Persistent "Fable 5 unavailable" banner has no dismiss and is redundant with the disabled selector entry
Status Fixed / completed
Reported on v2.1.177
Maintainer reply None cached
Activity 3 comments · opened Jun 15, 2026 · closed Jun 17, 2026
The model selector already shows Fable 5 as a disabled (greyed) entry with a tooltip explaining unavailability on hover. This is clear enough.
However, a persistent banner saying "Claude Fable 5 is currently unavailable. Learn more: ..." also appears above the input box in the main UI, with no dismiss button — even when the user has explicitly selected a different model (Opus 4.7 in my case, not Fable 5).
The banner is fully redundant with the disabled state already shown in the selector, and there is no way to hide it once read.
Please either remove the banner, or add a dismiss button.
Environment: Claude Code 2.1.177 (native installer), Windows 11.
3 Comments
This is presumptuous. My screen is not Anthropic's to commandeer. A persistent banner I cannot close, sitting there across every model selection, eating a full row whether or not it's relevant to me, is you deciding my real estate is yours to take. It isn't.
It's also redundant: the model selector already shows Fable 5 as disabled. I don't need a second, undismissable announcement of the same fact riding shotgun on my workspace.
Give me a close button. Every other status strip in every other app has one. The absence of one here isn't a missing feature, it's a defect, and the default posture (impose, no opt-out) is the wrong one.
IT'S FIXED!! The fixed just landed. Thank you!
An X appeared on the banner, I clicked it, and haven't seen it since.
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