Under the hoodTier: how much it should matter to you
2Useful: my rating, 1 to 5
2Signal: worth watching, 1 to 5
ElsewhereArea: what it touches
Internal ChangesKind: in v2.1.273,
Internal ChangesSection of the release
What
Claude Code has an internal relay mechanism, using markers embedded in a transcript, that hands off session state (including prompt cache data) during an /update. It now has specific, named refusal reasons for when this hand-off can't proceed, such as a marker not being in an inactive state, a missing marker line, an unexpected marker line format, or an anchor point not being in view. It also now checks that a "thinking strip" isn't owed, and checks that the resuming session hasn't already answered a turn of its own before arming the relay.
Why
These added checks make the hand-off between old and new versions during an update more reliable, catching mismatched or stale states before they cause problems rather than after.