Unclear The setting is marked internal, so it is not clear whether plugin authors are meant to use it yet.
What
Plugins can draw their own small forms inside Claude Code. The text input in those forms was a single line. It now accepts an optional rows setting.
rowsmust be a whole number of 1 or more. Any other value is rejected with an error such as "rows must be a whole number, 1 or more".- With 2 or more rows, the field is multi-line. Enter submits, Shift+Enter types a new line, and the hint shows
· shift+⏎ new lineor\⏎ new line. - Long text wraps instead of being cut off.
- The up and down arrows now step through input history (
onHistoryUp,onHistoryDown). - The field is no longer described as "A one-line text field".
- The
<Input>element now listsrowsamong its allowed props. The validation error now reads 'Input props must be { key } and any of label, placeholder, value, submitLabel, rows, autoFocus'.
Why
Plugin authors can now ask for longer, multi-line answers. Nothing changes for a plugin that does not set rows.
Names in the bundlerows
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 Deploy Claude Desktop on 3P with the Claude API touched a line naming rows after this was published.
| <span id="inferenceanthropicapikey" />Claude API key<br />`inferenceAnthropicApiKey` | `string` | MDM + Bootstrap<br />Added in 1.8089.0 | — | Leave blank to sign in with your browser, or to supply the key via a credential helper. |third-party/claude-desktop/claude-api see the edit
Confirmed since
Anthropic's documentation has since written up rows, on compliance-faq.
Yes. Cowork sessions in Claude Desktop that run on users' machines, Claude Code sessions (in the terminal, in Claude Desktop, or in an IDE extension), sessions in the Claude Science desktop app, Claude for Microsoft 365 sessions (in Excel,…manage-claude/compliance-faq see the edit
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The setting is marked internal, so it is not clear whether plugin authors are meant to use it yet.
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Anthropic's documentation has since written up rows, on compliance-faq.