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Claude Code is being dumbed down?

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February 11, 2026 by Yoshi

Version 2.1.20 of Claude Code shipped a change that replaced every file read and every search pattern with a single, useless summary line.

Where you used to see:

You now get:

That’s it.

“Read 3 files.” Which files? Doesn’t matter.

“Searched for 1 pattern.” What pattern? Who cares.

You’re paying $200 a month for a tool that now hides what it’s doing with your codebase by default.

Across multiple GitHub issues opened for this, all comments are pretty much saying the same thing: give us back the file paths, or at minimum, give us a toggle.

The response from Anthropic:

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