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 v2.1.280,
Internal ChangesSection of the release
What
Claude Code now has a helper function that determines which of three roles the current process is running as: daemon_child, sdk_host, or repl (or none of these, if undetermined). It works by combining other existing role-detection checks.
Why
This is internal plumbing that lets other parts of Claude Code branch on what kind of process they're running in. It doesn't directly change behavior a reader would notice.
How sure we are
Something disagreesSomething we can check disagrees with this entry, or the writer said they could not settle it.
The writer flagged doubtWhat uses this new role information, and what changes as a result, is not stated in the finding.
