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Claude Code v2.1.248 ·

Forwarding plugins and hooks to remote sessions is gated, and now says why it is off

Forwarding your plugins and hooks into remote sessions stays off unless the server enables it.

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What probably matters to youSection of the release

Local plugin and hook forwarding into remote sessions is fully wired but sits behind two server flags that compile as false.

What

Sending your local plugins and hooks into a remote session is now controlled by a consistent set of checks, and when plugin forwarding does not happen the session records the reason rather than a bare failure flag. Both kinds of forwarding depend on two server-side feature flags that compile with a fallback of false, so in this build neither is on unless the server turns them on.

Details
  • Plugin forwarding reports one of three reasons: "switched off on this machine" when CLAUDE_CODE_DISABLE_PLUGIN_FORWARDING is set, "not enabled for this account" when the feature check fails, and "could not be sent from this machine" when setup throws.
  • Both plugin and hook forwarding require the two feature flags tengu_violin_wood and tengu_violin_amati, internal server-controlled toggles that each default to false, so without server-side values forwarding is off.
  • Hook forwarding adds two further conditions: the platform must not be Windows, and CLAUDE_CODE_DISABLE_HOOK_FORWARDING must not be set.
  • The hook checks were consolidated into a single helper called where the remote channel is created, replacing a different check that was there before.
Evidence

switched_off: "switched off on this machine", !a.CLAUDE_CODE_DISABLE_HOOK_FORWARDING

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

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Feature flag
tengu_violin_wood 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: off

tengu_violin_amati 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: off

Read once, for one account on one subscription tier, against v2.1.248. 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 on for tengu_violin_amati, 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 off for tengu_violin_amati, 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_violin_amati, 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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