CLAUDE_CODE_RESTRICTED
A Claude Code environment variable, read out of the shipped bundle. No mined inventory carries it: everything below comes from what this site has written about it.
What it is
New --restricted flag starts a locked-down session with no shell tools and no settings files.
Not Anthropic's. This is the line from the earliest changelog entry here that named it, v2.1.248.
Presence across releases
The miner has never read a build containing this name. It is here because a changelog entry of ours names it, which is evidence that it existed and not evidence of which releases carried it. The inventory starts at v2.1.138 and everything older than that was never mined.
Changelog entries naming it
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v2.1.248New
--restrictedsession modeNew --restricted flag starts a locked-down session with no shell tools and no settings files.
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v2.1.248Restricted sessions drop implicit file allowances and cannot be talked out of a denial
Restricted sessions drop implicit file allowances, and a denial can't be argued away.
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v2.1.248Restricted sessions handled the same way whether set by flag or environment
Setting CLAUDE_CODE_RESTRICTED now restricts a session exactly as --restricted does.
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v2.1.248Auto-memory is off in restricted sessions
Restricted sessions never write auto-memory, regardless of your settings.
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v2.1.248More environment variables carried into remote sessions
More environment variables get carried into remote sessions; none are set by default.
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Documentation pages
- Claude Code changelog mentions it Claude Code CLI
- Claude Code settings reference mentions it Claude Code CLI
A reference table page is one whose own table defines this name, and it is where the description above came from. A page that mentions it carries the name somewhere in its text and may say nothing about it at all. Every page carrying it.
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.