Under the hoodTier: how much it should matter to you
1Useful: my rating, 1 to 5
1Signal: worth watching, 1 to 5
Managed SettingsArea: what it touches
Internal ChangesKind: in v2.1.304,
Internal ChangesSection of the release
What
Policy limits are restrictions your organisation sets on Claude Code. Claude Code fetches them and keeps a cached copy. When it checks for updates, the server can answer 304, meaning "not modified".
Before, any 304 meant Claude Code would use its cached restrictions. Now, in some cases, a 304 that lacks Anthropic's request id is treated as coming from something between you and Anthropic, such as a proxy. Claude Code then:
counts the fetch as failed
does not retry
keeps the restrictions it already had cached
The tag Claude Code sends to ask whether the policy changed is also now worked out differently.
Why
A proxy or captive portal (a network login page, such as on public wifi) can no longer pass itself off as Anthropic and claim the policy has not changed.
