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Claude Code v2.1.290 ·

No visible change to the --bare message for cloud sessions

Cloud sessions still refuse --bare with the same explanation; only the moment the message is worked out changed

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Unclear Whether working the message out later changes when it appears was not checked.

What

--bare starts Claude Code in a minimal mode. Cloud sessions still do not support it, and the message still explains that a cloud session signs in with this machine's claude.ai login, which --bare turns off. The message is now worked out only when it is needed, and its wording is the same.

Why

There is most likely nothing different for you to notice.

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Since it was published

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 --bare, on Configure server-managed settings. A session receives the managed settings of the organization that owns the credential it authenticates with. An API key from the [Claude Console](https://platform.claude.com) belongs to the Console organization it was created in, which is a… server-managed-settings see the edit
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Anthropic's documentation agreesAnthropic's documentation has since written up --bare, on Configure server-managed settings.

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