You'll noticeTier: how much it should matter to you
1Useful: my rating, 1 to 5
2Signal: worth watching, 1 to 5
APIArea: what it touches
ImprovementsKind: in v2.1.317,
ImprovementsSection of the release
What
Claude Code has a new kind of API error for when a request is turned away before any work was done on it.
RouteTurnedAwayError: the new error carries a status and a retryAfter value, which says how long to wait before trying again.
User-facing text: this error now shows as "The API is temporarily unavailable" instead of a generic error.
Separately, Claude Code now records calls made by task-list subagents, up to a size limit. A subagent is a helper instance of Claude that works on part of a task.
Why
When this happens you see a plain message saying the API is briefly unavailable. Because the request was rejected before any work started, trying again later is safe.
