inferenceCredentialKind
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.
Gateway sign-in config now uses inferenceCredentialKind; the old key still works but warns.
Not Anthropic's. This is the line from the earliest changelog entry here that named it, v2.1.232.
In the changelogs
5Releases whose published page names inferenceCredentialKind.
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v2.1.300
Admin settings gain a Microsoft default-account option and wider credential-kind use
Managed settings add
microsoftAuthDefaultAccountfor silent Microsoft 365 sign-in, andinferenceCredentialKindis now also read by Claude Codefound in this entry's text
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v2.1.281
Schema marks legacy inferenceCredentialKind values as deprecated
The generated settings schema now lists old
inferenceCredentialKindvalues as deprecated, with warning and end-of-support datesfound in this entry's text, named in this entry
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v2.1.269
Inference-provider config fields reshuffled with no apparent behavior change
Inference-provider config field definitions were internally reorganized with no behavior change
found in this entry's text
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v2.1.260
Config deprecation framework for inference gateway/Vertex auth settings
Old inference gateway/Vertex auth settings now get structured deprecation guidance.
found in this entry's text, named in this entry
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v2.1.232
Gateway sign-in config uses
inferenceCredentialKindGateway sign-in config now uses
inferenceCredentialKind; the old key still works but warns.named in this entry, found in this entry's text
First cited
2The earliest release whose published evidence quoted inferenceCredentialKind was v2.1.232, 13 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
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.