You'll noticeTier: how much it should matter to you
3Useful: my rating, 1 to 5
3Signal: worth watching, 1 to 5
InputArea: what it touches
RemovedKind: in v2.1.285,
ImprovementsSection of the release
Unclear It is not clear whether audio transcription moved somewhere else or was already inactive before.
What
Claude Code used to turn an audio file you mentioned with @ into text. That is gone:
The audio_transcript attachment is removed. It told Claude that an @-mentioned audio file had been transcribed with Anthropic's speech-to-text service.
The message view no longer shows a "Transcribed" line or a "transcription failed" error.
Pasting no longer treats audio as text-like, and the onAudioPaste handler is removed from the prompt box.
Separately, bypass-permissions mode, where Claude runs tools without asking, now respects a tool's excludedFromModeBypassAllow flag. A tool that sets it is not approved automatically in that mode.
Why
Audio files you mention or paste are no longer transcribed for Claude. Some tools may still ask for your approval even in bypass-permissions mode.
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 doubtIt is not clear whether audio transcription moved somewhere else or was already inactive before.
