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Claude Code v2.1.290 ·

A remote switch now controls an opt-in tool behaviour

With CLAUDE_CODE_PEWTER_OWL_TOOL set, three tools can now leave out a response ID depending on a remotely controlled switch

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Unclear What this tool behaviour does, and what the other conditions test, are not known.

What

Setting the environment variable CLAUDE_CODE_PEWTER_OWL_TOOL to true opts into a behaviour affecting three tools. Before, those three tools always returned a response ID.

They now leave the response ID out when a check on the last response passes. That check needs certain other conditions not to apply, and it needs a remotely controlled switch, tengu_witty_hearth, to be on. When the server sends nothing for that switch, it falls back to on.

Why

The switch gives a way to turn this opt-in behaviour off or on remotely, even for people who have set the environment variable.

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Names in the bundleCLAUDE_CODE_PEWTER_OWL_TOOL
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tengu_witty_hearth Not enough to say

Nothing 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 v2.1.290: on

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 v2.1.290. It isn't a statement about your account. What a flag value here can and cannot tell you

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Something disagreesSomething we can check disagrees with this entry, or the writer said they could not settle it.
The writer flagged doubtWhat this tool behaviour does, and what the other conditions test, are not known.
The name it cites is new in this buildNew in this build: tengu_witty_hearth

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