Feature request: option to disable Companion (Clatter)
Summary
Please add a setting to disable the Companion feature (the small mushroom named Clatter that appears in the input box).
Motivation
Some users prefer a cleaner interface without the Companion. Currently there is no documented or undocumented way to disable it — neither via settings.json fields nor environment variables. Attempts to add "companion": false or "enableCompanion": false to ~/.claude/settings.json are rejected by the schema validator.
Proposed Solution
Add a boolean field to the settings schema, for example:
{
"companionEnabled": false
}
Or alternatively expose it as an environment variable:
CLAUDE_COMPANION_ENABLED=false
Current Behavior
No way to disable the Companion. Schema validation rejects unrecognized fields.
Expected Behavior
Setting companionEnabled: false (or equivalent) hides the Companion from the UI.
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