What
New code helps remote and cloud sessions tell a quiet connection from a dead one:
- A silence watcher probes the session after about 8 seconds without traffic (
silentBeforeProbeMs: 8000) and can give up on the stream after repeated missed probes. - The session client now fires an
onStreamSilentcallback when its liveness timer runs out. - The remote-tools announcer gains a
sayStillHeremethod that posts a rate-limited announce carrying the capabilitysays_still_here. A failed post is handled separately. - The receiving side accepts a still-here ping only when the host lists that capability, and only from the client that holds the machine. Otherwise it answers
invalid_announce: only the client that holds a machine can say it is still here. Accepted pings are noted in the machine registry. - The watcher runs only when the host advertises
says_still_here, and the announce handling also depends onstillHereOn(). - New still-here constants and a still-here notice are added to the remote-control event list.
The watcher is tied to the tengu_violin_pernambuco flag. The flag server returned off for this site's account and for an anonymous baseline, but no reading has been taken under this release.
Why
If enabled, a remote session whose stream silently stops could be detected and recovered instead of hanging. One finding describes it as machinery with no direct user effect.
tengu_violin_pernambuco Off by default, switched on for this accountThe shipped code defaults this off, and the flag server returned on for the one account this site reads on this version. That is the reading that makes the entry above worth a second look, and it still says nothing about your account.
This account: on · anonymous baseline: on · 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
A reading is one sample. Claude Code evaluates its flags remotely, so no client sees the targeting rule behind a value and this says nothing about your account.
A reading is one sample. Claude Code evaluates its flags remotely, so no client sees the targeting rule behind a value and this says nothing about your account.
A reading is one sample. Claude Code evaluates its flags remotely, so no client sees the targeting rule behind a value and this says nothing about your account.
A reading is one sample. Claude Code evaluates its flags remotely, so no client sees the targeting rule behind a value and this says nothing about your account.
A reading is one sample. Claude Code evaluates its flags remotely, so no client sees the targeting rule behind a value and this says nothing about your account.
New in this build: tengu_violin_pernambuco