What
Policy limits are the organization-level restrictions Claude Code reads from Anthropic. Reading them has changed in two ways:
- The request now asks the server whether anything changed and handles the "not modified" reply, instead of always downloading the full answer.
- Claude Code can accept a result already fetched by a host app that launched it, but only if the organization, sign-in, address and freshness all match. Otherwise it refuses and logs the reason, such as a mismatched account or stale data.
Why
In practice, unchanged policy data does not need to be downloaded again, and a host app can hand over a result it already has.
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Nothing shows which host app, if any, currently hands over a prefetched result.