Under the hoodTier: how much it should matter to you
2Useful: my rating, 1 to 5
2Signal: worth watching, 1 to 5
ElsewhereArea: what it touches
ImprovementsKind: in v2.1.273,
ImprovementsSection of the release
Unclear What practical difference a hard block has from denial (e.g. whether it can be overridden) is not stated.
What
Several HIPAA compliance settings (Memory sync, Projects, Team onboarding, Peer messaging) now carry a hardBlockUnder: ["hipaa"] property alongside the existing deniedUnder, marking a stricter enforcement tier separate from ordinary denial.
A new lookup table is built by collecting each tool's hardBlockUnder configuration, pairing each named threshold with the tool it applies to. The related deny-on-cache-miss list was also simplified to be built directly from each tool's configuration instead of a fixed base list plus filtering.
Why
This adds a stricter "hard block" enforcement level on top of the existing deny mechanism, letting specific settings and tools be blocked outright under certain compliance thresholds (like HIPAA) rather than just denied through the normal path.
