Under the hoodTier: how much it should matter to you
1Useful: my rating, 1 to 5
1Signal: worth watching, 1 to 5
Output LimitsArea: what it touches
Internal ChangesKind: in v2.1.261,
Internal ChangesSection of the release
The deprecated TaskOutput tool's maxResultSizeChars is no longer a fixed 1e5 constant; it's now a getter combining a helper value with a persistence threshold, alongside a new persistenceThresholdCeiling field. The output-size ceiling appears to now derive from the same config as the new taskOutputMaxChars setting.
How sure we are
One source agreesOne thing we can check says the same as this entry.
Anthropic's release notes agreeAdded bashOutputMaxChars and taskOutputMaxChars settings to raise how much command and background-task output Claude receives inline before…
