{"version":"2.1.283","anchor":"tool-host-switch-reads-fail-closed-with-an-error-log","canonical_anchor":"tool-host-switch-reads-fail-closed-with-an-error-log","heading":"Tool hosting turns itself off when one of its switches can't be read","tier":"internal","area":"Remote Tools","url":"https:\/\/changelogs.core-directive.com\/v\/2.1.283\/e\/tool-host-switch-reads-fail-closed-with-an-error-log","release_url":"https:\/\/changelogs.core-directive.com\/v\/2.1.283","markdown":"### Tool hosting turns itself off when one of its switches can't be read\n\nIf Claude Code cannot read a switch for its tool-host feature, it treats the switch as off and logs an error\n\n**Unclear.** It is not clear what the tool-host feature does or which switches it reads.\n\n**What**\n\nIf Claude Code cannot read one of the switches that control its tool-host feature, it now treats that switch as off and writes an error to its log.\n\nThe tool-host feature also withdraws itself when any of these is true:\n\n- its remote gate is off\n\n- its flag is off\n\n- the computer is not running macOS or Linux\n\n- you are not signed in with a stored login\n\n- the current folder is not a git checkout\n\n**Why**\n\nIf reading a switch fails, tool hosting is turned off instead of crashing.\n\n- Area: Remote Tools\n- Tier: Under the hood\n- Useful: 1\/5\n- Signal: 2\/5"}