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Claude Code v2.1.248 ·

Skill suggestion card, off by default

A card suggesting standalone skills only fires when you ask, unless a server flag flips.

Nothing to try yet In Development
JSON All of v2.1.248
Nothing to try yetTier: how much it should matter to you
2Useful: my rating, 1 to 5
3Signal: worth watching, 1 to 5
SkillsArea: what it touches
In DevelopmentKind: in v2.1.248,
In DevelopmentSection of the release

tengu_saddle_lantern falls back to off, keeping the conservative prompt.

What

A tool that renders a card of standalone skills you can add is present but not enabled. With the gate tengu_saddle_lantern off, which is the built-in fallback, it only fires when you explicitly ask for recommendations; with it on, a longer prompt applies and Claude offers skills proactively without being asked. Nothing in this build sets the flag, so whether it is on is decided by server config.

Details
  • The same gate is what the whole skills and plugins tool family checks, covering search, list, and install-suggestion tools.
  • The gate is bypassed entirely when CLAUDE_CODE_REMOTE is set.
  • The flag itself is not new; what is new is that this whole tool set now hangs off it.
Evidence

tengu_saddle_lantern

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

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Feature flag
tengu_saddle_lantern Gate removed from the code

This release deleted the gate from the code while it was still reading on for the account this site reads, so the code path no longer asks a flag before running.

This account: on · anonymous baseline: on · 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

What has happened since
Flag reading moved The flag server now returns on for tengu_saddle_lantern, 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_saddle_lantern, 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 on for tengu_saddle_lantern, 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_saddle_lantern, 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.
Gate removed from the code v2.1.248 removed the tengu_saddle_lantern gate from the code while it was still reading on for the account this site reads. The code path no longer asks a flag before it runs.
Gate removed from the code v2.1.232 removed the tengu_saddle_lantern gate from the code while it was still reading on for the account this site reads. The code path no longer asks a flag before it runs.

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