What
With the gateway provider (a service that passes your requests on to models), Claude Code now handles a missing small, fast model:
- Prompt hooks and agent hooks use the main or default gateway model when
ANTHROPIC_DEFAULT_HAIKU_MODELandANTHROPIC_SMALL_FAST_MODELare both unset. Hooks are commands or checks Claude Code runs automatically at set points. - A side request, a short extra request Claude Code makes beside your main conversation, is retried once on the default model if the gateway refuses it with error 400, 403 or 404.
- The check for whether a small, fast model is configured can now also pass for the gateway provider.
Agent hooks also now receive a filtered set of your permission rules.
Why
Gateway users who have not mapped a Haiku-class model would otherwise see hooks and side requests fail.