{"version":"2.1.310","anchor":"onboarding-api-key-step-wrapper-and-terminal-setup-skipping","canonical_anchor":"onboarding-api-key-step-wrapper-and-terminal-setup-skipping","heading":"Onboarding gains a switch around the API key and terminal setup steps","tier":"internal","area":"Terminal UI","scope":"individual","heads_up":false,"url":"https:\/\/changelogs.core-directive.com\/v\/2.1.310\/e\/onboarding-api-key-step-wrapper-and-terminal-setup-skipping","release_url":"https:\/\/changelogs.core-directive.com\/v\/2.1.310","markdown":"### Onboarding gains a switch around the API key and terminal setup steps\n\nOnboarding has a new switch around the API key step and the terminal setup step, and it is currently always off, so nothing changes yet\n\n**What**\n\nThe first-run setup, called onboarding, has a new on\/off value placed around two of its steps:\n\n- The API key step, where you supply the key Claude Code uses to reach Anthropic, now sits inside it.\n\n- The terminal setup step can now be skipped depending on it.\n\nThe value is fixed to off in this build, so onboarding still behaves as it did before.\n\n**Why**\n\nThis is groundwork that does not run yet. You do not need to do anything, and your first-run experience is unchanged for now.\n\n- Area: Terminal UI\n- Tier: Under the hood\n- Useful: 1\/5\n- Signal: 3\/5\n- Scope: individual\n- Heads-up: no"}