USER_TYPE
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.
The launcher now handles USER_TYPE specially when setting up the environment it passes down.
Not Anthropic's. This is the line from the earliest changelog entry here that named it, v2.1.228.
In the changelogs
4Releases whose published page names USER_TYPE.
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v2.1.286
The "You should know" plugin watches prompts, commands and the screen
The built-in
cc-plugin-you-should-knowplugin hooks into prompt submission, commands, turn steps, screen drawing and session detachfound in this entry's text
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v2.1.238
Silent-turn and artifact-room env vars added to an internal allowlist
Silent-turn reminder and artifact room environment variables are now recognised by name in the settings allowlist.
found in this entry's text
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v2.1.228
USER_TYPE joins the specially handled environment variables
The launcher now handles USER_TYPE specially when setting up the environment it passes down.
named in this entry, found in this entry's text
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v2.1.76
Bridge Debug Commands (Internal)
found in this entry's text
First cited
0No 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
0The 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.
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.