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title: '`CLAUDE_CODE_TASK_LIST`'
description: >-
  `CLAUDE_CODE_TASK_LIST` is the environment variable for shared task lists in
  Claude Code's Tasks system. Because tasks persist in a `tasks` folder in the
  home directory rather than inside a session, setting this variable lets
  multiple Claude instances — a planner, a worker, a tester — share a single
  on-disk work queue [^9ad78550-8aa6-5f8a-8069-903f60c1df13@1342]
  [^9ad78550-8aa6-5f8a-8069-903f60c1df13@825].
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  https://liquidgold.cc/channel/everyinc/explore/term/claude-code-task-list-e8ab07f126fb.md
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updated: '2026-10-23T22:12:35.346Z'
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# \`CLAUDE_CODE_TASK_LIST\`

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## Definition

`CLAUDE_CODE_TASK_LIST` is the environment variable for shared task lists in Claude Code's Tasks system. Because tasks persist in a `tasks` folder in the home directory rather than inside a session, setting this variable lets multiple Claude instances — a planner, a worker, a tester — share a single on-disk work queue [^9ad78550-8aa6-5f8a-8069-903f60c1df13@1342] [^9ad78550-8aa6-5f8a-8069-903f60c1df13@825].

In this channel's material, `CLAUDE_CODE_TASK_LIST` appears as the **environment variable for shared task lists** in Claude Code's Tasks system. Tasks no longer live inside a session: they persist on disk in a `tasks` folder in the home directory (replacing the old `todos` ledger), and the environment variable points multiple Claude instances at a _shared_ list [^9ad78550-8aa6-5f8a-8069-903f60c1df13@1342]. That shared persistence is what enables a division of labor — a **planner** you talk to, a **worker** that picks up tasks, and a **tester** that runs the browser — all coordinating through one work queue [^9ad78550-8aa6-5f8a-8069-903f60c1df13@825].