{"version":"2.1.282","anchor":"speculative-classifier-for-remote-tools-is-a-stub-that-alway","canonical_anchor":"speculative-classifier-for-remote-tools-is-a-stub-that-alway","heading":"Speculative permission check for remote tools gets an environment variable but stays off","tier":"soon","area":"Remote Tools","url":"https:\/\/changelogs.core-directive.com\/v\/2.1.282\/e\/speculative-classifier-for-remote-tools-is-a-stub-that-alway","release_url":"https:\/\/changelogs.core-directive.com\/v\/2.1.282","markdown":"### Speculative permission check for remote tools gets an environment variable but stays off\n\nA new environment variable, `CLAUDE_CODE_REMOTE_TOOLS_SPECULATIVE_CLASSIFIER`, is read, but the check it feeds always answers no, so nothing changes\n\n**Unclear.** What the classifier path would do once enabled is not shown.\n\n**What**\n\nThe check for a speculative permission classifier on remote tools (tools run on another machine) is now connected to the code that would use it. It reads a new environment variable, a setting you put in your shell, `CLAUDE_CODE_REMOTE_TOOLS_SPECULATIVE_CLASSIFIER`, along with a remote switch. Whatever either of them says, the check still always answers no, so setting the variable has no effect in this build.\n\nThe remote switch has answered on for this site's own account in earlier readings. That makes no difference here, because the check ignores it.\n\n**Why**\n\nThe name suggests a planned classifier that would judge permission for remote tool use ahead of time. It is wired in but disabled in the code itself.\n\n- Flag `tengu_violin_speculative_classifier`: Off by default, switched on for this account (read for one account on one subscription tier against v2.1.282; this account: on, anonymous baseline: on, 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- Area: Remote Tools\n- Tier: Nothing to try yet\n- Useful: 3\/5\n- Signal: 4\/5\n- Present in the build but not switched on"}