What probably matters to youSection of the release
What
Periodic goal check-in reminders now open with the goal itself in quotation marks, so it is clear which goal is being checked. Check-ins run unless a server flag turns them off, and the interval can be overridden with CLAUDE_CODE_GOAL_CHECKIN_MINUTES.
Details
The remote flag tengu_saffron_wren controls the feature and falls back to on when the server says nothing.
Evidence
Goal check-in: \xAB
Strings lifted out of the shipped bundle, so the claim above can be checked against them.
tengu_saffron_wrenOn 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 v2.1.242: on
The entry above is what we published on the day. These lines were added later, as Anthropic's own pages caught up, and they sit beside the original rather than replacing it.
Confirmed sinceAnthropic's documentation has since written up CLAUDE_CODE_GOAL_CHECKIN_MINUTES, on Keep Claude working toward a goal.Send a message at any time to start the next turn immediately. To turn automatic retries off, set [`CLAUDE_CODE_GOAL_CHECKIN_MINUTES`](/docs/en/env-vars) to `0`, which also turns [check-ins](#background-work-defers-evaluation) off.goalsee the edit
What has happened since
Flag reading movedThe flag server now returns on for tengu_saffron_wren, 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_saffron_wren, 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.
