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Claude Code v2.1.248

An in-memory storage backend is bundled but off by default

Not switched on
Useful3 Signal4
Internals Notable not in their notes

A full in-memory storage backend ships, off unless you set an environment variable.

CLAUDE_CODE_HOVER_REST or tengu_hover_rest gate it; the flag falls back to off.

Feature flag
tengu_hover_rest 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 v2.1.248: on

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CLAUDE_CODE_HOVER_REST
What

A complete in-memory version of the new v5 storage backend now ships as its own chunk: a tree of directory, value and stream nodes with appends, tombstones, record replacement, leases, change subscriptions, scope listing and deletion, and per-log-channel byte budgets. Whether any of it is used depends on the CLAUDE_CODE_HOVER_REST environment variable, or otherwise the tengu_hover_rest flag, whose compiled fallback is off.

Details
  • Versions are strings shaped s<epoch>.<generation>.<seq>.
  • Construction is wrapped in a guard that reports success or a fell_back outcome and, on failure, drops back to the legacy storage path.
Evidence

v5 in-memory storage backend construction failed; this worker keeps no storage backend

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

Related

Other releases about the same thing. Found by shared names or similar wording; neither means one caused the other.

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