managed.policies
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.
Gateway operators get startup errors for bad desktop policy keys instead of silently passing them through.
Not Anthropic's. This is the line from the earliest changelog entry here that named it, v2.1.232.
In the changelogs
5Releases whose published page names managed.policies.
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v2.1.296
Managed policy entries can carry a
codesection as well ascliEntries in
managed.policiesnow accept acodekey in addition tocli, and validation messages point to whichever one the entry usesfound in this entry's text, named in this entry
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v2.1.283
Models denied in the catch-all managed policy now apply to every policy
deniedModelsin the catch-allmanaged.policiesentry is now combined with each specific policy's list instead of being replaced by itfound in this entry's text, named in this entry
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v2.1.281
Self-hosted gateway: Bedrock guardrail and assume_role, telemetry resource_attributes, serve_to_desktop
The self-hosted gateway config adds Bedrock guardrails and
assume_role, telemetryresource_attributes, andserve_to_desktopfor policiesfound in this entry's text
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v2.1.232
Gateway
desktop:policy overlays are validated before servingGateway operators get startup errors for bad desktop policy keys instead of silently passing them through.
named in this entry, found in this entry's text
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v2.1.232
Managed policy CLI documents are checked for alias collisions
Gateway configs now fail validation if a setting appears under both an alias and its canonical name.
found in this entry's text
First cited
1The earliest release whose published evidence quoted managed.policies was v2.1.296, 9 Oct 2026. That is the oldest release this project wrote about it, so it is a floor on the name's age and not the release that introduced it. It is not a presence reading: which builds carried the name is the table below.
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.