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Claude Code v2.1.280 ·

Cross-session messaging gains hook interception and a new plugin API

Plugins can now intercept and redirect messages sent between sessions, and gain a new API to read, send, and authorize cross-session messages

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What

  • SendMessage now routes through a hook pipeline that lets a plugin hook rewrite the recipient or the message text before delivery. If the recipient changes, permissions are re-checked. If a hook tries to readdress a send but no ask handler is present to approve it, or the readdress is denied, the send is dropped with an explicit refusal.
  • A new plugin-facing API was added for cross-session/agent messaging: $.session.messages reads another agent's or session's transcript, $.session.authorize authorizes a first-party credential for a session, and $.session.send sends a message to another live session or agent (built on the SendMessage tool), including resolving session IDs and reporting delivery-failure reasons.

Why

Together these give plugins more control and visibility over cross-session communication: they can intercept, redirect, or block messages between sessions, and they gain a proper API surface to read another session's history and send it messages programmatically, rather than only through the built-in tool.

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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 SendMessage, on Claude Code changelog. * Fixed sessions launched without the `SendMessage` tool (such as by Claude Desktop) still being told to message other sessions with it changelog see the edit
Added since A small documentation edit on Create custom subagents touched a line naming SendMessage after this was published. * **Sibling roster**: a [system reminder](/docs/en/glossary#system-reminder) listing `main` and every other named agent in the session, each a valid `to` value for [`SendMessage`](#resume-subagents). Requires Claude Code v2.1.206 or later.… sub-agents see the edit
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Anthropic's documentation agreesA small documentation edit on Create custom subagents touched a line naming SendMessage after this was published.

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