What
The startup message a cloud-hosted session sends back now includes a not_applied list, so a tool driving Claude Code can show you once that a command-line flag, a settings key or a startup field was ignored.
Details
- Each entry has a
nameof the form--flag,settings.<key>,managed-settings.<key>orinitialize.<field>, plus akindoflost,keptorpreference.keptmeans attaching to an existing session kept that session's configuration instead. - Capped at 40 entries, with
lostones listed first. - Present only on startup messages from the headless stream-json client of a cloud-hosted session, and absent in every other mode.
Evidence
` not_applied, when present, lists what the host passed that this session does not apply `
Strings lifted out of the shipped bundle, so the claim above can be checked against them.