What probably matters to youSection of the release
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.
