{"version":"2.1.282","anchor":"the-model-catalog-flag-tengu-delegated-quail-now-has-separat","canonical_anchor":"the-model-catalog-flag-tengu-delegated-quail-now-has-separat","heading":"Model catalog can be served and published separately","tier":"internal","area":"Models","url":"https:\/\/changelogs.core-directive.com\/v\/2.1.282\/e\/the-model-catalog-flag-tengu-delegated-quail-now-has-separat","release_url":"https:\/\/changelogs.core-directive.com\/v\/2.1.282","markdown":"### Model catalog can be served and published separately\n\nThe remote switch for the model catalog now has separate settings for serving and publishing it, and still falls back to off\n\n**Unclear.** Which visible parts of Claude Code the two \"published\" readers drive is not settled.\n\n**What**\n\nThe model catalog (a list of available models that Claude Code can fetch from Anthropic) is controlled by a remote setting whose mode is one of shadow, primary or off. Previously every part of Claude Code read that single mode. Now each part asks for the mode for its own purpose:\n\n- \"served\", read by one part of Claude Code\n\n- \"published\", read by two others\n\nEach falls back to the shared mode when its own is not set. With nothing sent from the server, everything stays off.\n\nThe catalog also stays off in several situations regardless of this setting, including depending on `CLAUDE_CODE_MODEL_CATALOG`, in bare mode, when only essential network traffic is allowed, when `ANTHROPIC_UNIX_SOCKET` is set, with non-first-party providers, or when an organization policy blocks it.\n\n**Why**\n\nServing the catalog and publishing it can now be switched on at different times, so the catalog can be rolled out in stages rather than all at once.\n\n- Flag `tengu_delegated_quail`: Not enough to say (read for one account on one subscription tier against v2.1.282; this account: no value returned, anonymous baseline: no value returned, 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: Models\n- Tier: Under the hood\n- Useful: 2\/5\n- Signal: 3\/5"}