CLAUDE_CODE_DISABLE_BEDROCK_CONTENT_TYPE_GUARD
A Claude Code environment variable, read out of the shipped bundle. It has been in the build since v2.1.208, including the newest one read.
What it is
Set to 1 to skip the check that an [Amazon Bedrock](/docs/en/amazon-bedrock) streaming response carries the application/vnd.amazon.eventstream content-type. Without this variable, a response with a different content-type fails with an error naming that content-type, which means a [gateway or proxy is transforming the response](/docs/en/amazon-bedrock#streaming-errors-behind-a-gateway-or-proxy). Set it only when the gateway rewrites the Content-Type header but passes the binary event-stream body through unmodified; if the body itself was transformed, requests fail with Truncated event message received instead. Requires Claude Code v2.1.208 or later
Anthropic's own wording. Read off Environment variables, captured 2026-08-28.
Presence across releases
| Releases | Reading | Declared type | Default |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2.1.245 – 2.1.250 5 releases | never mined | — | — |
| 2.1.208 – 2.1.243 35 releases | in the build | bool | — |
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
No changelog entry here has ever named it. That is a statement about what has been written, not about the name: it has been in the build since v2.1.208 without anybody writing a line about it.
Documentation pages
- Environment variables reference table Claude Code CLI
- Claude Code on Amazon Bedrock mentions it Claude Code CLI
- Error reference mentions it Claude Code CLI
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Names beside it
Every environment variable in the inventory starting claude_code_disable_bedrock_content_type, up to twelve of them.
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.