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Claude Code v2.1.235

On-hold accounts get their own auth failure kind, behind the same gate

Not switched on
Useful2 Signal4
Auth

Accounts on hold would get a dedicated auth error with an appeal link, but the gate is off.

On-hold OAuth responses get their own outcome that stops retrying, short-circuited off unless a flag with fallback false reads true.

Feature flag
tengu_lively_beaver Off in both readings

The flag server returned off for the account this site reads and for the anonymous baseline. A reading of off cannot rule out a rollout these two readings sit outside of.

This account: off · anonymous baseline: off · compiled default in v2.1.235: not a boolean we can read

Read once, for one account on one subscription tier, against v2.1.235. It isn't a statement about your account. What a flag value here can and cannot tell you

What

An OAuth response carrying an account_on_hold error is classified as its own outcome instead of being treated as a generic invalid grant, so token refresh stops retrying and a dedicated error is raised carrying the appeal URL. The classification short-circuits unless tengu_lively_beaver reads true, and it is read with fallback false, so on this build refreshes still fail the old way.

Details
  • Refresh classification returns account_on_hold, the retry loop stops, and an OAuthAccountOnHoldError with message "OAuth account is on hold" is thrown.
  • account_on_hold is spliced into the API-error union and the login-screen error list only when the gate is on.
Evidence

account_on_hold

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

Related

Other releases about the same thing. Found by shared names or similar wording; neither means one caused the other.

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