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Reference / CLI flags

--ref

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

With --environment, base the new session's checkout on a named ref instead of local HEAD

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. v2.1.248Cloud and pool flags no longer confuse prompt detection

    Cloud flags like --pool and --ref no longer swallow their values as your prompt.

    named in this entry

  2. v2.1.238claude --cloud explains when your local changes cannot be uploaded

    claude --cloud now says why your local changes could not be uploaded and points you at --ref.

    named in this entry

  3. v2.1.232--project no longer starts a cloud session

    Passing --project alone won't start a cloud session; --ref and --on-branch now need --cloud or --environment.

    named in this entry

  4. v2.1.224Start a cloud session on a self-hosted environment with --environment

    Start a cloud session on your own environment with claude --environment, plus hidden --ref and --on-branch companions.

    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.

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.