withoutToolDescribeHooks
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.
Tool descriptions can now be marked as deferred and built through a new describe-hooks step
Not Anthropic's. This is the line from the earliest changelog entry here that named it, v2.1.277.
In the changelogs
3Releases whose published page names withoutToolDescribeHooks.
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v2.1.280
Tool listing cache key now accounts for a byValueListing flag and PS tool set
The tool-description cache key now also factors in a byValueListing flag and a new tool predicate
found in this entry's text
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v2.1.277
Deferred tool description loading
Tool descriptions can now be marked as deferred and built through a new describe-hooks step
named in this entry, found in this entry's text
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v2.1.277
New settingsHooksOff session option suppresses hooks
settingsHooksOff now suppresses hooks across more isolation and permission checks
found in this entry's text
First cited
1The earliest release whose published evidence quoted withoutToolDescribeHooks was v2.1.277, 18 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.