thinkingDisplayFlag

A Claude Code settings key, read out of the shipped bundle. It was in the build from v2.1.315 and was gone by v2.1.317.

Releases whose published page names thinkingDisplayFlag.

1. v2.1.281 23 Sep 2026
   Resume picker passes the thinking-display flag through to the resumed session

   Resuming a session from the picker now keeps the thinking-display flag you started Claude Code with

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2. v2.1.281 23 Sep 2026
   Resume: resumeSource recorded; fleet view gets extra working directories

   --resume now records where a session was resumed from, and fleet view opened this way gets extra working directories

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3. v2.1.281 23 Sep 2026
   Small internals

   Several small internal changes, including tidier Markdown lists and room for scroll indicators in the diff file list

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4. v2.1.281 23 Sep 2026
   Startup now passes the thinking-display flag, early remote link and headless cloud print mode downstream

   Startup now hands more options to the session it prepares, and the --thinking-display value is read even when thinking is turned off

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The earliest release whose published evidence quoted thinkingDisplayFlag was v2.1.281, 23 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.

One row per release since the first build this name was read out of. Absent means the build was read and the name was not in it, never mined means no bundle for that release was ever archived, and a declared type or a default is only ever what that release's own bundle stated.

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.