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Claude Code v2.1.260 ·

MCP startup policy seeding for remote sessions

Remote sessions can now seed MCP startup policy state behind a new gate.

TierUnder the hoodhow much it should matter to you
Useful2my rating, 1 to 5
Signal2worth watching, 1 to 5
AreaMCPwhat it touches
KindIn Developmentin v2.1.260,
Under the hood Nothing to try yet

Remote sessions can now seed MCP startup policy state behind a new gate.

When Claude Code runs under CLAUDE_CODE_REMOTE, MCP server configs can now seed startup policy state, controlled by a new gate.

Read from
Names in the bundleCLAUDE_CODE_REMOTE
Feature flag
tengu_mcp_startup_policy_seed Not enough to say

Nothing here resolved what this flag was doing on this version, so nothing here should be read as on or off.

This account: no value returned · anonymous baseline: no value returned · compiled default in v2.1.260: on

These values were read against a different version of Claude Code, so treat them as the nearest reading available instead of one taken on this release.

Read once, for one account on one subscription tier, against v2.1.260. It isn't a statement about your account. What a flag value here can and cannot tell you

What the documentation says
Since it was published

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.

Added since A small documentation edit on Configure cloud environments touched a line naming CLAUDE_CODE_REMOTE after this was published. * **No cloud-only scoping**: hooks run in both local and cloud sessions. To skip local execution, exit early unless the `CLAUDE_CODE_REMOTE` environment variable is `true`, the way the [dependency install script](#install-dependencies-with… cloud-environments see the edit
How sure we are
One source agreesOne thing we can check says the same as this entry.
Anthropic's documentation agreesA small documentation edit on Configure cloud environments touched a line naming CLAUDE_CODE_REMOTE after this was published.

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