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Console profile login refusals are classified

Console profile login refusals now say which condition blocked you, like an API key in your environment.

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ImprovementsKind: in v2.1.248,
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What

When logging into a Console profile is refused, the refusal now carries a specific class such as a workload-identity environment quad, a third-party provider, an API key in the environment, a foreign profile, or a custom credentials path, and a table decides which of those are hard refusals.

Details
  • The ANTHROPIC_API_KEY refusal now only fires when the credential actually in use came from that environment variable.
  • Profile names are validated: only A-Z a-z 0-9 _ . - are allowed, and . and .. are rejected.
Evidence

Console profile login refused: non-dispatching env API key present

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

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Anthropic's release notes agreeFixed the recommended Console sign-in in /login failing with an OAuth error before showing a sign-in URL on machines where it can't be used…

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