accessToken
A Claude Code settings key, read out of the shipped bundle. It was in the build from v2.1.301 and was gone by v2.1.302.
An SDK host can now refuse to refresh your login token and say why.
Not Anthropic's. This is the line from the earliest changelog entry here that named it, v2.1.236.
In the changelogs
6Releases whose published page names accessToken.
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v2.1.277
New bridge inbox message download support
Bridge inbox messages can now include a direct download link instead of only inline text
found in this entry's text
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v2.1.260
Profile-credential OAuth path added for the app's own API auth headers
API auth can now use a cached OAuth bearer token for eligible enterprise/team profiles.
found in this entry's text
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v2.1.257
Background-auth snapshot can now carry a gateway token, and retries on transient read failures
The startup auth snapshot can carry a gateway token, and a locked-file read failure now retries instead of discarding it.
found in this entry's text
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v2.1.236
SDK hosts can decline an OAuth token refresh and say why
An SDK host can now refuse to refresh your login token and say why.
found in this entry's text
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v2.1.172
MCP OAuth Token Clearing: Preserve Client Registration
found in this entry's text
- v2.1.124
First cited
3The earliest release whose published evidence quoted accessToken was v2.1.236, 19 Aug 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.
Presence across releases
2Build by build
8One 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.
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 settings key does. All settings keys.