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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
The import command exists but just prints a message instead of starting a session here.
Not Anthropic's. This is the line from the earliest changelog entry here that named it, v2.1.222.
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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v2.1.238Plugins that run a local command to fetch their archive now ask first
Plugins that mint headers via a local command now ask you to confirm;
-yis ignored in-session.named in this entry
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v2.1.238Zip-archive plugin entries can carry their own fetch credentials
Plugin archives can carry their own fetch headers or a helper command instead of inheriting them.
named in this entry
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v2.1.229
claude plugin installandupdategained-yPlugin install and update take -y to skip the command confirmation, but not inside a session.
named in this entry
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v2.1.229Command-sourced plugin installs ask before running anything
You must confirm before Claude runs a marketplace plugin command, and -y works only outside sessions.
named in this entry
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v2.1.222
claude importis stubbed out in this buildThe import command exists but just prints a message instead of starting a session here.
named in this entry
Documentation pages
- Configure auto mode mentions it Claude Code CLI
- Claude Code changelog mentions it Claude Code CLI
- Explore the .claude directory mentions it Claude Code CLI
- CLI reference mentions it Claude Code CLI
- Commands mentions it Claude Code CLI
- Discover and install prebuilt plugins through marketplaces mentions it Claude Code CLI
- Choose a permission mode mentions it Claude Code CLI
- Create and distribute a plugin marketplace mentions it Claude Code CLI
- Plugins reference mentions it Claude Code CLI
- Week 18 · April 27 – May 1, 2026 mentions it Claude Code CLI
- Week 29 · July 13–17, 2026 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.
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.