What
The startup checklist that suggested creating an app, cloning a repository or running /init to make a CLAUDE.md has been removed, along with its completion check and the counter that stopped showing it after four sessions. New projects no longer get that prompt.
Details
- The session state object drops
projectOnboarding, pluspushReachability,compactWarningSuppressed,sessionStripShownChangedand several MCP event fields, and gainsautoDenyPresence,clawdEntranceTakenandstartupUpdateSummary.
Evidence
Run /init to create a CLAUDE.md file with instructions for Claude
Strings lifted out of the shipped bundle, so the claim above can be checked against them.
Names in the bundle/init
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.
Confirmed since
Anthropic's documentation has since written up /init, on How Claude remembers your project.
Running [`/init`](/docs/en/commands) reads other tools' instruction files and incorporates the relevant parts into the generated `CLAUDE.md`:memory see the edit
Added since
A small documentation edit on How Claude Code works touched a line naming /init after this was published.
* `/init` generates a starter CLAUDE.md for your projecthow-claude-code-works see the edit
One source agreesOne thing we can check says the same as this entry.
Anthropic's documentation agrees
A small documentation edit on How Claude Code works touched a line naming /init after this was published.