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Claude Code v2.1.227

Cloud sessions can be bound to the machine that created them

Not switched on
Useful3 Signal4
Cloud Sessions Notable

Cloud sessions can be bound to your machine so local tools only run there, currently gated off.

Device binding for cloud sessions is built behind a flag, with unbound sessions as the fallback.

Feature flag
tengu_violin_wood Off in both readings

The flag server returned off for the account this site reads and for the anonymous baseline. A reading of off cannot rule out a rollout these two readings sit outside of.

This account: off · anonymous baseline: off · compiled default in v2.1.227: 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 v2.1.227. It isn't a statement about your account. What a flag value here can and cannot tell you

What

New machinery ties a remote or cloud session to the device that started it, so local tools only run for that machine. Session creation registers the machine and signs a proof of the binding. It is gated on tengu_violin_wood, checked asynchronously, and any error means the session is simply not bound.

Details
  • Session creation is refused outright in combinations not yet supported, reported as device_bind_project_unsupported and device_bind_agent_unsupported.
  • Binding failures degrade to an unbound session and emit tengu_device_bind_skipped or tengu_device_bind_failed.
  • Three new server rejection causes are recognised: bind_attestation_stale, bound_session_unattested_write, and untrusted_device.
Evidence

bound_session_unattested_write

Strings lifted out of the shipped bundle, so the claim above can be checked against them.

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