/tui
A Claude Code slash command, read out of the shipped bundle. No mined inventory carries it: everything below comes from what this site has written about it.
What it is
Set the terminal UI renderer and relaunch into it with your conversation intact. fullscreen enables the [flicker-free alt-screen renderer](/docs/en/fullscreen). With no argument, prints the active renderer
Anthropic's own wording. Read off Commands, captured 2026-08-28.
Presence across releases
The 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.
Changelog entries naming it
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v2.1.248/tui failures hide error detail on untrusted connections
/tui errors are redacted on remote or untrusted sessions; local sessions still see full detail.
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v2.1.236Fullscreen is offered as a trial, and turns itself off after repeated failed launches
Accepting fullscreen now runs as a trial, and two crashed launches disable it on that machine.
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v2.1.234/tui and /update refuse to restart when session state would be lost, and say what is holding them up
/tui and /update now refuse to restart when it would lose session state, naming the exact blocker.
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v2.1.234Restarting Claude Code hands the conversation over explicitly, and reports failure
Restarting via /update or /tui now carries your conversation over explicitly and says so if the restart fails.
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v2.1.232Busy-session refusals now tell you how to stop the work
When background work blocks a restart or /tui switch, you're now pointed at /tasks to stop it.
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Documentation pages
- Commands reference table Claude Code CLI
- Claude Code changelog mentions it Claude Code CLI
- Environment variables mentions it Claude Code CLI
- Error reference mentions it Claude Code CLI
- Fullscreen rendering mentions it Claude Code CLI
- Interactive mode mentions it Claude Code CLI
- Claude Code settings mentions it Claude Code CLI
- Claude Code settings reference mentions it Claude Code CLI
- Configure your terminal for Claude Code mentions it Claude Code CLI
- Week 16 · April 13–17, 2026 mentions it Claude Code CLI
- MCP Inspector mentions it Model Context Protocol
- TUI client mentions it Model Context Protocol
- MCP Inspector mentions it Model Context Protocol
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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 slash command does. All slash commands.