{"version":"2.1.281","anchor":"tengu-magical-pixel-loses-its-separate-startup-flag","canonical_anchor":"tengu-magical-pixel-loses-its-separate-startup-flag","heading":"tengu_magical_pixel loses its separate startup flag","tier":"internal","area":"Feature Gates","url":"https:\/\/changelogs.core-directive.com\/v\/2.1.281\/e\/tengu-magical-pixel-loses-its-separate-startup-flag","release_url":"https:\/\/changelogs.core-directive.com\/v\/2.1.281","markdown":"### tengu_magical_pixel loses its separate startup flag\n\nThe macOS iOS-app intent check now always reads the tengu_magical_pixel gate, and tengu_magical_pixel_startup is no longer used\n\n**Unclear.** The finding does not say what this check enables when it passes.\n\n**What**\n\nClaude 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.\n\n**Why**\n\nOne gate now decides the check at startup and later alike, so the result no longer depends on when the check runs.\n\n- Flag `tengu_magical_pixel`: Off in both readings (read for one account on one subscription tier against v2.1.281; this account: off, anonymous baseline: off, compiled default: 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.\n- Flag `tengu_magical_pixel_startup`: Off in both readings (read for one account on one subscription tier against v2.1.281; this account: off, anonymous baseline: off, 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: Feature Gates\n- Tier: Under the hood\n- Useful: 1\/5\n- Signal: 3\/5"}