The experiment that told Claude to spend up to a minute on read-only investigation before asking a clarifying question has been taken out entirely.
- Gone: the
CLAUDE_CODE_INVESTIGATE_FIRSTenvironment variable, thetengu_slate_harriergate, and its prompt-cache entry. - The shortened "compact" variant of the "Executing actions with care" block was removed too.
- Only the full-length version of that block remains.
# Executing actions with care
Strings lifted out of the shipped bundle, so the claim above can be checked against them.
tengu_slate_harrier 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 v2.1.223: 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 v2.1.223. It isn't a statement about your account. What a flag value here can and cannot tell you
A reading is one sample. Claude Code evaluates its flags remotely, so no client sees the targeting rule behind a value and this says nothing about your account.
A reading is one sample. Claude Code evaluates its flags remotely, so no client sees the targeting rule behind a value and this says nothing about your account.