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Claude Code v2.1.318 ·

MCP environment variable check widened, and tool results over the media limit marked

A check that filters CLAUDE_CODE_DISABLE_MCP_TASKS now covers several names, and media that is not sent is replaced with a note

You'll notice Improvements
JSON All of v2.1.318
You'll noticeTier: how much it should matter to you
2Useful: my rating, 1 to 5
2Signal: worth watching, 1 to 5
MCPArea: what it touches
ImprovementsKind: in v2.1.318,
ImprovementsSection of the release

Unclear It is not clear which environment variables besides CLAUDE_CODE_DISABLE_MCP_TASKS are now covered, or what the off-by-default project document setting controls.

What

This release changes several related things:

  • CLAUDE_CODE_DISABLE_MCP_TASKS was the only environment variable this check applied to: it was passed on only when set to 1. The check now applies to a set of names instead.
  • Images or other media in a tool's result that are not sent are now replaced with [media removed: request limit]. A tool result is what an action returns to Claude.
  • PDF reads inside messages are now counted as their own kind of content.
  • There is a new setting, off by default, beside a text block describing a document about the current project. It read off for this site's account when it was last checked.
Why

These look like early work toward reading PDFs and attaching project documents. The visible part for now is the note that marks media that was not sent.

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tengu_glittery_crayon Off in both readings

The flag server returned off for the account this site reads and for the anonymous baseline. A reading of off cannot rule out a rollout these two readings sit outside of.

This account: off · anonymous baseline: off · compiled default in v2.1.318: off

These values were read against a different version of Claude Code, so treat them as the nearest reading available instead of one taken on this release.

Read once, for one account on one subscription tier, against v2.1.318. It isn't a statement about your account. What a flag value here can and cannot tell you

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The writer flagged doubtIt is not clear which environment variables besides `CLAUDE_CODE_DISABLE_MCP_TASKS` are now covered, or what the off-by-default project…

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