The internal flag controlling auto-permission-mode for bridge/remote-control child sessions was renamed and its default changed
What
Remote Control (bridge) child sessions can automatically switch their permission mode to auto. The flag controlling this behavior was reorganized:
- A new grants module can auto-switch a child session's permission mode to
auto, merge or undo anauto_mode_environmentfact list, and mount ametaMCP server for a bridged session. It reads a flag calledtengu_bridge_child_auto_mode, whose default changed from off to on this release. - A separate check, previously also reading
tengu_bridge_child_auto_mode(used for background-hint timeout scheduling in the sync subagent path), now reads a different, unrelated-sounding flag,tengu_shimmying_stardust, which still defaults to off.
Why
The two behaviors that used to share one flag now have separate flags with independent defaults: the bridge child auto-mode behavior now defaults to on, while the background-hint timing behavior that used to piggyback on the same flag now defaults to off under its own name. This means the two behaviors can now be turned on or off independently.
tengu_shimmying_stardust 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 v2.1.273: off
These values were read against a different version of Claude Code, so treat them as the nearest reading available instead of one taken on this release.
tengu_bridge_child_auto_mode 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 v2.1.273: on
These values were read against a different version of Claude Code, so treat them as the nearest reading available instead of one taken on this release.
Read once, for one account on one subscription tier, against v2.1.273. It isn't a statement about your account. What a flag value here can and cannot tell you
Nothing has been read yet about whether `tengu_shimmying_stardust` is switched on for any account.
New in this build: tengu_shimmying_stardust