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Credentials are primed through the store at start-up

Under the hood
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Auth

Login tokens are warmed at startup, and skipped entirely for token-based auth.

CLAUDE_CODE_OAUTH_TOKENCLAUDE_CODE_OAUTH_TOKEN_FILE_DESCRIPTOR
What

A new start-up step probes the credential version and warms the OAuth token cache through the credentials store, clearing the cached entry if the read comes back empty. It is skipped for token-based auth, including when CLAUDE_CODE_OAUTH_TOKEN or CLAUDE_CODE_OAUTH_TOKEN_FILE_DESCRIPTOR is set, and failures are logged rather than fatal.

Evidence

Credentials prime through the store failed

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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