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Sweep 22 Sep 2026 · 17:19Z Build v2.1.280 501 read Stable v2.1.267 Latest v2.1.280 Next v2.1.280 Feeds RSS JSON llms.txt Unofficial
Claude Code v2.1.257 ·

Status-line narration now skips the first rounds of a turn

Status-line narration waits a couple of rounds into a turn, then summarizes progress in one sentence.

TierYou'll noticehow much it should matter to you
Useful4my rating, 1 to 5
Signal3worth watching, 1 to 5
AreaTerminal UIwhat it touches
KindImprovementsin v2.1.257,
You'll notice

Status-line narration waits a couple of rounds into a turn, then summarizes progress in one sentence.

The status-line narration generator now counts rounds per turn (roundsThisTurn) and only fires once that count exceeds a threshold, instead of firing on every message-length change. This delays the "thinking about..." style status narration until a turn has been running for a couple of rounds. A new subsystem builds a digest of the current turn (user request, recent steps, task list, running tool calls) and asks a model to write a single-sentence terminal status line summarizing progress, logged as [narration] refreshed.

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