Under the hoodTier: how much it should matter to you
1Useful: my rating, 1 to 5
2Signal: worth watching, 1 to 5
ToolsArea: what it touches
In DevelopmentKind: in v2.1.232,
In DevelopmentSection of the release
What
Whether the Bash tool shows its shortened description is now worked out once and remembered for the life of the process, so it cannot change shape mid-session if the underlying value moves. The gate itself is unchanged: tengu_thrifty_sonic, off by default, overridable with the CLAUDE_CODE_THRIFTY_SONIC environment variable.
Evidence
bashFirstDescriptionTrimmed
Strings lifted out of the shipped bundle, so the claim above can be checked against them.
tengu_thrifty_sonicOn for this account, and not off by default
The flag server returned on for the one account this site reads, and nothing in this release compiles it off by default. The compiled default is shown below, and says which it is when we cannot read one: a fifth of gates compile in a string or a number rather than on or off, and most published releases have no gate table behind them at all. No client can see what the server returns for your account.
This account: on · anonymous baseline: on · compiled default in v2.1.232: 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.
Flag reading movedThe flag server now returns on for tengu_thrifty_sonic, read as this 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.
Flag reading movedThe flag server now returns nothing at all, having stopped carrying it for tengu_thrifty_sonic, read as this 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.
