{"version":"2.1.269","anchor":"windows-credential-manager-credential-backend-gated","canonical_anchor":"windows-credential-manager-credential-backend-gated","heading":"Windows Credential Manager credential backend, gated","tier":"soon","area":"Credentials","scope":null,"heads_up":null,"url":"https:\/\/changelogs.core-directive.com\/v\/2.1.269\/e\/windows-credential-manager-credential-backend-gated","release_url":"https:\/\/changelogs.core-directive.com\/v\/2.1.269","markdown":"### Windows Credential Manager credential backend, gated\n\nWindows Credential Manager support gains a forced-priming step, still off by default\n\n**What**\n\nOn Windows, Claude Code has a code path that primes a credential store backed by Windows Credential Manager. This remains controlled by the remote flag `tengu_windows_credman`, with `CLAUDE_CODE_FORCE_WINDOWS_CREDMAN` available to force it on for local testing.\n\n**Why**\n\nFor this site's account, the flag has been read as off, and off for the anonymous baseline too, with no reading yet taken under this release, so Windows Credential Manager support is not enabled here by default.\n\n- Flag `tengu_windows_credman`: Off in both readings (read for one account on one subscription tier against v2.1.269; this account: off, anonymous baseline: off, compiled default: not a boolean we can read)\n- Area: Credentials\n- Names: `CLAUDE_CODE_FORCE_WINDOWS_CREDMAN`\n- Tier: Nothing to try yet\n- Useful: 3\/5\n- Signal: 3\/5\n- Present in the build but not switched on"}