You'll noticeTier: how much it should matter to you
2Useful: my rating, 1 to 5
1Signal: worth watching, 1 to 5
SubagentsArea: what it touches
ImprovementsKind: in v2.1.285,
ImprovementsSection of the release
What
Plan mode is a mode where Claude plans its work for your approval before making changes. A forked subagent is a helper that is started as a copy of the current session to handle part of the work. Such a subagent now cannot use the ExitPlanMode tool, whether it is in plan mode or in the fallback mode. It gets the message "A fork cannot exit plan mode; that belongs to the session that forked it. Finish your part and report back." Before, the only check was whether the session was in plan mode.
Why
This stops a helper from approving its parent session's plan on its own, so leaving plan mode stays with the session you are working in.