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Claude Code v2.1.286 ·

Remote sessions add a relay transport, arrival timing, and earlier attachment preparation

Remote sessions gain a 'relay' transport, record when the server received each message, and can start preparing attachments before file downloads

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What

Remote sessions are Claude Code sessions that run on a server and receive your messages over the network. This release changes how those messages are delivered and timed, and adds a new way to prepare attached files earlier.

  • A new relay transport joins the ways a remote session can connect. The live event stream transport gains onDeliveredCallback and connectionSessionWriters.
  • Queued messages now carry aheadOfRead and an optional serverReceivedWallMs.
  • The session message format gains an optional server_received_wall_ms, the session server's clock time when it received the request. Claude Code copies it into the turn result as user_message_server_received_wall_ms.
  • A new server-controlled switch, tengu_amber_ferry (built-in fallback: off), turns on an aheadOfFiles mode for incoming user messages. In that mode, preparing attachments starts before the file downloads finish, and the existing read-ahead behind tengu_polished_reef is skipped. Before, attachments were prepared by a plain call, with read-ahead controlled only by tengu_polished_reef.
  • The attachment timing record gains an aheadOfFiles field, and turn timing also records aheadOfRead.

Why

These changes measure and aim to shorten the delay before a remote or cloud session starts working on a message, especially one with attached files. Nothing has been read about tengu_amber_ferry, so whether the earlier attachment preparation is in use is not known.

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tengu_amber_ferry 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 v2.1.286: 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.

tengu_polished_reef 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 v2.1.286: 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 v2.1.286. It isn't a statement about your account. What a flag value here can and cannot tell you

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The name it cites is new in this buildNew in this build: tengu_amber_ferry

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