CLAUDE_CODE_REMOTE

A Claude Code environment variable, read out of the shipped bundle. It has been in the build since v2.1.138, including the newest one read.

What it is

Presence across releases

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Changelog entries naming it

1. v2.1.237Poll tool drains queued harness events and reports who sent them

   Claude can pull in queued messages from other sessions, stamped with who sent them, but only behind an env var.

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2. v2.1.232Non-interactive /auto-mode-setup no longer needs the onboarding flag

   Non-interactive /auto-mode-setup now just needs a resolved model and no remote flag.

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3. v2.1.232Remote Control: quieter duplicate answers and clearer auth failures

   Remote Control drops duplicate answers quietly and reports authentication failures distinctly.

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4. v2.1.229Remote sessions can receive queued notifications and read them with a new tool

   Remote sessions can be handed webhook, schedule and cross-session events mid-turn and read them with a new tool.

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5. v2.1.229Queued notifications for remote sessions

   Remote sessions accept and validate a new queued notification message instead of ignoring it.

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6. v2.1.229ReadNotifications tool, reachable only in remote non-interactive runs

   A new tool lets Claude pull queued notifications, but only in remote non-interactive runs.

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7. v2.1.227Watching an artifact from a remote session now wakes it instead of streaming

   In remote sessions, watching an artifact wakes you on publish instead of streaming live updates.

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8. v2.1.227Remote startup timing accepts numbers supplied by the runner

   On remote runs, startup timings can be supplied by the runner through an environment variable.

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9. v2.1.224Remote-control autostart decision is resolved in one place

   One resolver now decides whether Remote Control starts and in which mode, weighing flags, settings and env vars.

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10. v2.1.224Automatic memory context can scan a whole memory directory

    Memory context can list every file in your memory directory instead of one file.

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11. v2.1.224Memory-consolidation prompt gains two variants

    Memory consolidation prompts gained prune-only and tools-unavailable variants for different session types.

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12. v2.1.224Self-hosted runner operator tools

    Nine operator tools can inspect runners, sessions, secrets, health, metrics and logs, loaded only via --base-tools.

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13. v2.1.224An auto-generated index of your memory files

    Claude can auto-generate an index of your memory files and feed it in as a source.

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14. v2.1.223MCP status reply trims terminal-only advice in non-interactive and remote sessions

    The /mcp status reply stops telling you to type commands you cannot type in that session.

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15. v2.1.223/mcp summary drops the "use the terminal" hint in remote workspaces

    The /mcp status line stops telling you to use a terminal you don't have in remote workspaces.

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16. v2.1.221Review-origin remote sessions skip some disk persistence

    Remote sessions started from review can skip writing some state to disk.

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17. v2.1.221Remote worker heartbeats can adopt refreshed credentials

    Long-running remote sessions can pick up refreshed tokens mid-flight instead of dying when credentials expire.

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Documentation pages

• Organizations mentions it Claude Developer Platform
• Settings mentions it Claude Developer Platform
• Get effective organization settings mentions it Claude Developer Platform
• Configure cloud environments mentions it Claude Code CLI
• Environment variables mentions it Claude Code CLI
• Hooks reference mentions it Claude Code CLI
• Customize sessions in self-hosted environments mentions it Claude Code CLI
• Test self-hosted environments end to end mentions it Claude Code CLI
• Claude Code settings mentions it Claude Code CLI
• Claude Code settings reference mentions it Claude Code CLI

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Names beside it

Every environment variable in the inventory starting claude_code, 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.