Administrators can now control whether SDK-provided parent managed settings are dropped or merged under an admin tier.
Usage
{
"parentSettingsBehavior": "merge"
}Details
first-winskeeps the previous admin-first behavior.mergelayers a restrictive-only slice from the parent settings under the admin winner.- This matters for managed-policy deployments where an SDK parent wants to add restrictions without overriding the administrator’s policy.
Evidence
New managed-settings schema and merge path (search for "parentSettingsBehavior" and "Controls whether the SDK parent tier").
Strings lifted out of the shipped bundle, so the claim above can be checked against them.
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Anthropic's release notes agree
Added parentSettingsBehavior admin-tier key ('first-wins' | 'merge') to let admins opt SDK managedSettings (parent tier) into the policy…