You'll noticeTier: how much it should matter to you
3Useful: my rating, 1 to 5
1Signal: worth watching, 1 to 5
Plan ModeArea: what it touches
ImprovementsKind: in v2.1.288,
ImprovementsSection of the release
What
Plan mode is a mode where Claude works out a plan before it is allowed to change anything. When you approve a plan and leave plan mode, Claude Code now switches the session to the default permission mode, unless the approval step itself was cancelled. Before, approving a plan had no follow-up mode change.
Two smaller changes come with it:
Slash commands that run straight away are now marked as busy while they run, and that state is released when they finish.
When the mode changes, a short [... on] hint appears if the new mode matches the one shown.
Why
These are small fixes to how the interface behaves. After approving a plan, you end up in default mode rather than in whatever state the session was left in.
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 doubtIt is not clear what the busy state for slash commands changes for you in practice.
