CLAUDE_BG_AUTO_MEMORY_OFF
A Claude Code environment variable, read out of the shipped bundle. It has been in the build since v2.1.285, including the newest one read.
Claude Code now tracks auto-memory being off for a session and adds a notice that memory is still paused from earlier
Not Anthropic's. This is the line from the earliest changelog entry here that named it, v2.1.285.
In the changelogs
2Releases whose published page names CLAUDE_BG_AUTO_MEMORY_OFF.
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v2.1.285
Turning auto-memory off is now tracked per session and may carry over
Claude Code now tracks auto-memory being off for a session and adds a notice that memory is still paused from earlier
found in this entry's text
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v2.1.285
Background sessions gain a variable for automatic memory being off
CLAUDE_BG_AUTO_MEMORY_OFFis now handled for background sessions alongsideCLAUDE_BG_MEMORY_TOGGLED_OFFfound in this entry's text, named in this entry
First cited
2The earliest release whose published evidence quoted CLAUDE_BG_AUTO_MEMORY_OFF was v2.1.285, 29 Sep 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.
Presence across releases
1Build by build
1One 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 environment variable does. All environment variables.