Follow Discord
Sweep 22 Oct 2026 · 04:32Z Build v2.1.308 527 read Stable v2.1.308 Latest v2.1.308 Next v2.1.308 Feeds RSS JSON llms.txt llms-full.txt Unofficial
Home / Reference / CLI flags

agents

cli never mined JSON

A Claude Code CLI flag, read out of the shipped bundle. No mined inventory carries it: everything below comes from what this site has written about it.

claude plugin validate now falls back to checking skills, agents and commands when there is no manifest.

Not Anthropic's. This is the line from the earliest changelog entry here that named it, v2.1.233.

First seen — never in a mined build
Last seen — never in a mined build
Builds0 / 149on this box, as of v2.1.308
Written about v1.0.103 first named in a changelog, 3 Sep 2025

In the changelogs

22

Releases whose published page names agents.

  1. v2.1.288
    Agents list keys can be rebound, with new find and group-jump keys

    The agents list now reads its keys from your keybinding settings and adds find (ctrl+f) and jump-between-groups actions

    found in this entry's text

  2. v2.1.288
    New keyboard shortcut actions for finding, grouping and renaming agents

    Five new shortcut actions exist for the agents view: find, next and previous group, rename, and set group

    found in this entry's text

  3. v2.1.281
    Self-hosted runner: server-composed agent files delivered via --agents file; system prompts delivered by file

    The self-hosted runner now checks agent_files, passes agents via --agents <file>, and passes system prompts as files

    found in this entry's text

  4. v2.1.281
    claude agents view now honours --settings, --managed-settings and setting sources

    claude agents now applies --settings, --managed-settings and --setting-sources

    found in this entry's text, named in this entry

  5. v2.1.281
    --no-session-persistence check moved earlier and now applied immediately

    --no-session-persistence is checked earlier and takes effect at once, and --managed-settings and setting sources are passed to child processes

    found in this entry's text

  6. v2.1.281
    --managed-settings is carried through to spawned sessions; --setting-sources is accepted and discarded by one argument parser

    --managed-settings is now passed on to sessions Claude Code starts itself, while one parser reads --setting-sources and throws the value away

    found in this entry's text

  7. v2.1.281
    Runner arg set now includes system-prompt-file flags and 'agents'

    System-prompt-file flags and agents are now among the arguments the runner handles alongside settings and mcp-config

    found in this entry's text

  8. v2.1.280
    Early-input capture now skips agents.json invocations

    Claude Code no longer captures early terminal input when launched via an agents.json invocation

    found in this entry's text

  9. v2.1.273
    Headless/SDK session init now threads a handoff relay marker

    Headless and SDK session setup now carries an internal handoff relay marker

    found in this entry's text

  10. v2.1.265
    .cursorrules recognized as a project instructions/memory file

    Claude Code now reads .cursorrules files as project instructions

    found in this entry's text

  11. v2.1.265
    Agents list screen instance now reused across re-renders

    The 'claude agents' list screen now reuses its render object instead of recreating it each frame

    named in this entry

  12. v2.1.257
    New Agents view UI surface and effort slider component

    A new Agents view with an effort slider, view switching and pinning keybindings has been added.

    found in this entry's text

  13. v2.1.257
    New keybinding actions for an Agents view

    Two new keybinding actions for switching view and toggling a pin appear with an Agents context and an effort slider context.

    found in this entry's text

  14. v2.1.257
    Fleet/background-agent view keybindings made data-driven

    Fleet view shortcuts for group view, external editor and pinning now resolve through named keybinding actions instead of fixed keys.

    found in this entry's text

  15. v2.1.251
    --bg help now names the commands that take the printed id

    --bg help now names attach, logs, stop and rm as the commands taking the printed id.

    named in this entry

  16. v2.1.248
    Agents fleet view can mark its session restricted

    The agents fleet view marks its session restricted at startup.

    named in this entry

  17. v2.1.248
    Agents launcher resolves its directory filter through storage

    claude agents resolves its directory filter through storage rather than the raw path.

    named in this entry

  18. v2.1.248
    claude agents respects restricted mode

    The agents view now inherits restricted mode from the session, not just an explicit flag.

    named in this entry

  19. v2.1.233
    claude plugin validate works on directories without a plugin manifest

    claude plugin validate now falls back to checking skills, agents and commands when there is no manifest.

    found in this entry's text

  20. v2.1.140
  21. v2.0.56
  22. v1.0.103
    npm Plugin Support

    found in this entry's text

First cited

0

No release's published evidence quotes this name. The ledger indexes the Evidence lines of every changelog on this site, so this says nobody here has ever quoted it; it says nothing about how old the name is.

Presence across releases

0

The miner has never read a build containing this name. It is here because a changelog entry of ours names it, which is evidence that it existed and not evidence of which releases carried it. The inventory starts at v2.1.138 and everything older than that was never mined.

Read out of the published npm bundle release by release, and out of Anthropic's own documentation as this site captured it. Nothing on this page is a description anybody here wrote about what the CLI flag does. All CLI flags.

Feedback