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Claude Code v2.1.311 ·

Several unexplained remote switches added, with the task prompt switch defaulting off

New remotely controlled switches were added with no visible purpose, and two of them fall back to off

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In DevelopmentKind: in v2.1.311,
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Unclear What any of these switches control is not stated.

What

Claude Code has new remotely controlled switches, which the server can turn on per account: tengu_mellow_rainbow, tengu_steady_scroll and tengu_imperative_spindle. Nothing in them says what they control. A text label, x-cowork-enrollment, was also added.

Two existing switches now fall back to off when the server sends nothing:

In readings taken before this release, the flag server returned off for both of these for this site's account and for the anonymous baseline.

Why

These look like features built in ahead of being switched on. Nothing changes for you unless they are turned on remotely.

Read from
Feature flag
tengu_velvety_kay Off in both readings

The flag server returned off for the account this site reads and for the anonymous baseline. A reading of off cannot rule out a rollout these two readings sit outside of.

This account: off · anonymous baseline: off · compiled default in v2.1.311: off

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.

tengu_mellow_heron Not 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: off · compiled default in v2.1.311: off

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

How sure we are
Something disagreesSomething we can check disagrees with this entry, or the writer said they could not settle it.
The writer flagged doubtWhat any of these switches control is not stated.
The name it cites is new in this buildNew in this build: tengu_velvety_kay

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