What
The same build constants object drives the reported CLI version, telemetry version fields, update checks and --version output; the roughly 91 changes in this group are that one literal appearing at different call sites. Nothing changes but the reported version.
Evidence
GIT_SHA: "45590910f0b746ddad3fe7d8135c5c29b33ccf88"
Strings lifted out of the shipped bundle, so the claim above can be checked against them.
Names in the bundle--version
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
A small documentation edit on Configure cloud environments touched a line naming --version after this was published.
To get the versions of most of the tools in this table, ask Claude to run `check-tools` in a cloud session. It's a shell command installed on the session VM, not a command you type with `/`; you ask Claude because [Claude runs all VM comma…cloud-environments see the edit
Confirmed since
Anthropic's documentation has since written up --version, on Get started.
Ubuntu 24.04's repositories carry a new enough bubblewrap and Ubuntu 22.04's don't; on any distribution, confirm with `bwrap --version` that the installed version is 0.8.0 or later before you start Claude Science.claude-science/get-started see the edit
One source agreesOne thing we can check says the same as this entry.
Anthropic's documentation agrees
Anthropic's documentation has since written up --version, on Get started.