policyGate
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.
Slash commands and skills can now define a shorter menuDescription and a policyGate to hide or disable them
Not Anthropic's. This is the line from the earliest changelog entry here that named it, v2.1.265.
In the changelogs
4Releases whose published page names policyGate.
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v2.1.269
heapdump internal command's policyGate loses featureLabel/verb
The hidden heapdump command's internal policy check lost its custom label and verb text
found in this entry's text
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v2.1.269
Insights slash command's isEnabled check folded into policyGate
The built-in insights command now checks access through the shared policyGate instead of its own enable check
found in this entry's text
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v2.1.265
Slash commands/skills gain menuDescription and policyGate fields
Slash commands and skills can now define a shorter menuDescription and a policyGate to hide or disable them
found in this entry's text, named in this entry
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v2.1.265
"policyGate" made a lazy getter on commands/skills, and getArgumentCompletions wired alongside it
Command and skill registration now computes policyGate lazily, and wires up argument completions
found in this entry's text, named in this entry
First cited
5The earliest release whose published evidence quoted policyGate was v2.1.265, 8 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 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.