idle
A Claude Code settings key, read out of the shipped bundle. No mined inventory carries it: everything below comes from what this site has written about it.
Repeated messages report the session idle less often, though the deciding condition is hidden.
Not Anthropic's. This is the line from the earliest changelog entry here that named it, v2.1.246.
In the changelogs
7Releases whose published page names idle.
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v2.1.269
New 'idle' terminal status for bridge/remote-control sessions
Remote-control bridge sessions get a new 'idle' status that parks them instead of ending them
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v2.1.269
initialWorkerStatus replaces hardcoded idle default
Worker status now starts from a configurable initialWorkerStatus instead of always defaulting to idle
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v2.1.257
Initial/launch prompt submission reworked into an explicit state machine
The launch prompt is now submitted through an explicit state machine instead of a boolean and a polling loop.
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v2.1.246
Fewer spurious idle reports after a duplicate message
Repeated messages report the session idle less often, though the deciding condition is hidden.
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v2.1.246
The SDK transport can ask the main loop whether it is still working
The SDK transport can now ask the main loop whether it's truly idle before saying so.
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v2.1.246
Session state reports idle instead of running when the main loop is not working
Session state now reports idle rather than running when the main loop isn't actually working.
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v2.1.53
Remote Control Bridge Improvements
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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 settings key does. All settings keys.