CLAUDE_CODE_ATTACHMENTS_IN_USER_DATA
A Claude Code environment variable, read out of the shipped bundle. It has been in the build since v2.1.301, including the newest one read.
Remote sessions can keep attachments in a user-data folder when CLAUDE_CODE_ATTACHMENTS_IN_USER_DATA is set, unless data retention rules apply
Not Anthropic's. This is the line from the earliest changelog entry here that named it, v2.1.301.
In the changelogs
2Releases whose published page names CLAUDE_CODE_ATTACHMENTS_IN_USER_DATA.
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v2.1.301
New
CLAUDE_CODE_ATTACHMENTS_IN_USER_DATAsetting for remote session attachmentsRemote sessions can keep attachments in a user-data folder when
CLAUDE_CODE_ATTACHMENTS_IN_USER_DATAis set, unless data retention rules applyfound in this entry's text, named in this entry
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v2.1.301
Cloud sessions check whether attachments could be stored with user data
Remote sessions with CLAUDE_CODE_ATTACHMENTS_IN_USER_DATA set now check at startup whether attachments could be kept with user data
found in this entry's text, named in this entry
First cited
1The earliest release whose published evidence quoted CLAUDE_CODE_ATTACHMENTS_IN_USER_DATA was v2.1.301, 15 Oct 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
8One 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.