Claude-Code v2.1.72: SSH improvements, permission prompt reductions, and bug fixes

What's new in Claude-Code v2.1.72

Claude-Code v2.1.72 focuses on practical workflow improvements and bug fixes, particularly for SSH sessions and permission management.

Key changes and features

• SSH file writing: Added w key in /copy to write focused selection directly to a file, bypassing clipboard (useful over SSH)
• Plan mode enhancement: Added optional description argument to /plan (e.g., /plan fix the auth bug) that enters plan mode and immediately starts
• Reduced permission prompts: Added lsof, pgrep, tput, ss, fd, and fdfind to bash auto-approval allowlist for common read-only operations
• Tool search proxy: Changed tool search to bypass third-party proxy gate when environment variable is set (replaces CLAUDE_CODE_PROXY_SUPPORTS_TOOL_REFERENCE, now removed)
• Worktree management: Added ExitWorktree tool to leave an EnterWorktree session
• Cron control: Added CLAUDE_CODE_DISABLE_CRON environment variable to immediately stop scheduled cron jobs mid-session
• Git URL support: Added support for marketplace git URLs without .git suffix (Azure DevOps, AWS CodeCommit)
• Model parameter restored: Restored the model parameter on the Agent tool for per-invocation model overrides
• Effort levels simplified: Simplified to low/medium/high (removed max) with new symbols (○ ◐ ●) and brief notification instead of persistent icon. Use /effort auto to reset to default
• Command alias: Added claude plugins as an alias for claude plugin

Interface improvements

• Improved /config — Escape cancels changes, Enter saves and closes, Space toggles settings
• Improved up-arrow history to show current session's messages first when running multiple concurrent sessions
• Improved voice input transcription accuracy for repo names and common dev terms (regex, OAuth, JSON)
• Improved bash command parsing by switching to a native module — faster initialization and no memory leak
• Reduced bundle size by ~510 KB
• Changed CLAUDE.md HTML comments (<!-- ... -->) to be hidden from Claude when auto-injected (comments remain visible when read with Read tool)

Bug fixes

• Fixed slow exits when background tasks or hooks were slow to respond
• Fixed agent task progress stuck on "Initializing…"
• Fixed skill hooks firing twice per event when hooks-enabled skill is invoked by model
• Fixed several voice mode issues: input lag, false "No speech detected" errors after releasing push-to-talk, and stale transcripts re-filling prompt after submission
• Fixed --continue not resuming from most recent point after --compact
• Fixed bash security parsing edge cases
• Fixed several plugin issues: installation failing on Windows with EEXIST error in OneDrive folders, marketplace blocking user-scope installs when project-scope install exists, CLAUDE_CODE_PLUGIN_CACHE_DIR creating literal ~ directories, and plugin.json with marketplace-only fields failing to load
• Fixed feedback survey appearing too frequently in long sessions
• Fixed --effort CLI flag being reset by unrelated settings writes on startup
• Fixed backgrounded Ctrl+B queries losing transcript or corrupting new conversation after /clear
• Fixed /clear killing background agent/bash tasks — only foreground tasks now cleared
• Fixed worktree isolation issues: Task tool resume not restoring cwd, and background task notifications missing worktreePath and worktreeBranch
• Fixed /model not displaying results when run while Claude is working
• Fixed digit keys selecting menu options instead of typing in plan mode permission prompt's text input
• Fixed sandbox permission issues: certain file write operations incorrectly allowed without prompting, and output redirections to allowlisted directories (like /tmp/claude/) prompting unnecessarily
• Improved CPU utilization in long sessions
• Fixed prompt cache invalidation in SDK query() calls, reducing input token costs up to 12x
• Fixed Escape key becoming unresponsive after cancelling query
• Fixed double Ctrl+C not exiting when background agents or tasks are running
• Fixed team agents to inherit leader's model
• Fixed "Always Allow" saving permission rules

Performance and security improvements

• Reduced false-positive bash permission prompts — tree-sitter parsing now handles find -exec, variable assignments, command substitutions, and other patterns that previously triggered unnecessary prompts
• Fixed tree-sitter not loading in npm-installed versions
• Improved marketplace clone failure messages to show diagnostic info even when git produces no stderr
• Improved claude plugin validate to explain that marketplace.json source paths are relative to repo root when rejecting ../ paths