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Claude Code v2.1.281 ·

tengu_magical_pixel loses its separate startup flag

The macOS iOS-app intent check now always reads the tengu_magical_pixel gate, and tengu_magical_pixel_startup is no longer used

Under the hood Internal Changes
JSON All of v2.1.281
Under the hoodTier: how much it should matter to you
1Useful: my rating, 1 to 5
3Signal: worth watching, 1 to 5
Feature GatesArea: what it touches
Internal ChangesKind: in v2.1.281,
Internal ChangesSection of the release
What

Claude Code has a check that applies on macOS, outside HIPAA mode, when ios_app is listed among a user's development intents. It is controlled by a gate, a server-side switch that turns a feature on or off per account. The check used to read a separate gate, tengu_magical_pixel_startup, when it ran during startup, and tengu_magical_pixel otherwise. It now reads tengu_magical_pixel every time, treating it as off if no answer is available, and tengu_magical_pixel_startup is no longer referenced.

Why

One gate now decides the check at startup and later alike, so the result no longer depends on when the check runs.

Read from
Feature flag
tengu_magical_pixel Off in both readings

The 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 v2.1.281: 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_magical_pixel_startup Off in both readings

The 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 v2.1.281: 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.

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

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 doubtThe finding does not say what this check enables when it passes.
The name it cites is new in this buildNew in this build: tengu_magical_pixel

See this entry in the whole of v2.1.281 →

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