The code that starts a cloud session with --cloud was reorganised. The remote setting it depends on still defaults to off when the server sends nothing.
The change looks like internal tidying, and nothing points to a difference in how --cloud behaves.
tengu_remote_backend Not enough to sayNothing 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 v2.1.299: 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 v2.1.299. It isn't a statement about your account. What a flag value here can and cannot tell you