{"version":"2.1.284","anchor":"remote-tools-serving-now-checks-the-tengu-violin-wood-gate-u","canonical_anchor":"remote-tools-serving-now-checks-the-tengu-violin-wood-gate-u","heading":"Served remote tools stop early and report why when their switch is off","tier":"soon","area":"Remote Tools","url":"https:\/\/changelogs.core-directive.com\/v\/2.1.284\/e\/remote-tools-serving-now-checks-the-tengu-violin-wood-gate-u","release_url":"https:\/\/changelogs.core-directive.com\/v\/2.1.284","markdown":"### Served remote tools stop early and report why when their switch is off\n\nAttaching served remote tools to a session now checks a remote switch first and reports \"flag_off\" instead of loading the serving code\n\n**Unclear.** It is not fully confirmed which remote switch this check reads.\n\n**What**\n\nSome tools can be served into a session from elsewhere, called remote tools. Before attaching them, Claude Code now checks a remotely controlled switch. If it is off, Claude Code stops and reports the reason as `flag_off` without loading any of the code that serves them. The switch is off unless it is switched on remotely. Before, that code was always loaded.\n\n**Why**\n\nRemote tools stay unavailable unless your account has them switched on, and the reason they are missing is now reported plainly.\n\n- Flag `tengu_violin_wood`: Off in both readings (read for one account on one subscription tier against v2.1.284; 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- Area: Remote Tools\n- Tier: Nothing to try yet\n- Useful: 2\/5\n- Signal: 3\/5\n- Present in the build but not switched on"}