interrupt
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.
Send interrupt with cancel_queued true to stop the current turn and everything queued behind it.
Not Anthropic's. This is the line from the earliest changelog entry here that named it, v2.1.219.
In the changelogs
15Releases whose published page names interrupt.
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v2.1.286
SDK control request list gains
send_task_messageA request named send_task_message joins interrupt and stop_task in Claude Code's list of control requests
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v2.1.281
SDK engine: lifecycle for failed turn setup, and an abandonment sweep
The SDK engine now reports turns that failed to start and cleans up waiting turns when it closes
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v2.1.280
New abort reason: permission-stop
New 'permission-stop' abort reason lets Claude Code cleanly cancel work when a permission prompt is stopped
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v2.1.271
Control-request handling gains a generic dispatch branch ahead of the hardcoded subtype switch
Control-request handling gains a generic dispatch step that runs before the existing hardcoded request-type checks
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v2.1.269
Parked-permission cancel/interrupt handling factored into shared helpers
Interrupt handling for canceling queued messages was refactored into two shared helper functions
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v2.1.257
tengu_fizzy_grove gate swaps the interrupt error code
A gate decides which of two error codes an interrupt-triggered abort reports.
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v2.1.242
SDK
interrupt()can cancel queued messages and reports which onesSDK interrupt can now cancel queued messages and tells you which ones it cancelled.
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v2.1.238
stop_taskcontrol request stops a single taskSDK and remote drivers can stop a single task by id with a new control request.
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v2.1.227
PermissionRequest hooks can interrupt the whole turn
A PermissionRequest hook can now set
interruptto stop the whole turn, not just one tool call.named in this entry, found in this entry's text
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v2.1.224
Managed Agents sessions can carry a hard dollar spend cap
The bundled Claude API docs now describe a hard dollar spend cap that pauses a session idle.
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v2.1.221
Interrupts now tear down non-durable artifact watch/live subscriptions
Interrupting a turn now shuts down leftover live artifact watch and edit subscriptions.
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v2.1.221
Esc cancel has a scope that leaves background tasks alone
Pressing Esc to cancel a turn no longer kills your background tasks.
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v2.1.219
SDK interrupt can now cancel everything queued in one round-trip
Send interrupt with cancel_queued true to stop the current turn and everything queued behind it.
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v2.1.219
interrupt control request can now cancel the whole queue (cancel_queued)
An interrupt can now clear your whole queued command backlog at once and report what it cancelled.
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v2.1.26
Hook Interrupt Support
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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.