tengu_zinc_harbor
A Claude Code feature flag, read out of the shipped bundle. It has been in the build since v2.1.275, including the newest one read.
Background tasks left running after their owning agent disappears are now automatically stopped
Not Anthropic's. This is the line from the earliest changelog entry here that named it, v2.1.275.
In the changelogs
9Releases whose published page names tengu_zinc_harbor.
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v2.1.275
Orphaned backgrounded tasks get auto-aborted and quietly parked
Background tasks left running after their owning agent disappears are now automatically stopped
gate cited by this entry
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v2.1.275
In-process teammate polling gets an idle timeout, behind tengu_zinc_harbor
In-process teammate polling can time out after a period of inactivity, gated off for now
gate cited by this entry, found in this entry's text
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v2.1.275
Async subagent stall watchdog can now "park" instead of aborting
Background subagents that stall can now be 'parked' with a synthesized result instead of always erroring out
gate cited by this entry, found in this entry's text
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v2.1.275
Interrupted background agents/tasks can be 'parked' and resumed instead of just stopped
Interrupting a background agent now 'parks' it for resuming instead of stopping it outright
gate cited by this entry
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v2.1.275
New tengu gates: tengu_typed_koala, tengu_zinc_harbor, tengu_tranquil_crescent
Claude Code adds three new internal feature gates: typed_koala, zinc_harbor, tranquil_crescent
gate cited by this entry, found in this entry's text
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v2.1.275
Alternate background-agent-stop path behind tengu_zinc_harbor flag
A new alternate way to stop background agents on cancel exists behind an unreleased flag
gate cited by this entry, found in this entry's text
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v2.1.275
Auto-naming for unnamed background subagents behind tengu_zinc_harbor
Unnamed background subagents can now get an automatic display name
gate cited by this entry, found in this entry's text
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v2.1.275
Async-agent 'park' fallback behind tengu_zinc_harbor
Stalled background subagents can now be 'parked' with a partial result instead of aborted, behind an off flag
gate cited by this entry, found in this entry's text
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v2.1.275
Background-agent "park on Escape" path gated behind tengu_zinc_harbor, off by default
Escape can now 'park' running background agents instead of just ignoring them, gated behind tengu_zinc_harbor
gate cited by this entry, found in this entry's text
Gate readings
1| Release | Resolved | This account | Anonymous | Compiled default |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| v2.1.275 read on another version | Off in both readings | off | off | 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
12| Read as | Reading | From | Until | Version installed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| anonymous | off | 2026-10-17T05:30:04Z | 2026-11-06T13:15:04Z | v2.1.302 to v2.1.318 |
| this account | off | 2026-09-10T21:47:12Z | 2026-11-06T13:15:04Z | v2.1.268 to v2.1.318 |
| 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
1The earliest release whose published evidence quoted tengu_zinc_harbor was v2.1.275, 17 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
1Build by build
41One 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.