What
The status line no longer chooses between calling MCP background work a job or a task. It always says 1 MCP task or N MCP tasks.
Details
- The flag that drove the choice,
tengu_copper_thistle, still exists and still gates footer layout elsewhere; it just no longer decides this label. Its in-build fallback is false.
Evidence
return e === 1 ? "1 MCP task" : ${e} MCP tasks;
Strings lifted out of the shipped bundle, so the claim above can be checked against them.
Feature flag
tengu_copper_thistle Off in both readingsThe 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: off
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
Flag reading moved
The flag server now returns off for tengu_copper_thistle, 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_copper_thistle, 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.