You'll noticeTier: how much it should matter to you
2Useful: my rating, 1 to 5
3Signal: worth watching, 1 to 5
SubagentsArea: what it touches
ImprovementsKind: in v2.1.290,
ImprovementsSection of the release
Unclear It is not clear whether a limit of at least 1 is still required.
What
A subagent is a helper copy of Claude given part of a task, and subagents can start subagents of their own. Claude Code limits how deep that nesting can go. To find the limit, it now looks first at data cached for your account. If no limit is found there, it uses the remote setting from Anthropic's servers. Before, only that remote setting was used, and only when it was a whole number of at least 1.
Why
The nesting limit can now be set through a second remote channel.
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 whether a limit of at least 1 is still required.
