DISABLE_PROMPT_CACHING
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
Parallel workflow agents stagger their first call to share cache; tune with an env var.
Not Anthropic's. This is the line from the earliest changelog entry here that named it, v2.1.229.
Presence across releases
| Releases | Reading | Declared type | Default |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2.1.245 – 2.1.250 5 releases | never mined | — | — |
| 2.1.160 – 2.1.243 75 releases | in the build | bool | — |
| 2.1.138 – 2.1.159 20 releases | in the build | — | — |
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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v2.1.229Sibling workflow agents stagger their first request to warm the cache
Parallel workflow agents stagger their first call to share cache; tune with an env var.
named in this entry
Documentation pages
- Claude Code on Amazon Bedrock mentions it Claude Code CLI
- Claude Code on Google Cloud's Agent Platform mentions it Claude Code CLI
- Model configuration mentions it Claude Code CLI
- How Claude Code uses prompt caching mentions it Claude Code CLI
- Configure server-managed settings 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 disable_prompt, up to twelve of them.
DISABLE_PROMPT_CACHING_FABLENo description from anybody. 2.1.170
DISABLE_PROMPT_CACHING_HAIKUNo description from anybody. 2.1.138
DISABLE_PROMPT_CACHING_MYTHOSNo description from anybody. 2.1.170
DISABLE_PROMPT_CACHING_OPUSNo description from anybody. 2.1.138
DISABLE_PROMPT_CACHING_SONNETNo 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.