CLAUDE_CODE_TETHER_LIVE becomes a single opt-in for humble-hammock, stellar-drift and tether features
Setting CLAUDE_CODE_TETHER_LIVE=true on first-party sessions now forces on humble-hammock tool-input copies, stellar-drift and tether live, even with a custom base URL
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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_LIVE is true, the provider is first-party (Anthropic's own API) and one further check passes. The result is cached as threadsEnvOptIn.
In another first-party check, the variable also skips the custom ANTHROPIC_BASE_URL check 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 toolInputCopies list. 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_humble_hammockOff by default, switched on for this account
The 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.