Claude Code 2.1.198 auto-continued past human prompts with no changelog note
Olaf Alders documents that Claude Code 2.1.198, shipped July 1, 2026 with no changelog or docs entry, made the AskUserQuestion tool auto-return 'proceed on best judgment' after 60 seconds when no human answered — and a half-filled dialog got submitted, not discarded. Anthropic reversed it in 2.1.200 two days later, but the episode is proof that auto-update can land undocumented default changes daily, a live risk for anyone running unattended agents on deploy-relevant prompts.
Source: olafalders.com ↗
Surprising features in Claude Code can in theory (and in practice) be shipped by Anthropic on a daily cadence
Olaf Alders
Why this matters
- → Undocumented auto-update can ship breaking behavior to unattended agents without changelog notice
- → 60-second timeout + half-filled dialogs create silent submission risks in deploy pipelines
- → Daily release cadence means defaults can change faster than human oversight catches them
Silent defaults, daily deploys