What it is
Provide remote [MCP servers](/docs/en/managed-mcp#provide-servers-through-managed-settings) to every user alongside the ones they add
Anthropic's own wording.
Read off All settings, captured 2026-09-22.
Presence across releases
1
BuildsHow manyDatesReading
v2.1.259 – v2.1.27818 builds2 Sep 2026 → 19 Sep 2026 ◆in the build
Build by build
18
One row per release since the first build this name was read out of. Absent means the build was read and the name was not in it, never mined means no bundle for that release was ever archived, and a declared type or a default is only ever what that release's own bundle stated.
BuildDateStateThe record behind it
v2.1.2603 Sep 2026·presentverdict: present
v2.1.2614 Sep 2026·presentverdict: present
v2.1.2636 Sep 2026·presentverdict: present
v2.1.2658 Sep 2026·presentverdict: present
v2.1.2668 Sep 2026·presentverdict: present
v2.1.2679 Sep 2026·presentverdict: present
v2.1.26810 Sep 2026·presentverdict: present
v2.1.26911 Sep 2026·presentverdict: present
v2.1.27012 Sep 2026·presentverdict: present
v2.1.27114 Sep 2026·presentverdict: present
v2.1.27214 Sep 2026·presentverdict: present
v2.1.27315 Sep 2026·presentverdict: present
v2.1.27416 Sep 2026·presentverdict: present
v2.1.27517 Sep 2026·presentverdict: present
v2.1.27618 Sep 2026·presentverdict: present
v2.1.27718 Sep 2026·presentverdict: present
v2.1.27819 Sep 2026·presentverdict: present
First cited
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The earliest release whose published evidence quoted managedMcpServers was v2.1.259, 2 Sep 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 above.
ReleaseDateThe span that was quoted
v2.1.2592 Sep 2026"managedMcpServers" is only honored from administrator-controlled managed settings
v2.1.2592 Sep 2026"managedMcpServers" is only honored from managed settings and was ignored here.
v2.1.2592 Sep 2026"managedMcpServers" is only honored from the organization's managed settings sources (server-managed, MDM, managed-settings.json), not from settings a host passes in, and was ignored here.
v2.1.2592 Sep 2026The organization's MCP servers in managed settings (managedMcpServers) are not read in this session: Claude Desktop supplies and locks this session's MCP servers itself.
v2.1.2592 Sep 2026managedMcpServers (server names union; a name set by two sources takes the higher source's whole entry)
5 further spans in the ledger name it. The list above is the earliest first and stops at 6.
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.