A Claude Code environment variable, read out of the shipped bundle.
It has been in the build since v2.1.160, including the newest one read.
Nobody has written a line about this one. It is not in any of Anthropic's reference tables and no changelog entry here carries a description of it. It is in the build, which is the whole of what this page can claim.
First seen v2.1.160
Last seen v2.1.309 22 Oct 2026
Builds130 / 150on this box, as of v2.1.309
Written about v2.1.71 first named in a changelog, 6 Mar 2026
v2.1.160in the build not in the build never minedv2.1.309
In the changelogs
1
Releases whose published page names EMBEDDED_SEARCH_TOOLS.
The earliest release whose published evidence quoted EMBEDDED_SEARCH_TOOLS was v2.1.71, 6 Mar 2026. That is the oldest release this project wrote about it, so it is a floor on the name's age and not the release that introduced it. It is not a presence reading: which builds carried the name is the table below.
v2.1.160 – v2.1.309130 builds → 22 Oct 2026 ◆in the build
Build by build
130
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.
v2.1.29914 Oct 2026·presentverdict: present · bool
v2.1.30014 Oct 2026·presentverdict: present · bool
v2.1.30115 Oct 2026·presentverdict: present · bool
v2.1.30216 Oct 2026·presentverdict: present · bool
v2.1.30318 Oct 2026·presentverdict: present · bool
v2.1.30419 Oct 2026·presentverdict: present · bool
v2.1.30520 Oct 2026·presentverdict: present · bool
v2.1.30621 Oct 2026·presentverdict: present · bool
v2.1.30721 Oct 2026·presentverdict: present · bool
v2.1.30822 Oct 2026·presentverdict: present · bool
v2.1.30922 Oct 2026·presentverdict: present · bool
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.
