A model alias is a short name that stands for a model, such as a family name, instead of an exact version. When Claude Code runs remotely, meaning CLAUDE_CODE_REMOTE is set, it can now turn an unresolved alias into the newest model of the same family from its model list.
This also depends on a remote switch. If the server sends nothing, the switch falls back to on.
Remote sessions may move to newer model versions automatically, without a change to the alias they were given.
tengu_rippling_sketch 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 v2.1.321: 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.
Read once, for one account on one subscription tier, against v2.1.321. It isn't a statement about your account. What a flag value here can and cannot tell you
New in this build: tengu_rippling_sketch