The coworkTabEnabled and isClaudeCodeForDesktopEnabled settings now set failClosedValue: false and remotePolicy: { applyUnverified: false }. If the managed configuration can't be verified or parsed, these surfaces now default to disabled instead of defaulting on.
Names in the bundlecoworkTabEnabledisClaudeCodeForDesktopEnabled
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Anthropic's documentation has since written up coworkTabEnabled, on Configuration reference.
| <span id="coworktabenabled" />Allow Cowork<br />`coworkTabEnabled` | `boolean` | MDM + Bootstrap<br />Added in 1.9659.0 | `true` | Enable Cowork. Claude works on longer tasks like research, analysis, and documents. Defaults to `true`. |third-party/claude-desktop/configuration see the edit
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Anthropic's documentation has since written up isClaudeCodeForDesktopEnabled, on Configuration reference.
| <span id="isclaudecodefordesktopenabled" />Allow Code<br />`isClaudeCodeForDesktopEnabled` | `boolean` | MDM + Bootstrap | `true` | Enable Code. Claude writes and runs code. Defaults to `true`. |third-party/claude-desktop/configuration see the edit
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Anthropic's documentation has since written up isClaudeCodeForDesktopEnabled, on Configuration reference.