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Claude Code v2.1.247

Bridge system-init flag deleted

Under the hood
Useful1 Signal2
Elsewhere

A dormant bridge startup switch was removed entirely; it now always reports off and can't be turned on.

Feature flag
tengu_bridge_system_init On 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 v2.1.247: 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

The helper that once consulted a tengu_bridge_system_init flag now returns a hard-coded false and the flag name is gone from the build. The feature is dead code, not waiting to be switched on.

Evidence

tengu_bridge_system_init

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

See this entry in the whole of v2.1.247 →