tengu_steady_finch
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.
A recently added server-controlled switch was swapped for a new one that falls back to off; what it controls is still unknown
Not Anthropic's. This is the line from the earliest changelog entry here that named it, v2.1.305.
In the changelogs
2Releases whose published page names tengu_steady_finch.
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v2.1.305
A remote switch was replaced by a new one, still with no known effect
A recently added server-controlled switch was swapped for a new one that falls back to off; what it controls is still unknown
gate cited by this entry, found in this entry's text
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v2.1.305
The switch for handling converted skills as plugins has a new name
The remote switch behind treating converted skills as plugins was renamed, and it is off unless set remotely or by the
convertedSkillsAsPluginssettinggate cited by this entry, found in this entry's text
Gate readings
1| Release | Resolved | This account | Anonymous | Compiled default |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| v2.1.305 read on another version | Not enough to say | no value returned | no value returned | 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
4| Read as | Reading | From | Until | Version installed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| this account | off | 2026-10-22T00:10:04Z | 2026-10-22T05:30:05Z | v2.1.307 to v2.1.308 |
| anonymous | off | 2026-10-21T17:55:04Z | 2026-10-22T05:30:05Z | v2.1.306 to v2.1.308 |
| this account | no longer carried | 2026-10-21T21:10:07Z | 2026-10-21T21:10:07Z | v2.1.306 |
| this account | off | 2026-10-21T21:09:42Z | 2026-10-21T21:09:42Z | v2.1.307 |
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
2The earliest release whose published evidence quoted tengu_steady_finch was v2.1.305, 20 Oct 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.