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What
Managed settings are settings an administrator puts in place on a machine. They gain an allowedProviders key. When it does not permit the first-party provider, meaning signing in directly with Anthropic, these commands refuse to run:
claude auth login
setup-token, which creates a long-lived Claude.ai subscription token
If the value of allowedProviders is invalid, the settings check reports it and asks you to fix it.
Why
Administrators get control over which sign-in providers can be used on a machine. If sign-in is refused, this policy may be why.
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Anthropic's release notes agreeAdded allowedProviders managed setting to limit which API providers a machine may use (Anthropic API, a custom endpoint, Bedrock, Mantle…