What
When you resume an older session, Claude Code can offer to continue with a newer model. That offer was reworked:
- Remote config: a new remote setting,
tengu_hidden_volcano, holdsenabled,form(lineordialog),families,maxAsks,minHoursBetweenandwords. Its fallback is empty, so the offer does not appear unless the setting is sent. Nothing has been read about this setting. - Two forms: the offer is either a notification showing the
chat:defaultToNewerModelkey hint, or a dialog. You can accept, decline or dismiss it. - Wording: the prompt now reads "You’re resuming {an} {older} session." followed by "Press
{key}to continue with{newer}." - Who sees it: the suggestion (
tengu_newer_model_suggestion) no longer checks your plan, zero data retention (ZDR) orallow_promo_offers. It now gives way to whichever announcement wins the single announcement slot, and it requires theformvalue from remote config. - How often it asks: accepting now resets the ask count and last-asked time to zero. Any other outcome adds one ask and records the time. Counts are kept per newer model. A model you previously chose to keep no longer stops the offer; only
maxAsksandminHoursBetweendo. - Errors: if showing the offer during resume fails, the failure is now recorded and passed on, and the offer can add and remove notifications.
Why
If you decline or keep your current model, you may be asked again later, up to the configured limit and spacing. Accepting starts the count over.
tengu_hidden_volcano Not enough to sayNothing here resolved what this flag was doing on this version, so nothing here should be read as on or off.
This account: no value returned · anonymous baseline: no value returned · compiled default in v2.1.287: 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.
Read once, for one account on one subscription tier, against v2.1.287. It isn't a statement about your account. What a flag value here can and cannot tell you
It is not clear what triggers the offer or what exactly accepting it changes.
New in this build: tengu_hidden_volcano