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Claude Code v2.1.242

Cloud sessions report which host settings they ignored

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Cloud Sessions

A cloud session now reports which of your flags and settings keys it ignored.

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 name of the form --flag, settings.<key>, managed-settings.<key> or initialize.<field>, plus a kind of lost, kept or preference. kept means attaching to an existing session kept that session's configuration instead.
  • Capped at 40 entries, with lost ones 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.

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