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title: Claude Code 2.1.294 stops instruction hooks from allowing blocked actions
description: "Claude Code 2.1.294 fixes instruction-style prompt and agent hooks that allowed actions they were meant to block, and tightens Stop and SubagentStop judgments."
date: 2026-10-08T15:07:34.272Z
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# Claude Code 2.1.294 stops instruction hooks from allowing blocked actions

> Claude Code 2.1.294 fixes instruction-style prompt and agent hooks that allowed actions they were meant to block, and tightens Stop and SubagentStop judgments.

Claude Code 2.1.294 is a hook correction, not a feature list. Published October 8, 2026, at 05:03:54 UTC, the release notes under "What's changed" contain two bullets. Both are about hooks written as instructions. No other changes are listed.

The first bullet is a fix. `prompt` and `agent` hooks written as instructions were allowing what they should block. The notes' example of that writing style is "Block commands that..." In 2.1.294, that allowing behavior is fixed. Read plainly, an instruction whose point was to block a command was not blocking it. The notes do not name the commands or the wording variants involved. They name the hook kinds — prompt and agent — and the failure: allowing what the instruction should block.

The second bullet is an improvement in judgment, and it points the other way. `prompt` hooks on Stop and SubagentStop written as instructions are judged so Claude is less likely to stop early. The example is "Carry on if the build is broken." That is not described as the same failure. The notes do not say those stop hooks were allowing a blocked action. They say the judgment of a carry-on instruction is improved, and that Claude is less likely to stop early because of it.

Keeping the two apart matters if you use instruction-style hooks as controls. A block instruction on a prompt or agent hook is the case the fix addresses. A continue instruction on Stop or SubagentStop is the case the judgment change addresses. Treating the release as a general tightening of every hook would go past what the notes actually publish.

What the notes leave unknown is the rest of the operational detail: which instruction phrases besides the two examples were in scope, how the new judgment works, and whether existing hook text must be edited. Those points are not in the release.

Before you treat an instruction-style block as already enforced, read the v2.1.294 notes and check the hooks you run — prompt and agent hooks written to block, and Stop or SubagentStop prompt hooks written to carry on — against the behavior those two bullets describe.

## Sources

- [Claude Code v2\.1\.294](https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/releases/tag/v2.1.294)