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Claude Code v2.1.281 ·

Self-hosted runner filters child env vars and classifies spawn errors

The self-hosted runner now drops invalid environment variable names for sessions and reports failed starts as a startError

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What

The self-hosted runner is the program that launches Claude Code sessions on a machine you host. Environment variables are named settings handed to a program when it starts. The runner now builds each session's variables by merging three sources: its own, those sent by the server, and enforced ones.

  • Names that are empty or contain = or a NUL character are skipped and logged.
  • CLAUDE_CODE_BRIDGE_PROMPT_SHA256 and CLAUDE_CODE_BRIDGE_MCP_CARRIER are cleared for the session.
  • A session that fails to start straight away, or starts without a process id, now comes back as a classified startError instead of raising an error.
Why

Invalid names are left out with a log line explaining which one, and a failed start is reported as a labelled result that can be handled.

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