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Claude Code's Telemetry Gate: Fixed Fast, Recorded Nowhere

Claude Code’s AGENTS.md loader was gated behind a remote feature flag, so telemetry-off sessions silently skipped the file. Anthropic fixed it in about five hours and the changelog does not say so.

September 25, 2026 · 6 min · 1218 words