[Release] anthropics/claude-code v2.1.200: v2.1.200

Claude Code v2.1.200 introduces significant stability and usability improvements, including changes to user interaction defaults (manual permission mode, no auto-continue dialogs), fixes for background session crashes and daemon management issues, and enhancements to accessibility features. The release addresses critical bugs in MCP server handling, subagent rate limiting, and terminal rendering, while improving screen reader support and installation robustness.

Key Points

• •Changed default permission mode from 'default' to 'Manual' across all interfaces (CLI, VS Code, JetBrains) for explicit user control
• •Disabled auto-continue for AskUserQuestion dialogs by default; users can opt into idle timeout via /config command
• •Fixed background session crashes caused by sleep/wake cycles and stalled session reopening that would silently stop mid-turn
• •Resolved daemon lock file corruption preventing background agents from restarting after crashes; now uses version build timestamps for recency validation
• •Fixed background agent roster corruption issues including orphan cleanup failures and field preservation across version upgrades
• •Improved subagent error handling to fail cleanly when rate-limited before producing output instead of returning empty results
• •Enhanced accessibility: screen readers now hide decorative glyphs, transcript symbols read as labels, and nested tables render as key-value pairs
• •Fixed MCP server configuration parsing to handle non-array values in disabledMcpServers and enabledMcpServers without crashing
• •Resolved plugin loading issues for project-scoped plugins in git worktrees and fixed --plugin-dir flag argument ordering
• •Improved terminal rendering under tmux 3.4+ with synchronized output to eliminate flicker

Workflow Diagram

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