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Claude Code v2.1.238 ·

Bridge-spawned sessions start with credentials stripped from their environment

Bridge-spawned child sessions no longer inherit your credential environment variables.

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What

Child processes started by the bridge now inherit an explicit allowlist of environment variables plus an explicit clear-list, and several credential carriers that used to be passed through are unset: OAuth and API-key file descriptors, the background auth snapshot path (CLAUDE_BG_AUTH_SNAPSHOT_PATH), account, org and email identifiers, the session ingress URL and the exit-after-stop delay.

Details
  • Lowercase duplicates of every cleared name are deleted too, so a lowercase shadow cannot smuggle a value through.
  • Unconditional for bridge-spawned sessions.
Evidence

CLAUDE_BG_AUTH_SNAPSHOT_PATH

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

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Names in the bundleCLAUDE_BG_AUTH_SNAPSHOT_PATH

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