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Releases v2.1.207 → v2.1.2122 features · July 13–17
Artifacts call your MCP connectorsweb

A published artifact can now call MCP connectors each time someone views it, so a dashboard shows live data and can take actions on demand rather than a snapshot from the session that built it. Each call runs through the viewing account’s own connections, and viewers approve access before the page’s first connector call. This week also adds public sharing links, editor roles for shared editing on Team and Enterprise plans, and artifacts created from Claude Tag sessions.

Name the connector and the data you want in your prompt:

Claude Code
Pull live data with MCP connectors
Screen reader modeCLI

Screen reader mode replaces the visual terminal interface with plain, linear text: instead of boxes, spinners, and in-place redraws, Claude Code prints labeled lines that a screen reader such as VoiceOver or NVDA reads in order, so you can approve permissions and review output end to end. Turn it on per session with a flag, per shell with the CLAUDE_AX_SCREEN_READER environment variable, or everywhere with the axScreenReader setting.

Start a session in screen reader mode:

terminal
Turn on screen reader mode

Other wins

/fork now copies your conversation into a new background session with its own row in claude agents while you keep working; the in-session forked subagent it used to launch is now /subtask
Auto mode no longer needs the CLAUDE_CODE_ENABLE_AUTO_MODE opt-in on Amazon Bedrock, Google Cloud’s Agent Platform, and Microsoft Foundry; administrators can turn it off with disableAutoMode
MCP tool calls that run longer than two minutes now move to the background automatically so the session stays usable; tune or disable the threshold with CLAUDE_CODE_MCP_AUTO_BACKGROUND_MS
New claude auto-mode reset restores the default auto-mode configuration, and --yes skips the confirmation prompt
New corporate launcher support: CLAUDE_CODE_PROCESS_WRAPPER or the processWrapper setting runs the processes Claude Code starts from its own binary, such as the background service and agent view sessions, through a required wrapper executable
vimInsertModeRemaps setting maps two-key insert-mode sequences such as jj to Escape in vim mode
--forward-subagent-text and CLAUDE_CODE_FORWARD_SUBAGENT_TEXT include subagent text and thinking blocks in stream-json output
Session-wide caps stop runaway loops: WebSearch calls and subagent spawns each default to 200, tunable with CLAUDE_CODE_MAX_WEB_SEARCHES_PER_SESSION and CLAUDE_CODE_MAX_SUBAGENTS_PER_SESSION
”Always allow” permission rules save at the repository root, so approvals granted in a git worktree persist across sessions and worktrees
Amazon Bedrock, Google Cloud’s Agent Platform, and Claude Platform on AWS now default to Claude Opus 4.8
The collapsed tool summary line shows a live elapsed-time counter, so long-running tool calls visibly tick instead of looking stuck
Full changelog for v2.1.207–v2.1.212 →