Under the hoodTier: how much it should matter to you
2Useful: my rating, 1 to 5
4Signal: worth watching, 1 to 5
Plugin EvalArea: what it touches
Internal ChangesKind: in v2.1.251,
What probably matters to youSection of the release
What
The same confined-evaluation flag also stops cloud and background session creation, restricts always-allow rules to command-line sources, alters file hard-link and settings-source checks, and changes how MCP servers and hooks are loaded.
Details
Cloud session refusal surfaces as the reason eval_confined.
The flag is written by Claude Code when spawning its own subprocess, not read from user config.
Evidence
eval_confined
Strings lifted out of the shipped bundle, so the claim above can be checked against them.
