Under the hoodTier: how much it should matter to you
2Useful: my rating, 1 to 5
3Signal: worth watching, 1 to 5
SettingsArea: what it touches
Internal ChangesKind: in v2.1.246,
Internal ChangesSection of the release
What
When the storage backend attests the machine has no OS policy folder, the settings walk is handed an empty managed-settings tier without touching disk. If CLAUDE_CODE_MANAGED_SETTINGS_PATH was set explicitly, that contradiction is recorded and the walk reads the files itself.
Evidence
settingsPrime: the host attests this machine has no OS policy folder ('system' absent); the policy walk is served an empty managed-settings file tier without reading the host
Strings lifted out of the shipped bundle, so the claim above can be checked against them.
