CLAUDE_CODE_FOOTER_INDICATOR
A Claude Code environment variable, read out of the shipped bundle. It has been in the build since v2.1.274, including the newest one read.
New CLAUDE_CODE_FOOTER_INDICATOR environment variable overrides the status line's footer pill text
Not Anthropic's. This is the line from the earliest changelog entry here that named it, v2.1.274.
In the changelogs
3Releases whose published page names CLAUDE_CODE_FOOTER_INDICATOR.
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v2.1.286
Footer label can now also be set by the model's configuration
The footer indicator is read from
CLAUDE_CODE_FOOTER_INDICATOR, then from the main model's configuration, then from startup datafound in this entry's text
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v2.1.274
CLAUDE_CODE_FOOTER_INDICATOR environment variable can override the footer pill
New CLAUDE_CODE_FOOTER_INDICATOR environment variable overrides the status line's footer pill text
named in this entry, found in this entry's text
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v2.1.274
CLAUDE_CODE_FOOTER_INDICATOR env var now overrides settings config directly
CLAUDE_CODE_FOOTER_INDICATOR environment variable now overrides the footer_indicator setting
named in this entry, found in this entry's text
First cited
3The earliest release whose published evidence quoted CLAUDE_CODE_FOOTER_INDICATOR was v2.1.274, 16 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
42One 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.