{"version":"2.1.257","anchor":"confined-evaluation-child-mode-skips-remote-settings-fetch-e","canonical_anchor":"confined-evaluation-child-mode-skips-remote-settings-fetch-e","heading":"Confined-evaluation-child mode skips remote settings fetch entirely","tier":"soon","area":"Settings","scope":null,"heads_up":null,"url":"https:\/\/changelogs.core-directive.com\/v\/2.1.257\/e\/confined-evaluation-child-mode-skips-remote-settings-fetch-e","release_url":"https:\/\/changelogs.core-directive.com\/v\/2.1.257","markdown":"### Confined-evaluation-child mode skips remote settings fetch entirely\n\nAs a confined evaluation child, Claude Code skips fetching remote settings and uses a harness-written policy snapshot.\n\nWhen 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.\n\n- Area: Settings\n- Names: `CLAUDE_CODE_EVAL_CONFINED`\n- Tier: Nothing to try yet\n- Useful: 4\/5\n- Signal: 4\/5\n- Present in the build but not switched on"}