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DisclaimerUnofficial, and not affiliated with Anthropic. Nearly all of this is read straight out of what ships: npm bundles, captured prompts, published docs. Anthropic's own notes go in verbatim, marked as theirs. The rest is my reading, and every entry carries the strings behind it. If one looks wrong, vote it down and say why.

Reference / Settings keys

metadata

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.

What it is

You can add a free-form metadata block to command, skill and plugin files that Claude Code keeps but ignores.

Not Anthropic's. This is the line from the earliest changelog entry here that named it, v2.1.222.

Presence across releases

The 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.

Changelog entries naming it

  1. v2.1.222Commands, skills and plugin manifests accept a free-form metadata object

    You can add a free-form metadata block to command, skill and plugin files that Claude Code keeps but ignores.

    named in this entry

  2. v2.1.222Bad metadata in frontmatter and manifests now warns

    You now get a warning when metadata in a skill, command, plugin or marketplace file is the wrong type.

    named in this entry

  3. v2.1.222Skill frontmatter metadata is kept on the loaded record

    Skills can carry a metadata block in their frontmatter, but nothing uses it yet.

    named in this entry

Documentation pages

A reference table page is one whose own table defines this name, and it is where the description above came from. A page that mentions it carries the name somewhere in its text and may say nothing about it at all. Every page carrying it.

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.