{"version":"2.1.295","anchor":"transport-ping-probe-reports-whether-the-peer-reads-carried","canonical_anchor":"transport-ping-probe-reports-whether-the-peer-reads-carried","heading":"Claude Code can test whether a local companion process reads passed-on prompts","tier":"internal","area":"Sessions","scope":"individual","heads_up":false,"url":"https:\/\/changelogs.core-directive.com\/v\/2.1.295\/e\/transport-ping-probe-reports-whether-the-peer-reads-carried","release_url":"https:\/\/changelogs.core-directive.com\/v\/2.1.295","markdown":"### Claude Code can test whether a local companion process reads passed-on prompts\n\nA quick check now asks a local companion process whether it can read prompts handed to it, waiting up to two seconds\n\n**What**\n\nClaude Code can now send a quick test message to a process it talks to over a local connection and wait up to 2 seconds for an answer. From the reply it sorts the other side into one of four groups: it reads prompts passed to it, it uses an older format, it gave no answer, or it could not be reached.\n\n**Why**\n\nThis is a compatibility check between Claude Code and a companion process running on the same machine.\n\n- Area: Sessions\n- Tier: Under the hood\n- Useful: 2\/5\n- Signal: 3\/5\n- Scope: individual\n- Heads-up: no"}