Under the hoodTier: how much it should matter to you
2Useful: my rating, 1 to 5
3Signal: worth watching, 1 to 5
Cloud SyncArea: what it touches
Internal ChangesKind: in v2.1.246,
Internal ChangesSection of the release
What
When local work has diverged from the remote and Claude Code weighs copying a bundle over it, there is a new refusal step before any plan is drawn up: if the engine check fails or the engine in use is not git, the attempt stops and records the reason as an engine decline.
Details
The refusal happens before overlay planning, so no plan is computed on this path.
The credential warm-up call on this path now receives the storage handle explicitly.
The condition the engine check itself evaluates is not visible in the bundle.
Evidence
engine_declined
Strings lifted out of the shipped bundle, so the claim above can be checked against them.
