XDG_CONFIG_HOME
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
Remote settings can now supply many more environment variables, including auth tokens and home directory paths.
Not Anthropic's. This is the line from the earliest changelog entry here that named it, v2.1.223.
Presence across releases
| Releases | Reading | Declared type | Default |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2.1.245 – 2.1.250 5 releases | never mined | — | — |
| 2.1.210 – 2.1.243 33 releases | in the build | str | — |
| 2.1.138 – 2.1.209 62 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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v2.1.247Installing the Zed Shift+Enter binding no longer rewrites your whole keymap
Installing the Zed Shift+Enter binding now edits just that line, keeping your comments and existing bindings.
named in this entry
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v2.1.223Remote-settings env allowlist widened
Remote settings can now supply many more environment variables, including auth tokens and home directory paths.
named in this entry
Documentation pages
- Explore the .claude directory mentions it Claude Code CLI
- Configure server-managed settings mentions it Claude Code CLI
- Claude Code 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 xdg, up to twelve of them.
XDG_DATA_HOMENo description from anybody. 2.1.208
XDG_RUNTIME_DIRThe messaging socket lives under XDG_RUNTIME_DIR with locked-down permissions and refuses to hijack a live one. 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.