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Summary
Claude Code v2.1.319 focuses on unattended agent execution, improving CI pipelines, cron jobs, and multi-agent environments. MCP tasks can run in the background, so long-running or slow MCP calls no longer block sessions, with results reported on completion. A new denyInsteadOfPrompting option lets…
Key points
- Teams running Claude Code in CI or cron can use these settings to keep workflows from stalling on manual approvals and slow MCP calls.
- Whether an agent can run to completion unattended is the key threshold from demo to production workflow, and this release targets exactly that pain point.
- Operators can replace manual approvals with policy-based denials and use the latency optimization command to repeatedly verify API adjustments; but beware that misconfigured deny policies can block legitimate tool calls.
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