Settings diffs, approval prompts, and managed-settings validation now treat sandbox isolation as its own tracked category
What
Claude Code's sandbox configuration can restrict what a session is allowed to do, and settings changes made by an organization admin can be shown to the user for approval before they take effect. This release gives sandbox isolation its own tracked category throughout that machinery:
- The settings-diff and permission-approval summary code now tracks
isolationSettings/isolationRowsas its own bucket, alongside the existing shell, environment variable, and sandbox settings buckets, both in the diff view and in prompts like "3 sandbox settings x3". - Settings validation now treats
isolationthe same way it already treatedmanagedMcpServers: if it appears outside of managed (admin-controlled) settings, it's stripped out with a warning that it's "only honored from managed settings and was ignored here." - Two new restriction-policy entries were added:
isolation.requiredandisolation.persistHome, plus a new VM-isolation-specific warning message. - The managed-settings approval dialog now reads an
isolationblock withrequired/egresskeys and shows an elided isolation count alongside existing elided command/sandbox counts.
Why
This makes sandbox isolation settings visible and auditable in the same way other managed settings already were, so admins and users can see when isolation-related policy is being changed, enforced only from managed settings, or partially hidden (elided) in an approval prompt.
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.
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A small documentation edit on Configure cloud environments touched a line naming isolation after this was published.