The toolSearchEnabled setting's description now states it applies to Cowork, Code, and Chat sessions, up from a narrower scope. Behavior also now differs by app version: apps bundling Claude Code 2.1.247 or later add only the tool-search beta shape, while older builds instead lift full experimental-beta suppression.
Names in the bundletoolSearchEnabled
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Anthropic's documentation has since written up toolSearchEnabled, on Configuration reference.
| <span id="toolsearchenabled" />Enable tool search<br />`toolSearchEnabled` | `boolean` | MDM + Bootstrap<br />Added in 1.21459.0 | `false` | Load MCP tool schemas on demand (tool search) instead of inlining every schema into context. Def…third-party/claude-desktop/configuration see the edit
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Anthropic's documentation has since written up toolSearchEnabled, on Configuration reference.