You'll noticeTier: how much it should matter to you
3Useful: my rating, 1 to 5
2Signal: worth watching, 1 to 5
Focus ViewArea: what it touches
ImprovementsKind: in v2.1.269,
ImprovementsSection of the release
What
Claude Code now shows a new onboarding tip, "Use /focus to see just your prompt, a one-line summary of the work, and the response," to users who haven't set the viewMode setting themselves and for whom the other tip-relevance checks pass. The /focus command toggles a focus view showing only your last prompt, a one-line tool-call summary with edit diffstats, and the final response, and the choice persists across sessions.
Why
This surfaces the /focus command to users who might not know about it, without showing it to people who've already made a deliberate choice about their view mode.
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.
Confirmed sinceAnthropic's documentation has since written up /focus, on Continue local sessions from any device with Remote Control.* `/focus`, from v2.1.281: pass `on` or `off` as an argument, for example `/focus on`, or run it with no argument to toggle the [focus view](/docs/en/commands#all-commands). Both forms apply to the current session only and leave your saved…remote-controlsee the edit
Added sinceA small documentation edit on Continue local sessions from any device with Remote Control touched a line naming /focus after this was published.* `/focus`, from v2.1.281: pass `on` or `off` as an argument, for example `/focus on`, or run it with no argument to toggle the [focus view](/docs/en/commands#all-commands). Both forms apply to the current session only and leave your saved…remote-controlsee the edit
Confirmed sinceAnthropic's documentation has since written up viewMode, on CLI reference.| `--verbose` | Enable verbose logging, shows full turn-by-turn output. Overrides the [`viewMode`](/docs/en/settings-reference#viewmode) setting for this session | `claude --verbose` |cli-referencesee the edit
How sure we are
Two sources agreeTwo things we can check say the same as this entry.
Anthropic's documentation agreesAnthropic's documentation has since written up viewMode, on CLI reference.
Anthropic's release notes agreeAdded a spinner tip suggesting /focus for a view with just your prompt, a one-line work summary, and the response
