Under the hoodTier: how much it should matter to you
2Useful: my rating, 1 to 5
2Signal: worth watching, 1 to 5
MCPArea: what it touches
Internal ChangesKind: in v2.1.302,
Internal ChangesSection of the release
What
Claude Code can check on an MCP task over and over until it finishes, which is called polling. Before, it stopped after a fixed number of failed checks. It now has two new options:
Stop after the first failed check.
Wait between checks without keeping Claude Code running.
Why
A session can exit without waiting for polling to finish.
