policyUnreadable
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.
Claude Code now fails closed and blocks changes when managed policy settings exist but can't be read
Not Anthropic's. This is the line from the earliest changelog entry here that named it, v2.1.271.
In the changelogs
3Releases whose published page names policyUnreadable.
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v2.1.274
Force-login-org / policy validation failures now get logged and reported with a reason
Failed org/policy validation during headless startup now gets logged with a reason
found in this entry's text
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v2.1.274
New managed-settings validation failure reasons
Org login and managed-settings failures now carry a machine-readable reason code alongside the existing policyUnreadable flag
found in this entry's text
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v2.1.271
New settings schema field
policyUnreadable/remote_control_policy_lock_reasonfor fail-closed managed policyClaude Code now fails closed and blocks changes when managed policy settings exist but can't be read
named in this entry, found in this entry's text
First cited
1The earliest release whose published evidence quoted policyUnreadable was v2.1.271, 14 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.