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Claude Code v2.1.290 ·

Starting a cloud session gives clearer notices and errors

Cloud session start now warns when your branch is ahead of the remote, catches unusable session ids and cleans up names shown in error messages

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Unclear The exact wording of the ahead-of-remote notice is not known.

What

A cloud session is a Claude Code session that runs on Anthropic's servers instead of your own computer. When you start one from your terminal, Claude Code now reports more, and more carefully:

  • A notice now appears when your local git branch is ahead of the remote copy, and it says how many commits ahead it is.
  • A new unusable_session_id error appears when the server returns a session id that this version of Claude Code cannot use. The error tells you a session may have been created anyway and points you to claude.ai/code to check. Before, the only check of this kind was for a reply with no session id at all.
  • Error messages from the server are now cleaned up before they are shown, and some may be hidden.
  • Branch names shown in errors for --on-branch and --ref are now cleaned up before they are shown.
  • The error shown when no suitable environment is found now lists cleaned-up environment names instead of raw ones. When the list is longer than 1500 characters it shows a count instead. The raw list (name, id and kind of each environment) is written to the log.

Why

The ahead-of-remote notice tells you that commits you have not pushed will not be in the cloud session. The unusable_session_id error tells you to check claude.ai/code before you try again, so you can see whether a session already exists before you start another.

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