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Claude Code v2.1.247 ·

A model-capability toggle, tengu_willow_tern

A new toggle applies only to models advertising an opus 5 prompt bundle capability.

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JSON All of v2.1.247
Nothing to try yetTier: how much it should matter to you
2Useful: my rating, 1 to 5
5Signal: worth watching, 1 to 5
Model ConfigArea: what it touches
In DevelopmentKind: in v2.1.247,
What probably matters to youSection of the release

tengu_willow_tern gates behaviour for models with the opus_5_prompt_bundle capability and compiles off; CLAUDE_CODE_WILLOW_TERN overrides.

What

A new toggle that applies only to models advertising the opus_5_prompt_bundle capability. It reads CLAUDE_CODE_WILLOW_TERN first, then a boolean tengu_willow_tern key in client data, then the flag, whose compiled fallback is off.

Details
  • Non-boolean client-data values are ignored, with a warning logged once.
  • What the toggle switches on beyond the prompt bundle is not evident from the added code.
Evidence

tengu_willow_tern

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

Read from
Feature flag
tengu_willow_tern 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 v2.1.247: not a boolean we can read

Read once, for one account on one subscription tier, against v2.1.247. 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_willow_tern, 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_willow_tern, 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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How sure we are
One source agreesOne thing we can check says the same as this entry.
The name it cites is new in this buildNew in this build: CLAUDE_CODE_WILLOW_TERN

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