# Anthropic carelessly killed a Claude Code feature users built on, no warning > Source: > Published: 2026-11-13 03:13:43+00:00 ## Repository navigation [area:statusline](https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues?q=state%3Aopen%20label%3A%22area%3Astatusline%22) [area:tui](https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues?q=state%3Aopen%20label%3A%22area%3Atui%22) [bugSomething isn't working](https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues?q=state%3Aopen%20label%3A%22bug%22)Something isn't working [platform:linuxIssue specifically occurs on Linux](https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues?q=state%3Aopen%20label%3A%22platform%3Alinux%22)Issue specifically occurs on Linux [platform:macosIssue specifically occurs on macOS](https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues?q=state%3Aopen%20label%3A%22platform%3Amacos%22)Issue specifically occurs on macOS [regression](https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues?q=state%3Aopen%20label%3A%22regression%22) ## Description ## Regression: 2.1.323 silently removed `subagentStatusLine`, with no reason, no replacement and no migration path ### What happened The 2.1.323 changelog says: Removed the `subagentStatusLine` setting: subagent rows always use the default look, and settings files that still hold the key load as before The settings schema now describes the key as "Deprecated: no longer has any effect. Subagent rows always use the default look." Nothing warns at startup. A configured command simply stops running, and users find out when their agent panel goes blank. 2.1.322 still runs the command. 2.1.323 never calls it. ### Why this hurts `subagentStatusLine` was the **only** place in Claude Code where a user could see, per running subagent, at a glance: - its live context use against its own window - what it has spent so far (tokens and dollars) - its model **and** its reasoning effort - its status, its age and its prompt-cache state Without it, a session that runs several background agents is flying blind. Nothing in the default row shows which agent is burning context, which one is about to hit its window, which one went to the expensive model, or which one is silently re-paying for an expired cache. This is the row as it rendered on 2.1.322, boxed in red: The same row as text: ``` ○ ▱▱▱▱▱▱▱ 8% 82.6K/1.0M Σ$2.06/2.9M/28.5K/40 │flights:foreman│opus·▰▰ medium│running 5m:40s│1 error│💾5m✓4m:54s 98% ``` After 2.1.323 the same row reads only `flights:foreman Running grep`. ### This contradicts your own recent direction The changelog kept investing in this setting right up to the removal: - "Added reasoning effort to the `subagentStatusLine` payload, so custom agent rows can render model and effort" - "Added `agentType` to the`subagentStatusLine` payload, so scripts can tell custom subagent types apart" - "Fixed `${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}` not being substituted in a plugin-provided`subagentStatusLine` command" People built on those additions. The docs still present the setting as live today: [https://code.claude.com/docs/en/statusline](https://code.claude.com/docs/en/statusline) (section on `subagentStatusLine`) and [https://code.claude.com/docs/en/settings](https://code.claude.com/docs/en/settings). ### Mods do not replace it The `ui.render` sites in 2.1.323 are `AskUserQuestion`, `UserMessage`, `AssistantMessage`, `ToolUse`, `ToolResult`, `ToolGroup`, `ToolProgress`, `CommandOutput`, `Spinner`, `TurnDuration`, `InfoNotice`, `SessionMode`, `PromptHint`, `AbovePrompt`, `Pane` and `Placed`. None of them is an agent-panel row, so no mod can draw what this setting drew. [#105919](https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/105919) asked for exactly that render site on 2026-10-29 and has had no answer. Related open requests that all assume this setting exists: [#102183](https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/102183), [#102890](https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/102890), [#96895](https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/96895), [#97634](https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/97634) (the last one notes that no other place in the UI shows a subagent's model). ### What we ask 1. **Restore `subagentStatusLine`** in the next release, with the same payload as 2.1.322 (including`effort` ,`agentType` ,`contextWindowSize` and`tokenCount` ). 2. If the default agent panel is being redesigned, **ship the replacement before removing the old hook** : a`ui.render` site for each agent-panel row ([\[FEATURE\] Mods: render sites for statusLine and subagentStatusLine rows #105919](https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/105919) ), whose props carry the same payload. 3. Do not remove a documented, configurable surface without a deprecation release that warns at startup and a changelog line that says why. ### Environment - Claude Code 2.1.323 (regression); 2.1.322 works - Linux and macOS, terminal UI - The `subagentStatusLine` command is set through`--settings` and in user settings; both are ignored on 2.1.323 ## Activity 1. added[bugSomething isn't working](https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues?q=state%3Aopen%20label%3A%22bug%22) Something isn't working[platform:linuxIssue specifically occurs on Linux](https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues?q=state%3Aopen%20label%3A%22platform%3Alinux%22) Issue specifically occurs on Linux[platform:macosIssue specifically occurs on macOS](https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues?q=state%3Aopen%20label%3A%22platform%3Amacos%22) Issue specifically occurs on macOSon Nov 13, 2026 2. You've removed a functionality that I've built my real-time observability on it, with NO reason/replacement/explanation!! This is unacceptable![@dhollman](https://github.com/dhollman) Can you please have a look into this!? ## Metadata ## Metadata ### Assignees ### Labels [area:statusline](https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues?q=state%3Aopen%20label%3A%22area%3Astatusline%22) [area:tui](https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues?q=state%3Aopen%20label%3A%22area%3Atui%22) [bugSomething isn't working](https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues?q=state%3Aopen%20label%3A%22bug%22)Something isn't working [platform:linuxIssue specifically occurs on Linux](https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues?q=state%3Aopen%20label%3A%22platform%3Alinux%22)Issue specifically occurs on Linux [platform:macosIssue specifically occurs on macOS](https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues?q=state%3Aopen%20label%3A%22platform%3Amacos%22)Issue specifically occurs on macOS [regression](https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues?q=state%3Aopen%20label%3A%22regression%22)