# Claude Code 2.1.311 By Steven Van · 2026-10-26 Version 2.1.311 adds idle-hold flags for self-hosted runners and fixes freezes, stalled edits, interrupts and a 1M-context error on long requests. Claude Code 2.1.311 is a [bug-fix-heavy release]() of [Claude Code]() with two small additions. ## Added - --hold-idle-file and --max-hold-min for self-hosted-runner, which keep an idle session alive while the host reports processes it left running. - A tip for the Explanatory output style, shown when you ask Claude for explanations. ## Fixed - Long freezes at startup and after reading or editing files when a CLAUDE.md file holds a very long list item. - Interrupting Claude not taking effect until a timeout while an MCP server had not answered a resource read or a skill was still downloading. - Standard-context sessions stopping with "Usage credits required for 1M context" when a request ran over 200K tokens. Claude Code now compacts the conversation and continues. - Write and Edit stalling for up to 5 seconds after they ran, and reporting 0 lines changed, when changing thousands of lines in a file. - Subagents being unable to use MCP tools from servers that finish connecting after the subagent starts. - Claude seeing stale MEMORY.md and CLAUDE.md content right after automatic compaction when those files were edited earlier in the session. - claude -p and SDK sessions saving transcript messages out of order or keeping messages that were taken back. ![Claude Code]() Claude Code Anthropic's agentic coding tool — Claude in your terminal, IDE, desktop app and browser, reading and editing your codebase, running commands, opening pull requests and working on tasks in the cloud. [View Claude Code →]() [Original source]() [Read Claude Code 2.1.311 on Creators Toolbox]() --- Canonical source: https://creatorstoolbox.com/blog/claude-code-claude-code-2-1-311