{"version":"2.1.310","anchor":"argv-reader-installed-before-startup","canonical_anchor":"argv-reader-installed-before-startup","heading":"Claude Code now reads its command-line options earlier during startup","tier":"internal","area":"Elsewhere","scope":"individual","heads_up":false,"url":"https:\/\/changelogs.core-directive.com\/v\/2.1.310\/e\/argv-reader-installed-before-startup","release_url":"https:\/\/changelogs.core-directive.com\/v\/2.1.310","markdown":"### Claude Code now reads its command-line options earlier during startup\n\nClaude Code now sets up a reader for its command-line options early, before the rest of startup runs\n\n**Unclear.** It is not clear what this earlier reading of command-line options changes for someone running Claude Code.\n\n**What**\n\nWhen Claude Code starts, it now sets up a reader for the command-line arguments you typed (the words and flags after `claude`, such as options that change how it runs) before the rest of startup happens.\n\n**Why**\n\nThis may change how flags are read or recorded at startup. Nothing here changes which flags exist or what they do.\n\n- Area: Elsewhere\n- Tier: Under the hood\n- Useful: 1\/5\n- Signal: 0\/5\n- Scope: individual\n- Heads-up: no"}