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Claude Code 2.1.246 · MCP honesty, background sessions, gateway edge cases
Latest channel only (stable still 2.1.231).34 Wildcard Bash allow rules now warn at startup. Auto mode rules editable under /permissions. Material fixes: MCP interrupted/empty-schema behaviour, background session open/EACCES, Write OOM on large overwrite, resume 400s from proxy history, telemetry credential host scoping, auto-continue on mid-stream cut in -p/SDK/cloud.4
Relevant to: anyone on latest/native Claude Code, MCP servers, or ANTHROPIC_BASE_URL gateways
What the verdict meansAvailable, works, worth your time today.
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Originally part of the 26 August 2026 edition.