tengu_slate_bittern
A Claude Code feature flag, read out of the shipped bundle. It has been in the build since v2.1.257, including the newest one read.
A new prompt section adds reduced-delegation guidance for Opus-class models, skipped if already cached in memory.
Not Anthropic's. This is the line from the earliest changelog entry here that named it, v2.1.257.
In the changelogs
3Releases whose published page names tengu_slate_bittern.
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v2.1.301
System prompt gains an alternate layout that is not yet in use
Claude Code's system prompt can now be built in an alternate layout with extra sections, but the prompt sent in ordinary use is unchanged
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v2.1.286
System prompt parts are now labelled; detached sessions skip some setup
Claude Code labels and groups each part of its system prompt, and a new detached mode skips a setup step; the prompt text is the same
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v2.1.257
New system-prompt section for reduced delegation on Opus 5
A new prompt section adds reduced-delegation guidance for Opus-class models, skipped if already cached in memory.
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Gate readings
3| Release | Resolved | This account | Anonymous | Compiled default |
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| v2.1.301 read on another version | Not enough to say | no value returned | no value returned | on |
| v2.1.286 read on another version | Not enough to say | no value returned | no value returned | on |
| v2.1.257 read on another version | Not enough to say | no value returned | no value returned | on |
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.
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
1Build by build
47One 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.