Under the hoodTier: how much it should matter to you
2Useful: my rating, 1 to 5
5Signal: worth watching, 1 to 5
TetherArea: what it touches
Internal ChangesKind: in v2.1.311,
What probably matters to youSection of the release
Unclear What the tether feature does is not stated.
What
Zero data retention is an account arrangement under which Anthropic does not keep your data. Claude Code now checks for such accounts before turning on a live feature called tether. If the account is zero data retention and a server-controlled switch allows the exclusion, tether is off. Otherwise Claude Code decides as before. The result is remembered for the rest of the session.
Why
This keeps a feature away from accounts set up for zero data retention, which is a privacy-related change in behaviour for those accounts.
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Feature flag
tengu_twinkly_sunriseNot enough to say
Nothing 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: 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.
