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Claude Code v2.1.318 ·

Spinner no longer recognises older internal tool names

The status spinner's verb list drops older names for the file, search, Bash and notebook tools; WebFetch, WebSearch, Task and LSP keep theirs

Under the hood Removed
JSON All of v2.1.318
Under the hoodTier: how much it should matter to you
1Useful: my rating, 1 to 5
1Signal: worth watching, 1 to 5
Spinner TipsArea: what it touches
RemovedKind: in v2.1.318,
RemovedSection of the release
What

While Claude works, an animated status line (the spinner) shows a verb such as "Reading" for the tool it is using. A tool is one of the actions Claude can take, like reading a file or running a shell command. The list that matches tools to verbs no longer has entries under these older internal names:

  • FileReadTool
  • FileWriteTool
  • FileEditTool
  • GlobTool
  • GrepTool
  • BashTool
  • NotebookEditTool

The entries for WebFetch, WebSearch, Task and LSP stay.

Why

This looks like cleanup. If anything still looks a tool up by one of the removed names, the spinner will find no verb for it.

See this entry in the whole of v2.1.318 →

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