You'll noticeTier: how much it should matter to you
1Useful: my rating, 1 to 5
1Signal: worth watching, 1 to 5
Remote ControlArea: what it touches
ImprovementsKind: in v2.1.281,
ImprovementsSection of the release
What
Some features, such as Remote Control, can be turned off by an organization's policy. Claude Code has helpers that explain why such a feature is unavailable. Before, they returned a generic fallback message early whenever no policy restrictions were recorded.
That early exit is gone. Two cases are now checked first:
Latched: the feature was switched off and stays off until Claude Code restarts. This now shows "Restart Claude Code to re-evaluate." even when no policy restrictions are recorded.
Cache miss: the policy answer was not available.
The fallback text is now used only when the organization denied the feature or no answer came back.
Why
When Remote Control or a similar feature is unavailable because it was switched off earlier in the run, the message now says to restart instead of giving an unrelated generic reason.
How sure we are
One source agreesOne thing we can check says the same as this entry.
Anthropic's release notes agreeImproved screen-reader output in /mcp: a disabled server is read as "off" instead of "pending"
