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+- **fix(oauth):** stop nulling the Claude refresh token on the first unrecoverable refresh
+  failure so `CredentialHealth` no longer gets stuck sticky-dead — the retry budget from #11414
+  can now actually spend its second attempt instead of finding an already-cleared token (#13183)