You'll noticeTier: how much it should matter to you
2Useful: my rating, 1 to 5
1Signal: worth watching, 1 to 5
WorkflowsArea: what it touches
ImprovementsKind: in v2.1.286,
ImprovementsSection of the release
What
A workflow agent is a helper agent that Claude Code runs as one step of a workflow. When the stream carrying its reply goes silent and Claude Code gives up waiting, the agent now:
treats it as a stall and stops that attempt
reports reply lost - the response stream went silent and Claude Code gave up waiting for it instead of the generic message that it stalled with no progress
marks the result as a lost reply and retries
if every attempt loses its reply, fails with an error saying the agent lost its reply on all attempts, instead of the generic abandoned error
The point at which a stalled attempt is retried is also capped, rather than always being half the stall time.
Why
If you run workflows, a failure now tells you the reply was lost to a silent stream, and a stuck step is retried sooner.
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 doubtWhat makes Claude Code give up on the stream, and the value of the new cap, are not known.
