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Claude Code v2.1.273 ·

Spinner tips rebuilt as a plugin with a seat/vacate handoff

The tip line shown under the spinner while Claude works is now driven by an internal tips plugin instead of being hardcoded in the REPL

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The tip line shown under the spinner while Claude works is now driven by an internal tips plugin instead of being hardcoded in the REPL

What

  • The short tip line shown under the spinner while Claude Code is working has been rebuilt as an internal plugin (called tips), with its own pipeline for picking candidate tips, tracking relevance and failures, applying cooldowns and lifetime caps, and sorting by priority. Tips can come from the organization or from marketplace plugins.
  • The REPL no longer sets the spinner tip directly; a TurnController now carries a _spinnerTipHandoff object that gets "seated" and "vacated" against a shared registry to hand control of the tip display to the plugin.

Why Moving tip selection into a plugin lets tips come from more sources (org-provided or marketplace plugins) and be governed by shared rules like cooldowns and caps, instead of being chosen by a single hardcoded function.

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tengu_tips_mod Not enough to say

Nothing 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: 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.

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

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The writer flagged doubtWhether the `tengu_tips_mod` gate that guards this plugin is enabled has not been read for this release.

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