Claude Code v2.1.292 · 6 Oct 2026
The /focus tip now takes its text from a shared place
The tip suggesting /focus now reads its text from a stored value instead of a sentence written into the tip itself
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Internal Changes Kind: in v2.1.292, 06 Oct 26
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What
Claude Code sometimes shows a tip suggesting /focus , the command that switches the focus view on or off. The tip now takes its text from a single stored value instead of a sentence written directly into the tip. Its earlier wording was: "Use /focus to see just your prompt, a one-line summary of the work, and the response".
Why
Nothing about how /focus or the focus view works changed. Only the place the tip's text comes from did.
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Anthropic's release notes agree Improved the /focus tip: it now invites you to try focus view mid-turn and shows how to switch back
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Names in this entry
slash /focus Toggle the focus view, which shows only your last prompt, a one-line tool-call summary with edit diffstats, and the final response. The tool-call summary also counts the subagents launched in the turn and collapses completed background-task notifications into a single count. The selection persists across sessions; set viewMode in settings to override it. Only available in fullscreen rendering . The VS Code extension offers its own Focus view as a command-menu toggle, stored as an extension setting, independent of viewMode
Anthropic's note
Upstream's own release notes for v2.1.292 name something this entry names, so the two are probably about the same change. Probably: the pairing is made on a shared name rather than on the words around it.
Improved the /focus tip: it now invites you to try focus view mid-turn and shows how to switch back
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