Claude Code 2.1.261 gateway policy telemetry operator changes expose four proxy failure modes: hidden organization policy fetches, malformed client IP parsing, JSON/protobuf OTEL drift, and Bedrock setup checks behind TLS inspection.
A stripped Content-Type response header from proxies, API gateways, or load balancers caused Claude Code to re-run every Bedrock turn in non-streaming mode — billing you twice per request. Here is how to verify exposure and what else 2.1.239 fixes for gateway operators.
2.1.238 adds --proxy-authorization-command and --proxy-authorization-file to self-hosted runners, ending static-header workarounds for corporate proxies. It also introduces --defer-shutdown-max-min and extends headersHelper to marketplace catalog fetches.
