A Claude Code environment variable, read out of the shipped bundle.
It has been in the build since v2.1.174, including the newest one read.
Controls the recap generated at turn end in remote sessions: Claude Code asks the model for a short recap for a user who stepped away (under 40 words) and publishes it as the session's recap metadata, dropping it if a new turn is already running. A true value (1, true, yes, on) enables it, a false value disables it, and unset defers to the tengu_harbor_moth flag (default off).
Not Anthropic's. Written by Claude Opus 5.5 from reading the v2.1.286 bundle, and it can be wrong.
First seen v2.1.174 11 Jun 2026
Last seen v2.1.308 22 Oct 2026
Builds117 / 149on this box, as of v2.1.308
Written about v2.1.174 first named in a changelog, 11 Jun 2026
v2.1.174in the build not in the build never minedv2.1.308
In the changelogs
1
Releases whose published page names CLAUDE_CODE_ENABLE_REMOTE_RECAP.
No release's published evidence quotes this name. The ledger indexes the Evidence lines of every changelog on this site, so this says nobody here has ever quoted it; it says nothing about how old the name is.
Presence across releases
1
BuildsHow manyDatesReading
v2.1.174 – v2.1.308117 builds11 Jun 2026 → 22 Oct 2026 ◆in the build
Build by build
117
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.
v2.1.2871 Oct 2026·presentverdict: present · triBool
v2.1.2882 Oct 2026·presentverdict: present · triBool
v2.1.2893 Oct 2026·presentverdict: present · triBool
v2.1.2905 Oct 2026·presentverdict: present · triBool
v2.1.2916 Oct 2026·presentverdict: present · triBool
v2.1.2926 Oct 2026·presentverdict: present · triBool
v2.1.2937 Oct 2026·presentverdict: present · triBool
v2.1.2948 Oct 2026·presentverdict: present · triBool
v2.1.2958 Oct 2026·presentverdict: present · triBool
v2.1.2969 Oct 2026·presentverdict: present · triBool
v2.1.29914 Oct 2026·presentverdict: present · triBool
v2.1.30014 Oct 2026·presentverdict: present · triBool
v2.1.30115 Oct 2026·presentverdict: present · triBool
v2.1.30216 Oct 2026·presentverdict: present · triBool
v2.1.30318 Oct 2026·presentverdict: present · triBool
v2.1.30419 Oct 2026·presentverdict: present · triBool
v2.1.30520 Oct 2026·presentverdict: present · triBool
v2.1.30621 Oct 2026·presentverdict: present · triBool
v2.1.30721 Oct 2026·presentverdict: present · triBool
v2.1.30822 Oct 2026·presentverdict: present · triBool
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.
