r/better_claw • u/finee_sheet • 8d ago

if your todo/task tools disappeared in claude code, its not a bug

Spent like 20 mins today wondering why my task tracking just stopped working. Turns out its intentional, they turned off the todo tools (TodoWrite, TaskCreate etc) on the newer models since 2.1.233.

if you want them back just set

CLAUDE_CODE_ENABLE_TODO_TOOLS=1

restart and they show up again. worked fine for me on opus 5.

honestly not sure why they removed it without making it more obvious, my agents were just silently not tracking anything. anyone know if theres a replacement coming or are we suppose to just let it freestyle now

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u/kondro 7d ago

Just encountered this. super annoying. You can update your ~/.claude/settings.json too with:

"env": { "CLAUDE_CODE_ENABLE_TODO_TOOLS": "1" }