Under the hoodTier: how much it should matter to you
2Useful: my rating, 1 to 5
2Signal: worth watching, 1 to 5
SDKArea: what it touches
ImprovementsKind: in v2.1.323,
ImprovementsSection of the release
What
The Agent SDK is the toolkit that lets other programs, such as desktop apps, run Claude Code. Three of its message formats change:
MCP server settings (for add-ons that give Claude extra tools) gain an internal field recording where the host got the server: Anthropic, a claude.ai connector, or the user's own setup.
The request to refresh a sign-in token gains a field saying whether the token was refused or not.
The request asking the host app to refresh its own sign-in token gains a status of 401 or 403, the two usual web codes for a rejected sign-in.
Why
Apps built on Claude Code, such as Desktop and Cowork, can tell why a token was asked for and where an MCP server came from.