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--thinking-display

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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.

A schema description was reworded to explain that clearing the thinking display setting restores Claude Code's own default.

Not Anthropic's. This is the line from the earliest changelog entry here that named it, v2.1.241.

First seen — never in a mined build
Last seen — never in a mined build
Builds0 / 149on this box, as of v2.1.308
Written about v2.1.94 first named in a changelog, 7 Apr 2026

In the changelogs

5

Releases whose published page names --thinking-display.

  1. v2.1.281
    Remote Control set_max_thinking_tokens can now also set the thinking display

    Remote Control can now set how thinking is displayed along with the thinking budget, unless the local user already chose a display

    found in this entry's text

  2. v2.1.281
    Startup now passes the thinking-display flag, early remote link and headless cloud print mode downstream

    Startup now hands more options to the session it prepares, and the --thinking-display value is read even when thinking is turned off

    found in this entry's text

  3. v2.1.241
    Clearer wording for clearing the thinking display override

    A schema description was reworded to explain that clearing the thinking display setting restores Claude Code's own default.

    named in this entry, found in this entry's text

  4. v2.1.178
  5. v2.1.94
    --thinking-display CLI Flag

    found in this entry's text

First cited

1

The earliest release whose published evidence quoted --thinking-display was v2.1.94, 7 Apr 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
v2.1.947 Apr 2026--thinking-display

Presence across releases

0

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.

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.

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