Hey everyone, just wanted to share a quick tip that saved me a lot of headaches. I was getting super frustrated with my Claude CLI vesion 1.0.0 constantly throwing "Invalid tool argument" errors and getting stuck in loops. Turns out I was running an outdated version.
After updating to the latest version (1.0.18), it's like night and day - feels way smarter and more responsive.
The Anthropic team seems to be pushing fixes and improvements constantly.
So friendly reminder: take a minute to update your CLI.
npm install -g /claude-code@latest
You can check your current version with:
claude --version
Current version is 1.0.18
Allow disabling automatic updates
Claude Code Auto Update Failed
Claude needs to update and doesn't work when I do
Don't forget to update your Claude CLI! It makes a huge difference
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Anybody got the error where Claude Code says it failed to auto-update? This happened after every morning I woke up. Though I still see the new information when enter "/release-notes", however, the new releases/features are not there in CC.
My work around was to create a script to uninstall and reinstall it again after every the error happens. Although it was only once a day, but it's a pain and using "/doctor" or installing it locally as CC suggests still doesn't solve the issue.