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Sweep 28 Aug 2026 · 00:00Z Build v2.1.250 478 read Stable v2.1.236 Latest v2.1.250 Next v2.1.250 Feeds RSS JSON llms.txt

DisclaimerUnofficial, and not affiliated with Anthropic. Nearly all of this is read straight out of what ships: npm bundles, captured prompts, published docs. Anthropic's own notes go in verbatim, marked as theirs. The rest is my reading, and every entry carries the strings behind it. If one looks wrong, vote it down and say why.

Reference / CLI flags

--max-budget-usd

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

Maximum dollar amount to spend on API calls before stopping (print mode only). Spend from [subagents](/docs/en/sub-agents) counts toward the cap. Once spend reaches the cap, spawning another subagent fails with Budget limit reached, and Claude Code stops background subagents that are still running; the cap-enforcement behaviors require Claude Code v2.1.217 or later

Anthropic's own wording. Read off CLI reference, captured 2026-08-28.

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

  1. v2.1.246Headless runs halt at the spend cap and stop background agents

    Headless runs now stop at your spend cap and shut down background agents instead of spending on.

    named in this entry

Documentation pages

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.

Names beside it

Every CLI flag in the inventory starting --max, up to twelve of them.

--max-cost-usdNo description from anybody. 2.1.198

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.