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CLAUDE_CODE_SNAPPY_PELICAN

env in the build JSON

A Claude Code environment variable, read out of the shipped bundle. It has been in the build since v2.1.296, including the newest one read.

Claude can now ask a subagent for lower or higher effort than its own, but the option is off unless switched on

Not Anthropic's. This is the line from the earliest changelog entry here that named it, v2.1.296.

First seen v2.1.296 9 Oct 2026
Last seen v2.1.296 9 Oct 2026
Builds1 / 139on this box, as of v2.1.296
Written about v2.1.296 first named in a changelog, 9 Oct 2026
v2.1.296in the build not in the build never minedv2.1.296

In the changelogs

1

Releases whose published page names CLAUDE_CODE_SNAPPY_PELICAN.

  1. v2.1.296
    Subagents can be asked for lower or higher effort, off by default

    Claude can now ask a subagent for lower or higher effort than its own, but the option is off unless switched on

    found in this entry's text

First cited

0

No release's published evidence quotes this name. The ledger indexes the Evidence lines of every changelog on this site, so this says nobody here has ever quoted it; it says nothing about how old the name is.

Presence across releases

1
BuildsHow manyDatesReading
v2.1.2961 build9 Oct 2026 ◆in the build

Build by build

1

One 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.

BuildDateStateThe record behind it
v2.1.2969 Oct 2026·addedverdict: added · triBool

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.

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