{"version":"2.1.271","anchor":"new-remote-control-plane-commands-mcp-reconnecttoggle-ses","canonical_anchor":"new-remote-control-plane-commands-mcp-reconnecttoggle-ses","heading":"New remote-control-plane commands: MCP reconnect\/toggle, session titling\/renaming, task stop\/backgrounding, and flag settings","tier":"use","area":"Remote Control","scope":null,"heads_up":null,"url":"https:\/\/changelogs.core-directive.com\/v\/2.1.271\/e\/new-remote-control-plane-commands-mcp-reconnecttoggle-ses","release_url":"https:\/\/changelogs.core-directive.com\/v\/2.1.271","markdown":"### New remote-control-plane commands: MCP reconnect\/toggle, session titling\/renaming, task stop\/backgrounding, and flag settings\n\nRemote control connections can now reconnect\/toggle MCP servers, rename sessions, stop tasks, and set effort\/ultracode flags\n\n**What**\n\nA large set of new remote-control commands lets a connected controller (such as a bridge or host application) manage a running Claude Code session from outside it:\n\n- `mcp_reconnect` forces an MCP (Model Context Protocol) server connection to reconnect\n\n- `mcp_toggle` enables or disables an MCP server remotely, while still respecting any enterprise-managed policy that blocks it\n\n- `set_mcp_permission_mode_override` lets a caller pin an MCP server's permission mode to `default` or `auto`, but only in the tightening direction\n\n- `generate_session_title` and `rename_session` let a remote peer generate or set the session's title\n\n- `stop_task` and `background_tasks` let a remote peer stop or background running tasks\n\n- a new flag-settings handler lets a remote peer set the session's `effortLevel` (the default effort level used for models without their own saved level) and a new `ultracode` boolean\n\n**Why**\n\nThese additions give external tools and integrations much finer remote control over a running Claude Code session, letting them manage MCP servers, session naming, running tasks, and effort settings without the user driving the terminal directly.\n\n- Area: Remote Control\n- Tier: Use it now\n- Useful: 5\/5\n- Signal: 3\/5"}