Claude Code v2.1.304
Claude Code v2.1.304 was released on .
Summary
Claude Code 2.1.304 now gives you better visibility into plugin interactions and adds intelligent setup guidance that learns from your project to optimize auto mode. We've also introduced security verification tools and smarter conversation management to help you make the most...
Release Context
- This was the 246th Claude Code release of 2026 tracked by Havoptic.
- It shipped 1 day after Claude Code v2.1.303 (October 18, 2026).
- Claude Code: ships every 1.4 days — 22 releases in the last month.
Why it matters: Auto-mode setup now guides your environment configuration.
Shipped around the same time
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Release Notes
- Added a transcript line when a plugin that runs first skips one of your mod's hooks, naming the event and the plugin
- Added decider: "person" to a mod's tool.check answer: only the permission dialog or a host's callback can approve the ask, and it is refused with the mod's reason where nobody can be asked
- Added e.isReadOnly to a mod's tool.check event, set when the tool call is read-only
- Added /auto-mode-setup: a guided setup that reads your project and recent sessions to teach auto mode about your environment, now also available on Bedrock, Vertex, Foundry, Claude apps gateway and telemetry-disabled sessions
- Added /claude-api managed-agents-secure, which compares a Managed Agents agent's settings with Anthropic's published security guide, without changing anything
- Added the names of the tools called earlier to the compaction summary in the transcript view (Ctrl+O)
- Added a warning on Pro and Max plans when resuming an inactive conversation would use a noticeable share of your 5-hour usage limit: resume anyway, or start a new conversation and Claude can look up the previous one if you refer to it
- Fixed the organi
Other Recent Claude Code Releases
- v2.1.302 (October 16, 2026)
- v2.1.301 (October 15, 2026)
- v2.1.300 (October 14, 2026)
- v2.1.299 (October 14, 2026)
- v2.1.296 (October 9, 2026)
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