Group of 5 Under the hood
Claude Code now tracks HIPAA-related evidence per account and can block web-fetch or design-sync access based on it
What
- Session and organization-policy state now track HIPAA-related evidence: whether HIPAA-relevant information has been seen (
hipaa_seen), seen but incomplete (hipaa_seen_incomplete), or ruled out (hipaa_ruled_out). This replaces a simpler flat list of "seen identities" with a richer evidence structure that also tracks confirm/refuse timestamps (diskConfirmedAtMs,diskRefusedAtMs) and distinguishes IO failures from content-based unusability. - This evidence is now checked before allowing the
allow_web_fetchandallow_design_syncactions; if the check fails, the policy verdict returnsorg_denied, a new failure path that did not exist before. - A separate feature gate (
tengu_tranquil_crescent) can also force this same check to fail immediately, hard-blockingallow_web_fetch/allow_design_syncregardless of the evidence gathered.
Why
This adds a compliance check so web-fetch and design-sync features can be denied for organizations subject to HIPAA rules until their status is properly established, closing a gap where those actions could otherwise run without that check.