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Claude Code v2.1.172

CLAUDE_CODE_CHILD_SESSION Environment Variable

What

A new CLAUDE_CODE_CHILD_SESSION environment variable that marks a session as a child session, suppressing certain persistence behaviors (e.g. session data is not persisted when this is set alongside other child-session conditions).

Evidence

New env var check (search for "CLAUDE_CODE_CHILD_SESSION")

Strings lifted out of the shipped bundle, so the claim above can be checked against them.

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