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FORK — Claude Code 2.1.212 changes what /fork does: it copies your conversation into a new background session with its own row in claude agents, so you can keep working. The old in-session subagent is now /subtaskLIMITS — WebSearch calls are now capped at 200 per session by default, and subagent spawns get the same 200 ceiling, so a runaway search or delegation loop stops on its ownMCPBG — MCP tool calls running past two minutes now move to the background automatically, keeping the session usable. Tune the threshold with CLAUDE_CODE_MCP_AUTO_BACKGROUND_MSPLANFIX — Fixed plan mode auto-running file-modifying Bash commands such as touch and rm without a permission prompt or an SDK canUseTool callbackSONNET5 — Claude Sonnet 5 is running on introductory pricing of $2 per million input tokens and $10 per million output. After August 31 it moves to $3 and $15IPO — Bankers are reportedly lining up investor meetings for Anthropic ahead of a possible public listing as soon as OctoberFORK — Claude Code 2.1.212 changes what /fork does: it copies your conversation into a new background session with its own row in claude agents, so you can keep working. The old in-session subagent is now /subtaskLIMITS — WebSearch calls are now capped at 200 per session by default, and subagent spawns get the same 200 ceiling, so a runaway search or delegation loop stops on its ownMCPBG — MCP tool calls running past two minutes now move to the background automatically, keeping the session usable. Tune the threshold with CLAUDE_CODE_MCP_AUTO_BACKGROUND_MSPLANFIX — Fixed plan mode auto-running file-modifying Bash commands such as touch and rm without a permission prompt or an SDK canUseTool callbackSONNET5 — Claude Sonnet 5 is running on introductory pricing of $2 per million input tokens and $10 per million output. After August 31 it moves to $3 and $15IPO — Bankers are reportedly lining up investor meetings for Anthropic ahead of a possible public listing as soon as October
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API & SDK/2026-06-28Advanced

A Silent Drop to a Weaker Model Is Scarier Than an Error: Designing a Capability Floor for Claude API Fallback

When a model becomes unavailable in an unattended pipeline, automatically dropping to a weaker model is dangerous. Drawing on years of running automated indie pipelines, this is how to use per-task capability contracts and a degradation budget to decide where to stop.

API & SDK/2026-05-22Intermediate

Designing a Model-Selection Fallback That Survives this model is currently unavailable on Claude API

The 'this model is currently unavailable' error from Claude API behaves nothing like a 529 Overloaded or a rate limit. After six months running it across six auto-publishing pipelines as an indie developer at Dolice, I'm sharing the failure conditions I observed and the per-request model-fallback implementation that ended my weekend firefighting.