Melon Mode

Description

Feature present in earlier reverse-engineered versions of Claude Code, absent from the v2.1.88 source. Triggered by --melon CLI flag, Anthropic-employee only. The leaked comment 'enable melon mode for ants' suggests a headless or daemon mode for internal use. Anthropic's only comment: 'the company regularly tests various prototype services, not all of which make it into production.'

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src-20260419-be936b1b7d4c