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Claude Code v2.1.284 ·

File and shell tools fail clearly in diskless sessions that run them only in the cloud

In diskless sessions, built-in file and shell tools that cannot reach the cloud environment now stop with a clear 'retrying will not help' error

Group of 4 You'll notice Improvements
JSON All of v2.1.284
You'll noticeTier: how much it should matter to you
1Useful: my rating, 1 to 5
3Signal: worth watching, 1 to 5
Diskless ModeArea: what it touches
ImprovementsKind: in v2.1.284,
ImprovementsSection of the release

What

A diskless session is one launched with an option saying the process running Claude has no local disk to work on, so file and shell tools only run in a separate cloud environment.

  • A new guard covers a fixed set of built-in file and shell tools. In a diskless session, when a call cannot be sent to the cloud environment, it throws NeverRunsInThisProcessError with a message telling Claude the tool "is unavailable: this session runs file and shell tools only in its cloud environment, and this call could not be sent there. Retrying will not help."
  • Tool results that come back from another process and cannot be read now say whether it is safe to run the tool again, based on whether the tool only reads.
  • The check for whether a file is tracked by git now answers "tracked" straight away in a diskless session instead of running git ls-files. Starting programs is refused in diskless sessions, with the note "a program start was refused in a diskless session".
  • New diagnostic entries were added around cloud-container tool routing.

Why

This only affects hosted or remote setups where tools run in the cloud. Claude gets a clear answer instead of retrying a call that can never run locally.

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 doubtWhich tools are in the set, and which kinds of session count as diskless, is not clear.

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