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Claude Code v2.1.290 ·

Two new remotely controlled switches, off by default, for an unknown feature

Two new server-controlled switches, both off by default, have been built in without showing what feature they control

Nothing to try yet In Development
JSON All of v2.1.290
Nothing to try yetTier: how much it should matter to you
1Useful: my rating, 1 to 5
3Signal: worth watching, 1 to 5
InternalsArea: what it touches
In DevelopmentKind: in v2.1.290,
In DevelopmentSection of the release

Unclear Which feature these switches control is not shown.

What

Claude Code has two new switches whose value comes from Anthropic's servers: tengu_violin_willow and tengu_violin_wood. Both fall back to off when the server sends nothing. Code picks one or the other depending on conditions it checks, and a readiness check now also depends on one of them.

Why

Nothing changes for you unless the server turns one of these switches on.

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Feature flag
tengu_violin_willow 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: 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.

tengu_violin_wood Off in both readings

The flag server returned off for the account this site reads and for the anonymous baseline. A reading of off cannot rule out a rollout these two readings sit outside of.

This account: off · anonymous baseline: off · compiled default in v2.1.290: 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 v2.1.290. 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 doubtWhich feature these switches control is not shown.
The name it cites is new in this buildNew in this build: tengu_violin_willow

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