The classifier billing notice prints to stderr or a stream-json warning when there's no dialog to show
In headless usage, such as -p/print mode or when output is set to stream-json, there's no interactive screen to show a pop-up dialog on. In those cases, the same classifier billing notice message is instead written to stderr, or emitted as a stream-json warning event when --verbose stream-json output is being used.
This makes sure scripts and automated runs still get told when auto mode has fallen back to billed classifier requests, instead of the notice silently disappearing because there's no dialog surface to show it on.
tengu_velvet_heron Not enough to sayNothing here resolved what this flag was doing on this version, so nothing here should be read as on or off.
This account: no value returned · anonymous baseline: no value returned · compiled default in v2.1.278: on
These values were read against a different version of Claude Code, so treat them as the nearest reading available instead of one taken on this release.
Read once, for one account on one subscription tier, against v2.1.278. It isn't a statement about your account. What a flag value here can and cannot tell you
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.
| `--forward-subagent-text` | Emit [subagent](/docs/en/sub-agents) text and thinking blocks in the output stream as `assistant` and `user` messages with `parent_tool_use_id` set, so you can reconstruct each subagent's transcript. Without t…cli-reference see the edit
Anthropic's documentation has since written up --verbose, on CLI reference.
New in this build: tengu_velvet_heron