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New onboarding tip advertises a '/focus' command tied to an unset 'viewMode'

A new onboarding tip introduces the /focus command to users who haven't set a view mode.

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KindImprovementsin v2.1.269,
You'll notice

A new onboarding tip introduces the /focus command to users who haven't set a view mode.

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.

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What the documentation says
Since it was published

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 since Anthropic'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-reference see 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

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