You'll noticeTier: how much it should matter to you
1Useful: my rating, 1 to 5
1Signal: worth watching, 1 to 5
Cloud SessionsArea: what it touches
ImprovementsKind: in v2.1.321,
ImprovementsSection of the release
What
In a cloud session, using /model to switch models now shows "Waiting for the cloud session to be ready, then switching to" the chosen model when the session is not ready yet. Before, it only said it was switching.
Why
You can tell that Claude Code is waiting on the cloud session rather than stuck.
The entry above is what we published on the day. These lines were added later, as Anthropic's own pages caught up, and they sit beside the original rather than replacing it.
Confirmed sinceAnthropic's documentation has since written up /model, on compaction-threshold.| Beta | Claude API, [Claude Platform on AWS](https://platform.claude.com/docs/en/build-with-claude/claude-platform-on-aws) | [Claude Fable 5.2](https://platform.claude.com/docs/en/models/fable-5-2/overview), [Claude Mythos 5.2](https://pl…build-with-claude/compaction-thresholdsee the edit
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How sure we are
Two sources agreeTwo things we can check say the same as this entry.
Anthropic's documentation agreesA small documentation edit on claude-tag touched a line naming /model after this was published.
Anthropic's release notes agreeImproved the /model picker: "More models" is now an unnumbered row below every other, and older models open under it without renumbering the…
