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Claude Code v2.1.248

Fast mode credit message no longer points at an unreachable screen

You'll notice
Useful3 Signal2
Usage Credits

The fast mode credits notice stops sending you to a screen your account can't open.

/usage-credits
What

The "Fast mode requires usage credits" notice used to always tell you to run /usage-credits. It now checks whether that screen is actually reachable for your account and shows the plain message without the pointer when it is not, so users who cannot open the credits screen are no longer sent there.

Details
  • Two hardcoded copies of the message were replaced by a single helper that picks the variant.
  • The check is internal to the build; there is no flag or environment variable that selects the wording.
Evidence

Fast mode requires usage credits

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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