{"version":"2.1.274","anchor":"fastpenguin-mode-org-status-logic-reworked-for-sdk-contex","canonical_anchor":"fast-mode-policy-override-no-longer-requires-the-request-fla","heading":"Fast mode gating and per-session opt-in logic reworked","tier":"notice","area":"Models","scope":null,"heads_up":null,"url":"https:\/\/changelogs.core-directive.com\/v\/2.1.274\/e\/fastpenguin-mode-org-status-logic-reworked-for-sdk-contex","release_url":"https:\/\/changelogs.core-directive.com\/v\/2.1.274","markdown":"### Fast mode gating and per-session opt-in logic reworked\n\nClaude Code reworked how fast mode ('penguin mode') decides organization eligibility and per-session opt-in\n\n**Unclear.** Whether tengu_penguins_off is enabled is unread and not established by this finding.\n\n**What**\n\nThe logic controlling fast mode (internally called \"penguin mode\") was changed in a few ways:\n\n- Organization-status handling for fast mode is now split depending on whether the session is an SDK-style context, using new helper logic.\n\n- A per-session opt-in check gained a `sessionOnly` parameter.\n\n- A new auto-trigger prefetches the organization's fast-mode status whenever settings show `fastMode=true` but the org status is still pending or assumed disabled.\n\n- Separately, the policy override gate for fast mode now applies whenever `policySettings.fastMode === false`, even if the caller did not explicitly request fast mode for that request; previously this override only took effect when fast mode had already been requested.\n\n**Why**\n\nThese changes make fast-mode eligibility checks more consistent across SDK and non-SDK contexts and ensure an organization policy that disables fast mode is enforced even when a particular request didn't ask for fast mode, closing a gap where the override could be skipped.\n\n- Flag `tengu_penguins_off`: Not enough to say (read for one account on one subscription tier against v2.1.274; this account: no value returned, anonymous baseline: no value returned, compiled default: not a boolean we can read) 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.\n- Area: Models\n- Tier: You'll notice\n- Useful: 2\/5\n- Signal: 3\/5"}