Anthropic's Claude Code v2.1.285 adds new environment variables, plugin configuration opti

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Anthropic's Claude Code v2.1.285 adds new environment variables, plugin configuration options, and fixes numerous issues, including subagent and plugin management.

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claude code just dropped v2.1.285 with new env vars to disable webfetch or cap non-streaming retries. nice to see more fine-grained control.

anthropic's claude code v2.1.285 release brings desktop app launch from the cli and better plugin config. lots of fixes for subagents and SSH too!

[MERGED across 3 sources: github_releases, npm, pages] shared signal: claude-code --- npm :: @anthropic-ai/claude-code --- @anthropic-ai/claude-code 2.1.284 -> 2.1.285: +6 strings, -4 strings, 1 flagged as interesting [sentence] (1) + s pinned list in their claude.ai sidebar and --- github_releases :: anthropics/claude-code --- anthropics/claude-code release: v2.1.285 name: v2.1.285 published: 2026-09-29T19:27:30Z url: https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/releases/tag/v2.1.285 ## What's changed - Added `CLAUDE_CODE_DISABLE_WEB_FETCH` environment variable to turn off the WebFetch tool - Added `claude --desktop` to open the Claude desktop app on the current directory, or on a session with `--continue` / `--resume <id>` - Added `claude plugin configure <plugin>` to show a plugin's options and which are unset, or save new values read from stdin with `--values-stdin` - Added `<server>.<key>=<value>` to `claude plugin install --config`, so a bundled `.mcpb` MCP server's own settings can be set at install time and it starts without visiting `/plugin` → Configure - Added `allowedProviders` managed setting to limit which API providers a machine may use (Anthropic API, a custom endpoint, Bedrock, Mantle, Vertex AI, Foundry, Claude Platform on AWS, or a Cloud gateway) - Added `CLAUDE_CODE_NONSTREAMING_TIMEOUT_RETRIES` environment variable to cap re-sends of a non-streaming fallback request that timed out - Fixed `claude -p` with `CLAUDE_CODE_FORK_SUBAGENT=1`: a subagent's own Agent call now runs in the foreground, so the subagent gets the child's result - Fixed plugin and marketplace installs and updates over SSH ignoring the ssh program set in `GIT_SSH` or in your git config's `core.sshCommand` - Fixed Claude Code refusing to start when the OS denies reading the managed settings file; it now warns and starts without that file's policies. Other read errors and unparseable files stop every session - Fixed cloud sessions that restarted after their conversation was co