Two env vars let background dispatchers inherit your plan and rate tier without an API call.
named in this entry, found in this entry's text
First cited
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The earliest release whose published evidence quoted CLAUDE_BG_DISPATCHER_SUBSCRIPTION_TYPE was v2.1.251, 28 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
v2.1.25128 Aug 2026CLAUDE_BG_DISPATCHER_SUBSCRIPTION_TYPE
Presence across releases
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BuildsHow manyDatesReading
v2.1.251 – v2.1.32261 builds28 Aug 2026 → 10 Nov 2026 ◆in the build
Build by build
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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 environment variable does. All environment variables.
