy sets one, per the [merge rules](#managed). To keep a group's clients fro… claude-apps-gateway-config see the edit
Confirmed since Anthropic's documentation has since written up inherit, on Orchestrate teams of Claude Code sessions. Teammates start with the lead's permission mode, except [`dontAsk` mode](/docs/en/permission-modes#allow-only-pre-approved-tools-with-dontask-mode), which they don't inherit. If the lead runs with `--dangerously-skip-permissions`, all team… agent-teams see the edit
How sure we are
One source agreesOne thing we can check says the same as this entry.
Anthropic's documentation agreesAnthropic's documentation has since written up inherit, on Orchestrate teams of Claude Code sessions.

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