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Claude Code v2.1.232

Fixed policy payloads are validated like managed settings

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Managed Settings not in their notes

Malformed admin fallback settings payloads are caught at startup instead of silently doing nothing.

policyHelpersdefaultSettings
What

The default and per-OS defaultSettings payloads inside policyHelpers are now parsed as managed-settings objects, so a malformed admin payload is caught at startup instead of silently doing nothing.

Details
  • Any nested policyHelper / policyHelpers inside a payload is stripped before the rest is validated.
  • Delivered from an OS-admin policy source, a payload that does not validate stops Claude Code from starting.
Evidence

not a valid static settings payload — Claude Code refuses to start on it when delivered from an OS-admin policy source

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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