You'll noticeTier: how much it should matter to you
3Useful: my rating, 1 to 5
3Signal: worth watching, 1 to 5
Cloud SessionsArea: what it touches
ImprovementsKind: in v2.1.248,
ImprovementsSection of the release
What
Asking a Task to run with cloud isolation now falls back to a local or worktree run when the session is restricted, in addition to the existing fallbacks for no claude.ai login and the feature being off, and the log line names which reason applied. Creating a cloud session likewise bails out early with a restricted-session reason.
Details
Cloud session creation already refused under a managed policy that disallows remote sessions, and requires the first-party Anthropic API provider; the restricted check joins those.
Evidence
(no claude.ai login or feature gate off), Cloud sessions are only available on the first-party Anthropic API provider.
Strings lifted out of the shipped bundle, so the claim above can be checked against them.
How sure we are
One source agreesOne thing we can check says the same as this entry.
Anthropic's release notes agreeFixed /mcp listing a project .mcp.json entry that declares the claude.ai connector type under the trusted "claude.ai" heading; it now…
