attach
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.
What it is
Attaching to a background session now times how long it takes to paint and reach an idle prompt.
Not Anthropic's. This is the line from the earliest changelog entry here that named it, v2.1.221.
Presence across releases
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.
Changelog entries naming it
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v2.1.248
claude attachexplains cleaned-up background sessions instead of failing genericallyReopening a cleaned-up background session now points you at claude rm and claude respawn.
named in this entry
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v2.1.247
claude attachtells you whether the terminal host died or just never answeredAttach failures now distinguish a dead terminal host from a silent session, and offer the right recovery.
named in this entry
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v2.1.221
claude attachnow measures time-to-interactiveAttaching to a background session now times how long it takes to paint and reach an idle prompt.
named in this entry
Documentation pages
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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.