--interactive
A Claude Code CLI flag, read out of the shipped bundle. It has been in the build since v2.1.138, including the newest one read.
What it is
claude eval --interactive now appears in help; --interview remains a hidden alias.
Not Anthropic's. This is the line from the earliest changelog entry here that named it, v2.1.224.
Presence across releases
| Releases | Reading | Declared type | Default |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2.1.245 – 2.1.250 5 releases | never mined | — | — |
| 2.1.138 – 2.1.243 95 releases | in the build | — | — |
A row reading never mined is a release with no archived bundle behind it. Nothing was read out of it, so nothing here says whether the name was in it. A declared type or a default is only ever what that release's own bundle stated.
Changelog entries naming it
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v2.1.224
claude eval --interactiveis documentedclaude eval --interactivenow appears in help;--interviewremains a hidden alias.named in this entry
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v2.1.224
claude plugin eval init --interactivefails clearly without a terminalAsking for the eval interview without a terminal now fails clearly and tells you the alternative.
named in this entry
Documentation pages
- CLI reference mentions it Claude Code CLI
- Week 18 · April 27 – May 1, 2026 mentions it Claude Code CLI
A reference table page is one whose own table defines this name, and it is where the description above came from. A page that mentions it carries the name somewhere in its text and may say nothing about it at all. Every page carrying it.
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.