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Claude Code v2.1.280 ·

'Ask seat' remote-tool waiting now controlled by an environment-variable override and feature gates

Whether tool calls wait for remote approval capacity is now controlled by CLAUDE_CODE_REMOTE_TOOLS_ASK_SEATS and new feature gates

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Whether tool calls wait for remote approval capacity is now controlled by CLAUDE_CODE_REMOTE_TOOLS_ASK_SEATS and new feature gates

What

  • The function that decides whether tool calls wait on an "ask seat" (a unit of remote approval capacity) now reads the CLAUDE_CODE_REMOTE_TOOLS_ASK_SEATS environment variable as an override, falling back to a feature gate named tengu_unified_waterfall, which defaults to true.
  • A second new gate, tengu_violin_speculative_classifier, was also added, but it is currently wired to a function that always returns false, meaning it exists in the code but is not yet active.

Why This gives more explicit control over remote tool-approval waiting behavior and lays groundwork for a speculative classifier feature that is not turned on yet.

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Feature flag
tengu_unified_waterfall 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 v2.1.280: 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 v2.1.280. It isn't a statement about your account. What a flag value here can and cannot tell you

How sure we are
Something disagreesSomething we can check disagrees with this entry, or the writer said they could not settle it.
The writer flagged doubtNothing has been read about the `tengu_unified_waterfall` gate for this account, beyond its default of true.
The name it cites is new in this buildNew in this build: tengu_unified_waterfall

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