tengu_dispatch_header_fallback
A Claude Code feature flag, read out of the shipped bundle. No mined inventory carries it: everything below comes from what this site has written about it.
Side-query API requests now retry once without the side-query header on certain failures.
Not Anthropic's. This is the line from the earliest changelog entry here that named it, v2.1.260.
In the changelogs
3Releases whose published page names tengu_dispatch_header_fallback.
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v2.1.281
tengu_api_success gains a dispatch field
Usage data for API calls now includes a
dispatchvalue, which defaults to "none"found in this entry's text
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v2.1.281
Side-query dispatch-header fallback broadened, and dispatch recorded on success
A failed side query can now be resent once with a fixed dispatch value in more cases, including 503s, timeouts, conflicts and rate limits
found in this entry's text
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v2.1.260
API dispatch requests can now include a side-query header with fallback retry
Side-query API requests now retry once without the side-query header on certain failures.
gate cited by this entry
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
1The earliest release whose published evidence quoted tengu_dispatch_header_fallback was v2.1.260, 3 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 below.
Presence across releases
0The miner has never read a build containing this name. It is here because a changelog entry of ours names it, which is evidence that it existed and not evidence of which releases carried it. The inventory starts at v2.1.138 and everything older than that was never mined.
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.