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Claude Code v2.1.285 ·

Shorter pointer notice when an agent hands work back to itself

When a routed agent's single clean handback goes to that same agent, Claude Code can use a short pointer notice instead

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What

Claude Code can pass work to other agents, which are separate AI helpers that take on a task and then hand the result back. When a routed agent makes one clean handback and the recipient is that same agent, Claude Code can now send a short pointer notice instead.

This sits behind a remote switch, and the code falls back to on when the server sends no value.

Why

It looks like a way to shorten handback messages between agents.

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tengu_hushed_kestrel Not enough to say

Nothing here resolved what this flag was doing on this version, so nothing here should be read as on or off.

This account: no value returned · anonymous baseline: no value returned · compiled default in v2.1.285: on

These values were read against a different version of Claude Code, so treat them as the nearest reading available instead of one taken on this release.

Read once, for one account on one subscription tier, against v2.1.285. It isn't a statement about your account. What a flag value here can and cannot tell you

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Something disagreesSomething we can check disagrees with this entry, or the writer said they could not settle it.
The writer flagged doubtWhat the pointer notice looks like and when this path is reached are not known.
The name it cites is new in this buildNew in this build: tengu_hushed_kestrel

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