Claude Code v2.1.323 · 12 Nov 2026
Claude Code reads the session's creation time from an environment variable
Claude Code now reads CLAUDE_CODE_SESSION_CREATED_AT_MS and records it as the session's creation time
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Claude Code now reads CLAUDE_CODE_SESSION_CREATED_AT_MS , an environment variable (a named value handed from one program to the programs it starts). It stores the value as the session's creation time in the information it records about the session, next to the value of CLAUDE_CODE_SESSION_ORIGIN .
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A program that starts Claude Code can now tell it when the session was created.
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env CLAUDE_CODE_SESSION_CREATED_AT_MS Claude Code now reads several new environment variables, including one for overload retry waits and one for SDK MCP tool idle time
env CLAUDE_CODE_SESSION_ORIGIN A new CLAUDE_CODE_SESSION_ORIGIN environment variable is read and passed through to spawned subsessions.
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