policyHelpers.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.
The any-platform default key of the policyHelpers settings map: a managed-settings object used as a static settings payload, validated like managed settings, and an invalid one stops Claude Code from starting. It sits last in the static fallback order, after the defaultSettings of the per-OS entries for the current platform. When no per-OS entry matches the platform, Claude Code applies the static fallback instead of running a helper, ahead of the singular policyHelper, and the static fallback is also what is applied when a policy helper refresh fails.
Not Anthropic's. Written by Claude Opus 5.5 from reading the v2.1.286 bundle, and it can be wrong.
In the changelogs
0No changelog entry here has ever named it. That is a statement about what has been written, not about the name: nothing here says which builds carried it either.
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.