{"version":"2.1.299","anchor":"new-vs-code-gates-stored-startup-config-and-python-beside-s","canonical_anchor":"new-vs-code-gates-stored-startup-config-and-python-beside-s","heading":"VS Code extension gets two new settings that default on","tier":"notice","area":"VS Code","scope":"individual","heads_up":false,"url":"https:\/\/changelogs.core-directive.com\/v\/2.1.299\/e\/new-vs-code-gates-stored-startup-config-and-python-beside-s","release_url":"https:\/\/changelogs.core-directive.com\/v\/2.1.299","markdown":"### VS Code extension gets two new settings that default on\n\nThe VS Code extension has two new remotely controlled settings, about stored startup configuration and Python, that are on by default\n\n**Unclear.** It is not known what either setting does in the VS Code extension.\n\n**What**\n\nThe Claude Code extension for VS Code has two new settings that are controlled remotely. One relates to stored startup configuration and the other to Python \"beside start\". Each is on unless it is switched off remotely.\n\n**Why**\n\nThese are new VS Code extension behaviours that start out on by default.\n\n- Flag `tengu_vscode_stored_startup_config`: Not enough to say (read for one account on one subscription tier against v2.1.299; this account: no value returned, anonymous baseline: no value returned, compiled default: 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.\n- Flag `tengu_vscode_python_beside_start`: Not enough to say (read for one account on one subscription tier against v2.1.299; this account: no value returned, anonymous baseline: no value returned, compiled default: 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.\n- Area: VS Code\n- Tier: You'll notice\n- Useful: 4\/5\n- Signal: 4\/5\n- Scope: individual\n- Heads-up: no"}