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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