
Claude Code 2.1 Lands, Five Tripwires Hit
A 2.1.121 bump isn’t supposed to burn Tuesday afternoons. But when the subagent fork flag collides with legacy hooks and plugin loaders, the audit pass becomes the cost nobody budgeted for.
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