You'll noticeTier: how much it should matter to you
3Useful: my rating, 1 to 5
2Signal: worth watching, 1 to 5
Managed SettingsArea: what it touches
New FeaturesKind: in v2.1.248,
New FeaturesSection of the release
What
On enterprise-managed installs, a managed-settings.d directory that cannot be read used to produce only a log line. It now raises a settings error with severity fatal, so a broken policy directory is surfaced instead of Claude Code carrying on with partial policy.
Details
The error text names the directory that could not be read.
Applies to the drop-in directory alongside the main managed settings file.
Evidence
Managed settings drop-in directory could not be read:
Strings lifted out of the shipped bundle, so the claim above can be checked against them.
