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 v2.1.280,
Internal ChangesSection of the release
Unclear Whether this internal rework changes anything a user would notice, or is purely a behind-the-scenes refactor, is not established by the evidence.
What
When Claude Code shows a fallback dialog after a refusal and no bridge (a connection to an external dialog handler) is available, it now routes that request through a different internal function than before, and explicitly passes a localOnly: true option that this code path did not pass previously.
Why
This is an internal plumbing change to how the local-only refusal fallback dialog is triggered. The finding does not say what user-visible behavior, if any, changes as a result.
How sure we are
Something disagreesSomething we can check disagrees with this entry, or the writer said they could not settle it.
The writer flagged doubtWhether this internal rework changes anything a user would notice, or is purely a behind-the-scenes refactor, is not established by the…