{"version":"2.1.274","anchor":"cross-boundary-policy-identity-change-can-be-deferred-instea","canonical_anchor":"cross-boundary-policy-identity-change-can-be-deferred-instea","heading":"Cross-boundary policy identity change can be deferred instead of forcing reload","tier":"soon","area":"Policy","scope":null,"heads_up":null,"url":"https:\/\/changelogs.core-directive.com\/v\/2.1.274\/e\/cross-boundary-policy-identity-change-can-be-deferred-instea","release_url":"https:\/\/changelogs.core-directive.com\/v\/2.1.274","markdown":"### Cross-boundary policy identity change can be deferred instead of forcing reload\n\nIdentity changes mid-session can now defer a policy reload instead of immediately reloading as an account change\n\n**What**\n\nWhen the credential identity (principal) behind a session changes mid-session, Claude Code can now, in a new gated code path, keep using the currently loaded policy verdict while fetching the new principal's policy in the background, instead of immediately reloading everything as if the account had changed. It handles two cases differently: one where a policy check is already in flight (marking a `principalCheckOwed` flag) and one where things have settled, in which case it fetches the new policy while keeping the old verdict active in the meantime.\n\n**Why**\n\nThis is a mechanism to avoid disruptive, immediate policy reloads triggered by mid-session identity changes. Its associated gate `tengu_steady_marshmallow` returned off for this site's account and off for the anonymous baseline, and no reading has been taken under this release yet; the related gate `tengu_policy_limits_principal_changed` hasn't been read at all, which is not the same as being off.\n\n- Flag `tengu_steady_marshmallow`: Off in both readings (read for one account on one subscription tier against v2.1.274; this account: off, anonymous baseline: off, compiled default: not a boolean we can read) These values were read against a different version of Claude Code, so treat them as the nearest reading available instead of one taken on this release.\n- Area: Policy\n- Names: `tengu_steady_marshmallow`\n- Tier: Nothing to try yet\n- Useful: 2\/5\n- Signal: 3\/5\n- Present in the build but not switched on"}