default
A Claude Code settings key, read out of the shipped bundle. No mined inventory carries it: everything below comes from what this site has written about it.
What it is
Admins can attach a static defaultSettings payload used when a policy helper is missing or fails.
Not Anthropic's. This is the line from the earliest changelog entry here that named it, v2.1.232.
Presence across releases
The miner has never read a build containing this name. It is here because a changelog entry of ours names it, which is evidence that it existed and not evidence of which releases carried it. The inventory starts at v2.1.138 and everything older than that was never mined.
Changelog entries naming it
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v2.1.232Managed settings: policy helpers can carry a static fallback payload
Admins can attach a static
defaultSettingspayload used when a policy helper is missing or fails.named in this entry
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v2.1.232Policy helper settings are now per-OS with a static fallback
Policy helpers now take per-OS entries plus a static settings payload used when they fail.
named in this entry
Documentation pages
- model-deprecations mentions it Claude Developer Platform
- choosing-a-model mentions it Claude Developer Platform
- Or, for the model with the same capabilities and no access approval requirement: mentions it Claude Developer Platform
- optimizing-for-cost-and-intelligence mentions it Claude Developer Platform
- pricing mentions it Claude Developer Platform
- content-moderation mentions it Claude Developer Platform
- customer-support-chat mentions it Claude Developer Platform
- Create an instance of the Claude API client mentions it Claude Developer Platform
- PDF Processing mentions it Claude Developer Platform
- claude-api-skill mentions it Claude Developer Platform
- quickstart mentions it Claude Developer Platform
- mcp-connector mentions it Claude Developer Platform
A reference table page is one whose own table defines this name, and it is where the description above came from. A page that mentions it carries the name somewhere in its text and may say nothing about it at all. Every page carrying it.
Read out of the published npm bundle release by release, and out of Anthropic's own documentation as this site captured it. Nothing on this page is a description anybody here wrote about what the settings key does. All settings keys.