turn.start
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.
Plugin hooks are limited in what they may rewrite, and cannot take over question prompts.
Not Anthropic's. This is the line from the earliest changelog entry here that named it, v2.1.242.
In the changelogs
8Releases whose published page names turn.start.
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v2.1.299
Plugin hooks on turn start now count when Claude Code checks for turn hooks
A plugin hook listening for the start of a turn now counts as an active turn hook, alongside the step and complete hooks
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v2.1.271
Turn-scoped tracking for plugin-originated prompt submissions
Prompts submitted by plugins are now tracked against the current conversation turn
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v2.1.265
Hook registry gains command.describe as a core hook event
Claude Code adds a new internal hook event called command.describe
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v2.1.260
Turn-lifecycle event hooks added to session loop
The session loop now emits turn-start and turn-step lifecycle markers.
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v2.1.246
Plugins can abort the current turn with
$.turn.abortPlugins get a new turn object whose abort verb ends the running turn with its own interrupt wording.
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v2.1.242
Each hook event enforces what a plugin is allowed to change
Plugin hooks are limited in what they may rewrite, and cannot take over question prompts.
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v2.1.242
Plugin modules with a
$API that can hook events and redraw the terminal UIPlugins can install code that intercepts tool calls and repaints parts of the terminal interface.
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v2.1.242
Turns emit start and complete events, and a plugin can append to the final answer
Each turn now emits start and complete events a plugin module can hook and append text to.
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First cited
1The earliest release whose published evidence quoted turn.start was v2.1.246, 25 Aug 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.