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Remote-armed policy helper failures now retry instead of giving up

A failed remote-armed policy helper is now retried on a timer instead of failing for good.

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KindBug Fixesin v2.1.257,
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A failed remote-armed policy helper is now retried on a timer instead of failing for good.

When a remote-armed policyHelper invocation fails, the manager now calls holdRemoteFailure, which retries the helper on a timer instead of failing permanently, as long as the same remote payload still authorizes the entry.

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Anthropic's release notes agreeFixed policyHelper timeoutMs and refreshIntervalMs values above the timer maximum (2147483647) causing failures or re-runs every…

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