`--setting-sources`

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

Comma-separated list of setting sources to load (user, project, local)

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

v2.1.225Held cross-session messages name managed or repo settings as the cause
When a peer message is held, you now see whether org or repo settings caused it.

named in this entry

Documentation pages

CLI reference reference table Claude Code CLI
Claude Code changelog mentions it Claude Code CLI
Error reference mentions it Claude Code CLI
Fullscreen rendering mentions it Claude Code CLI
Connect Claude Code to tools via MCP mentions it Claude Code CLI
How Claude remembers your project mentions it Claude Code CLI
Monitoring mentions it Claude Code CLI
Configure permissions mentions it Claude Code CLI
Plugins reference mentions it Claude Code CLI
Configure the sandboxed Bash tool mentions it Claude Code CLI
Claude Code settings reference mentions it Claude Code CLI
Extend Claude with skills 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.

Names beside it

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

--settingsPath to a settings JSON file or an inline JSON string. Values you set here override the same keys in your settings.json files for this session. Keys you omit keep their file-based values. The file must be a regular file no larger than 2 MiB. See [settings precedence](/docs/en/settings#settings-precedence) 2.1.138

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.