{"version":"2.1.302","anchor":"include-unsupported-models-and-mcplistsizing-in-startup","canonical_anchor":"include-unsupported-models-and-mcplistsizing-in-startup","heading":"Startup now saves a setting for including unsupported models","tier":"internal","area":"Models","scope":"individual","heads_up":false,"url":"https:\/\/changelogs.core-directive.com\/v\/2.1.302\/e\/include-unsupported-models-and-mcplistsizing-in-startup","release_url":"https:\/\/changelogs.core-directive.com\/v\/2.1.302","markdown":"### Startup now saves a setting for including unsupported models\n\nClaude Code now stores at startup whether unsupported models should be included, and reports MCP list sizes in its startup usage data\n\n**Unclear.** It is not clear whether `--include-unsupported-models` is an option you can pass yourself, or what it changes in the model list.\n\n**What**\n\nAt startup Claude Code now saves a setting called `includeUnsupportedModels` into its configuration, taken from the options it was started with.\n\nThe usage data Claude Code sends at startup also gains information about the size of MCP lists. MCP (Model Context Protocol) servers are add-ons that give Claude extra tools. This information is included only when the session runs its conversation on your own machine.\n\n**Why**\n\nThe new setting may affect which models appear in the model list.\n\n- Flag `tengu_auto_mode_config`: Not enough to say (read for one account on one subscription tier against v2.1.302; this account: no value returned, anonymous baseline: no value returned, compiled default: not a boolean we can read) 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: Models\n- Names: `includeUnsupportedModels`\n- Tier: Under the hood\n- Useful: 2\/5\n- Signal: 2\/5\n- Scope: individual\n- Heads-up: no"}