You'll noticeTier: how much it should matter to you
2Useful: my rating, 1 to 5
2Signal: worth watching, 1 to 5
GatewayArea: what it touches
ImprovementsKind: in v2.1.281,
ImprovementsSection of the release
What
A gateway is a server an organisation runs itself to sit between its users and Claude. Its policy checker, which reviews the admin's policy rules for mistakes, now warns when there are desktop policies but none of them sets serve_to_desktop. Without that setting, Claude Code in Desktop's Code tab gets a "not found" (404) error when it asks for /managed/settings.
Two smaller changes:
Error messages coming back from further upstream are cleaned before they are written to the logs.
Gateway login errors now say whether the problem was the proxy or the gateway.
Why
Administrators get an early warning about a setup that would otherwise leave Desktop's Code tab without its managed settings. The error category also makes it quicker to tell which part of the chain failed during login.
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 sinceAnthropic's documentation has since written up serve_to_desktop, on Claude apps gateway configuration.When you switch, delete any `serve_to_desktop` line in the same edit that renames the blocks. Where an instruction names the `cli` block, use your `code` block.claude-apps-gateway-configsee the edit
How sure we are
One source agreesOne thing we can check says the same as this entry.
Anthropic's documentation agreesAnthropic's documentation has since written up serve_to_desktop, on Claude apps gateway configuration.
