tengu_amber_quill
A Claude Code feature flag, read out of the shipped bundle. It was in the build from v2.1.191 and was gone by v2.1.212.
Default false. Turns on context-aware tips when the allow_context_tips policy permits them: every few turns a classifier side query picks one tip from a list of situation-matched entries (at most 3 per session) and shows it. While on, the spinner drops its built-in /clear and /btw hints and clears the regular spinner tip, unless CLAUDE_CODE_FORCE_TIP_ID or a spinnerTipsOverride is set.
Not Anthropic's. Written by Claude Opus 5.5 from reading the v2.1.211 bundle, and it can be wrong.
In the changelogs
0No changelog entry here has ever named it. That is a statement about what has been written, not about the name: it has been in the build since v2.1.191 without anybody writing a line about it.
Gate readings
0No release here has a gate table behind it for this flag. Most published releases have none at all: the readings exist only for versions the pipeline captured flag state on.
First cited
0No release's published evidence quotes this name. The ledger indexes the Evidence lines of every changelog on this site, so this says nobody here has ever quoted it; it says nothing about how old the name is.
Presence across releases
2Build by build
104One row per release since the first build this name was read out of. Absent means the build was read and the name was not in it, never mined means no bundle for that release was ever archived, and a declared type or a default is only ever what that release's own bundle stated.
Read out of the published npm bundle release by release, and out of Anthropic's own documentation as this site captured it. Nothing on this page is a description anybody here wrote about what the feature flag does. All feature flags.