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Reference / Environment variables

CLAUDE_CODE_INVESTIGATE_FIRST

A Claude Code environment variable, read out of the shipped bundle. It was in the build from v2.1.138 and was gone by v2.1.223.

What it is

Claude no longer spends up to a minute investigating before asking you a clarifying question.

Not Anthropic's. This is the line from the earliest changelog entry here that named it, v2.1.223.

Presence across releases

ReleasesReadingDeclared typeDefault
2.1.245 – 2.1.250 5 releases never mined
2.1.223 – 2.1.243 20 releases not in the build
2.1.160 – 2.1.222 55 releases in the build bool
2.1.138 – 2.1.159 20 releases in the build

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

  1. v2.1.223"Investigate first" system prompt experiment removed

    Claude no longer spends up to a minute investigating before asking you a clarifying question.

    named in this entry

Documentation pages

None of Anthropic's documentation pages this site has a copy of carries this name.

Names beside it

Every environment variable in the inventory starting claude_code, up to twelve of them.

CLAUDE_CODE_3P_PROBE_WROTE_OPUS_DEFAULTNo description from anybody. 2.1.207 CLAUDE_CODE_3P_PROBE_WROTE_SONNET_DEFAULTNo description from anybody. 2.1.207 CLAUDE_CODE_ACCESSIBILITYSet to 1 to keep the native terminal cursor visible and disable the inverted-text cursor indicator. Allows screen magnifiers like macOS Zoom to track cursor position 2.1.138 CLAUDE_CODE_ACCOUNT_TAGGED_IDNo description from anybody. 2.1.138 CLAUDE_CODE_ACCOUNT_UUIDThe device bridge is skipped entirely when the host's account UUID doesn't match the stored one. 2.1.138 CLAUDE_CODE_ACT_DONT_REDERIVEThree existing feature gates moved position; their defaults are unchanged. 2.1.162 CLAUDE_CODE_ACTIONNo description from anybody. 2.1.138 CLAUDE_CODE_ADDITIONAL_DIRECTORIES_CLAUDE_MDSet to 1 to load memory files from directories specified with --add-dir. Loads CLAUDE.md, .claude/CLAUDE.md, .claude/rules/*.md, and CLAUDE.local.md. By default, additional directories do not load memory files 2.1.138 CLAUDE_CODE_ADDITIONAL_PROTECTIONNo description from anybody. 2.1.138 CLAUDE_CODE_ADOPT_UNDERIVABLE_PARKED_PERMISSIONA resumed headless session could hand you back a permission prompt left unanswered, but three variables must be set. 2.1.238 CLAUDE_CODE_AGENTNo description from anybody. 2.1.138 CLAUDE_CODE_AGENT_COST_STEERNo description from anybody. 2.1.138

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.