Public artifact reading sits behind the tengu_cobalt_plinth_sedge gate, which falls back to false, so the refusal message always shows.
The refusal shown when an artifact is served to a public, non-member reader moved out of the boot-response parser into a wrapper around it, and now fires whenever no asset token comes back.
- The error text is unchanged: "artifact read failed: this artifact is served to you as a public (non-member) reader, and reading public artifacts that way is not enabled yet".
- Public reading remains behind the remote-config gate
tengu_cobalt_plinth_sedge, whose in-source fallback is false, so it is off in this build.
Strings lifted out of the shipped bundle, so the claim above can be checked against them.
tengu_cobalt_plinth_sedge Off by default, switched on for this accountThe shipped code defaults this off, and the flag server returned on for the one account this site reads on this version. That is the reading that makes the entry above worth a second look, and it still says nothing about your account.
This account: on · anonymous baseline: on · compiled default in v2.1.225: off
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 v2.1.225. 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.
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.
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.