You'll noticeTier: how much it should matter to you
2Useful: my rating, 1 to 5
3Signal: worth watching, 1 to 5
Managed SettingsArea: what it touches
ImprovementsKind: in v2.1.232,
ImprovementsSection of the release
What
When the periodic refresh of a policy helper keeps failing and a fixed default payload is configured, Claude Code serves that payload instead of continuing to hand out the last successful helper output.
Details
The switch is recorded as a refresh_fell_back_to_default outcome.
If the helper is still failing while the default is already being served, it is logged at debug level only, so repeated failures do not spam.
Evidence
refresh_fell_back_to_default
Strings lifted out of the shipped bundle, so the claim above can be checked against them.
