CLAUDE_CODE_HOLD_UNANSWERED_PARKED_PERMISSION
A Claude Code environment variable, read out of the shipped bundle. It was in the build from v2.1.235 and was gone by v2.1.275.
A new opt-in env var lets a resumed session keep an unanswered parked permission request open instead of retiring it
Not Anthropic's. This is the line from the earliest changelog entry here that named it, v2.1.235.
In the changelogs
5Releases whose published page names CLAUDE_CODE_HOLD_UNANSWERED_PARKED_PERMISSION.
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v2.1.273
Interrupted-turn resume and parked-permission-hold behavior moved from env vars to a 'lane' config object
Turn-resume and parked-permission behavior now comes from a 'lane' config object instead of direct env var reads
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v2.1.239
New environment variable for what happens to an unanswered parked permission
CLAUDE_CODE_PARKED_STOP_RETIRES lets you decide the fate of a set-aside permission prompt you never answered.
found in this entry's text
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v2.1.239
Remote workers can start up reporting a pending permission, if three env vars are set
Remote workers can start up reporting a pending permission if you set three environment variables.
named in this entry, found in this entry's text
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v2.1.238
Resumed sessions can adopt a permission prompt left waiting
A resumed headless session could hand you back a permission prompt left unanswered, but three variables must be set.
named in this entry, found in this entry's text
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v2.1.235
New env var holds an unanswered parked permission answerable instead of retiring it
A new opt-in env var lets a resumed session keep an unanswered parked permission request open instead of retiring it
found in this entry's text, named in this entry
First cited
2The earliest release whose published evidence quoted CLAUDE_CODE_HOLD_UNANSWERED_PARKED_PERMISSION was v2.1.235, 18 Aug 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
2Build by build
63One 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.