{"version":"2.1.304","anchor":"offline-remote-host-messages-explain-cause-and-recovery","canonical_anchor":"offline-remote-host-messages-explain-cause-and-recovery","heading":"Offline remote-host messages now explain the cause and how to bring it back","tier":"notice","area":"Remote Machines","scope":"individual","heads_up":false,"url":"https:\/\/changelogs.core-directive.com\/v\/2.1.304\/e\/offline-remote-host-messages-explain-cause-and-recovery","release_url":"https:\/\/changelogs.core-directive.com\/v\/2.1.304","markdown":"### Offline remote-host messages now explain the cause and how to bring it back\n\nWhen a remote host is offline, Claude is now told when it was last heard from, whether it was busy, asleep or silent, and what brings it back\n\n**What**\n\nWhen a remote host, meaning another machine Claude Code connects to, is offline, the description Claude receives is longer. Before, it only said the host did not answer a liveness check, a short test of whether it is still running. It now says:\n\n- when the host was last heard from\n\n- whether it was busy, asleep or silent\n\n- what brings it back\n\n**Why**\n\nThis text goes to Claude, so Claude can give you a better explanation of why a device is offline and what you can do to get it back.\n\n- Area: Remote Machines\n- Tier: You'll notice\n- Useful: 1\/5\n- Signal: 1\/5\n- Scope: individual\n- Heads-up: no"}