claude setup-token rejects extra arguments

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The entry above is what we published on the day. These lines were added later, as Anthropic's own pages caught up, and they sit beside the original rather than replacing it.

Added since 15 Sep 2026 A small documentation edit on Test self-hosted environments end to end touched a line naming claude setup-token after this was published. There is no long-lived CI token for this today. The scope that grants cloud-session control, `user:sessions:claude_code`, is capped server-side at 30 days, so `claude setup-token`, which mints a one-year inference-only token, doesn't cover… self-hosted-environments-testing see the edit

Confirmed since 10 Sep 2026 Anthropic's documentation has since written up claude setup-token, on CLI reference. | `claude setup-token` | Generate a long-lived OAuth token for CI and scripts. Prints the token to the terminal without saving it. Requires a Claude subscription. See [Generate a long-lived token](/docs/en/authentication#generate-a-long-li… cli-reference see the edit

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Anthropic's documentation agreesAnthropic's documentation has since written up claude setup-token, on CLI reference.

Anthropic's release notes agreeclaude setup-token now rejects unexpected extra arguments instead of silently ignoring them

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