Nothing to try yetTier: how much it should matter to you
2Useful: my rating, 1 to 5
4Signal: worth watching, 1 to 5
Model HandlingArea: what it touches
In DevelopmentKind: in v2.1.242,
What probably matters to youSection of the release
A refusal-phrase matcher and an onRefusalFallbackBanner stub exist, with the banner unimplemented.
What
A pattern was added that recognises the openings of a refusal ("I can't", "I cannot", "I'm unable", "I'm sorry", "I apologize", "Sorry,"), and the streaming handler gained an onRefusalFallbackBanner slot that is still an empty stub. A retry check was narrowed at the same time: it now retries only when the failure reason is absent or is a full lane, rather than anything that was not a refusal.
Details
An environment variable CLAUDE_CODE_REFUSAL_FALLBACK_CATCH_ALL sits in the environment map alongside this code; nothing in this build wires it to the banner slot.
With the banner unimplemented, the visible effect today is only the tighter retry rule.
Evidence
onRefusalFallbackBanner
Strings lifted out of the shipped bundle, so the claim above can be checked against them.
