Under the hoodTier: how much it should matter to you
1Useful: my rating, 1 to 5
1Signal: worth watching, 1 to 5
Thinking ModeArea: what it touches
Internal ChangesKind: in v2.1.280,
Internal ChangesSection of the release
Unclear What triggers a 'thinking highlights' refusal or what user-visible effect it has is not stated.
What
A new internal helper, markThinkingHighlightsRefused, was added to host.requestLatches, the part of Claude Code that tracks per-session request state. It marks 'thinking highlights' (a feature related to displaying Claude's reasoning) as refused, following the same pattern as the existing markThinkingResumptionRefused helper.
Why
This is an internal plumbing change with no described effect on how Claude Code behaves day to day. It extends the session state tracking so the app can record when thinking highlights are refused, similar to how it already tracks refused thinking resumption.
How sure we are
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The writer flagged doubtWhat triggers a 'thinking highlights' refusal or what user-visible effect it has is not stated.
