{"version":"2.1.311","anchor":"imagefile-download-path-gains-a-tengu-tidy-shelf-experiment","canonical_anchor":"imagefile-download-path-gains-a-tengu-tidy-shelf-experiment","heading":"File downloads gain an experiment controlled by the server, off by default","tier":"soon","area":"Sessions","scope":"individual","heads_up":false,"url":"https:\/\/changelogs.core-directive.com\/v\/2.1.311\/e\/imagefile-download-path-gains-a-tengu-tidy-shelf-experiment","release_url":"https:\/\/changelogs.core-directive.com\/v\/2.1.311","markdown":"### File downloads gain an experiment controlled by the server, off by default\n\nClaude Code's file and image download step now reads a server-controlled setting with on, count and off modes, which falls back to off\n\n**Unclear.** It is not known what the on and count modes change about downloads, or whether you would notice them.\n\n**What**\n\nThe step Claude Code uses to download files and images now works out a mode from a setting that Anthropic's server can switch remotely. The mode is one of \"on\", \"count\" or \"off\". Claude Code only reads the setting when certain conditions hold, and when the server sends nothing it falls back to \"off\". Before, this step had no such mode.\n\n**Why**\n\nThis is an experiment built into file downloads that stays off unless it is switched on remotely.\n\n- Flag `tengu_tidy_shelf`: Not enough to say (read for one account on one subscription tier against v2.1.311; 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: Sessions\n- Tier: Nothing to try yet\n- Useful: 1\/5\n- Signal: 3\/5\n- Scope: individual\n- Heads-up: no\n- Present in the build but not switched on"}