CLAUDE_CODE_AUTOUPDATER_DISABLED_BY_HOST

A Claude Code environment variable, read out of the shipped bundle. It has been in the build since v2.1.295, including the newest one read.

Releases whose published page names CLAUDE_CODE_AUTOUPDATER_DISABLED_BY_HOST.

1. v2.1.295 8 Oct 2026
   Host apps can now pin plugin versions and stop plugin auto-updates

   With CLAUDE_CODE_AUTOUPDATER_DISABLED_BY_HOST set, Claude Code skips plugin auto-updates the host app has pinned

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

2. v2.1.295 8 Oct 2026
   Plugin updates can stop when the host pins Claude Code's version

   With CLAUDE_CODE_AUTOUPDATER_DISABLED_BY_HOST, plugin auto-updates turn off when the host disables updates or pins the version

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

3. v2.1.295 8 Oct 2026
   Two new environment variables for auto-updates and compaction

   Claude Code now reads CLAUDE_CODE_AUTOUPDATER_DISABLED_BY_HOST and CLAUDE_CODE_SLEEP_COMPACT at startup

   found in this entry's text

The earliest release whose published evidence quoted CLAUDE_CODE_AUTOUPDATER_DISABLED_BY_HOST was v2.1.295, 8 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.

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.