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Claude Code v2.1.246 ·

Off-by-default refresh of startup data when the server says it is stale

Claude can refetch startup config when the server says it is stale, but the gate is off.

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Stale-config detection and delayed refetch sit behind tengu_expressive_whistle, whose fallback is off.

What

New code compares a version marker the server returns on each API response against the one attached to the cached startup configuration, and if they differ it schedules a delayed refetch. It is gated on tengu_expressive_whistle, whose built-in fallback is off, so with no remote configuration nobody sees this.

Details
  • The marker arrives in an x-cc-atis-current response header; the caller in the API path already passes response headers in, so the feature is fully wired.
  • Outcomes are reported through the new tengu_client_data_stale_refetch event as skipped_converged, fetch_failed, fetched_converged or fetched_pins_differ.
  • A second guard requires an internal eligibility check that lives in a chunk not shipped in this bundle.
  • Refetches wait at least 300,000ms plus up to 180,000ms of random jitter.
Evidence

[Bootstrap] Server ATIS pin differs from cached clientData; refetching

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

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tengu_expressive_whistle Not enough to say

Nothing 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 v2.1.246: off

Read once, for one account on one subscription tier, against v2.1.246. It isn't a statement about your account. What a flag value here can and cannot tell you

What has happened since
Flag reading moved The flag server now returns off for tengu_expressive_whistle, 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 moved The flag server now returns nothing at all, having stopped carrying it for tengu_expressive_whistle, 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.

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The name it cites is new in this buildNew in this build: tengu_expressive_whistle

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