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Claude Code v2.1.296 ·

Claude Code can send a new header describing the client and its setup

A new x-claude-code-wiggly-dove request header can carry client version, permission mode, sandbox and git details, and is off by default

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What

Claude Code can now build a request header named x-claude-code-wiggly-dove. It carries short coded values for:

  • the Claude Code version
  • how Claude Code was started
  • where the request came from
  • the permission mode
  • the sandbox and network-access setup (the sandbox limits what commands can reach)
  • the host environment
  • the git origin of the project

Sending it depends on a remote setting that falls back to off when the server sends nothing, and on two further checks. When it is off, the header is not built.

Any header you add with ANTHROPIC_CUSTOM_HEADERS under this name, written plainly or hashed, is removed.

Why

When switched on, this header would tell the API about your permission and sandbox setup along with each request.

Read from
Feature flag
tengu_wiggly_dove 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 v2.1.296: 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 v2.1.296. It isn't a statement about your account. What a flag value here can and cannot tell you

How sure we are
Two sources agreeTwo things we can check say the same as this entry.
Anthropic's release notes agreeFixed $.http.fetch in mods refusing a HEAD request when the response declares a Content-Length over the 4 MiB body limit
The name it cites is new in this buildNew in this build: tengu_wiggly_dove

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