{"version":"2.1.287","anchor":"cowork-surface-detection-changed","canonical_anchor":"cowork-surface-detection-changed","heading":"Remote Cowork sessions are now recognised only by their surface","tier":"internal","area":"Cowork","scope":null,"heads_up":null,"url":"https:\/\/changelogs.core-directive.com\/v\/2.1.287\/e\/cowork-surface-detection-changed","release_url":"https:\/\/changelogs.core-directive.com\/v\/2.1.287","markdown":"### Remote Cowork sessions are now recognised only by their surface\n\nClaude Code now treats a session as remote Cowork when its surface is `remote_cowork`, and an always-yes shortcut in that check is gone\n\n**Unclear.** It is not clear which feature depends on this check or what the removed shortcut was testing.\n\n**What**\n\nClaude Code tells apart the different places a session can run from, called surfaces. A session whose surface is `remote_cowork` is now treated as a remote Cowork session.\n\nA related check that decides whether a session belongs to a set of surfaces used to answer yes outright under one condition. That shortcut is removed, so the answer now depends only on the session's surface.\n\n**Why**\n\nA feature that is limited to certain surfaces may now switch on or off differently for some sessions than it did before.\n\n- Area: Cowork\n- Tier: Under the hood\n- Useful: 1\/5\n- Signal: 3\/5"}