Claude Code's kite transport, the network path used to talk to Anthropic's servers, is now enabled by default when the remote config server sends no value for it, on Windows as well as every other platform. Its environment override is also read as a real boolean rather than merely checked for presence, so CLAUDE_CODE_HARBOR_KITE=0 now turns it off instead of on. The remaining kite gates are decided by remote config or by code outside the part of the release examined here, so their compiled fallbacks only matter when the server is silent.
- Resolution order: if
CLAUDE_CODE_HARBOR_KITEis set, its parsed value wins; otherwise Windows consults the feature gatetengu_harbor_kite_winand every other platform consultstengu_harbor_kite. - Those two gates and
tengu_harbor_kite_mode_emit, which controls kite mode reporting, moved their compiled fallback from off to on. - A live value from the remote config server still overrides any compiled fallback; the fallbacks apply only when the server supplies nothing.
- The cloud variant
tengu_harbor_kite_cloudandtengu_harbor_kite_pacing_offare present but still fall back off. tengu_kairos_loop_keepaliveis likewise untouched here, so its behaviour is set elsewhere.
tengu_harbor_kite_win, tengu_bg_prewarm_per_sweep
Strings lifted out of the shipped bundle, so the claim above can be checked against them.
tengu_harbor_kite_win On for this account, and not off by defaultThe 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 v2.1.248: on
tengu_harbor_kite On for this account, and not off by defaultThe 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 v2.1.248: on
tengu_harbor_kite_mode_emit On for this account, and not off by defaultThe 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 v2.1.248: on
tengu_harbor_kite_cloud 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 v2.1.248: off
tengu_harbor_kite_pacing_off 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 v2.1.248: off
tengu_kairos_loop_keepalive Not enough to sayNothing here resolved what this flag was doing on this version, so nothing here should be read as on or off.
This account: no value returned · anonymous baseline: no value returned · compiled default in v2.1.248: on
tengu_bg_prewarm_per_sweep Not enough to sayNothing here resolved what this flag was doing on this version, so nothing here should be read as on or off.
This account: no value returned · anonymous baseline: no value returned · compiled default in v2.1.248: not a boolean we can read
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
New in this build: tengu_harbor_kite_pacing_off