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Claude Code v2.1.242

GitHub CLI login is detected with gh auth token

You'll notice
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Elsewhere

GitHub CLI sign-in is checked with a quick local command instead of a silent network call.

gh auth token
What

Claude Code now checks whether your gh is signed in by running gh auth token with a 5 second timeout, classifying the result as not installed, authenticated, not authenticated or unknown. An older gh without that subcommand reports unknown instead of quietly making a network call.

Details
  • Parsing gh auth status is only used when the caller passes allowNetworkFallbackForOldGh.
Evidence

this GitHub CLI version has no gh auth token``

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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