CLAUDE_CODE_ELEGANT_MEADOW
A Claude Code environment variable, read out of the shipped bundle. It has been in the build since v2.1.282, including the newest one read.
New, off-by-default recording writes each API request's system prompt, tools and message changes into the session transcript file
Not Anthropic's. This is the line from the earliest changelog entry here that named it, v2.1.282.
In the changelogs
2Releases whose published page names CLAUDE_CODE_ELEGANT_MEADOW.
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v2.1.300
Recording API requests into session transcripts now defaults to on
Recording each API request into the session transcript is now on by default unless the server says otherwise;
CLAUDE_CODE_ELEGANT_MEADOWoverrides itfound in this entry's text
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v2.1.282
Claude Code can record the API requests it sends into session transcripts
New, off-by-default recording writes each API request's system prompt, tools and message changes into the session transcript file
found in this entry's text
First cited
1The earliest release whose published evidence quoted CLAUDE_CODE_ELEGANT_MEADOW was v2.1.282, 24 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
37One 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.