Nothing to try yetTier: how much it should matter to you
4Useful: my rating, 1 to 5
4Signal: worth watching, 1 to 5
SettingsArea: what it touches
In DevelopmentKind: in v2.1.257,
What probably matters to youSection of the release
When running as a 'confined evaluation child', Claude Code now skips the network fetch for remote settings entirely and instead serves a harness-written policy snapshot. This path is controlled by the evalPolicySnapshotOnly flag, which is itself gated by the CLAUDE_CODE_EVAL_CONFINED environment variable elsewhere in the code.