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Fork subagents now enabled by default across all Claude Code platforms

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Fork subagents, which inherit full conversation context while isolating tool output from the context, are now enabled by default in the CLI, Agent SDK, desktop app, and VS Code. They can be disabled with CLAUDE_CODE_FORK_SUBAGENT=0.

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