Under the hoodTier: how much it should matter to you
1Useful: my rating, 1 to 5
1Signal: worth watching, 1 to 5
ElsewhereArea: what it touches
Internal ChangesKind: in v2.1.269,
Internal ChangesSection of the release
What
A new pair of functions checks whether a message is an API error that doesn't already match a known, specific error case, and if so, sorts its .error field into one of four buckets: overloaded, rate_limit, server_error, or other.
Why
This gives Claude Code a consistent way to categorize API errors it doesn't have specific handling for, which likely feeds into how errors are logged or reported.
