Under the hood
A new plugin settings format only works on newer Desktop builds; older ones ignore it.
The gateway-serving validator now warns whenever a served config contains orgPluginSettings, since the array form is only understood by Claude Desktop 1.15200.0 and later. Clients on older Desktop builds silently ignore the setting and instead enforce no plugin tool policy at all, so the effect of this server-side change depends on the connecting client's version.
Names in the bundleorgPluginSettings
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 orgPluginSettings, on Configuration reference.
| <span id="orgpluginsettings" />Organization plugin settings<br />`orgPluginSettings` | `object[]` | MDM + Bootstrap<br />Added in 1.8089.0 | — | Admin policy applied to plugin-delivered MCP servers. Deprecated: `orgPluginSettings as a {"…third-party/claude-desktop/configuration see the edit
Two sources agreeTwo things we can check say the same as this entry.
Anthropic's documentation agrees
Anthropic's documentation has since written up orgPluginSettings, on Configuration reference.
Anthropic's release notes agree
Changed Claude apps gateway to send orgPluginSettings in the list form read by Claude Desktop 1.15200.0 and later; older desktops ignore it