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Claude Code v2.1.232

Managed policy can now ship a fixed settings payload, not just a helper program

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Admins can ship managed settings directly in policy, including per-OS defaults, without running a helper program.

policyHelpersdefaultSettings
What

policyHelpers, the top-level setting where an IT admin points Claude Code at a program that supplies managed settings, now also accepts a plain default settings payload and a per-OS defaultSettings payload used when no helper runs or the helper cannot be reached.

Details
  • default sits at the top of the policyHelpers map; defaultSettings sits inside each per-OS entry next to that OS's helper executable.
  • The parse-failure message for policyHelpers was rewritten to describe the new shape.
  • When the setting comes from an OS-admin policy source and does not parse, startup fails rather than falling back.
Evidence

plus an optional "default" settings payload

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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