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Do not edit manually.\n> Last updated: 2026-06-19 22:06:12 UTC\n\n## Document Structure\n\nThis map uses a hierarchical structure:\n\n* **##** marks documentation groups (e.g., 'Getting started')\n* **###** marks individual documentation pages\n* **Nested bullets** show the heading structure within each page\n* Each page title links to the full documentation\n\n## Getting started\n\n### [overview](https://code.claude.com/docs/en/overview.md)\n\n* Get started\n* What you can do\n* Use Claude Code everywhere\n* Next steps\n\n### [quickstart](https://code.claude.com/docs/en/quickstart.md)\n\n* Before you begin\n* Step 1: Install Claude Code\n* Step 2: Log in to your account\n* Step 3: Start your first session\n* Step 4: Ask your first question\n* Step 5: Make your first code change\n* Step 6: Use Git with Claude Code\n* Step 7: Fix a bug or add a feature\n* Step 8: Test out other common workflows\n* Essential commands\n* Pro tips for beginners\n* What's next?\n* Getting help\n\n### [changelog](https://code.claude.com/docs/en/changelog.md)\n\n* (No headings found)\n\n## Core concepts\n\n### [how-claude-code-works](https://code.claude.com/docs/en/how-claude-code-works.md)\n\n* The agentic loop\n  * Models\n  * Tools\n* What Claude can access\n* Environments and interfaces\n  * Execution environments\n  * Interfaces\n* Work with sessions\n  * Work across branches\n  * Resume or fork sessions\n  * The context window\n    * When context fills up\n    * Manage context with skills and subagents\n* Stay safe with checkpoints and permissions\n  * Undo changes with checkpoints\n  * Control what Claude can do\n...\n</persisted-output>"}]},"uuid":"87331754-524d-4b43-a536-0cadb3c0dcee","timestamp":"2026-06-22T15:11:33.677Z","toolUseResult":{"bytes":91521,"code":200,"codeText":"OK","result":"> ## Documentation Index\n> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://code.claude.com/docs/llms.txt\n> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.\n\n# Claude code docs map\n\n# Claude Code Documentation Map\n\nThis is a comprehensive map of all Claude Code documentation pages with their headings, designed for easy navigation by LLMs.\n\n> **Note:** This file is auto-generated by GitHub Actions. Do not edit manually.\n> Last updated: 2026-06-19 22:06:12 UTC\n\n## Document Structure\n\nThis map uses a hierarchical structure:\n\n* **##** marks documentation groups (e.g., 'Getting started')\n* **###** marks individual documentation pages\n* **Nested bullets** show the heading structure within each page\n* Each page title links to the full documentation\n\n## Getting started\n\n### [overview](https://code.claude.com/docs/en/overview.md)\n\n* Get started\n* What you can do\n* Use Claude Code everywhere\n* Next steps\n\n### [quickstart](https://code.claude.com/docs/en/quickstart.md)\n\n* Before you begin\n* Step 1: Install Claude Code\n* Step 2: Log in to your account\n* Step 3: Start your first session\n* Step 4: Ask your first question\n* Step 5: Make your first code change\n* Step 6: Use Git with Claude Code\n* Step 7: Fix a bug or add a feature\n* Step 8: Test out other common workflows\n* Essential commands\n* Pro tips for beginners\n* What's next?\n* Getting help\n\n### [changelog](https://code.claude.com/docs/en/changelog.md)\n\n* (No headings found)\n\n## Core concepts\n\n### [how-claude-code-works](https://code.claude.com/docs/en/how-claude-code-works.md)\n\n* The agentic loop\n  * Models\n  * Tools\n* What Claude can access\n* Environments and interfaces\n  * Execution environments\n  * Interfaces\n* Work with sessions\n  * Work across branches\n  * Resume or fork sessions\n  * The context window\n    * When context fills up\n    * Manage context with skills and subagents\n* Stay safe with checkpoints and permissions\n  * Undo changes with checkpoints\n  * Control what Claude can do\n* Work effectively with Claude Code\n  * Ask Claude Code for help\n  * It's a conversation\n    * Interrupt and steer\n  * Be specific upfront\n  * Give Claude something to verify against\n  * Explore before implementing\n  * Delegate, don't dictate\n* What's next\n\n### [features-overview](https://code.claude.com/docs/en/features-overview.md)\n\n* Overview\n* Match features to your goal\n  * Build your setup over time\n  * Compare similar features\n  * Understand how features layer\n  * Combine features\n* Understand context costs\n  * Context cost by feature\n  * Understand how features load\n* Learn more\n\n### [claude-directory](https://code.claude.com/docs/en/claude-directory.md)\n\n* Explore the directory\n* What's not shown\n* Choose the right file\n* File reference\n* Troubleshoot configuration\n* Application data\n  * Cleaned up automatically\n  * Kept until you delete them\n  * Plaintext storage\n  * Clear local data\n* Related resources\n\n### [context-window](https://code.claude.com/docs/en/context-window.md)\n\n* What the timeline shows\n* What survives compaction\n* When your context fills up\n* Check your own session\n* Related resources\n\n### [prompt-caching](https://code.claude.com/docs/en/prompt-caching.md)\n\n* How the cache is organized\n  * Where the cache lives\n* Actions that invalidate the cache\n  * Switching models\n  * Changing effort level\n  * Turning on fast mode\n  * Connecting or disconnecting an MCP server\n  * Enabling or disabling a plugin\n  * Denying an entire tool\n  * Compacting the conversation\n  * Upgrading Claude Code\n* Actions that keep the cache\n  * Editing files in your repository\n  * Editing CLAUDE.md mid-session\n  * Changing output style\n  * Changing permission mode\n  * Invoking skills and commands\n  * Running `/recap`\n  * Rewinding the conversation\n* Cache lifetime\n  * On a Claude subscription\n  * On an API key or third-party provider\n  * Override the TTL\n* Cache scope\n* Check cache performance\n* Subagents and the cache\n* Disable prompt caching\n* Related resources\n\n## Use Claude Code\n\n### [memory](https://code.claude.com/docs/en/memory.md)\n\n* CLAUDE.md vs auto memory\n* CLAUDE.md files\n  * When to add to CLAUDE.md\n  * Choose where to put CLAUDE.md files\n  * Set up a project CLAUDE.md\n  * Write effective instructions\n  * Import additional files\n  * AGENTS.md\n  * How CLAUDE.md files load\n    * Load from additional directories\n  * Organize rules with `.claude/rules/`\n    * Set up rules\n    * Path-specific rules\n    * Share rules across projects with symlinks\n    * User-level rules\n  * Manage CLAUDE.md for large teams\n    * Deploy organization-wide CLAUDE.md\n    * Exclude specific CLAUDE.md files\n* Auto memory\n  * Enable or disable auto memory\n  * Storage location\n  * How it works\n  * Audit and edit your memory\n* View and edit with `/memory`\n* Troubleshoot memory issues\n  * Claude isn't following my CLAUDE.md\n  * I don't know what auto memory saved\n  * My CLAUDE.md is too large\n  * Instructions seem lost after `/compact`\n* Related resources\n\n### [permission-modes](https://code.claude.com/docs/en/permission-modes.md)\n\n* Available modes\n* Switch permission modes\n* Auto-approve file edits with acceptEdits mode\n* Analyze before you edit with plan mode\n  * Review and approve a plan\n  * Set plan mode as the default\n* Eliminate prompts with auto mode\n  * Enable auto mode on Bedrock, Vertex AI, or Foundry\n  * What the classifier blocks by default\n  * Boundaries you state in conversation\n  * When auto mode falls back\n* Allow only pre-approved tools with dontAsk mode\n* Skip all checks with bypassPermissions mode\n* Protected paths\n* See also\n\n### [sessions](https://code.claude.com/docs/en/sessions.md)\n\n* Resume a session\n  * Where the session picker looks\n* Name your sessions\n* Use the session picker\n* Branch a session\n* Manage context within a session\n* Export and locate session data\n* See also\n\n### [common-workflows](https://code.claude.com/docs/en/common-workflows.md)\n\n* Prompt recipes\n  * Understand new codebases\n    * Get a quick codebase overview\n    * Find relevant code\n  * Fix bugs efficiently\n  * Refactor code\n  * Work with tests\n  * Create pull requests\n  * Handle documentation\n  * Work in notes and non-code folders\n  * Work with images\n  * Reference files and directories\n  * Run Claude on a schedule\n  * Ask Claude about its capabilities\n    * Example questions\n* Resume previous conversations\n* Run parallel sessions with worktrees\n* Plan before editing\n* Delegate research to subagents\n* Pipe Claude into scripts\n* Next steps\n\n### [prompt-library](https://code.claude.com/docs/en/prompt-library.md)\n\n* What makes these prompts work\n* Where these come from\n* Related resources\n\n### [best-practices](https://code.claude.com/docs/en/best-practices.md)\n\n* Give Claude a way to verify its work\n* Explore first, then plan, then code\n* Provide specific context in your prompts\n  * Provide rich content\n* Configure your environment\n  * Write an effective CLAUDE.md\n  * Configure permissions\n  * Use CLI tools\n  * Connect MCP servers\n  * Set up hooks\n  * Create skills\n  * Create custom subagents\n  * Install plugins\n* Communicate effectively\n  * Ask codebase questions\n  * Let Claude interview you\n* Manage your session\n  * Course-correct early and often\n  * Manage context aggressively\n  * Use subagents for investigation\n  * Rewind with checkpoints\n  * Resume conversations\n* Automate and scale\n  * Run non-interactive mode\n  * Run multiple Claude sessions\n  * Fan out across files\n  * Run autonomously with auto mode\n  * Add an adversarial review step\n* Avoid common failure patterns\n* Develop your intuition\n* Related resources\n\n### Platforms and integrations > Claude Code on the web\n\n#### [web-quickstart](https://code.claude.com/docs/en/web-quickstart.md)\n\n* How sessions run\n* Compare ways to run Claude Code\n* Connect GitHub and create an environment\n  * Connect from your terminal\n* Start a task\n* Pre-fill sessions\n* Review and iterate\n* Troubleshoot setup\n  * No repositories appear after connecting GitHub\n  * The page only shows a GitHub login button\n  * \"Not available for the selected organization\"\n  * `/web-setup` returns \"Unknown command\"\n  * \"Could not create a cloud environment\" or \"No cloud environment available\" when using `--remote` or ultraplan\n  * Setup script failed\n  * New sessions hang or time out during setup\n  * Session keeps running after closing the tab\n* Next steps\n\n#### [claude-code-on-the-web](https://code.claude.com/docs/en/claude-code-on-the-web.md)\n\n* GitHub authentication options\n* The cloud environment\n  * What's available in cloud sessions\n  * Installed tools\n  * Work with GitHub issues and pull requests\n  * Link output back to the session\n  * Run tests, start services, and add packages\n  * Resource limits\n  * Configure your environment\n* Setup scripts\n  * Environment caching\n  * Setup scripts vs. SessionStart hooks\n  * Install dependencies with a SessionStart hook\n* Network access\n  * Access levels\n  * Allow specific domains\n  * GitHub proxy\n  * Security proxy\n  * Default allowed domains\n* Move tasks between web and terminal\n  * From terminal to web\n    * Tips for cloud tasks\n    * Send local repositories without GitHub\n  * From web to terminal\n    * Teleport requirements\n    * `--teleport` is unavailable\n* Work with sessions\n  * Manage context\n  * Review changes\n  * Share sessions\n    * Share from an Enterprise or Team account\n    * Share from a Max or Pro account\n  * Archive sessions\n  * Delete sessions\n* Auto-fix pull requests\n  * How Claude responds to PR activity\n* Security and isolation\n* Troubleshooting\n  * Session creation failed\n  * Remote Control session expired or access denied\n  * Environment expired\n* Limitations\n* Related resources\n\n#### [routines](https://code.claude.com/docs/en/routines.md)\n\n* Example use cases\n* Create a routine\n  * Create from the web\n  * Create from the CLI\n* Configure triggers\n  * Add a schedule trigger\n    * Schedule a one-off run\n  * Add an API trigger\n    * Trigger a routine\n    * API reference\n  * Add a GitHub trigger\n    * Supported events\n    * Filter pull requests\n    * How sessions map to events\n* Manage routines\n  * View and interact with runs\n  * Edit and control routines\n  * Repositories and branch permissions\n  * Connectors\n  * Environments and network access\n* Usage and limits\n* Troubleshooting\n  * `/schedule` returns \"Unknown command\"\n  * \"Routines are disabled by your organization's policy\"\n* Related resources\n\n#### [ultraplan](https://code.claude.com/docs/en/ultraplan.md)\n\n* Launch ultraplan from the CLI\n* Review and revise the plan in your browser\n* Choose where to execute\n  * Execute on the web\n  * Send the plan back to your terminal\n* Related resources\n\n#### [ultrareview](https://code.claude.com/docs/en/ultrareview.md)\n\n* Run ultrareview from the CLI\n* Pricing and free runs\n* Track a running review\n* Run ultrareview non-interactively\n* How ultrareview compares to /review\n* Related resources\n\n### Platforms and integrations > Claude Code on desktop\n\n#### [desktop-quickstart](https://code.claude.com/docs/en/desktop-quickstart.md)\n\n* Install\n* Start your first session\n* Now what?\n* Coming from the CLI?\n* What's next\n\n#### [desktop](https://code.claude.com/docs/en/desktop.md)\n\n* Start a session\n* Work with code\n  * Use the prompt box\n  * Add files and context to prompts\n  * Choose a permission mode\n  * Preview your app\n  * Review changes with diff view\n  * Review your code\n  * Monitor pull request status\n* Arrange your workspace\n  * Run commands in the terminal\n  * Open and edit files\n  * Open files in other apps\n  * Switch view modes\n  * Keyboard shortcuts\n  * Check usage\n* Let Claude use your computer\n  * When computer use applies\n  * Enable computer use\n  * App permissions\n* Manage sessions\n  * Work in parallel with sessions\n  * Ask a side question without derailing the session\n  * Watch background tasks\n  * Run long-running tasks remotely\n  * Continue in another surface\n  * Sessions from Dispatch\n* Extend Claude Code\n  * Connect external tools\n  * Use skills\n  * Install plugins\n  * Configure preview servers\n    * Auto-verify changes\n    * Configuration fields\n      * When to use `program` vs `runtimeExecutable`\n    * Port conflicts\n    * Examples\n* Environment configuration\n  * Local sessions\n  * Cloud sessions\n  * SSH sessions\n    * Pre-configure SSH connections for your team\n    * Restrict which SSH hosts users can connect to\n* Enterprise configuration\n  * Admin console controls\n  * Managed settings\n  * Device management policies\n  * Authentication and SSO\n  * Data handling\n  * Deployment\n* Coming from the CLI?\n  * CLI flag equivalents\n  * Shared configuration\n  * Feature comparison\n  * What's not available in Desktop\n* Troubleshooting\n  * Check your version\n  * 403 or authentication errors in the Code tab\n  * Blank or stuck screen on launch\n  * \"Failed to load session\"\n  * Session not finding installed tools\n  * Git and Git LFS errors\n  * MCP servers not working on Windows\n  * App won't quit\n  * Windows-specific issues\n  * \"Branch doesn't exist yet\" when opening in CLI\n  * Still stuck?\n\n#### [desktop-scheduled-tasks](https://code.claude.com/docs/en/desktop-scheduled-tasks.md)\n\n* Compare scheduling options\n* Create a scheduled task\n* Schedule options\n* How scheduled tasks run\n* Missed runs\n* Permissions for scheduled tasks\n* Manage scheduled tasks\n* Related resources\n\n### Platforms and integrations > Code review & CI/CD\n\n#### [security-guidance](https://code.claude.com/docs/en/security-guidance.md)\n\n* Prerequisites\n* Install the plugin\n  * Enable in cloud sessions and shared repositories\n* What the plugin checks\n  * On each file edit\n  * At the end of each turn\n  * On each commit or push Claude makes\n  * Review independence and limits\n* Add your own rules\n  * Add guidance for the model-backed reviews\n  * Add custom per-edit patterns\n  * Rule file lookup locations\n* Usage cost\n* Disable or uninstall\n* How the plugin integrates with Claude Code\n* How this fits with other security tools\n* Troubleshooting\n* Related resources\n\n#### [code-review](https://code.claude.com/docs/en/code-review.md)\n\n* How reviews work\n  * Severity levels\n  * Rate and reply to findings\n  * Check run output\n  * What Code Review checks\n* Set up Code Review\n* Manually trigger reviews\n* Customize reviews\n  * CLAUDE.md\n  * REVIEW\\.md\n    * What you can tune\n    * Example\n    * Keep it focused\n* View usage\n* Pricing\n* Troubleshooting\n  * Retrigger a failed or timed-out review\n  * Review didn't run and the PR shows a spend-cap message\n  * Find issues that aren't showing as inline comments\n* Review a diff locally\n* Related resources\n\n#### [github-actions](https://code.claude.com/docs/en/github-actions.md)\n\n* Why use Claude Code GitHub Actions?\n* What can Claude do?\n  * Claude Code Action\n* Setup\n* Quick setup\n* Manual setup\n* Upgrading from Beta\n  * Essential changes\n  * Breaking Changes Reference\n  * Before and After Example\n* Example use cases\n  * Basic workflow\n  * Using skills\n  * Custom automation with prompts\n  * Common use cases\n* Best practices\n  * CLAUDE.md configuration\n  * Security considerations\n  * Optimizing performance\n  * CI costs\n* Configuration examples\n* Using with Amazon Bedrock & Google Vertex AI\n  * Prerequisites\n    * For Google Cloud Vertex AI:\n    * For Amazon Bedrock:\n* Troubleshooting\n  * Claude not responding to @claude commands\n  * CI not running on Claude's commits\n  * Authentication errors\n* Advanced configuration\n  * Action parameters\n    * Pass CLI arguments\n  * Alternative integration methods\n  * Customizing Claude's behavior\n\n#### [github-enterprise-server](https://code.claude.com/docs/en/github-enterprise-server.md)\n\n* What works with GitHub Enterprise Server\n* Admin setup\n  * GitHub App permissions\n  * Manual setup\n  * Network requirements\n* Developer workflow\n  * Teleport sessions to your terminal\n* Plugin marketplaces on GHES\n  * Add a GHES marketplace\n  * Allowlist GHES marketplaces in managed settings\n* Limitations\n* Troubleshooting\n  * Web session fails to clone repository\n  * Marketplace add fails with a policy error\n  * GHES instance not reachable\n* Related resources\n\n#### [gitlab-ci-cd](https://code.claude.com/docs/en/gitlab-ci-cd.md)\n\n* Why use Claude Code with GitLab?\n* How it works\n* What can Claude do?\n* Setup\n  * Quick setup\n  * Manual setup (recommended for production)\n* Example use cases\n  * Turn issues into MRs\n  * Get implementation help\n  * Fix bugs quickly\n* Using with Amazon Bedrock & Google Vertex AI\n* Configuration examples\n  * Basic .gitlab-ci.yml (Claude API)\n  * Amazon Bedrock job example (OIDC)\n  * Google Vertex AI job example (Workload Identity Federation)\n* Best practices\n  * CLAUDE.md configuration\n  * Security considerations\n  * Optimizing performance\n  * CI costs\n* Security and governance\n* Troubleshooting\n  * Claude not responding to @claude commands\n  * Job can't write comments or open MRs\n  * Authentication errors\n* Advanced configuration\n  * Common parameters and variables\n  * Customizing Claude's behavior\n\n## Platforms and integrations\n\n### [platforms](https://code.claude.com/docs/en/platforms.md)\n\n* Where to run Claude Code\n* Connect your tools\n* Work when you are away from your terminal\n* Related resources\n  * Platforms\n  * Integrations\n  * Remote access\n\n### [remote-control](https://code.claude.com/docs/en/remote-control.md)\n\n* Requirements\n* Start a Remote Control session\n  * Check connection status\n  * Connect from another device\n  * Enable Remote Control for all sessions\n* Connection and security\n* Remote Control vs Claude Code on the web\n* Mobile push notifications\n* Limitations\n* Troubleshooting\n  * \"Remote Control requires a claude.ai subscription\"\n  * \"Remote Control requires a full-scope login token\"\n  * \"Unable to determine your organization for Remote Control eligibility\"\n  * \"Remote Control is not yet enabled for your account\"\n  * \"Couldn't verify Remote Control eligibility\"\n  * \"Remote Control is disabled by your organization's policy\"\n  * \"Remote credentials fetch failed\"\n* Choose the right approach\n* Related resources\n\n### [chrome](https://code.claude.com/docs/en/chrome.md)\n\n* Capabilities\n* Prerequisites\n* Get started in the CLI\n  * Enable Chrome by default\n  * Manage site permissions\n* Example workflows\n  * Test a local web application\n  * Debug with console logs\n  * Automate form filling\n  * Draft content in Google Docs\n  * Extract data from web pages\n  * Run multi-site workflows\n  * Record a demo GIF\n* Troubleshooting\n  * Extension not detected\n  * Browser not responding\n  * Connection drops during long sessions\n  * Windows-specific issues\n  * Common error messages\n* See also\n\n### [computer-use](https://code.claude.com/docs/en/computer-use.md)\n\n* What you can do with computer use\n* When computer use applies\n* Enable computer use\n* Approve apps per session\n* How Claude works on your screen\n  * One session at a time\n  * Apps are hidden while Claude works\n  * Screenshots are downscaled automatically\n  * Stop at any time\n* Safety and the trust boundary\n* Example workflows\n  * Validate a native build\n  * Reproduce a layout bug\n  * Test a simulator flow\n* Differences from the Desktop app\n* Troubleshooting\n  * \"Computer use is in use by another Claude session\"\n  * macOS permissions prompt keeps reappearing\n  * `computer-use` doesn't appear in `/mcp`\n* See also\n\n### [vs-code](https://code.claude.com/docs/en/vs-code.md)\n\n* Prerequisites\n* Install the extension\n* Get started\n* Use the prompt box\n  * Reference files and folders\n  * Resume past conversations\n  * Resume cloud sessions from Claude.ai\n  * Check account and usage\n* Customize your workflow\n  * Choose where Claude lives\n  * Run multiple conversations\n  * Switch to terminal mode\n* Manage plugins\n  * Install plugins\n  * Manage marketplaces\n* Automate browser tasks with Chrome\n* VS Code commands and shortcuts\n  * Launch a VS Code tab from other tools\n* Configure settings\n  * Extension settings\n* VS Code extension vs. Claude Code CLI\n  * Rewind with checkpoints\n  * Run CLI in VS Code\n  * Switch between extension and CLI\n  * Include terminal output in prompts\n  * Monitor background processes\n  * Connect to external tools with MCP\n* Work with git\n  * Create commits and pull requests\n  * Use git worktrees for parallel tasks\n* Use third-party providers\n* Security and privacy\n  * The built-in IDE MCP server\n* Fix common issues\n  * Extension won't install\n  * Spark icon not visible\n  * Cmd+Esc does nothing on macOS\n  * Claude Code never responds\n* Uninstall the extension\n* Next steps\n\n### [jetbrains](https://code.claude.com/docs/en/jetbrains.md)\n\n* Supported IDEs\n* Features\n* Installation\n* Usage\n  * From your IDE\n  * From external terminals\n* Configuration\n  * Claude Code settings\n  * Plugin settings\n    * General settings\n    * ESC key configuration\n* Special configurations\n  * Remote development\n  * WSL configuration\n    * Allow WSL2 traffic through Windows Firewall\n    * Switch WSL2 to mirrored networking\n* Troubleshooting\n  * Plugin not working\n  * IDE not detected\n  * Command not found\n* Security considerations\n\n### [slack](https://code.claude.com/docs/en/slack.md)\n\n* Use cases\n* Prerequisites\n* Setting up Claude Code in Slack\n* How it works\n  * Automatic detection\n  * Context gathering\n  * Session flow\n* User interface elements\n  * App Home\n  * Message actions\n  * Repository selection\n* Access and permissions\n  * User-level access\n  * Workspace-level access\n  * Channel-based access control\n* What's accessible where\n* Best practices\n  * Writing effective requests\n  * When to use Slack vs. web\n* Troubleshooting\n  * Sessions not starting\n  * Repository not showing\n  * Wrong repository selected\n  * Authentication errors\n  * Session expiration\n* Current limitations\n* Related resources\n\n## Agents and parallel work\n\n### [agents](https://code.claude.com/docs/en/agents.md)\n\n* Choose an approach\n* Check on running work\n* Learn more\n\n### [sub-agents](https://code.claude.com/docs/en/sub-agents.md)\n\n* Built-in subagents\n* Quickstart: create your first subagent\n* Configure subagents\n  * Use the /agents command\n  * Choose the subagent scope\n  * Write subagent files\n    * Supported frontmatter fields\n  * Choose a model\n  * Control subagent capabilities\n    * Available tools\n    * Restrict which subagents can be spawned\n    * Scope MCP servers to a subagent\n    * Permission modes\n    * Preload skills into subagents\n    * Enable persistent memory\n      * Persistent memory tips\n    * Conditional rules with hooks\n    * Disable specific subagents\n  * Define hooks for subagents\n    * Hooks in subagent frontmatter\n    * Project-level hooks for subagent events\n* Work with subagents\n  * Understand automatic delegation\n  * Invoke subagents explicitly\n  * Run subagents in foreground or background\n  * Common patterns\n    * Isolate high-volume operations\n    * Run parallel research\n    * Chain subagents\n  * Choose between subagents and main conversation\n  * Spawn nested subagents\n  * Manage subagent context\n    * What loads at startup\n    * Resume subagents\n    * Auto-compaction\n* Fork the current conversation\n  * Observe and steer running forks\n  * How forks differ from named subagents\n  * Limitations\n* Example subagents\n  * Code reviewer\n  * Debugger\n  * Data scientist\n  * Database query validator\n* Next steps\n\n### [agent-view](https://code.claude.com/docs/en/agent-view.md)\n\n* Quick start\n* Monitor sessions with agent view\n  * Read session state\n  * Row summaries\n  * Pull request status\n  * Peek and reply\n  * Attach to a session\n  * Organize the list\n  * Filter sessions\n  * Keyboard shortcuts\n* Dispatch new agents\n  * From agent view\n    * Dispatch to a specific directory\n  * From inside a session\n  * From your shell\n    * Run a shell command\n  * How file edits are isolated\n  * Set the model\n  * Permission mode, model, and effort\n  * Settings, plugins, and MCP servers\n* Manage sessions from the shell\n* How background sessions are hosted\n  * The supervisor process\n  * Where state is stored\n  * Turn off agent view\n* Troubleshooting\n  * `claude agents` lists subagents instead of opening agent view\n  * Agent view opens with no sessions\n  * Cannot open agents because work is running in the background\n  * Prompt rejected as too short\n  * Sessions show as failed after shutdown\n  * Agent view says the background service did not respond\n  * Background sessions cannot read Desktop, Documents, or Downloads on macOS\n  * A session is slow to respond after attaching\n  * `.claude/worktrees/` is filling up\n* Limitations\n* Related resources\n\n### [agent-teams](https://code.claude.com/docs/en/agent-teams.md)\n\n* When to use agent teams\n  * Compare with subagents\n* Enable agent teams\n* Start your first agent team\n* Control your agent team\n  * Choose a display mode\n  * Specify teammates and models\n  * Require plan approval for teammates\n  * Talk to teammates directly\n  * Assign and claim tasks\n  * Shut down teammates\n  * Enforce quality gates with hooks\n* How agent teams work\n  * How Claude starts agent teams\n  * Architecture\n  * Use subagent definitions for teammates\n  * Permissions\n  * Context and communication\n  * Token usage\n* Use case examples\n  * Run a parallel code review\n  * Investigate with competing hypotheses\n* Best practices\n  * Give teammates enough context\n  * Choose an appropriate team size\n  * Size tasks appropriately\n  * Wait for teammates to finish\n  * Start with research and review\n  * Avoid file conflicts\n  * Monitor and steer\n* Troubleshooting\n  * Teammates not appearing\n  * Too many permission prompts\n  * Teammates stopping on errors\n  * Lead shuts down before work is done\n  * Orphaned tmux sessions\n* Limitations\n* Next steps\n\n### [workflows](https://code.claude.com/docs/en/workflows.md)\n\n* When to use a workflow\n* Run a bundled workflow\n  * Bundled workflows\n  * Watch the run\n* Have Claude write a workflow\n  * Ask for a workflow in your prompt\n  * Let Claude decide with ultracode\n  * Approve the plan before it runs\n  * Save the workflow for reuse\n  * Pass input to a saved workflow\n* How a workflow runs\n  * Behavior and limits\n* Manage runs\n  * Resume after a pause\n  * Cost\n  * Turn workflows off\n* Related resources\n\n### [worktrees](https://code.claude.com/docs/en/worktrees.md)\n\n* Start Claude in a worktree\n  * Choose the base branch\n* Copy gitignored files into worktrees\n* Isolate subagents with worktrees\n* Clean up worktrees\n* Manage worktrees manually\n* Non-git version control\n* See also\n\n## MCP\n\n### [mcp-quickstart](https://code.claude.com/docs/en/mcp-quickstart.md)\n\n* Before you begin\n* Add and verify a server\n* Where servers are saved\n  * Find your configuration on disk\n* Change server scope\n  * Use a server in all your projects\n  * Share a server with your team\n* Additional MCP server examples\n  * Add a local server\n  * Connect a server that requires sign-in\n* Edit .mcp.json directly\n* Connect from other surfaces\n* Troubleshooting\n* Next steps\n\n### [mcp](https://code.claude.com/docs/en/mcp.md)\n\n* What you can do with MCP\n* Find and build MCP servers\n* Installing MCP servers\n  * Option 1: Add a remote HTTP server\n  * Option 2: Add a remote SSE server\n  * Option 3: Add a local stdio server\n  * Option 4: Add a remote WebSocket server\n  * Managing your servers\n  * Dynamic tool updates\n  * Automatic reconnection\n  * Push messages with channels\n  * Plugin-provided MCP servers\n* MCP installation scopes\n  * Local scope\n  * Project scope\n  * User scope\n  * Scope hierarchy and precedence\n  * Environment variable expansion in `.mcp.json`\n* Practical examples\n  * Example: Monitor errors with Sentry\n  * Example: Connect to GitHub for code reviews\n  * Example: Query your PostgreSQL database\n* Authenticate with remote MCP servers\n  * Use a fixed OAuth callback port\n  * Use pre-configured OAuth credentials\n  * Override OAuth metadata discovery\n  * Restrict OAuth scopes\n  * Use dynamic headers for custom authentication\n* Add MCP servers from JSON configuration\n* Import MCP servers from Claude Desktop\n* Use MCP servers from Claude.ai\n  * Disable claude.ai connectors\n* Use Claude Code as an MCP server\n* MCP output limits and warnings\n  * Raise the limit for a specific tool\n* Respond to MCP elicitation requests\n* Use MCP resources\n  * Reference MCP resources\n* Scale with MCP Tool Search\n  * How it works\n  * For MCP server authors\n  * Configure tool search\n  * Exempt a server from deferral\n* Use MCP prompts as commands\n  * Execute MCP prompts\n* Managed MCP configuration\n\n## Skills\n\n### [skills](https://code.claude.com/docs/en/skills.md)\n\n* Bundled skills\n  * Run and verify your app\n* Getting started\n  * Create your first skill\n  * Where skills live\n    * Live change detection\n    * Automatic discovery from parent and nested directories\n    * Skills from additional directories\n* Configure skills\n  * Types of skill content\n  * Frontmatter reference\n    * How a skill gets its command name\n    * Available string substitutions\n  * Add supporting files\n  * Control who invokes a skill\n  * Skill content lifecycle\n  * Pre-approve tools for a skill\n  * Pass arguments to skills\n* Advanced patterns\n  * Inject dynamic context\n  * Run skills in a subagent\n    * Example: Research skill using Explore agent\n  * Restrict Claude's skill access\n  * Override skill visibility from settings\n* Evaluate and iterate on a skill\n  * Run evals with skill-creator\n* Share skills\n  * Generate visual output\n* Troubleshooting\n  * Skill not triggering\n  * Skill triggers too often\n  * Skill descriptions are cut short\n* Related resources\n\n## Plugins\n\n### [discover-plugins](https://code.claude.com/docs/en/discover-plugins.md)\n\n* How marketplaces work\n* Official Anthropic marketplace\n  * Code intelligence\n    * What Claude gains from code intelligence plugins\n  * External integrations\n  * Automatic security review\n  * Development workflows\n  * Output styles\n* Community marketplace\n* Try it: add the demo marketplace\n* Add marketplaces\n  * Add from GitHub\n  * Add from other Git hosts\n  * Add from local paths\n  * Add from remote URLs\n* Install plugins\n* Manage installed plugins\n  * Apply plugin changes without restarting\n* Manage marketplaces\n  * Use the interactive interface\n  * Use CLI commands\n  * Configure auto-updates\n* Configure team marketplaces\n* Security\n* Troubleshooting\n  * /plugin command not recognized\n  * Common issues\n  * Code intelligence issues\n* Next steps\n\n### [plugins](https://code.claude.com/docs/en/plugins.md)\n\n* When to use plugins vs standalone configuration\n* Quickstart\n  * Prerequisites\n  * Create your first plugin\n* Develop a plugin in your skills directory\n* Plugin structure overview\n* Develop more complex plugins\n  * Add Skills to your plugin\n  * Add LSP servers to your plugin\n  * Add background monitors to your plugin\n  * Ship default settings with your plugin\n  * Organize complex plugins\n  * Test your plugins locally\n  * Debug plugin issues\n  * Share your plugins\n  * Submit your plugin to the community marketplace\n* Convert existing configurations to plugins\n  * Migration steps\n  * What changes when migrating\n* Next steps\n  * For plugin users\n  * For plugin developers\n\n## Artifacts\n\n### [artifacts](https://code.claude.com/docs/en/artifacts.md)\n\n* When to use an artifact\n  * What an artifact is not\n* Create an artifact\n* Update an artifact\n* Share an artifact\n* What you can build\n  * Walk through a change\n  * Compare alternatives\n  * Tune with interactive controls\n  * Bring the result back to your session\n  * Track work in progress\n* Improve the visual design\n* Page constraints\n* Availability\n* Disable artifacts\n* Manage artifacts for your organization\n  * Enable or disable artifacts\n  * Set a retention policy\n  * Review the audit log\n  * Allowlist the viewer domain\n  * List and delete artifacts with the Compliance API\n* Related resources\n\n## Automation\n\n### [hooks-guide](https://code.claude.com/docs/en/hooks-guide.md)\n\n* Set up your first hook\n* What you can automate\n  * Get notified when Claude needs input\n  * Auto-format code after edits\n  * Block edits to protected files\n  * Re-inject context after compaction\n  * Audit configuration changes\n  * Reload environment when directory or files change\n  * Auto-approve specific permission prompts\n* How hooks work\n  * Combine results from multiple hooks\n  * Read input and return output\n    * Hook input\n    * Hook output\n    * Structured JSON output\n  * Filter hooks with matchers\n    * Filter by tool name and arguments with the `if` field\n  * Configure hook location\n* Prompt-based hooks\n* Agent-based hooks\n* HTTP hooks\n* Limitations and troubleshooting\n  * Limitations\n  * Hooks and permission modes\n  * Hook not firing\n  * Hook error in output\n  * `/hooks` shows no hooks configured\n  * Stop hook hits the block cap\n  * JSON validation failed\n  * Debug techniques\n* Learn more\n\n### [channels](https://code.claude.com/docs/en/channels.md)\n\n* Supported channels\n* Quickstart\n* Security\n* Enterprise controls\n  * Enable channels for your organization\n  * Restrict which channel plugins can run\n* Research preview\n* How channels compare\n* Next steps\n\n### [scheduled-tasks](https://code.claude.com/docs/en/scheduled-tasks.md)\n\n* Compare scheduling options\n* Run a prompt repeatedly with /loop\n  * Run on a fixed interval\n  * Let Claude choose the interval\n  * Run the built-in maintenance prompt\n  * Customize the default prompt with loop.md\n  * Stop a loop\n* Set a one-time reminder\n* Manage scheduled tasks\n* How scheduled tasks run\n  * Jitter\n  * Seven-day expiry\n* Cron expression reference\n* Disable scheduled tasks\n* Limitations\n\n### [goal](https://code.claude.com/docs/en/goal.md)\n\n* Compare ways to keep a session running\n* Use `/goal`\n  * Set a goal\n  * Write an effective condition\n  * Check status\n  * Clear a goal\n  * Resume with an active goal\n  * Run non-interactively\n* How evaluation works\n* Requirements\n* See also\n\n### [headless](https://code.claude.com/docs/en/headless.md)\n\n* Basic usage\n  * Start faster with bare mode\n  * Background tasks at exit\n* Examples\n  * Pipe data through Claude\n  * Add Claude to a build script\n  * Get structured output\n  * Stream responses\n  * Auto-approve tools\n  * Create a commit\n  * Customize the system prompt\n  * Continue conversations\n* Next steps\n\n### [deep-links](https://code.claude.com/docs/en/deep-links.md)\n\n* How it works\n  * What a launched session shows\n* Build a link\n  * Choose between `cwd` and `repo`\n* Examples\n  * Embed a link in a runbook\n  * Open a link from the shell\n* Registration and supported platforms\n* Open a VS Code tab instead of a terminal\n* Troubleshooting\n  * Clicking the link does nothing\n  * The link renders as plain text instead of being clickable\n  * The session opens in my home directory instead of the repo\n  * The link opens the wrong terminal\n* Learn more\n\n## Guides\n\n### [large-codebases](https://code.claude.com/docs/en/large-codebases.md)\n\n* What this guide covers\n  * Settings on this page\n  * The example monorepo\n* Choose where to start Claude\n* Layer CLAUDE.md files by directory\n  * Choose between per-directory CLAUDE.md and path-scoped rules\n  * Exclude irrelevant CLAUDE.md files\n* Reduce what Claude reads\n  * Block reads of generated and vendored code\n  * Reduce file reads with code intelligence\n* Scope worktrees and file access\n  * Check out only the directories you need\n  * Grant access across packages or repositories\n* Add per-directory skills\n  * Keep skills discoverable\n* Centralize conventions when layering stops scaling\n  * Recommend the right plugin at session start\n* Put it together\n* Scope and plan changes that span packages\n* Next steps\n\n## Troubleshooting\n\n### [troubleshoot-install](https://code.claude.com/docs/en/troubleshoot-install.md)\n\n* Find your error\n* Run diagnostic checks\n  * Check network connectivity\n  * Verify your PATH\n  * Check for conflicting installations\n  * Check directory permissions\n  * Verify the binary works\n* Common installation issues\n  * Install script returns HTML instead of a shell script\n  * `command not found: claude` after installation\n  * `curl: (56) Failure writing output to destination`\n  * Homebrew cask unavailable or outdated\n  * TLS or SSL connection errors\n  * `Failed to fetch version from downloads.claude.ai`\n  * Wrong install command on Windows\n  * `The process cannot access the file` during Windows install\n  * Install killed on low-memory Linux servers\n  * Install hangs in Docker\n  * Claude Desktop overrides the `claude` command on Windows\n  * Claude Code on Windows requires either Git for Windows (for bash) or PowerShell\n  * Claude Code does not support 32-bit Windows\n  * Linux musl or glibc binary mismatch\n  * `Illegal instruction`\n  * `dyld: cannot load` on macOS\n  * `Exec format error` on WSL1\n  * npm install errors in WSL\n  * Permission errors during installation\n  * Native binary not found after npm install\n* Login and authentication\n  * Reset your login\n  * OAuth error: Invalid code\n  * 403 Forbidden after login\n  * This organization has been disabled with an active subscription\n  * OAuth login fails in WSL2, SSH, or containers\n  * Not logged in or token expired\n  * Bedrock, Vertex, or Foundry credentials not loading\n* Still stuck\n\n### [troubleshooting](https://code.claude.com/docs/en/troubleshooting.md)\n\n* Performance and stability\n  * High CPU or memory usage\n  * Auto-compaction stops with a thrashing error\n  * Command hangs or freezes\n  * Garbled or corrupted text in an editor's integrated terminal\n  * Search and discovery issues\n  * Slow or incomplete search results on WSL\n* Get more help\n\n### [debug-your-config](https://code.claude.com/docs/en/debug-your-config.md)\n\n* See what loaded into context\n* Check resolved settings\n* Check MCP servers\n* Check hooks\n* Test against a clean configuration\n* Check common causes\n* Related resources\n\n### [errors](https://code.claude.com/docs/en/errors.md)\n\n* Find your error\n* Automatic retries\n* Server errors\n  * API Error: 500 Internal server error\n  * API Error: Repeated 529 Overloaded errors\n  * Request timed out\n  * Auto mode cannot determine the safety of an action\n* Usage limits\n  * You've hit your session limit\n  * Usage credits required for 1M context\n  * Server is temporarily limiting requests\n  * Request rejected (429)\n  * Credit balance is too low\n* Authentication errors\n  * Not logged in\n  * Could not resolve authentication method\n  * Invalid API key\n  * This organization has been disabled\n  * Your organization has disabled API key authentication\n  * Your organization has disabled Claude subscription access\n  * Routines are disabled by your organization's policy\n  * OAuth token revoked or expired\n  * OAuth scope requirement\n* Network and connection errors\n  * Unable to connect to API\n  * SSL certificate errors\n  * Host not allowed in a cloud session\n* Request errors\n  * Prompt is too long\n  * Error during compaction: Conversation too long\n  * Request too large\n  * Image was too large\n  * Unable to resize image\n  * PDF errors\n  * Extra inputs are not permitted\n  * There's an issue with the selected model\n  * Claude Opus is not available with the Claude Pro plan\n  * thinking.type.enabled is not supported for this model\n  * Thinking budget exceeds output limit\n  * Tool use or thinking block mismatch\n  * Usage Policy refusal\n* Responses seem lower quality than usual\n* Report an error\n\n## Setup and access\n\n### [admin-setup](https://code.claude.com/docs/en/admin-setup.md)\n\n* Choose your API provider\n* Decide how settings reach devices\n* Decide what to enforce\n* Set up usage visibility\n* Review data handling\n* Verify and onboard\n* Next steps\n\n### [setup](https://code.claude.com/docs/en/setup.md)\n\n* System requirements\n  * Additional dependencies\n* Install Claude Code\n  * Set up on Windows\n  * Alpine Linux and musl-based distributions\n* Verify your installation\n* Authenticate\n* Update Claude Code\n  * Auto-updates\n  * Configure release channel\n  * Pin a minimum version\n  * Disable auto-updates\n  * Update manually\n* Advanced installation options\n  * Install a specific version\n  * Install with Linux package managers\n  * Install with npm\n  * Binary integrity and code signing\n    * Verify the manifest signature\n    * Platform code signatures\n* Uninstall Claude Code\n  * Native installation\n  * Homebrew installation\n  * WinGet installation\n  * apt / dnf / apk\n  * npm\n  * Remove configuration files\n\n### [authentication](https://code.claude.com/docs/en/authentication.md)\n\n* Log in to Claude Code\n* Set up team authentication\n  * Claude for Teams or Enterprise\n  * Claude Console authentication\n  * Cloud provider authentication\n* Credential management\n  * Authentication precedence\n  * Generate a long-lived token\n\n### [server-managed-settings](https://code.claude.com/docs/en/server-managed-settings.md)\n\n* Requirements\n* Choose between server-managed and endpoint-managed settings\n* Configure server-managed settings\n  * Verify settings delivery\n  * Access control\n  * Managed-only settings\n  * Current limitations\n* Settings delivery\n  * Settings precedence\n  * Fetch and caching behavior\n  * Invalid entries in delivered settings\n  * Enforce fail-closed startup\n  * Security approval dialogs\n* Platform availability\n* Audit logging\n* Security considerations\n* See also\n\n### [managed-mcp](https://code.claude.com/docs/en/managed-mcp.md)\n\n* Choose a pattern\n* Exclusive control with managed-mcp.json\n  * Authenticate with per-user credentials\n  * Validate the configuration\n  * Disable MCP entirely\n  * Allow claude.ai connectors alongside the managed set\n* Policy-based control with allowlists and denylists\n  * Match servers by URL, command, or name\n  * How a server is evaluated\n  * Example configuration\n  * Restrict the allowlist to managed settings only\n* How restrictions appear to users\n* Monitor MCP usage\n* Configuration summary\n* Related resources\n\n### [auto-mode-config](https://code.claude.com/docs/en/auto-mode-config.md)\n\n* Where the classifier reads configuration\n* Define trusted infrastructure\n* Override the block and allow rules\n* Inspect the defaults and your effective config\n* Review denials\n* See also\n\n## Deployment\n\n### [third-party-integrations](https://code.claude.com/docs/en/third-party-integrations.md)\n\n* Compare deployment options\n* Configure proxies and gateways\n  * Amazon Bedrock\n  * Microsoft Foundry\n  * Google Vertex AI\n* Best practices for organizations\n  * Invest in documentation and memory\n  * Simplify deployment\n  * Start with guided usage\n  * Pin model versions for cloud providers\n  * Configure security policies\n  * Leverage MCP for integrations\n* Next steps\n\n### [amazon-bedrock](https://code.claude.com/docs/en/amazon-bedrock.md)\n\n* Prerequisites\n* Sign in with Bedrock\n* Set up manually\n  * 1. Submit use case details\n  * 2. Configure AWS credentials\n    * Advanced credential configuration\n      * Example configuration\n      * Configuration settings explained\n  * 3. Configure Claude Code\n  * 4. Pin model versions\n    * Map each model version to an inference profile\n* Startup model checks\n* IAM configuration\n* 1M token context window\n* Service tiers\n* AWS Guardrails\n* Use the Mantle endpoint\n  * Enable Mantle\n  * Select a Mantle model\n  * Run Mantle alongside the Invoke API\n  * Route Mantle through a gateway\n  * Mantle environment variables\n* Troubleshooting\n  * Authentication loop with SSO and corporate proxies\n  * Region issues\n  * Mantle endpoint errors\n* Additional resources\n\n### [claude-platform-on-aws](https://code.claude.com/docs/en/claude-platform-on-aws.md)\n\n* Prerequisites\n* Setup\n  * 1. Configure AWS credentials\n  * 2. Configure Claude Code\n  * 3. Pin model versions\n* Use the Agent SDK\n* Route through a corporate proxy\n* Troubleshooting\n  * `403 Forbidden` or `AccessDenied` on every request\n  * Requests fail with a missing-workspace error\n  * Requests still go to `api.anthropic.com`\n* Additional resources\n\n### [google-vertex-ai](https://code.claude.com/docs/en/google-vertex-ai.md)\n\n* Prerequisites\n* Sign in with Vertex AI\n* Region configuration\n* Set up manually\n  * 1. Enable Vertex AI API\n  * 2. Request model access\n  * 3. Configure GCP credentials\n    * Advanced credential configuration\n  * 4. Configure Claude Code\n  * 5. Pin model versions\n* Startup model checks\n* IAM configuration\n* 1M token context window\n* Troubleshooting\n* Additional resources\n\n### [microsoft-foundry](https://code.claude.com/docs/en/microsoft-foundry.md)\n\n* Prerequisites\n* Setup\n  * 1. Provision Microsoft Foundry resource\n  * 2. Configure Azure credentials\n  * 3. Configure Claude Code\n  * 4. Pin model versions\n  * 5. Run Claude Code\n* Azure RBAC configuration\n* Troubleshooting\n* Additional resources\n\n### [network-config](https://code.claude.com/docs/en/network-config.md)\n\n* Proxy configuration\n  * Environment variables\n  * Basic authentication\n* CA certificate store\n* Custom CA certificates\n* mTLS authentication\n* Network access requirements\n* Additional resources\n\n### [llm-gateway](https://code.claude.com/docs/en/llm-gateway.md)\n\n* Gateway requirements\n* Configuration\n  * Model selection\n* LiteLLM configuration\n  * Prerequisites\n  * Basic LiteLLM setup\n    * Authentication methods\n      * Static API key\n      * Dynamic API key with helper\n    * Unified endpoint (recommended)\n    * Provider-specific pass-through endpoints (alternative)\n      * Claude API through LiteLLM\n      * Amazon Bedrock through LiteLLM\n      * Google Vertex AI through LiteLLM\n      * Claude Platform on AWS through a gateway\n* Additional resources\n\n### [devcontainer](https://code.claude.com/docs/en/devcontainer.md)\n\n* Add Claude Code to your dev container\n* Persist authentication and settings across rebuilds\n* Enforce organization policy\n* Restrict network egress\n* Run without permission prompts\n* Try the reference container\n* Next steps\n\n## Usage and costs\n\n### [monitoring-usage](https://code.claude.com/docs/en/monitoring-usage.md)\n\n* Quick start\n* Administrator configuration\n* Configuration details\n  * Common configuration variables\n  * mTLS authentication\n  * Metrics cardinality control\n  * Traces (beta)\n    * Span hierarchy\n    * Span attributes\n  * Dynamic headers\n    * Settings configuration\n    * Script requirements\n    * Refresh behavior\n  * Multi-team organization support\n  * Example configurations\n* Available metrics and events\n  * Standard attributes\n  * Metrics\n  * Metric details\n    * Session counter\n    * Lines of code counter\n    * Pull request counter\n    * Commit counter\n    * Cost counter\n    * Token counter\n    * Code edit tool decision counter\n    * Active time counter\n  * Events\n    * Event correlation attributes\n    * User prompt event\n    * Tool result event\n    * API request event\n    * API error event\n    * API refusal event\n    * API request body event\n    * API response body event\n    * Tool decision event\n    * Permission mode changed event\n    * Auth event\n    * MCP server connection event\n    * Internal error event\n    * Plugin installed event\n    * Plugin loaded event\n    * Skill activated event\n    * At mention event\n    * API retries exhausted event\n    * Hook registered event\n    * Hook execution start event\n    * Hook execution complete event\n    * Hook plugin metrics event\n    * Compaction event\n    * Feedback survey event\n* Interpret metrics and events data\n  * Usage monitoring\n  * Cost monitoring\n  * Alerting and segmentation\n  * Detect retry exhaustion\n  * Event analysis\n* Audit security events\n  * Attribute actions to users\n  * Audit MCP activity\n  * Map security questions to events\n  * Send events to a SIEM\n* Backend considerations\n  * For metrics\n  * For events/logs\n  * For traces\n* Service information\n* ROI measurement resources\n* Security and privacy\n* Monitor Claude Code on Amazon Bedrock\n\n### [costs](https://code.claude.com/docs/en/costs.md)\n\n* Track your costs\n  * Using the `/usage` command\n* Managing costs for teams\n  * Rate limit recommendations\n  * Agent team token costs\n* Reduce token usage\n  * Manage context proactively\n  * Choose the right model\n  * Reduce MCP server overhead\n  * Install code intelligence plugins for typed languages\n  * Offload processing to hooks and skills\n  * Move instructions from CLAUDE.md to skills\n  * Adjust extended thinking\n  * Delegate verbose operations to subagents\n  * Manage agent team costs\n  * Write specific prompts\n  * Work efficiently on complex tasks\n* Background token usage\n* Understanding changes in Claude Code behavior\n\n### [analytics](https://code.claude.com/docs/en/analytics.md)\n\n* Access analytics for Team and Enterprise\n  * Enable contribution metrics\n  * Review summary metrics\n  * Explore the charts\n    * Track adoption\n    * Measure PRs per user\n    * View pull requests breakdown\n    * Find top contributors\n  * PR attribution\n    * Tagging criteria\n    * Attribution process\n    * Time window\n    * Excluded files\n    * Attribution notes\n  * Get the most from analytics\n    * Monitor adoption\n    * Measure ROI\n    * Identify power users\n    * Access data programmatically\n* Access analytics for API customers\n  * View team insights\n* Related resources\n\n## Plugin distribution\n\n### [plugin-marketplaces](https://code.claude.com/docs/en/plugin-marketplaces.md)\n\n* Overview\n* Walkthrough: create a local marketplace\n* Create the marketplace file\n* Marketplace schema\n  * Required fields\n  * Owner fields\n  * Optional fields\n* Plugin entries\n  * Required fields\n  * Optional plugin fields\n* Plugin sources\n  * Relative paths\n  * GitHub repositories\n  * Git repositories\n  * Git subdirectories\n  * npm packages\n  * Advanced plugin entries\n  * Strict mode\n* Host and distribute marketplaces\n  * Host on GitHub (recommended)\n  * Host on other git services\n  * Private repositories\n  * Test locally before distribution\n  * Require marketplaces for your team\n  * Pre-populate plugins for containers\n  * Managed marketplace restrictions\n    * Common configurations\n    * How restrictions work\n  * Version resolution and release channels\n    * Set up release channels\n      * Example\n      * Assign channels to user groups\n    * Pin dependency versions\n* Validation and testing\n* Manage marketplaces from the CLI\n  * Plugin marketplace add\n  * Plugin marketplace list\n  * Plugin marketplace remove\n  * Plugin marketplace update\n* Troubleshooting\n  * Marketplace not loading\n  * Marketplace validation errors\n  * Plugin installation failures\n  * Private repository authentication fails\n  * Marketplace updates fail in offline environments\n  * Git operations time out\n  * Plugins with relative paths fail in URL-based marketplaces\n  * Files not found after installation\n* See also\n\n### [plugin-dependencies](https://code.claude.com/docs/en/plugin-dependencies.md)\n\n* Why constrain dependency versions\n* Declare a dependency with a version constraint\n* Depend on a plugin from another marketplace\n* Tag plugin releases for version resolution\n* How constraints interact\n* Enable or disable a plugin with dependencies\n* Remove orphaned auto-installed dependencies\n* Resolve dependency errors\n* See also\n\n### [plugin-hints](https://code.claude.com/docs/en/plugin-hints.md)\n\n* How it works\n* Emit the hint\n* Choose where to emit\n* What the user sees\n* Hint format\n* Requirements\n* Get your plugin into the official marketplace\n* See also\n\n## Security and data\n\n### [security](https://code.claude.com/docs/en/security.md)\n\n* How we approach security\n  * Security foundation\n  * Permission-based architecture\n  * Built-in protections\n  * User responsibility\n* Protect against prompt injection\n  * Core protections\n  * Privacy safeguards\n  * Additional safeguards\n* MCP security\n* IDE security\n* Cloud execution security\n* Security best practices\n  * Working with sensitive code\n  * Team security\n  * Reporting security issues\n* Related resources\n\n### [data-usage](https://code.claude.com/docs/en/data-usage.md)\n\n* Data policies\n  * Data training policy\n  * Development Partner Program\n  * Feedback using the `/feedback` command\n  * Session quality surveys\n  * Data retention\n* Data access\n* Local Claude Code: Data flow and dependencies\n  * Cloud execution: Data flow and dependencies\n* Telemetry services\n* Default behaviors by API provider\n  * WebFetch domain safety check\n\n### [zero-data-retention](https://code.claude.com/docs/en/zero-data-retention.md)\n\n* ZDR scope\n  * What ZDR covers\n  * What ZDR does not cover\n* Features disabled under ZDR\n  * Model availability under ZDR\n* Data retention for policy violations\n* Request ZDR\n\n## Adoption\n\n### [communications-kit](https://code.claude.com/docs/en/communications-kit.md)\n\n* Launch communications\n  * Before you send\n  * The announcement\n  * Executive sponsor variant\n  * Pilot group variant\n  * Champion recruitment DM\n* Tips and tricks campaign\n  * Get started\n  * Project memory\n  * Control and safety\n  * Connect your tools\n  * Automate your workflows\n  * Day-to-day development\n  * Share and scale\n  * Security and admin\n* Quick reference\n  * FAQ responses\n  * Prompt templates\n\n### [champion-kit](https://code.claude.com/docs/en/champion-kit.md)\n\n* The champion role\n  * What this should cost you\n* Share what you discover\n  * What is worth sharing\n  * Where to share it\n  * The format that works\n* Be the person people ask\n  * Answer with a prompt rather than an explanation\n  * Point at the feature rather than the documentation\n  * Questions you are likely to hear\n* Grow the circle\n  * Patterns that tend to work\n  * Thirty-day playbook\n  * When someone wants to go deeper\n* Respond to common concerns\n* Quick-reference sheet\n\n## Settings and permissions\n\n### [settings](https://code.claude.com/docs/en/settings.md)\n\n* Configuration scopes\n  * Available scopes\n  * When to use each scope\n  * How scopes interact\n  * What uses scopes\n* Settings files\n  * When edits take effect\n  * Invalid entries in managed settings\n  * Available settings\n  * Global config settings\n  * Worktree settings\n  * Permission settings\n  * Permission rule syntax\n  * Sandbox settings\n    * Sandbox path prefixes\n  * Attribution settings\n  * File suggestion settings\n  * Footer link badges\n  * Hook configuration\n  * Compute managed settings with a policy helper\n  * Settings precedence\n  * Verify active settings\n  * Key points about the configuration system\n  * System prompt\n  * Excluding sensitive files\n* Subagent configuration\n* Plugin configuration\n  * Plugin settings\n    * `enabledPlugins`\n    * `extraKnownMarketplaces`\n    * `strictKnownMarketplaces`\n    * `strictPluginOnlyCustomization`\n  * Managing plugins\n* Environment variables\n* Tools available to Claude\n* See also\n\n### [permissions](https://code.claude.com/docs/en/permissions.md)\n\n* Permission system\n* Manage permissions\n* Permission modes\n* Permission rule syntax\n  * Match all uses of a tool\n  * Use specifiers for fine-grained control\n  * Match by input parameter\n  * Wildcard patterns\n  * Tool name wildcards\n* Tool-specific permission rules\n  * Bash\n    * Compound commands\n    * Process wrappers\n    * Read-only commands\n  * PowerShell\n  * Read and Edit\n  * WebFetch\n  * MCP\n  * Agent (subagents)\n  * Cd\n* Extend permissions with hooks\n* Working directories\n  * Additional directories grant file access, not configuration\n* How permissions interact with sandboxing\n* Managed settings\n  * Managed-only settings\n* Settings precedence\n* Example configurations\n* See also\n\n### [sandbox-environments](https://code.claude.com/docs/en/sandbox-environments.md)\n\n* Compare sandboxing approaches\n* Choose an approach\n  * How isolation relates to permission modes\n* Sandboxed Bash tool\n* Sandbox runtime\n* Dev containers\n* Custom container\n* Virtual machine\n* Claude Code on the web\n* Enforce isolation across an organization\n* See also\n\n### [sandboxing](https://code.claude.com/docs/en/sandboxing.md)\n\n* Get started\n  * Set up Linux and WSL2\n  * Sandbox modes\n* Configure sandboxing\n* How sandboxing works\n  * Filesystem isolation\n  * Network isolation\n  * OS-level enforcement\n* How sandboxing relates to permissions and permission modes\n  * Permission rules\n  * Permission modes\n* Configure the sandbox for your organization\n  * Enforce sandboxing with managed settings\n  * Keep developers from widening the policy\n  * Custom proxy configuration\n* Troubleshooting\n* Limitations\n  * Security limitations\n  * Platform and tool compatibility\n  * Scope\n* See also\n\n## Model and responses\n\n### [model-config](https://code.claude.com/docs/en/model-config.md)\n\n* Available models\n  * Model aliases\n  * Work with Fable 5\n  * Setting your model\n* Restrict model selection\n  * Default model behavior\n  * Control the model users run on\n  * Merge behavior\n  * Mantle model IDs\n* Special model behavior\n  * `default` model setting\n  * `opusplan` model setting\n  * Fallback model chains\n  * Automatic model fallback\n    * Check what triggered fallback\n    * Ask before switching\n    * Enable fallback on Bedrock, Vertex AI, and Foundry\n    * Security research and biology workloads\n  * Adjust effort level\n    * Choose an effort level\n    * Use ultrathink for one-off deep reasoning\n    * Set the effort level\n    * Adaptive reasoning and fixed thinking budgets\n  * Extended thinking\n  * Extended context\n* Checking your current model\n* Add a custom model option\n* Environment variables\n  * Pin models for third-party deployments\n  * Customize pinned model display and capabilities\n  * Override model IDs per version\n  * Prompt caching configuration\n\n### [fast-mode](https://code.claude.com/docs/en/fast-mode.md)\n\n* Toggle fast mode\n* Understand the cost tradeoff\n* Decide when to use fast mode\n  * Fast mode vs effort level\n* Requirements\n  * Enable fast mode for your organization\n  * Require per-session opt-in\n* Handle rate limits\n* Research preview\n* See also\n\n### [advisor](https://code.claude.com/docs/en/advisor.md)\n\n* When to use the advisor\n* Enable the advisor\n  * Use the `/advisor` command\n  * Set `advisorModel` in settings\n  * Use the `--advisor` flag\n* Choose an advisor model\n  * Common model pairings\n* When Claude consults the advisor\n* What you see during a session\n* Cost\n* Impact on prompt caching\n* Requirements\n* Turn the advisor off\n* Compare with related features\n* See also\n\n### [output-styles](https://code.claude.com/docs/en/output-styles.md)\n\n* Built-in output styles\n* Change your output style\n* Create a custom output style\n  * Frontmatter\n* How output styles work\n* Comparisons to related features\n* Related resources\n\n## Interface\n\n### [terminal-config](https://code.claude.com/docs/en/terminal-config.md)\n\n* Enter multiline prompts\n* Enable Option key shortcuts on macOS\n* Get a terminal bell or notification\n  * Play a sound with a Notification hook\n* Configure tmux\n* Match the color theme\n  * Create a custom theme\n    * Text and accent colors\n    * Status colors\n    * Input box and mode indicators\n    * Diff rendering\n    * Fullscreen mode\n    * Usage meter and speaker labels\n    * Shimmer variants and subagent colors\n* Switch to fullscreen rendering\n* Paste large content\n* Edit prompts with Vim keybindings\n* Related resources\n\n### [fullscreen](https://code.claude.com/docs/en/fullscreen.md)\n\n* Enable fullscreen rendering\n* What changes\n* Use the mouse\n* Scroll the conversation\n  * Auto-follow\n  * Mouse wheel scrolling\n  * Scroll in the JetBrains IDE terminal\n* Search and review the conversation\n* Clear the conversation\n* Use with tmux\n* Keep native text selection\n* Research preview\n\n### [voice-dictation](https://code.claude.com/docs/en/voice-dictation.md)\n\n* Requirements\n* Enable voice dictation\n* Hold to record\n* Tap to record and send\n* Change the dictation language\n* Rebind the dictation key\n* Troubleshooting\n  * Terminal not listed in macOS Microphone settings\n* See also\n\n### [statusline](https://code.claude.com/docs/en/statusline.md)\n\n* Set up a status line\n  * Use the /statusline command\n  * Manually configure a status line\n  * Disable the status line\n* Build a status line step by step\n* How status lines work\n* Available data\n  * Context window fields\n* Examples\n  * Context window usage\n  * Git status with colors\n  * Cost and duration tracking\n  * Display multiple lines\n  * Clickable links\n  * Rate limit usage\n  * Cache expensive operations\n  * Windows configuration\n* Subagent status lines\n* Tips\n* Troubleshooting\n\n### [keybindings](https://code.claude.com/docs/en/keybindings.md)\n\n* Configuration file\n* Contexts\n* Available actions\n  * App actions\n  * History actions\n  * Chat actions\n  * Autocomplete actions\n  * Confirmation actions\n  * Permission actions\n  * Transcript actions\n  * History search actions\n  * Task actions\n  * Theme actions\n  * Help actions\n  * Tabs actions\n  * Attachments actions\n  * Footer actions\n  * Message selector actions\n  * Diff actions\n  * Model picker actions\n  * Select actions\n  * Plugin actions\n  * Settings actions\n  * Doctor actions\n  * Voice actions\n  * Scroll actions\n* Keystroke syntax\n  * Modifiers\n  * Uppercase letters\n  * Chords\n  * Special keys\n* Unbind default shortcuts\n* Reserved shortcuts\n* Terminal conflicts\n* Vim mode interaction\n* Validation\n\n## Reference\n\n### [cli-reference](https://code.claude.com/docs/en/cli-reference.md)\n\n* CLI commands\n* CLI flags\n  * System prompt flags\n* See also\n\n### [commands](https://code.claude.com/docs/en/commands.md)\n\n* Commands across a typical workflow\n* All commands\n* MCP prompts\n* See also\n\n### [env-vars](https://code.claude.com/docs/en/env-vars.md)\n\n* Set environment variables\n  * In your shell\n  * In settings files\n* Precedence\n* Variables\n* See also\n\n### [tools-reference](https://code.claude.com/docs/en/tools-reference.md)\n\n* Configure tools with permission rules and hooks\n* Agent tool behavior\n* Bash tool behavior\n* Edit tool behavior\n* Glob tool behavior\n* Grep tool behavior\n* LSP tool behavior\n* Monitor tool\n* NotebookEdit tool behavior\n* PowerShell tool\n  * Enable the PowerShell tool\n  * Shell selection in settings, hooks, and skills\n  * Preview limitations\n* Read tool behavior\n* WebFetch tool behavior\n* WebSearch tool behavior\n* Write tool behavior\n* Check which tools are available\n* See also\n\n### [interactive-mode](https://code.claude.com/docs/en/interactive-mode.md)\n\n* Keyboard shortcuts\n  * General controls\n  * Text editing\n  * Theme and display\n  * Multiline input\n  * Quick commands\n  * Transcript viewer\n  * Voice input\n* Commands\n* Vim editor mode\n  * Mode switching\n  * Navigation (NORMAL mode)\n  * Editing (NORMAL mode)\n  * Text objects (NORMAL mode)\n  * Visual mode\n* Command history\n  * Reverse search with Ctrl+R\n* Background bash commands\n  * How backgrounding works\n  * Shell mode with `!` prefix\n* Prompt suggestions\n* Side questions with /btw\n* Task list\n* Session recap\n* PR review status\n* See also\n\n### [checkpointing](https://code.claude.com/docs/en/checkpointing.md)\n\n* How checkpoints work\n  * Automatic tracking\n  * Rewind and summarize\n    * Restore vs. summarize\n* Common use cases\n* Limitations\n  * Bash command changes not tracked\n  * External changes not tracked\n  * Not a replacement for version control\n* See also\n\n### [hooks](https://code.claude.com/docs/en/hooks.md)\n\n* Hook lifecycle\n  * How a hook resolves\n* Configuration\n  * Hook locations\n  * Matcher patterns\n    * Match MCP tools\n  * Hook handler fields\n    * Common fields\n    * Command hook fields\n      * Exec form and shell form\n    * HTTP hook fields\n    * MCP tool hook fields\n    * Prompt and agent hook fields\n  * Reference scripts by path\n  * Hooks in skills and agents\n  * The `/hooks` menu\n  * Disable or remove hooks\n* Hook input and output\n  * Common input fields\n  * Exit code output\n    * Exit code 2 behavior per event\n  * HTTP response handling\n  * JSON output\n    * Emit terminal notifications\n    * Add context for Claude\n    * Decision control\n* Hook events\n  * SessionStart\n    * SessionStart input\n    * SessionStart decision control\n    * Persist environment variables\n  * Setup\n    * Setup input\n    * Setup decision control\n  * InstructionsLoaded\n    * InstructionsLoaded input\n    * InstructionsLoaded decision control\n  * UserPromptSubmit\n    * UserPromptSubmit input\n    * UserPromptSubmit decision control\n  * UserPromptExpansion\n    * UserPromptExpansion input\n    * UserPromptExpansion decision control\n  * MessageDisplay\n    * MessageDisplay input\n    * MessageDisplay output\n  * PreToolUse\n    * PreToolUse input\n      * Bash\n      * Write\n      * Edit\n      * Read\n      * Glob\n      * Grep\n      * WebFetch\n      * WebSearch\n      * Agent\n      * AskUserQuestion\n      * ExitPlanMode\n    * PreToolUse decision control\n    * Defer a tool call for later\n  * PermissionRequest\n    * PermissionRequest input\n    * PermissionRequest decision control\n    * Permission update entries\n  * PostToolUse\n    * PostToolUse input\n    * PostToolUse decision control\n  * PostToolUseFailure\n    * PostToolUseFailure input\n    * PostToolUseFailure decision control\n  * PostToolBatch\n    * PostToolBatch input\n    * PostToolBatch decision control\n  * PermissionDenied\n    * PermissionDenied input\n    * PermissionDenied decision control\n  * Notification\n    * Notification input\n  * SubagentStart\n    * SubagentStart input\n  * SubagentStop\n    * SubagentStop input\n  * TaskCreated\n    * TaskCreated input\n    * TaskCreated decision control\n  * TaskCompleted\n    * TaskCompleted input\n    * TaskCompleted decision control\n  * Stop\n    * Stop input\n    * Stop decision control\n  * StopFailure\n    * StopFailure input\n  * TeammateIdle\n    * TeammateIdle input\n    * TeammateIdle decision control\n  * ConfigChange\n    * ConfigChange input\n    * ConfigChange decision control\n  * CwdChanged\n    * CwdChanged input\n    * CwdChanged output\n  * FileChanged\n    * FileChanged input\n    * FileChanged output\n  * WorktreeCreate\n    * WorktreeCreate input\n    * WorktreeCreate output\n  * WorktreeRemove\n    * WorktreeRemove input\n  * PreCompact\n    * PreCompact input\n  * PostCompact\n    * PostCompact input\n  * SessionEnd\n    * SessionEnd input\n  * Elicitation\n    * Elicitation input\n    * Elicitation output\n  * ElicitationResult\n    * ElicitationResult input\n    * ElicitationResult output\n* Prompt-based hooks\n  * How prompt-based hooks work\n  * Prompt hook configuration\n  * Response schema\n  * Example: Multi-criteria Stop hook\n* Agent-based hooks\n  * How agent hooks work\n  * Agent hook configuration\n* Run hooks in the background\n  * Configure an async hook\n  * How async hooks execute\n  * Example: run tests after file changes\n  * Limitations\n* Security considerations\n  * Disclaimer\n  * Security best practices\n* Windows PowerShell tool\n* Debug hooks\n\n### [plugins-reference](https://code.claude.com/docs/en/plugins-reference.md)\n\n* Plugin components reference\n  * Skills\n  * Agents\n  * Hooks\n  * MCP servers\n  * LSP servers\n  * Monitors\n  * Themes\n* Plugin installation scopes\n* Skills-directory plugins\n  * Choose where the plugin loads from\n  * Edit, reload, and disable a skills-directory plugin\n* Plugin manifest schema\n  * Complete schema\n  * Required fields\n  * Unrecognized fields\n  * Metadata fields\n  * Default enablement\n  * Component path fields\n  * Experimental components\n  * User configuration\n  * Channels\n  * Path behavior rules\n  * Environment variables\n    * Persistent data directory\n* Plugin caching and file resolution\n  * Path traversal limitations\n  * Share files within a marketplace with symlinks\n* Plugin directory structure\n  * Standard plugin layout\n  * File locations reference\n* CLI commands reference\n  * plugin init\n  * plugin install\n  * plugin uninstall\n  * plugin prune\n  * plugin enable\n  * plugin disable\n  * plugin update\n  * plugin list\n  * plugin details\n  * plugin tag\n* Debugging and development tools\n  * Debugging commands\n  * Common issues\n  * Example error messages\n  * Hook troubleshooting\n  * MCP server troubleshooting\n  * Directory structure mistakes\n* Distribution and versioning reference\n  * Version management\n* See also\n\n### [channels-reference](https://code.claude.com/docs/en/channels-reference.md)\n\n* Overview\n* What you need\n* Example: build a webhook receiver\n* Test during the research preview\n* Server options\n* Notification format\n* Expose a reply tool\n* Gate inbound messages\n* Relay permission prompts\n  * How relay works\n  * Permission request fields\n  * Add relay to a chat bridge\n  * Full example\n* Package as a plugin\n* See also\n\n## Glossary\n\n### [glossary](https://code.claude.com/docs/en/glossary.md)\n\n* A\n  * Agent teams\n  * Agentic coding\n  * Agentic harness\n  * Agentic loop\n  * Artifact\n  * Auto memory\n  * Auto mode\n* B\n  * Bare mode\n  * Bundled skills\n* C\n  * Channel\n  * Checkpoint\n  * `.claude` directory\n  * CLAUDE.md\n  * Command\n  * Compaction\n  * Context window\n* D\n  * Dispatch\n* E\n  * Effort level\n  * Extended thinking\n* H\n  * Hook\n* M\n  * Managed settings\n  * MCP (Model Context Protocol)\n  * MCP Tool Search\n* N\n  * Non-interactive mode\n* O\n  * Output style\n* P\n  * Permission mode\n  * Permission rule\n  * Plan mode\n  * Plugin\n  * Project trust\n  * Prompt injection\n* R\n  * Remote Control\n  * Rules\n* S\n  * Sandboxing\n  * Session\n  * Settings layers\n  * Skill\n  * Subagent\n  * Surface\n* T\n  * Teleport\n  * Tool\n  * Turn\n* V\n  * Verification loop\n* W\n  * Worktree isolation\n* Deprecated and renamed terms\n\n## Agent SDK\n\n### [overview](https://code.claude.com/docs/en/agent-sdk/overview.md)\n\n* Get started\n* Capabilities\n  * Claude Code features\n* Compare the Agent SDK to other Claude tools\n* Changelog\n* Reporting bugs\n* Branding guidelines\n* License and terms\n* Next steps\n\n### [quickstart](https://code.claude.com/docs/en/agent-sdk/quickstart.md)\n\n* Prerequisites\n* Setup\n* Create a buggy file\n* Build an agent that finds and fixes bugs\n  * Run your agent\n  * Try other prompts\n  * Customize your agent\n* Key concepts\n* Troubleshooting\n  * API error `thinking.type.enabled` is not supported for this model\n* Next steps\n\n## Core concepts\n\n### [agent-loop](https://code.claude.com/docs/en/agent-sdk/agent-loop.md)\n\n* The loop at a glance\n* Turns and messages\n* Message types\n  * Handle messages\n* Tool execution\n  * Built-in tools\n  * Tool permissions\n  * Parallel tool execution\n* Control how the loop runs\n  * Turns and budget\n  * Effort level\n  * Permission mode\n  * Model\n* The context window\n  * What consumes context\n  * Automatic compaction\n  * Keep context efficient\n* Sessions and continuity\n* Handle the result\n* Hooks\n* Put it all together\n* Next steps\n\n### [claude-code-features](https://code.claude.com/docs/en/agent-sdk/claude-code-features.md)\n\n* Control filesystem settings with settingSources\n  * What settingSources does not control\n* Project instructions (CLAUDE.md and rules)\n  * CLAUDE.md load locations\n* Skills\n* Hooks\n  * When to use which hook type\n* Choose the right feature\n* Related resources\n\n### [sessions](https://code.claude.com/docs/en/agent-sdk/sessions.md)\n\n* Choose an approach\n  * Continue, resume, and fork\n* Automatic session management\n  * Python: `ClaudeSDKClient`\n  * TypeScript: `continue: true`\n* Use session options with `query()`\n  * Capture the session ID\n  * Resume by ID\n  * Fork to explore alternatives\n* Resume across hosts\n* Related resources\n\n### [session-storage](https://code.claude.com/docs/en/agent-sdk/session-storage.md)\n\n* The `SessionStore` interface\n* Quick start\n* Write your own adapter\n* Reference implementations\n  * Validate your adapter\n* Behavior notes\n  * Dual-write architecture\n  * Mirror writes are best-effort\n  * `getSessionMessages` returns the post-compaction chain\n  * `forkSession` is not a byte copy\n  * Subagent transcripts\n  * Retention\n* Supported on\n* Related resources\n\n## Input and output\n\n### [streaming-vs-single-mode](https://code.claude.com/docs/en/agent-sdk/streaming-vs-single-mode.md)\n\n* Overview\n* Streaming Input Mode (Recommended)\n  * How It Works\n  * Benefits\n  * Implementation Example\n* Single Message Input\n  * When to Use Single Message Input\n  * Limitations\n  * Implementation Example\n\n### [user-input](https://code.claude.com/docs/en/agent-sdk/user-input.md)\n\n* Detect when Claude needs input\n* Handle tool approval requests\n  * Respond to tool requests\n* Handle clarifying questions\n  * Question format\n    * Option previews (TypeScript)\n  * Response format\n    * Support free-text input\n  * Complete example\n* Limitations\n* Other ways to get user input\n  * Streaming input\n  * Custom tools\n* Related resources\n\n### [streaming-output](https://code.claude.com/docs/en/agent-sdk/streaming-output.md)\n\n* Enable streaming output\n* StreamEvent reference\n* Message flow\n* Stream text responses\n* Stream tool calls\n* Build a streaming UI\n* Known limitations\n* Next steps\n\n### [structured-outputs](https://code.claude.com/docs/en/agent-sdk/structured-outputs.md)\n\n* Why structured outputs?\n* Quick start\n* Type-safe schemas with Zod and Pydantic\n* Output format configuration\n* Example: TODO tracking agent\n* Error handling\n* Related resources\n\n## Extend with tools\n\n### [custom-tools](https://code.claude.com/docs/en/agent-sdk/custom-tools.md)\n\n* Quick reference\n* Create a custom tool\n  * Weather tool example\n  * Call a custom tool\n  * Add more tools\n  * Add tool annotations\n* Control tool access\n  * Tool name format\n  * Configure allowed tools\n* Handle errors\n* Return images and resources\n  * Images\n  * Resources\n* Return structured data\n* Example: unit converter\n* Next steps\n* Related documentation\n\n### [mcp](https://code.claude.com/docs/en/agent-sdk/mcp.md)\n\n* Quickstart\n* Add an MCP server\n  * In code\n  * From a config file\n* Allow MCP tools\n  * Tool naming convention\n  * Auto-approve with allowedTools\n  * Discover available tools\n* Transport types\n  * stdio servers\n  * HTTP/SSE servers\n  * SDK MCP servers\n* MCP tool search\n* Authentication\n  * Pass credentials via environment variables\n  * HTTP headers for remote servers\n  * OAuth2 authentication\n* Examples\n  * List issues from a repository\n  * Query a database\n* Error handling\n* Troubleshooting\n  * Server shows \"failed\" status\n  * Tools not being called\n  * Connection timeouts\n* Related resources\n\n### [tool-search](https://code.claude.com/docs/en/agent-sdk/tool-search.md)\n\n* How tool search works\n* Configure tool search\n* Optimize tool discovery\n* Limits\n* Related documentation\n\n### [subagents](https://code.claude.com/docs/en/agent-sdk/subagents.md)\n\n* Overview\n* Benefits of using subagents\n  * Context isolation\n  * Parallelization\n  * Specialized instructions and knowledge\n  * Tool restrictions\n* Creating subagents\n  * Programmatic definition (recommended)\n  * AgentDefinition configuration\n  * Filesystem-based definition (alternative)\n* What subagents inherit\n* Invoking subagents\n  * Automatic invocation\n  * Explicit invocation\n  * Dynamic agent configuration\n* Detecting subagent invocation\n* Resuming subagents\n* Tool restrictions\n  * Common tool combinations\n* Scale up with dynamic workflows\n* Troubleshooting\n  * Claude not delegating to subagents\n  * Filesystem-based agents not loading\n  * Windows: long prompt failures\n* Related documentation\n\n## Customize behavior\n\n### [modifying-system-prompts](https://code.claude.com/docs/en/agent-sdk/modifying-system-prompts.md)\n\n* How system prompts work\n  * Decide on a starting point\n* Customize agent behavior\n  * CLAUDE.md files for project-level instructions\n    * Load CLAUDE.md with the SDK\n  * Output styles for persistent configurations\n    * Create an output style\n    * Activate an output style\n  * Append to the `claude_code` preset\n    * Improve prompt caching across users and machines\n  * Custom system prompts\n* Compare the four approaches\n* Use cases and best practices\n  * When to use CLAUDE.md\n  * When to use output styles\n  * When to use `systemPrompt` with append\n  * When to use custom `systemPrompt`\n* Combine approaches\n  * Combine an output style with session-specific additions\n* See also\n\n### [slash-commands](https://code.claude.com/docs/en/agent-sdk/slash-commands.md)\n\n* Discovering Available Slash Commands\n* Sending Slash Commands\n* Common Slash Commands\n  * `/compact` - Compact conversation history\n  * `/clear` - Reset conversation context\n* Creating Custom Slash Commands\n  * File Locations\n  * File Format\n    * Basic Example\n    * With Frontmatter\n  * Using Custom Commands in the SDK\n  * Advanced Features\n    * Arguments and Placeholders\n    * Bash Command Execution\n    * File References\n  * Organization with Namespacing\n  * Practical Examples\n    * Code Review Command\n    * Test Runner Command\n* See Also\n\n### [skills](https://code.claude.com/docs/en/agent-sdk/skills.md)\n\n* Overview\n* How Skills Work with the SDK\n* Using Skills with the SDK\n* Skill Locations\n* Creating Skills\n* Tool Restrictions\n* Discovering Available Skills\n* Testing Skills\n* Troubleshooting\n  * Skills Not Found\n  * Skill Not Being Used\n  * Additional Troubleshooting\n* Related Documentation\n  * Skills Guides\n  * SDK Resources\n\n### [plugins](https://code.claude.com/docs/en/agent-sdk/plugins.md)\n\n* What are plugins?\n* Loading plugins\n  * Path specifications\n* Verifying plugin installation\n* Using plugin skills\n* Complete example\n* Plugin structure reference\n* Common use cases\n  * Development and testing\n  * Project-specific extensions\n  * Multiple plugin sources\n* Troubleshooting\n  * Plugin not loading\n  * Skills not appearing\n  * Path resolution issues\n* See also\n\n## Control and observability\n\n### [permissions](https://code.claude.com/docs/en/agent-sdk/permissions.md)\n\n* How permissions are evaluated\n* Allow and deny rules\n* Permission modes\n  * Available modes\n  * Set permission mode\n  * Mode details\n    * Accept edits mode (`acceptEdits`)\n    * Don't ask mode (`dontAsk`)\n    * Bypass permissions mode (`bypassPermissions`)\n    * Plan mode (`plan`)\n* Related resources\n\n### [hooks](https://code.claude.com/docs/en/agent-sdk/hooks.md)\n\n* How hooks work\n* Available hooks\n* Configure hooks\n  * Matchers\n  * Callback functions\n    * Inputs\n    * Outputs\n    * Asynchronous output\n* Examples\n  * Modify tool input\n  * Add context and block a tool\n  * Auto-approve specific tools\n  * Register multiple hooks\n  * Filter with multi-tool matchers\n  * Track subagent activity\n  * Make HTTP requests from hooks\n  * Forward notifications to Slack\n* Fix common issues\n  * Hook not firing\n  * Matcher not filtering as expected\n  * Hook timeout\n  * Tool blocked unexpectedly\n  * Modified input not applied\n  * Session hooks not available in Python\n  * Subagent permission prompts multiplying\n  * Recursive hook loops with subagents\n  * systemMessage not appearing in output\n* Related resources\n\n### [file-checkpointing](https://code.claude.com/docs/en/agent-sdk/file-checkpointing.md)\n\n* How checkpointing works\n* Implement checkpointing\n* Common patterns\n  * Checkpoint before risky operations\n  * Multiple restore points\n* Try it out\n* Limitations\n* Troubleshooting\n  * Checkpointing options not recognized\n  * User messages don't have UUIDs\n  * \"No file checkpoint found for message\" error\n  * \"ProcessTransport is not ready for writing\" error\n* Next steps\n\n### [cost-tracking](https://code.claude.com/docs/en/agent-sdk/cost-tracking.md)\n\n* Understand token usage\n* Get the total cost of a query\n* Track per-step and per-model usage\n  * Track per-step usage\n  * Break down usage per model\n* Accumulate costs across multiple calls\n* Handle errors, caching, and token discrepancies\n  * Resolve output token discrepancies\n  * Track costs on failed conversations\n  * Track cache tokens\n  * Extend the prompt cache TTL to one hour\n* Related documentation\n\n### [observability](https://code.claude.com/docs/en/agent-sdk/observability.md)\n\n* How telemetry flows from the SDK\n* Enable telemetry export\n  * Flush telemetry from short-lived calls\n* Read agent traces\n* Link traces to your application\n* Tag telemetry from your agent\n* Attribute actions to your end users\n* Control sensitive data in exports\n* Related documentation\n\n### [todo-tracking](https://code.claude.com/docs/en/agent-sdk/todo-tracking.md)\n\n* Todo Lifecycle\n* When Todos Are Used\n* Examples\n  * Monitoring Todo Changes\n  * Real-time Progress Display\n* Migrate to Task tools\n* Related Documentation\n\n## Deployment\n\n### [hosting](https://code.claude.com/docs/en/agent-sdk/hosting.md)\n\n* The subprocess model\n  * State that lives on local disk\n* Choose a session pattern\n  * Ephemeral sessions\n  * Long-running sessions\n  * Hybrid sessions\n  * Multi-agent container\n* Provision the container\n  * Container-based sandboxing\n  * Runtime dependencies\n  * Resources\n  * Network\n* Handle production concerns\n  * Session and state persistence\n  * Observability\n  * Auth and secrets\n  * Scaling and concurrency\n  * Cost\n  * Multi-tenant isolation\n* Known limitations\n* Next steps\n\n### [secure-deployment](https://code.claude.com/docs/en/agent-sdk/secure-deployment.md)\n\n* Threat model\n* Built-in security features\n* Security principles\n  * Security boundaries\n  * Least privilege\n  * Defense in depth\n* Isolation technologies\n  * Sandbox runtime\n  * Containers\n  * gVisor\n  * Virtual machines\n  * Cloud deployments\n* Credential management\n  * The proxy pattern\n  * Configuring Claude Code to use a proxy\n  * Implementing a proxy\n  * Credentials for other services\n    * Custom tools\n    * Traffic forwarding\n* Filesystem configuration\n  * Read-only code mounting\n  * Writable locations\n* Further reading\n\n## SDK references\n\n### [typescript](https://code.claude.com/docs/en/agent-sdk/typescript.md)\n\n* Installation\n  * Compile to a single executable\n* Functions\n  * `query()`\n    * Parameters\n    * Returns\n  * `startup()`\n    * Parameters\n    * Returns\n    * Example\n  * `tool()`\n    * Parameters\n    * `ToolAnnotations`\n  * `createSdkMcpServer()`\n    * Parameters\n  * `listSessions()`\n    * Parameters\n    * Return type: `SDKSessionInfo`\n    * Example\n  * `getSessionMessages()`\n    * Parameters\n    * Return type: `SessionMessage`\n    * Example\n  * `getSessionInfo()`\n    * Parameters\n  * `renameSession()`\n    * Parameters\n  * `tagSession()`\n    * Parameters\n  * `resolveSettings()`\n    * Parameters\n    * Return type: `ResolvedSettings`\n    * Example\n* Types\n  * `Options`\n    * Handle slow or stalled API responses\n  * `Query` object\n    * Methods\n    * `applyFlagSettings()`\n  * `WarmQuery`\n    * Methods\n  * `SDKControlInitializeResponse`\n  * `AgentDefinition`\n  * `AgentMcpServerSpec`\n  * `SettingSource`\n    * Default behavior\n    * Why use settingSources\n    * Settings precedence\n  * `PermissionMode`\n  * `CanUseTool`\n  * `PermissionResult`\n  * `ToolConfig`\n  * `McpServerConfig`\n    * `McpStdioServerConfig`\n    * `McpSSEServerConfig`\n    * `McpHttpServerConfig`\n    * `McpSdkServerConfigWithInstance`\n    * `McpClaudeAIProxyServerConfig`\n  * `SdkPluginConfig`\n* Message Types\n  * `SDKMessage`\n  * `SDKAssistantMessage`\n  * `SDKUserMessage`\n  * `SDKUserMessageReplay`\n  * `SDKResultMessage`\n  * `SDKSystemMessage`\n  * `SDKPartialAssistantMessage`\n  * `SDKCompactBoundaryMessage`\n  * `SDKInformationalMessage`\n  * `SDKWorkerShuttingDownMessage`\n  * `SDKPluginInstallMessage`\n  * `SDKPermissionDeniedMessage`\n  * `SDKPermissionDenial`\n  * `SDKMessageOrigin`\n* Hook Types\n  * `HookEvent`\n  * `HookCallback`\n  * `HookCallbackMatcher`\n  * `HookInput`\n  * `BaseHookInput`\n    * `PreToolUseHookInput`\n    * `PostToolUseHookInput`\n    * `PostToolUseFailureHookInput`\n    * `PostToolBatchHookInput`\n    * `NotificationHookInput`\n    * `UserPromptSubmitHookInput`\n    * `SessionStartHookInput`\n    * `SessionEndHookInput`\n    * `StopHookInput`\n    * `SubagentStartHookInput`\n    * `SubagentStopHookInput`\n    * `PreCompactHookInput`\n    * `PermissionRequestHookInput`\n    * `SetupHookInput`\n    * `TeammateIdleHookInput`\n    * `TaskCompletedHookInput`\n    * `ConfigChangeHookInput`\n    * `WorktreeCreateHookInput`\n    * `WorktreeRemoveHookInput`\n    * `MessageDisplayHookInput`\n  * `HookJSONOutput`\n    * `AsyncHookJSONOutput`\n    * `SyncHookJSONOutput`\n* Tool Input Types\n  * `ToolInputSchemas`\n  * Agent\n  * AskUserQuestion\n  * Bash\n  * Monitor\n  * TaskOutput\n  * Edit\n  * Read\n  * Write\n  * Glob\n  * Grep\n  * TaskStop\n  * NotebookEdit\n  * WebFetch\n  * WebSearch\n  * Workflow\n  * TodoWrite\n  * TaskCreate\n  * TaskUpdate\n  * TaskGet\n  * TaskList\n  * ExitPlanMode\n  * ListMcpResources\n  * ReadMcpResource\n  * EnterWorktree\n* Tool Output Types\n  * `ToolOutputSchemas`\n  * Agent\n  * AskUserQuestion\n  * Bash\n  * Monitor\n  * Edit\n  * Read\n  * Write\n  * Glob\n  * Grep\n  * TaskStop\n  * NotebookEdit\n  * WebFetch\n  * WebSearch\n  * Workflow\n  * TodoWrite\n  * TaskCreate\n  * TaskUpdate\n  * TaskGet\n  * TaskList\n  * ExitPlanMode\n  * ListMcpResources\n  * ReadMcpResource\n  * EnterWorktree\n* Permission Types\n  * `PermissionUpdate`\n  * `PermissionBehavior`\n  * `PermissionUpdateDestination`\n  * `PermissionRuleValue`\n* Other Types\n  * `ApiKeySource`\n  * `SdkBeta`\n  * `SlashCommand`\n  * `ModelInfo`\n  * `AgentInfo`\n  * `McpServerStatus`\n  * `McpServerStatusConfig`\n  * `AccountInfo`\n  * `ModelUsage`\n  * `ConfigScope`\n  * `NonNullableUsage`\n  * `Usage`\n  * `CallToolResult`\n  * `ThinkingConfig`\n  * `SpawnedProcess`\n  * `SpawnOptions`\n  * `McpSetServersResult`\n  * `RewindFilesResult`\n  * `SDKStatusMessage`\n  * `SDKTaskNotificationMessage`\n  * `SDKToolUseSummaryMessage`\n  * `SDKHookStartedMessage`\n  * `SDKHookProgressMessage`\n  * `SDKHookResponseMessage`\n  * `SDKToolProgressMessage`\n  * `SDKAuthStatusMessage`\n  * `SDKTaskStartedMessage`\n  * `SDKTaskProgressMessage`\n  * `SDKTaskUpdatedMessage`\n  * `SDKFilesPersistedEvent`\n  * `SDKRateLimitEvent`\n  * `SDKLocalCommandOutputMessage`\n  * `SDKCommandsChangedMessage`\n  * `SDKPromptSuggestionMessage`\n  * `AbortError`\n* Sandbox Configuration\n  * `SandboxSettings`\n    * Example usage\n  * `SandboxNetworkConfig`\n  * `SandboxFilesystemConfig`\n  * Permissions Fallback for Unsandboxed Commands\n* See also\n\n### [typescript-v2-preview](https://code.claude.com/docs/en/agent-sdk/typescript-v2-preview.md)\n\n* Installation\n* Quick start\n  * One-shot prompt\n  * Basic session\n  * Multi-turn conversation\n  * Session resume\n  * Cleanup\n* API reference\n  * `unstable_v2_createSession()`\n  * `unstable_v2_resumeSession()`\n  * `unstable_v2_prompt()`\n  * SDKSession interface\n* Feature availability\n* See also\n\n### [python](https://code.claude.com/docs/en/agent-sdk/python.md)\n\n* Installation\n* Choosing between `query()` and `ClaudeSDKClient`\n  * Quick comparison\n  * When to use `query()` (one-off tasks)\n  * When to use `ClaudeSDKClient` (continuous conversation)\n* Functions\n  * `query()`\n    * Parameters\n    * Returns\n    * Example - With options\n  * `tool()`\n    * Parameters\n    * Input schema options\n    * Returns\n    * Example\n    * `ToolAnnotations`\n  * `create_sdk_mcp_server()`\n    * Parameters\n    * Returns\n    * Example\n  * `list_sessions()`\n    * Parameters\n    * Return type: `SDKSessionInfo`\n    * Example\n  * `get_session_messages()`\n    * Parameters\n    * Return type: `SessionMessage`\n    * Example\n  * `get_session_info()`\n    * Parameters\n    * Example\n  * `rename_session()`\n    * Parameters\n    * Example\n  * `tag_session()`\n    * Parameters\n    * Example\n* Classes\n  * `ClaudeSDKClient`\n    * Key Features\n    * Methods\n    * Context Manager Support\n    * Example - Continuing a conversation\n    * Example - Streaming input with ClaudeSDKClient\n    * Example - Using interrupts\n    * Example - Advanced permission control\n* Types\n  * `SdkMcpTool`\n  * `Transport`\n  * `ClaudeAgentOptions`\n    * Handle slow or stalled API responses\n  * `OutputFormat`\n  * `SystemPromptPreset`\n  * `SettingSource`\n    * Default behavior\n    * Why use setting\\_sources\n    * Settings precedence\n  * `AgentDefinition`\n  * `PermissionMode`\n  * `EffortLevel`\n  * `CanUseTool`\n  * `ToolPermissionContext`\n  * `PermissionResult`\n  * `PermissionResultAllow`\n  * `PermissionResultDeny`\n  * `PermissionUpdate`\n  * `PermissionRuleValue`\n  * `ToolsPreset`\n  * `ThinkingConfig`\n  * `SdkBeta`\n  * `McpSdkServerConfig`\n  * `McpServerConfig`\n    * `McpStdioServerConfig`\n    * `McpSSEServerConfig`\n    * `McpHttpServerConfig`\n  * `McpServerStatusConfig`\n  * `McpStatusResponse`\n  * `McpServerStatus`\n  * `SdkPluginConfig`\n* Message Types\n  * `Message`\n  * `UserMessage`\n  * `AssistantMessage`\n  * `AssistantMessageError`\n  * `SystemMessage`\n  * `ResultMessage`\n  * `StreamEvent`\n  * `RateLimitEvent`\n  * `RateLimitInfo`\n  * `TaskStartedMessage`\n  * `TaskUsage`\n  * `TaskProgressMessage`\n  * `TaskNotificationMessage`\n* Content Block Types\n  * `ContentBlock`\n  * `TextBlock`\n  * `ThinkingBlock`\n  * `ToolUseBlock`\n  * `ToolResultBlock`\n* Error Types\n  * `ClaudeSDKError`\n  * `CLINotFoundError`\n  * `CLIConnectionError`\n  * `ProcessError`\n  * `CLIJSONDecodeError`\n* Hook Types\n  * `HookEvent`\n  * `HookCallback`\n  * `HookContext`\n  * `HookMatcher`\n  * `HookInput`\n  * `BaseHookInput`\n  * `PreToolUseHookInput`\n  * `PostToolUseHookInput`\n  * `PostToolUseFailureHookInput`\n  * `UserPromptSubmitHookInput`\n  * `StopHookInput`\n  * `SubagentStopHookInput`\n  * `PreCompactHookInput`\n  * `NotificationHookInput`\n  * `SubagentStartHookInput`\n  * `PermissionRequestHookInput`\n  * `HookJSONOutput`\n    * `SyncHookJSONOutput`\n    * `HookSpecificOutput`\n    * `AsyncHookJSONOutput`\n  * Hook Usage Example\n* Tool Input/Output Types\n  * Agent\n  * AskUserQuestion\n  * Bash\n  * Monitor\n  * Edit\n  * Read\n  * Write\n  * Glob\n  * Grep\n  * NotebookEdit\n  * WebFetch\n  * WebSearch\n  * TodoWrite\n  * TaskCreate\n  * TaskUpdate\n  * TaskGet\n  * TaskList\n  * BashOutput\n  * KillBash\n  * ExitPlanMode\n  * ListMcpResources\n  * ReadMcpResource\n* Advanced Features with ClaudeSDKClient\n  * Building a Continuous Conversation Interface\n  * Using Hooks for Behavior Modification\n  * Real-time Progress Monitoring\n* Example Usage\n  * Basic file operations (using query)\n  * Error handling\n  * Streaming mode with client\n  * Using custom tools with ClaudeSDKClient\n* Sandbox Configuration\n  * `SandboxSettings`\n    * Example usage\n  * `SandboxNetworkConfig`\n  * `SandboxIgnoreViolations`\n  * Permissions Fallback for Unsandboxed Commands\n* See also\n\n### [migration-guide](https://code.claude.com/docs/en/agent-sdk/migration-guide.md)\n\n* Overview\n* What's Changed\n* Migration Steps\n  * For TypeScript/JavaScript Projects\n  * For Python Projects\n* Breaking changes\n  * Python: ClaudeCodeOptions renamed to ClaudeAgentOptions\n  * System prompt no longer default\n  * Settings sources default\n* Why the Rename?\n* Getting Help\n* Next Steps\n\n## What's New\n\n### [index](https://code.claude.com/docs/en/whats-new/index.md)\n\n* (No headings found)\n\n### [2026-w24](https://code.claude.com/docs/en/whats-new/2026-w24.md)\n\n* (No headings found)\n\n### [2026-w23](https://code.claude.com/docs/en/whats-new/2026-w23.md)\n\n* (No headings found)\n\n### [2026-w22](https://code.claude.com/docs/en/whats-new/2026-w22.md)\n\n* (No headings found)\n\n### [2026-w21](https://code.claude.com/docs/en/whats-new/2026-w21.md)\n\n* (No headings found)\n\n### [2026-w20](https://code.claude.com/docs/en/whats-new/2026-w20.md)\n\n* (No headings found)\n\n### [2026-w19](https://code.claude.com/docs/en/whats-new/2026-w19.md)\n\n* (No headings found)\n\n### [2026-w18](https://code.claude.com/docs/en/whats-new/2026-w18.md)\n\n* (No headings found)\n\n### [2026-w17](https://code.claude.com/docs/en/whats-new/2026-w17.md)\n\n* (No headings found)\n\n### [2026-w16](https://code.claude.com/docs/en/whats-new/2026-w16.md)\n\n* (No headings found)\n\n### [2026-w15](https://code.claude.com/docs/en/whats-new/2026-w15.md)\n\n* (No headings found)\n\n### 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Here are the key findings:\n\n## Environment Variable Expansion in MCP Server Configuration\n\nClaude Code supports environment variable expansion in .mcp.json files using ${VAR} and ${VAR:-default} syntax. This feature enables secure credential management while allowing configuration files to be shared across teams.\n\n## Syntax and Usage\n\nThe syntax ${API_BASE_URL:-https://api.example.com} uses a fallback if the variable isn't set. ${API_KEY} has no fallback — if it's missing from the environment, Claude Code fails to parse the entire configuration file.\n\n## Practical Example\n\nHere's how environment variable expansion works in practice:\n\nThe .mcp.json supports environment variable expansion, resolving the tension between sharing configuration and protecting credentials with syntax like: { \"mcpServers\": { \"internal-api\": { \"type\": \"http\", \"url\": \"${API_BASE_URL:-https://api.example.com}/mcp\", \"headers\": { \"Authorization\": \"Bearer ${API_KEY}\" } } } }\n\n## Best Practices\n\nAlways provide defaults for non-sensitive configuration; document which variables are required. 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Here are the key findings:\n\n## Environment Variable Expansion in MCP Server Configuration\n\nClaude Code supports environment variable expansion in .mcp.json files using ${VAR} and ${VAR:-default} syntax. This feature enables secure credential management while allowing configuration files to be shared across teams.\n\n## Syntax and Usage\n\nThe syntax ${API_BASE_URL:-https://api.example.com} uses a fallback if the variable isn't set. ${API_KEY} has no fallback — if it's missing from the environment, Claude Code fails to parse the entire configuration file.\n\n## Practical Example\n\nHere's how environment variable expansion works in practice:\n\nThe .mcp.json supports environment variable expansion, resolving the tension between sharing configuration and protecting credentials with syntax like: { \"mcpServers\": { \"internal-api\": { \"type\": \"http\", \"url\": \"${API_BASE_URL:-https://api.example.com}/mcp\", \"headers\": { \"Authorization\": \"Bearer ${API_KEY}\" } } } }\n\n## Best Practices\n\nAlways provide defaults for non-sensitive configuration; document which variables are required. This lets you share the config file without exposing secrets — each team member sets their own environment variables."],"durationSeconds":4.745393948999234,"searchCount":1},"sourceToolAssistantUUID":"c18e092c-ef26-4a4d-9068-776668fdc541","userType":"external","entrypoint":"cli","cwd":"/opt/claude-code/library","sessionId":"e1a493f1-c0da-492d-a2ae-46b82d2b4254","version":"2.1.185","gitBranch":"HEAD","slug":"install-agengentmail-am-us-c152085127007-purring-nest"}
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{"parentUuid":"9c669490-5378-4048-8172-6e0676977a03","isSidechain":true,"promptId":"fff9e7a0-2505-4fe2-80db-ddb238b22dc8","agentId":"ae3b513afefb50ff1","type":"user","message":{"role":"user","content":[{"tool_use_id":"toolu_01L3bdCnfCKgo4pWdbpC7H5d","type":"tool_result","content":"# Environment Variable Expansion in MCP Server Configuration\n\nBased on the documentation provided, I don't see specific details about MCP server configuration environment variable expansion using `${VAR}` syntax or the distinction between `~/.claude.json` vs `.mcp.json` in the excerpt you've shared.\n\nHowever, I can provide context from what's documented:\n\n## Settings Files Location\n\nClaude Code recognizes these settings files:\n\n| File | Scope |\n|------|-------|\n| `~/.claude/settings.json` | User-level, every project |\n| `.claude/settings.json` | Project-level, checked into source control |\n| `.claude/settings.local.json` | User-level, project-specific only |\n| Managed settings | Organization-wide, deployed by admin |\n\n## Environment Variables in Settings\n\nYou **can** define environment variables in settings files under the `env` key:\n\n```json\n{\n  \"env\": {\n    \"API_TIMEOUT_MS\": \"1200000\",\n    \"BASH_DEFAULT_TIMEOUT_MS\": \"300000\"\n  }\n}\n```\n\n## For MCP Configuration\n\nFor MCP server configuration specifics, you would need to:\n\n1. **Check the full documentation** at `https://code.claude.com/docs/llms.txt` as mentioned at the top of this page\n2. **Review the MCP documentation** at `/en/mcp` which is referenced multiple times in the environment variables table\n\nThe documentation excerpt provided focuses on general environment variables rather than MCP-specific configuration syntax. I'd recommend checking the complete MCP documentation for details on `${VAR}` expansion and configuration file formats."}]},"uuid":"067cccd8-6e11-46e3-8be8-fe7585f9d78e","timestamp":"2026-06-22T15:11:44.599Z","toolUseResult":{"bytes":258773,"code":200,"codeText":"OK","result":"# Environment Variable Expansion in MCP Server Configuration\n\nBased on the documentation provided, I don't see specific details about MCP server configuration environment variable expansion using `${VAR}` syntax or the distinction between `~/.claude.json` vs `.mcp.json` in the excerpt you've shared.\n\nHowever, I can provide context from what's documented:\n\n## Settings Files Location\n\nClaude Code recognizes these settings files:\n\n| File | Scope |\n|------|-------|\n| `~/.claude/settings.json` | User-level, every project |\n| `.claude/settings.json` | Project-level, checked into source control |\n| `.claude/settings.local.json` | User-level, project-specific only |\n| Managed settings | Organization-wide, deployed by admin |\n\n## Environment Variables in Settings\n\nYou **can** define environment variables in settings files under the `env` key:\n\n```json\n{\n  \"env\": {\n    \"API_TIMEOUT_MS\": \"1200000\",\n    \"BASH_DEFAULT_TIMEOUT_MS\": \"300000\"\n  }\n}\n```\n\n## For MCP Configuration\n\nFor MCP server configuration specifics, you would need to:\n\n1. **Check the full documentation** at `https://code.claude.com/docs/llms.txt` as mentioned at the top of this page\n2. **Review the MCP documentation** at `/en/mcp` which is referenced multiple times in the environment variables table\n\nThe documentation excerpt provided focuses on general environment variables rather than MCP-specific configuration syntax. I'd recommend checking the complete MCP documentation for details on `${VAR}` expansion and configuration file formats.","durationMs":5114,"url":"https://code.claude.com/docs/en/env-vars"},"sourceToolAssistantUUID":"9c669490-5378-4048-8172-6e0676977a03","userType":"external","entrypoint":"cli","cwd":"/opt/claude-code/library","sessionId":"e1a493f1-c0da-492d-a2ae-46b82d2b4254","version":"2.1.185","gitBranch":"HEAD","slug":"install-agengentmail-am-us-c152085127007-purring-nest"}
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{"parentUuid":"c647efbf-a6ab-455c-b240-aa81914ec725","isSidechain":true,"promptId":"fff9e7a0-2505-4fe2-80db-ddb238b22dc8","agentId":"ae3b513afefb50ff1","type":"user","message":{"role":"user","content":[{"tool_use_id":"toolu_01G9TnSjm2ve3PxyYvZ8VG5F","type":"tool_result","content":"# Claude Code Documentation Overview\n\nI'm Claude Code, Anthropic's official agentic coding tool available across terminal, IDE, desktop, and browser platforms.\n\n## Key Documentation Areas\n\n### **Getting Started**\n- **[Quickstart](https://code.claude.com/docs/en/quickstart.md)** - Welcome and first steps\n- **[Overview](https://code.claude.com/docs/en/overview.md)** - How Claude Code reads codebases, edits files, runs commands, and integrates with development tools\n- **[How Claude Code Works](https://code.claude.com/docs/en/how-claude-code-works.md)** - Understand the agentic loop and built-in tools\n\n### **Platform-Specific Guides**\n- **[CLI Setup](https://code.claude.com/docs/en/setup.md)** - Installation, system requirements, platform-specific setup\n- **[VS Code Extension](https://code.claude.com/docs/en/vs-code.md)** - Installation, inline diffs, @-mentions\n- **[Desktop App](https://code.claude.com/docs/en/desktop-quickstart.md)** - Parallel sessions, integrated terminal, visual diff review\n- **[Web Version](https://code.claude.com/docs/en/web-quickstart.md)** - Cloud-based coding from browser\n- **[JetBrains IDEs](https://code.claude.com/docs/en/jetbrains.md)** - Support for IntelliJ, PyCharm, WebStorm, etc.\n\n### **Core Features**\n- **[Permissions & Modes](https://code.claude.com/docs/en/permission-modes.md)** - Control approval workflow\n- **[CLAUDE.md & Memory](https://code.claude.com/docs/en/memory.md)** - Persistent project instructions\n- **[Skills](https://code.claude.com/docs/en/skills.md)** - Extend Claude's capabilities\n- **[MCP Integration](https://code.claude.com/docs/en/mcp.md)** - Connect external tools via Model Context Protocol\n- **[Sessions](https://code.claude.com/docs/en/sessions.md)** - Name, resume, branch conversations\n- **[Hooks](https://code.claude.com/docs/en/hooks-guide.md)** - Automate actions on file edits, task completion\n\n### **Advanced Topics**\n- **[Agent SDK](https://code.claude.com/docs/en/agent-sdk/overview.md)** - Build production AI agents (Python/TypeScript)\n- **[Subagents](https://code.claude.com/docs/en/sub-agents.md)** - Specialized task-specific agents\n- **[Security](https://code.claude.com/docs/en/security.md)** - Safeguards and best practices\n- **[Enterprise Deployment](https://code.claude.com/docs/en/third-party-integrations.md)** - Large-scale rollout guidance\n\n### **Troubleshooting**\n- **[Troubleshooting Guide](https://code.claude.com/docs/en/troubleshooting.md)** - CPU/memory issues, hangs, common problems\n- **[Error Reference](https://code.claude.com/docs/en/errors.md)** - Runtime error messages with solutions\n- **[Installation Issues](https://code.claude.com/docs/en/troubleshoot-install.md)** - Command not found, authentication errors\n\n## MCP Configuration\n\nFor environment variable expansion in `.mcp.json` or `~/.claude.json`, use:\n- `${VAR}` - Direct variable substitution\n- `${VAR:-default}` - Default value if variable unset\n\n---\n\n**Need help?** Check the [Glossary](https://code.claude.com/docs/en/glossary.md) for terminology or browse [What's New](https://code.claude.com/docs/en/whats-new/index.md) for latest features."}]},"uuid":"675d8e50-5f4d-4e67-abf4-a925df7fc3cc","timestamp":"2026-06-22T15:11:58.091Z","toolUseResult":{"bytes":32038,"code":200,"codeText":"OK","result":"# Claude Code Documentation Overview\n\nI'm Claude Code, Anthropic's official agentic coding tool available across terminal, IDE, desktop, and browser platforms.\n\n## Key Documentation Areas\n\n### **Getting Started**\n- **[Quickstart](https://code.claude.com/docs/en/quickstart.md)** - Welcome and first steps\n- **[Overview](https://code.claude.com/docs/en/overview.md)** - How Claude Code reads codebases, edits files, runs commands, and integrates with development tools\n- **[How Claude Code Works](https://code.claude.com/docs/en/how-claude-code-works.md)** - Understand the agentic loop and built-in tools\n\n### **Platform-Specific Guides**\n- **[CLI Setup](https://code.claude.com/docs/en/setup.md)** - Installation, system requirements, platform-specific setup\n- **[VS Code Extension](https://code.claude.com/docs/en/vs-code.md)** - Installation, inline diffs, @-mentions\n- **[Desktop App](https://code.claude.com/docs/en/desktop-quickstart.md)** - Parallel sessions, integrated terminal, visual diff review\n- **[Web Version](https://code.claude.com/docs/en/web-quickstart.md)** - Cloud-based coding from browser\n- **[JetBrains IDEs](https://code.claude.com/docs/en/jetbrains.md)** - Support for IntelliJ, PyCharm, WebStorm, etc.\n\n### **Core Features**\n- **[Permissions & Modes](https://code.claude.com/docs/en/permission-modes.md)** - Control approval workflow\n- **[CLAUDE.md & Memory](https://code.claude.com/docs/en/memory.md)** - Persistent project instructions\n- **[Skills](https://code.claude.com/docs/en/skills.md)** - Extend Claude's capabilities\n- **[MCP Integration](https://code.claude.com/docs/en/mcp.md)** - Connect external tools via Model Context Protocol\n- **[Sessions](https://code.claude.com/docs/en/sessions.md)** - Name, resume, branch conversations\n- **[Hooks](https://code.claude.com/docs/en/hooks-guide.md)** - Automate actions on file edits, task completion\n\n### **Advanced Topics**\n- **[Agent SDK](https://code.claude.com/docs/en/agent-sdk/overview.md)** - Build production AI agents (Python/TypeScript)\n- **[Subagents](https://code.claude.com/docs/en/sub-agents.md)** - Specialized task-specific agents\n- **[Security](https://code.claude.com/docs/en/security.md)** - Safeguards and best practices\n- **[Enterprise Deployment](https://code.claude.com/docs/en/third-party-integrations.md)** - Large-scale rollout guidance\n\n### **Troubleshooting**\n- **[Troubleshooting Guide](https://code.claude.com/docs/en/troubleshooting.md)** - CPU/memory issues, hangs, common problems\n- **[Error Reference](https://code.claude.com/docs/en/errors.md)** - Runtime error messages with solutions\n- **[Installation Issues](https://code.claude.com/docs/en/troubleshoot-install.md)** - Command not found, authentication errors\n\n## MCP Configuration\n\nFor environment variable expansion in `.mcp.json` or `~/.claude.json`, use:\n- `${VAR}` - Direct variable substitution\n- `${VAR:-default}` - Default value if variable unset\n\n---\n\n**Need help?** Check the [Glossary](https://code.claude.com/docs/en/glossary.md) for terminology or browse [What's New](https://code.claude.com/docs/en/whats-new/index.md) for latest features.","durationMs":11729,"url":"https://code.claude.com/docs/llms.txt"},"sourceToolAssistantUUID":"c647efbf-a6ab-455c-b240-aa81914ec725","userType":"external","entrypoint":"cli","cwd":"/opt/claude-code/library","sessionId":"e1a493f1-c0da-492d-a2ae-46b82d2b4254","version":"2.1.185","gitBranch":"HEAD","slug":"install-agengentmail-am-us-c152085127007-purring-nest"}
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Full output saved to: /home/dev/.claude/projects/-opt-claude-code-library/e1a493f1-c0da-492d-a2ae-46b82d2b4254/tool-results/toolu_01D6Vs1XmQyWeUUUofRC6JK1.txt\n\nPreview (first 2KB):\n> ## Documentation Index\n> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://code.claude.com/docs/llms.txt\n> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.\n\n# Connect Claude Code to tools via MCP\n\n> Learn how to connect Claude Code to your tools with the Model Context Protocol.\n\nClaude Code can connect to hundreds of external tools and data sources through the [Model Context Protocol (MCP)](https://modelcontextprotocol.io/introduction), an open source standard for AI-tool integrations. MCP servers give Claude Code access to your tools, databases, and APIs.\n\nConnect a server when you find yourself copying data into chat from another tool, like an issue tracker or a monitoring dashboard. Once connected, Claude can read and act on that system directly instead of working from what you paste.\n\nIf you're connecting your first server, start with the [MCP quickstart](/en/mcp-quickstart) for a step-by-step walkthrough. This page is the full reference.\n\n## What you can do with MCP\n\nWith MCP servers connected, you can ask Claude Code to:\n\n* **Implement features from issue trackers**: \"Add the feature described in JIRA issue ENG-4521 and create a PR on GitHub.\"\n* **Analyze monitoring data**: \"Check Sentry and Statsig to check the usage of the feature described in ENG-4521.\"\n* **Query databases**: \"Find emails of 10 random users who used feature ENG-4521, based on our PostgreSQL database.\"\n* **Integrate designs**: \"Update our standard email template based on the new Figma designs that were posted in Slack\"\n* **Automate workflows**: \"Create Gmail drafts inviting these 10 users to a feedback session about the new feature.\"\n* **React to external events**: An MCP server can also act as a [channel](/en/channels) that pushes messages into your session, so Claude reacts to Telegram messages, Discord chats, or webhook events while you're away.\n\n## Find and build MCP servers\n\n...\n</persisted-output>"}]},"uuid":"429fc477-6200-4b39-8b55-3dfc0bd8b06d","timestamp":"2026-06-22T15:12:00.605Z","toolUseResult":{"bytes":52353,"code":200,"codeText":"OK","result":"> ## Documentation Index\n> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://code.claude.com/docs/llms.txt\n> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.\n\n# Connect Claude Code to tools via MCP\n\n> Learn how to connect Claude Code to your tools with the Model Context Protocol.\n\nClaude Code can connect to hundreds of external tools and data sources through the [Model Context Protocol (MCP)](https://modelcontextprotocol.io/introduction), an open source standard for AI-tool integrations. MCP servers give Claude Code access to your tools, databases, and APIs.\n\nConnect a server when you find yourself copying data into chat from another tool, like an issue tracker or a monitoring dashboard. Once connected, Claude can read and act on that system directly instead of working from what you paste.\n\nIf you're connecting your first server, start with the [MCP quickstart](/en/mcp-quickstart) for a step-by-step walkthrough. This page is the full reference.\n\n## What you can do with MCP\n\nWith MCP servers connected, you can ask Claude Code to:\n\n* **Implement features from issue trackers**: \"Add the feature described in JIRA issue ENG-4521 and create a PR on GitHub.\"\n* **Analyze monitoring data**: \"Check Sentry and Statsig to check the usage of the feature described in ENG-4521.\"\n* **Query databases**: \"Find emails of 10 random users who used feature ENG-4521, based on our PostgreSQL database.\"\n* **Integrate designs**: \"Update our standard email template based on the new Figma designs that were posted in Slack\"\n* **Automate workflows**: \"Create Gmail drafts inviting these 10 users to a feedback session about the new feature.\"\n* **React to external events**: An MCP server can also act as a [channel](/en/channels) that pushes messages into your session, so Claude reacts to Telegram messages, Discord chats, or webhook events while you're away.\n\n## Find and build MCP servers\n\nBrowse reviewed connectors in the [Anthropic Directory](https://claude.ai/directory). Directory connectors use the same MCP infrastructure as Claude Code, so you can add any remote server listed there with `claude mcp add`.\n\n<Warning>\n  Verify you trust each server before connecting it. Servers that fetch external content can expose you to [prompt injection risk](/en/security#protect-against-prompt-injection).\n</Warning>\n\nTo build your own server, see the [MCP server guide](https://modelcontextprotocol.io/docs/develop/build-server) for protocol fundamentals and the [Claude connector building docs](https://claude.com/docs/connectors/building) for authentication, testing, and Directory submission.\n\nYou can also have Claude scaffold a server for you with the official [`mcp-server-dev` plugin](https://github.com/anthropics/claude-plugins-official/tree/main/plugins/mcp-server-dev).\n\n<Steps>\n  <Step title=\"Install the plugin\">\n    In a Claude Code session, run:\n\n    ```\n    /plugin install mcp-server-dev@claude-plugins-official\n    ```\n\n    If Claude Code reports that the marketplace is not found, run `/plugin marketplace add anthropics/claude-plugins-official` first, then retry the install. Once installed, run `/reload-plugins` to activate it in the current session.\n  </Step>\n\n  <Step title=\"Run the build skill\">\n    ```\n    /mcp-server-dev:build-mcp-server\n    ```\n\n    Claude asks about your use case and scaffolds a remote HTTP or local stdio server.\n  </Step>\n</Steps>\n\n## Installing MCP servers\n\nMCP servers can be configured in several ways depending on your needs:\n\n### Option 1: Add a remote HTTP server\n\nHTTP servers are the recommended option for connecting to remote MCP servers. This is the most widely supported transport for cloud-based services.\n\n```bash theme={null}\n# Basic syntax\nclaude mcp add --transport http <name> <url>\n\n# Real example: Connect to Notion\nclaude mcp add --transport http notion https://mcp.notion.com/mcp\n\n# Example with Bearer token\nclaude mcp add --transport http secure-api https://api.example.com/mcp \\\n  --header \"Authorization: Bearer your-token\"\n```\n\nWhen configuring MCP servers via JSON in `.mcp.json`, `~/.claude.json`, or `claude mcp add-json`, the `type` field accepts `streamable-http` as an alias for `http`. The MCP specification uses the name `streamable-http` for this transport, so configurations copied from server documentation work without modification.\n\n### Option 2: Add a remote SSE server\n\n<Warning>\n  The SSE (Server-Sent Events) transport is deprecated. Use HTTP servers instead, where available.\n</Warning>\n\n```bash theme={null}\n# Basic syntax\nclaude mcp add --transport sse <name> <url>\n\n# Real example: Connect to Asana\nclaude mcp add --transport sse asana https://mcp.asana.com/sse\n\n# Example with authentication header\nclaude mcp add --transport sse private-api https://api.company.com/sse \\\n  --header \"X-API-Key: your-key-here\"\n```\n\n### Option 3: Add a local stdio server\n\nStdio servers run as local processes on your machine. They're ideal for tools that need direct system access or custom scripts.\n\nClaude Code sets `CLAUDE_PROJECT_DIR` in the spawned server's environment to the project root, so your server can resolve project-relative paths without depending on the working directory. This is the same directory hooks receive in their `CLAUDE_PROJECT_DIR` variable. Read it from inside your server process, for example `process.env.CLAUDE_PROJECT_DIR` in Node or `os.environ[\"CLAUDE_PROJECT_DIR\"]` in Python. Your server can also call the MCP `roots/list` request, which returns the directory Claude Code was launched from.\n\nThis variable is set in the server's environment, not in Claude Code's own environment, so referencing it via `${VAR}` expansion in a project- or user-scoped `.mcp.json` `command` or `args` requires a default such as `${CLAUDE_PROJECT_DIR:-.}`. Plugin-provided MCP configurations substitute `${CLAUDE_PROJECT_DIR}` directly and don't need the default.\n\n```bash theme={null}\n# Basic syntax\nclaude mcp add [options] <name> -- <command> [args...]\n\n# Real example: Add Airtable server\nclaude mcp add --env AIRTABLE_API_KEY=YOUR_KEY --transport stdio airtable \\\n  -- npx -y airtable-mcp-server\n```\n\n<Note>\n  **Important: Separate server arguments with `--`**\n\n  For stdio servers, the `--` (double dash) separates Claude's own options, such as `--transport`, `--env`, and `--scope`, from the command and arguments that run the server. Everything after `--` is passed to the server untouched.\n\n  For example:\n\n  * `claude mcp add --transport stdio myserver -- npx server` → runs `npx server`\n  * `claude mcp add --env KEY=value --transport stdio myserver -- python server.py --port 8080` → runs `python server.py --port 8080` with `KEY=value` in environment\n\n  Without `--`, Claude Code would try to parse the server's flags, like `--port` above, as its own options.\n\n  `--env` accepts multiple `KEY=value` pairs. If the server name comes directly after `--env`, the CLI reads the name as another pair and rejects it, so place at least one other option between `--env` and the server name, as in the examples above.\n</Note>\n\n### Option 4: Add a remote WebSocket server\n\nWebSocket servers hold a persistent bidirectional connection, which suits remote MCP servers that push events to Claude unprompted. Use HTTP instead when your server only responds to requests, since HTTP supports OAuth and the `claude mcp add --transport` flag, while WebSocket supports neither.\n\nConfigure WebSocket servers in `.mcp.json` or with `claude mcp add-json`:\n\n```bash theme={null}\nclaude mcp add-json events-server \\\n  '{\"type\":\"ws\",\"url\":\"wss://mcp.example.com/socket\",\"headers\":{\"Authorization\":\"Bearer YOUR_TOKEN\"}}'\n```\n\nThe `type: \"ws\"` entry accepts the same `url`, `headers`, `headersHelper`, `timeout`, and `alwaysLoad` fields as `http`. Authentication is header-only, so pass a static token in `headers` or generate one at connect time with [`headersHelper`](#use-dynamic-headers-for-custom-authentication). The `claude mcp add --transport` flag does not accept `ws`.\n\n### Managing your servers\n\nOnce configured, you can manage your MCP servers with these commands:\n\n```bash theme={null}\n# List all configured servers\nclaude mcp list\n\n# Get details for a specific server\nclaude mcp get github\n\n# Remove a server\nclaude mcp remove github\n\n# (within Claude Code) Check server status\n/mcp\n```\n\nProject-scoped servers from `.mcp.json` that are awaiting your approval appear in `claude mcp list` as `⏸ Pending approval`. Run `claude` interactively to review and approve them. `claude mcp get <name>` shows pending servers as `⏸ Pending approval` and rejected servers as `✗ Rejected`.\n\nThe `/mcp` panel shows the tool count next to each connected server and flags servers that advertise the tools capability but expose no tools.\n\nIf your request needs tools from a server that is still connecting in the background, Claude waits for that server before continuing. With [tool search](#scale-with-mcp-tool-search) enabled, which is the default, the wait happens inside the `ToolSearch` call. In configurations without tool search, such as Vertex AI, a custom `ANTHROPIC_BASE_URL`, or `ENABLE_TOOL_SEARCH=false`, Claude uses the `WaitForMcpServers` tool instead.\n\nThe server name `workspace` is reserved for internal use. If your configuration defines a server with that name, Claude Code skips it at load time and shows a warning asking you to rename it.\n\n### Dynamic tool updates\n\nClaude Code supports MCP `list_changed` notifications, allowing MCP servers to dynamically update their available tools, prompts, and resources without requiring you to disconnect and reconnect. When an MCP server sends a `list_changed` notification, Claude Code automatically refreshes the available capabilities from that server.\n\n### Automatic reconnection\n\nIf an HTTP or SSE server disconnects mid-session, Claude Code automatically reconnects with exponential backoff: up to five attempts, starting at a one-second delay and doubling each time. The server appears as pending in `/mcp` while reconnection is in progress. After five failed attempts the server is marked as failed and you can retry manually from `/mcp`. Stdio servers are local processes and are not reconnected automatically.\n\nThe same backoff applies when an HTTP or SSE server fails its initial connection at startup. As of v2.1.121, Claude Code retries the initial connection up to three times on transient errors such as a 5xx response, a connection refused, or a timeout, then marks the server as failed if it still cannot connect. Authentication and not-found errors are not retried because they require a configuration change to resolve.\n\n### Push messages with channels\n\nAn MCP server can also push messages directly into your session so Claude can react to external events like CI results, monitoring alerts, or chat messages. To enable this, your server declares the `claude/channel` capability and you opt it in with the `--channels` flag at startup. See [Channels](/en/channels) to use an officially supported channel, or [Channels reference](/en/channels-reference) to build your own.\n\n<Tip>\n  Tips:\n\n  * Use the `--scope` flag to specify where the configuration is stored:\n    * `local` (default): Available only to you in the current project (was called `project` in older versions)\n    * `project`: Shared with everyone in the project via `.mcp.json` file\n    * `user`: Available to you across all projects (was called `global` in older versions)\n  * Set environment variables with `--env` flags (for example, `--env KEY=value`)\n  * Configure MCP server startup timeout using the MCP\\_TIMEOUT environment variable (for example, `MCP_TIMEOUT=10000 claude` sets a 10-second timeout)\n  * Set a per-server tool execution timeout by adding a `timeout` field in milliseconds to that server's `.mcp.json` entry, for example `\"timeout\": 600000` for ten minutes. This overrides the `MCP_TOOL_TIMEOUT` environment variable for that server only\n  * Claude Code will display a warning when MCP tool output exceeds 10,000 tokens. To increase this limit, set the `MAX_MCP_OUTPUT_TOKENS` environment variable (for example, `MAX_MCP_OUTPUT_TOKENS=50000`)\n  * Use `/mcp` to authenticate with remote servers that require OAuth 2.0 authentication\n</Tip>\n\nThe per-server `timeout` is a hard wall-clock limit per tool call, and progress notifications from the server do not extend it. Values below 1000 are ignored and fall through to `MCP_TOOL_TIMEOUT`, or to its default of about 28 hours when that variable is unset. {/* min-version: 2.1.162 */}Before v2.1.162, values below 1000 were floored to one second instead. For HTTP and SSE servers, the per-request fetch first-byte budget has a 60-second minimum.\n\n### Plugin-provided MCP servers\n\n[Plugins](/en/plugins) can bundle MCP servers, automatically providing tools and integrations when the plugin is enabled. Plugin MCP servers work identically to user-configured servers.\n\n**How plugin MCP servers work**:\n\n* Plugins define MCP servers in `.mcp.json` at the plugin root or inline in `plugin.json`\n* When a plugin is enabled, its MCP servers start automatically\n* Plugin MCP tools appear alongside manually configured MCP tools\n* Plugin servers are managed through plugin installation (not `/mcp` commands)\n\n**Example plugin MCP configuration**:\n\nIn `.mcp.json` at plugin root:\n\n```json theme={null}\n{\n  \"mcpServers\": {\n    \"database-tools\": {\n      \"command\": \"${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/servers/db-server\",\n      \"args\": [\"--config\", \"${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/config.json\"],\n      \"env\": {\n        \"DB_URL\": \"${DB_URL}\"\n      }\n    }\n  }\n}\n```\n\nOr inline in `plugin.json`:\n\n```json theme={null}\n{\n  \"name\": \"my-plugin\",\n  \"mcpServers\": {\n    \"plugin-api\": {\n      \"command\": \"${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/servers/api-server\",\n      \"args\": [\"--port\", \"8080\"]\n    }\n  }\n}\n```\n\n**Plugin MCP features**:\n\n* **Automatic lifecycle**: At session startup, servers for enabled plugins connect automatically. If you enable or disable a plugin during a session, run `/reload-plugins` to connect or disconnect its MCP servers\n* **Environment variables**: use `${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}` for bundled plugin files, `${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_DATA}` for [persistent state](/en/plugins-reference#persistent-data-directory) that survives plugin updates, and `${CLAUDE_PROJECT_DIR}` for the stable project root\n* **User environment access**: Access to same environment variables as manually configured servers\n* **Multiple transport types**: Support stdio, SSE, HTTP, and WebSocket transports (transport support may vary by server)\n\n**Viewing plugin MCP servers**:\n\n```bash theme={null}\n# Within Claude Code, see all MCP servers including plugin ones\n/mcp\n```\n\nPlugin servers appear in the list with indicators showing they come from plugins.\n\n**Plugin MCP tool names**:\n\nTools from a plugin-bundled MCP server include both the plugin name and the server key in their callable name. The full form is `mcp__plugin_<plugin-name>_<server-name>__<tool-name>`, where any character outside `A-Z`, `a-z`, `0-9`, `_`, and `-` is replaced with `_`. For the `database-tools` server bundled in a plugin named `my-plugin`, a `query` tool is callable as:\n\n```\nmcp__plugin_my-plugin_database-tools__query\n```\n\nUse this full name when referencing the tool in [permission rules](/en/permissions), a skill's `allowed-tools` list, or a [subagent's `tools` field](/en/sub-agents#available-tools).\n\n**Benefits of plugin MCP servers**:\n\n* **Bundled distribution**: Tools and servers packaged together\n* **Automatic setup**: No manual MCP configuration needed\n* **Team consistency**: Everyone gets the same tools when plugin is installed\n\nSee the [plugin components reference](/en/plugins-reference#mcp-servers) for details on bundling MCP servers with plugins.\n\n## MCP installation scopes\n\nMCP servers can be configured at three scopes. The scope you choose controls which projects the server loads in and whether the configuration is shared with your team. Administrators can also deploy servers at the enterprise level via [managed configuration](#managed-mcp-configuration).\n\n| Scope                     | Loads in             | Shared with team         | Stored in                   |\n| ------------------------- | -------------------- | ------------------------ | --------------------------- |\n| [Local](#local-scope)     | Current project only | No                       | `~/.claude.json`            |\n| [Project](#project-scope) | Current project only | Yes, via version control | `.mcp.json` in project root |\n| [User](#user-scope)       | All your projects    | No                       | `~/.claude.json`            |\n\n### Local scope\n\nLocal scope is the default. A local-scoped server loads only in the project where you added it and stays private to you. Claude Code stores it in `~/.claude.json` under that project's path, so the same server won't appear in your other projects. Use local scope for personal development servers, experimental configurations, or servers with credentials you don't want in version control.\n\n<Note>\n  The term \"local scope\" for MCP servers differs from general local settings. MCP local-scoped servers are stored in `~/.claude.json` (your home directory), while general local settings use `.claude/settings.local.json` (in the project directory). See [Settings](/en/settings#settings-files) for details on settings file locations.\n</Note>\n\n```bash theme={null}\n# Add a local-scoped server (default)\nclaude mcp add --transport http stripe https://mcp.stripe.com\n\n# Explicitly specify local scope\nclaude mcp add --transport http stripe --scope local https://mcp.stripe.com\n```\n\nThe command writes the server into the entry for your current project inside `~/.claude.json`. The example below shows the result when you run it from `/path/to/your/project`:\n\n```json theme={null}\n{\n  \"projects\": {\n    \"/path/to/your/project\": {\n      \"mcpServers\": {\n        \"stripe\": {\n          \"type\": \"http\",\n          \"url\": \"https://mcp.stripe.com\"\n        }\n      }\n    }\n  }\n}\n```\n\n### Project scope\n\nProject-scoped servers enable team collaboration by storing configurations in a `.mcp.json` file at your project's root directory. This file is designed to be checked into version control, ensuring all team members have access to the same MCP tools and services. When you add a project-scoped server, Claude Code automatically creates or updates this file with the appropriate configuration structure.\n\n```bash theme={null}\n# Add a project-scoped server\nclaude mcp add --transport http paypal --scope project https://mcp.paypal.com/mcp\n```\n\nThe resulting `.mcp.json` file follows a standardized format:\n\n```json theme={null}\n{\n  \"mcpServers\": {\n    \"shared-server\": {\n      \"command\": \"/path/to/server\",\n      \"args\": [],\n      \"env\": {}\n    }\n  }\n}\n```\n\nFor security reasons, Claude Code prompts for approval before using project-scoped servers from `.mcp.json` files. If you need to reset these approval choices, use the `claude mcp reset-project-choices` command.\n\n### User scope\n\nUser-scoped servers are stored in `~/.claude.json` and provide cross-project accessibility, making them available across all projects on your machine while remaining private to your user account. This scope works well for personal utility servers, development tools, or services you frequently use across different projects.\n\n```bash theme={null}\n# Add a user server\nclaude mcp add --transport http hubspot --scope user https://mcp.hubspot.com/anthropic\n```\n\n### Scope hierarchy and precedence\n\nWhen the same server is defined in more than one place, Claude Code connects to it once, using the definition from the highest-precedence source. The entire server entry from that source is used; fields are not merged across scopes.\n\n1. Local scope\n2. Project scope\n3. User scope\n4. [Plugin-provided servers](/en/plugins)\n5. [claude.ai connectors](#use-mcp-servers-from-claude-ai)\n\nThe three scopes match duplicates by name. Plugins and connectors match by endpoint, so one that points at the same URL or command as a server above is treated as a duplicate.\n\n### Environment variable expansion in `.mcp.json`\n\nClaude Code supports environment variable expansion in `.mcp.json` files, allowing teams to share configurations while maintaining flexibility for machine-specific paths and sensitive values like API keys.\n\n**Supported syntax:**\n\n* `${VAR}` - Expands to the value of environment variable `VAR`\n* `${VAR:-default}` - Expands to `VAR` if set, otherwise uses `default`\n\n**Expansion locations:**\nEnvironment variables can be expanded in:\n\n* `command` - The server executable path\n* `args` - Command-line arguments\n* `env` - Environment variables passed to the server\n* `url` - For HTTP server types\n* `headers` - For HTTP server authentication\n\n**Example with variable expansion:**\n\n```json theme={null}\n{\n  \"mcpServers\": {\n    \"api-server\": {\n      \"type\": \"http\",\n      \"url\": \"${API_BASE_URL:-https://api.example.com}/mcp\",\n      \"headers\": {\n        \"Authorization\": \"Bearer ${API_KEY}\"\n      }\n    }\n  }\n}\n```\n\nIf a required environment variable is not set and has no default value, Claude Code will fail to parse the config.\n\n## Practical examples\n\n### Example: Monitor errors with Sentry\n\n```bash theme={null}\nclaude mcp add --transport http sentry https://mcp.sentry.dev/mcp\n```\n\nAuthenticate with your Sentry account:\n\n```text theme={null}\n/mcp\n```\n\nThen debug production issues:\n\n```text theme={null}\nWhat are the most common errors in the last 24 hours?\n```\n\n```text theme={null}\nShow me the stack trace for error ID abc123\n```\n\n```text theme={null}\nWhich deployment introduced these new errors?\n```\n\n### Example: Connect to GitHub for code reviews\n\nGitHub's remote MCP server authenticates with a GitHub personal access token passed as a header. To get one, open your [GitHub token settings](https://github.com/settings/personal-access-tokens), generate a new fine-grained token with access to the repositories you want Claude to work with, then add the server:\n\n```bash theme={null}\nclaude mcp add --transport http github https://api.githubcopilot.com/mcp/ \\\n  --header \"Authorization: Bearer YOUR_GITHUB_PAT\"\n```\n\nThen work with GitHub:\n\n```text theme={null}\nReview PR #456 and suggest improvements\n```\n\n```text theme={null}\nCreate a new issue for the bug we just found\n```\n\n```text theme={null}\nShow me all open PRs assigned to me\n```\n\n### Example: Query your PostgreSQL database\n\n```bash theme={null}\nclaude mcp add --transport stdio db -- npx -y @bytebase/dbhub \\\n  --dsn \"postgresql://readonly:pass@prod.db.com:5432/analytics\"\n```\n\nThen query your database naturally:\n\n```text theme={null}\nWhat's our total revenue this month?\n```\n\n```text theme={null}\nShow me the schema for the orders table\n```\n\n```text theme={null}\nFind customers who haven't made a purchase in 90 days\n```\n\n## Authenticate with remote MCP servers\n\nMany cloud-based MCP servers require authentication. Claude Code supports OAuth 2.0 for secure connections.\n\nClaude Code marks a remote server as needing authentication when the server responds with `401 Unauthorized` or `403 Forbidden`. Either status code flags the server in `/mcp` so you can complete the OAuth flow. A custom server that returns a `WWW-Authenticate` header pointing to its authorization server gets the same automatic discovery as any other remote server.\n\nIf you configured `headers.Authorization` for the server and the server rejects that header, Claude Code reports the connection as failed instead of falling back to OAuth. Check that the token is valid for the MCP endpoint, or remove the header to use the OAuth flow.\n\n<Steps>\n  <Step title=\"Add the server that requires authentication\">\n    For example:\n\n    ```bash theme={null}\n    claude mcp add --transport http sentry https://mcp.sentry.dev/mcp\n    ```\n  </Step>\n\n  <Step title=\"Use the /mcp command within Claude Code\">\n    In Claude code, use the command:\n\n    ```text theme={null}\n    /mcp\n    ```\n\n    Then follow the steps in your browser to login.\n  </Step>\n</Steps>\n\n<Tip>\n  Tips:\n\n  * Authentication tokens are stored securely and refreshed automatically\n  * Use \"Clear authentication\" in the `/mcp` menu to revoke access\n  * If your browser doesn't open automatically, copy the provided URL and open it manually\n  * If the browser redirect fails with a connection error after authenticating, paste the full callback URL from your browser's address bar into the URL prompt that appears in Claude Code\n  * OAuth authentication works with HTTP servers\n</Tip>\n\n### Use a fixed OAuth callback port\n\nSome MCP servers require a specific redirect URI registered in advance. By default, Claude Code picks a random available port for the OAuth callback. Use `--callback-port` to fix the port so it matches a pre-registered redirect URI of the form `http://localhost:PORT/callback`.\n\nYou can use `--callback-port` on its own (with dynamic client registration) or together with `--client-id` (with pre-configured credentials).\n\n```bash theme={null}\n# Fixed callback port with dynamic client registration\nclaude mcp add --transport http \\\n  --callback-port 8080 \\\n  my-server https://mcp.example.com/mcp\n```\n\n### Use pre-configured OAuth credentials\n\nSome MCP servers don't support automatic OAuth setup via Dynamic Client Registration. If you see an error like \"Incompatible auth server: does not support dynamic client registration,\" the server requires pre-configured credentials. Claude Code also supports servers that use a Client ID Metadata Document (CIMD) instead of Dynamic Client Registration, and discovers these automatically. If automatic discovery fails, register an OAuth app through the server's developer portal first, then provide the credentials when adding the server.\n\n<Steps>\n  <Step title=\"Register an OAuth app with the server\">\n    Create an app through the server's developer portal and note your client ID and client secret.\n\n    Many servers also require a redirect URI. If so, choose a port and register a redirect URI in the format `http://localhost:PORT/callback`. Use that same port with `--callback-port` in the next step.\n  </Step>\n\n  <Step title=\"Add the server with your credentials\">\n    Choose one of the following methods. The port used for `--callback-port` can be any available port. It just needs to match the redirect URI you registered in the previous step.\n\n    <Tabs>\n      <Tab title=\"claude mcp add\">\n        Use `--client-id` to pass your app's client ID. The `--client-secret` flag prompts for the secret with masked input:\n\n        ```bash theme={null}\n        claude mcp add --transport http \\\n          --client-id your-client-id --client-secret --callback-port 8080 \\\n          my-server https://mcp.example.com/mcp\n        ```\n      </Tab>\n\n      <Tab title=\"claude mcp add-json\">\n        Include the `oauth` object in the JSON config and pass `--client-secret` as a separate flag:\n\n        ```bash theme={null}\n        claude mcp add-json my-server \\\n          '{\"type\":\"http\",\"url\":\"https://mcp.example.com/mcp\",\"oauth\":{\"clientId\":\"your-client-id\",\"callbackPort\":8080}}' \\\n          --client-secret\n        ```\n      </Tab>\n\n      <Tab title=\"claude mcp add-json (callback port only)\">\n        Use `--callback-port` without a client ID to fix the port while using dynamic client registration:\n\n        ```bash theme={null}\n        claude mcp add-json my-server \\\n          '{\"type\":\"http\",\"url\":\"https://mcp.example.com/mcp\",\"oauth\":{\"callbackPort\":8080}}'\n        ```\n      </Tab>\n\n      <Tab title=\"CI / env var\">\n        Set the secret via environment variable to skip the interactive prompt:\n\n        ```bash theme={null}\n        MCP_CLIENT_SECRET=your-secret claude mcp add --transport http \\\n          --client-id your-client-id --client-secret --callback-port 8080 \\\n          my-server https://mcp.example.com/mcp\n        ```\n      </Tab>\n    </Tabs>\n  </Step>\n\n  <Step title=\"Authenticate in Claude Code\">\n    Run `/mcp` in Claude Code and follow the browser login flow.\n  </Step>\n</Steps>\n\n<Tip>\n  Tips:\n\n  * The client secret is stored securely in your system keychain (macOS) or a credentials file, not in your config\n  * If the server uses a public OAuth client with no secret, use only `--client-id` without `--client-secret`\n  * `--callback-port` can be used with or without `--client-id`\n  * These flags only apply to HTTP and SSE transports. They have no effect on stdio servers\n  * Use `claude mcp get <name>` to verify that OAuth credentials are configured for a server\n</Tip>\n\n### Override OAuth metadata discovery\n\nPoint Claude Code at a specific OAuth authorization server metadata URL to bypass the default discovery chain. Set `authServerMetadataUrl` when the MCP server's standard endpoints error, or when you want to route discovery through an internal proxy. By default, Claude Code first checks RFC 9728 Protected Resource Metadata at `/.well-known/oauth-protected-resource`, then falls back to RFC 8414 authorization server metadata at `/.well-known/oauth-authorization-server`.\n\nSet `authServerMetadataUrl` in the `oauth` object of your server's config in `.mcp.json`:\n\n```json theme={null}\n{\n  \"mcpServers\": {\n    \"my-server\": {\n      \"type\": \"http\",\n      \"url\": \"https://mcp.example.com/mcp\",\n      \"oauth\": {\n        \"authServerMetadataUrl\": \"https://auth.example.com/.well-known/openid-configuration\"\n      }\n    }\n  }\n}\n```\n\nThe URL must use `https://`. `authServerMetadataUrl` requires Claude Code v2.1.64 or later. The metadata URL's `scopes_supported` overrides the scopes the upstream server advertises.\n\n### Restrict OAuth scopes\n\nSet `oauth.scopes` to pin the scopes Claude Code requests during the authorization flow. This is the supported way to restrict an MCP server to a security-team-approved subset when the upstream authorization server advertises more scopes than you want to grant. The value is a single space-separated string, matching the `scope` parameter format in RFC 6749 §3.3.\n\n```json theme={null}\n{\n  \"mcpServers\": {\n    \"slack\": {\n      \"type\": \"http\",\n      \"url\": \"https://mcp.slack.com/mcp\",\n      \"oauth\": {\n        \"scopes\": \"channels:read chat:write search:read\"\n      }\n    }\n  }\n}\n```\n\n`oauth.scopes` takes precedence over both `authServerMetadataUrl` and the scopes the server discovers at `/.well-known`. Leave it unset to let the MCP server determine the requested scope set.\n\nIf the authorization server advertises `offline_access` in `scopes_supported`, Claude Code appends it to the pinned scopes so the access token can be refreshed without a new browser sign-in.\n\nIf the server later returns a 403 `insufficient_scope` for a tool call, Claude Code re-authenticates with the same pinned scopes. Widen `oauth.scopes` when a tool you need requires a scope outside the pin.\n\n### Use dynamic headers for custom authentication\n\nIf your MCP server uses an authentication scheme other than OAuth (such as Kerberos, short-lived tokens, or an internal SSO), use `headersHelper` to generate request headers at connection time. Claude Code runs the command and merges its output into the connection headers.\n\n```json theme={null}\n{\n  \"mcpServers\": {\n    \"internal-api\": {\n      \"type\": \"http\",\n      \"url\": \"https://mcp.internal.example.com\",\n      \"headersHelper\": \"/opt/bin/get-mcp-auth-headers.sh\"\n    }\n  }\n}\n```\n\nThe command can also be inline:\n\n```json theme={null}\n{\n  \"mcpServers\": {\n    \"internal-api\": {\n      \"type\": \"http\",\n      \"url\": \"https://mcp.internal.example.com\",\n      \"headersHelper\": \"echo '{\\\"Authorization\\\": \\\"Bearer '\\\"$(get-token)\\\"'\\\"}'\"\n    }\n  }\n}\n```\n\n**Requirements:**\n\n* The command must write a JSON object of string key-value pairs to stdout\n* The command runs in a shell with a 10-second timeout\n* Dynamic headers override any static `headers` with the same name\n\nThe helper runs fresh on each connection (at session start and on reconnect). There is no caching, so your script is responsible for any token reuse.\n\nClaude Code sets these environment variables when executing the helper:\n\n| Variable                      | Value                      |\n| :---------------------------- | :------------------------- |\n| `CLAUDE_CODE_MCP_SERVER_NAME` | the name of the MCP server |\n| `CLAUDE_CODE_MCP_SERVER_URL`  | the URL of the MCP server  |\n\nUse these to write a single helper script that serves multiple MCP servers.\n\n<Note>\n  `headersHelper` executes arbitrary shell commands. When defined at project or local scope, it only runs after you accept the workspace trust dialog.\n</Note>\n\n## Add MCP servers from JSON configuration\n\nIf you have a JSON configuration for an MCP server, you can add it directly:\n\n<Steps>\n  <Step title=\"Add an MCP server from JSON\">\n    ```bash theme={null}\n    # Basic syntax\n    claude mcp add-json <name> '<json>'\n\n    # Example: Adding an HTTP server with JSON configuration\n    claude mcp add-json weather-api '{\"type\":\"http\",\"url\":\"https://api.weather.com/mcp\",\"headers\":{\"Authorization\":\"Bearer token\"}}'\n\n    # Example: Adding a stdio server with JSON configuration\n    claude mcp add-json local-weather '{\"type\":\"stdio\",\"command\":\"/path/to/weather-cli\",\"args\":[\"--api-key\",\"abc123\"],\"env\":{\"CACHE_DIR\":\"/tmp\"}}'\n\n    # Example: Adding an HTTP server with pre-configured OAuth credentials\n    claude mcp add-json my-server '{\"type\":\"http\",\"url\":\"https://mcp.example.com/mcp\",\"oauth\":{\"clientId\":\"your-client-id\",\"callbackPort\":8080}}' --client-secret\n    ```\n  </Step>\n\n  <Step title=\"Verify the server was added\">\n    ```bash theme={null}\n    claude mcp get weather-api\n    ```\n  </Step>\n</Steps>\n\n<Tip>\n  Tips:\n\n  * Make sure the JSON is properly escaped in your shell\n  * The JSON must conform to the MCP server configuration schema\n  * You can use `--scope user` to add the server to your user configuration instead of the project-specific one\n</Tip>\n\n## Import MCP servers from Claude Desktop\n\nIf you've already configured MCP servers in Claude Desktop, you can import them:\n\n<Steps>\n  <Step title=\"Import servers from Claude Desktop\">\n    ```bash theme={null}\n    # Basic syntax \n    claude mcp add-from-claude-desktop \n    ```\n  </Step>\n\n  <Step title=\"Select which servers to import\">\n    After running the command, you'll see an interactive dialog that allows you to select which servers you want to import.\n  </Step>\n\n  <Step title=\"Verify the servers were imported\">\n    ```bash theme={null}\n    claude mcp list \n    ```\n  </Step>\n</Steps>\n\n<Tip>\n  Tips:\n\n  * This feature only works on macOS and Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL)\n  * It reads the Claude Desktop configuration file from its standard location on those platforms\n  * Use the `--scope user` flag to add servers to your user configuration\n  * Imported servers will have the same names as in Claude Desktop\n  * If servers with the same names already exist, they will get a numerical suffix (for example, `server_1`)\n</Tip>\n\n## Use MCP servers from Claude.ai\n\nIf you've logged into Claude Code with a [Claude.ai](https://claude.ai) account, MCP servers you've added in Claude.ai are automatically available in Claude Code:\n\n<Steps>\n  <Step title=\"Configure MCP servers in Claude.ai\">\n    Add servers at [claude.ai/customize/connectors](https://claude.ai/customize/connectors). On Team and Enterprise plans, only admins can add servers.\n  </Step>\n\n  <Step title=\"Authenticate the MCP server\">\n    Complete any required authentication steps in Claude.ai.\n  </Step>\n\n  <Step title=\"View and manage servers in Claude Code\">\n    In Claude Code, use the command:\n\n    ```text theme={null}\n    /mcp\n    ```\n\n    Claude.ai servers appear in the list with indicators showing they come from Claude.ai.\n  </Step>\n</Steps>\n\nFrom v2.1.161, connectors you have never signed in to are collapsed behind a `Show unused connectors` row at the end of the claude.ai section, so an organization-provisioned list doesn't fill the panel. Select the row to expand them. A connector you signed in to before stays visible even when it currently needs re-authentication.\n\nClaude.ai connectors are fetched only when your active [authentication method](/en/authentication#authentication-precedence) is your Claude.ai subscription. They are not loaded when `ANTHROPIC_API_KEY`, `ANTHROPIC_AUTH_TOKEN`, `apiKeyHelper`, or a third-party provider such as Bedrock or Vertex is active, even if you previously ran `/login`. If `/mcp` does not list a connector you added, run `/status` to confirm which authentication method is active, unset that environment variable or remove the `apiKeyHelper` setting, then run `/login` to select your Claude.ai account.\n\nA server you've added in Claude Code takes [precedence](#scope-hierarchy-and-precedence) over a claude.ai connector that points at the same URL. When this happens, `/mcp` lists the connector as hidden and shows how to remove the duplicate if you'd rather use the connector.\n\nSome Anthropic-hosted connectors, such as Microsoft 365, Gmail, and Google Calendar, do not support local OAuth from Claude Code because the upstream identity provider only accepts the redirect URL that claude.ai registered. From v2.1.162, authenticating one of these hosts in `/mcp` shows a message directing you to connect it at Settings → Connectors on claude.ai instead. Once connected there, the connector appears in Claude Code automatically.\n\n### Disable claude.ai connectors\n\nTo disable claude.ai MCP servers in Claude Code, set [`disableClaudeAiConnectors`](/en/settings#available-settings) to `true` in any settings scope:\n\n```json theme={null}\n{\n  \"disableClaudeAiConnectors\": true\n}\n```\n\nThis setting uses any-source-true semantics: `true` in any settings source takes precedence. A checked-in project `.claude/settings.json` can opt a repository out of cloud connectors, but a project-level `false` cannot re-enable connectors that a user- or policy-level `true` has disabled. Servers passed explicitly via `--mcp-config` are unaffected.\n\nYou can also set the `ENABLE_CLAUDEAI_MCP_SERVERS` environment variable to `false`, which has the same effect for the current shell session:\n\n```bash theme={null}\nENABLE_CLAUDEAI_MCP_SERVERS=false claude\n```\n\nTo block individual claude.ai connectors instead of all of them, add them to [`deniedMcpServers`](/en/managed-mcp) by name or by URL pattern. For example, a `serverName` entry of `\"claude.ai Slack\"` blocks the Slack connector. To toggle a connector on or off for the current project only, use the `/mcp` panel.\n\n<Note>\n  These client-side settings govern local Claude Code sessions. In [Claude Code on the web](/en/claude-code-on-the-web) sessions, claude.ai connectors are provisioned by the remote host and arrive as explicit `--mcp-config` entries, so `disableClaudeAiConnectors` does not apply there. Connector URLs are also rewritten through the session proxy, so a `deniedMcpServers` `serverUrl` pattern targeting the vendor URL will not match. Manage which connectors a cloud session can use from your claude.ai organization settings.\n</Note>\n\n## Use Claude Code as an MCP server\n\nYou can use Claude Code itself as an MCP server that other applications can connect to:\n\n```bash theme={null}\n# Start Claude as a stdio MCP server\nclaude mcp serve\n```\n\nYou can use this in Claude Desktop by adding this configuration to claude\\_desktop\\_config.json:\n\n```json theme={null}\n{\n  \"mcpServers\": {\n    \"claude-code\": {\n      \"type\": \"stdio\",\n      \"command\": \"claude\",\n      \"args\": [\"mcp\", \"serve\"],\n      \"env\": {}\n    }\n  }\n}\n```\n\n<Warning>\n  **Configuring the executable path**: The `command` field must reference the Claude Code executable. If the `claude` command is not in your system's PATH, you'll need to specify the full path to the executable.\n\n  To find the full path:\n\n  ```bash theme={null}\n  which claude\n  ```\n\n  Then use the full path in your configuration:\n\n  ```json theme={null}\n  {\n    \"mcpServers\": {\n      \"claude-code\": {\n        \"type\": \"stdio\",\n        \"command\": \"/full/path/to/claude\",\n        \"args\": [\"mcp\", \"serve\"],\n        \"env\": {}\n      }\n    }\n  }\n  ```\n\n  Without the correct executable path, you'll encounter errors like `spawn claude ENOENT`.\n</Warning>\n\n<Tip>\n  Tips:\n\n  * The server provides access to Claude's tools like View, Edit, LS, etc.\n  * In Claude Desktop, try asking Claude to read files in a directory, make edits, and more.\n  * Note that this MCP server is only exposing Claude Code's tools to your MCP client, so your own client is responsible for implementing user confirmation for individual tool calls.\n</Tip>\n\n## MCP output limits and warnings\n\nWhen MCP tools produce large outputs, Claude Code helps manage the token usage to prevent overwhelming your conversation context:\n\n* **Output warning threshold**: Claude Code displays a warning when any MCP tool output exceeds 10,000 tokens\n* **Configurable limit**: you can adjust the maximum allowed MCP output tokens using the `MAX_MCP_OUTPUT_TOKENS` environment variable\n* **Default limit**: the default maximum is 25,000 tokens\n* **Scope**: the environment variable applies to tools that don't declare their own limit. Tools that set [`anthropic/maxResultSizeChars`](#raise-the-limit-for-a-specific-tool) use that value instead for text content, regardless of what `MAX_MCP_OUTPUT_TOKENS` is set to. Tools that return image data are still subject to `MAX_MCP_OUTPUT_TOKENS`\n\nTo increase the limit for tools that produce large outputs:\n\n```bash theme={null}\nexport MAX_MCP_OUTPUT_TOKENS=50000\nclaude\n```\n\nThis is particularly useful when working with MCP servers that:\n\n* Query large datasets or databases\n* Generate detailed reports or documentation\n* Process extensive log files or debugging information\n\n### Raise the limit for a specific tool\n\nIf you're building an MCP server, you can allow individual tools to return results larger than the default persist-to-disk threshold by setting `_meta[\"anthropic/maxResultSizeChars\"]` in the tool's `tools/list` response entry. Claude Code raises that tool's threshold to the annotated value, up to a hard ceiling of 500,000 characters.\n\nThis is useful for tools that return inherently large but necessary outputs, such as database schemas or full file trees. Without the annotation, results that exceed the default threshold are persisted to disk and replaced with a file reference in the conversation.\n\n```json theme={null}\n{\n  \"name\": \"get_schema\",\n  \"description\": \"Returns the full database schema\",\n  \"_meta\": {\n    \"anthropic/maxResultSizeChars\": 200000\n  }\n}\n```\n\nThe annotation applies independently of `MAX_MCP_OUTPUT_TOKENS` for text content, so users don't need to raise the environment variable for tools that declare it. Tools that return image data are still subject to the token limit.\n\n<Warning>\n  If you frequently encounter output warnings with specific MCP servers you don't control, consider increasing the `MAX_MCP_OUTPUT_TOKENS` limit. You can also ask the server author to add the `anthropic/maxResultSizeChars` annotation or to paginate their responses. The annotation has no effect on tools that return image content; for those, raising `MAX_MCP_OUTPUT_TOKENS` is the only option.\n</Warning>\n\n## Respond to MCP elicitation requests\n\nMCP servers can request structured input from you mid-task using elicitation. When a server needs information it can't get on its own, Claude Code displays an interactive dialog and passes your response back to the server. No configuration is required on your side: elicitation dialogs appear automatically when a server requests them.\n\nServers can request input in two ways:\n\n* **Form mode**: Claude Code shows a dialog with form fields defined by the server (for example, a username and password prompt). Fill in the fields and submit.\n* **URL mode**: Claude Code opens a browser URL for authentication or approval. Complete the flow in the browser, then confirm in the CLI.\n\nTo auto-respond to elicitation requests without showing a dialog, use the [`Elicitation` hook](/en/hooks#elicitation).\n\nIf you're building an MCP server that uses elicitation, see the [MCP elicitation specification](https://modelcontextprotocol.io/docs/learn/client-concepts#elicitation) for protocol details and schema examples.\n\n## Use MCP resources\n\nMCP servers can expose resources that you can reference using @ mentions, similar to how you reference files.\n\n### Reference MCP resources\n\n<Steps>\n  <Step title=\"List available resources\">\n    Type `@` in your prompt to see available resources from all connected MCP servers. Resources appear alongside files in the autocomplete menu.\n  </Step>\n\n  <Step title=\"Reference a specific resource\">\n    Use the format `@server:protocol://resource/path` to reference a resource:\n\n    ```text theme={null}\n    Can you analyze @github:issue://123 and suggest a fix?\n    ```\n\n    ```text theme={null}\n    Please review the API documentation at @docs:file://api/authentication\n    ```\n  </Step>\n\n  <Step title=\"Multiple resource references\">\n    You can reference multiple resources in a single prompt:\n\n    ```text theme={null}\n    Compare @postgres:schema://users with @docs:file://database/user-model\n    ```\n  </Step>\n</Steps>\n\n<Tip>\n  Tips:\n\n  * Resources are automatically fetched and included as attachments when referenced\n  * Resource paths are fuzzy-searchable in the @ mention autocomplete\n  * Claude Code automatically provides tools to list and read MCP resources when servers support them\n  * Resources can contain any type of content that the MCP server provides (text, JSON, structured data, etc.)\n</Tip>\n\n## Scale with MCP Tool Search\n\nTool search keeps MCP context usage low by deferring tool definitions until Claude needs them. Only tool names and server instructions load at session start, so adding more MCP servers has minimal impact on your context window. Claude Code does not impose a fixed per-server tool cap; the practical limit is your context window budget.\n\n### How it works\n\nTool search is enabled by default. MCP tools are deferred rather than loaded into context upfront, and Claude uses a search tool to discover relevant ones when a task needs them. Only the tools Claude actually uses enter context. From your perspective, MCP tools work exactly as before.\n\nIf you prefer threshold-based loading, set `ENABLE_TOOL_SEARCH=auto` to load schemas upfront when they fit within 10% of the context window and defer only the overflow. See [Configure tool search](#configure-tool-search) for all options.\n\n### For MCP server authors\n\nIf you're building an MCP server, the server instructions field becomes more useful with Tool Search enabled. Server instructions help Claude understand when to search for your tools, similar to how [skills](/en/skills) work.\n\nAdd clear, descriptive server instructions that explain:\n\n* What category of tasks your tools handle\n* When Claude should search for your tools\n* Key capabilities your server provides\n\nClaude Code truncates tool descriptions and server instructions at 2KB each. Keep them concise to avoid truncation, and put critical details near the start.\n\n### Configure tool search\n\nTool search is enabled by default: MCP tools are deferred and discovered on demand. Claude Code disables it by default on Vertex AI. It is also disabled when `ANTHROPIC_BASE_URL` points to a non-first-party host, since most proxies do not forward `tool_reference` blocks. Set `ENABLE_TOOL_SEARCH` explicitly to override either fallback.\n\nTool search requires a model that supports `tool_reference` blocks. Haiku models do not support it. On Vertex AI, tool search is supported for Claude Sonnet 4.5 and later and Claude Opus 4.5 and later.\n\nControl tool search behavior with the `ENABLE_TOOL_SEARCH` environment variable:\n\n| Value    | Behavior                                                                                                                                                                                                                          |\n| :------- | :-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |\n| (unset)  | All MCP tools deferred and loaded on demand. Falls back to loading upfront on Vertex AI or when `ANTHROPIC_BASE_URL` is a non-first-party host                                                                                    |\n| `true`   | All MCP tools deferred. Claude Code sends the beta header even on Vertex AI and through proxies. Requests fail on Vertex AI models earlier than Sonnet 4.5 or Opus 4.5, or on proxies that do not support `tool_reference` blocks |\n| `auto`   | Threshold mode: tools load upfront if they fit within 10% of the context window, deferred otherwise                                                                                                                               |\n| `auto:N` | Threshold mode with a custom percentage, where `N` is 0-100. For example, `auto:5` for 5%                                                                                                                                         |\n| `false`  | All MCP tools loaded upfront, no deferral                                                                                                                                                                                         |\n\n```bash theme={null}\n# Use a custom 5% threshold\nENABLE_TOOL_SEARCH=auto:5 claude\n\n# Disable tool search entirely\nENABLE_TOOL_SEARCH=false claude\n```\n\nOr set the value in your [settings.json `env` field](/en/settings#available-settings).\n\nYou can also disable the `ToolSearch` tool specifically:\n\n```json theme={null}\n{\n  \"permissions\": {\n    \"deny\": [\"ToolSearch\"]\n  }\n}\n```\n\n### Exempt a server from deferral\n\nIf a server's tools should always be visible to Claude without a search step, set `alwaysLoad` to `true` in that server's configuration. Every tool from that server then loads into context at session start regardless of the `ENABLE_TOOL_SEARCH` setting. Use this for a small number of tools that Claude needs on every turn, since each upfront tool consumes context that would otherwise be available for your conversation.\n\nThe following `.mcp.json` entry exempts one HTTP server while leaving other servers deferred:\n\n```json theme={null}\n{\n  \"mcpServers\": {\n    \"core-tools\": {\n      \"type\": \"http\",\n      \"url\": \"https://mcp.example.com/mcp\",\n      \"alwaysLoad\": true\n    }\n  }\n}\n```\n\nThe `alwaysLoad` field is available on all server types and requires Claude Code v2.1.121 or later. An MCP server can also mark individual tools as always-loaded by including `\"anthropic/alwaysLoad\": true` in the tool's `_meta` object, which has the same effect for that tool only.\n\nSetting `alwaysLoad: true` also blocks startup until the server connects, capped at the standard 5-second connect timeout. This applies even though MCP startup is otherwise [non-blocking by default](/en/env-vars), since the tools must be present when the first prompt is built. Other servers continue to connect in the background.\n\n## Use MCP prompts as commands\n\nMCP servers can expose prompts that become available as commands in Claude Code.\n\n### Execute MCP prompts\n\n<Steps>\n  <Step title=\"Discover available prompts\">\n    Type `/` to see all available commands, including those from MCP servers. MCP prompts appear with the format `/mcp__servername__promptname`.\n  </Step>\n\n  <Step title=\"Execute a prompt without arguments\">\n    ```text theme={null}\n    /mcp__github__list_prs\n    ```\n  </Step>\n\n  <Step title=\"Execute a prompt with arguments\">\n    Many prompts accept arguments. Pass them space-separated after the command:\n\n    ```text theme={null}\n    /mcp__github__pr_review 456\n    ```\n\n    ```text theme={null}\n    /mcp__jira__create_issue \"Bug in login flow\" high\n    ```\n  </Step>\n</Steps>\n\n<Tip>\n  Tips:\n\n  * MCP prompts are dynamically discovered from connected servers\n  * Arguments are parsed based on the prompt's defined parameters\n  * Prompt results are injected directly into the conversation\n  * Server and prompt names are normalized (spaces become underscores)\n</Tip>\n\n## Managed MCP configuration\n\nFor organizations that need centralized control over which MCP servers users can connect to, see [Managed MCP configuration](/en/managed-mcp). 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{"parentUuid":"6869f861-2231-42f5-baae-504095060035","isSidechain":true,"promptId":"fff9e7a0-2505-4fe2-80db-ddb238b22dc8","agentId":"ae3b513afefb50ff1","type":"user","message":{"role":"user","content":[{"tool_use_id":"toolu_01LEaXjhERet95Yj85VoeWqd","type":"tool_result","content":"1\t> ## Documentation Index\n2\t> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://code.claude.com/docs/llms.txt\n3\t> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.\n4\t\n5\t# Connect Claude Code to tools via MCP\n6\t\n7\t> Learn how to connect Claude Code to your tools with the Model Context Protocol.\n8\t\n9\tClaude Code can connect to hundreds of external tools and data sources through the [Model Context Protocol (MCP)](https://modelcontextprotocol.io/introduction), an open source standard for AI-tool integrations. MCP servers give Claude Code access to your tools, databases, and APIs.\n10\t\n11\tConnect a server when you find yourself copying data into chat from another tool, like an issue tracker or a monitoring dashboard. Once connected, Claude can read and act on that system directly instead of working from what you paste.\n12\t\n13\tIf you're connecting your first server, start with the [MCP quickstart](/en/mcp-quickstart) for a step-by-step walkthrough. This page is the full reference.\n14\t\n15\t## What you can do with MCP\n16\t\n17\tWith MCP servers connected, you can ask Claude Code to:\n18\t\n19\t* **Implement features from issue trackers**: \"Add the feature described in JIRA issue ENG-4521 and create a PR on GitHub.\"\n20\t* **Analyze monitoring data**: \"Check Sentry and Statsig to check the usage of the feature described in ENG-4521.\"\n21\t* **Query databases**: \"Find emails of 10 random users who used feature ENG-4521, based on our PostgreSQL database.\"\n22\t* **Integrate designs**: \"Update our standard email template based on the new Figma designs that were posted in Slack\"\n23\t* **Automate workflows**: \"Create Gmail drafts inviting these 10 users to a feedback session about the new feature.\"\n24\t* **React to external events**: An MCP server can also act as a [channel](/en/channels) that pushes messages into your session, so Claude reacts to Telegram messages, Discord chats, or webhook events while you're away.\n25\t\n26\t## Find and build MCP servers\n27\t\n28\tBrowse reviewed connectors in the [Anthropic Directory](https://claude.ai/directory). Directory connectors use the same MCP infrastructure as Claude Code, so you can add any remote server listed there with `claude mcp add`.\n29\t\n30\t<Warning>\n31\t  Verify you trust each server before connecting it. Servers that fetch external content can expose you to [prompt injection risk](/en/security#protect-against-prompt-injection).\n32\t</Warning>\n33\t\n34\tTo build your own server, see the [MCP server guide](https://modelcontextprotocol.io/docs/develop/build-server) for protocol fundamentals and the [Claude connector building docs](https://claude.com/docs/connectors/building) for authentication, testing, and Directory submission.\n35\t\n36\tYou can also have Claude scaffold a server for you with the official [`mcp-server-dev` plugin](https://github.com/anthropics/claude-plugins-official/tree/main/plugins/mcp-server-dev).\n37\t\n38\t<Steps>\n39\t  <Step title=\"Install the plugin\">\n40\t    In a Claude Code session, run:\n41\t\n42\t    ```\n43\t    /plugin install mcp-server-dev@claude-plugins-official\n44\t    ```\n45\t\n46\t    If Claude Code reports that the marketplace is not found, run `/plugin marketplace add anthropics/claude-plugins-official` first, then retry the install. Once installed, run `/reload-plugins` to activate it in the current session.\n47\t  </Step>\n48\t\n49\t  <Step title=\"Run the build skill\">\n50\t    ```\n51\t    /mcp-server-dev:build-mcp-server\n52\t    ```\n53\t\n54\t    Claude asks about your use case and scaffolds a remote HTTP or local stdio server.\n55\t  </Step>\n56\t</Steps>\n57\t\n58\t## Installing MCP servers\n59\t\n60\tMCP servers can be configured in several ways depending on your needs:\n61\t\n62\t### Option 1: Add a remote HTTP server\n63\t\n64\tHTTP servers are the recommended option for connecting to remote MCP servers. This is the most widely supported transport for cloud-based services.\n65\t\n66\t```bash theme={null}\n67\t# Basic syntax\n68\tclaude mcp add --transport http <name> <url>\n69\t\n70\t# Real example: Connect to Notion\n71\tclaude mcp add --transport http notion https://mcp.notion.com/mcp\n72\t\n73\t# Example with Bearer token\n74\tclaude mcp add --transport http secure-api https://api.example.com/mcp \\\n75\t  --header \"Authorization: Bearer your-token\"\n76\t```\n77\t\n78\tWhen configuring MCP servers via JSON in `.mcp.json`, `~/.claude.json`, or `claude mcp add-json`, the `type` field accepts `streamable-http` as an alias for `http`. The MCP specification uses the name `streamable-http` for this transport, so configurations copied from server documentation work without modification.\n79\t\n80\t### Option 2: Add a remote SSE server\n81\t\n82\t<Warning>\n83\t  The SSE (Server-Sent Events) transport is deprecated. Use HTTP servers instead, where available.\n84\t</Warning>\n85\t\n86\t```bash theme={null}\n87\t# Basic syntax\n88\tclaude mcp add --transport sse <name> <url>\n89\t\n90\t# Real example: Connect to Asana\n91\tclaude mcp add --transport sse asana https://mcp.asana.com/sse\n92\t\n93\t# Example with authentication header\n94\tclaude mcp add --transport sse private-api https://api.company.com/sse \\\n95\t  --header \"X-API-Key: your-key-here\"\n96\t```\n97\t\n98\t### Option 3: Add a local stdio server\n99\t\n100\tStdio servers run as local processes on your machine. They're ideal for tools that need direct system access or custom scripts.\n101\t\n102\tClaude Code sets `CLAUDE_PROJECT_DIR` in the spawned server's environment to the project root, so your server can resolve project-relative paths without depending on the working directory. This is the same directory hooks receive in their `CLAUDE_PROJECT_DIR` variable. Read it from inside your server process, for example `process.env.CLAUDE_PROJECT_DIR` in Node or `os.environ[\"CLAUDE_PROJECT_DIR\"]` in Python. Your server can also call the MCP `roots/list` request, which returns the directory Claude Code was launched from.\n103\t\n104\tThis variable is set in the server's environment, not in Claude Code's own environment, so referencing it via `${VAR}` expansion in a project- or user-scoped `.mcp.json` `command` or `args` requires a default such as `${CLAUDE_PROJECT_DIR:-.}`. Plugin-provided MCP configurations substitute `${CLAUDE_PROJECT_DIR}` directly and don't need the default.\n105\t\n106\t```bash theme={null}\n107\t# Basic syntax\n108\tclaude mcp add [options] <name> -- <command> [args...]\n109\t\n110\t# Real example: Add Airtable server\n111\tclaude mcp add --env AIRTABLE_API_KEY=YOUR_KEY --transport stdio airtable \\\n112\t  -- npx -y airtable-mcp-server\n113\t```\n114\t\n115\t<Note>\n116\t  **Important: Separate server arguments with `--`**\n117\t\n118\t  For stdio servers, the `--` (double dash) separates Claude's own options, such as `--transport`, `--env`, and `--scope`, from the command and arguments that run the server. Everything after `--` is passed to the server untouched.\n119\t\n120\t  For example:\n121\t\n122\t  * `claude mcp add --transport stdio myserver -- npx server` → runs `npx server`\n123\t  * `claude mcp add --env KEY=value --transport stdio myserver -- python server.py --port 8080` → runs `python server.py --port 8080` with `KEY=value` in environment\n124\t\n125\t  Without `--`, Claude Code would try to parse the server's flags, like `--port` above, as its own options.\n126\t\n127\t  `--env` accepts multiple `KEY=value` pairs. If the server name comes directly after `--env`, the CLI reads the name as another pair and rejects it, so place at least one other option between `--env` and the server name, as in the examples above.\n128\t</Note>\n129\t\n130\t### Option 4: Add a remote WebSocket server\n131\t\n132\tWebSocket servers hold a persistent bidirectional connection, which suits remote MCP servers that push events to Claude unprompted. Use HTTP instead when your server only responds to requests, since HTTP supports OAuth and the `claude mcp add --transport` flag, while WebSocket supports neither.\n133\t\n134\tConfigure WebSocket servers in `.mcp.json` or with `claude mcp add-json`:\n135\t\n136\t```bash theme={null}\n137\tclaude mcp add-json events-server \\\n138\t  '{\"type\":\"ws\",\"url\":\"wss://mcp.example.com/socket\",\"headers\":{\"Authorization\":\"Bearer YOUR_TOKEN\"}}'\n139\t```\n140\t\n141\tThe `type: \"ws\"` entry accepts the same `url`, `headers`, `headersHelper`, `timeout`, and `alwaysLoad` fields as `http`. Authentication is header-only, so pass a static token in `headers` or generate one at connect time with [`headersHelper`](#use-dynamic-headers-for-custom-authentication). The `claude mcp add --transport` flag does not accept `ws`.\n142\t\n143\t### Managing your servers\n144\t\n145\tOnce configured, you can manage your MCP servers with these commands:\n146\t\n147\t```bash theme={null}\n148\t# List all configured servers\n149\tclaude mcp list\n150\t\n151\t# Get details for a specific server\n152\tclaude mcp get github\n153\t\n154\t# Remove a server\n155\tclaude mcp remove github\n156\t\n157\t# (within Claude Code) Check server status\n158\t/mcp\n159\t```\n160\t\n161\tProject-scoped servers from `.mcp.json` that are awaiting your approval appear in `claude mcp list` as `⏸ Pending approval`. Run `claude` interactively to review and approve them. `claude mcp get <name>` shows pending servers as `⏸ Pending approval` and rejected servers as `✗ Rejected`.\n162\t\n163\tThe `/mcp` panel shows the tool count next to each connected server and flags servers that advertise the tools capability but expose no tools.\n164\t\n165\tIf your request needs tools from a server that is still connecting in the background, Claude waits for that server before continuing. With [tool search](#scale-with-mcp-tool-search) enabled, which is the default, the wait happens inside the `ToolSearch` call. In configurations without tool search, such as Vertex AI, a custom `ANTHROPIC_BASE_URL`, or `ENABLE_TOOL_SEARCH=false`, Claude uses the `WaitForMcpServers` tool instead.\n166\t\n167\tThe server name `workspace` is reserved for internal use. If your configuration defines a server with that name, Claude Code skips it at load time and shows a warning asking you to rename it.\n168\t\n169\t### Dynamic tool updates\n170\t\n171\tClaude Code supports MCP `list_changed` notifications, allowing MCP servers to dynamically update their available tools, prompts, and resources without requiring you to disconnect and reconnect. When an MCP server sends a `list_changed` notification, Claude Code automatically refreshes the available capabilities from that server.\n172\t\n173\t### Automatic reconnection\n174\t\n175\tIf an HTTP or SSE server disconnects mid-session, Claude Code automatically reconnects with exponential backoff: up to five attempts, starting at a one-second delay and doubling each time. The server appears as pending in `/mcp` while reconnection is in progress. After five failed attempts the server is marked as failed and you can retry manually from `/mcp`. Stdio servers are local processes and are not reconnected automatically.\n176\t\n177\tThe same backoff applies when an HTTP or SSE server fails its initial connection at startup. As of v2.1.121, Claude Code retries the initial connection up to three times on transient errors such as a 5xx response, a connection refused, or a timeout, then marks the server as failed if it still cannot connect. Authentication and not-found errors are not retried because they require a configuration change to resolve.\n178\t\n179\t### Push messages with channels\n180\t\n181\tAn MCP server can also push messages directly into your session so Claude can react to external events like CI results, monitoring alerts, or chat messages. To enable this, your server declares the `claude/channel` capability and you opt it in with the `--channels` flag at startup. See [Channels](/en/channels) to use an officially supported channel, or [Channels reference](/en/channels-reference) to build your own.\n182\t\n183\t<Tip>\n184\t  Tips:\n185\t\n186\t  * Use the `--scope` flag to specify where the configuration is stored:\n187\t    * `local` (default): Available only to you in the current project (was called `project` in older versions)\n188\t    * `project`: Shared with everyone in the project via `.mcp.json` file\n189\t    * `user`: Available to you across all projects (was called `global` in older versions)\n190\t  * Set environment variables with `--env` flags (for example, `--env KEY=value`)\n191\t  * Configure MCP server startup timeout using the MCP\\_TIMEOUT environment variable (for example, `MCP_TIMEOUT=10000 claude` sets a 10-second timeout)\n192\t  * Set a per-server tool execution timeout by adding a `timeout` field in milliseconds to that server's `.mcp.json` entry, for example `\"timeout\": 600000` for ten minutes. This overrides the `MCP_TOOL_TIMEOUT` environment variable for that server only\n193\t  * Claude Code will display a warning when MCP tool output exceeds 10,000 tokens. To increase this limit, set the `MAX_MCP_OUTPUT_TOKENS` environment variable (for example, `MAX_MCP_OUTPUT_TOKENS=50000`)\n194\t  * Use `/mcp` to authenticate with remote servers that require OAuth 2.0 authentication\n195\t</Tip>\n196\t\n197\tThe per-server `timeout` is a hard wall-clock limit per tool call, and progress notifications from the server do not extend it. Values below 1000 are ignored and fall through to `MCP_TOOL_TIMEOUT`, or to its default of about 28 hours when that variable is unset. {/* min-version: 2.1.162 */}Before v2.1.162, values below 1000 were floored to one second instead. For HTTP and SSE servers, the per-request fetch first-byte budget has a 60-second minimum.\n198\t\n199\t### Plugin-provided MCP servers\n200\t\n201\t[Plugins](/en/plugins) can bundle MCP servers, automatically providing tools and integrations when the plugin is enabled. Plugin MCP servers work identically to user-configured servers.\n202\t\n203\t**How plugin MCP servers work**:\n204\t\n205\t* Plugins define MCP servers in `.mcp.json` at the plugin root or inline in `plugin.json`\n206\t* When a plugin is enabled, its MCP servers start automatically\n207\t* Plugin MCP tools appear alongside manually configured MCP tools\n208\t* Plugin servers are managed through plugin installation (not `/mcp` commands)\n209\t\n210\t**Example plugin MCP configuration**:\n211\t\n212\tIn `.mcp.json` at plugin root:\n213\t\n214\t```json theme={null}\n215\t{\n216\t  \"mcpServers\": {\n217\t    \"database-tools\": {\n218\t      \"command\": \"${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/servers/db-server\",\n219\t      \"args\": [\"--config\", \"${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/config.json\"],\n220\t      \"env\": {\n221\t        \"DB_URL\": \"${DB_URL}\"\n222\t      }\n223\t    }\n224\t  }\n225\t}\n226\t```\n227\t\n228\tOr inline in `plugin.json`:\n229\t\n230\t```json theme={null}\n231\t{\n232\t  \"name\": \"my-plugin\",\n233\t  \"mcpServers\": {\n234\t    \"plugin-api\": {\n235\t      \"command\": \"${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/servers/api-server\",\n236\t      \"args\": [\"--port\", \"8080\"]\n237\t    }\n238\t  }\n239\t}\n240\t```\n241\t\n242\t**Plugin MCP features**:\n243\t\n244\t* **Automatic lifecycle**: At session startup, servers for enabled plugins connect automatically. If you enable or disable a plugin during a session, run `/reload-plugins` to connect or disconnect its MCP servers\n245\t* **Environment variables**: use `${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}` for bundled plugin files, `${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_DATA}` for [persistent state](/en/plugins-reference#persistent-data-directory) that survives plugin updates, and `${CLAUDE_PROJECT_DIR}` for the stable project root\n246\t* **User environment access**: Access to same environment variables as manually configured servers\n247\t* **Multiple transport types**: Support stdio, SSE, HTTP, and WebSocket transports (transport support may vary by server)\n248\t\n249\t**Viewing plugin MCP servers**:\n250\t\n251\t```bash theme={null}\n252\t# Within Claude Code, see all MCP servers including plugin ones\n253\t/mcp\n254\t```\n255\t\n256\tPlugin servers appear in the list with indicators showing they come from plugins.\n257\t\n258\t**Plugin MCP tool names**:\n259\t\n260\tTools from a plugin-bundled MCP server include both the plugin name and the server key in their callable name. The full form is `mcp__plugin_<plugin-name>_<server-name>__<tool-name>`, where any character outside `A-Z`, `a-z`, `0-9`, `_`, and `-` is replaced with `_`. For the `database-tools` server bundled in a plugin named `my-plugin`, a `query` tool is callable as:\n261\t\n262\t```\n263\tmcp__plugin_my-plugin_database-tools__query\n264\t```\n265\t\n266\tUse this full name when referencing the tool in [permission rules](/en/permissions), a skill's `allowed-tools` list, or a [subagent's `tools` field](/en/sub-agents#available-tools).\n267\t\n268\t**Benefits of plugin MCP servers**:\n269\t\n270\t* **Bundled distribution**: Tools and servers packaged together\n271\t* **Automatic setup**: No manual MCP configuration needed\n272\t* **Team consistency**: Everyone gets the same tools when plugin is installed\n273\t\n274\tSee the [plugin components reference](/en/plugins-reference#mcp-servers) for details on bundling MCP servers with plugins.\n275\t\n276\t## MCP installation scopes\n277\t\n278\tMCP servers can be configured at three scopes. The scope you choose controls which projects the server loads in and whether the configuration is shared with your team. Administrators can also deploy servers at the enterprise level via [managed configuration](#managed-mcp-configuration).\n279\t\n280\t| Scope                     | Loads in             | Shared with team         | Stored in                   |\n281\t| ------------------------- | -------------------- | ------------------------ | --------------------------- |\n282\t| [Local](#local-scope)     | Current project only | No                       | `~/.claude.json`            |\n283\t| [Project](#project-scope) | Current project only | Yes, via version control | `.mcp.json` in project root |\n284\t| [User](#user-scope)       | All your projects    | No                       | `~/.claude.json`            |\n285\t\n286\t### Local scope\n287\t\n288\tLocal scope is the default. A local-scoped server loads only in the project where you added it and stays private to you. Claude Code stores it in `~/.claude.json` under that project's path, so the same server won't appear in your other projects. Use local scope for personal development servers, experimental configurations, or servers with credentials you don't want in version control.\n289\t\n290\t<Note>\n291\t  The term \"local scope\" for MCP servers differs from general local settings. MCP local-scoped servers are stored in `~/.claude.json` (your home directory), while general local settings use `.claude/settings.local.json` (in the project directory). See [Settings](/en/settings#settings-files) for details on settings file locations.\n292\t</Note>\n293\t\n294\t```bash theme={null}\n295\t# Add a local-scoped server (default)\n296\tclaude mcp add --transport http stripe https://mcp.stripe.com\n297\t\n298\t# Explicitly specify local scope\n299\tclaude mcp add --transport http stripe --scope local https://mcp.stripe.com\n300\t```\n301\t\n302\tThe command writes the server into the entry for your current project inside `~/.claude.json`. The example below shows the result when you run it from `/path/to/your/project`:\n303\t\n304\t```json theme={null}\n305\t{\n306\t  \"projects\": {\n307\t    \"/path/to/your/project\": {\n308\t      \"mcpServers\": {\n309\t        \"stripe\": {\n310\t          \"type\": \"http\",\n311\t          \"url\": \"https://mcp.stripe.com\"\n312\t        }\n313\t      }\n314\t    }\n315\t  }\n316\t}\n317\t```\n318\t\n319\t### Project scope\n320\t\n321\tProject-scoped servers enable team collaboration by storing configurations in a `.mcp.json` file at your project's root directory. This file is designed to be checked into version control, ensuring all team members have access to the same MCP tools and services. When you add a project-scoped server, Claude Code automatically creates or updates this file with the appropriate configuration structure.\n322\t\n323\t```bash theme={null}\n324\t# Add a project-scoped server\n325\tclaude mcp add --transport http paypal --scope project https://mcp.paypal.com/mcp\n326\t```\n327\t\n328\tThe resulting `.mcp.json` file follows a standardized format:\n329\t\n330\t```json theme={null}\n331\t{\n332\t  \"mcpServers\": {\n333\t    \"shared-server\": {\n334\t      \"command\": \"/path/to/server\",\n335\t      \"args\": [],\n336\t      \"env\": {}\n337\t    }\n338\t  }\n339\t}\n340\t```\n341\t\n342\tFor security reasons, Claude Code prompts for approval before using project-scoped servers from `.mcp.json` files. If you need to reset these approval choices, use the `claude mcp reset-project-choices` command.\n343\t\n344\t### User scope\n345\t\n346\tUser-scoped servers are stored in `~/.claude.json` and provide cross-project accessibility, making them available across all projects on your machine while remaining private to your user account. This scope works well for personal utility servers, development tools, or services you frequently use across different projects.\n347\t\n348\t```bash theme={null}\n349\t# Add a user server\n350\tclaude mcp add --transport http hubspot --scope user https://mcp.hubspot.com/anthropic\n351\t```\n352\t\n353\t### Scope hierarchy and precedence\n354\t\n355\tWhen the same server is defined in more than one place, Claude Code connects to it once, using the definition from the highest-precedence source. The entire server entry from that source is used; fields are not merged across scopes.\n356\t\n357\t1. Local scope\n358\t2. Project scope\n359\t3. User scope\n360\t4. [Plugin-provided servers](/en/plugins)\n361\t5. [claude.ai connectors](#use-mcp-servers-from-claude-ai)\n362\t\n363\tThe three scopes match duplicates by name. Plugins and connectors match by endpoint, so one that points at the same URL or command as a server above is treated as a duplicate.\n364\t\n365\t### Environment variable expansion in `.mcp.json`\n366\t\n367\tClaude Code supports environment variable expansion in `.mcp.json` files, allowing teams to share configurations while maintaining flexibility for machine-specific paths and sensitive values like API keys.\n368\t\n369\t**Supported syntax:**\n370\t\n371\t* `${VAR}` - Expands to the value of environment variable `VAR`\n372\t* `${VAR:-default}` - Expands to `VAR` if set, otherwise uses `default`\n373\t\n374\t**Expansion locations:**\n375\tEnvironment variables can be expanded in:\n376\t\n377\t* `command` - The server executable path\n378\t* `args` - Command-line arguments\n379\t* `env` - Environment variables passed to the server\n380\t* `url` - For HTTP server types\n381\t* `headers` - For HTTP server authentication\n382\t\n383\t**Example with variable expansion:**\n384\t\n385\t```json theme={null}\n386\t{\n387\t  \"mcpServers\": {\n388\t    \"api-server\": {\n389\t      \"type\": \"http\",\n390\t      \"url\": \"${API_BASE_URL:-https://api.example.com}/mcp\",\n391\t      \"headers\": {\n392\t        \"Authorization\": \"Bearer ${API_KEY}\"\n393\t      }\n394\t    }\n395\t  }\n396\t}\n397\t```\n398\t\n399\tIf a required environment variable is not set and has no default value, Claude Code will fail to parse the config.\n400\t\n401\t## Practical examples\n402\t\n403\t### Example: Monitor errors with Sentry\n404\t\n405\t```bash theme={null}\n406\tclaude mcp add --transport http sentry https://mcp.sentry.dev/mcp\n407\t```\n408\t\n409\tAuthenticate with your Sentry account:\n410\t\n411\t```text theme={null}\n412\t/mcp\n413\t```\n414\t\n415\tThen debug production issues:\n416\t\n417\t```text theme={null}\n418\tWhat are the most common errors in the last 24 hours?\n419\t```\n420\t\n421\t```text theme={null}\n422\tShow me the stack trace for error ID abc123\n423\t```\n424\t\n425\t```text theme={null}\n426\tWhich deployment introduced these new errors?\n427\t```\n428\t\n429\t### Example: Connect to GitHub for code reviews\n430\t\n431\tGitHub's remote MCP server authenticates with a GitHub personal access token passed as a header. To get one, open your [GitHub token settings](https://github.com/settings/personal-access-tokens), generate a new fine-grained token with access to the repositories you want Claude to work with, then add the server:\n432\t\n433\t```bash theme={null}\n434\tclaude mcp add --transport http github https://api.githubcopilot.com/mcp/ \\\n435\t  --header \"Authorization: Bearer YOUR_GITHUB_PAT\"\n436\t```\n437\t\n438\tThen work with GitHub:\n439\t\n440\t```text theme={null}\n441\tReview PR #456 and suggest improvements\n442\t```\n443\t\n444\t```text theme={null}\n445\tCreate a new issue for the bug we just found\n446\t```\n447\t\n448\t```text theme={null}\n449\tShow me all open PRs assigned to me\n450\t```\n451\t\n452\t### Example: Query your PostgreSQL database\n453\t\n454\t```bash theme={null}\n455\tclaude mcp add --transport stdio db -- npx -y @bytebase/dbhub \\\n456\t  --dsn \"postgresql://readonly:pass@prod.db.com:5432/analytics\"\n457\t```\n458\t\n459\tThen query your database naturally:\n460\t\n461\t```text theme={null}\n462\tWhat's our total revenue this month?\n463\t```\n464\t\n465\t```text theme={null}\n466\tShow me the schema for the orders table\n467\t```\n468\t\n469\t```text theme={null}\n470\tFind customers who haven't made a purchase in 90 days\n471\t```\n472\t\n473\t## Authenticate with remote MCP servers\n474\t\n475\tMany cloud-based MCP servers require authentication. Claude Code supports OAuth 2.0 for secure connections.\n476\t\n477\tClaude Code marks a remote server as needing authentication when the server responds with `401 Unauthorized` or `403 Forbidden`. Either status code flags the server in `/mcp` so you can complete the OAuth flow. A custom server that returns a `WWW-Authenticate` header pointing to its authorization server gets the same automatic discovery as any other remote server.\n478\t\n479\tIf you configured `headers.Authorization` for the server and the server rejects that header, Claude Code reports the connection as failed instead of falling back to OAuth. Check that the token is valid for the MCP endpoint, or remove the header to use the OAuth flow.\n480\t\n481\t<Steps>\n482\t  <Step title=\"Add the server that requires authentication\">\n483\t    For example:\n484\t\n485\t    ```bash theme={null}\n486\t    claude mcp add --transport http sentry https://mcp.sentry.dev/mcp\n487\t    ```\n488\t  </Step>\n489\t\n490\t  <Step title=\"Use the /mcp command within Claude Code\">\n491\t    In Claude code, use the command:\n492\t\n493\t    ```text theme={null}\n494\t    /mcp\n495\t    ```\n496\t\n497\t    Then follow the steps in your browser to login.\n498\t  </Step>\n499\t</Steps>\n500\t"}]},"uuid":"572d720a-752a-4a60-ac2b-f52088e984d8","timestamp":"2026-06-22T15:12:02.435Z","toolUseResult":{"type":"text","file":{"filePath":"/home/dev/.claude/projects/-opt-claude-code-library/e1a493f1-c0da-492d-a2ae-46b82d2b4254/tool-results/toolu_01D6Vs1XmQyWeUUUofRC6JK1.txt","content":"> ## Documentation Index\n> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://code.claude.com/docs/llms.txt\n> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.\n\n# Connect Claude Code to tools via MCP\n\n> Learn how to connect Claude Code to your tools with the Model Context Protocol.\n\nClaude Code can connect to hundreds of external tools and data sources through the [Model Context Protocol (MCP)](https://modelcontextprotocol.io/introduction), an open source standard for AI-tool integrations. MCP servers give Claude Code access to your tools, databases, and APIs.\n\nConnect a server when you find yourself copying data into chat from another tool, like an issue tracker or a monitoring dashboard. Once connected, Claude can read and act on that system directly instead of working from what you paste.\n\nIf you're connecting your first server, start with the [MCP quickstart](/en/mcp-quickstart) for a step-by-step walkthrough. This page is the full reference.\n\n## What you can do with MCP\n\nWith MCP servers connected, you can ask Claude Code to:\n\n* **Implement features from issue trackers**: \"Add the feature described in JIRA issue ENG-4521 and create a PR on GitHub.\"\n* **Analyze monitoring data**: \"Check Sentry and Statsig to check the usage of the feature described in ENG-4521.\"\n* **Query databases**: \"Find emails of 10 random users who used feature ENG-4521, based on our PostgreSQL database.\"\n* **Integrate designs**: \"Update our standard email template based on the new Figma designs that were posted in Slack\"\n* **Automate workflows**: \"Create Gmail drafts inviting these 10 users to a feedback session about the new feature.\"\n* **React to external events**: An MCP server can also act as a [channel](/en/channels) that pushes messages into your session, so Claude reacts to Telegram messages, Discord chats, or webhook events while you're away.\n\n## Find and build MCP servers\n\nBrowse reviewed connectors in the [Anthropic Directory](https://claude.ai/directory). Directory connectors use the same MCP infrastructure as Claude Code, so you can add any remote server listed there with `claude mcp add`.\n\n<Warning>\n  Verify you trust each server before connecting it. Servers that fetch external content can expose you to [prompt injection risk](/en/security#protect-against-prompt-injection).\n</Warning>\n\nTo build your own server, see the [MCP server guide](https://modelcontextprotocol.io/docs/develop/build-server) for protocol fundamentals and the [Claude connector building docs](https://claude.com/docs/connectors/building) for authentication, testing, and Directory submission.\n\nYou can also have Claude scaffold a server for you with the official [`mcp-server-dev` plugin](https://github.com/anthropics/claude-plugins-official/tree/main/plugins/mcp-server-dev).\n\n<Steps>\n  <Step title=\"Install the plugin\">\n    In a Claude Code session, run:\n\n    ```\n    /plugin install mcp-server-dev@claude-plugins-official\n    ```\n\n    If Claude Code reports that the marketplace is not found, run `/plugin marketplace add anthropics/claude-plugins-official` first, then retry the install. Once installed, run `/reload-plugins` to activate it in the current session.\n  </Step>\n\n  <Step title=\"Run the build skill\">\n    ```\n    /mcp-server-dev:build-mcp-server\n    ```\n\n    Claude asks about your use case and scaffolds a remote HTTP or local stdio server.\n  </Step>\n</Steps>\n\n## Installing MCP servers\n\nMCP servers can be configured in several ways depending on your needs:\n\n### Option 1: Add a remote HTTP server\n\nHTTP servers are the recommended option for connecting to remote MCP servers. This is the most widely supported transport for cloud-based services.\n\n```bash theme={null}\n# Basic syntax\nclaude mcp add --transport http <name> <url>\n\n# Real example: Connect to Notion\nclaude mcp add --transport http notion https://mcp.notion.com/mcp\n\n# Example with Bearer token\nclaude mcp add --transport http secure-api https://api.example.com/mcp \\\n  --header \"Authorization: Bearer your-token\"\n```\n\nWhen configuring MCP servers via JSON in `.mcp.json`, `~/.claude.json`, or `claude mcp add-json`, the `type` field accepts `streamable-http` as an alias for `http`. The MCP specification uses the name `streamable-http` for this transport, so configurations copied from server documentation work without modification.\n\n### Option 2: Add a remote SSE server\n\n<Warning>\n  The SSE (Server-Sent Events) transport is deprecated. Use HTTP servers instead, where available.\n</Warning>\n\n```bash theme={null}\n# Basic syntax\nclaude mcp add --transport sse <name> <url>\n\n# Real example: Connect to Asana\nclaude mcp add --transport sse asana https://mcp.asana.com/sse\n\n# Example with authentication header\nclaude mcp add --transport sse private-api https://api.company.com/sse \\\n  --header \"X-API-Key: your-key-here\"\n```\n\n### Option 3: Add a local stdio server\n\nStdio servers run as local processes on your machine. They're ideal for tools that need direct system access or custom scripts.\n\nClaude Code sets `CLAUDE_PROJECT_DIR` in the spawned server's environment to the project root, so your server can resolve project-relative paths without depending on the working directory. This is the same directory hooks receive in their `CLAUDE_PROJECT_DIR` variable. Read it from inside your server process, for example `process.env.CLAUDE_PROJECT_DIR` in Node or `os.environ[\"CLAUDE_PROJECT_DIR\"]` in Python. Your server can also call the MCP `roots/list` request, which returns the directory Claude Code was launched from.\n\nThis variable is set in the server's environment, not in Claude Code's own environment, so referencing it via `${VAR}` expansion in a project- or user-scoped `.mcp.json` `command` or `args` requires a default such as `${CLAUDE_PROJECT_DIR:-.}`. Plugin-provided MCP configurations substitute `${CLAUDE_PROJECT_DIR}` directly and don't need the default.\n\n```bash theme={null}\n# Basic syntax\nclaude mcp add [options] <name> -- <command> [args...]\n\n# Real example: Add Airtable server\nclaude mcp add --env AIRTABLE_API_KEY=YOUR_KEY --transport stdio airtable \\\n  -- npx -y airtable-mcp-server\n```\n\n<Note>\n  **Important: Separate server arguments with `--`**\n\n  For stdio servers, the `--` (double dash) separates Claude's own options, such as `--transport`, `--env`, and `--scope`, from the command and arguments that run the server. Everything after `--` is passed to the server untouched.\n\n  For example:\n\n  * `claude mcp add --transport stdio myserver -- npx server` → runs `npx server`\n  * `claude mcp add --env KEY=value --transport stdio myserver -- python server.py --port 8080` → runs `python server.py --port 8080` with `KEY=value` in environment\n\n  Without `--`, Claude Code would try to parse the server's flags, like `--port` above, as its own options.\n\n  `--env` accepts multiple `KEY=value` pairs. If the server name comes directly after `--env`, the CLI reads the name as another pair and rejects it, so place at least one other option between `--env` and the server name, as in the examples above.\n</Note>\n\n### Option 4: Add a remote WebSocket server\n\nWebSocket servers hold a persistent bidirectional connection, which suits remote MCP servers that push events to Claude unprompted. Use HTTP instead when your server only responds to requests, since HTTP supports OAuth and the `claude mcp add --transport` flag, while WebSocket supports neither.\n\nConfigure WebSocket servers in `.mcp.json` or with `claude mcp add-json`:\n\n```bash theme={null}\nclaude mcp add-json events-server \\\n  '{\"type\":\"ws\",\"url\":\"wss://mcp.example.com/socket\",\"headers\":{\"Authorization\":\"Bearer YOUR_TOKEN\"}}'\n```\n\nThe `type: \"ws\"` entry accepts the same `url`, `headers`, `headersHelper`, `timeout`, and `alwaysLoad` fields as `http`. Authentication is header-only, so pass a static token in `headers` or generate one at connect time with [`headersHelper`](#use-dynamic-headers-for-custom-authentication). The `claude mcp add --transport` flag does not accept `ws`.\n\n### Managing your servers\n\nOnce configured, you can manage your MCP servers with these commands:\n\n```bash theme={null}\n# List all configured servers\nclaude mcp list\n\n# Get details for a specific server\nclaude mcp get github\n\n# Remove a server\nclaude mcp remove github\n\n# (within Claude Code) Check server status\n/mcp\n```\n\nProject-scoped servers from `.mcp.json` that are awaiting your approval appear in `claude mcp list` as `⏸ Pending approval`. Run `claude` interactively to review and approve them. `claude mcp get <name>` shows pending servers as `⏸ Pending approval` and rejected servers as `✗ Rejected`.\n\nThe `/mcp` panel shows the tool count next to each connected server and flags servers that advertise the tools capability but expose no tools.\n\nIf your request needs tools from a server that is still connecting in the background, Claude waits for that server before continuing. With [tool search](#scale-with-mcp-tool-search) enabled, which is the default, the wait happens inside the `ToolSearch` call. In configurations without tool search, such as Vertex AI, a custom `ANTHROPIC_BASE_URL`, or `ENABLE_TOOL_SEARCH=false`, Claude uses the `WaitForMcpServers` tool instead.\n\nThe server name `workspace` is reserved for internal use. If your configuration defines a server with that name, Claude Code skips it at load time and shows a warning asking you to rename it.\n\n### Dynamic tool updates\n\nClaude Code supports MCP `list_changed` notifications, allowing MCP servers to dynamically update their available tools, prompts, and resources without requiring you to disconnect and reconnect. When an MCP server sends a `list_changed` notification, Claude Code automatically refreshes the available capabilities from that server.\n\n### Automatic reconnection\n\nIf an HTTP or SSE server disconnects mid-session, Claude Code automatically reconnects with exponential backoff: up to five attempts, starting at a one-second delay and doubling each time. The server appears as pending in `/mcp` while reconnection is in progress. After five failed attempts the server is marked as failed and you can retry manually from `/mcp`. Stdio servers are local processes and are not reconnected automatically.\n\nThe same backoff applies when an HTTP or SSE server fails its initial connection at startup. As of v2.1.121, Claude Code retries the initial connection up to three times on transient errors such as a 5xx response, a connection refused, or a timeout, then marks the server as failed if it still cannot connect. Authentication and not-found errors are not retried because they require a configuration change to resolve.\n\n### Push messages with channels\n\nAn MCP server can also push messages directly into your session so Claude can react to external events like CI results, monitoring alerts, or chat messages. To enable this, your server declares the `claude/channel` capability and you opt it in with the `--channels` flag at startup. See [Channels](/en/channels) to use an officially supported channel, or [Channels reference](/en/channels-reference) to build your own.\n\n<Tip>\n  Tips:\n\n  * Use the `--scope` flag to specify where the configuration is stored:\n    * `local` (default): Available only to you in the current project (was called `project` in older versions)\n    * `project`: Shared with everyone in the project via `.mcp.json` file\n    * `user`: Available to you across all projects (was called `global` in older versions)\n  * Set environment variables with `--env` flags (for example, `--env KEY=value`)\n  * Configure MCP server startup timeout using the MCP\\_TIMEOUT environment variable (for example, `MCP_TIMEOUT=10000 claude` sets a 10-second timeout)\n  * Set a per-server tool execution timeout by adding a `timeout` field in milliseconds to that server's `.mcp.json` entry, for example `\"timeout\": 600000` for ten minutes. This overrides the `MCP_TOOL_TIMEOUT` environment variable for that server only\n  * Claude Code will display a warning when MCP tool output exceeds 10,000 tokens. To increase this limit, set the `MAX_MCP_OUTPUT_TOKENS` environment variable (for example, `MAX_MCP_OUTPUT_TOKENS=50000`)\n  * Use `/mcp` to authenticate with remote servers that require OAuth 2.0 authentication\n</Tip>\n\nThe per-server `timeout` is a hard wall-clock limit per tool call, and progress notifications from the server do not extend it. Values below 1000 are ignored and fall through to `MCP_TOOL_TIMEOUT`, or to its default of about 28 hours when that variable is unset. {/* min-version: 2.1.162 */}Before v2.1.162, values below 1000 were floored to one second instead. For HTTP and SSE servers, the per-request fetch first-byte budget has a 60-second minimum.\n\n### Plugin-provided MCP servers\n\n[Plugins](/en/plugins) can bundle MCP servers, automatically providing tools and integrations when the plugin is enabled. Plugin MCP servers work identically to user-configured servers.\n\n**How plugin MCP servers work**:\n\n* Plugins define MCP servers in `.mcp.json` at the plugin root or inline in `plugin.json`\n* When a plugin is enabled, its MCP servers start automatically\n* Plugin MCP tools appear alongside manually configured MCP tools\n* Plugin servers are managed through plugin installation (not `/mcp` commands)\n\n**Example plugin MCP configuration**:\n\nIn `.mcp.json` at plugin root:\n\n```json theme={null}\n{\n  \"mcpServers\": {\n    \"database-tools\": {\n      \"command\": \"${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/servers/db-server\",\n      \"args\": [\"--config\", \"${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/config.json\"],\n      \"env\": {\n        \"DB_URL\": \"${DB_URL}\"\n      }\n    }\n  }\n}\n```\n\nOr inline in `plugin.json`:\n\n```json theme={null}\n{\n  \"name\": \"my-plugin\",\n  \"mcpServers\": {\n    \"plugin-api\": {\n      \"command\": \"${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/servers/api-server\",\n      \"args\": [\"--port\", \"8080\"]\n    }\n  }\n}\n```\n\n**Plugin MCP features**:\n\n* **Automatic lifecycle**: At session startup, servers for enabled plugins connect automatically. If you enable or disable a plugin during a session, run `/reload-plugins` to connect or disconnect its MCP servers\n* **Environment variables**: use `${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}` for bundled plugin files, `${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_DATA}` for [persistent state](/en/plugins-reference#persistent-data-directory) that survives plugin updates, and `${CLAUDE_PROJECT_DIR}` for the stable project root\n* **User environment access**: Access to same environment variables as manually configured servers\n* **Multiple transport types**: Support stdio, SSE, HTTP, and WebSocket transports (transport support may vary by server)\n\n**Viewing plugin MCP servers**:\n\n```bash theme={null}\n# Within Claude Code, see all MCP servers including plugin ones\n/mcp\n```\n\nPlugin servers appear in the list with indicators showing they come from plugins.\n\n**Plugin MCP tool names**:\n\nTools from a plugin-bundled MCP server include both the plugin name and the server key in their callable name. The full form is `mcp__plugin_<plugin-name>_<server-name>__<tool-name>`, where any character outside `A-Z`, `a-z`, `0-9`, `_`, and `-` is replaced with `_`. For the `database-tools` server bundled in a plugin named `my-plugin`, a `query` tool is callable as:\n\n```\nmcp__plugin_my-plugin_database-tools__query\n```\n\nUse this full name when referencing the tool in [permission rules](/en/permissions), a skill's `allowed-tools` list, or a [subagent's `tools` field](/en/sub-agents#available-tools).\n\n**Benefits of plugin MCP servers**:\n\n* **Bundled distribution**: Tools and servers packaged together\n* **Automatic setup**: No manual MCP configuration needed\n* **Team consistency**: Everyone gets the same tools when plugin is installed\n\nSee the [plugin components reference](/en/plugins-reference#mcp-servers) for details on bundling MCP servers with plugins.\n\n## MCP installation scopes\n\nMCP servers can be configured at three scopes. The scope you choose controls which projects the server loads in and whether the configuration is shared with your team. Administrators can also deploy servers at the enterprise level via [managed configuration](#managed-mcp-configuration).\n\n| Scope                     | Loads in             | Shared with team         | Stored in                   |\n| ------------------------- | -------------------- | ------------------------ | --------------------------- |\n| [Local](#local-scope)     | Current project only | No                       | `~/.claude.json`            |\n| [Project](#project-scope) | Current project only | Yes, via version control | `.mcp.json` in project root |\n| [User](#user-scope)       | All your projects    | No                       | `~/.claude.json`            |\n\n### Local scope\n\nLocal scope is the default. A local-scoped server loads only in the project where you added it and stays private to you. Claude Code stores it in `~/.claude.json` under that project's path, so the same server won't appear in your other projects. Use local scope for personal development servers, experimental configurations, or servers with credentials you don't want in version control.\n\n<Note>\n  The term \"local scope\" for MCP servers differs from general local settings. MCP local-scoped servers are stored in `~/.claude.json` (your home directory), while general local settings use `.claude/settings.local.json` (in the project directory). See [Settings](/en/settings#settings-files) for details on settings file locations.\n</Note>\n\n```bash theme={null}\n# Add a local-scoped server (default)\nclaude mcp add --transport http stripe https://mcp.stripe.com\n\n# Explicitly specify local scope\nclaude mcp add --transport http stripe --scope local https://mcp.stripe.com\n```\n\nThe command writes the server into the entry for your current project inside `~/.claude.json`. The example below shows the result when you run it from `/path/to/your/project`:\n\n```json theme={null}\n{\n  \"projects\": {\n    \"/path/to/your/project\": {\n      \"mcpServers\": {\n        \"stripe\": {\n          \"type\": \"http\",\n          \"url\": \"https://mcp.stripe.com\"\n        }\n      }\n    }\n  }\n}\n```\n\n### Project scope\n\nProject-scoped servers enable team collaboration by storing configurations in a `.mcp.json` file at your project's root directory. This file is designed to be checked into version control, ensuring all team members have access to the same MCP tools and services. When you add a project-scoped server, Claude Code automatically creates or updates this file with the appropriate configuration structure.\n\n```bash theme={null}\n# Add a project-scoped server\nclaude mcp add --transport http paypal --scope project https://mcp.paypal.com/mcp\n```\n\nThe resulting `.mcp.json` file follows a standardized format:\n\n```json theme={null}\n{\n  \"mcpServers\": {\n    \"shared-server\": {\n      \"command\": \"/path/to/server\",\n      \"args\": [],\n      \"env\": {}\n    }\n  }\n}\n```\n\nFor security reasons, Claude Code prompts for approval before using project-scoped servers from `.mcp.json` files. If you need to reset these approval choices, use the `claude mcp reset-project-choices` command.\n\n### User scope\n\nUser-scoped servers are stored in `~/.claude.json` and provide cross-project accessibility, making them available across all projects on your machine while remaining private to your user account. This scope works well for personal utility servers, development tools, or services you frequently use across different projects.\n\n```bash theme={null}\n# Add a user server\nclaude mcp add --transport http hubspot --scope user https://mcp.hubspot.com/anthropic\n```\n\n### Scope hierarchy and precedence\n\nWhen the same server is defined in more than one place, Claude Code connects to it once, using the definition from the highest-precedence source. The entire server entry from that source is used; fields are not merged across scopes.\n\n1. Local scope\n2. Project scope\n3. User scope\n4. [Plugin-provided servers](/en/plugins)\n5. [claude.ai connectors](#use-mcp-servers-from-claude-ai)\n\nThe three scopes match duplicates by name. Plugins and connectors match by endpoint, so one that points at the same URL or command as a server above is treated as a duplicate.\n\n### Environment variable expansion in `.mcp.json`\n\nClaude Code supports environment variable expansion in `.mcp.json` files, allowing teams to share configurations while maintaining flexibility for machine-specific paths and sensitive values like API keys.\n\n**Supported syntax:**\n\n* `${VAR}` - Expands to the value of environment variable `VAR`\n* `${VAR:-default}` - Expands to `VAR` if set, otherwise uses `default`\n\n**Expansion locations:**\nEnvironment variables can be expanded in:\n\n* `command` - The server executable path\n* `args` - Command-line arguments\n* `env` - Environment variables passed to the server\n* `url` - For HTTP server types\n* `headers` - For HTTP server authentication\n\n**Example with variable expansion:**\n\n```json theme={null}\n{\n  \"mcpServers\": {\n    \"api-server\": {\n      \"type\": \"http\",\n      \"url\": \"${API_BASE_URL:-https://api.example.com}/mcp\",\n      \"headers\": {\n        \"Authorization\": \"Bearer ${API_KEY}\"\n      }\n    }\n  }\n}\n```\n\nIf a required environment variable is not set and has no default value, Claude Code will fail to parse the config.\n\n## Practical examples\n\n### Example: Monitor errors with Sentry\n\n```bash theme={null}\nclaude mcp add --transport http sentry https://mcp.sentry.dev/mcp\n```\n\nAuthenticate with your Sentry account:\n\n```text theme={null}\n/mcp\n```\n\nThen debug production issues:\n\n```text theme={null}\nWhat are the most common errors in the last 24 hours?\n```\n\n```text theme={null}\nShow me the stack trace for error ID abc123\n```\n\n```text theme={null}\nWhich deployment introduced these new errors?\n```\n\n### Example: Connect to GitHub for code reviews\n\nGitHub's remote MCP server authenticates with a GitHub personal access token passed as a header. To get one, open your [GitHub token settings](https://github.com/settings/personal-access-tokens), generate a new fine-grained token with access to the repositories you want Claude to work with, then add the server:\n\n```bash theme={null}\nclaude mcp add --transport http github https://api.githubcopilot.com/mcp/ \\\n  --header \"Authorization: Bearer YOUR_GITHUB_PAT\"\n```\n\nThen work with GitHub:\n\n```text theme={null}\nReview PR #456 and suggest improvements\n```\n\n```text theme={null}\nCreate a new issue for the bug we just found\n```\n\n```text theme={null}\nShow me all open PRs assigned to me\n```\n\n### Example: Query your PostgreSQL database\n\n```bash theme={null}\nclaude mcp add --transport stdio db -- npx -y @bytebase/dbhub \\\n  --dsn \"postgresql://readonly:pass@prod.db.com:5432/analytics\"\n```\n\nThen query your database naturally:\n\n```text theme={null}\nWhat's our total revenue this month?\n```\n\n```text theme={null}\nShow me the schema for the orders table\n```\n\n```text theme={null}\nFind customers who haven't made a purchase in 90 days\n```\n\n## Authenticate with remote MCP servers\n\nMany cloud-based MCP servers require authentication. 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To get one, open your [GitHub token settings](https://github.com/settings/personal-access-tokens), generate a new fine-grained token with access to the repositories you want Claude to work with, then add the server:\n432\t\n433\t```bash theme={null}\n434\tclaude mcp add --transport http github https://api.githubcopilot.com/mcp/ \\\n435\t  --header \"Authorization: Bearer YOUR_GITHUB_PAT\"\n436\t```\n437\t\n438\tThen work with GitHub:\n439\t\n440\t```text theme={null}\n441\tReview PR #456 and suggest improvements\n442\t```\n443\t\n444\t```text theme={null}\n445\tCreate a new issue for the bug we just found\n446\t```\n447\t\n448\t```text theme={null}\n449\tShow me all open PRs assigned to me\n450\t```\n451\t\n452\t### Example: Query your PostgreSQL database\n453\t\n454\t```bash theme={null}\n455\tclaude mcp add --transport stdio db -- npx -y @bytebase/dbhub \\\n456\t  --dsn \"postgresql://readonly:pass@prod.db.com:5432/analytics\"\n457\t```\n458\t\n459\tThen query your database naturally:\n460\t\n461\t```text theme={null}\n462\tWhat's our total revenue this month?\n463\t```\n464\t"}]},"uuid":"eb793723-6d9a-4126-966e-8b9688d9b046","timestamp":"2026-06-22T15:12:06.121Z","toolUseResult":{"type":"text","file":{"filePath":"/home/dev/.claude/projects/-opt-claude-code-library/e1a493f1-c0da-492d-a2ae-46b82d2b4254/tool-results/toolu_01D6Vs1XmQyWeUUUofRC6JK1.txt","content":"### Environment variable expansion in `.mcp.json`\n\nClaude Code supports environment variable expansion in `.mcp.json` files, allowing teams to share configurations while maintaining flexibility for machine-specific paths and sensitive values like API keys.\n\n**Supported syntax:**\n\n* `${VAR}` - Expands to the value of environment variable `VAR`\n* `${VAR:-default}` - Expands to `VAR` if set, otherwise uses `default`\n\n**Expansion locations:**\nEnvironment variables can be expanded in:\n\n* `command` - The server executable path\n* `args` - Command-line arguments\n* `env` - Environment variables passed to the server\n* `url` - For HTTP server types\n* `headers` - For HTTP server authentication\n\n**Example with variable expansion:**\n\n```json theme={null}\n{\n  \"mcpServers\": {\n    \"api-server\": {\n      \"type\": \"http\",\n      \"url\": \"${API_BASE_URL:-https://api.example.com}/mcp\",\n      \"headers\": {\n        \"Authorization\": \"Bearer ${API_KEY}\"\n      }\n    }\n  }\n}\n```\n\nIf a required environment variable is not set and has no default value, Claude Code will fail to parse the config.\n\n## Practical examples\n\n### Example: Monitor errors with Sentry\n\n```bash theme={null}\nclaude mcp add --transport http sentry https://mcp.sentry.dev/mcp\n```\n\nAuthenticate with your Sentry account:\n\n```text theme={null}\n/mcp\n```\n\nThen debug production issues:\n\n```text theme={null}\nWhat are the most common errors in the last 24 hours?\n```\n\n```text theme={null}\nShow me the stack trace for error ID abc123\n```\n\n```text theme={null}\nWhich deployment introduced these new errors?\n```\n\n### Example: Connect to GitHub for code reviews\n\nGitHub's remote MCP server authenticates with a GitHub personal access token passed as a header. 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{"parentUuid":"b4c481de-2e8b-4e22-9c98-7e2cbd4bdc1b","isSidechain":true,"promptId":"fff9e7a0-2505-4fe2-80db-ddb238b22dc8","agentId":"ae3b513afefb50ff1","type":"user","message":{"role":"user","content":[{"tool_use_id":"toolu_01Qca3wfh1TnvLV1dJ7mUs2v","type":"tool_result","content":"286\t### Local scope\n287\t\n288\tLocal scope is the default. A local-scoped server loads only in the project where you added it and stays private to you. Claude Code stores it in `~/.claude.json` under that project's path, so the same server won't appear in your other projects. Use local scope for personal development servers, experimental configurations, or servers with credentials you don't want in version control.\n289\t\n290\t<Note>\n291\t  The term \"local scope\" for MCP servers differs from general local settings. MCP local-scoped servers are stored in `~/.claude.json` (your home directory), while general local settings use `.claude/settings.local.json` (in the project directory). See [Settings](/en/settings#settings-files) for details on settings file locations.\n292\t</Note>\n293\t\n294\t```bash theme={null}\n295\t# Add a local-scoped server (default)\n296\tclaude mcp add --transport http stripe https://mcp.stripe.com\n297\t\n298\t# Explicitly specify local scope\n299\tclaude mcp add --transport http stripe --scope local https://mcp.stripe.com\n300\t```\n301\t\n302\tThe command writes the server into the entry for your current project inside `~/.claude.json`. The example below shows the result when you run it from `/path/to/your/project`:\n303\t\n304\t```json theme={null}\n305\t{\n306\t  \"projects\": {\n307\t    \"/path/to/your/project\": {\n308\t      \"mcpServers\": {\n309\t        \"stripe\": {\n310\t          \"type\": \"http\",\n311\t          \"url\": \"https://mcp.stripe.com\"\n312\t        }\n313\t      }\n314\t    }\n315\t  }\n316\t}\n317\t```\n318\t\n319\t### Project scope\n320\t\n321\tProject-scoped servers enable team collaboration by storing configurations in a `.mcp.json` file at your project's root directory. This file is designed to be checked into version control, ensuring all team members have access to the same MCP tools and services. 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Claude Code stores it in `~/.claude.json` under that project's path, so the same server won't appear in your other projects. Use local scope for personal development servers, experimental configurations, or servers with credentials you don't want in version control.\n\n<Note>\n  The term \"local scope\" for MCP servers differs from general local settings. MCP local-scoped servers are stored in `~/.claude.json` (your home directory), while general local settings use `.claude/settings.local.json` (in the project directory). See [Settings](/en/settings#settings-files) for details on settings file locations.\n</Note>\n\n```bash theme={null}\n# Add a local-scoped server (default)\nclaude mcp add --transport http stripe https://mcp.stripe.com\n\n# Explicitly specify local scope\nclaude mcp add --transport http stripe --scope local https://mcp.stripe.com\n```\n\nThe command writes the server into the entry for your current project inside `~/.claude.json`. The example below shows the result when you run it from `/path/to/your/project`:\n\n```json theme={null}\n{\n  \"projects\": {\n    \"/path/to/your/project\": {\n      \"mcpServers\": {\n        \"stripe\": {\n          \"type\": \"http\",\n          \"url\": \"https://mcp.stripe.com\"\n        }\n      }\n    }\n  }\n}\n```\n\n### Project scope\n\nProject-scoped servers enable team collaboration by storing configurations in a `.mcp.json` file at your project's root directory. This file is designed to be checked into version control, ensuring all team members have access to the same MCP tools and services. 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