Under the hoodTier: how much it should matter to you
1Useful: my rating, 1 to 5
3Signal: worth watching, 1 to 5
Plugin EvalArea: what it touches
Internal ChangesKind: in v2.1.251,
Internal ChangesSection of the release
What
The internal evaluation harness now forces ENABLE_CLAUDEAI_MCP_SERVERS to false and pins its own temp directories, so evals cannot reach real MCP servers or share scratch space with the host.
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Anthropic's release notes agreeChanged project-level .claude/settings.json env to no longer set CLAUDE_CONFIG_DIR, CLAUDE_CODE_TMPDIR, or TMPDIR/TMP/TEMP; set them in your…