What
The environment variable CLAUDE_CODE_TETHER_LIVE now switches on a group of unreleased features together, and the feature behind tengu_humble_hammock gained new pieces.
- A new check is true when
CLAUDE_CODE_TETHER_LIVEis true, the provider is first-party (Anthropic's own API) and one further check passes. The result is cached asthreadsEnvOptIn. - When that check passes, the
tengu_stellar_driftandtengu_humble_hammockchecks return true before any server gate is consulted. Their own variables,CLAUDE_CODE_STELLAR_DRIFTandCLAUDE_CODE_HUMBLE_HAMMOCK, still take priority, and both gates still fall back to false. - In another first-party check, the variable also skips the custom
ANTHROPIC_BASE_URLcheck and the first-party endpoint check. - Tether live itself now uses the variable if set; otherwise false if a first-party condition fails; otherwise the gate
tengu_curious_tower, which falls back to false. It no longer checks the base URL. - Under humble hammock, attachment building copies tool-input copies into messages, and declared-tool entries gain an optional
toolInputCopieslist. One extra condition depends on a function that always returns false. - A variant of the humble-hammock check that ignores the tether override is used for the tool-input-copies path and to register one SDK control-request schema.
The flag server returned on for tengu_stellar_drift, tengu_humble_hammock and tengu_curious_tower, both for this site's account and for the anonymous baseline, but no reading has been taken under this release yet.
Why
One environment variable now acts as the switch for this set of features, including behind a custom base URL. If you set CLAUDE_CODE_TETHER_LIVE=true, expect all of them to turn on together.
tengu_stellar_drift Off by default, switched on for this accountThe 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 v2.1.281: 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_humble_hammock Off by default, switched on for this accountThe 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 v2.1.281: 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 v2.1.281. It isn't a statement about your account. What a flag value here can and cannot tell you
The finding does not say what the stellar-drift and humble-hammock features do, or what the further check requires.