defaultSettings
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.
Settings validation now warns when policy helper keys are nested where nothing reads them.
Not Anthropic's. This is the line from the earliest changelog entry here that named it, v2.1.232.
In the changelogs
7Releases whose published page names defaultSettings.
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v2.1.265
Static defaultSettings fallback now tags whether it was armed by remote managed settings, and whether from cache
The static settings fallback log now says whether it came from remote managed settings, and whether it's an unverified cached copy
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v2.1.265
policyHelpers per-entry onFailure and retries settings now validated for effect
Claude Code now flags policy helpers that require success but have no fallback settings
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v2.1.234
Managed policy helpers can be an inline script instead of an executable
Admins can now supply managed policy helpers as an inline script instead of a file on disk.
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v2.1.232
Warnings when policy helper settings are nested in the wrong place
Settings validation now warns when policy helper keys are nested where nothing reads them.
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v2.1.232
Fixed policy payloads are validated like managed settings
Malformed admin fallback settings payloads are caught at startup instead of silently doing nothing.
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v2.1.232
Managed 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, found in this entry's text
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v2.1.232
Managed policy can now ship a fixed settings payload, not just a helper program
Admins can ship managed settings directly in policy, including per-OS defaults, without running a helper program.
named in this entry, found in this entry's text
First cited
0No release's published evidence quotes this name. The ledger indexes the Evidence lines of every changelog on this site, so this says nobody here has ever quoted it; it says nothing about how old the name is.
Presence across releases
0The 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.
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.