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Claude Code v2.1.281 ·

Auto mode billing notice: shown in SDK hosts, and moving on no longer counts as consent

The notice shown when auto mode falls back to billed classifier requests can now appear in SDK hosts, and ignoring it is not consent

Group of 3 You'll notice Improvements
JSON All of v2.1.281
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 v2.1.281,
ImprovementsSection of the release

What

When auto mode cannot use server-side review, it can fall back to making its own classifier requests, which are billed. A notice warns about this first. Several changes affect that notice:

  • It can now be shown when Claude Code runs inside an SDK host (another program that embeds Claude Code), provided the host says it supports the auto_mode_server_fallback dialog and the tengu_expressive_galaxy flag is on. That flag's built-in default is on. Before, the notice was always skipped in SDK hosts.
  • The dialog gains a description entry asking you to acknowledge the classifier billing notice, with Enter continuing in auto mode. Its data must now include title, paragraphs and helpUrl alongside gatewayHost, so remote and headless hosts show the same text as the terminal.
  • When there is nowhere to show the dialog, Claude Code continues silently and logs a debug line.
  • If you move on without answering, the notice now returns continue_unacknowledged: work carries on, the remembered fallback choice is cleared so the notice can come back, and no billing acknowledgement is recorded. Only an explicit continue records one.
  • If the turn is stopped while the notice is showing, it returns "interrupt".
  • The notice's record now notes whether it ran in an SDK host.

Why

People using Claude Code through SDK hosts or desktop apps can now be warned before classifier requests start being billed, and ignoring the notice is no longer treated as agreeing to the charge. Nothing has been read about tengu_expressive_galaxy, so whether the SDK-host notice is active is unknown.

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tengu_expressive_galaxy Not enough to say

Nothing here resolved what this flag was doing on this version, so nothing here should be read as on or off.

This account: no value returned · anonymous baseline: no value returned · compiled default in v2.1.281: on

These values were read against a different version of Claude Code, so treat them as the nearest reading available instead of one taken on this release.

Read once, for one account on one subscription tier, against v2.1.281. It isn't a statement about your account. What a flag value here can and cannot tell you

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The name it cites is new in this buildNew in this build: tengu_expressive_galaxy

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