--print
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
Print response without interactive mode (see [Agent SDK documentation](/docs/en/agent-sdk/overview) for programmatic usage details)
Anthropic's own wording. Read off CLI reference, captured 2026-08-28.
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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v2.1.242
--printwith--cloudcan message an existing cloud sessionYou can now use --print with --cloud to message an existing cloud session.
named in this entry
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v2.1.239One shared test for whether a run is headless
One shared check now decides whether a run is non-interactive, covering print mode and piped output.
named in this entry
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v2.1.229A whitespace-only prompt gets its own error
A prompt of only spaces to
--printnow gets its own clear error.named in this entry
Documentation pages
- CLI reference reference table Claude Code CLI
- Manage multiple agents with agent view mentions it Claude Code CLI
- Claude Code changelog mentions it Claude Code CLI
- Desktop application mentions it Claude Code CLI
- Claude Desktop on Linux (beta) mentions it Claude Code CLI
- Error reference mentions it Claude Code CLI
- Glossary mentions it Claude Code CLI
- Run Claude Code programmatically mentions it Claude Code CLI
- Model configuration mentions it Claude Code CLI
- Authorization mentions it Model Context Protocol
- CLI client mentions it Model Context Protocol
- Configuration and flags mentions it Model Context Protocol
- Web client mentions it Model Context Protocol
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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.