You'll noticeTier: how much it should matter to you
2Useful: my rating, 1 to 5
2Signal: worth watching, 1 to 5
Auto ModeArea: what it touches
ImprovementsKind: in v2.1.280,
ImprovementsSection of the release
What
When Claude Code runs a safety check automatically and the check fails, it now sorts the failure into one of two kinds:
A hard failure, where retrying will not help, including two new causes: server_call_unavailable_refused and server_call_unavailable_input_too_long.
A transient failure, where the tool may retry once, waiting a bit longer each time it tries again.
If a transient failure keeps coming back with no verdict after repeated retries, the turn is stopped instead of retrying forever.
Why
This keeps Claude Code from endlessly retrying a safety check that was never going to succeed, while still giving genuinely temporary failures a chance to clear up on their own.
