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Claude Code v2.1.248 ·

Remote tool announcements abort when echoed back unverified

Remote tool announcements abort if echoed back without a verified device attestation.

You'll notice Improvements
JSON All of v2.1.248
You'll noticeTier: how much it should matter to you
2Useful: my rating, 1 to 5
3Signal: worth watching, 1 to 5
Remote ToolsArea: what it touches
ImprovementsKind: in v2.1.248,
ImprovementsSection of the release
What

The remote-tools announcement now cancels itself and reports unverified_sender if it sees its own request echoed back with an unverified device attestation, instead of proceeding.

Details
  • The client also renews the device proof in that case.
  • The announcement acknowledgement schema gained passthrough_declined (either "policy" or "pending") and passthrough_adopted.
  • Error handling now separates retryable conditions (remote_tools_not_ready:, stale_worker_epoch) from outright refusals (remote_tools_disabled:, invalid_announce:).
  • The whole remote-tools surface is gated by tengu_violin_wood, which falls back to off; the abort itself is unconditional inside that path.
Evidence

unverified_sender

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

Read from
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

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 off for tengu_violin_wood, 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_wood, 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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