What's changed

• Bare /color (no args) now picks a random session color
• /mcp now shows the tool count for connected servers and flags servers that connected with 0 tools
• --plugin-dir now accepts .zip plugin archives in addition to directories
• --channels now works with console (API key) authentication — console orgs with managed settings must set channelsEnabled: true to enable
• Updated /model picker: collapsed duplicate Opus 4.7 entries, and current Opus now shows as "Opus" instead of "Opus 4.7"
• Subprocesses (Bash, hooks, MCP, LSP) no longer inherit OTEL_* environment variables, so OTEL-instrumented apps run via the Bash tool no longer pick up the CLI's own OTLP endpoint
• MCP: workspace is now a reserved server name — existing servers with that name will be skipped with a warning
• Reconnecting MCP servers no longer flood the conversation with full tool-name lists on every reconnect — re-announced tools are summarized by server prefix
• SDK hosts now receive a persistent localSettings suggestion for Bash permission prompts, so "Always allow" writes to .claude/settings.local.json
• EnterWorktree now creates the new branch from local HEAD as documented, instead of origin/<default-branch> — unpushed commits are no longer dropped
• Auto mode: when the classifier can't evaluate an action, the error now includes a hint (retry, /compact, or run with --debug)
• Fixed focus mode briefly dimming the previous response when submitting a new prompt
• Fixed stray "4;0;" desktop notification on every /exit in Kitty and other terminals that interpret OSC 9 as a notification
• Fixed Remote Control showing an empty "Opening your options…" message on rate limit instead of actionable upsell options
• Fixed drag-and-drop image upload hanging on "Pasting text…" when the image read fails
• Fixed crash loop when piping very large input (>10 MB) to claude -p via stdin
• Fixed long URLs not being individually clickable on every wrapped row in fullscreen mode
• Fixed /plugin Components panel showing "Marketplace 'inline' not found" for plugins loaded via --plugin-dir
• Fixed MCP tool results dropping images when the server returns both structured content and content blocks
• Fixed fenced code blocks inside list items carrying leading whitespace into the clipboard on copy-paste
• Fixed tab navigation in /config stranding focus — the tab header now stays focused so arrows and Esc keep working
• Fixed markdown link labels being lost on terminals without OSC 8 hyperlink support — links now render as label (url) instead of just the URL
• Fixed sessions on 1M-context models with a smaller autocompact window being falsely blocked with "Prompt is too long" before reaching the actual API limit
• Fixed parallel shell tool calls: a failing read-only command (grep, git diff, ls) no longer cancels sibling calls
• Fixed banner showing "with X effort" on models that don't support effort
• Fixed /fast on 3P providers fuzzy-matching to an unrelated skill instead of showing "not available"
• Fixed Bedrock default model resolving to global.* instead of the region-appropriate prefix
• Fixed vim mode: Space in NORMAL mode now moves the cursor right, matching standard vi/vim behavior
• Fixed terminal progress indicator (OSC 9;4) flickering off between tool calls — stays visible across the full turn
• Fixed /rename without args failing on resumed sessions whose last entry is a compact boundary
• Fixed stale "remote-control is active" status lines from prior sessions appearing after --resume/--continue
• Fixed stale installed_plugins.json entries pointing at deleted cache directories polluting PATH
• Fixed MCP stdio servers receiving corrupted arguments when CLAUDE_CODE_SHELL_PREFIX is set and an argument contains spaces or shell metacharacters
• Fixed sub-agent progress summaries missing the prompt cache (~3× cache_creation reduction)
• Fixed /plugin update never detecting new versions of npm-sourced plugins
• Fixed sub-agent summaries firing repeatedly while a sub-agent's transcript is static, capping worst-case token cost on idle sub-agents
• Headless --output-format stream-json: init.plugin_errors now includes --plugin-dir load failures in addition to dependency demotions