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Essential/nonessential telemetry policy settings now apply unverified and fail closed

Telemetry-disable settings now apply before verification completes and fail closed.

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The disableEssentialTelemetry and disableNonessentialTelemetry managed settings now carry remotePolicy.applyUnverified: true and failClosedValue: true, so they are honored even before signature verification completes and default to the blocking (true) value if verification fails.

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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 disableNonessentialTelemetry, on Configuration reference. | <span id="disablenonessentialtelemetry" />Block nonessential telemetry<br />`disableNonessentialTelemetry` | `boolean` | MDM + Bootstrap<br />Added in 1.2581.0 | `false` | Product-usage analytics and diagnostic-report uploads. No message… third-party/claude-desktop/configuration see the edit
Confirmed since Anthropic's documentation has since written up disableEssentialTelemetry, on Configuration reference. | <span id="disableessentialtelemetry" />Block essential telemetry<br />`disableEssentialTelemetry` | `boolean` | MDM + Bootstrap<br />Added in 1.2581.0 | `false` | Crash and performance reports to Anthropic. Defaults to `false`. | third-party/claude-desktop/configuration see the edit
Added since A small documentation edit on Telemetry and egress touched a line naming disableNonessentialTelemetry after this was published. With `disableEssentialTelemetry`, `disableNonessentialTelemetry`, `disableNonessentialServices`, and `disableAutoUpdates` all set to `true`, the desktop application makes **no outbound connections to Anthropic-operated hosts at runtime**. … third-party/claude-desktop/telemetry see the edit
Added since A small documentation edit on Telemetry and egress touched a line naming disableEssentialTelemetry after this was published. With `disableEssentialTelemetry`, `disableNonessentialTelemetry`, `disableNonessentialServices`, and `disableAutoUpdates` all set to `true`, the desktop application makes **no outbound connections to Anthropic-operated hosts at runtime**. … third-party/claude-desktop/telemetry see the edit
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Anthropic's documentation agreesA small documentation edit on Telemetry and egress touched a line naming disableEssentialTelemetry after this was published.

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