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Claude Code v2.1.248 27 Aug 2026

Retry-count override check simplified

Use it now

Useful1 Signal1

Internals

The max-retries override check was tidied; clamping and its warning behave the same.

CLAUDE_CODE_MAX_RETRIES

What

CLAUDE_CODE_MAX_RETRIES no longer re-validates a value it already parsed. The clamping behaviour and its warning are unchanged.

Evidence

clamped to

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

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