setMode
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.
Prompt text, cursor and paste state now live in one shared object; nothing changes for you.
Not Anthropic's. This is the line from the earliest changelog entry here that named it, v2.1.246.
In the changelogs
5Releases whose published page names setMode.
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v2.1.281
SDK permission responses can switch the session mode
Programs using the SDK can now change the session's permission mode when they allow a tool
named in this entry, found in this entry's text
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v2.1.246
Prompt input state moved behind one shared draft object
Prompt text, cursor and paste state now live in one shared object; nothing changes for you.
found in this entry's text
- v2.1.163
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v2.1.110
bypassPermissions Mode Scoping
found in this entry's text
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v1.0.93
Permission Mode Persistence
found in this entry's text
First cited
3The earliest release whose published evidence quoted setMode was v2.1.110, 15 Apr 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.