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A new setting skips WebFetch's safety check against api.anthropic.com for firewalled deployments.
A new skipWebFetchPreflight setting skips Claude Code's WebFetch domain-safety lookup against api.anthropic.com in Code sessions, useful when that host is firewalled off in third-party deployments.
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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.
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Anthropic's documentation has since written up skipWebFetchPreflight, on Configuration reference.
| <span id="skipwebfetchpreflight" />Skip WebFetch domain check<br />`skipWebFetchPreflight` | `boolean` | MDM + Bootstrap<br />Added in 1.37937.0 | — | Skip Claude Code’s WebFetch domain lookup against api.anthropic.com in Code sessions. …third-party/claude-desktop/configuration see the edit
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A small documentation edit on Telemetry and egress touched a line naming skipWebFetchPreflight 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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A small documentation edit on Telemetry and egress touched a line naming skipWebFetchPreflight after this was published.