Claude Code has an internal model override called pewter_owl_model. It used to be read from a single shared settings store. It is now read from a settings object handed to the lookup when it runs. When the server sends nothing for this override, it still falls back to an empty value.
This changes where the value comes from inside Claude Code. It does not change anything you can see.
tengu_pewter_owl_model 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 v2.1.311: 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.
Read once, for one account on one subscription tier, against v2.1.311. It isn't a statement about your account. What a flag value here can and cannot tell you