Nothing to try yetTier: how much it should matter to you
4Useful: my rating, 1 to 5
4Signal: worth watching, 1 to 5
MCPArea: what it touches
In DevelopmentKind: in v2.1.284,
What probably matters to youSection of the release
What
MCP tools are extra tools that come from MCP servers, which are outside programs Claude Code connects to. Before a tool is shown to Claude, Claude Code checks whether it should be kept from the model. That check now looks at a list of tool names kept for each server. If a tool is on the list, Claude cannot see or use it, and a debug message says it was hidden because keepMcpToolsFromModel listed it. An app that embeds Claude Code still sees the tool in its MCP status report.
In this build nothing adds names to that list, so the list is always empty and no tool is hidden this way. The older check still applies: a tool whose own metadata does not include the model among its audiences stays hidden.
Why
This looks like preparation for an option that lets an app embedding Claude Code hide specific MCP tools from Claude while still showing them in its own interface. For now it has no effect.