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Claude Code v2.1.286 ·

Notice explaining why auto mode is off, built but off by default

Claude Code can now work out why auto mode is off and build a notice saying so, behind a remote setting that falls back to off

Nothing to try yet In Development
JSON All of v2.1.286
Nothing to try yetTier: how much it should matter to you
3Useful: my rating, 1 to 5
3Signal: worth watching, 1 to 5
Auto ModeArea: what it touches
In DevelopmentKind: in v2.1.286,
In DevelopmentSection of the release
What

Claude Code can now work out why auto mode is unavailable and build a notice explaining it. The reasons it can give are:

  • your settings
  • a safety cutoff that switched it off
  • consent that was declined
  • it was never set
  • it was forced off
  • unknown

A remote setting that accompanies this falls back to off when the server sends nothing. In a reading not taken under this release, the server returned on for this site's account and for the anonymous baseline.

Why

If auto mode is unavailable, you would see why instead of having to guess.

Read from
Feature flag
tengu_violin_nut Off 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 v2.1.286: 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.

Read once, for one account on one subscription tier, against v2.1.286. It isn't a statement about your account. What a flag value here can and cannot tell you

How sure we are
Something disagreesSomething we can check disagrees with this entry, or the writer said they could not settle it.
The writer flagged doubtIt is not clear whether the remote setting controls the notice, or where the notice appears.
The name it cites is new in this buildNew in this build: tengu_violin_nut

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