Tip: Claude Code's Streaming Idle Watchdog Is Now On by Default — Aborts and Retries After 5 Idle Minutes

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The streaming idle watchdog now defaults on for all providers: if a response stream produces no events for 5 minutes, Claude Code aborts and retries automatically, killing the classic 'hung on a silent stream' failure in long headless/agent runs. Disable with CLAUDE_ENABLE_STREAM_WATCHDOG=0 if you have a legitimately long silent tool call that you don't want interrupted.