Infrastructure to detect and handle a new internal model variant identified as "velvet falcon."
Gated by tengu_velvet_falcon_model feature flag; also overrideable via CLAUDE_CODE_VELVET_FALCON environment variable.
- The model string is fetched from
clientDataCache.velvet_falcon_modelfirst, then from the feature flag. - Detection returns true when the session's model string includes the configured identifier.
Detection function (search for "tengu_velvet_falcon_model" and "CLAUDE_CODE_VELVET_FALCON")
Strings lifted out of the shipped bundle, so the claim above can be checked against them.
tengu_velvet_falcon_model Not enough to sayNothing here resolved what this flag was doing on this version, so nothing here should be read as on or off.
This account: no value returned · anonymous baseline: no value returned · compiled default in v2.1.163: not a boolean we can read
These values were read against a different version of Claude Code, so treat them as the nearest reading available instead of one taken on this release.
Read once, for one account on one subscription tier, against v2.1.163. It isn't a statement about your account. What a flag value here can and cannot tell you
New in this build: tengu_velvet_falcon_model