Under the hoodTier: how much it should matter to you
2Useful: my rating, 1 to 5
2Signal: worth watching, 1 to 5
HooksArea: what it touches
Internal ChangesKind: in v2.1.277,
Internal ChangesSection of the release
What
Claude Code runs a background "hooks worker" process to execute hooks (scripts that run automatically at certain points). It detects a stuck, unresponsive worker by checking whether it has answered a heartbeat check within a timeout. That timeout used to always be a fixed 5000 milliseconds. Now, as long as there are no pending loads or builds in progress, the timeout value can instead come from a remotely configured setting, falling back to the same 5-second default otherwise.
Why
This lets the stuck-worker detection threshold be tuned remotely without needing a new release, while keeping a safe fallback during load or build activity.
