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Claude Code v2.1.257 ·

Env var forwarding for whole-value masked credentials tightened

An AWS credential pair is dropped when its env vars are not forwarded as whole-value masks, with the causes listed.

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Sandbox credential handling now drops a credentials.awsPairs entry when the env vars it references aren't forwarded as whole-value mask entries. The resulting warning lists the possible causes: trust filtering, deny-override, the var never being declared, or extract/decode use.

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The entry above is what we published on the day. These lines were added later, as Anthropic's own pages caught up, and they sit beside the original rather than replacing it.

Confirmed since Anthropic's documentation has since written up credentials.awsPairs, on All settings. | Values taken whole | Takes the value whole from the highest source that sets it, without combining entries or fields from lower sources. When the highest source doesn't set it, takes it whole from the next source down | [`sandbox.credent… settings-reference see the edit
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Anthropic's documentation agreesAnthropic's documentation has since written up credentials.awsPairs, on All settings.

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