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Claude Code v2.1.257 ·

Confined-evaluation-child mode skips remote settings fetch entirely

As a confined evaluation child, Claude Code skips fetching remote settings and uses a harness-written policy snapshot.

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As a confined evaluation child, Claude Code skips fetching remote settings and uses a harness-written policy snapshot.

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.

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