CLAUDE_CODE_DISABLE_REFUSAL_RETRY
A Claude Code environment variable, read out of the shipped bundle. It has been in the build since v2.1.282, including the newest one read.
When safeguards stop a response, Claude Code now retries once on the same model by default; set CLAUDE_CODE_DISABLE_REFUSAL_RETRY to turn this off
Not Anthropic's. This is the line from the earliest changelog entry here that named it, v2.1.282.
In the changelogs
2Releases whose published page names CLAUDE_CODE_DISABLE_REFUSAL_RETRY.
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v2.1.282
One retry after a safety stop is now on for everyone, with a way to opt out
When safeguards stop a response, Claude Code now retries once on the same model by default; set
CLAUDE_CODE_DISABLE_REFUSAL_RETRYto turn this offfound in this entry's text
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v2.1.282
Retry after a safety-classifier refusal is now on for everyone, with a way to turn it off
Refusal retry no longer needs a server flag or an opt-in variable, and
CLAUDE_CODE_DISABLE_REFUSAL_RETRYnow turns it offfound in this entry's text
First cited
2The earliest release whose published evidence quoted CLAUDE_CODE_DISABLE_REFUSAL_RETRY was v2.1.282, 24 Sep 2026. That is the oldest release this project wrote about it, so it is a floor on the name's age and not the release that introduced it. It is not a presence reading: which builds carried the name is the table below.
Presence across releases
1Build by build
2One row per release since the first build this name was read out of. Absent means the build was read and the name was not in it, never mined means no bundle for that release was ever archived, and a declared type or a default is only ever what that release's own bundle stated.
Read out of the published npm bundle release by release, and out of Anthropic's own documentation as this site captured it. Nothing on this page is a description anybody here wrote about what the environment variable does. All environment variables.