Plugin and MCP Expansions Boost Extensibility

Plugins now ship executables in bin/ folders for direct command invocation without wrappers—declare skills with "skills": ["./"] to use the skill's YAML frontmatter name. YAML-defined plugin skill hooks fire reliably. MCP tools gain per-call result persistence overrides via _meta["anthropic/maxResultSizeChars"] up to 500,000 characters; set disableSkillShellExecution to block inline shell calls; Slack send-message shows compact #channel headers with clickable links. These let you scale agent outputs and secure executions without full reconfiguration.

Integrations and Defaults Enhance Provider Flexibility

Amazon Bedrock runs via Mantle with CLAUDE_CODE_USE_MANTLE=1, including an interactive AWS setup wizard. Default effort level rises from medium to high for API-key, Bedrock, Vertex, Foundry, Team, and Enterprise users, delivering more reasoning out-of-box; Sonnet 3.5 v2 invocation fixed. claude-cli://open handles multi-line prompts; plan mode survives container restarts; remote sessions prefix names with hostname. /cost now breaks down usage per model and cache hits for subscribers; /release-notes picks interactively; /tag and /vim removed. Run claude update to access.

Resume, Performance, and Reliability Fixes Accelerate Workflows

--resume works across git worktrees without manual navigation—transcript chain breaks fixed; userPromptSubmit hooks set session titles via output. Write tool diff computation speeds up 60% on large files; agents resume after 429 rate-limits; subagents persist through tmux switches; prompt-type stop hooks succeed. Terminal keybinds (Cmd+Delete, Ctrl+E) restored; CJK/multi-byte stream-json corruption fixed; cursor tracking, rendering bugs squashed. Security adds forceRemoteSettingsRefresh fail-closed policy and macOS keychain console login fixes. Across v2.1.91–2.1.94: 5 features, 20 bug fixes, 6 improvements deliver production-ready gains for agentic coding.