You'll noticeTier: how much it should matter to you
2Useful: my rating, 1 to 5
1Signal: worth watching, 1 to 5
HooksArea: what it touches
Bug FixesKind: in v2.1.309,
Bug FixesSection of the release
What
Hooks are commands you set up to run at certain points, and Claude Code runs them in a separate background worker. A watchdog checks that this worker still responds. The watchdog now has a starting phase, which ends when the worker reports that it is online. If the worker does not come online within half of the total time allowed, Claude Code reports that it did not come online, a different reason from a worker that stops answering later.
A worker that is just slow to wake up at start no longer uses up the time meant for its regular responsiveness checks.
Why
Hook workers that start slowly are no longer wrongly reported as stuck.
