tengu_umber_kestrel
A Claude Code feature flag, read out of the shipped bundle. It has been in the build since v2.1.206, including the newest one read.
Gates the EndConversation tool, which lets Claude end a conversation after sustained abuse and an earlier warning. Code default false; true enables it for the cli entrypoint, and an object {scope: "<regex>"} enables it for entrypoints that fully match the regex (case-insensitive, falling back to cli if the regex is invalid). It also applies only to a fixed list of model families and versions.
Not Anthropic's. Written by Claude Opus 5.5 from reading the v2.1.285 bundle, and it can be wrong.
In the changelogs
1Releases whose published page names tengu_umber_kestrel.
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v2.1.206
EndConversation Tool [Feature-Flagged]
gate cited by this entry, found in this entry's text
Gate readings
1| Release | Resolved | This account | Anonymous | Compiled default |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| v2.1.206 read on another version | Gate removed from the code | on | off | not a boolean we can read |
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
60| Read as | Reading | From | Until | Version installed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| this account | off | 2026-10-22T22:35:04Z | 2026-10-22T23:05:05Z | v2.1.309 |
| anonymous | off | 2026-10-17T05:30:04Z | 2026-10-22T23:05:05Z | v2.1.302 to v2.1.309 |
| this account | on | 2026-10-22T21:00:09Z | 2026-10-22T22:00:06Z | v2.1.308 |
| this account | off | 2026-10-22T20:58:34Z | 2026-10-22T20:58:34Z | v2.1.309 |
| this account | on | 2026-10-22T19:05:05Z | 2026-10-22T20:35:04Z | v2.1.308 |
| this account | off | 2026-10-22T18:55:05Z | 2026-10-22T18:55:05Z | v2.1.308 |
| this account | on | 2026-10-22T12:35:05Z | 2026-10-22T18:35:05Z | v2.1.308 |
| this account | off | 2026-10-22T12:25:04Z | 2026-10-22T12:25:04Z | v2.1.308 |
| this account | on | 2026-10-22T12:10:05Z | 2026-10-22T12:15:05Z | v2.1.308 |
| this account | off | 2026-10-22T09:25:04Z | 2026-10-22T11:55:04Z | v2.1.308 |
| this account | on | 2026-10-22T09:05:04Z | 2026-10-22T09:05:04Z | v2.1.308 |
| this account | off | 2026-10-22T04:15:06Z | 2026-10-22T08:55:03Z | v2.1.307 to v2.1.308 |
| this account | on | 2026-10-21T21:10:07Z | 2026-10-22T03:40:05Z | v2.1.306 to v2.1.307 |
| this account | off | 2026-10-21T21:09:42Z | 2026-10-21T21:09:42Z | v2.1.307 |
| this account | on | 2026-10-21T02:50:06Z | 2026-10-21T20:45:05Z | v2.1.305 to v2.1.306 |
| this account | off | 2026-10-21T02:45:34Z | 2026-10-21T02:45:34Z | v2.1.306 |
| this account | on | 2026-10-20T19:55:06Z | 2026-10-21T00:30:05Z | v2.1.304 to v2.1.305 |
| this account | off | 2026-10-20T19:52:45Z | 2026-10-20T19:52:45Z | v2.1.305 |
| this account | on | 2026-10-19T20:15:06Z | 2026-10-20T17:05:04Z | v2.1.303 to v2.1.304 |
| this account | off | 2026-10-19T20:10:18Z | 2026-10-19T20:10:18Z | v2.1.304 |
| this account | on | 2026-10-18T21:35:25Z | 2026-10-19T18:45:04Z | v2.1.302 to v2.1.303 |
| this account | off | 2026-10-18T21:33:49Z | 2026-10-18T21:33:49Z | v2.1.303 |
| this account | on | 2026-10-17T16:20:04Z | 2026-10-18T21:20:04Z | v2.1.302 |
| this account | off | 2026-10-17T07:00:05Z | 2026-10-17T16:05:04Z | v2.1.302 |
| this account | on | 2026-10-17T06:50:04Z | 2026-10-17T06:50:04Z | v2.1.302 |
| this account | off | 2026-10-17T01:00:06Z | 2026-10-17T06:40:04Z | v2.1.302 |
| 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 | on | 2026-10-17T00:50:04Z | 2026-10-17T00:50:04Z | v2.1.302 |
| this account | off | 2026-10-16T19:00:08Z | 2026-10-17T00:45:04Z | v2.1.301 to v2.1.302 |
| this account | on | 2026-10-16T18:50:05Z | 2026-10-16T18:50:05Z | v2.1.301 |
| this account | off | 2026-10-16T16:35:04Z | 2026-10-16T18:45:04Z | v2.1.301 |
| this account | on | 2026-10-16T16:10:06Z | 2026-10-16T16:30:06Z | v2.1.301 |
| this account | off | 2026-10-16T16:00:09Z | 2026-10-16T16:00:09Z | v2.1.301 |
| this account | on | 2026-10-16T15:30:05Z | 2026-10-16T15:45:08Z | v2.1.301 |
| this account | off | 2026-10-16T10:10:04Z | 2026-10-16T15:20:05Z | v2.1.301 |
| this account | on | 2026-10-16T07:50:04Z | 2026-10-16T10:00:07Z | v2.1.301 |
| this account | off | 2026-10-16T07:40:04Z | 2026-10-16T07:40:04Z | v2.1.301 |
| this account | on | 2026-10-16T06:40:05Z | 2026-10-16T07:30:06Z | v2.1.301 |
| this account | off | 2026-10-16T02:50:04Z | 2026-10-16T06:30:05Z | v2.1.301 |
| this account | on | 2026-10-16T02:45:04Z | 2026-10-16T02:45:04Z | v2.1.301 |
| this account | off | 2026-10-16T01:00:07Z | 2026-10-16T02:40:04Z | v2.1.301 |
| this account | on | 2026-10-16T00:50:04Z | 2026-10-16T00:50:04Z | v2.1.301 |
| this account | off | 2026-10-15T20:50:05Z | 2026-10-16T00:40:04Z | v2.1.301 |
| this account | on | 2026-10-15T20:45:04Z | 2026-10-15T20:45:04Z | v2.1.301 |
| this account | off | 2026-10-15T19:40:04Z | 2026-10-15T20:40:04Z | v2.1.301 |
| this account | on | 2026-10-15T19:30:05Z | 2026-10-15T19:35:04Z | v2.1.301 |
| this account | off | 2026-10-15T19:05:09Z | 2026-10-15T19:20:06Z | v2.1.300 |
| this account | on | 2026-10-15T18:55:04Z | 2026-10-15T18:55:04Z | v2.1.300 |
| this account | off | 2026-10-15T18:50:05Z | 2026-10-15T18:50:05Z | v2.1.300 |
| this account | on | 2026-10-15T17:00:06Z | 2026-10-15T18:40:04Z | v2.1.300 |
| this account | off | 2026-10-15T15:50:04Z | 2026-10-15T16:40:04Z | v2.1.300 |
| this account | on | 2026-10-15T15:00:06Z | 2026-10-15T15:00:06Z | v2.1.300 |
| this account | off | 2026-10-15T14:56:28Z | 2026-10-15T14:56:28Z | v2.1.301 |
| this account | on | 2026-10-15T11:00:07Z | 2026-10-15T14:30:04Z | v2.1.300 |
| this account | off | 2026-10-15T09:50:05Z | 2026-10-15T10:35:06Z | v2.1.300 |
| this account | on | 2026-10-15T08:30:06Z | 2026-10-15T09:15:04Z | v2.1.300 |
| this account | off | 2026-10-15T08:25:04Z | 2026-10-15T08:25:04Z | v2.1.300 |
| this account | on | 2026-10-15T05:00:05Z | 2026-10-15T08:15:04Z | v2.1.300 |
| this account | off | 2026-10-15T04:35:04Z | 2026-10-15T04:50:04Z | v2.1.300 |
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
1The earliest release whose published evidence quoted tengu_umber_kestrel was v2.1.206, 9 Jul 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
5Build by build
92One 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.