sdkMcpServerManifests
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.
SDK MCP servers can now skip live handshakes by supplying a pre-captured manifest at initialization
Not Anthropic's. This is the line from the earliest changelog entry here that named it, v2.1.265.
In the changelogs
4Releases whose published page names sdkMcpServerManifests.
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v2.1.286
SDK startup now reports what happened to each in-process MCP server manifest
Claude Code now records an outcome for each MCP server manifest the SDK sends at startup, and remote workers no longer use them
found in this entry's text, named in this entry
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v2.1.281
SDK can hand in-process MCP server manifests to the CLI at initialize
The Agent SDK can now read tool lists from in-process MCP servers itself and pass them to the CLI when it starts
found in this entry's text
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v2.1.265
SDK MCP servers can now hand over a pre-captured manifest instead of handshaking live
SDK MCP servers can now skip live handshakes by supplying a pre-captured manifest at initialization
found in this entry's text, named in this entry
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v2.1.265
SDK MCP servers can now skip the control-channel handshake via manifests
SDK-registered in-process MCP servers can now skip a round-trip handshake at session start
found in this entry's text, named in this entry
First cited
3The earliest release whose published evidence quoted sdkMcpServerManifests was v2.1.265, 8 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.