{"version":"2.1.296","anchor":"remote-tools-feature-still-here-keepalive-and-extra-announc","canonical_anchor":"remote-tools-feature-still-here-keepalive-and-extra-announc","heading":"Remote tool connections can say \"still here\" during long, quiet tool calls","tier":"notice","area":"Remote Tools","scope":"individual","heads_up":false,"url":"https:\/\/changelogs.core-directive.com\/v\/2.1.296\/e\/remote-tools-feature-still-here-keepalive-and-extra-announc","release_url":"https:\/\/changelogs.core-directive.com\/v\/2.1.296","markdown":"### Remote tool connections can say \"still here\" during long, quiet tool calls\n\nClaude Code can now tell the other end of a remote tools connection it is still working when a tool call runs quietly for a while\n\n**Unclear.** Whether the still-here signal is switched on by default is not known.\n\n**What**\n\nWhen Claude Code serves tools over a remote connection, it can now send a \"still here\" signal when the connection goes quiet. It does this only when all of these hold:\n\n- the stream has gone silent\n\n- the machine is not asleep\n\n- a tool call started recently\n\n- part of the work is still running\n\nThe connection also announces one extra capability to the other side when a new check passes.\n\n**Why**\n\nA tool call that runs for a long time without output is less likely to be treated as dead by the other side.\n\n- Area: Remote Tools\n- Tier: You'll notice\n- Useful: 2\/5\n- Signal: 2\/5\n- Scope: individual\n- Heads-up: no"}