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Claude Code v2.1.251 ·

Startup telemetry reports Remote Control availability, drops an old experiment

Startup telemetry now reports Remote Control availability and an old experiment field was dropped.

Under the hood No documentation found Internal Changes
JSON All of v2.1.251
Under the hoodTier: how much it should matter to you
2Useful: my rating, 1 to 5
3Signal: worth watching, 1 to 5
Remote ControlArea: what it touches
Internal ChangesKind: in v2.1.251,
Internal ChangesSection of the release
What

Session telemetry now sends a remote_control_available boolean, true unless disableRemoteControl is set, the session is an SDK or print session, or the account is not eligible. Nothing in the product keys off it directly. The related ide_rc_auto_enable_gate field still comes from tengu_ide_rc_auto_enable, which defaults to off. The tengu_sable_thrush field was dropped, retiring that experiment.

Evidence

remote_control_available = b_n(), tengu_sable_thrush: import.meta

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

Read from
Names in the bundledisableRemoteControl
Feature flag
tengu_ide_rc_auto_enable Off by default, switched on for this account

The shipped code defaults this off, and the flag server returned on for the one account this site reads on this version. That is the reading that makes the entry above worth a second look, and it still says nothing about your account.

This account: on · anonymous baseline: on · compiled default in v2.1.251: off

tengu_sable_thrush On for this account, and not off by default

The 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 v2.1.251: not a boolean we can read

Read once, for one account on one subscription tier, against v2.1.251. It isn't a statement about your account. What a flag value here can and cannot tell you

Since it was published

The entry above is what we published on the day. These lines were added later, as Anthropic's own pages caught up, and they sit beside the original rather than replacing it.

Confirmed since Anthropic's documentation has since written up disableRemoteControl, on Continue local sessions from any device with Remote Control. * **The error mentions `disableRemoteControl`**: your IT administrator has disabled Remote Control on this device through [managed settings](/docs/en/managed-settings), independent of the organization-wide toggle and of how you're signed i… remote-control see the edit
Added since A small documentation edit on Deploy managed settings touched a line naming disableRemoteControl after this was published. On Team and Enterprise plans, an Owner enables or disables [Remote Control](/docs/en/remote-control) and [cloud sessions](/docs/en/claude-code-on-the-web) organization-wide in [Claude Code admin settings](https://claude.ai/admin-settings/c… managed-settings see the edit
What has happened since
Flag reading moved The flag server now returns on for tengu_ide_rc_auto_enable, 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_ide_rc_auto_enable, 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_ide_rc_auto_enable, 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_ide_rc_auto_enable, 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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How sure we are
One source agreesOne thing we can check says the same as this entry.
Anthropic's documentation agreesA small documentation edit on Deploy managed settings touched a line naming disableRemoteControl after this was published.

See this entry in the whole of v2.1.251 →

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