Claude Code Fixes, Codex Drift, and the Agent Loop Tax
Wednesday, August 26, 2026 · 9 min
Claude Code v2.1.246 adds sharper MCP interruption reporting and permission warnings as a glibc 2.44 crash gets bisected; meanwhile Codex Desktop and practitioner benchmarks show agent workflows still losing goals, preserving stale context, and looping expensively.
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Claude Code v2.1.246 adds sharper MCP interruption reporting and permission warnings as a glibc 2.44 crash gets bisected; meanwhile Codex Desktop and practitioner benchmarks show agent workflows still losing goals, preserving stale context, and looping expensively.
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- v2.1.246 — Anthropic
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# 2.1.242+ segfault is glibc-2.44-only: bisected 2.35→2.44, glibc 2.44's __newlocale refactor added an unconditional free(NULL); simulating a NULL guard boots 2.1.243 cleanly - State: open - Author: mhpsy - Created: 2026-08-25T03:23:11Z - Updated: 2026-08-25T03:24:27Z - Repository: anthropics/claude-code - Number: #89420 ## Labels - duplicate - has repro - platform:linux - area:packaging -…
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