Under the hoodTier: how much it should matter to you
1Useful: my rating, 1 to 5
0Signal: worth watching, 1 to 5
ElsewhereArea: what it touches
Internal ChangesKind: in v2.1.321,
Internal ChangesSection of the release
What
Claude Code hides secrets such as passwords and keys from some text. It now first does a quick check, and if nothing in the text looks like a secret, it returns the text unchanged without running every rule. Before, every rule always ran. File reads also now reuse one shared 64 KiB memory buffer instead of creating a new one for each piece. The performance figures Claude Code collects now include free disk space and memory clean-up details.
Why
This makes Claude Code faster. The quick check carries a small risk of missing a secret that only a full rule would catch.