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A policy helper can no longer configure another policy helper

Under the hood
Useful2 Signal3
Enterprise Policy not in their notes

An admin policy helper can no longer chain to another policy helper.

policyHelperpolicyHelpers
What

Settings returned by an administrator's policy helper executable now have both policyHelper and policyHelpers stripped before validation, with a warning logged for each, so a helper cannot point at a further helper. Previously the key was only discarded after validation.

Details
  • The salvage pass over the helper's parsed output now only rescues individual MCP server entries, and keeps a malformed field whole so the strict schema rejects it instead of quietly dropping it.
Evidence

policyHelper: stripped ${f} from helper output (no recursion), policyHelpers

Strings lifted out of the shipped bundle, so the claim above can be checked against them.

Related

Other releases about the same thing. Found by shared names or similar wording; neither means one caused the other.

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