A Claude Code feature flag, read out of the shipped bundle.
It has been in the build since v2.1.181, including the newest one read.
Default "off". Picks how /powerup is advertised in a session where the first-run onboarding was shown: "banner" shows an info notice ("New here? Type /powerup for a 5-minute tour..."), "step" adds a "Learn the moves" step after onboarding that can launch the tour, and any other value shows neither. CLAUDE_CODE_POWERUP_ONBOARDING set to banner or step overrides the flag.
Not Anthropic's. Written by Claude Opus 5.5 from reading the v2.1.286 bundle, and it can be wrong.
First seen v2.1.181 17 Jun 2026
Last seen v2.1.308 22 Oct 2026
Builds106 / 149on this box, as of v2.1.308
Written about v2.1.181 first named in a changelog, 17 Jun 2026
v2.1.181in the build not in the build never minedv2.1.308
In the changelogs
1
Releases whose published page names tengu_birch_lantern.
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
12
Read as
Reading
From
Until
Version installed
anonymous
"off"
2026-10-17T05:30:04Z
2026-10-22T14:35:05Z
v2.1.302 to v2.1.308
this account
"off"
2026-09-10T21:47:12Z
2026-10-22T14:35:05Z
v2.1.268 to v2.1.308
anonymous
no longer carried
2026-10-17T05:25:57Z
2026-10-17T05:25:57Z
v2.1.302
anonymous
"off"
2026-08-19T04:25:04Z
2026-10-17T05:10:04Z
v2.1.233 to v2.1.302
this account
no longer carried
2026-09-10T21:46:45Z
2026-09-10T21:46:45Z
v2.1.268
this account
"off"
2026-09-08T20:36:15Z
2026-09-10T17:40:05Z
v2.1.263 to v2.1.267
this account
no longer carried
2026-09-08T20:34:58Z
2026-09-08T20:34:58Z
v2.1.265
this account
"off"
2026-09-06T02:40:05Z
2026-09-08T18:45:05Z
v2.1.261 to v2.1.263
this account
no longer carried
2026-09-06T02:36:19Z
2026-09-06T02:36:19Z
v2.1.263
this account
"off"
2026-08-14T22:10:05Z
2026-09-06T01:55:04Z
v2.1.232 to v2.1.261
anonymous
no longer carried
2026-08-19T04:20:14Z
2026-08-19T04:20:14Z
v2.1.233
anonymous
"off"
2026-08-14T22:10:05Z
2026-08-19T03:45:04Z
v2.1.232 to v2.1.233
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.
First cited
1
The earliest release whose published evidence quoted tengu_birch_lantern was v2.1.181, 17 Jun 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 below.
v2.1.181 – v2.1.24155 builds17 Jun 2026 → 22 Aug 2026 ◆in the build
v2.1.242 – v2.1.2475 builds24 Aug 2026 → 26 Aug 2026 ○not in the build
v2.1.248 – v2.1.30851 builds27 Aug 2026 → 22 Oct 2026 ◆in the build
Build by build
111
One 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.
BuildDateStateThe record behind it
v2.1.18117 Jun 2026·addedverdict: added · default string
v2.1.18218 Jun 2026·presentverdict: present · default string
v2.1.18319 Jun 2026·presentverdict: present · default string
v2.1.18520 Jun 2026·presentverdict: present · default string
v2.1.18622 Jun 2026·presentverdict: present · default string
v2.1.18723 Jun 2026·presentverdict: present · default string
v2.1.19024 Jun 2026·presentverdict: present · default string
v2.1.19124 Jun 2026·presentverdict: present · default string
v2.1.19325 Jun 2026·presentverdict: present · default string
v2.1.19526 Jun 2026·presentverdict: present · default string
v2.1.19629 Jun 2026·presentverdict: present · default string
v2.1.19730 Jun 2026·presentverdict: present · default string
v2.1.2871 Oct 2026·presentverdict: present · default string
v2.1.2882 Oct 2026·presentverdict: present · default string
v2.1.2893 Oct 2026·presentverdict: present · default string
v2.1.2905 Oct 2026·presentverdict: present · default string
v2.1.2916 Oct 2026·presentverdict: present · default string
v2.1.2926 Oct 2026·presentverdict: present · default string
v2.1.2937 Oct 2026·presentverdict: present · default string
v2.1.2948 Oct 2026·presentverdict: present · default string
v2.1.2958 Oct 2026·presentverdict: present · default string
v2.1.2969 Oct 2026·presentverdict: present · default string
v2.1.29914 Oct 2026·presentverdict: present · default string
v2.1.30014 Oct 2026·presentverdict: present · default string
v2.1.30115 Oct 2026·presentverdict: present · default string
v2.1.30216 Oct 2026·presentverdict: present · default string
v2.1.30318 Oct 2026·presentverdict: present · default string
v2.1.30419 Oct 2026·presentverdict: present · default string
v2.1.30520 Oct 2026·presentverdict: present · default string
v2.1.30621 Oct 2026·presentverdict: present · default string
v2.1.30721 Oct 2026·presentverdict: present · default string
v2.1.30822 Oct 2026·presentverdict: present · default string
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.