Group of 5 Nothing to try yet
A new 'safeguards' capability, alongside remoteTools/hooks/plugins, now gates safety-classification data and remote-control settings changes
What
- The permission-context capability record used throughout Claude Code gains a fourth flag,
safeguards, alongside the existingremoteTools,hooks, andpluginsflags. It gates whether the model's safety/safeguards classification data is attached to a payload. - Remote Control's device-attestation and settings-diffing machinery gains a matching
safeguardsfamily, used to policeapply_flag_settingsrequests from a paired bridge client that try to weaken safeguards-related settings, and to strip forwarded plugin-marketplace or safeguard settings unless the connection's capabilities explicitly allow them. A new default-capabilities object turnsremoteTools,hooks,plugins, andsafeguardsoff by default. - The remote transport's flag-settings trust object also gained a
safeguardstrust category, deciding whether an untrusted or unverified peer may disable safeguards viaapply_flag_settings; any below-floor change that can't be verified is dropped and logged rather than applied. - A new no-op event-filter hook now runs on every incoming bridge session frame before existing verification logic; it currently does nothing but is now part of the frame-handling pipeline.
Why This lays the groundwork for treating "safeguards" (the model's safety classification data) as its own protected capability, matching how remote tools, hooks, and plugins are already gated, so a remote/bridge connection can't silently weaken or disable safety-related settings unless explicitly trusted to. The actual checklist of settings this protects is currently empty, so the gate exists but doesn't yet block anything in this build.