{"version":"2.1.323","anchor":"spawn-args-builder-has-a-hardcoded-false-branch-that-would-d","canonical_anchor":"spawn-args-builder-has-a-hardcoded-false-branch-that-would-d","heading":"Inactive option to start local agents without model, fast-mode and permission-mode flags","tier":"soon","area":"Subagents","scope":"individual","heads_up":false,"url":"https:\/\/changelogs.core-directive.com\/v\/2.1.323\/e\/spawn-args-builder-has-a-hardcoded-false-branch-that-would-d","release_url":"https:\/\/changelogs.core-directive.com\/v\/2.1.323","markdown":"### Inactive option to start local agents without model, fast-mode and permission-mode flags\n\nA switched-off option would start local agents without --model, --fast-mode and --permission-mode, alongside other groundwork for MCP and plugins\n\n**What**\n\nWhen Claude Code starts a local agent, it builds a list of command-line options for it. Options like `--model` are switches added to the command that starts a program. That list-building code has a new constant, set to false in this build.\n\n- If the constant were true, the agent would be started without `--model`, `--fast-mode` and `--permission-mode`.\n\n- Because it is false, that branch never runs, and all three options are still passed, as before.\n\n- Several empty placeholder spots were also added to the same list.\n\nThe same release includes other groundwork:\n\n- Withdrawing instructions from an MCP server now takes an extra input. MCP servers are outside programs that give Claude extra tools.\n\n- Plugin commands and agents now take a `shownPluginDir` value.\n\n- Plugin commands and agents add duplicate allowed-tools entries for paths that are shortcuts (symlinks) to other folders, resolved to the real location.\n\nThe stock `WebFetch` tool description, in the capture taken under this release, is 1,608 characters and unchanged.\n\n**Why**\n\nNothing behaves differently today, because the new branch is switched off. The sweep agent's reading is that it is a variant prepared for a build where agents would take these settings from somewhere else.\n\n- Area: Subagents\n- Names: `--model`, `--permission-mode`\n- Tier: Nothing to try yet\n- Useful: 1\/5\n- Signal: 2\/5\n- Scope: individual\n- Heads-up: no\n- Present in the build but not switched on"}