v2.1.20
Claude CodeSummary
This release introduces several new quality-of-life features, including PR review status indicators in the prompt footer and improved vim navigation. Numerous bugs related to agent responsiveness, rendering artifacts for wide characters, and history navigation have been resolved. Additionally, the UI has been refined with better status animations and improved configuration management for tool permissions and config backups.
New Features
- Added arrow key history navigation in vim normal mode when cursor cannot move further
- Added external editor shortcut (Ctrl+G) to the help menu for better discoverability
- Added PR review status indicator to the prompt footer, showing the current branch's PR state (approved, changes requested, pending, or draft) as a colored dot with a clickable link
- Added support for loading `CLAUDE.md` files from additional directories specified via --add-dir flag
- Added ability to delete tasks via the `TaskUpdate` tool
- Changed the `/commit-push-pr` skill to automatically post PR URLs to Slack channels when configured via MCP tools
- Changed the `/copy` command to be available to all users
- Changed background agents to prompt for tool permissions before launching
- Changed permission rules like `Bash(*)` to be accepted and treated as equivalent to `Bash`, simplifying permission configuration
Bug Fixes
- Fixed session compaction issues that could cause resume to load full history instead of the compact summary
- Fixed agents sometimes ignoring user messages sent while actively working on a task
- Fixed wide character (emoji, CJK) rendering artifacts where trailing columns were not cleared when replaced by narrower characters
- Fixed JSON parsing errors when MCP tool responses contain special Unicode characters
- Fixed up/down arrow keys in multi-line and wrapped text input to prioritize cursor movement over history navigation
- Fixed draft prompt being lost when pressing UP arrow to navigate command history
- Fixed ghost text flickering when typing slash commands mid-input
- Fixed marketplace source removal not properly deleting settings
- Fixed duplicate output in some commands like `/context`
- Fixed task list sometimes showing outside the main conversation view
- Fixed syntax highlighting for diffs occurring within multiline constructs like Python docstrings
- Fixed crashes when cancelling tool use
Improvements
- Improved `/sandbox` command UI to show dependency status with installation instructions when dependencies are missing
- Improved thinking status text with a subtle shimmer animation
- Improved task list to dynamically adjust visible items based on terminal height
- Improved fork conversation hint to show how to resume the original session
- Changed collapsed read/search groups to show present tense ("Reading", "Searching for") while in progress, and past tense ("Read", "Searched for") when complete
- Changed teammate messages to render with rich Markdown formatting (bold, code blocks, lists, etc.) instead of plain text
- Changed `ToolSearch` results to appear as a brief notification instead of inline in the conversation
- Changed config backups to be timestamped and rotated (keeping 5 most recent) to prevent data loss