leanPrompt
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.
The Bash prompt caches its skill-command list per session and accepts lean and trimmed prompt variants.
Not Anthropic's. This is the line from the earliest changelog entry here that named it, v2.1.257.
In the changelogs
4Releases whose published page names leanPrompt.
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v2.1.277
WebFetch tool description reworks its claude.ai-artifact exception into a general mode parameter
WebFetch's internal prompt-building switched from a simple on/off flag to a named mode string
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v2.1.274
New bash-first prompt steer variant experiment slot
A new bashFirstSteerVariant experiment slot was added, gated by tengu_cozy_teapot and overridable via CLAUDE_CODE_COZY_TEAPOT
found in this entry's text
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v2.1.257
Bash tool prompt now caches available skill commands and supports lean/trimmed prompt variants
The Bash prompt caches its skill-command list per session and accepts lean and trimmed prompt variants.
named in this entry, found in this entry's text
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v2.1.257
AskUserQuestion-style tool prompt gains a leanPrompt parameter
The AskUserQuestion prompt now receives a lean-prompt flag that can suppress a guidance snippet.
named in this entry, found in this entry's text
First cited
1The earliest release whose published evidence quoted leanPrompt was v2.1.257, 1 Sep 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.