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Claude Code v2.1.285 ·

Programs connecting to Claude Code can learn its capabilities right away

The reply to a program's opening connection can now list the capabilities already known at that point, so it need not wait for the first turn

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JSON All of v2.1.285
Under the hoodTier: how much it should matter to you
2Useful: my rating, 1 to 5
3Signal: worth watching, 1 to 5
SDKArea: what it touches
Internal ChangesKind: in v2.1.285,
Internal ChangesSection of the release
What

Programs such as code editors can drive Claude Code through the SDK, a toolkit for connecting to it. When such a program first connects, Claude Code replies to the opening handshake. That reply can now include capabilities, listing the capabilities already settled at connect time. It is sent only when the list is not empty.

This list is a subset of the one sent later in the session's start-up message, so a capability missing from it may still arrive there.

Why

An editor or other host program can read what Claude Code supports as soon as it connects, before the first turn begins.

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tengu_ide_rc_auto_enable Off by default, switched on for this account

The shipped code defaults this off, and the flag server returned on for the one account this site reads on this version. That is the reading that makes the entry above worth a second look, and it still says nothing about your account.

This account: on · anonymous baseline: on · compiled default in v2.1.285: off

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

See this entry in the whole of v2.1.285 →

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