Loosening a Freshly Tightened Rein in Just Two Days — Claude Code v2.1.219 Restores Nested Subagents to "Depth 3 by Default" and Adds a "Fewer Than 15" Guideline for Workflows
Claude Code v2.1.219 restores nested subagents — turned off by default just two days earlier — to "depth 3 by default," and introduces a new "fewer than 15" guideline for dynamic workflows. A look at the tug-of-war between autonomy and safety, and where these changes matter most for unattended opera