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Claude Code v2.1.229 ·

Auto-mode model selection retries when its classifier model is unavailable

Auto mode retries instead of failing when the model that routes your turn is briefly unavailable.

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2Signal: worth watching, 1 to 5
ModelsArea: what it touches
ImprovementsKind: in v2.1.229,
ImprovementsSection of the release
What

The model that picks which model handles your turn in auto mode is now retried with exponential backoff and jitter when it returns a retryable unavailability error, for a configured number of attempts, instead of failing on the first one.

Details
Evidence

tengu_auto_mode_outer_retry

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

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