What it is
A new gate can block plugin install links, requiring /plugin install to be typed manually instead
Not Anthropic's. This is the line from the earliest changelog entry here that named it, v2.1.275.
Presence across releases
1Build by build
4One 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.
First cited
1The earliest release whose published evidence quoted tengu_amber_tollgate was v2.1.275, 17 Sep 2026. That is the oldest release this project wrote about it, so it is a floor on the name's age and not the release that introduced it. It is not a presence reading: which builds carried the name is the table above.
Gate readings
1| Release | Resolved | This account | Anonymous | Compiled default |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| v2.1.275 read on another version | Off in both readings | off | off | off |
Two arms, because they disagree: this account is the one account this site reads and anonymous is a baseline with no identity attached. A reading says nothing about your account, and off cannot rule out a rollout both readings sit outside of. What these readings can and cannot show.
Flag server, over time
2| Read as | Reading | From | Until | Version installed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| this account | off | 2026-09-19T15:25:04Z | 2026-09-22T05:45:05Z | v2.1.278 |
| anonymous | off | 2026-09-19T15:05:04Z | 2026-09-22T05:45:05Z | v2.1.278 |
One row per unbroken stretch of one reading, newest first, from snapshots taken every twenty-five minutes or so. No longer carried is not off: it means the flag server stopped returning the gate at all, which is what a retired experiment looks like. The version column is what was installed when the reading was taken, not what caused it.
Names beside it
Every feature flag in the inventory starting tengu_amber, up to twelve of them.
tengu_amber_anchorNo description from anybody. v2.1.138
tengu_amber_astrolabeNo description from anybody. v2.1.251
tengu_amber_creekAccepting fullscreen now runs as a trial, and two crashed launches disable it on that machine. v2.1.138
tengu_amber_flintNo description from anybody. v2.1.138
tengu_amber_heronNo description from anybody. v2.1.186
tengu_amber_kestrelSubagent launching gets a nesting-depth cap, a bypassable concurrency cap, and new teammate/model-inherit rules v2.1.217
tengu_amber_larkNo description from anybody. v2.1.138
tengu_amber_latticeNo description from anybody. v2.1.144
tengu_amber_lynxNo description from anybody. v2.1.138
tengu_amber_moleskinNo description from anybody. v2.1.179
tengu_amber_packetClaude Code can reuse a precomputed conversation summary instead of compacting fresh, gated off v2.1.198
tengu_amber_prismNo description from anybody. v2.1.138
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.