Under the hoodTier: how much it should matter to you
2Useful: my rating, 1 to 5
2Signal: worth watching, 1 to 5
SubagentsArea: what it touches
Internal ChangesKind: in v2.1.251,
Internal ChangesSection of the release
What
The code deciding which model a subagent inherits was consolidated into one resolver, replacing the previous two-step flow, with an added check for Bedrock model family mapping before falling back.
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 agreeChanged CLAUDE_CODE_SUBAGENT_MODEL to set the default subagent model rather than override everything: an agent definition's model: and an…