CLAUDE_CODE_PRINT_ENGINE_LOOP
A Claude Code environment variable, read out of the shipped bundle. It has been in the build since v2.1.238, including the newest one read.
What it is
Set one variable and print mode keeps the model, tools and caches warm between prompts instead of rebuilding.
Not Anthropic's. This is the line from the earliest changelog entry here that named it, v2.1.238.
Presence across releases
| Releases | Reading | Declared type | Default |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2.1.245 – 2.1.250 5 releases | never mined | — | — |
| 2.1.238 – 2.1.243 6 releases | in the build | bool | — |
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
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v2.1.238Print mode can reuse one engine across prompts
Set one variable and print mode keeps the model, tools and caches warm between prompts instead of rebuilding.
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_print, up to twelve of them.
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.