{"version":"2.1.314","anchor":"beta-header-switch-off-helper-tied-to-tengu-drifting-valley","canonical_anchor":"beta-header-switch-off-helper-tied-to-tengu-drifting-valley","heading":"Disabling experimental betas now switches off auto mode's classifier on direct connections","tier":"notice","area":"Auto Mode","scope":"individual","heads_up":true,"url":"https:\/\/changelogs.core-directive.com\/v\/2.1.314\/e\/beta-header-switch-off-helper-tied-to-tengu-drifting-valley","release_url":"https:\/\/changelogs.core-directive.com\/v\/2.1.314","markdown":"### Disabling experimental betas now switches off auto mode's classifier on direct connections\n\nWith CLAUDE_CODE_DISABLE_EXPERIMENTAL_BETAS set on a direct Anthropic connection, auto mode now treats its classifier as switched off\n\n**Unclear.** What auto mode does differently for you once its classifier counts as switched off is not stated.\n\n**What**\n\nIn auto mode, Claude Code uses a classifier, a check that decides whether an action is safe to run without asking you. Claude Code now counts that classifier as switched off when `CLAUDE_CODE_DISABLE_EXPERIMENTAL_BETAS` is set and Claude Code talks straight to Anthropic's own API rather than going through another provider.\n\nBefore, whether the classifier's extra requests were retired depended only on a list sent from Anthropic's servers. There is now also a server-side setting with these values:\n\n- `off`\n\n- `direct`\n\n- `all`\n\n- `direct_and_handoffs`\n\n- `all_and_handoffs`\n\nIt can retire the classifier's extra requests, and it is off unless it is switched on remotely.\n\n**Why**\n\nSetting `CLAUDE_CODE_DISABLE_EXPERIMENTAL_BETAS` now changes how auto mode checks actions, not only which headers are sent. If you set it on a direct connection, expect auto mode's safety check to count as switched off.\n\n- Flag `tengu_drifting_valley`: Not enough to say (read for one account on one subscription tier against v2.1.314; this account: no value returned, anonymous baseline: no value returned, compiled default: 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.\n- Area: Auto Mode\n- Names: `CLAUDE_CODE_DISABLE_EXPERIMENTAL_BETAS`\n- Tier: You'll notice\n- Useful: 2\/5\n- Signal: 2\/5\n- Scope: individual\n- Heads-up: yes"}