{"version":"2.1.315","anchor":"snappy-pelican-fast-subagent-gate-now-also-bails-on-a-second","canonical_anchor":"snappy-pelican-fast-subagent-gate-now-also-bails-on-a-second","heading":"Another model override now turns off relative subagent effort","tier":"notice","area":"Subagents","scope":"individual","heads_up":false,"url":"https:\/\/changelogs.core-directive.com\/v\/2.1.315\/e\/snappy-pelican-fast-subagent-gate-now-also-bails-on-a-second","release_url":"https:\/\/changelogs.core-directive.com\/v\/2.1.315","markdown":"### Another model override now turns off relative subagent effort\n\nAsking a subagent for lower or higher effort is now also turned off when a second kind of model override is set\n\n**Unclear.** It is not stated which setting the new model override reads.\n\n**What**\n\nThe option that lets Claude ask a subagent (a helper it starts for part of a task) for lower or higher effort than its own now has one more condition. It is also turned off when a second kind of model override is in place, alongside `CLAUDE_CODE_SUBAGENT_MODEL_FORCE` and the override it already checked.\n\nIt is otherwise unchanged. It stays off unless `CLAUDE_CODE_SNAPPY_PELICAN` is set or it is switched on remotely. The server returned off for this site's account and for an anonymous check, both read before this release.\n\n**Why**\n\nFewer sessions will get this option, because any of these model overrides now switches it off.\n\n- Flag `tengu_snappy_pelican`: Off in both readings (read for one account on one subscription tier against v2.1.315; this account: off, anonymous baseline: off, 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: Subagents\n- Names: `CLAUDE_CODE_SUBAGENT_MODEL_FORCE`\n- Tier: You'll notice\n- Useful: 2\/5\n- Signal: 2\/5\n- Scope: individual\n- Heads-up: no"}