Under the hoodTier: how much it should matter to you
1Useful: my rating, 1 to 5
1Signal: worth watching, 1 to 5
Env VarsArea: what it touches
ImprovementsKind: in v2.1.275,
ImprovementsSection of the release
What
The list of environment variables Claude Code considers safe to pass through (alongside existing ones like GNUMAKEFLAGS, MFLAGS, and MAKEFILES) now also includes AWKPATH, AWKLIBPATH, and DEVELOPER_DIR.
Why
This lets commands run by Claude Code correctly inherit these variables, which matter for tools like awk (which uses AWKPATH/AWKLIBPATH to find its scripts) and Apple's developer toolchain (which uses DEVELOPER_DIR), instead of having them stripped from the environment.
