ui.message
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.
Plugins can now draw their own interactive UI elements ('Clients') directly in the terminal
Not Anthropic's. This is the line from the earliest changelog entry here that named it, v2.1.267.
In the changelogs
5Releases whose published page names ui.message.
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v2.1.275
UI-message coalescer (
DDn) rebuilt with injectable run/schedule/warn hooksThe UI message batching function was rebuilt to accept swappable run, schedule, and warn functions
found in this entry's text
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v2.1.268
New desktop-surface plugin UI messaging (ui.message / ui.press / ui.input / ui.select)
New plugin UI plumbing routes ui.message and press/input/select events to a desktop app surface
found in this entry's text, named in this entry
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v2.1.267
New plugin "surface" UI system for terminal-rendered plugin components ("Clients")
Plugins can now draw their own interactive UI elements ('Clients') directly in the terminal
found in this entry's text
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v2.1.267
New "ui.message" event added to a second, larger capability/event list
A broader UI/agent event list now includes a ui.message event
found in this entry's text, named in this entry
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v2.1.267
Plugin hook system gains matcher/argument-shape validation and size-limited ui.message data
Plugin hooks now get validation errors for malformed matchers, disallowed edits, and oversized ui.message data
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First cited
1The earliest release whose published evidence quoted ui.message was v2.1.267, 9 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.