xargs
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.
A broader detector for destructive shell commands exists, but nothing visibly uses its verdict.
Not Anthropic's. This is the line from the earliest changelog entry here that named it, v2.1.242.
In the changelogs
7Releases whose published page names xargs.
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v2.1.315
Bash safety checks now catch relative paths hidden behind variables
The Bash safety check now treats more values as relative paths, so some commands that ran without asking will now ask first
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v2.1.314
Stricter safety checks for find, rg, sort, read, xargs and awk commands
Claude Code checks more shell commands more strictly before running them without asking, so some will now ask for permission
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v2.1.287
Clearer wording when Claude Code cannot check an awk or xargs command
Permission messages for awk and xargs commands now say plainly that what the command will run cannot be checked in advance
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v2.1.287
Plainer reason shown when xargs feeds input to find or jq
The permission reason for xargs passing its input to find or jq now says in plain words what xargs does
found in this entry's text
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v2.1.268
New bash-command taxonomy for telemetry
Claude Code now classifies every bash command you run for internal telemetry
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v2.1.257
xargs commands can now qualify as read-only
An xargs call wrapping echo, printf or wc can now count as read-only instead of prompting.
named in this entry, found in this entry's text
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v2.1.242
A broader classifier for destructive shell commands
A broader detector for destructive shell commands exists, but nothing visibly uses its verdict.
found in this entry's text
First cited
0No release's published evidence quotes this name. The ledger indexes the Evidence lines of every changelog on this site, so this says nobody here has ever quoted it; it says nothing about how old the name is.
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.