CLAUDE_CODE_MCP_SERVE_MEMORY_WALKS_DEADLINE_MS
A Claude Code environment variable, read out of the shipped bundle. It has been in the build since v2.1.323, including the newest one read.
CLAUDE_CODE_MCP_SERVE_MEMORY_WALKS_DEADLINE_MS limits how long Claude Code searches for memory files when serving tools over MCP; default 2000 ms
Not Anthropic's. This is the line from the earliest changelog entry here that named it, v2.1.323.
In the changelogs
1Releases whose published page names CLAUDE_CODE_MCP_SERVE_MEMORY_WALKS_DEADLINE_MS.
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v2.1.323
Time limit for memory file lookups when Claude Code runs as an MCP server
CLAUDE_CODE_MCP_SERVE_MEMORY_WALKS_DEADLINE_MSlimits how long Claude Code searches for memory files when serving tools over MCP; default 2000 msfound in this entry's text, named in this entry
First cited
1The earliest release whose published evidence quoted CLAUDE_CODE_MCP_SERVE_MEMORY_WALKS_DEADLINE_MS was v2.1.323, 12 Nov 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
1One 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.