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Claude Code v2.1.79

--claudeai CLI Flag [In Development]

Feature flag
tengu_cobalt_lantern On for this account, and not off by default

The flag server returned on for the one account this site reads, and nothing in this release compiles it off by default. The compiled default is shown below, and says which it is when we cannot read one: a fifth of gates compile in a string or a number rather than on or off, and most published releases have no gate table behind them at all. No client can see what the server returns for your account.

This account: on · anonymous baseline: on · compiled default in v2.1.79: no gate table built for this version

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 v2.1.79. It isn't a statement about your account. What a flag value here can and cannot tell you

What

A new --claudeai flag appears alongside a billing selection flow that lets users choose between "Use Anthropic Console (API usage billing)" and "Use Claude subscription (default)".

Status

Feature-flagged — the web-setup flow it ties into is gated behind tengu_cobalt_lantern (defaults to false).

Details
  • Error message added: "Error: --console and --claudeai cannot be used together"
  • Suggests this is infrastructure for a Claude web/subscription billing path alternative to API key billing
Evidence

Billing mode selection (search for "--claudeai" and "Use Anthropic Console")

Strings lifted out of the shipped bundle, so the claim above can be checked against them.

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