A Claude Code CLI flag, read out of the shipped bundle.
It has been in the build since v2.1.169, including the newest one read.
Start with all customizations disabled to troubleshoot a broken configuration: CLAUDE.md, skills, plugins, hooks, MCP servers, custom commands and agents, output styles, workflows, custom themes, custom keybindings, status line and file-suggestion commands, LSP servers, and auto memory do not load. Authentication, model selection, built-in tools, and permissions work normally, which differs from --bare. Managed settings policy still applies, including policy-configured hooks, status line, and file-suggestion commands; managed plugins, managed skills, managed CLAUDE.md, and policy-configured MCP servers do not. Useful for checking whether a customization is what triggers automatic model fallback. Sets CLAUDE_CODE_SAFE_MODE
Anthropic's own wording.
Read off CLI reference, captured 2026-09-26.
First seen v2.1.169 8 Jun 2026
Last seen v2.1.309 22 Oct 2026
Builds122 / 150on this box, as of v2.1.309
Written about v2.1.169 first named in a changelog, 8 Jun 2026
v2.1.169in the build not in the build never minedv2.1.309
The earliest release whose published evidence quoted --safe-mode was v2.1.248, 27 Aug 2026. That is the oldest release this project wrote about it, so it is a floor on the name's age and not the release that introduced it. It is not a presence reading: which builds carried the name is the table below.
ReleaseDateThe span that was quoted
v2.1.24827 Aug 2026[Claude in Chrome] Skipping chrome wiring: --safe-mode or --restricted
v2.1.2905 Oct 2026safeMode: () => he("tool_restriction", "--safe-mode")
v2.1.169 – v2.1.309122 builds8 Jun 2026 → 22 Oct 2026 ◆in the build
Build by build
122
One row per release since the first build this name was read out of. Absent means the build was read and the name was not in it, never mined means no bundle for that release was ever archived, and a declared type or a default is only ever what that release's own bundle stated.
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.
