Under the hoodTier: how much it should matter to you
2Useful: my rating, 1 to 5
3Signal: worth watching, 1 to 5
IDE IntegrationArea: what it touches
New FeaturesKind: in v2.1.251,
New FeaturesSection of the release
What
The handshake an editor extension makes with Claude Code can now return remote_control_available, saying whether Remote Control is possible in this deployment at all: not turned off by managed settings, not running inside a remote environment, and on a first-party provider. Editors can use it to hide the Remote Control affordance where it can never work. Older CLIs omit the field, and it is treated as available.
Details
Deliberately separate from transient state such as whether you are signed in or in the rollout, so hiding the UI is a permanent decision rather than a flicker.
Evidence
remote_control_available
Strings lifted out of the shipped bundle, so the claim above can be checked against them.
