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Claude Code v2.1.181 ·

Refusal Message and Category Improvements

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Refusal handling has been refactored to better distinguish between model-level safety measures and topic-specific restrictions:

  • frontier_llm and reasoning_extraction are now recognized as known refusal categories with dedicated handling.
  • Cybersecurity refusals now surface an exemption link: https://claude.com/form/cyber-use-case
  • Refusal messages now explicitly call out which model triggered the block (using a readable model name via Mp() rather than a raw model ID).
  • The stop_details.category type is now an open string schema to forward new categories before schema updates ship.
Evidence

Cybersecurity exemption URL (search for "https://claude.com/form/cyber-use-case") — xTd constant at line ~265379; category helpers (search for "frontier_llm") — GNi() at line ~265278

Strings lifted out of the shipped bundle, so the claim above can be checked against them.

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