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Sandbox settings gain a dedicated 'isolation' category

Settings diffs, approval prompts, and managed-settings validation now treat sandbox isolation as its own tracked category

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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/isolationRows as 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 isolation the same way it already treated managedMcpServers: 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.required and isolation.persistHome, plus a new VM-isolation-specific warning message.
  • The managed-settings approval dialog now reads an isolation block with required/egress keys 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.

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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.

Confirmed since Anthropic's documentation has since written up isolation, on Configure the sandboxed Bash tool. The session temp directory is writable inside the sandbox by default, alongside the working directory. Unless you [disable filesystem isolation](#disable-filesystem-isolation), Claude Code sets `$TMPDIR` to this directory for sandboxed com… sandboxing see the edit
Added since A small documentation edit on Configure cloud environments touched a line naming isolation after this was published. MCP connectors you enable on a session or routine work without adding their hosts to **Allowed domains**, because connector traffic travels through Anthropic's servers rather than the session's network. This relies on the same Anthropic-bo… cloud-environments see the edit
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Anthropic's documentation agreesA small documentation edit on Configure cloud environments touched a line naming isolation after this was published.

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