`nameHint`

setting never mined JSON

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.

Subagents spawned as forks can now be given a custom display name and description instead of one derived from the task text

Not Anthropic's. This is the line from the earliest changelog entry here that named it, v2.1.269.

First seen — never in a mined build

Last seen — never in a mined build

Builds0 / 159on this box, as of v2.1.319

Written about v2.1.269 first named in a changelog, 11 Sep 2026

In the changelogs

Releases whose published page names nameHint.

v2.1.269 11 Sep 2026
Subagent forks can now request a custom display name and description
Subagents spawned as forks can now be given a custom display name and description instead of one derived from the task text

found in this entry's text, named in this entry

First cited

The earliest release whose published evidence quoted nameHint was v2.1.269, 11 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.

ReleaseDateThe span that was quoted

v2.1.26911 Sep 2026e.agentLifecycle.allocateName(h(n.nameHint ?? t))

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.

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.