Claude Code v2.1.199
Claude Code v2.1.199 was released on .
Summary
Claude Code 2.1.199 now handles multiple stacked skills at once instead of just the first one, letting you combine more tools in a single command. We've also fixed SSL certificate errors to fail fast with clear solutions instead of wasting retries, plus resolved several issues...
Release Context
- This was the 155th Claude Code release of 2026 tracked by Havoptic.
- It shipped 1 day after Claude Code v2.1.198 (July 1, 2026).
Shipped around the same time
Within 3 days of this release, other AI coding tools also shipped:
- Devin Desktop v3.4.22 (July 4, 2026)
- Antigravity CLI v1.0.16 (July 2, 2026)
- Kiro CLI v2.11.0 (July 2, 2026)
- Antigravity CLI v1.0.15 (July 1, 2026)
- GitHub Copilot CLI v1.0.68 (July 1, 2026)
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Release Notes
- Stacked slash-skill invocations like /skill-a /skill-b do XYZ now load all leading skills (up to 5), not just the first
- Fixed SSL certificate errors (TLS-inspecting proxies, missing NODEEXTRACACERTS, expired certs) burning retries before showing actionable guidance — they now fail immediately with the fix hint
- Fixed streaming responses being discarded when the API emits a mid-stream overloaded/server error after partial output — the partial is now kept with an incomplete-response notice
- Fixed subagents cut off by a rate limit or server error silently failing instead of returning their partial work to the parent
- Fixed subagents reporting API errors (e.g. usage limit reached) as successful results — the error is now reported to the parent agent
- Fixed the background-agent daemon on Linux killing itself and every running agent every ~50 seconds after an unclean shutdown left a corrupted worker record
- Fixed background agents failing to cold-start over SSH on macOS with "Could not switch to audit session" (regression in 2.1.196)
- Fixed claude stop being silently undone when it raced a background-agent respawn — the respawn now honors the stop
- Fixed background job progress indicators stalling for minutes while the job ran long commands
- Fixed background sessions on memory-starved machines showing a generic error — they now indicate low memory and suggest freeing resources
- Fixed remote sessions briefly flapping between Working and Idle in the agent view when a background agent completes
- Fixed idle subagents vanishing from the agent panel while other subagents were still working; surplus idle agents now collapse into an expandable summary row
- Fixed typing /model or /fast while viewing a subagent silently opening the lead's model picker — a notice now explains the command applies to the lead
- Fixed SessionStart, Setup, and SubagentStart hooks silently hiding stderr when exiting with code 2 — the error is now shown in the transcript
- Fixed claude --dangerously-skip-permissions daemon <subcommand> being treated as a chat prompt instead of running the subcommand
- Fixed SendMessage silently misrouting when a re-spawned agent reuses a previous agent's name — the tool now detects the mismatch and asks the caller to retarget
- Fixed opening or resuming a session with no new messages needlessly growing the transcript file
- Fixed backgrounding a session with ← or /background dropping its /color from the agent view row
- Fixed resetting a corrupted config file from the startup recovery dialog destroying it unrecoverably — it now backs up the file first
- Fixed Claude in Chrome repeatedly opening the reconnect page when sessions run from different builds or config directories
- Fixed plan mode not prompting for state-changing browser tool calls; read-only browserbatch calls are now correctly auto-allowed
- CLAUDECODERETRYWATCHDOG now raises the default retry count for non-capacity transient errors to 300 and lifts the cap of 15 on CLAUDECODEMAXRETRIES
- claude agents session rows now show pull-request links as bare N without the redundant "PR" label
Other Recent Claude Code Releases
- v2.1.215 (July 19, 2026)
- v2.1.214 (July 18, 2026)
- v2.1.212 (July 16, 2026)
- v2.1.211 (July 15, 2026)
- v2.1.210 (July 14, 2026)
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