{"version":"2.1.288","anchor":"new-gate-tengu-sorrel-trellis-gusset-defaults-off-with-an","canonical_anchor":"new-gate-tengu-sorrel-trellis-gusset-defaults-off-with-an","heading":"New hidden switch tied to an \"arbiter\" permission mode","tier":"soon","area":"Permissions","scope":"individual","heads_up":false,"url":"https:\/\/changelogs.core-directive.com\/v\/2.1.288\/e\/new-gate-tengu-sorrel-trellis-gusset-defaults-off-with-an","release_url":"https:\/\/changelogs.core-directive.com\/v\/2.1.288","markdown":"### New hidden switch tied to an \"arbiter\" permission mode\n\nClaude Code has a new remotely controlled switch, off unless turned on, with a check for an \"arbiter\" permission mode beside it\n\n**Unclear.** It is not clear what the switch controls, where the arbiter check is used, or what \"arbiter\" mode is.\n\n**What**\n\nClaude Code has a new remotely controlled switch, `tengu_sorrel_trellis_gusset`. It is off unless it is switched on remotely. Next to it is a check that is true only when the permission mode is \"arbiter\" and a second condition is met. A permission mode controls how much Claude may do without asking you.\n\n**Why**\n\nNothing in this release shows what the switch or the \"arbiter\" mode does.\n\n- Flag `tengu_sorrel_trellis_gusset`: Not enough to say (read for one account on one subscription tier against v2.1.288; this account: no value returned, anonymous baseline: no value returned, 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: Permissions\n- Tier: Nothing to try yet\n- Useful: 3\/5\n- Signal: 5\/5\n- Scope: individual\n- Heads-up: no\n- Present in the build but not switched on"}