Under the hoodTier: how much it should matter to you
1Useful: my rating, 1 to 5
2Signal: worth watching, 1 to 5
Bridge SessionsArea: what it touches
Internal ChangesKind: in v2.1.269,
Internal ChangesSection of the release
What
A new environment variable, set to "1" automatically when Claude Code spawns a bridge child session, is now checked alongside CLAUDE_CODE_ARTIFACT and a CLAUDE_CODE_BRIDGE_CHILD_AUTO_DEFAULT flag. Together these decide whether the artifact tool reports itself as switched off by default (sdk_default_off) inside that child process.
Why
This lets a child session spawned via a bridge inherit or determine its own artifact-tool availability correctly, rather than falling back to a default that might not fit a child process's context, building on the existing chain of checks (policy, provider type, traffic restrictions, and env overrides) that already decides whether the artifact tool is offered.
