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Claude Code v2.1.243 ·

Gateway loopback escape hatch is still present

Pointing the gateway's key-set URL at a loopback address still needs that environment variable set.

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An earlier reading of this build suggested the check behind CLAUDE_GATEWAY_ALLOW_LOOPBACK had been removed. It has not: the check and its error text are unchanged, so pointing the gateway's key-set URL at a loopback address still requires that environment variable to be set.

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  • The code moved position in the bundle rather than being deleted.
  • Without the variable, a loopback target is rejected with the message naming cri.jwks_url.
Evidence

cri.jwks_url targets loopback but CLAUDE_GATEWAY_ALLOW_LOOPBACK is not set

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

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The entry above is what we published on the day. These lines were added later, as Anthropic's own pages caught up, and they sit beside the original rather than replacing it.

Confirmed since Anthropic's documentation has since written up CLAUDE_GATEWAY_ALLOW_LOOPBACK, on Claude Code changelog. * Improved the Claude apps gateway's loopback error messages to name `CLAUDE_GATEWAY_ALLOW_LOOPBACK` changelog see the edit
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Anthropic's documentation agreesAnthropic's documentation has since written up CLAUDE_GATEWAY_ALLOW_LOOPBACK, on Claude Code changelog.

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