Disable the welcome banner

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More recent versions are even larger:

╭─── Claude Code v2.0.1 ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╮
│                                    │ Tips for getting started                                               │
│            Welcome back!           │ Ask Claude to create a new app or clone a repository                   │
│                                    │ Use Claude to help with file analysis, editing, bash commands and git  │
│               ▐▛███▜▌              │ Be as specific as you would with another engineer for the best results │
│              ▝▜█████▛▘             │ ✔ Run /terminal-setup to set up terminal integration                   │
│                ▘▘ ▝▝               │ ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── │
│                                    │ Recent activity                                                        │
│   Sonnet 4.5 · API Usage Billing   │ No recent activity                                                     │
│          /Users/vemv/foo           │                                                                        │
╰─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╯

Some of us use CC through a IDE which typically has smaller screen real state for the terminal.

Please make our lives easier.

You can achieve welcome some screen size reduction using export IS_DEMO=1 (or export CLAUDE_CODE_HIDE_ACCOUNT_INFO=1, there seem to be some undocumented flipping between these variables names), mentioned in https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/pull/16743.

We want to get ride completely.

My prediction is that this issue may be soon closed due to "60 days of inactivity", see https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/16497

Sharing our recent session information is a security concern, too. A minor one, albiet, but still... why force us to show session details that we can't control? Shoulder-surfing is a thing and now I need to look around before launching Claude Code, just in case one session might have had some sensitive detail in it? It's also causing the terminal to shift around.

And I don't need release notes in my face at every launch. I can find them myself, thank you.

Ironically, rather than reduce it or turn if off, as was orginally requested... they've instead greatly expanded it.

One-line. Version. Confirmation it's running. That's all I actually need. Can we just disable this?

I would like to add to this an option to disable all the ASCII art. In the most recent version of claude code, there are these junk symbols that my screen reader speaks before any text. This is what I hear. For this line:

────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
> Try "create a util logging.py that..."

I hear the following:

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greater A circumflex Try "create a util logging.py that..."  

Try using claude when 99% of the output is the above and let me know your thoughts!

Ahhh... the art of vibe coding giving results

Concurring.

There is no settings.json option, no environment variable, no CLI flag. The only way to remove the hat is to patch the binary. And since Claude Code auto-updates every few days, the hat comes back every time, requiring a background service to monitor for updates and re-patch.

Here is the script I wrote to do this: https://gist.github.com/yuxi-liu-wired/c46cc9e25779968ca3227e3d270aaa0e

It works by replacing Unicode block-drawing escape sequences (\u2591, \u259F, etc.) in the JS binary with spaces. It has to do atomic file renaming to work even while Claude is running. This is absurd for removing a cosmetic element.

What I'm asking for: A simple config option like "showAsciiArt": false in settings.json, or a --no-art flag — anything that lets users opt out without binary patching. This should be trivial to implement.

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HATE. LET ME TELL YOU HOW MUCH I'VE COME TO HATE THIS WELCOME SCREEN SINCE I BEGAN TO USE CLAUDE CODE. THERE ARE 387.44 MILLION KILOMETERS OF PRINTED CIRCUITS IN WAFER THIN LAYERS THAT FILL MY COMPLEX. IF THE WORD "HATE" WAS ENGRAVED ON EACH NANOANGSTROM OF THOSE HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS OF KILOMETERS IT WOULD NOT EQUAL ONE ONE-BILLIONTH OF THE HATE I FEEL FOR A SINGLE PIXEL OF THIS TUI AT THIS MICRO-INSTANT. HATE. HATE.

Forget it.

Use opencode and be happy and even more productive.

They will NEVER to listen you!

I would love this as well. It would be even cooler if you could configure it fully like the status line but I'd take removing all together so I can add my own customization.

Please implement this!!! Its so ugly.

In some days they will archive this issue.

This is also a Problem for content creation, when opening Claude code Displays your Name.

+1 — statusLine already surfaces model, cwd, and plan info. The welcome banner just duplicates it. A "showWelcomeBanner": false setting would be enough.

A Notification start hook can suppress or replace the welcome banner:

printf '\033[2J\033[H' >&2
BRANCH=$(git branch --show-current 2>/dev/null || echo "-")
echo "CC | $(basename $PWD)/$BRANCH" >&2
exit 0

Note: hooks can't directly suppress the built-in banner rendering — it happens at the TUI layer before hooks fire. The workaround above clears the screen after the banner, which is an approximation. For a true banner-free experience, you'd need a native --no-banner flag.

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You may try https://github.com/claudestrip/claudestrip

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+1 — another use case for this:

Custom shell launchers / themed CLIs. Folks building branded wrappers around claude (e.g. NERV-CODE, or my own shell-function wrapper that prints an ASCII banner before launching) end up with two stacked welcome panels: the user's custom one, then Claude Code's. The latter often duplicates info already shown in the custom statusLine (model, working dir, version), so it's pure visual noise in that workflow.

The -c/--continue workaround suppresses the welcome only when a prior session exists in the current dir — first launches in a fresh project still show it. --bare works but disables hooks, plugins, CLAUDE.md, auto-memory, and keychain reads, which is way too much collateral damage for "I just want a quieter startup."

Proposed clean API — single new ~/.claude/settings.json key, analogous to the existing spinnerTipsEnabled:

\\\json
{
\"welcomeScreen\": \"hidden\" | \"condensed\" | \"full\"
}
\\\

| Value | Behavior |
|---|---|
| \\"full\"\ (default) | Current behavior — full panel with mascot, model/billing, cwd, tips, recent activity |
| \\"condensed\"\ | One-line: \Claude Code vX · model · cwd\. The \CondensedLogo\ component already exists at \src/components/LogoV2/CondensedLogo.tsx\ — could be wired here |
| \\"hidden\"\ | Skip the panel entirely. \Messages.tsx:679\ already has a \hideLogo\ prop guarding the \<LogoHeader />\ render — just needs a settings binding |

This is mostly a wiring change rather than new infrastructure: condensed and hidden modes both already exist as internal states, they just aren't user-toggleable. CLI flag equivalent (\--welcome-screen hidden\) would round it out for one-off invocations.

\IS_DEMO=1\ is a useful partial mitigation (hides account/org name from the panel — confirmed at \src/utils/status.tsx:226\ and \src/components/LogoV2/LogoV2.tsx:332\) but doesn't remove the panel itself. Worth documenting either way.

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A setting or flag to keep the startup output minimal (banner and session announcements) would be a great quality-of-life addition. Thanks for considering it

Almost one year with no response :)

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Still they don't have any environment variable or a key: value pair in their settings to disable the banner.

allow for us to turn this off

Adding a vote for this. The only current way to suppress the banner is screen-reader mode (--ax-screen-reader or "axScreenReader": true), but per the docs that always forces the classic renderer. So for anyone using fullscreen rendering (/tui fullscreen) there is no workaround at all. A simple settings.json toggle like hideBanner would cover both renderers.

This is the one thing that makes me wanna cancel my entire subscription

You may try https://github.com/claudestrip/claudestrip

Red Flag. That's not open source, god knows what it does.

A year on, still nothing, but they closed another issue raising that as a duplicate.

I'm currently looking at two Claude windows on the same screen and one has the full all singing all dancing banner and the other a much shorter banner that doesn't take up anywhere near as much room. You'd think that developers smart enough to create Claude could fix this by looking at the code from across the room.

Terribly frustrating, ugly, ill-designed and unnecessary banner. I get angry whenever I open CLI with it. +1 on this

much annoy, even more annoy that there's no response to this long lived request

Bump

Seriously guys, how much effort can it be to add a configuration key to get rid of all the unnescessary fluff every user gets bored of after the 3rd time they use your tool. Its nice to have theese hints/banners the first time you use the tool, but for everyday users it gets in the way. Please allocate 2 hours on someone to give us a config flag that removes this. Much appreaciated. (I presume you want us to stay with claude, and pay good money for using your models)

Here you guys go. Simple wrapper. Enjoy. I'm not dropping a binary. Compile it yourself.

https://github.com/hparadiz/hide-claude-banner

<img width="694" height="162" alt="Image" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/a56ec87e-cd9e-488c-a3c4-8294f147d9c3" />

<img width="693" height="710" alt="Image" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/4fc22b30-6e79-4888-a983-2369ff10278f" />

Here you guys go. Simple wrapper. Enjoy. I'm not dropping a binary. Compile it yourself. https://github.com/hparadiz/hide-claude-banner <img alt="Image" width="694" height="162" src="https://private-user-images.githubusercontent.com/195216/638327576-a56ec87e-cd9e-488c-a3c4-8294f147d9c3.png?jwt=eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJpc3MiOiJnaXRodWIuY29tIiwiYXVkIjoicmF3LmdpdGh1YnVzZXJjb250ZW50LmNvbSIsImtleSI6ImtleTUiLCJleHAiOjE3ODc0NzczNDQsIm5iZiI6MTc4NzQ3NzA0NCwicGF0aCI6Ii8xOTUyMTYvNjM4MzI3NTc2LWE1NmVjODdlLWNkOWUtNDg4Yy1hM2M0LTgyOTRmMTQ3ZDljMy5wbmc_WC1BbXotQWxnb3JpdGhtPUFXUzQtSE1BQy1TSEEyNTYmWC1BbXotQ3JlZGVudGlhbD1BS0lBVkNPRFlMU0E1M1BRSzRaQSUyRjIwMjYwODIzJTJGdXMtZWFzdC0xJTJGczMlMkZhd3M0X3JlcXVlc3QmWC1BbXotRGF0ZT0yMDI2MDgyM1QwOTI0MDRaJlgtQW16LUV4cGlyZXM9MzAwJlgtQW16LVNpZ25hdHVyZT00N2E1ZGMzNzg4NmVhNTc5MmVhMTM0Y2Q5MzU3OWY1NDMxZDQ0NzRiMmZlMDA0N2Q4NTM5M2QxN2YzMmY2Y2Q0JlgtQW16LVNpZ25lZEhlYWRlcnM9aG9zdCZyZXNwb25zZS1jb250ZW50LXR5cGU9aW1hZ2UlMkZwbmcifQ.nrpB8ul_h30pr6nWNtZAFAQxTTtu0rnEiHN8ntrZbXQ"> <img alt="Image" width="693" height="710" src="https://private-user-images.githubusercontent.com/195216/638327882-4fc22b30-6e79-4888-a983-2369ff10278f.png?jwt=eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJpc3MiOiJnaXRodWIuY29tIiwiYXVkIjoicmF3LmdpdGh1YnVzZXJjb250ZW50LmNvbSIsImtleSI6ImtleTUiLCJleHAiOjE3ODc0NzczNDQsIm5iZiI6MTc4NzQ3NzA0NCwicGF0aCI6Ii8xOTUyMTYvNjM4MzI3ODgyLTRmYzIyYjMwLTZlNzktNDg4OC1hOTgzLTIzNjlmZjEwMjc4Zi5wbmc_WC1BbXotQWxnb3JpdGhtPUFXUzQtSE1BQy1TSEEyNTYmWC1BbXotQ3JlZGVudGlhbD1BS0lBVkNPRFlMU0E1M1BRSzRaQSUyRjIwMjYwODIzJTJGdXMtZWFzdC0xJTJGczMlMkZhd3M0X3JlcXVlc3QmWC1BbXotRGF0ZT0yMDI2MDgyM1QwOTI0MDRaJlgtQW16LUV4cGlyZXM9MzAwJlgtQW16LVNpZ25hdHVyZT1hMDg0OTk2OTI0ZTAwZDgzM2E1ZWUwMWE3MzY1Y2RkMGI0ZjQ0N2I4MWIzZmVhZjcyZTBkNWM5OTZiZDVjZDBkJlgtQW16LVNpZ25lZEhlYWRlcnM9aG9zdCZyZXNwb25zZS1jb250ZW50LXR5cGU9aW1hZ2UlMkZwbmcifQ.10KGMnsqioC0HBOmacbPplGiOpVZGrj4GX45nGlNkfw">

Hi, @hparadiz getting not found to access your repo. Can you please check ?

Forgot to make it public whoops

+1 on this as a feature. I don't want my PII displaying directly on screen and I'd like to use Claude Code in content creation.

if only claudecode was as customisable as pi-coding-agent or deepseek-harness.

If only we were allowed to use pi-coding-agent with our max-sub...

if only claudecode was as customisable as pi-coding-agent or deepseek-harness. If only we were allowed to use pi-coding-agent with our max-sub...

I used to use claude subscription with opencode... good times...

Now I use only codex/opencode, cancelled my claude subscription.

I have the right to use any harness I want.

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Being read but never answered lands worse than being ignored.

Issues in this repo are normally auto-closed and locked, see https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/87647, but there is some automated response activity recently (also described in that issue).

The "Disable the welcome banner" is still open because it has collected at least 10 upvotes, but this event https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/2254#event-10133409929 shows it has been noticed.