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Two new settings raise how much command output Claude sees inline before it gets spilled to a file, up to 128K characters
Claude Code 2.1.261 adds bashOutputMaxChars and taskOutputMaxChars, which control the inline threshold for shell output and background-task output separately. Below the limit Claude reads the output directly; above it, the output is written to a file the agent must then open, costing a round trip. The same release adds --append-subagent-system-prompt-file for subagent system prompts too large to pass on the command line.
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